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Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Here are the entries from the eight finalists for the second round of Comic Book Idol 3!
Check out the Comic Book Idol 3 forum if you want to see the rest of their pages!
I am going to post all their first pages (of their three page assignment). For reference, here is the script by C.B. Cebulski for that first page…
Page One, Panel One
We open here with a shot of cheerleaders, which, as we all know, is how every good comic should open! Anyway… we're on the sidelines of a high school football game as these hot young things are doing their best to do their jobs and cheer on the crowd. The main focus of this shot should be one cheerleader in particular and she should be the center of attention; clearly the captain and the hottest of the bunch. Poses and uniforms up to you, but they should look sexy and feature the letters JB as I went to Joel Barlow High School.
Caption: I never dated a cheerleader.
Page One, Panel Two
Cut now to a scene at the prom… just a close-up of the prom queen as she stands on the stage and smiles and holds her flowers and waves at the crowd. She just got her crown and is happy as all hell. She's the prom queen, so she should be hot and decked out here in her gown with her tiara. I can send my prom pic as ref if you want to see what my date wore in 1989, even though she wasn't even nominated as queen. Depending on how you frame it, if we can see any of the background, it should be of balloons and glitter and all that prom shit, with any signs again for Joel Barlow High School Prom or JBHS 1989. Our theme was "Wonderful Tonight" if you wanted to include that. I'm just giving details here, so feel free to use or disregard whatever you want.
Caption: Never got lucky with the prom queen.
Page One, Panel Three
Cut to the outside of the back of a schoolyard near a parking lot. There should be a couple of old wooden benches and on them are seated a bunch of stoner chicks. Back then, Jerry Garcia was alive and the Dead were still touring and there were plenty of Deadhead chicks at my school. So there should be three or four of these chicks seated here, ripped jeans, tie-dyed shirts, flip-flops, rings, bracelets, anklets, dreadlocks, braided hair… however far you feel like going. They're all just sitting around smoking cigs and chatting as an old boom box plays some tunes they're grooving to.
Caption: Those kinds of girls always required too much effort.
Caption: I always found it easier to trade cigarettes with the stoner chicks for a quick hook-up in the parking lot.
Page One, Panel Four
This is a small inset panel in the bottom right corner of panel three. It's a simple shot of a young C.B. here, smiling or winking at the reader, as he enters the story.
C.B.: Just kidding.
Page One, Panel Five
Establishing shot of C.B. here now, dressed much like he is on the cover of Wonderlost #1: jeans, t-shirt, sambas, Rossignol cap, and black and yellow JB soccer jacket. He's on his own, maybe holding a notebook and a text book under one arm, as he walks down a crowded high school hallway lined with lockers.
Caption: I mean, sure, I was your typical, horny high school teen, looking for love in any place I could find it.
Caption: Most often in the pants of any girl who'd let me in.
Page One, Panel Six
C.B. now standing in the same hallway in front of the lockers with a cute little dark-haired hottie, dressed casually in jeans and sweater and Keds or something similar. She has her back up against the lockers as he leans in and over her and they make goo-goo eyes at each other.
Caption: But now that I'm older, reflecting back on all the different girls I dated…
Caption: …I've come to realize that the ones I slept with are the ones I remember the least.
Page One, Panel Seven
Tighter on just their faces as they stare in each other's eyes.
Caption: My fondest memories are of the girls I didn't hook up with.
Caption: The small moments I shared with them are the ones I've never forgotten.
Andrew Huerta
a 23-year-old freelance artist from Santa Ana, CA.
Caio Oliveira
a 28-year-old who is currently unemployed, from Teresina, PiauÃ, Brazil.
Charles Paul Wilson III
a 31-year-old security guard from Wharton, NJ.
Dan McDaid
a 30-year-old writer and illustrator from London.
Jon Reed
a 28-year-old accountant assistant from Alexandria, VA.
Jose "Joh James" Holder
a 36-year-old storyboard artist from Montreal.
Nicholas Pitarra
a 25-year-old college student and part-time waiter from Houston.
Wilfredo Torres
a 35-year-old information technology professional from Lawrencville, GA.
Get ready to vote this Wednesday!
As always, here is the game. I show three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, locale, creator, SOMEthing. And it isn't something obvious like "They all have prices!" "They all have logos!" "They all feature a man!" etc.
In addition, please note that you must have some familiarity with comic book history to correctly guess these comics. You cannot guess the connective theme just by looking at the covers solely, you must have some knowledge beyond just the covers.
Good luck! A cool point to the first person to figure it out!
What is the most original superpower introduced in the last decade?
This week's game is as follows…
Find me a cover featuring Agatha Harkness on it…
Floating heads don't count!
Here is an example (which you can't use!)….
Remember, only one cover per commenter!
Good luck!
Remember, tell me who it is and what number clue gave it away!
1. This character was not born in America.
2. This character is a superhero.
3. This character has sort of like shapeshifting powers.
4. This creator was an Avenger.
5. This character was born in Costa Verde.
Who is it?
Well, that's it for this installment of Snark Free Corner.
Hope you had fun!
And my guess is that the characters on all three covers team up after fighting.
Who is it: Silverclaw, on 5
Cover game: Fantastic Four #185, by Perez http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=31325&zoom=4
Silverclaw on 4. Whatever happened to her. Jarvis?
Agatha pops up on the cover of F4 #110. Is it okay to look these things up, as opposed to remembering it? I usually do the latter, but I never get to see SNC this early.
It's a shame Jack Hawksmoor from The Authority, "The God of Cities", has been around for more than a decade (just — he first appeared in July 1996), because I think he's got the most original power since Jerry and Joe invented X-ray vision. As for more recent powers, I like Mitchell Hundred's tech-empathy, although it's only a development of a power that goes back, I expect, to pulp sci-fi. Wikipedia has a list of superpowers (recently edited to include too many unwarranted "citation needed" links by some chronic anorak named Sesshomaru).
Is the cover challenge they all feature evil versions of heros,
Avengers Black Knight/Proctor
X-Factor 1 Cable/Stryfe
X-Factor 2 Multiple Man/Multiple Man
Yeah, Eric, my pal Tadhg (who technically is still a blogger here) helped me come up with the question, and that was his first response, too.
His current stance is Miss Misery from Sleeper, which I think probably sounds about right.
Someone who becomes more powerful the more evil she acts, and weaker the nicer she acts.
Is the cover challenge they all feature evil versions of heros,
Avengers Black Knight/Proctor
X-Factor 1 Cable/Stryfe
X-Factor 2 Multiple Man/Multiple Man
I guess I should add a caveat that "corner boxes" do not count as the character appearing on the cover, so that last cover is not meant to feature anyone but the two figures at the forefront of the cover.
Okay I was stretching but I rarely own any of the comics featured so I thought I would guess.
Bueno Excelente had the power of perversion, and Jean de Baton Baton defeated his enemies with the power of his Frenchness, but I'm not sure they qualify as superpowers.
Though I'm fairly sure he's been around a bit longer than a decade, I always thought Chamber (from Generation X) had a pretty original power and design, via the blowing body parts off every time he used his power.
I also think Morrison's Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr, had a pretty unique set of powers with the cockroach DNA and the whole "going white" bit. Been a while since I read that…
All 3 covers feature armor?
"Strange Bedfellows"?
Mother Mayhem from Savage Dragon.
Nomination for original superpower. Or grossest at least.
Cover theme game: I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the link between all three covers is that they feature characters who were in some way altered by science. Captain America was injected with the Super Soldier serum, Wolverine had his bones plated with adamantium, Cable was injected with a techno-organic virus, and Wolfsbane was turned into a Genoshan mutate.
Guessed Silverclaw on number 4.
Does the new take on Madrox's powers count ? Very original and quite fascinating, it started in 2004…
Cover theme – All three issues feature characters with psionic rapports:
Black Knight/Sersei
Cyclops/Jean Grey
All 3 comics in the comics cover challenge were worked on by Bob Harras?
He wrote Avengers, and Edited the other two.
(one could say wrote as both were part of editorially driven stories).
Either that or all three feature team-mates fighting team mates.
Or looking again, all three feature characters mind-controlled by a villain.
(my taste of getting it last week has made me greedy!)
Did Agatha appear on an Infinity War / Crusade / Thingy cover? I rememeber her being part of the magic group (Scarlet Witch, Doc Strange etc) but I can't find either my comics, or the fold out versions of the covers on the net.
Silverclaw on 5.
While Sentry has no 'new' powers, I like the theory of the CLOC telling him which disaster is more important to be helping with.
Cyclops/Jean Grey
Neither of those two characters were featured on the covers.
While Sentry has no 'new' powers, I like the theory of the CLOC telling him which disaster is more important to be helping with.
Yeah, that was quite clever by Jenkins.
Best new power? Sylar, on Heroes (that counts, right?) Working out what's "wrong" with someone's brain and then fixing your own to match it… that's pretty original.
All three covers feature artists using different styles to the one's they became famous for?
(or are known for – not sure who did that x-factor one, but Epting and Lee changed styles).
(How bizarre was it reading X-Cutioners Song when you'd have three chapters by Lee/Liefield styled artists, and you read the next part and you've got Jae Lee back when he was really out there?)
you know, "yay" for Comic Boo Idol and all, but are we going to get a page from everyone every week? Snark Free Corner is already a pretty slow-loading feature, what with at least three full-sized covers every week; did we really need to bog down the bandwidth even further? I'll try some guesses once the page is done loading…
you know, "yay†for Comic Boo Idol and all, but are we going to get a page from everyone every week?
But each week, there will be less pages to load, so that's something for ya!
(okay, I lied – I got bored and stopped the page loading)
For the cover challenge: is it werewolves? Captain America was (in)famously turned into Capwolf, and Wolverine was in that story as well. Of course, Wolfsbane's whole power is being a lycanthrope. It'd be a nice, Halloweeny theme (what with the [vaguely] similar Silverclaw being the "Who Is It" answer)…
I'll go out on a limb and say the cover challenge is the cover features a fight that never occurred. I'm pretty sure these were all bait-switches where the characters met/interacted, but didn't actually fight.
Silverclaw on 1, actually, although I spent most of 2-5 worried I was going to be shot down. And the last she was seen was in 'Civil War', trying to leave the country only to have Ms. Marvel beat the crap out of her and throw her in the Negative Zone prison. Foreign national, shmoreign national! We don't deport you lousy super-heroes, that's too good for your crime of helping to save our planet numerous times over! You don't want to sign up for our American Registration Act, you wind up in a hellhole prison in another universe!
Flemgem has a pretty gross superpower: horking up great gobbets of snot onto his opponents.
Dogwelder doesn't actually have any SUPERpowers, but welding a dog to an opponent has got to be one of the sickest things ever.
Milligan's X-Factor had one or two interesting ones. I'm not sure how sweating acid translated into energy blasts, but it was still interesting. As was Phat's thing of shifting his body fat around to wherever it would do most good.
Yeah, X-Force/X-Statix had some truly out-there ones. Gin Genie, whose seismic powers were fueled by booze, Dead Girl's corpse-reading, El Guapo's symbiotic skateboard. I always felt bad for Jukko in Stormwatch TA, whose sole superpower until late in the run was being able to feel every bit of physical pain anyone for several miles around felt. In one story he was shown to basically chase away a support group for cancer sufferers from the base's neighborhood because he couldn't sleep through it. When did Flash (Wally) start accelerating and decelerating things? I always thought that was a great expansion of the traditional speedster powerset (and maybe my favorite power in all of City of Heroes).
Multiple Man's new power: resembles the Archie Legion's Triplicate Girl, each component of whom had a distinct personality.
Before The Anarchist has acid sweat, Skuzz from DP7 did the same thing.
Sentry being told which disaster to take on was done by the Samaritan from Astro Citt first… and probably before that.
What's the best new original power? Miss Misery sounds just about right to me. Surely Morrison's come up with something, at some point in the last ten years, tho? Max Thunderstone communicated through thought balloons every around him could see.
Silverclaw on 5.
Best new power in the past 10 years… I kind of like the Drummer from Planetary, I always thought he was kind of cool.
Or Nico from "Runaways" has a pretty cool twist on magic. I like that.
And the last she was seen was in Civil War
she also showed up a couple months ago in Ms. Marvel's own book, with Puppet Master…
As far as powers go, it'd be dang hard to come up with anything completely new. I feel it's much more important for the writer to use existing characters creatively rather than to invent new ones. That's how we ended up with 596 X-Men and 268 LOSHers.
And that's just silly.
I actually really like the powers for one of the urchins that Whedon just came up with in Runaways, the one that could fly whenever there's music playing.
Flying isn't a new power; it's a new take on one. I'll give him that much.
Henry in the novel of the Time Traveller's Wife is my bid. Time travel is shown as almost entirely involuntary and subcnscious, more like a chromosomal disease than an ability. Being unable to control it, Henry can do little more than try to survive it.
yo go re beat me to the werewolf guess. Wolfsbane and Wolverine both actually appeared in the Capwolf story, and maybe even Cable too.
As for those Comic Book Idol pages, some of them are fantastic, but I'm surprised at just how awful some others are. There were literally a bajillion contestants who submitted portfolios and the few portfolios that I browsed through were stunning. And this is the best that they could come up with? I guess this just shows how difficult it is to produce quality sequential art on a time limit.
Cap, Wolfsbane and Wolverine were all members of the "Wolfpack" during the Cap-Wolf storyline.
So yo go re and Craig both can have a cool point!
Does this count for the Agatha Harkness question:
(She's behind Black Talon.)
Have a good day.
John Cage
hey, score! Usually the ones I *can* guess already *are* guessed by the time I see them. High fives all around, Craig!
Right back at ya, yo go re.
Not bad for a guy that comes here to lurk, eh?
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Cal graduate Alex Morgan and four former Stanford stars were named to the U.S. women's soccer team for the prestigious Algarve Cup on March 6-13 in Portugal. The Cardinal players are Nicole Barnhart, Rachel Buehler, Kelley O'Hara and Christen Press.
Barnhart will compete for the starting goalkeeper position, with Hope Solo out because of a wrist injury.
Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike was one of five women's basketball players named to the 2012-13 Capital One Academic All-America Division I team, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Thursday. Ogwumike has a 3.41 cumulative GPA while majoring in international relations.
In men's basketball, Saint Mary's Matthew Dellavedova made the second team and Santa Clara's Marc Trasolini the third team.
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Even with the snow piling up outside, it is not too early to be thinking about the Elkins Farmers Market. Shoppers are looking forward to gathering at Elkins Town Square and Elkins City Park to purchase the healthy, colorful fruits and vegetables. Vendors are ordering seeds and beginning to plan what they will raise in their summer gardens.
The Elkins Farmers Market began in 1975. Back then, farmers would bring their excess produce into town and back their trucks up at the Elkins Depot and sell their wares from the beds of their vehicles.
Now, the market attracts many vendors who sell at Elkins Town Square from 9 a.m. to noon each Saturday from the beginning of May through the end of October. Farmers Market vendors also sell their goods from 7 to 10 a.m. every Wednesday from July through September.
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The Elkins Farmers Market offers fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, eggs, flowers, baked goods and hand-made items from May through October. The market offers buyers the ability to ask vendors questions about the growing process and ways to prepare items.
Shoppers at the Elkins Farmers Market can find fresh fruits, vegetables, honey, meat, flowers, herbs, breads, baked goods, eggs, smoothies, hand-made crafts, jewelry, wooden items and canned goods.
"We are always looking for more members to sell their goods," said Jodi Burnsworth, AmeriCorp market manager. "Lots of our members use the market as a business; others consider it a hobby, but either way, its lots of fun and everyone enjoys selling at the Elkins Farmers Market."
Burnsworth said the market helps customers as well as the sellers.
"Customers know where their food is coming from," she said. "If they have questions about how an item was grown, they have the ability to ask the person who grew it. Consumers can also learn about items they have never eaten and get ideas on ways to prepare the item. Plus it is more personable service, and lots of folks use the time to socialize with friends."
Vendors said they sell at the market because they enjoy talking with others.
"They like to talk about their wares and how or why they are participating in the market," Burnsworth said. "Most had parents and grandparents who sold at a farmers market, and they understand the value and want to continue selling for those purchasing. Selling helps supplement their income, helps with their children's college education expenses or helps with extra spending money."
Burnsworth said the Elkins Farmers Market will continue with the tradition of live music once or twice a month, and will feature cooking demonstrations once monthly.
"The cooking demonstrations are back thanks to a Snap Outreach Pilot Program grant through the West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition, with support from BB&T and the McDonough Foundation," she said.
Membership in the Elkins Farmers Market is $20 per year, plus 3 percent of sales from the season.
"Last year our membership increased by 34 percent," Burnsworth said. "We are always looking for new members. Last year, our vendors sold more than $70,000 worth of goods. We are hoping they will top $100,000 in sales for 2013."
Burnsworth said not all of the vendors at the market sell fruits and vegetables.
"We also have 30 percent of our vendors who are artisans and sell hand-crafted items," she said. "We are looking for more artisans who make items we do not already sell such as home-made soap. A jury committee approves any new artisan items added to the market."
The Elkins Farmers Market accepts cash, SNAP cards, WIC produce vouchers and senior vouchers.
"Customers who want to use their SNAP cards can use them at the market," Burnsworth said. "Women, Infant and Children produce vouchers are available in late July through the WIC office. Also, senior vouchers are available at the Randolph County Senior Center in July. Both WIC and senior vouchers are based on income, and the vouchers are good through the end of October."
Burnsworth said the redemption rate for WIC vouchers in 2012 was 70 percent, which had been less than 50 percent in previous years.
"Folks who are considering joining should go to the website at www.elkinsfarmersmarket.org and read our policies," Burnsworth said. "An application is included. We will have a full membership meeting in April to complete the last details for the market."
Additional information is available by calling the Randolph County Extension Office at 304-636-2455.


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The National Park Service will proceed with the demolition of a building that once housed the Cyclorama painting at Gettysburg National Military Park.
The agency ruled Thursday that public comments gathered as part of an environmental assessment did not warrant any change in plans.
Work is expected to start this winter and to be mostly done by this summer's 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle.
The building once housed the Cyclorama, a 360-degree circular painting of a battle scene. The restored painting was moved to a new visitor's center in 2008.
The park service has planned to tear down the building since 1999.
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The creation of a new envoy for the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) reflects the high priority the country places on signing the deal, despite recent opposition.
New Federal Aviation Administration rules for operating commercial drones took effect Monday, making it easier for businesses to use the flying robots for a variety of applications.
U.S. gross domestic product increased 1.1 percent in the second quarter of 2016, according to the "second" estimate from the Department of Commerce, following a revised increase of just 0.8 percent in the first quarter.
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Ocean carriers MOL, NYK and "K" Line all reported losses in their container segments and lower revenues year-over-year for the first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30.
Meanwhile, the A.P. Møller - Maersk conglomerate, which includes both Maersk Line and APM Terminals, reported second quarter profits of $118 million, 89 percent below the $1.09 billion in the second quarter of 2015.
South Korea's largest container shipping company's transported volumes ticked up 1 percent year-over-year in the quarter to 1.17 million TEUs, container revenues tumbled 26.6 percent year-over-year to 1.35 trillion won.


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Steering Roll Connector Lot Number Verification 1) Start the engine and rotate the steering wheel 90 degrees from a straight-ahead position (either left or right rotation). Turn the ignition switch to the OFF position 2) Adjust the tilt position to the lowest position and lock the tilt lever. Remove the upper steering column cover screw on one side, rotate the steering wheel 90 degrees and remove the screw on the other side. 3) Release the claws and detach the steering column lower cover. 4) Confirm the steering roll connector lot number located on the left side of the connector. Affected Lot numbers Steering Roll Connectors requiring replacement were produced on or before October 13, 2009. Target Lot Numbers: 9X13A or before. How to read the Steering roll connector Lot number: Lot #: Five Characters Steering roll connector replacement 1) Position the front wheels straight ahead. (After moving vehicle 5 m (16 ft) or more with front wheels positioned straight ahead, make sure that the vehicle moves straight ahead). 2) Record preset radio stations 3) Turn the ignition switch to OFF. 4) Disconnect the ground cable from the battery and wait at least 60 seconds before proceeding. 5) Remove the driver's airbag module assembly. A TORX® T40 is required. Loosen the two TORX® bolts on the sides of the steering wheel.


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Unexpected Behavior: Visual Component Does Not Appear on Page
By edwingo on Apr 12, 2007
A component developer described the following problem to me:
I have developed the custom component in netbeans. There are no errors, I am able to build the complib successfully. But the problem is, when I drag and drop the component, I am not able to see that in design page or JSP page but I am able to see the component in outline window, Java source and properties…etc.
This caused me to add a troubleshooting section to a page that badly needs updating. The pertinent information is repeated here.
If you try to add a new visual component from the palette to a page in the IDE and expect something to appear on the page and instead only see the component in the Outline view, then this often means that the associated custom BeanInfo class of the component cannot be instantiated. In reality, a default BeanInfo class is created internally by introspection, but the default is not very useful. One way to check this is to write a unit test that instantiates the BeanInfo classes of your components.


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Pure Water is more an impression of what I saw than official title. While standing in this spot, Big Springs Missouri, we witnessed the impressive 2.88 million Gallons per day bubbling up out of the limestone earth in crystal clear water and flowing down stream as if it were a normal river!!Learn More
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Room four, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: Phil Spector
Engineer: Peter Bown
Phil Spector's second day of creating stereo mixes from the Let It Be tapes involved work on three songs.
Although best known for his echo-laden Wall of Sound production techniques, Spector was positively restrained during this session. The first song to be mixed was George Harrison's For You Blue. This was done in a single take, although Spector then made seven further attempts at remixing the intro; the two parts were later edited together.
Two mixes apiece were then made of Paul McCartney's songs Teddy Boy and Two Of Us. Teddy Boy was later rejected when it became known that McCartney was including a new recording of the song on his debut solo album.
Also on this day, Ringo Starr gave an interview to David Wigg for the BBC Radio One show Scene And Heard. The interview took place at the Apple offices at 3 Savile Row, London, and was broadcast in two parts, on Sundays 29 March and 5 April 1970.


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Is There Still an Audience for Serious Films?
Are audiences turning away from serious movies, or is something else to blame for the disappointing box-office showing this fall of many specialty pictures?
There is still a market for movies with a strong message, says Peter Bart, editor-in-chief of Variety, the Hollywood trade publication, but both filmmakers and studios have made blunders that have hurt ticket sales. Too many films on serious topics, from "Lions for Lambs" to "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford " are being wrongly marketed by studios as star vehicles, an approach that is unlikely to tap into the potential audiences for these type of pictures.
At the same time, studios sometimes are spending more money on intellectually oriented films than they could ever hope to see at the box office. And some movies with a social or political bent simply haven't been very good. "The similarities of these films both in terms of sensibility and even casting are disturbing" he says of the recent spate of films about Iraq.
Perhaps there is room for only so many serious films, no matter how good they are? Not true, says the Hollywood veteran, who suggests instead that filmmakers and studios adjust their methods, and their expectations.
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Green University Schedule
November 30 to December 2, 2012
Marin Country Day School
5221 Paradise Drive
Corte Madera, California
The fourteen PGC 2012 Finalists attending Green U were selected based on total points accumulated, a written final exam, cumulative portfolio, depth of engagement, a final exam, and a reflective video depicting their 30 day transition from conventional to conscious.
Green U will offer the opportunity for finalists to interact with and learn from esteemed eco leaders, present experiences from their 30-day journey, and create social action platforms in collaboration, alongside mentors, leaders, and students. The innovative campaigns developed at Green U will reach an even broader audience, as TTG implements the slate of projects with schools and students nationwide in 2013.
Following presentations on Sunday December 2 by all of the finalists, the PGC 2012 Champion and Runner Up will be selected by a panel of judges. Our community is cordially invited to attend.
Friday November 30: Opening Day Green U
7:00 pm: PGC Opening Night Community Dinner
Saturday December 1: Conversations with Eco Leaders
9:00 – 10:00 am: Breakfast courtesy of Whole Foods Market Marin
10:00 – 10:30 am: Welcome from TTG Team and special guests
10:30 – 12:30 pm: Eco Leader Talks (Morning Session)
– Andy Ruben, Co-Founder, yerdle.com
– Debbie Raphael, Director, California Department of Toxic Substance Control
– Michael Bronner, Senior Vice President, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
– Renee Sharp, Acting Director of Research and Senior Scientist, EWG.org
– Paul Towers, Organizing and Media Director, PANNA
– Walter Robb, Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market, Inc.
– Adam Werbach, Founder, yerdle.com and Founder, Saatchi & Saatchi S
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Conversations among PGC Finalists and Eco Leaders
1:30 – 2:15 pm: Lunch courtesy of Chipotle
2:15 – 4:15 pm: Eco Leader Talks (Afternoon Session)
– Caitlin Bristol, Global Manager, Green, eBay Inc.
– Jeremiah McElwee, Global Whole Body Coordinator, Whole Foods Market
– Rachna Kejriwal, Marketing Director, Kejriwal Paper USA
– Allison Cook, Director of Community Engagement, Story of Stuff Project
– Domenica Peterson, Chief Visionary Officer, Global Action Through Fashion
– Zak Zaidman, Co-Founder, CEO, Kopali
– Pamm Larry, Initial Instigator / Chief Rabble Rouser, Prop 37 and Director, labelgmos.org
– Aaron Schiller, Director, Business Development and Sales, Causes
4:15 – 5:15 pm: Conversations among PGC Finalists and Eco Leaders
5:15 – 5:30 pm: Wrap Up
Sunday December 2 : Social Action Platform Building
9:00 – 10:00 am: Organic Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30 am: Introduce mentors and framework for platform building
10:30 – 12:30 pm: Platform 1 and 2 development and presentations
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch courtesy of Tamal Pie, Mill Valley
1:30 – 2:30 pm: Platform 3 development and presentations
2:30 – 3:00 pm: Break
3:00 – 6:00 pm: PGC 2012 Final Presentations and selection of PGC 2012 Champion
• Caitlin Bristol, Global Manager, Green, eBay Inc.
• Michael Bronner, Senior VP, Dr. Bronner's
• Allison Cook, Director of Community Engagement, Story of Stuff
• Zem Joaquin, Founder | CEO, ecofabulous
• Rachna Kejriwal, Marketing Director, Kejriwal Paper USA
• Pamm Larry, Instigator, Label GMO's Campaign | Prop 37
• Jeremiah McElwee, Global Whole Body Director, Whole Foods Market
• Debbie Raphael, Director, California Department of Toxic Substance Control
• Andy Ruben, Co-Founder, yerdle
• Aaron Schiller, Director of Business Development, Causes
• Erin Schrode, Co Founder TTG and Student at New York University
• Renee Sharp, Acting Director of Research and Senior Scientist, EWG.org
• Judi Shils, Executive Director, Teens Turning Green
• Paul Towers, Organizing & Media Director, Pesticide Action Network North America
• Adam Werbach, Chief Sustainability Officer, Saatchi + Saatchi
• Zak Zaidman, Co-founder and CEO, Kopali


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Have you ever wondered where it all started?
Football players aren't the only ones pumped for the game.
Fashion sure has changed over the years!
Learn about some of UT's most celebrated symbols of spirit!
Foods that scream "Keep Austin Weird".
Rivalry runs deep.
UT is known for its service-oriented programs and organizations and for its goal to give back.
Read about the Stonewall riots, their origin and how they've evolved to the pride expressed today.
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Supported by the Education Section, Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Chicago, and organized by the Confucius Institute at Valparaiso University (CIVU), the first US Mid-West CI Directors' Forum was held at Valparaiso University (VU) on October 23. Attending this forum were delegates from eight CIs of this region, three Consuls of Education, and teachers and leaders from Valparaiso University.
Vice President Mark Schwehn making welcoming speech
The forum was conducted in four sessions, the first two in the morning and the last two in the afternoon. In Session One, "CI's Fortes", Marian Maciej-Hiner, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, shared their experiences and practices in introducing to American people the cultures of the 56 ethnic groups of China. They were planning an exhibition of 100 full-color photos of China's 56 ethnic communities, which would include photos of traditional costumes as well as China's breathtaking landscape. They hoped to find CIs which would be interested in hosting such an exhibition.
Consul Wang Xiaowei making opening remarks
Yang Yiping, Associate Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis, gave a brief introduction to the delegates of their Asian Studies and International Trade program set up in 2007. Hong Wei, Director of the Confucius Institute at Purdue University, in her presentation entitled "Visibility and Impact: Purdue's Vision", related to the audience how her CI laid emphasis on value-added services to enhance its visibility in Purdue University and the greater West Lafayette area, with the view of developing their CI sustainably. The Confucius Institute at the Community College of Denver had its Associate Director, Gan Changyin, speak to the delegates on how they conducted activities to draw attention, and generate interest, of the local people, and to further help them to learn Chinese language and culture.
In Session Two, "Resources", Meng Jianyun, Director of the CIVU, gave an account of their efforts and experiences in organizing music exchange programs between China and the US. He introduced to the audience two of his long-time collaborators, Dr. Jeffery Doebler, music professor of VU, and Michael Boo, professional composer of Valparaiso, both of whom reflected on their music trips to China and how much they enjoyed, and benefited from, working with the CIVU. "When I heard the music from a performance by ethic people in China, I couldn't help turning it into notes for my American colleagues and audiences. Indeed, music plays such an important role in bringing cultures together that we can never over-emphasize the benefit of exchange." Boo's remarks were echoed by many present at the forum.
In Session Three, "Service and Communication", Xu Zaocheng, Director of the Confucius Institute in Indianapolis, talked about how his CI communicated with the local people and institutions by making use of various mass media, and how it served the local citizens. Jiang Hongling, Associate Director of the Confucius Institute at Purdue University, shared their experiences in running Chinese language programs. Huo Yu, Curriculum Coordinator of the Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa, talked about their teacher training programs.
In Session Four, "HSK Testing and Performing Arts", Zhang Zhe, Associate Director of the Confucius Institute in Indianapolis, briefed the delegates on how their newly-established HSK Testing Center was operated. He indicated, like the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis, which had their Testing Center set up in April, 2009, that they'd be willing to be of assistance if any other CI had students who'd like to take HSK. Then Gu Ying, Chinese language teacher from the Confucius Institute at Purdue University, demonstrated, with ample examples, how the new HSK works and how their students did in the latest tests.
The last, but certainly not least, speaker was Joseph Lam, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan. Speaking on "Understanding China through Its Performing Arts", Lam convinced the delegates that through performing arts American students could come to understand, effectively, not only the superficial meaning of a body gesture or a facial expression but also its in-depth meaning, and that they'd thus get a better understanding of the Chinese language and culture.
Prof Meng speaking
The tightly-scheduled forum left little time to waste. During lunch time, Kung Hsiang-te, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis, gave a lecture entitled "Emerging China". He communicated to the audience that China's reform and opening up had scored unprecedented achievements in creating material wealth for its people and opportunities for the world at large. He also expressed concerns for the environment and resources. Liu Qiang, one of the three Consuls of Education attending the forum---the other two being Wang Xiaowei and Li Changhua, commented that the lecture presented a balanced picture of China and brought us to the awareness of protecting the environment and resources.
Prof Doebler speaking
After the lecture, delegates and guests witnessed the inauguration of the CIVU's Chinese Culture Exploratorium facilities and Hanban-donated books to the Christopher Center, VU's library. Rick AmRhein, Chief Information Officer of VU, spoke highly of the CIVU's contribution to the cultural diversity of VU, making it an international university in its truest sense.
Mr Boo speaking
Mark Schwehn, VU's Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, kicked the forum off by welcoming the delegates and guests on behalf of VU. Following the provost's welcoming speech, Wang Xiaowei, Director of the Education Section, made the opening remarks. He expressed his thanks to the CIs for their contributions to helping local Americans to learn Chinese language and culture, and to promoting understanding and exchange between the two nations. He also emphasized the necessity of initiating such an occasion for CIs of this area to exchange and share experiences, which "will do a lot of good for the sustainable development of Confucius Institutes". The forum was coordinated and presided over by Liu Jiangang, Associate Director of the CIVU.
Since the forum coincided with the final day of the CIVU's Third Annual Great Lakes Confucius Institute Music Festival, in the evening the delegates were invited to appreciate the gala concert of the festival, which served as a living example of how the CIVU conducted its cultural exchange programs. Kung Hsiang-te, 75th descendant of Confucius, gave out the Zhiyin Award to Dr. Dennis Friesen-Carper and Dr. Jeffery Doebler for their contributions to the music exchange programs of the CIVU.
Upon conclusion of the forum, it was suggested that:
1. The Education Section of the Consulate-General of China in Chicago help to set up a network of communication for the CIs in this region. At the same time, each of these CIs hyper-link the other sister CIs to its website.
2. The US Mid-West CI Directors' Forum be held annually on a rotating basis; attendance at the proposed forums will be voluntary, though. The Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan will host the next forum, probably sometime in early or mid October, 2011.
3. The CI directors of this region find some time to discuss the events of the current year and to exchange experiences and resources, in conjunction with the annual CI World Conference in Beijing in December and the CIs' US meeting in April or May.
4. Each CI of this region run a tryout Chinese speech contest and select its representative contestants for the final contest, which, ideally, will be held in a centrally located city, such as Chicago, which is more convenient for most of the students from other Mid-West states. The Confucius Institute at Purdue University expressed their willingness to serve as venue for the final contest in 2011.
The forum was covered by journalists from both the Xinhua News Agency and China Daily USA. The following are their reports:
"Confucian way to spread Chinese culture"
(http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/2010-11/12/content_11541252.htm )(Text by Liu Jiangang and Zhang Rong, photos by He Jun, Yu Hangxin and Zhang Ke, CIVU)


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Summertime is all about spending as much time outside as possible. Which makes me so excited for warm evening summer parties and get-togethers with friends and family.
Twinkle lights and dinner in the 'garden. Rooftop parties (if only I had a rooftop to party on!) and yummy food and drink all around.
A string or two of those big twinkle lights is totally on my list - so festive. And what's even more festive? This outdoor dinner party that Jordan posted about today. Wow!
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The questions came fast and furious, and there were warnings too.
"If you see a young man on a bike," one woman cautioned her neighbors.
The area of concern is Saratoga Farms and Saratoga Woods. Eaton County is investigating as many as 9 break-ins in just 6 weeks there.
Those homeowners were joined though by people from nearby neighborhoods. They say the problem extends out, and over the county line.
The sheriff's office has stepped up patrols in Saratoga Farms and Saratoga Woods. Neighbors are making an effort to be aware of their surroundings.
Don Griffin even called the cops Wednesday after he saw an unmarked car. It turned out to be cops doing surveillance.
"We're one big family. I just wanna do my part. I'm tired of this stuff," Griffin said.
From here, these neighbors have pledged to start a true neighborhood watch. Just knowing each other will help.
"I feel more of a sense of community now," Janeen Chebli said.
They learned at the meeting to call detectives no matter how insignificant their tip. They learned they should not leave keys out in the house. They leanred neighborhood watch signs may help. They learned an audible alarm is best.
They learned also there are a lot of people who do care, and that, some of them say, may turn the tide.
"It's gonna work," says Lucy Gambotto, "We're gonna get our neighborhood back."


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Last appearance of Ludwig La Stanza, Bolling's attempt to come up with a character similar to Schroeder from "Peanuts."
Bolling's first story for Little Betty as a solo star.
In one of Bolling's nods to continuity, this story mentions Little Archie's attempt to get to Europe on a raft in Little Archie # 14 ("The Run-Away").


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Marietta City Council approved a new zoning classification for department stores and light manufacturing plants. This will allow for the former Rink's discount store location to become an industrial development site. The 90,000 square foot building has housed weekend flea markets since the store closed in May 1987.
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Washington County's oldest resident, Mrs. Mary Columbia Lasure, died yesterday at the age of 103 at her home in Barlow. An artist of considerable talent, Mrs. Lasure was born Aug. 10, 1860, to Daniel and Kathryn McVicar Turner. She married James W. Lasure on Sept. 22, 1887.
100 years ago
Several teachers for the high school were named at Marietta's Board of Education meeting, including George C. Donson, at a salary of $1,000; Nellie F. Henderson, Martha Ward, C. Esther Bridge, and Beatrice Heller, at salaries of $600 each; and Flora Benedict, at a salary of $400.


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Tallahassee, FL — June 12, 2012 -
Are you interested in helping continue Leon County's momentum toward a healthy community where we live, work, attend school and play? Does your interest include working with a dynamic Partnership to create a Tobacco Free Leon County? If yes, then the Tobacco Free Leon Partnership wants you! The Tobacco Free Leon Partnership is seeking dynamic community members, organizations, local businesses, and any other persons or groups to get involved, spread the mission and set the tone for our community's take on tobacco.
The mission of the Tobacco Free Leon Partnership is to empower youth, from our youngest children to our college student population, as well as adults, to mobilize and coordinate the resources of Leon County to create a tobacco free community through youth prevention, cessation activities, promotion of a tobacco free lifestyle, and reduction of the tobacco industry's influence.
Thursday, June 14th, the Tobacco Free Leon Partnership will host a community "call to action" session at the Leon County Health Department, located at 1515 Old Bainbridge Road. The Partnership welcomes input from anyone who appreciates a tobacco free lifestyle.
Through collective efforts, education, and continued community-wide empowerment, the Tobacco Free Leon Partnership will work to promote policy to restrict the sale of candy flavored tobacco products, implement comprehensive K-12 tobacco free school policies, help in the creation of tobacco free multi-unit dwellings, and increase the number of employers who offer cessation services to employees.
Current partners, such as Whole Child Leon, FSU College of Medicine's Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Big Bend AHEC, Working Well, the YMCA, Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) and the Leon County Health Department share the vision for a Tobacco Free Leon as well as resources to support making that vision a reality.
By becoming a partner, you will gain networking opportunities with organizations working towards similar goals in prevention, children and family issues, public health, etc. Partners also benefit through larger presence in the community through coordination of partner events where tobacco prevention and cessation are a component.
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Four weeks after arriving on U.S. soil, Sarah Hayes from Dublin is settling in well to her New York existence. The communications student admits her group of friends are surprised by how grueling the job hunt is in New York for summer J-1 visa Irish students.
"Being Irish we thought we would walk into an Irish bar and get a job no problem," she told the Irish Voice. "Most places aren't looking so it's really a matter of right place and right time I think.
"One of the girls decided to go because of the job situation. She found it difficult to get a job and got sick of looking so she felt it would be better to just end the trip on a good note and go home."
Working as a waitress, Hayes is quickly adapting to New York's fast paced hospitality industry.
"Serving is way more difficult over here," Hayes reflects. "I find some customers can be quite rude and impatient. The atmosphere is good though and the tips are so much better than at home. I'd say to any J-1er to go straight to restaurants/bars and not to even think of retail," she said.
The Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers is a hive of activity with J-1 students.
"Hundreds come through the doors," according to Órla Kelleher, executive director of the center.
The majority of J-1 students arrive in the U.S. with no jobs and no accommodation and immediately begin pounding the pavements.
"Many students left their luggage here for days on end. They stay in hostels and guest houses until they find more permanent accommodation," Kelleher told the Irish Voice.
Offering advice, help and a friendly face, the center is just one of the many resources available to Irish students who venture to the U.S. for the ultimate summer experience.
"We have a J-1 welcome pack which includes subway maps and information about New York and the local area," Kelleher said.
The center also provides tips on how and where to find work as well as how best to find accommodation, something which continues to be the biggest challenge for most people.
"With a doubt accommodation is still huge issue," Kelleher said. "So many of them arrive at the same time and they are all scrambling for the same things."
In Boston Mark Fitzgerald, the international programs assistant at the Irish International Immigrant Center, told the Irish Voice that the job market can be tough in the popular J-1 destination.
"Some of them are finding it difficult to get jobs," Fitzgerald said, adding that it's all about being in the right place at the right time.
"We tell them to keep trying. We had two girls that got three job offers in one day but then other people are searching for three weeks," he said.
Read more:
Top ten tips for Irish J1 students coming to the U.S. for the summer
Irish J1 students ready for U.S. adventure
Stateside for five weeks and content with their lodgings in Queens, a group of Dublin students say the searching for a job has been the biggest hurdle so far.
"Two of the group managed to get jobs but the rest of us are still looking," Wicklow native Ciaran Tolan told the Irish Voice.
"It's been frustrating. We haven't been able to relax and enjoy the city fully with no job prospects," Tolan said. "Then again being unemployed in New York City beats being unemployed in Ireland a hundred times over."
Confidant that something will work out, the English student is remaining positive.
"Three of us have an interview lined up for first thing in the morning so hopefully something will come of that."
Garrett Doyle, a member of the employment committee of the Emerald Guild Society in New York, said he was been contacted by around 250 Irish J-1 students seeking work this summer.
So far this summer the Emerald Guild Society has filled 180 positions in the building management industry. They place J-1 students in a variety of job roles such as doormen, concierge, porters and handymen.
"We will always have the positions as people have to live and there will always be a need there," Doyle told the Irish Voice.
"Most of our jobs are union positions there are holidays to be filled and we are sending a quality guy to them.
"These are good guys willing to work and hungry," said Doyle says he has noticed an increase in J-1 arrivals this summer.
"There were a good few extra this year," Doyle reflected.
"They came a little later this year and a good few came in with not that much money."
Sarah Kearney, a restaurant manager on the Upper East Side, said she has noticed a significant amount of students looking for jobs.


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Revisiting what Obama's reelection calls for us to do.
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If you want more in depth interviews like these, support us on Kickstarter! // Few games have captured the public imagination like No Man's Sky. Due out in June 2016, the game promises an entire universe to explore: some 18 quintillion planets, which would take some 600 billion hours for players to fully explore. (Who knows, though; never underestimate the public's appetite for videogames.) This would all be impressive enough, but what turned our heads was the kaleidoscopic array of colors in which the game is painted, full of toxic green skies and impossibly lush plants, dank caves and deep purple…
The game designer as hacker
The future of car culture, in a world where kids don't even want driver's licenses.
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It is said more than 90% of such NBFCs are small and medium sized firms. Finance industry development council ( Fidc), the self-regulatory body of NBFCs- AFCs registered with RBI said the banks should allow differential rate of interest for NBFCs given that 80 of their funding is for priority sector lending.


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The Average Felon Is Getting Older
A new report on arrest data from the nation's 75 largest counties puts serious strain on the old adage that age brings wisdom.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that in 2009, the most recent year studied, the average age of a person arrested for a felony was 32 years old — up from 28 in 1990. Meanwhile, the proportion of criminal defendants age 40 or older has increased from about one in 10 in 1990 to about one in four since 2004.
Population shifts don't appear to explain the trend. From 2000 to 2010, the number of people aged 30 to 34 slipped from 20.5 million to 20 million.
It seems, rather, that people who stumbled into the system when they were younger are having a hard time finding their way out.
Between 1990 and 2009, the percentage of defendants with at least one prior arrest increased from 68% to 75%, according to the report. Even more striking, in that same period, the percentage of defendants who had 10 or more prior arrests increased from an estimated 22% to 36%.
Shawn Bushway, a criminal-justice professor at University at Albany, the State University of New York, has seen a similar age shift in his research of the incarcerated population. Together, the data suggest that the trend isn't driven strictly by law enforcement policy, Mr. Bushway said.
One possible explanation is illegal drug use, he said. For example, certain long-time users who came of age in 1990s, amid the crack epidemic, may be "cycling" in and out of prison, he said.
"There is a subset of people who are using drugs and getting trapped" in the criminal justice system, Mr. Bushway said.


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Risky Business? It Needn't Be
Entrepreneurs build their outfits with sweat and smarts. Why do so many make foolish decisions about insurance?
By Karen E. Klein
Most entrepreneurs think little of investing long hours, serious money, and unstinting effort to nurture and market their businesses. So why do so many act like paupers when it comes to safeguarding what they have put their life's work into creating? That's a question that has long fascinated and appalled author, lecturer, and small-business consultant Frances McGuckin, who is forever urging small-business owners to take a long, hard look at the risks of not planning for the unexpected. "Some small business owners would rather insure a rusty old junker to get them from A to B than insure their business and themselves against a catastrophic event," McGuckin declares. "It's one of those areas that people don't think about and don't want to spend money on."
As McGuckin points out in the newly released third edition of her book, Business for Beginners, insurance is something no business owner can afford to ignore. She examines various kinds of insurance, starting with the best policies for the very smallest outfits.
"Home-based businesses never think about insurance, but they are often at risk. If somebody trips over your doorstep and breaks their back, you'll get sued and you'll need insurance protection," notes McGuckin, who is based in Vancouver. "If your house catches fire and you have to reconstruct your business space and buy new equipment, you'll need funds that are probably not going to be available in your homeowner's policy."
At the most basic level, McGuckin recommends that home-based business owners investigate getting an insurance "endorsement" -- a rider to their homeowner's policy that covers the business space as well as the home. "There's no liability protection on such endorsements, but it can be set up to cover the equipment and assets of a business in the home," she explains, adding that business owners should make a point to revamp their policies whenever they invest in new equipment, such as an upgraded computer system. If they are selling products from their homes or manufacturing goods that could involve liability problems, the only responsible course is to factor those contingencies into their coverage, she says.
Another option that may be attractive: a home-office or in-home business insurance policy, which can be structured to provide liability coverage and income-replacement. As the business grows, it will make more sense for the owner to purchase a full commercial policy. "Many small businesses are underinsured and don't know it," she notes. "If you haven't got enough coverage, your claim can be severely affected, so don't be cheap about it."
Full-fledged business policies cover a good range of possible claims, including property loss, income-replacement, theft, fire, and other catastrophes. "Don't forget to make sure you have coverage for employee theft," , McGuckin says. "I once worked for a temp agency that had only $5,000 in theft coverage when they had 300 temps being placed in offices all over town. I recommended that the coverage be increased and, not long after that, they had an employee embezzle $10,000 and another run off with $500. They were very glad they had revisited their policy a year earlier!"
Professional liability -- sometimes called "errors and omissions insurance" -- is important for those in service industries, especially for entrepreneurs who might someday find themselves being sued for providing information or advice that backfired on their clients. And those who hire subcontractors also need to make sure their policies are adequate.
"I knew an unincorporated contractor who hired a sub to do a roofing job on a large condominium project," McGuckin recalls. "The subcontractor didn't have insurance, so when the roof leaked because his work didn't hold up and the condo people sued, my contractor friend got stuck with the judgment. His insurance didn't cover work done by the subcontractor, so he had to sell everything he had and liquidate his retirement assets to pay the $200,000 in damages."
Finally, but perhaps most important of all, no entrepreneur should ever skimp on personal insurance. None of us likes to dwell on thoughts of death or debilitating injury, but ignoring a potential catastrophe won't make the threat go away. What would happen to your spouse and children if you are not around to run your company and bring in new clients? Will they be left with little income and lots of bills? When the founder dies or becomes unable to work, inadequate insurance all too often sounds the death knell for family-run businesses, McGuckin says. If your business is a partnership, then you have twice as many reasons to purchase adequate coverage.
For more information on business insurance, insure.com has a wealth of advice and articles on its Web site, and Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance offers information about equipment-breakdown insurance. The company makes the point that today's high-tech equipment failures can be just as costly and catastrophic to a service company as a mechanical equipment failure can be to a manufacturer. As McGuckin stresses, working for the best while planning for the worst is isn't just a good policy -- it's the only policy.
Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who specializes in covering covered entrepreneurship and small-business issues.


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A Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, christians, missionaries, evangelists, self-righteousness, confidence, and conviction
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.
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Yeesh. Here's a doozy... FIRST ROMANCE #13 (May 1952, Home Comics):
I have had a version of the following image hanging up in my living room ever since my friend Curt Pottiger gave it to me years ago. Check it out - Bill Wahl, seller of comic books, captured in a classic moment of excitement and enthusiasm for the medium he so loves:
I chanced upon this news and thought I might share it with you for your website. It appears that director Jon Favreau (Swingers & Elf) is doing the new Iron Man movie and is seeking input from the comic geekdom regarding the movie...kind of cool! He has set up this discussion board for some ideas. Here is the link:
Animation artist Michael Robinson of Mechanicsburg will be presenting his award-nominated short film OOMPER OOMPER on Sunday May 28th here in Harrisburg... click on the image to read the details!
I just ran across this nifty little item in my "catch-all junk box" that has all sorts of stuff, doo-dads and detrius that I've accumulated since I was a kid (like my fastest Hot Wheel car, a chartreuse Porsche 917 - no lie!)...
This Stone Golem was constructed using about 5 foam mattresses, over 50 sticks of hot melt glue, and 8 cans of grey and black spray paint. The foam is glued in large thick sheets (approx 20cm thick) to a fabric bodysuit, and the deep cracks are carved into the foam surface. The bodysuit has a zip up the back to allow the wearer to enter it, and the zip is concealed by abutting foam. The soles of the feet are made of corflute that has been sliced in half to expose corrugations that act as grip. The arms are about twice the length of the wearer\'s arms, and act as swinging weapons made entirely of soft foam. The golem took about 100 hours of work to construct, between 3 people. On its first appearance, the Stone Golem sent twenty bold adventurers into a hasty retreat without so much as touching them.That is too too cool!
BRIAN KEENE is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Rising, Fear of Gravity, City of the Dead, among other titles. He is also the fiction editor of Horrorfind.com and the popular Best of HorrorfindAll I know is that he's a down-to-earth great guy and only a little weird.
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Check this out... Librarian Cheryl Swisher from Donegal Springs Elementary School in Mount Joy, PA sent along these great photos from the Free Comic Book Day display that was set up in the school library (sponsored by Comix Connection):
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Throughout the year as the 52 comic book series chronicles the fate of a world without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, 52thecomic.com will function as an Internet newsmagazine granting readers access to the headlines and stories of The Daily Planet including sports and weather information. In addition to this straight narrative function, the Website will also provide visitors with a "meta" service by providing interviews with the writers of the 52 comic, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid as well as behind-the-scenes storyboards by 52 breakdown artist Keith Giffen.
How did we get back down here? Back in the dark creepy recesses of Bill's Fan Fascination? Dunno. Must be the cold medicine.
"DON'T COME ANY CLOSER, BATMAN, OR I'LL TURN THE FAN TO FULL SPEED-- AND BATWOMAN WILL BE DOOMED!"he shrieks maniacally! (This cover is a FAN-boy's dream by the way... actually using an electric fan to torture a superhero! I'm getting chills!) Waitaminnit. "Doomed"? To what? Having all the blood rush to her head? To having her hair stand straight up? Losing all the contents of her pockets? Having her face turn an embarassing shade of beet red? Getting nauseus? (Hey, Mister Operator, stop the ride, I'm gonna be sick!)


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NEW DELHI: Wheat prices strengthened by Rs 45 per quintal in the wholesale grains market today on increased buying by flour mills for the coming festival and marriage season.
A few bold grains also moved up on increased offtake by consuming industries.
Traders said increased buying by flour mills against restricted arrivals from producing belts mainly led to an upsurge in wheat prices.


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Source: 49ers to work out Robinson, others
Roman on WR competition: 'Nobody has pulled away from pack'
Laurent Robinson caught 24 passes for 252 yards in seven games with Jacksonville last season. (USA TODAY IMAGES)
Austin Collie worked out for the 49ers back on June 13, but left without a contract. (AP)
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SANTA CLARA -- With five wide receivers from the team's 90-man roster unable to practice due to injuries, the 49ers plan to look at some available free agents.
Laurent Robinson, whom the Jacksonville Jaguars released after one season, is expected to work out for the 49ers as early as Thursday, said a source, confirming a Boston Globe report.
It is not uncommon for the 49ers to work out players who are coming off of injuries. Robinson sustained four concussions last year. He is reportedly involved in a grievance against the Jaguars, who released him to avoid paying his $2.6 million salary for this season.
Robinson has also worked out recently with New England, the New York Jets, Detroit and Miami.
Robinson has played for Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas and Jacksonville in his six-year career. His best season was in 2011 with the Cowboys, as he caught 54 passes for 858 yards and 11 touchdowns. Last year, he caught 24 passes for 252 yards in seven games with Jacksonville.
The 49ers might also bring back Austin Collie and other free agent wide receivers for a workout. Collie, who also has a history of concussions, sustained a season-ending torn patellar tendon last season while with the Indianapolis Colts.
[REWIND: Collie leaves 49ers without a contract]
The 49ers are running short on wideouts. Michael Crabtree is out until late in the season with an Achilles injury. Mario Manningham is still rehabbing an ACL tear he sustained in late-November.
Kyle Williams, A.J. Jenkins and Kassim Osgood have missed multiple practices due to hamstring strains.
When asked if any of the wide receivers have stepped up to take a lead in filling the starting job next to Anquan Boldin, 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman said, "I don't think anybody has pulled themselves out from the pack just yet. But guys are working hard and it's a healthy competition."


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Overactive Bladder (cont.)
Kevin C. Zorn, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Dr. Kevin Zorn is a dual-board-certified (US and Canada), minimally-invasive uro-oncology, fellowship trained urologist at the University of Chicago. His main focus of clinical and scientific interest is in the surgical treatment of renal and prostate cancer. He is also an expert in performing surgery with the DaVinci Surgical Robotic System to manage localized prostate cancer and small renal masses. Dr. Zorn studied medicine and urology at McGill University in Montréal.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Overactive bladder (OAB) facts
- What is an overactive bladder?
- What are the causes of overactive bladder?
- Are there any risk factors for overactive bladder?
- What are overactive bladder symptoms?
- How is overactive bladder diagnosed?
- What are the treatments for an overactive bladder?
- What is the role of medications in treating overactive bladder?
- What are treatments for the chronically incontinent?
- What measures can be taken at home to prevent overactive bladder symptoms?
- What are some of the complications of overactive bladder?
- What is the prognosis for overactive bladder?
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What are the treatments for an overactive bladder?
The treatment for overactive bladder depends on the capabilities of the patient. Generally, treatment can be behavioral retraining, pharmacological (medications), and surgical.
Here are commonly recommended treatments.
Pelvic muscle rehabilitation to improve pelvic muscle tone and prevent leakage
- Kegel exercises: Regular, daily exercising of pelvic muscles can improve, and even prevent, urinary incontinence. This is particularly helpful for younger women. These exercises should be performed 30-80 times daily for at least eight weeks. These exercises are thought to strengthen the muscles of the pelvis and urethra, which can support the opening to the bladder to prevent incontinence. Their success depends on practicing the proper technique and the recommended frequency.
- Biofeedback: Used in conjunction with Kegel exercises, biofeedback helps people gain awareness and control of their pelvic muscles.
- Vaginal weight training: Small weights are held within the vagina by tightening the vaginal muscles. These exercises should be performed for 15 minutes, twice daily, for four to six weeks.
- Pelvic-floor electrical stimulation: Mild electrical pulses stimulate muscle contractions. This should be done in conjunction with Kegel exercises.
Behavioral therapies to help people regain control of their bladder
- Bladder training teaches people to resist the urge to void and gradually expand the intervals between voiding.
- Toileting assistance uses routine or scheduled toileting, habit-training schedules, and prompted voiding to empty the bladder regularly to prevent leaking.
What is the role of medications in treating overactive bladder?
There are several medications recommended for the treatment of overactive bladder. Using these medications in conjunction with behavioral therapies has shown to increase the success rate for the treatment of overactive bladder.
The main goals of OAB treatment are to
- reduce urinary urgency and frequency,
- increase voided volume (bladder capacity),
- decrease urge incontinence (reduce leakage episodes).
Typically, the medications for overactive bladder start to work within one to two weeks, and optimal relief of OAB symptoms is achieved by 12 weeks. The most common medications (anticholinergics) target to decrease the overactivity of the detrusor muscle. Anticholinergics should be used under the direction of the physician prescribing them. They may have some common side effects, including dry mouth, constipation, blurry vision, and confusion (in the elderly). Here is a list of the most commonly recommended medications for overactive bladder.
Anticholinergic class
- Oxybutynin (Ditropan) prevents urge incontinence by relaxing the detrusor muscle. This is typically taken two to three times a day (Ditropan XL is extended release, taken once a day). This medication was the first-generation therapy available, and its main side effects include dry mouth (60%) and constipation. Ditropan patch (Oxytrol) is also available with fewer side effects, but it releases a smaller dose than the oral form. The patch is placed on the skin once to twice weekly, and it may cause some local skin irritation.
- Tolterodine (Detrol, Detrol LA) is indicated for the treatment of an overactive bladder with symptoms of urinary frequency, urgency, or urge incontinence. This medication affects the salivary glands less than oxybutynin, thus, it is better tolerated with fewer side effects (dry mouth). Detrol is usually prescribed twice a day, whereas the long-acting type (Detrol LA) is taken only once a day.
- Solifenacin (Vesicare) is a relatively newer medication in this group. It is generally similar to tolterodine, but it has a longer half-life and needs to be taken once a day.
- Darifenacin (Enablex) is also a newer anticholinergic medicine for treating overactive bladder with fewer side effects, such as confusion. Therefore, it may be more helpful in the elderly with underlying dementia. This medication is also typically taken once a day.
- Fesoterodine fumarate (Toviaz) is indicated for the treatment of overactive bladder with symptoms of urge urinary incontinence, urgency, and frequency. The medication is taken once daily. Common side effects include constipation and dry mouth.
B3-Agonist class
- Mirabegron (Myrbetriq) is a new type of medication to treat overactive bladder that is not an anticholinergic and can be used alone or with anticholinergic medications. The side effects include increased blood pressure, incomplete bladder emptying, sinus irritation, constipation and dry mouth (< 2%-3%).
Botox injection class
- OnabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) is injected directly into the bladder muscle with a cystoscope and may be repeated every four to six months. Serious side effects are unusual but may include difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, difficulty talking, muscle weakness, urinary tract infection, and urinary retention.
- Estrogen, either oral or vaginal, may be helpful in conjunction with other treatments for postmenopausal women with urinary incontinence.
Neuromodulation is a newer method of treating overactive bladder with electrical stimulation that results in reorganization of the spinal reflexes involved in bladder control. There are two types of neuromodulation available: percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) and sacral neuromodulation (Interstim).
Surgery is rarely necessary in treating overactive bladder unless symptoms are debilitating and unresponsive to other treatments. Reconstructive bladder surgery (cystoplasty) is the most common surgical procedure. This surgery involves enlarging the size of the bladder by using part of the intestine.
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Beats By Dre to Overhaul Streaming Music Service
The streaming music wars just got a little more interesting.
Beats By Dre, the headphone company run by superstar hip hop producer Dr. Dre and music executive Jimmy Iovine, said Thursday that it is overhauling MOG, the streaming music service it bought last summer.
Since then, the music industry has buzzed about how Iovine and Dre would look for synergies between the trendy headphone maker and the struggling, also-ran online music service.
With today's news, the answers aren't crystal clear, but they're starting to come into focus.
The company hired Ian Rogers, an energetic music industry veteran who most recently ran a marketing company called Topspin Media, to oversee MOG, which is to be renamed Daisy and, apparently, significantly overhauled.
Historically, MOG and its competitors like Spotify, Rhapsody and Sony Music Unlimited, have offered more or less the same smorgasbord of millions of songs. They've competed on features designed to help users find new music. Spotify bet big on a close integration with Facebook, on the theory that telling your friends what you're listening to—and seeing what they're listening to—would be a selling point.
Topspin is an unusual marketing company, offering promotions designed to attract attention and sell rarities for premium prices. Now MOG/Daisy is planning to integrate the kind of novel promotions that have long been Topspin's specialty—rare or live tracks, and so forth.
In a statement, Rogers highlighted the need for online services to find ways to differentiate themselves from each other—and to make the services valuable to artists, who typically don't make much money from them.
"It's now undeniable all the world's music will be available on every device by just clicking play," Rogers's statement said. "However, the current streaming experiences aren't good enough. They aren't good enough for fans, who need it to be easier to find music they love. And they aren't good enough for artists, who want to grow their audiences and make money."
As part of the deal unveiled Thursday, Beats's new Daisy subsidiary is making an investment of undisclosed size in Topspin in exchange for a minority stake, and Rogers will remain on Topspin's board.