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2012 National Letter Of Intent Signing Day
Six members of the Menomonie High School 2011 Big Rivers Conference champion and State Semi-Finalist football team will sign a National Letter of Intent to play Div II college Football on Wed Feb 1st.
Neico Stokke the State offensive State player of the year & Leader Telegram Northwest player of the year will sign with Minnesota State University. Stokke broke nearly every Menomonie high school passing record. This past season he threw for record setting 2,404 yards, & rushed for 703 yards for over 3,000 all purpose yards. He also threw 23 TD's and rushed for seven for a total of 30 TD's. Stokke received a full tuition scholarship from Minnesota State located in Mankato MN. Minnesota State is a Div. II school that plays in the Southern Division of the Northern Sun Conference. The 2011 Mavericks were Conference champions of the Southern Division and finished the year
8-3 overall. Menomonie alumnus J.R. Buckley was an All American LB during his time at Minnesota State.
Stokke was a WFCA First team All-State selection & an AP 2nd team All-State selection along with being selected first team All-BRC and First team All-Region. Stokke is a three sport athlete that also participates in baseball and basketball.
Stokke carries a 3.75 GPA, a member of the National Honor Society and is a huddle leader for the Menomonie FCA. Stokke plans on majoring in Nursing
Lex Pelke- will sign a scholarship to Minnesota Duluth where he will be given a chance to Punt right away next year as a true freshman. Pelke a 2nd team All State punter and first team All Northwest selection had 43.4 while also placing five punts inside the five yard line. Pelke was also a two time All BRC selection as a punter and was also a first team All-BRC & First team All-Region selection at receiver. Pelke had 44 receptions in 2011 for 832 yards and average an amazing 20.1 yards per catch, while catching six TD's Pelke is a 3.4 student, and is a three sport athlete who also competes in Baseball and Basketball
Duluth was the conference Champion of the Northern Sun Conference –Northern Division and was knocked out of the National Play-Offs in the quarterfinals by eventual National Champion Wayne State.
Duluth has won the NCAA Div II National Championship twice in the last four years.
Pelke will be joining MHS Alumni Kenny Chowa who starts at defensive back for the Bulldogs.
Former Menomonie players have experienced a lot of success at Duluth through the years. Trevor Thelke-QB, Dan Weisser-TE, Mark Slinden-RB, Brandon Wood, and Nate Bauer all head successful careers playing at UMD.
Drew Otto & Conner Hanson- will sign scholarships with Michigan Tech. University.
Otto was the BRC Offensive player of the year & Leader Telegram First team All Northwest section had a 2011 total of 1,439 yds rushing and had thirty two receptions for 452 yards and was also a dangerous return man and amassed a total of 2,489 all purpose yards while scoring 28 TD's. He also played corner and had 6 Int's and was a very sure tackler. He was a two time All- BRC selection and was selected both ways his senior year. This past season he was an Honorable Mention All-state selection at running back. He was also a First team All State Hockey player as a Junior. Drew is a three sport athlete participating in Baseball and Hockey as well as Football. He carries a 3.75 GPA, National Honor society member, and plans to major in Bio- Medical engineering –Michigan Tech is rated as one of the top Universities in the country for Bio Medical Engineering.
Hanson – was a first team All- state selection at Defensive End in both the AP & the Coaches association. A very strong Defensive End Hanson dominated the line of scrimmage with his quickness recording 13 tackles for loss this past season. He was also a tremendous pass rusher. The 6'1" 255pound Hanson is expected to move to Nose Guard for the Huskies. Hanson was a first team All- BRC , All Northwest and All Region selection. Hanson has a 3.6 GPA, and participates in three sports Wrestling and Golf as well as football, and plans to major in Buisness
Michigan Tech is located in Houghton Michigan and plays in the Great Lakes Athletic Conference and finished 7-3 this past season. Former Menomonie players that had successful careers at Michigan tech were Ben Wickstrom and Brent Pember who were both captains during their careers with the Huskies.
Andrew Kryshak- a two time All conference Nose Guard will be headed to Bemidji State University. Kryshak –the strongest player ever to play at Menomonie will be moving to Offense as he is being recruited to play FB. The 245 pound Nose Guard had five sacks and nine tackles for losses and was a dominating interior player for the last two seasons. Kryshak also recovered two fumbles, intercepted a pass and scored a key defensive TD in a level II play-off game ripping the ball away from the Marshfield QB and rumbling down the sideline to score. He has a 3.2 GPA, and also participates in Track, Andrew plans to major in Sociology.
BSU is a member of the Northern Sun Conference-Northern Division. BSU finished 2nd last year losing to Duluth 26-23.
Luke Thompson- a two year starter at Center will be headed to Upper Iowa University. He was recruited as an Offensive Lineman. The 265 pound Thompson had a tremendous senior year at center and along with being a dominate blocker was also very good at the Gun snap. Thompson is originally from Iowa. Upper Iowa is a member of the Northern Sun –Southern Division and is located in Fayette, Iowa.


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VIENNA - Throughout Wood County Schools, custodians are polishing floors, cleaning windows and arranging desks in preparation of Thursday's opening day of school.
It is a side of the school system most people never see, but one that remains vital to maintaining a positive environment for students and staff alike.
Head custodian Mary Gates has been at Greenmont 19 years and says keeping the school a bright place for children is a year-round task.
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Greenmont Elementary School custodian Ray Reynolds, left, and head custodian Mary Gates, right, put the finishing touches on the school gymnasium. (Photo by Michael Erb)
"Our goal is to have the cleanest environment possible for the kids," she said. "When you see the children's faces on the first day, the smiles, that is what it's all about."
Greenmont custodian Ray Reynolds agrees.
"I want to keep the school in the kind of shape I would want my granddaughter to walk into," he said.
The pair are the only custodians at the school, but officials say they, like other custodians around the county, do the work of an army.
"They are representative of the type of service personnel that work for Wood County Schools," said Sue Woodward, assistant superintendent of school services. "Our service staff do their best to make things as seamless as possible for the first day of school."
Gates said that preparation begins after the last day of school. The custodians remove furniture from rooms and begin a top-down scrub.
"We clean everything, the rafters, the walls, the windows," she said. "We even wipe down the blinds."
They then strip the existing wax off of the floors and begin again.
"We put down three sealers and seven to 10 coats of wax," Gates said. "We use about 100 gallons of wax a year."
By the time the new school year comes around, the duo say they have things pretty well under control, focusing on last-minute cleaning, returning furniture to rooms and buffing floors to a polished shine.
"I usually feel rushed all the time," Gates said. "Some years we've had to come in on the weekends to get everything done."
This year school will open for the fall semester Thursday.
"It's crunch time," Woodward said.
The district employs 113 custodians who work in more than 30 facilities throughout the county. The task can seem daunting, but Woodward said many employees have learned to adapt.
"Our long-time employees have paced themselves all summer for that final push to the goal line," she said. "Like a marathon runner, they've trained for it all year. They know how long it takes to wax the floors, they know how many people it takes to complete different tasks. They've got it down to a science."
Even so, Woodward said the run up to the start of school can seem more like a sprint.
"Anything that is left in them, they are giving it right now," she said.
"When those doors open, we are ready," Reynolds said.
Maintaining those halls and classrooms throughout the year is a bit of a team effort, he said, with everyone pitching in to help.
"Everybody works together. If they see something that needs done, they do it," Reynolds said. "The students help us a lot and so does the faculty."
"We're like a family here," Gates said.
Reynolds, who has worked at the school for six years now, takes it a step further.
"I was retired, and I decided I didn't have enough grandchildren, so I came here," he said. "Now I have 280 of them."


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The NBA season is almost upon us and I am going to continue a fans opinionated preview of the NBA teams, with a look at the Pacific Division in the Western Conference
Pacific Division- 2012- 2013 preview
Los Angeles Lakers- 1st in Pacific Division in 2011-2012
Current players- Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Metta World Peace, Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Antawn Jamison, Steve Blake, Earl Clark, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Chris Duhon, Devin Ebanks, Andrew Goudelock, Jordan Hill, Dwight Howard, Daris Johnson-Odom, Jodie Meeks, Robert Sacre
Preview- The new look Lakers look amazing on paper. Two 7 footers inside that complement each other. Pau Gasol has the ability to be a finesse player with moves that can be initiated 15-20 feet away from the basket, whereas Dwight can dominate everything and anything around the basket on offence. A point guard who is a two-time NBA MVP and who makes everybody around him better. One of the Greatest players of this era in Kobe Bryant and a tough hard-nosed defender in Metta World Peace. Man on paper this starting lineup looks tough to match-up against. Even Steve Nash's defence weaknesses are masked with former defensive player of the year Dwight Howard's presence in the middle. The Lakers biggest issue last year was scoring off the bench and the Lakers have even improved that with the acquisition of Antawn Jamison, Chris Duhon and sharp-shooter Jodie Meeks. On paper this team looks nearly unstoppable, but what is on paper doesn't always translate onto the court. The team will have to gel and learn to play with each other. This will be an interesting team to watch but if everything clicks I can see a finals birth against the likes of the Heat(most likely), Celtics, or Pacers(these 2 much less likely) and even maybe an NBA championship in the works.
Los Angeles Clippers- 2nd in Pacific Division in 2011-2012
Current players: Blake Griffin, Matt Barnes, Chauncey Billups, Eric Bledsoe, Caron Butler, Jamal Crawford, Willie Green, Grant Hill, Ryan Hollins, DeAndre Jordan, Travis Leslie, Lamar Odom, Chris Paul, Trey Thompkins, Hank Thoms, Ronny Turiaf
Preview- The Clippers have been a fun team too watch since they drafted Blake Griffin. Blake and his dunk parter DeAndre definitely put a dent on the rim. But this team really got in the mix last year after acquiring Chris Paul. The lose of Billups Midseason Hurt last year. This year the Clippers are back and could do some damage in the west. Of course they didn't make the big splash like there stadium partners, but they made some sound movies to strengthen up there bench and add offensive fire power. Key additions such as Jamal Crawford, Lamar Odom and Grant Hill will definitely benefit both sides of the ball. Jamal Crawford is known as a remarkable scorer that can torch anybody on any given night. Lamar is a 7 footer with the handles of a shooting guard and size of a centre, but he has to return to LA form to be any good. Grant Hill can do a bit of everything even at his age. If this team stays healthy and Blake improves his defensive game I can see this team making it to the 2nd round again and giving any team they face a run for there money in the playoffs.
Phoenix Suns- 3rd in Pacific Division in 2011-2012
Current players: Michael Beasley, Shannon Brown, Ike Diogu, Goran Dragic, Jared Dudley, Channing Frye, Diante Garrett, Marcin Gortat, Othyus Jeffers, Wesley Johnson, Solomon Jones, Kendall Marshall, Markieff Morris, Jermaine O'Neal, Luis Scola, Sebastian Telfair, P.J. Tucker, Luke Zeller
Preview: Simply put this is gonna be a rebuilding period for the Phoenix Suns. They have lost there franchise Player in Steve Nash to the Lakers but they looked like they were gonna part ways with him for awhile. Key additions this year should be the handing over of the reins to Goran Dragic who used to be mentored by Nash and had a breakout season last year in Houston, earning him a nice pay raise. Kendall Marshall was drafted by the Suns and should be a PG of the future for the Phoenix suns and also creating a nice tandem with Dragic. Michael Beasley is an interesting addition that can provide some punch on the scoreboard. Other than that there is not much to watch from this team this season. This teams has now gone into rebuilding mode and will hope its young talent will grow. This simply is a team built for the future and i expect them to be a cellar dweller this year.
Golden State Warriors- 4th in Pacific Division in 2011-2012
Current players- Harrison Barnes, Kent Bazemore, Andrish Biedrins, Andrew Bogut, Stephen Curry, Festus Ezeli, Draymond Green, Jarrett Jack, Richard Jefferson, Charles Jenkins, Carl Landry, David Lee, Brandon Rush, Klay Thompson, Jeremy Tyler Preview: The Golden State Warriors would have had the best offseason in the west if it wasn't for the Lakers. This team should drastically improve over last year with just the healthier roster. With a healthy Stephen Curry and Andrew Bogut the team easily looks a lot better on paper. On top of that add in the offseason acquisitions such as Carl Landry and Jarrett Jack, while drafting the wingman Harrison Barnes this teams looks much improved on paper. There is an optimism around this team and if everything goes well they should definitely compete for a playoff spot in the West, but for that injury risks Andrew Bogut and Stephen Curry have to stay healthy. I don't seem them making the playoffs this year but they are getting closer to the LA teams on top of there division and in the next few seasons should definitely be a perennial playoff team. This teams future definitely looks good.
Sacramento Kings- 5th in Pacific Division in 2011-2012
Current players- Aaron Brooks, DeMarcus Cousins, Tyreke Evans, Jimmer Fredette, Francisco Garcia, Chuck Hayes, Tyler Honeycutt, James Johnson, Travis Outlaw, Thomas Robinson, John Salmons, Isaiah Thomas, Jason Thompson, Marcus Thornton
Preview- The Kings are a team filled with young talented individuals. The problem is they play as individuals and not as a team. This year the kings have a great guard combination in Aaron Brooks, Isaiah Thomas, Marcus Thornton and former R.O.Y Tyreke Evans. Tyreke has been frustrating for the Kings with his inconsistent play since his rookie campaign. Can he turn it around this year? Again look at the front court of the Kings it reeks of talent with the likes of Demarcus Cousins, Jason Thompson and highly rated prospect Thomas Robinson this is a team filled to the brim with talent. The big question is can they play as a team? If they do this team can surprise a few times and pull a few upsets. I don't see them making the playoffs but becoming a .500 team with the talent they have should be a given, but for this team it would be a huge step forward. Tomorrow will be a preview of the SOUTHWEST division


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The Detroit Red Wings' special teams were in midseason form, scoring twice and killing all five Pittsburgh Penguins power plays at Consol Energy Center en route to a 4-1 victory.
Rookie defenseman Adam Almquist scored both power-play goals in a 5:40 span of the second period, beating Tomas Vokoun with slap shots from the blue line. Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Tatar also had goals for the Red Wings.
"I got a little bit lucky at first," Almquist said. "The puck was popping out to me and I could just go ahead a rip it off. Luckily it went in. The second one, I got a really good pass from Samuelsson, shot it and it went in. I got lucky there too."
Pittsburgh outshot Detroit 24-19 but failed to convert on three first-period power plays and lost for the second time in as many nights.
"We still made some mistakes. It's the preseason, you're going to do that," captain Sidney Crosby said. "But I think we got better. We've got some games here to get sharper."


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By The Numbers will highlight the Red Wings on-ice accomplishments in the 2010-11 season. Each week during the off-season, By The Numbers will profile a different player on the team, focusing on their statistical highs. This week we focus on defenseman Niklas Kronwall.


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WEDNESDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- There is considerable variation in the level of community benefit expenditure by tax-exempt hospitals, according to a study published in the April 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Noting that the Affordable Care Act requires tax-exempt hospitals to assess and address community needs, Gary J. Young, J.D., Ph.D., from the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research in Boston, and colleagues analyzed reports from 1,800 tax-exempt hospitals filed with the Internal Revenue Service for fiscal year 2009, and examined the level and pattern of community benefits provided by hospitals.
During fiscal year 2009, the researchers found that tax-exempt hospitals spent 7.5 percent of their operating expenses on community benefits. The majority of these expenditures (more than 85 percent) were dedicated to charity care and other patient care services. Approximately 5 percent of the remaining community-benefit expenditures were devoted to community health improvements that hospitals undertook directly and the remainder went to education for health professions, research, and contributions to community groups. There was wide variation in the level of benefits provided, with hospitals devoting between about 1 and 20 percent of operating expenses to community benefits. Indicators of community need did not account for this variation.
"In 2009, tax-exempt hospitals varied markedly in the level of community benefits provided, with most of their benefit-related expenditures allocated to patient care services," write the authors.
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The American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) joined ISHR as a program in November, 2010. Led by Convener John Washburn, AMICC provides new dimensions to the Institute's work on international justice, the enforcement of human rights and in collaboration with and support of academics, organizations, activists and practitioners.
Since 2001, AMICC has promoted understanding of and support to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the United States through its 35 organizational members and 12 local presences around the country. The Coalition provides action guides, analyses, reports and information through its website and social media – Twitter, Facebook and blog. A main objective is a relationship of the United States with the ICC which will be strong and extensive enough to support US ratification of the Court's Rome Statute at the appropriate time.
The ICC is the world's first permanent international criminal court empowered by treaty to try individuals for the most serious atrocities of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Negotiations at the United Nations created its Rome Statute which by January 2012 had 120 states parties. Since the atrocities the Court tries all are profoundly serious violations of human rights, it is a new, compelling and dramatic way to enforce those rights. As a program of the Institute, AMICC tracks both the development of the Court in its enforcement of human rights and also the impact of the Court's work on human rights standards and concepts.
AMICC is a national network of the international NGO Coalition for the ICC (CICC). The CICC has more than 2,500 NGO members worldwide and offices in New York and The Hague. Through the latter it has close relations with the Court. AMICC is committed to use its affiliation with the ICC as well as its own contacts there to give the Institute access to Court officials, proceedings and meetings. In particular, AMICC creates and supports a delegation to each annual meeting of the Court's governing body. Institute and Columbia students and scholars will have opportunities to participate in these delegations.
In its support to other programs and scholars at the Institute, as well as the Columbia community as a whole, AMICC especially focuses on issues such as the ICC's treatment of gender crimes and crimes of sexual violence, including the Court's treatment of the crime of rape; the ways in which the Court and other international tribunals reconstruct and use historical narrative and other documentation of atrocities; the effective functioning of the ICC, particularly with regard to elections and changes in leadership; and contributions to the Institute's research on the ICC's position and practice on peace and justice (and the interplay between the two).
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In Innovation, Sometimes Bigger is Better
One of the main conundrums businesses face when trying to generate new ideas, or instill a greater culture of innovation, is how wide to cast the net. This in turn leads to one of the most common business mistakes a company can make — limiting the creative process to a select few, in the belief that the company's 'most creative' minds will deliver the goods.
Creativity Meets Clarity
A recent article in Marketing Week, 'Is your brand's workplace creative enough?', raised questions about the optimum number of people to involve in the creative process. One contributor highlighted the benefits of keeping creative teams small, in order to keep the process streamlined and reduce the number of people who can stifle the journey of an idea. It's true that there comes a time when a more focused group is required to ensure that a great idea has the opportunity to become reality; however, small is not always beautiful in the innovation process.
Firstly, setting up an "innovation team" that is alone responsible for ideation only serves to alienate the rest of the workforce — either because they feel undervalued, or assume they are not needed to contribute new ideas. Smaller teams can also suffer from 'group think', a widely accepted phenomenon drawn from the work of psychologist Irving Janis, where a subconscious desire for harmony trumps a person's objectivity or focus on the end goal. This leads individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, resulting in a loss of creativity and independent thinking.
Widening the number of people involved who have external perspectives — such as employees not immediately connected to the project — will provide fresh view points and invaluable critiques on existing ideas. This reflects the words of Franz Johannsen, who ascertained in his book, The Medici Effect, that innovation happens at the intersection of multiple disciplines and cultures. The more people involved, the more intersections that occur, the more ideas that will form. In this regard, big businesses and enterprises are at an advantage. Small companies are often seen as better equipped to innovate than their larger rivals. However, following the logic of the Medici Effect, enterprises possess access to a larger and more diverse pool of minds, and therefore a greater number of 'intersections'.
Bringing in the Front Line
Involving the audience closest to the problem at hand is also vital, and often neglected when opting for a small team. If you're attempting to find innovative new ways to improve customer service, why not consult the front-line staff who interact most closely with them, or even involve the customers themselves? This approach has been taken by a number of businesses, such as Novant Health, which successfully used Mindjet's Spigit Engage to source the opinions and ideas of thousands of front-line nurses in order to develop new ways to improve care.
Effective idea-generation is best done by capitalising on larger numbers of contributors. In today's hyper-connected world, with the prevalence of social media and the ability to crowd-source ideas using technology, effective idea-generation is possible on even the largest of scales. That gives companies the ability to involve hundreds — or even thousands — of people in the innovation process, regardless of their role or place in the organisational hierarchy.
Once great ideas have been discovered, it's true a smaller steering committee is necessary to execute on the best concepts so that they can become reality. But, it is only at this stage of the idea journey that small should be considered more valuable than leveraging the full breadth of your network in the search for genuine business innovation.


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In 1903 Schatz suddenly began producing a series of reliefs on subjects taken from Jewish daily life in Eastern Europe. This burst of creativity dedicated to Jewish themes was most likely brought on by the traumatic attack on the Jews of Kishinev in the same year. The Kishinev pogrom was one of the turning points in Zionist history; for Boris Schatz, it led to an emotional and artistic transformation. Scene after scene, Schatz's poignant depictions of Jewish existence can be seen as a kind of salvage operation, an attempt to rescue cultural and communal memory and preserve a vanishing world, now threatened with violent destruction.
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Oppenheimer and Warburg took up the idea of an art school in Jerusalem with great enthusiasm, and, together with Schatz, met with Jewish leaders, philanthropists, and artists, and managed to create a coalition of the various organizations that might help to establish the institution Schatz envisioned. The Bezalel idea began to gain ground.
In 1905, the Bezalel School was the most significant cultural initiative undertaken by the Zionist movement. The way in which the School's trustees understood the project and its goals was influenced by the prevalent Zionist conception of the Middle East at the turn of the century: a region of great promise, soon to be inundated with thousands of tourists and pilgrims who would bring money into the country and buy up large quantities of souvenirs and religious objects. The trustees expected the study of crafts to provide work for members of the pre-Zionist Jewish community living in Palestine under Ottoman rule. Thus a new generation of active, productive Jews would replace a part of the people that had grown accustomed to living off charity.


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Eulogies: George Konheim
Philanthropist and Entrepreneur, Dies at 84
George Konheim, philanthropist, business entrepreneur and a pillar of the Los Angeles Jewish community, died Saturday, Dec. 8, at the age of 84.
Konheim died of complications of pneumonia and renal and heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
His greatest legacy can be found in Cheviot Hills, just off the 10 freeway. There sits the sprawling 15-acre campus of Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, which Konheim nurtured to prominence as a premier social-service agency for abused and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. "He took a little organization, rebuilt it and expanded it," his close friend and business associate Bram Goldsmith told The Journal. "Vista del Mar was his love."
Vista, a beneficiary agency of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, was founded in 1908 as the Jewish Orphans Home of Southern California in East Los Angeles, one of the city's first Jewish charities. Konheim began his involvement with the organization in the early 1950s. He served 27 years as chairman of the board of directors, and stayed active in Vista into the early 1990s.
"George made Vista what it is today," Vista CEO Gerald Zaslaw told The Journal. "His philosophy was that no child or family should go unserved because of their inability to pay. This drove him to be a fantastic fundraiser."
Konheim helped raise at least $15 million to finance the expansion and renovation of the Vista campus. "He put us in a position to enable us to underwrite charitable services to families who needed it," Zaslaw said. According to Zaslaw, Konheim's involvement in Vista continued until about two years ago, when his ill health made the two men's regular meetings difficult.
Konheim's devotion to Vista's work for children stemmed from his own childhood experiences. Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1917, Konheim grew up without his father, who was killed in a fire. At age 8, he began supporting his mother, brother and two sisters by selling newspapers and bagels. Still, money was tight.
He often recounted the story of seeking help from Jewish charities. After he received a pair of shoes from one charity, he promised himself that one day he would help other children and families as he had been helped.
In addition to Vista, Konheim was an active philanthropist for many organizations, including the Boy Scouts of America, the Child Welfare League of America, City of Hope, DARE, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Jewish Federation, the Los Angeles County Museum and the Music Center Foundation, of which he was a founder.
Following the death of his son, Neil, in a 1982 jetliner fire in China, Konheim created the Neil Konheim Know Your Body Program which teaches children about healthy living. It is now known as the Health Champions Program and is taught in many school districts throughout California.
His astounding business success made his dream of helping others possible. A high school dropout, he bought the first of several vegetable pushcarts while still a teenager. He studied engineering in night school, and during World War II he worked at Pratt & Whitney, which manufactured military airplane engines.
Eventually Konheim came to own a chain of successful gas stations in Ohio. He and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1947, and he founded Buckeye Construction Co., building postwar homes in Cheviot Hills and Beverlywood. In 1950 he turned his focus to commercial real estate, joining with Goldsmith, the current chairman of the board of City National Bank. The partnership lasted 50 years. "He was one of the most responsible dedicated people I ever knew," Goldsmith said. "He was a brother to me."
His dedication to Jewish life extended beyond philanthropy. He helped found Temple Beth Am on La Cienega Boulevard. "Judaism went deeper with George," eulogized Jacob Pressman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth Am, at Konheim's funeral service on Dec. 11. Konheim hosted large Chanukah celebrations at Vista del Mar, and held massive communal seders in his home. At Purim, he sent Shalach Manot, and at Rosh Hashana, he sent gifts of crown-shaped challahs and honey to hundreds on his long list of friends and acquaintances. "In his way, George was a missionary for meaningful Jewish observance, who embraced literally thousands of people in the warmth of his love for what he called Yiddishkeit," Pressman said. Every year during Sukkot, Konheim hosted three parties in the sukkah at his Beverly Hills home. Some 200 people attended each night -- friends, business associates and Vista activists.
"He had a remarkable ability to enlist the support of the community, because he was such a philanthropist himself," Zaslaw said. He really believed philanthropy was an opportunity he was offered. He believed philanthropists got more out of it than they gave."
In numerous speeches over the years, Konheim always turned the tables on those who sought to thank him for his giving. "I have been so fortunate to be associated with Vista," he would say. "I am really a lucky guy."
Konheim is survived by his wife of 61 years, Eva; sons, Bruce and Lyn; daughter, Terri Cooper; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the George Konheim Fund at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, 3200 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034. -- Staff Report
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SPRINGFIELD, Va. – Market data company Relevate says it has created a new database to meet the needs of marketers who would like to reach motorcycle owners.
Motorcycle ID is a 4.5 million-record database that contains ownership information and consumer demographics, with the VIN available on 99 percent of records, according to the company. Motorcycle ID leads are sourced from consumer transactions, and the data is fully compliant with privacy laws, the marketing firm said.
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Definition of embryo in English:
noun (plural embryos)
1An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development.
Example sentences
- No one has yet converted a single blastomere from an eight-cell embryo into a stem cell line.
- The most common mutant phenotype was an embryo with a polar body near one end and the development of one or two spindles in the middle.
- Double fertilization of egg cell and central cell initiates development of the diploid embryo and the triploid endosperm, respectively.
1.1An unborn human baby, especially in the first eight weeks from conception, after implantation but before all the organs are developed. Compare with fetus.
Example sentences
- They worry that people will be tested against their will and that clinicians will even test embryos and fetuses.
- If you've got concerns about abortion, morally or ethically or whatever, if the embryo has implanted in the uterus, emergency contraception won't work.
- The zygote divides again and again as it grows in the female's uterus, maturing over the course of the pregnancy into an embryo, a fetus, and finally a newborn baby.
2 Botany The part of a seed that develops into a plant, consisting (in the mature embryo of a higher plant) of a plumule, a radicle, and one or two cotyledons.
Example sentences
- During the autocatalytic cycle of growth and reproduction of higher plants, the embryo in the seed grows, under suitable conditions, to form a plant with leaves and roots.
- The embryo matures and the seed accumulates storage products, acquires desiccation tolerance, and loses water.
- Another type of apomictic development has been reported to occur in the gymnosperm Cupressus dupreziana, where embryos develop from unreduced pollen grains.
3A thing at a rudimentary stage that shows potential for development: a simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy
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- He goes as long-awaited plans to create a new hub for Swindon are still at the embryo stage.
- The design is still at its embryo stage, as it should be for an idea competition.
germ, nucleus, seed;
rudimentary version, rudiments, basics, beginning, start
in embryo
- At a rudimentary stage with the potential for further development.Example sentences
- The government has fiercely denied opposition claims that it has created an army in embryo, without parliament's consent.
- To Tocqueville, this was popular sovereignty in embryo.
- We may think we've missed it, but as Smith talks us through her ideas, which are presented with great fluency and wit, her thesis takes shape and, in embryo at least, is persuasive.
Late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek embruon 'fetus', from em- 'into' + bruein 'swell, grow'.
This comes via late Latin from Greek embruon 'foetus', from em- 'into' and bruein 'swell, grow'.
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In case you didn't catch it, Scottish singer Amy MacDonald played the Audi press conference at Geneva last week. As we prep for our show wrapup that'll run later today, we've stumbled across video of the singer performing her single "This Pretty Face" on the Audi stand. The song's a good one though good luck getting ahold of it if you're a Yank. We've checked iTunes and Amazon and neither have it for download though iTunes UK does and an import version of the album it is on is available on CD at Amazon. If you wish to download, you may have to ask a British buddy to get it for you or perhaps there are more nefarious download scenarios of which we're not schooled. Either way, watch the live performance below.


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Known for her specialty of creating the flawless face, Laura Mercier is a world-renowned makeup artist and creator of Laura Mercier Cosmetics, Skincare, Body & Bath, and Fragrance. As the personal makeup artist to celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Julia Roberts, and Juliette Binoche, and as a contributor to cover designs and editorial shoots, Laura Mercier creates looks that are both flawless and accentuate one's natural beauty.
Raised in Provence, Laura began her training at age 17 when she entered painting school in Paris. After deciding to shift her talents from the canvas to the face, Laura attended the Carita School where she specialized in makeup application. Subsequently she represented Carita as a makeup artist and makeup teacher, working closely with Thibault Vabre.
In 1985, Laura moved to New York when she was asked to join the team to launch American Elle. She immediately began working on advertising campaigns for Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, Clairol, as well as editorial spreads for magazines including Elle, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Seventeen, and several other publications. She began working with clients such as L'Oreal, Maybelline, Victoria's Secret, Gap, Banana Republic, and many other cosmetic and clothing companies, while working with Madonna on her looks for print, television and film. Subsequently Laura entered into a four-year contract with Elizabeth Arden, designing the makeup looks for all of their advertising campaigns, and also worked with Chanel on the company's beauty advertising campaigns in France.


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Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world. . . . No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is to be noble.
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A Quote by Thomas D. Willhite on love, friend, friends, friendship, peace, and wholeness
What service can you be to humanity? How much love can you give? How good a friend can you be? The rewards you will gain by becoming a GIVER will reap for you true peace and a feeling of beautiful wholeness.
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The Philadelphia Eagles have just announced that they've signed a partnership with the popular game 'Angry Birds.' In case you've been living in a sewer for the past few years, Angry Birds, produced by a Finland-based media entertainment company called Rovio Entertainment, is the highest selling (and also the most addicting) paid app of all time, with more than one billion downloads worldwide.
Although the financial terms and organizational details of the agreement have not been released yet, both brands are expecting that the partnership will increase publicity and revenue on either end. To help announce the deal, the Eagles released this animated press conference, in which head coach Andy Reid mentions a new character, the "Mighty Philadelphia Eagle."
Eagles officials have stated that further details on the agreement will be released as football season nears, but for now, here's hoping that this city of die-hard Birds fans will look up from their phones once in a while to actually catch the game.
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I entered public school instruction in 1997. For five years thereafter I taught in both California and Colorado. When I began my career I was boiling with determination to change public schooling. My own experiences as a public school student had been difficult to say the least and there was certainly a streak of bitterness in my desire to change the system. I optimistic enough that I could affect great change in public schools simply by being there and doing things differently. In 2002 I began teaching middle school, the year that NCLB went into effect. Over the ensuing years my ability to teach freely and creatively became increasingly restrained, culminating in my school's adoption of a mandated curriculum in 2006. From this point forward I fought deep discouragement each year, feeling that I was unable to serve my students effectively. I felt trapped and unable to do anything but be part of the machine, and I wondered how could I have been so naïve. My hope of bringing change from within my field faded.
And my problem was one of change from within, but not in the way I'd suspected. No Child Left Behind, and the district curriculum were peripheral antagonisms compared the real battle going on in my heart, a battle against self-limitation. Before entering teaching, I had worked at a variety of jobs, in retail, manufacturing, and as a graphics worker. In all of those roles I had also felt somewhat trapped, saying to myself: This is not my true profession. I saw the attainment of a teaching license as the doorway to the real life for which I was preparing. Once I started teaching, I imagined that I would be happy and satisfied as a matter of course, and that I would perform my work with a confidence and drive lacking in previous jobs.
This is where things get sticky, because this largely turned out to be true. I was fulfilling my calling, of that I had not doubt. Still, at barely conscious level, I was holding back and it showed in the restrictions I placed on myself in the face of the obstacles thrown at me by my working conditions. Despite my passion for teaching, I found it difficult to fully commit myself to the lives of my students. I could be warmly encouraging to a child, foster his or her growth all year, and yet something was still missing. What it was, I could not ascertain. One's students are always a mirror, and not surprisingly, they reflected back their own inability to go the distance in their lives. That one kid whom I had devoted so much extra time and care outside the classroom, still tended to slip into old patterns and not finish the year well. This was deeply troubling to me. I had to do the internal work to get to bottom of this dilemma, for as a practicing Nichiren Buddhist, I know that what I see around me, and in others, has a direct correlation to how I see myself. After much struggle, I realized that as an engaged, caring teacher, I was still only willing to go 90% of the distance for my students; the reason being that I was only willing to go that far for myself. I had always kept myself within a carefully crafted frame of what I believed was ultimately possible for myself. And if this is how I felt about myself, how could it not translate to my kids?
I do not share this self-criticism as a result of guilt, nor as an act of penance. I relate this personal struggle to illustrate that successful teaching is not so much a matter of how a teacher works with students, as it is the teacher's internal orientation in this profoundly human work. I wanted to show young people how they can change their lives with their own inherent power (a foundational concept of Soka Education). But how could I do so if I was reluctant to do the same myself? This was my greatest impediment as an educator. And furthermore, I realize that I would have experienced this same stultification even without the constraints of NCLB. I had tried to change how I felt about my life by changing the daily environment in which I took action. Instead, it was changing my heart that mattered in the course of crafting a greater happiness. Thinking in terms of the growth of cherry trees, Daisaku Ikeda writes:
The roots are especially important. One expert on trees says that the spread of the crown of a cherry tree is mirrored almost exactly by the spread of its roots below ground. If we water the tree only around the base of the trunk, the tree will become "lazy" and not bother to spread its roots far in search of water ("Teachers of My Childhood", Soka Education, p. 139).
Applying this analogy to myself, I see the crown of the cherry tree as my students, and the roots as myself. Because my growth was uneven, this unevenness was reflected in them. Teaching is about being fully open to people. When I realized this, I was able to see my career with fresh eyes. It was a shift in perspective that empowered me to approach the conditions of my work fundamentally differently, the results of which have led me to change my view of my role in education.
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Definition of print run in English:
print run
The number of copies of a book, magazine, etc. printed at one time.
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- If a popular book has a large print run, then the up front costs can drop dramatically, bringing a potential for large profits.
- Bambang said the magazine is expected to reach a print run of 20,000 copies within the next few months.
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Word for Word/Deconstructing 'The Simpsons'; The Aristotelian Logic of Bart And Homer. Or Is It Platonic?
By JAYSON BLAIR
Published: September 9, 2001
WHEN Fox Television and Matt Groening first introduced America to Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Santa's Little Helper on Dec. 17, 1989, few would have imagined the impact this lovably dysfunctional family from Springfield would have on popular culture.
''The Simpsons,'' with its clever writing and satirical attacks, has not only changed the way Americans view cartoons, but also the way they speak: the Oxford English Dictionary this year even added Homer's catch phrase ''D'oh'' (''expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish'').
So it's no surprise that academia has turned its gaze to the phenomenon. A new collection of essays called ''The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer'' (Open Court), edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble, dissects the show's many cultural and political messages -- both liminal and subliminal. It's all quite serious. Judge for yourself from the following excerpts. JAYSON BLAIR
Let's start with a look at the family patriarch, the subject of ''Homer and Aristotle,'' by Raja Halwani, assistant professor of philosophy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago:
Homer is not an evil person. While he is not a paradigm of virtue, he certainly is not malicious. The harshest reaction we can have towards him is pity. There are at least two reasons for this. The first reason is that Homer's upbringing leaves much to be desired. To begin with, he grew up mostly in Springfield, a town whose inhabitants -- with the rare exception of Lisa -- have serious and severe character flaws, ranging from stupidity to malice, to being simply incompetent and clueless in the ways of the world (even Marge, who is a good candidate for being another exception to the inhabitants of Springfield, is very conventional and often lacks critical abilities). . . .
The second reason why our judgment of Homer's character is not harsh, even though he is not virtuous, is that he is not generally a malicious person. He is selfish, he is a glutton, he is greedy and he can be quite dumb, but he is rarely one of those people who are envious of others and who wish them ill will. It is true that he often acts with deliberate intent to harm some people, but we think that these people somehow are not worthy of better treatment.
Homer's wife isn't too shabby either, according to Gerald J. Erion of Medaille College in Buffalo and Joseph A. Zeccardi in an essay titled ''Marge's Moral Motivation'':
Marge typically follows the Aristotelian recipe for a happy, moral life, and with great success. The good to which she looks in making her decisions (moral or otherwise) is the good of her family, and therefore herself. She makes these decisions not because she hopes that they will be reciprocated, but because they are reciprocated by their very nature; what is good for them is good for her. In Marge, we see that Aristotle's moral virtues can be successfully applied not just in the abstract, ivory towers of academia, but in the real, workaday cartoon world.
In ''Lisa and American Anti-Intellectualism,'' Aeon J. Skoble, visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, unravels the mixed messages of the Simpson's precocious older daughter:
American anti-intellectualism . . . is pervasive but not all encompassing. As it does with many other aspects of modern society, ''The Simpsons'' often uses this theme as fodder for its satire. In the Simpson family, only Lisa could really be described as an intellectual. But her portrayal as such is not unequivocally flattering. In contrast to her relentlessly ignorant father, she is often shown having the right answer to a problem or a more perceptive analysis of a situation. . . . Although her wisdom is sometimes presented as valuable, other times it is presented as a case of being sanctimonious or condescending. . . .
In Lisa's challenge to Springfield, the show calls attention to the cultural limitations of small-town America, but it also reminds us that intellectual disdain for the common man can be carried too far and that theory can all to easily lose touch with common sense.
Even the family's infant daughter comes up for scrutiny, in ''Why Maggie Matters: Sounds of Silence, East and West,'' by Eric Bronson of Berkeley College in New York City:
Maggie Simpson shot Mr. Burns. The infant, still too young to walk, protected her lollipop from falling into groping miserly hands. Was it self-defense? An accident perhaps? After all, the gun did belong to Mr. Burns and only ended up in Maggie's hands due to his own carelessness. Still, the two-part episode ends on an interrogative note. Just what were the intentions of this young and seemingly innocent girl? Could she knowingly commit such a crime? The answers, or lack thereof, are less than comforting. The camera zooms in on Maggie's mouth, her pacifier blocking any articulation or explanation as the credits begin to roll. The child tries to speak but cannot.


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I have just installed wordpress and I'm having a bit of a problem with the 404 pages. For some reason, only the bottom half of the HTML is being sent. An example: http://slightlymore.co.uk/wisdom/singletonsaelfhjn-in-php the real page is here: http://slightlymore.co.uk/wisdom/singletons-in-php
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by Steven Knight
Release date : May 2010
It's funny. If you're born a certain way, you don't really understand how it is to be any other way.So it has been for Toby Walsgrove—paralyzed since birth, unable to move or talk, with no known family, he has spent his entire life at a Carmelite convent in London. That is, until the day that his cat, Shipley, starts talking to him. Shipley has been watching over Toby his whole life and tells him they must go to Langjoskull, a city of exiles buried deep below the surface of Iceland. Because Toby is no ordinary boy—he's a descendant of the great king Will Wolfkin, and his kingdom needs him. Toby has never wielded a sword that can stop time. He has never shifted into his kin creature. He has never even walked on his own two legs before. Ready or not, though, he has a destiny, a responsibility, even a family—and not all of them are happy to meet him...MY THOUGHTS : The beginning was kind of slow and a bit unrealistic for my taste : Toby can suddenly use his body and his voice after a lifetime of immobility and mutism, and I thought he ajusted to the change very quickly... Also, the boat trip to Iceland lacked desciptions and clarity. But from the moment when Toby enters Langjoskull, the plot grows and you find yourself sucked into a story that is both fantastic, committed, colorful and quite imaginative. The following scenes go from thrilling to, well, a bit less thrilling, perhaps because of a slight balance problem, but they managed to maintain my attention.
The characters are endearing (even if Emma 'bumps her fists' a little too often!). The themes (mainly the absurdity of war and the power of the mind) are subtly and cleverly handled. I found the dialogues sometimes too 'dramatic', but it's an intermittent thing. The atmosphere and the fantasy elements are not very original, but I really enjoyed it anyway. One scene in particular works extremely well (and oddly it's one of the most realistic one) in which Emma and Toby find themselves in a field of landmines, and where the suspense is amazing.
The ending is unexpected, I was really surprised. I won't give away any spoilers, but I can say that it gives a higher and thought provoking dimension to a story that could have been that of any fantasy book.
I haven't see this book around the blogosphere, I really recommend it. It's a touching and fast-paced story that deserves to be read. :)


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In 2009, Lynn Shelton shook up the festival circuit with Humpday, an improvised comedy about male friendships and gay panic starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard.
In 2011, Shelton and Duplass launched their new collaboration, Your Sister's Sister, at the Toronto Film Festival.
A more serious (but still very funny) work about a grieving man (Duplass) spending an awkward weekend with his best friend (Emily Blunt) and her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt), it's a major step forward for Shelton – and something of a high-wire act for Blunt.
Mark, you'd worked with Lynn before on Humpday and made your own similar films, but Emily, this was the first time you've tried anything like this. What was the experience like for you?
Emily Blunt: It was just very different. It wasn't necessarily an easy adjustment…. I think it does require guts to do a film like this. All of us just had to be kinda gutsy about it.
Mark Duplass: Emily said something after our first big take together: "Wow, that was like jazz." It's kinda corny, but it's very similar to how our process goes. We're playing an old standard song in a key we all know, but the little pieces, the way we interpret it, happen freely, in the moment, because we've all done our homework. Literally within two minutes she was right in there. It was awesome.
So here you are with another little character piece…
Lynn Shelton: There are only certain kinds of stories you can tell in this way. You really can't do your big period piece or a sci-fi movie. Or if you have a kazillion locations, it's gonna be hard to do that with no money. But if you've got a very small [project] that's really based on human beings interacting with other human beings, you don't have to wait for somebody else to give you permission to make it.
Blunt: You know those arcade games where you have the soft toys in the bin? You're waiting for the claw to come down and summon you, and you're like, "Is it my turn? [laughs]"
Duplass: [waving arms like a Muppet] "I'm here!"
Blunt: You're just waiting in this oversized crowd. So I think that's what was exciting about this. We just got up and we went. And it was such a relief.
Duplass: We were the motherfuckin' claw!
You can listens to Emily's interview over this website.
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The World is too Much with Us
by William Wordsworth
Symbol Analysis
Wordsworth is one of the Romantic poets, and they were always talking about their feelings. This poem is no exception, only the rhetoric is more subtle than usual. It is not only humanity's inability to "see" anything in nature that so depresses the speaker, it is also our inability to be moved by it. Such insensibility is, for the speaker of the poem, a sad sight.
- Lines 1-2: The speaker implies that we don't have time for nature because we're too busy "getting and spending" all the time; the phrase "we lay waste our powers" is cryptic, but the fact that it occurs so close to the word "heart" (4) suggests that it has some connection to our ability to feel.
- Line 4: The speaker says that we have given away our hearts, the organ most often associated with feelings, sentiment, etc. Of course the heart doesn't literally do anything but pump blood, which means it is a symbol of our feelings.
- Line 8: The speaker says we are "out of tune" for the sea and wind. Here, a musical instrument is a metaphor for humanity; for people to be "out of tune" means that they are tuned to a different pitch, one that isn't in harmony with nature. There is also the suggestion that people are out of touch with nature.
- Line 9: The speaker says bluntly what he's been suggesting all along: nature doesn't move us anymore or cause us to have an emotional response. Nature never literally "moves" us, so "move" is here a metaphor for a change in one's emotions.
- Line 12: The speaker suggests that the current state of affairs has caused him to feel "forlorn" (i.e., sad, depressed, etc.). He implies that if he were a pagan he would see things that would make him feel differently.


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I try every week to add a new meal to our menu. I attempt to follow the food guru and 30 minute meal making queen, Rachel Ray. The best part of my quest is I use items that I bought on sale so these meals are yummy and affordable… an oh, yes they can be completed in 30 minutes or less!
I love asparagus. The problem is we never eat it all fast enough. We have extra time now that we have the Eggstra fresh egg . It really works my veggies last at least 5 days longer. I love this recipe because I am going to make two portions and freeze one. It only takes about ten minutes and very little watch time after the prep. This is great since my nights are getting crazier and watching items on the stove is harder. I am also starting to fill my freezer with home cooked meals just in case I can't cook any in the future. I also thought this would make a great after Easter recipe since it uses ham and veggies that you may serve at Easter dinner. I have learned so much from Connie about how to turn yesterday's meals into gourmet treats .
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- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (EVOO
- 2 large onions, thinly sliced
- 1 bunch asparagus, woody ends removed
- 12 large eggs
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons thyme leaves (from 10-15 stalks)
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- About 4 cups torn bread, such as 1 long baguette
- 2 slices (each about half-inch thick) deli ham, diced
- 1 1/2 cups shredded gruyere cheese
Position a rack in the center of the oven and pre-heat it to 350º F.
Place a large skillet over medium-high heat with 2 turns of the pan of EVOO, about 2 tablespoons. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender and well caramelized, 35-40 minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
While the onions are caramelizing, fill a large skillet with about an inch of salted water and bring it to a boil. Toss the asparagus into the boiling water and cook about 1 minute until they're bright green and tender. Drain into a colander and run cold water over them to stop them from cooking. Roughly chop them into bite-sized pieces and set them aside.
While the onions are cooling off, whisk together the eggs, milk, mustard, thyme, salt and freshly ground black pepper in a medium-size mixing bowl.
Arrange the bread in the bottom of a 13 x 9″ baking dish and top with the diced ham, asparagus and caramelized onions, giving everything a light toss to disperse the good stuff throughout the pan. Pour the egg mixture over top of everything.
Sprinkle the shredded cheese over top of the strata and place it on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake it uncovered until puffed and golden brown, and a knife inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let stand for 10 minutes then cut the strata into squares and serve.


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When it comes to having a better, more fulfilling sex life, is it simply a case of "the more, the merrier?"
How an Improved Ejaculation can Make Your Sex Life More Satisfactory:
The majority of men today deal with insecurity issues in one specific area of their lives, and it's their performance in bed. One of many various elements in men's sex lives is that they develop doubts about the amount of semen they ejaculate, thinking it might not be enough to please their partner.
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Still, it would be wise to know the difference between ejaculation and an orgasm. Even though both of these generally happen simultaneously, they are very distinctly separate incidents. There are a lot of different means by which you could put off your orgasm, thus enabling you to last longer in bed to give your partner even greater satisfaction.
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Now that you have a good understanding of the connection between a man's orgasm and the amount of semen there is, just what could you do to enhance the level of ejaculation you experience?
First of all, we will make an effort to go into more detail about semen. In truth, semen is a blend of various constituents, which comprises of the sperm from the testicles and a discharge from the prostate gland.
Logically speaking, a man's ejaculatory capacity varies from 1.5 to 5 cc. – even so, this number differs between individuals. Research has revealed that at a specific age, a man's quality in semen lessens each year; therefore, it would be safe to presume that with the onset of age, the level of ejaculated semen decreases as well.
In conclusion – on a daily basis, the level, regularity and condition of a man's semen varies. Exercise, diet and the amount of times you engage in sexual intercourse all influence the quality of your semen. Also bear in mind that the amount of alcohol you consume plays a role, so eliminating the amount you drink will enable you to have better fertility and a Bigger Cum Load overall.
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Welcome to JJ's Journey!
A day in the life of Jenna! Jenna has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1. SMA is severe neuromuscluar disorder that effects the muscles that help her move, eat, and breathe. Currently there is no treatment or cure. For more information on SMA, please visit www.fsma.org or visit www.our-sma-angels.com/jenna!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Team Jenna - Run Away SMA! (Living w/ Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
Jenna's Aunt Renee ran her first Buffalo Half Marathon last weekend in Jenna's honor. She raised over $1600 The Gwendolyn Strong Foundation and SMA Research! We are SO proud of her! Thank you Aunt Renee for all that you do!
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I've also used my imagination to help others heal themselves. I once went to visit a Hopi rattke maker in Arizona. It took all of my intuitive powers to find her house up high in the mountains, having to make choices of which way to go every hundred feet or so. When I arrived, her granddaughter was crying in pain, holding her ears. She had had a terrible earache for twenty-four hours. Instinctively, I approached the five-year-old and told her, "I'm going to put my hand on your ear and take away the pain. I want you to see the pain. What does it look like? What shape is it? What color? What does it sound like? Does it smell? How would you feel if you touched it? Now I want you to imagine it leaving your ear and entering my hand." She looked up at me with huge brown eyes full of trust. I put my hand on her ear, held it there a few minutes, and then ran to the door and blew the pain out of my hand and closed the door. Within seconds the pain was gone. Her grandmother, the rattle maker, stood there grinning from ear to ear. "That's what my grandfather would have done," she said, "He was a shaman."In a few minutes, the room seemed to fill with people. Someone placed a chair in the middle of the room and people took turns sitting in it, asking for a healing. Headaches, sores, back pains, and so on. In each case I trusted myself to do what came naturally. It's a day I'll never forget, as I discovered the range of my healing powers as they were drawn out by people for whom healing power was natural medicine. Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.
Gabrielle Roth
Source: Maps to Ecstacy
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If we are open to unimaginable possibilities ours will be a path of truth, love and light where bliss and transformation are a way of life.
Micheal Teal
Source: Micheal Teal - Poet , Philosopher and Shaman
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir (1838 - 1914)
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
James Dean
Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Witch of Portobello, Pages: 176
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Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid – after all, it's only a game – but it could enrich your life.
Source: The Witch of Portobello, Pages: 137
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.
Robert Grudin
Source: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation, Pages: 55
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