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The third generation of his family to work in the pharmacy business, Ian Ginsberg is the president and owner of C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries, a historic 1838 New York City landmark that is renowned for its fusion of old-world style, personalized service and modern trends.
C.O. Bigelow was purchased by Mr. Ginsberg's pharmacist grandfather in 1939, and later headed by his father, Jerry, also a pharmacist, who served on LIU Pharmacy's Council of Overseers for two decades.
A licensed pharmacist himself, Ian Ginsberg graduated with a B.S. from LIU Pharmacy in 1985. He had musical aspirations and briefly pursued a career as a professional drummer, before joining the family business full time.
Mr. Ginsberg brought the business into the 21st Century by introducing its personal-care products to a wider audience. He scoured the globe to orchestrate a supreme collection of beauty imports, such as Marvis toothpaste from Italy and La Crème Opalis from France, and luxury products like Les Fleurs de Bach, validating the C.O. Bigelow slogan, "If you can't find it anywhere else, try Bigelow."
He also ventured into the company archives and came up with modern reformulations of old skin-care remedies from the 19th Century. In 2005, his company signed on with Bath & Body Works to sell its vintage-recipe balms, lotions and other products at hundreds of stores belonging to the retail chain.
Mr. Ginsberg is chairman of the board of the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors Association and a board member since 1995. He has been a guest speaker at New York University, LIU Pharmacy, HBA Global and Cosmoprof. His many philanthropic activities include Food Bank of New York, Lollipop Theatre Network and Pink Promises, a charity he founded with his wife to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. At LIU Pharmacy, he established the Jerry Ginsberg '52 Memorial Endowed Scholarship for students who demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for pharmacy.
Mr. Ginsberg and his wife, Stephanie, have three children, Alec, Wendy and Reed. They live in Jericho, L.I.
For 175 years, C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries in Manhattan has provided healing remedies, unusual beauty products and hard–to-find items to its customers, who include Mark Twain and Thomas Edison. Today, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, who bought the company, and his father, Ian Ginsberg has retained the company's historic old-world charm while uniting it with new technology and modern requirements. The store's unrivaled selection of American and European luxury beauty products is a result of his extensive beauty knowledge and ability to spot key trends. Mr. Ginsberg has been hailed by Women's Wear Daily as "The Apothecary Guru."
Today, we recognize Mr. Ginsberg for carrying on the tradition of dedication to customer service with a Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Army safety Caleb Campbell caught the eye of Matt Millen at the scouting combine. The 6'-2", 224-pounder ran a 4.5 40, but tweaked his hamstring after the sprint. He opted to sit out the rest of the drills because he didn't want to risk missing Army's pro day next week.
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Senior Services' Congregate Meal Program sets the table for seniors every weekday at Northshore Senior Center. Hot lunches are available for those 60 and older and to their spouses, as well. The suggested donation for the meals is $2.50; food stamps are accepted, but no one is ever turned away if they're not able to pay. For seniors who may live alone and for whom cooking may be difficult, these lunch outings are important in many ways. A recent innovation has been the introduction of onsite baking of fresh rolls, breadsticks, and biscuits. The center is located at 10201 East Riverside Drive, Bothell; call 425-487-2441.
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During the month of May, Molbak's in Woodinville has planned special events and seminars. All are free. King County Master Recyclers/Composters will answer compost questions May 22 from 10 a.m. to noon. Gourmet sausage tastings are set for Saturday, May 22 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ABCs of herb gardening will teach the basics of growing herbs in the garden, containers, and with companion plantings, Friday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Edible Herbs, featuring herb butters and barbecue marinades, will be offered Saturday, May 29 at 9 a.m. Molbak's is located at 13625 NE 175th St. For information, call (425) 398-5100.
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Gold for February delivery rose $6.20 to settle at $1,693.20 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while March crude oil futures added 64 cents to close at $96.68.
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Do You Hold Your Stomach In? All the time?
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I'm wondering about the whole 'hold your stomach in' thingie. Do trim and fit people "have" to still do this? What's it look like to/for you if you don't? You don't wanna know what it looks like if *I* let it all hang out, buh-LEEVE-me! I do the sit ups. The crunches. The leg lifts. I just have WAY too much belly fat for anything to show up yet.
Buff guys: (besides when someone else might possibly see you) do
you hold your stomach in?
Buff gals: do you still "need" to do this?
I know we're told to keep it sucked in, helps with posture, blood and oxygen flow, etc., but I wonder if I can (or ever will be able to) just 'relax' without looking like Shrek.
Can we just be honest, here? I wanna look down and see a tight sinewy sixpack staring lovingly back up at me -- WITHOUT having to exhale and 'suck it in.' Is that so wrong? Is that so POSSIBLE?
I'm no buff chick (yet) but I do know that sucking your gut in is actually meant to aid your posture and abdominals. I find it helps my posture at least - which is horrific, by the way - because by pulling my gut inwards from time to time I realise how dumb I'd look hunched up over a drawn in stomach.
Funny how simple things can be, sometimes. :'D
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Yeah, holding it in does aid your posture and abdominals. I think that the purpose of it is trying to get your posture correct, because usually a sloucher has both incorrect posture and usually higher body fat. I think I would suck it in, if I had a large stomach. The stomach will decrease with exercise and dieting, but remember for a man it is the body's fat storage area so it leaves slowly and with persistence. If you cut your calories too much it will sag more because the muscle tissues need a certain amount of calories to function. So you don't want to burn muscle to try to rid yourself of fat. When I drop weight, I notice my stomach starts to sag more. However, if you watch, the XMA fighters of TV, when they cut weight or drop a weight class you can see their fat jiggling when they are bouncing before they start fighting. Don't be discouraged, it takes time. Keep sucking it in to help your posture. Good luck.
I think a lot of it has to do with your actual "stomach" itself. There have been times when I've been wayyy thin (too thin), and still, if I let it all out, I look almost like a pregnant person. But then I would kind of pinch at my stomach fat, and realize there wasn't much there, it was really internal "poochiness". I do hold in all the time, for posture and for my abs. Who knows.
I would liken it to skinny little kids. THey don't know how to suck in yet, so they just walk around proudly presenting their stomachs first... Yet they're not overweight and don't have huge tummies. Know what I mean?
Hrrmmm... yes. The 'skinny little kids' reference makes sense. However, my youngest son is thin as a rail and he has no 'poochiness.' [edited] My bros-in-law are thin and have to FORCE their stomachs out to get anything remotely resembling a paunch.
Of course my belly fat is anything but healthy but I'm wondering, when it is exercised/dieted/liposucked(PLEASE?) away, will I just 'look' trim, but, when I'm out of eye-shot and it's just me-and-my-mirror, will it look like I just swallowed a beach ball?
I like the link that lalabanana posted above. I'll start adding "the vacuum" to my routine. God knows it can only help.
Sep 04 2008 21:27
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I've always wondered about that myself. I noticed my daughter, who's 5 and is about 35lbs (yeah, pretty small for her age), at the pool over the summer and her stomach protrudes. Not much, but it does. I don't know if because she's a girl would have anything to do with that since your son doesn't have that problem.
I've been holding in my stomach, and oh believe me when I say it's not for posture, ever since I had my son over 9 years ago. I was skinnier when I was younger, but I remember always having a small pooch. I don't remember sucking it in then. But that pooch did make me feel like my body was out of place. Maybe if I would've sucked in, then I would've felt better about myself. LOL...
Sep 04 2008 21:45
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I'm thin/average and I look 3 months pregnant when I'm not sucking in. It's so much worse right after I eat (and for the following 3 hours). I've often wondered if it would be less of a problem if I was a little heavier...seems like it would blend in more.
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I've always wondered the same thing. I would love to just relax instead of having to suck in my stomach 24/7. I don't do it for posture either!
Ahhh... we'll get there someday...
I don't have to suck in anymore and it feels great.
Many people will tell you that "Abs are made in the kitchen". Eat right, exercise and in time your belly will disappear!
Don't give up! For me - my belly was the second thing to go (right after my boobs...)
I think the "pooch" is more of a girl thing than a guy thing. (Hello we carry babies in there!)
But I mean, I have abs, and I am pretty thin-- but I still suck it in. Not like a super suck walk around turning blue type thing. But I am aware of it and especially around other girls (blush) or in a bikini.
I never thought it was something anyone else did though! So good topic! I thought I was just uber-vain lol.
I am a certified yoga instructor. In Yoga, to breathe really deeply, you CAN'T hold in your stomach! We practice breathing --inhale first into the chest, then into the belly; exhale out of the belly and then the chest. It is a deep breath and is very healthy. If you always hold in your belly, you will affect your oxygen intake and eventually your lung capacity (it DOES change)
Keep up the healthy eating and exercise--you will lose the fat eventually and then I say, relax and if a little pooch shows, take a deep breathe and don't worry so much about it :o)
Yes! All the time! I'm thin---lower then my recommended BMI--- and I work out my stomach muscles everyday, yet to have a perfectly flat, plane belly I still need to suck it in a little. ESPECIALLY at the end of the day, after drinking all that water!
Part of the reason is that I had abdominal surgery a few years back and my muscles will never match up quite correctly again on my right side, but I think most of it is just plain biology. As we digest our food our guts expand and contract and produce tiny air pockets, which pooch out the tummy a little. I bet you notice that your belly is a lot flatter first thing in the morning.
Also, as a small breasted lady, if my stomach pokes out at ALL it looks bad, since I don't have the top to balance it off. Ah well. I just try to think of the sucking in as a form of isometrics!
well, from what I understand...flexing your stomach muscles not "sucking in" but pulling in your abs- like when your working out, running, lifting weights even doing some yoga moves requires a stiff core- can strengthen your stomach muscles and eventually you won't have to "suck in". It does work, I started to flex my tummy muscles when I was younger and starting to compete as an athlete (in fact,my coach was the one who suggested it so I could make my jumps better). I just kept my abs stiff during everyday activities and eventually they pulled in on their own and even now I can still relax and my tummy stays flat.
Hrrrmmmm.. the consensus seems to weigh (no pun intended) a bit toward having to (or being conscious of having to) "suck it in" all the time.
I get that, fo' shizzle. It's good to have a strong core. I'll keep working on strengthening exercises as well as those "vacuums" that "soon2Bbuff chick" lalabanana directed me to in order to help prevent distended abs. I think that those exercises support much of what many have already posted here.
One of my physical hurdles is that I have this genetically related over-developed diaphragm. I'm muscular already and have no interest in being "body-builder-buff", but I'm thinking I have to REALLY beef up my chest muscles or else it looks like I'm hosting an Alien. Don't want to be "barrel-chested" but it beats being "barrel-bellied," I suppose.
I really appreciate everyone's input on this!
I've been holding in my stomach muscles for 35 years and I still have paunch if I let it go.
Actually, it's the fat on the bottom of my abdomen that I am trying to hide. If I was skinny, when I pull it in as far as I try to now, my tummy would be convex.
Jun 25 2009 18:45
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Question: When someone holds their stomach in.....what exactly are you holding in (e.g., air, muscles)?
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Back in college, when I started really exercising, I noticed that if I "sucked it in" it took a lot of work at first, but after it became more of a habit, it didn't take much effort. You just get those muscles stronger and more effective. Much like someone who hasn't walked in a while because of an injury - at first, it is really difficult, but after a lot of work, it becomes natural.
Mind you, it might not make a huge difference if you have a lot of belly fat, but I'm 50 pounds overweight and it makes a difference for me (hard to maintain it, though).
And for nishelby, "sucking it in" can actually mean different things. You can hold your breath in and have the effect, but that is DEFINITELY not sustainable, but what most people mean is tightening your abdominal muscles (envision pulling your belly button toward your backbone). Those muscles just have to be trained to do it.
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I had no idea people actually tried to suck in their bellies all the livelong day. This is fascinating to me. I can only imagine how uncomfortable that must be, not to mention no good for breathing.
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^ This.
I had no idea people bothered. I'm sure even if I tried, the moment I focused on something else I would forget and let it out!
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I suck my stomach in almost all the time. I've done it for so long that I don't even think about it. When I relax my stomach I don't have a bulge or anything. My stomach is probably one of the only things I'm happy with! I just do it out of habit because I was about 10 pounds heavier 4 or so years back (and sucking in then made a huge difference!)
Now...if I could somehow suck my love handles in...that would be great!
eta: I know when I suck my stomach in it doesn't interfere with my breathing. It has nothing to do with air, I just pull my ab muscles in. Belly button to spine type thing.
I find it helps to hold it in heaps even though the fat on top makes it still look plump but I try hard after pregnancy and c-section with my lower abs - let's face it, pregnancy and birth teach you to push the muscles out and even regular crunches cause the muscles to bulge OUT - all we are doing is teaching the muscles to go OUT - I hold in and consciously hold in while typing, walking and riding (horse) and have noticed about 3/4" difference over a month just from that - retraining the muscles to hold IN, not push out. That's the psychology I use for it anyway - being a horsewoman I have excellent abs and core strength already anyway but just fat over the top. *Sigh* very challenging as it is hard to build muscle to burn fat, when you already HAVE muscle there :-( but yes definitely agree with the stomach being critical to core. Just watch you concentrate on abs, and don't strain the lumbar - thoracic spine.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Blackest Man On The Planet • Plantation Negros Trained In Plantation Schools To Obey Authority Find This Offensive
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- Big Mark 243 said...
While I don't care for his music, I do like how he represented himself in the face of the supposed "authority" that these white men supposedly had...
- Sep 26, 2012, 2:48:00 PM
- CNu said...
nothing wrong with this little nigger's attitude that another vacation at riker's island won't straighten right on out....,
- Sep 27, 2012, 7:52:00 AM
- Denmark Vesey said...
interesting how some negros sit around wishing white men would put other black men 'in jail'.
Plantation Negro programming is a bitch.
Guess that's what some rappers mean by "Fuck Bitches. Get Money".
- Sep 28, 2012, 9:28:00 AM
- CNu said...
ta loco?
I'd really rather see the toxic little nigger shot.
Black men have no use for degenerate fin d'siecle minstrels whose job it is to pollute black cultural production with niggerishness.
- Sep 28, 2012, 12:45:00 PM
- CNu said...
In the first chapter of his new book, my man Prof. Lester Spence poses the $64K kwestin.
In the following pages I dig into various aspects of black politics, as an attempt to begin an honest conversation about what a 21st Century black politics should look like. How should we deal with the fact that an increasing number of black families are headed by single mothers? How can we use tragic events like the Trayvon Martin case to spur our political imagination? Given our high rates of unemployment, is there a way to rethink the role labor should play in our communities? What are we to do with the nigga?
- Sep 28, 2012, 12:59:00 PM
- Denmark Vesey said...
"what a 21st Century black politics should look like. "
no such thing as "black politics"
"How should we deal with the fact that an increasing number of black families are headed by single mothers? "
There is no "we" ... nigga.
"we" (wannabe social engineers)have been "fixing" the black family for 100 years.
All they've done is fuck it up.
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation built families.
Plantation Negros educated at Cracker Colleges popped that 'Michael Eric Dyson' "we" need to fix bullshit never built Family 1.
"How can we use tragic events like the Trayvon Martin case "
"we" ... "use" ... "Trayvon Martin" .. "case"?
a) You don't use it
b) You are trying to use it now to support a silly and uncreative imagination.
"Given our high rates of unemployment, is there a way to rethink the role labor should play in our communities?"
"Our community"?
What the fuck is that?
"Jobs" have about as bright a future as VHS tapes.
Lil Wayne and Ricky Rose' said it best.
Fuck Bitches. Get Money.
- Sep 28, 2012, 6:06:00 PM
- CNu said...
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation built families.
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation...., those trifling jiggaboos sacrificed the most powerfully resonant black voice of the 20th century (Malcolm) on the alter of their petty ego squabbles.
Consequently, they're dust, forgettable, bygone dust.
Plantation Negros educated at Cracker Colleges popped that 'Michael Eric Dyson' "we" need to fix bullshit never built Family 1.
Ford Foundation backed "race studies" programs in colleges and universities has proven its mettle as the lowest cost/highest yield counterinsurgency of the 20th century. Turned black nationalist men and women into limp-wristed, indecipherable academic nullities.
"How can we use tragic events like the Trayvon Martin case "
To recognize the toxicity and deleterious effect on young black pscyches of Madison Ave. crafted toxic waste pumped out by compliant minstrels like lil'Weez, Big Booby Boss and any and all other No Limits Niggaz
Dope, Church, Liquor Store, Korean Hair products, Payday Loans or Fried Chicken Nigga?
What purportedly looks good tuh'ya, ain't good fah'ya!
- Sep 28, 2012, 9:33:00 PM
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- Gee Chee Vision said...
True story. Back in the day some friends and I new a five percent'er/ vegetarian/ music producer named 3rd Disciple. He was completely against meat, poisonous foods etc. Once he didn't allow his mother-n-law into his house b/c her lipstick had a pork product in it. Dude was wil'n out at times. One day we were with him on the way to the studio when he tossed a little variation in the mix by ordering a MacDonalds quarter pounder. My man Kapital is like:
Kapital: "Yo 3D (3rd Disciple), I thought you didn't eat that poison."
3D: "No cipher god. I'm building my body's immunity against these devils' chemical & biological warfare."
LOL. Dude use to have us roll'n, no lie. But my man 3D took a MacDonalds hamburger and turned it into a tool to combat highly sophisticated engineered eugenics. In my opinion DV, this is what you're doing with the Weez.
- Sep 29, 2012, 1:19:00 AM
- Denmark Vesey said...
Gee! Chee! V!!
My man.
Ha! That's one hell of a story.
5 Percent cats have been fascinating brothers for years.
My 5 Percent experience was with a good friend who at the time called himself "True Mathematics".
Bad Dude.
30 years ago we would argue until we were both blue in the face.
I used to laugh at him.
His comments on pork.
The genetic engineering of human beings in the past.
The importance of proliferation as a defense against genocide.
30 years later.
Dude ... The 5 Percent and The Nation ...
were right about damn near everything.
All of those Negro institutional Plantation ... "get yo ed-you-cation" memes have proven terribly poor advice.
I mean.
Listen to your boy and his position towards his mother in law and the pork lip stick.
Dude is right.
Pigs are an animal grafted with not only rat, dog and boar genes .... pigs are also grafted with HUMAN genes.
Look it up.
Nah .. really LOOK IT UP.
To eat pork ... to spread pork fat on your lips ... is a form of cannibalism.
So anyway.
Back To Weezy and 'em.
Nah dude.
I don't think you get it.
I listen to these cats and hear BETTER WRITING ... BETTER PHILOSOPHY ... and more EFFECTIVE INSIGHT ... than I hear from any of the conventional Plantation Negro sources.
So ... my 15 year old is assigned to listen to both Santos Bonnaci's lectures on astro-theology and Rick Ross album "God Forgives I Don't" on the same day.
We discuss each with equal enthusiasm.
Because cats not versed in Hip Hop are at a disadvantage.
They don't understand the code.
Come on Gee ...
You don't hear the GENIUS in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HVO5WhIm4uI
- Sep 29, 2012, 8:53:00 AM
- CNu said...
LOL. Dude use to have us roll'n, no lie. But my man 3D took a MacDonalds hamburger and turned it into a tool to combat highly sophisticated engineered eugenics. In my opinion DV, this is what you're doing with the Weez.
stop playing GCV...,
your boy 3D was simply hongry for the toxic pleasure of a quarter pounder.
Reminds me of shorty in Malcolm X avowing he would NEVER swear off pork or white women.
Proliferation is not a viable defense against genocide in the WMD era. Exceptionalism and competence aspiring to the Shaolin monastic - is the ONLY remaining viable defense against genocide and anthropocene extinction.
Reason I despise these minstrels you tout as artists is because they've been packaged into an evangelical appeal to the lowest common denominator proliferators.
Theirs is a gospel of psychopath livestock management via violence and conspicuous consumption. That's not a meme worth proliferating unless you're proliferating it as a cultural and psychological WMD amongst your sworn enemies.
Lyor Cohen an'em fukkin up ignant jiggaboos left and right with this toxic waste material and laughing all the way to the bank.
- Sep 29, 2012, 1:02:00 PM
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- Sep 30, 2012, 7:40:00 PM
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- Sep 30, 2012, 8:24:00 PM
- Gee Chee Vision said...
Yeah CNu we new 3D just wanted some Micky D's. Still we were impressed how he could flip a perspective.
DV, the only thing is that 3D was too harsh on his mother in law. Did he forget at some point he didn't know his "lessons?" Eventually he and his wife divorced. I don't know what their issues were but I know his woman could only take so much of his harshness towards her mother while he finds reasons to break the very codes that he expects for the "85'ers" to immediately understand.
- Sep 30, 2012, 8:33:00 PM
- Gee Chee Vision said...
Wayne is a lyricist and I respect the aesthetics of that skill while still recognizing Chuck's quote, "I don't rhyme for the sake of riddling."
It's as Jay Electronica said, "To keep your mental eyelids closed and your eyeballs bulgin."
The industry is in need of creativity to market black vending machine exoticism as much as MacDonalds is in need of master chefs of the culinary arts to market pink slime burgers.
Weezy, Fiddy, Ro$$, invoke the forces of medieval, activating primal triggers within the masses.
It's like a large scale CoIntelPro operation.
Agent provocatuer.
Inspire your comrades into entrapment.
Marketing activates our trigger features. Coke activates our thirst triggers when we're not thirsty.
MacDonalds activates hunger triggers when we're actually satisfied.
Unlike any other time we now live in an extreme stimulus environment.
Reproduction (sex) and provisions (making money) are intrinsic to our survival.
If someone has to rhyme those basic principles so I can get it, then them boys at Daimler AG need to redesign the short yellow school bus to the size of a smart car for my ignant arse.
However I dislike the movement of blaming artists for this broadband buffoonery. The recording industry controls what goes out and what doesn't. Cops that protest the Cop Killer song understood to go straight to Time/Warner...NOT Ice T. If the US drops a bomb on another country do you blame the soldier that pushed the button or the military that recruits soldiers and makes those weapons?
- Oct 1, 2012, 12:06:00 AM
- Gee Chee Vision said...
"they've been packaged into an evangelical appeal" -CNu
Yes, it's all a part of a theater production. The theater orchestrated for Obama to serenade black people. So he gives Al Green to one generation and Jay Z to the other. But Obama is no more about Jay-Z than Ronald Reagan was about Micheal Jackson in the 80's. It's tapping into influence. Roosevelt capitalized off of Joe Louis; Jackie Robinson's image was used to counter Paul Robeson's communism.
Reagan's theater directors understood MJ's influence on the world stage; Obama's theater directors understand rap music's influence on the world stage.
So I understand you DV when you say, "cats not versed in Hip Hop are at a disadvantage." I agree to a degree.
Wayne & Ro$$' radio dominance is attributed to 6 companies controlling 90% of the airwaves. Just like the two party system restriction of diversity to market a stenciled aesthetic while constructing a monochromatic demographic. It gives the false impression that only one type of genre sales and represents a majority demand associating one kind of rap with success. But rap has been successful since day one.
Public Enemy was too punk rock for Russell Simons but Rick Ruben appreciated the evolution of the art. We'd be listening to 10 different Run DMC acts ruling the airwaves if 80's radio were under today's extreme siege. No Public Enemy, no Slick Rick, Dougie Fresh or Kane, no BDP or Rakim; no growth, no innovative material.
"I am the manifestation of study
Not the manifestation of money
Therefore I advance through thought
Not what's manufactured and bought" -KRS
Where I disagree with cats being at a disadvantage b/c they aren't versed in Hip Hop is b/c that approach demarcates the art making process. Pioneers of Hip Hop cross pollinated R & B, funk, Caribbean dance & music, spoken word etc. It became relevant because they moved outside of being versed in what was popular. They challenged popular music, the news media, the church and won. Every rapper from Grandmaster Flash to Tupac should be on a box of Wheaties for pulling that off. They expanded this art from the west coast to Germany to Palestine and back to it's birth place. I'm sure the blues catalysts never thought music would one day evolve into something even more impressive and expressive.
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As far as proving just how far three of the league's most dominant players could get on one team before being stopped, the trio of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh nearly ran the table before coming two wins short of an NBA title in their first year together. The only problem with this situation was that a team effort was needed to secure a title and the Heat didn't get that out of a lackluster and injured supporting cast.
Whether it was Mike Bibby constant postseason struggles or Joel Anthony being Joel Anthony, the Heat were out of luck at the starting point guard and center positions. The bench was no better as an injured Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem proved to be the most reliable with Mario Chalmers also picking up some slack and actually earning a starting spot at the point guard position for next season.
What the Heat need over the next few seasons as a means to secure another title is to give the big three some support. The trio proved that they could co-exist and lead a team, but they also proved that some help from their supporting cast is necessary and that this one isn't going to cut it. Haslem and Miller being injured showed the NBA world that there are still flaws and that this years free agency class will be needed to help bolster this Heat roster.
Point guard, center, and the depth of the bench will all be keys to look to and these five veterans will help address each of those issues.


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Since when do we expect our president to teach trigonometry or do brain surgery?
We have a president now who could use some brain surgery, but as long as Democrats think he is the savior of our country, we will end up so deep in debt that our children will never see the light of day.
Why do we like Sarah Palin? I'll tell you why.
She is true to her convictions. She stands for what this country needs: faith in God, family values, truth in government.
She is not the usual politician who will say or do anything just to get votes.
We need somebody we can believe in, trust and who is not afraid to speak her mind.
You, Mr. Horton, have written everything you could think of to degrade people who like her.
You have the privilege of a column in The Signal.
You have insulted her and the people who support her.
I thought you were more fair than that.
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Attacking the Full Court PressBy James Gels, from the Coach's Clipboard Basketball Playbook, @ http://www.coachesclipboard.net
Full court press defenses try to get turnovers and easy baskets by pressuring, trapping, and harassing the offense. There are several principles and some strategies in beating this pressure.
Stay calm. The press tries to upset you, and make you commit turnovers. Try to be calm and confident that you can beat this. If you make a mistake, you must immediately forget it and stay calm. Otherwise, they may get three more steals from you, like a snowball effect.
Do not dwell on what's already happened always think "next play", what is going to happen next. The coach must stay calm too. An upset, angry coach is not what the already rattled players need. In a time-out, the coach must be calm, reassure, re-focus his players, and settle his players down.
Think "attack!". A full court press is always a gamble for the defense. If you think positive, and attack the pressure, you can get an easy lay-up and score. So when you see a press coming at you, ATTACK! Think of it as something to beat, to get an easy score... make 'em pay!
We like to attack the press with quick passing as this can get you a 2-on-1 situation and a lay-up. Sometimes you have to beat the press with the dribble, but then you are less likely to get the lay-up. So think pass first.
Three "looks".
When receiving the inbounds pass, catch it and get into triple-threat position facing the defense and look up the floor before immediately starting your dribble.
1. Look up. See the floor. Look up the court. Don't look down at the ball.
2. Look before you pass. Make good, quick safe passes.
3. Look before you dribble. Don't dribble unless you have to. You beat the press by quick, sharp passing usually not dribbling.
Getting the ball in-bounds. Get the ball in quickly, before the defense can set up. Make sure you make a good in-bounds pass. Do not take the ball out from directly under your basket, or your passing lane may be restricted by the backboard. If the other team has just scored, you may "run the baseline".
You cannot run the baseline if the ball went out of bounds and the official is handing it to you. You must stay where the ref gives it to you. If the ref doesn't handle it (like after a score), you can use the whole baseline. You can run the baseline after a time-out, if the time-out was called immediately after the opponent scored.
To receive the inbounds pass, the point guard must get open. Too often I see young point guards trying to get open by running away from the defender, which is usually unsuccessful. Instead, our point guard should walk up to the defender, make contact with the defender (get a forearm into the defender) and then "bounce-off" off the defender to get open. If the point guard is being aggressively denied, he/she can walk the defender down almost to the baseline, seal and quickly release long for the over-the-top lob pass.
When receiving the inbounds pass, we teach our receiver to get into "triple-threat position" after receiving the pass, rather than just putting the head down and starting to dribble. Getting into triple-threat allows the receiver the "three looks" disussed above, to see the defense, see our receivers, and still have the dribble option.
Avoid "trap areas"... the corners. Don't dribble into one of the trap areas (see below)... back away but keep your dribble alive, or pass off.
If you find yourself in a trap.. (1) do not turn your back to the defenders as this allows them to close the gap on you and you cannot see your teammates to pass the ball. Instead, face the defenders, and keep the ball low and moving and keep your body moving using your pivot foot; (2) Stay low and do not stand upright with the ball over your head, as this also allows the defenders to immediately close in on you.
If you have your dribble, you can (1) attack the outside leg of one of the defenders and dribble by, or (2) split the double-team by making an aggressive "step-thru" with one leg between the defenders, with head and shoulders bent over forward, cradling and protecting the ball like a football halfback going through the line, and then push the ball out in front of you starting your dribble. See Escaping a Trap.
Pass quickly up the court
Quick, accurate passing. You must look and find the open man immediately, and make a quick, accurate pass. Avoid soft, lob passes. Passing up the floor, and cutting, are the secrets to beating the press. Look up the floor and anticipate where you will pass the ball, even before you get it. Don't be hesitant to make the long pass up the court. Oftentimes a good point guard can attack the press with the dribble and, before the double-team arrives, make a long pass up the court to an open receiver for a lay-up.
Receivers meet the pass... go to the ball, get open. But keep your spacing. Look for the open spots in the defense. Get open so your teammate can pass to you. Before you even get the ball, look to see where other open teammates are, so you will know where to pass to immediately. When you receive the ball, don't have your back turned. Immediately pivot and face down-court, so you can find an open teammate.
Use the whole court and reverse the ball to the opposite side. Keep at least one player on the "weak-side" to reverse the ball to the opposite side of the court.Have a standard "press break" offense that works for you, so you can immediately recognize the press and yell "press break" to your team. Here are several press breakers to choose from:
- 80-60-40 press breakers... this is really all you need.
- 1-1-2-1 press breaker
- 4-across press breaker
- 1-2-1-1 press breaker
Remember, stay calm, see the floor, pass quickly, make sharp cuts, and "ATTACK!"
Avoid the "trapping zones" seen in this diagram.
- Avoid the corners (yellow).
- If you get trapped in the blue zones, you risk the 10 second call.
- The red zones are just like getting caught in the yellow corners... you are trapped by the sideline and the center line.
Another way to beat the press is to use the "secondary" fast break (see "Secondary Break"). Get the ball in quickly before the press is set defensively, then a good long pass up the sideline and you've got a lay-up.
Related pages:
- Transition Offense
- 80-60-40 press breakers... this is really all you need.
- 3-Up Press-Break
- Simple press breaker
- 4-across press breaker
- 1-2-1-1 Diamond Press breaker
- 2-2-1 Press-Breaker
Helpful DVDs:
Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Basketball - Breaking the Press
with Mike Krzyzewski "Coach K", Duke University Head Men's Basketball Coach; NABC "Coach of the Decade," 12X NABC "Coach of the Year," Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2001), 5X NCAA National Championships.
- Learn how to break any press on your basketball team from the National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Decade, Mike Krzyzewski
- Basketball drills for beating any press
- Numerous tips and insights to all your team to enter the offense quicker and create scoring opportunities without generating turnovers
More and more teams are using half-court, three-quarter court and full-court zone presses to disrupt their opponents' continuity and produce turnovers. With this in mind, Coach K takes the court at Cameron Indoor Stadium to share his effective press break drills and his revered coaching philosophy. (Examples: … "players need to acquire the basic skill of catching the ball by meeting the pass" … "most teams need to cut down on the dribbling … use passing to advance the ball quicker!"). Coach Krzyzewski guides you through a series of effective drills used to break the 2-1-2 half-court press, 1-3-1 half-court press, 2-2-1 three-quarter court press and the 1-2-1-1 full-court press... (more info)
Price: $44.99
Beating Full Court Pressure and Match-Up Zone Defense
with Dave Odom, former Head Coach at the University of South Carolina and Wake Forest; 406 Career wins, 9x NCAA Tournament Appearances, 3x ACC Coach of the Year
Develop an aggressive offensive attack for countering defensive pressure. Dave Odom presents drills and strategies for successfully attacking full court pressure. Odom showcases two press breaks that can be used as an aggressive offensive attack depending on the type of pressure you face. These press breaks allow you to have at least three good passing options open at all times and emphasize moving the ball with the pass rather than the dribble... (more info)
Price: $39.99
Fred Hoiberg: Transition Basketball with Six Secondary Break Sets
with Fred Hoiberg, Iowa State University Head Coach; 2014 Big 12 Tournament Champions; 2012 Big 12 Co-Head Coach of the Year; 10-year NBA veteran and former executive with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Coach Hoiberg starts by showing his basic scheme, which he calls primary break, with spacing rules by position. He believes that transition can be the most important phase that a team can incorporate through proper spacing, crisp cuts and precise passing. Through on-court demonstration, Hoiberg teaches you the ins and outs of the Cyclones' sets... (more info)
Price: $39.99
Roy Williams: Tar Heel Offense & Transition Drills
with Roy Williams, University of North Carolina Head Coach; 2009 and 2005 NCAA Champions.
- Explore the secrets of the Tar Heel offense with four-time National Coach of the Year, Roy Williams
- Get easy baskets using this tournament-tested transition offense.
- Discover drills to improve your primary and secondary breaks.
- This offensive system guided North Carolina to 90.2 points per game in 2009.
Many of Roy Williams' current beliefs were developed in his early days of coaching high school basketball in North Carolina. This basketball DVD will illustrate the "Tar Heel Running Game" with the use of players in an impressive on-court demonstration. This style relies on running the floor and sharing the ball with teammates. Advantages of this style are that the running game negates the defense's ability to get set, which leads to many easy baskets. Coach Williams covers his three offensive rules against a set defense... (more info)
Price: $39.99
Tom Izzo: The Numbered Fastbreak
with Tom Izzo, Michigan State University Head Coach; 2000 NCAA Champs, 3X National "Coach of the Year".
- Learn the numbered fast break from three-time National Coach of the Year, Tom Izzo
- Tactics for having a successful fast break
- Two- and three-man drills are first step in building a productive fast break
Coach Tom Izzo believes in scoring quickly by pushing the ball up the floor. The numbered break puts each player in a position to score. Izzo stresses that this fastbreak limits turnover and confusion by players. Two- and three-man drills are the first step in building a productive fast break. These drills can serve as a warm-up and are good for conditioning. Other drills... (more info)
Price: $39.99
Billy Donovan: The Unstoppable Transition Game
with Billy Donovan, University of Florida Head Coach; 2007 & 2006 NCAA Champions, 2000 NCAA Runner-up; One of only two people ever to serve as head coach, assistant coach, and player in a Final Four.
Coach Donovan shares concepts for winning transition basketball that are usable at any level of basketball! The basis for his offensive philosophy is imbedded in fundamental skill and player mentality. Donovan demonstrates the drills that helped turn his inexperienced team into a "teamwork machine." Practice drills are the Two-Man Sideline drill, Three-Man Sideline drill and Five Cycles drill. A popular peer pressure drill is the "Laker Fastbreak" drill, where the ball is not allowed to touch the floor. The Gator transition game is based on concepts instead of patterns, which offers many obstacles for the defense.... (more info)
Price: $39.99
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I wanted to send a sincere thank you to the Mathias-Baker Volunteer Fire Department for their recent hospitality that they showed our family during some extremely difficult times.
On June 28, my family visited West Virginia for a funeral service. Our group of 14 from Southern Maryland decided to hire a bus service to attend the service, so that no one would have to make the three and 1/2 hour drive to West Virginia, or have to worry about driving back that night. After the service, we started on our trip home. Thanks to the wonderful invention called GPS, we turned onto a mountain road that was designed more for a four-wheeler than for a 30-passenger tour bus. Our bus almost went over the edge on two separate occasions before becoming completely stuck at the turn above Jake's Turn.
At 10 p.m., we had no cell service, no flashlights and were scared to death. We were finally able to contact 911 for help, and the sheriff's department did rescue our group about three hours into our ordeal. The officer informed us that there was no where that was open for miles, but contacted the Mathias-Baker Volunteer Fire Department. Some of the volunteers came the the firehouse, and opened their doors to accommodate us until the tour bus could make it off the mountain. The volunteers helped shuttle us off the mountain, made coffee, snacks and gave us a place to relax our nerves.
Once the bus made it off the mountain, we said our good-byes, and continued on miles down the road. The bus blew two tires (presumably from rocks being lodged into the tires from the mountain trails). We were once again stranded. But again, one of the members of the Mathias-Baker Volunteer Fire Department, who had just answered our prayers earlier and was heading to his home, saw our bus disabled once again. He took me back to the fire department one more time to see if we could call the tour company to send another bus out to our location. Of course, no one answered the phones (at this time, it was around 3 a.m.). Seeing our dilemma, and with frantic children, and very scared adults, they once again went above and beyond the call of duty.
They arranged transportation back to the firehouse, and allowed our entire group to get some sleep in their bunk house until we could arrange for transportation back to Maryland.
At 7 a.m., when our replacement bus still had not arrived, they did what I thought to be the most kind thing ever. Your volunteer fire department (whom had stayed up all night with us), went out and bought supplies to make breakfast for our entire crew. Not just toast and cereal, but pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, etc. We did finally get transportation back to Maryland around noon on Sunday, but the hospitality and generosity that they showed complete strangers from two states away has left its mark on me and my family.
Your entire community should feel proud knowing that these volunteers went above and beyond to help people in need. If you get a chance to talk to one of their members, please ask them about the idiots from Maryland. They are all angles in our eyes, and will never be forgotten.
Thank you again. I will never be able to repay the gift that you gave my family, but you will be welcome in southern Maryland any time you wish.
Billy Jordan
The Jordan / Parthree / Nevitt / Blass / Bishop families of Southern Maryland
Mechanicsville, Md.


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About 1700-1825
Museum no. 246:1, 2-1896
Snakes have a variety of symbolic meanings in art from evil and temptation to fertility and wisdom. This object is a pastoral staff which would once have been carried by an Armenian bishop or priest who held the degree of doctor of theology. It is formed as a double serpent to signify the wisdom of his office. A full-length staff would be approximately 1.5 metres long and end with a tau cross, like the letter T.


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Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Company of Heroes is a sublime game. Honoring it with an equally good expansion, however, isn't an easy task, something made clear with this second part that's both fun and disappointing. The game offered such a short (but good) experience that it took me days to figure out what to write about it. It's like trying to make a painting of an unexpected lightning strike. Maybe a great image, but nonetheless still only a lightning strike.
This expansion still offers the great experience from CoH that we've gotten used to, but it doesn't add much new. There are a couple of new things and extras but they don't really impress. Overall Tales of Valor is less worked out than Opposing Fronts, the previous expansion.
We now get Direct Fire that gives the possibility to take over the shooting of your men. With this you determine who will be targeted and how many times these will be shot at (with clicking of the mouse). It's marketed as a new tactical possibility but in reality it's hardly usable. Next to that we also get new vehicles (two per faction) and a new multiplayer mode (three new ops) which is a bit meagre.
Of course there are also new missions, collected per three in three new mini-campaigns. They all tell the story of an (idealised) heroic act. In the first campaign, Tiger Ace, you get to command a line German tank in hostile territory. After having been messed around with it's fun to control the battlefield yourself with a superior Tiger. The second, Causeway, has you leading an elite platoon of the 505th PIR across the La Fiere Causeway. This is a small open area that makes for a very tactical challenge. Finally there's Falaise Pocket which is also the most difficult part. You're again on the side of the Germans and have to keep an escape route open for hundreds of thousands of soldiers against all odds. A real millimeter fight that's cutting edge. These missions are well-made but: way too short. You also play the same character or group of characters per campaign which can get better properties RPG-like by using points you collect on the way.
What annoyed most was the fact that to be able to play (even offline) you have to make an account at Relic and that the controlssystem is so tight that it often caused problems for me. As long as those issues weren't solved I couldn't even play (not even singleplayer). I don't mind copy protection as long as it doesn't make for more hassle but here I spent more with trying to solve the issues it caused than actually playing the game.
So, what is the conclusion? CoH: Tales of Valor is as good as its predecessors when it comes to playing experience. However, it's more of the same and lacks some innovation. That it's so short is a major downer and also the copy protection system rears its ugly head too much. If you're a fan of CoH and can live with aforementioned downpoints then buying this title certainly won't be any issue. You have fun with it but it's best to find it at a light price as you get nothing more than a lightweight experience.
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With various 2009 and 2010 prospects MIA, the Izzo Shootout proved an ideal venue for members of the class of 2011 -- the rising sophomores -- to show their stuff against varsity competition.
Carlton Brundidge, a 6-foot power guard from Southfield, led the Blue Jays to the semifinals of the tournament. He is a terrific driver and slashing scorer, utilizing a strong build, low and powerful dribble, and an eye for the rack, to pile up points. It's rare to see a young guard to score so much at the line like Brundidge does. Key for his development are a consistent outside shot and an inheritance, as it were, of older brother Dale's point guard IQ.
If Brundidge wasn't the most prolific freshman in the state last season, then it was LaDonte Henton, the 6-5 workhorse from Lansing Eastern. The lefty is just a tough matchup on the offensive end, as he will out-muscle most high school kids, or out-quick the bigger guys. He rebounds like his physical tools suggest on the defensive end. A possible guard at the next level, Henton is working on his ball skills, but is still trying to find that balance between being an all-pass point guard, or a never-pass wing. His game is far from pretty, just highly productive.
Say what you will about the uninspiring lay of Birmingham Country Day seniors Da'Shonte Riley (Georgetown) and Donnavan Kirk (Miami-FL) when they made a cameo Friday. At least with them in the lineup the Yellowjackets there would have been no concern about a one-point half, which is what they mustered in a Saturday morning game. But the team's offensive impotencey doesn't make Amir Williams any less of an exciting prospect. He's a legit 6-9, moves fluidly and alertly on defense, and holds his concentration level for a longer duration than many young big guys. While Williams' footwork is ahead of the curve, he needs to use a lot less hands on his man, both offensively and defensively, which negates his height and length.
Not many freshmen in the state's history have started at the point for a championship runner-up team, but Flint Powers' 5-9 Patrick Lucas-Perry is on that list. His job isn't easy, dealing with the ego and talent of a team that could be the favorite to win it this season in Class B. Shane Moreland and Demarco Sanders need their shots; Patrick O'Brien has to see the ball because good things happen when he touches it; and Rodney Anderson, the highly athletic 6-7 senior transfer from Flushing, needs to see it as well, to reward him for his work on the defensive end. So PLP, and Powers, is at his best when he's doing the essential, but oft overlooked, point guard job of counting touches and distributing the ball accordingly. When that happened, Powers looked like the best team at MSU on Friday. When Moreland, O'Brien and PLP are all in rhythm and hitting, that's too many guys to guard. But come the tournament, that unselfish team vibe was gone, and the Chargers, Lucas-Perry included, decided instead to take turns jacking their shots, settling for first looks, and the result was predictable -- knocked out by Grand Ledge. That said, PLP remains one of the best soph guards in the state.
Speaking of the state tournament, Detroit Southeastern could be poised for a run in the near future thanks to its two sophomores, 6-4 Brandon Kearney and 6-7 Percy Gibson. Kearney was playing hurt, but his game isn't predicated on just blowing past or jumping over opponents, so he still fared pretty well for the Jungaleers. Kearney plays a high IQ, subtle, old man's Y game. He has the skills to push the ball in an uptempo game, and an advanced sense of spacing to be productive in the halfcourt. He's reminiscent of Chris Douglas-Roberts and JaQuan Hart in that his upright style and chicken legs bely a certain athleticism. Although we don't want to take those comparisons too far, as CDR and Hart's games were more idiosyncratic, whereas Kearney's is basic and fundamental.
Gibson is well-built for his a just-finished ninth-grader. And he's a rare young tall guy who has no point guard delusions, and is happy to sit on the blocks and go to work. His game has gone to the next level as he's realized the hard work and intensity it takes to become a star player in the post.
Saginaw's 6-8 Tommy McCune is another sophomore post who is really improving. He just barely outplayed Utica Eisenhower sophomore Corey Petros head-to-head, and Petros is one of the best junior post players in Michigan (even if, by age, he should be with these '11 kids). McCune has the basic drop steps and half-hook down, and shows a nice stroke from the stripe. His defensive effort, especially in transition, probably isn't yet up to Saginaw standards.
McCune has a talented classmate in 5-11 DeAnthony Arnett. Arnett has the kind of speed with the ball that you see at the high-major level, and has some weaving moves, changes of pace, and jump-stop finishes to go with it. He needs to cut down on the mid-air passes, which can lead to a lot of trouble.
There were some other rising sophomores who should be tracked by college coaches, as they have the physical tools -- height and/or length -- to build upon: 6-6 Trey McDonald (Battle Creek Central); 6-3 Matt Pouches from Hartland; 6-5 Julian Plummer (Muskegon Heights); 6-7 Jalen Reynolds (Clarenceville); and 6 -5 Cory Starkey (Petoskey). Then there was Devin Ivy, an outstanding guard from Ottawa Hills, a team I missed.


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Boy Falls at School, Told to Crawl Back to Classroom by TeachersDanielle Sullivan
An understandably irate couple is suing their child's school for $200,000 in damages after their six-year-old son was hurt after falling on ice during recess in the playground at Devonshire Elementary School.
When kindergartener Rahul Chandani toppled over a snow mound while in the schoolyard and didn't get up to come inside with the rest of his classmates, the teachers allegedly instructed him to crawl back inside to his classroom. Prior to that, Rahul had fallen by the swings, hitting his head and leg.
The teachers never investigated why little Rahul had not been able to walk back in but knew he fell and I suppose thought the fall wasn't that bad. They were wrong.
They also never called an ambulance or doctor. When the boy's mother, Priya Chandani, came to pick him up, she immediately sensed something was wrong and took him to the hospital.
At the hospital, it was determined that Rahul suffered a fractured tibia, a hematoma to his head, and a concussion. Apparently the lump on his head was "the size of a tennis ball" and the boy had complained of dizziness but the school did not provide him with proper medical attention.
The Chicago Sun Times reports that Rahul's parents, Pritam and Priya were extremely angry and filed a lawsuit:
"His teacher told him, You're a big boy — I can't carry you. She told him to walk back, but his leg was broken so he fell again and then had to crawl at least 200-300 feet back to the school building. This could have happened to any child. As soon as I saw him I knew something was wrong."
Rahul missed school for six weeks following the incident as he was recovering from the injuries during which he had trouble sleeping. He also required six months of rehabilitation until he fully recuperated.
It's hard to imagine a teacher not being able to recognize that a child's leg is broken; the child being told to crawl back to a classroom is just insane. I would be livid. If my son has as much as an earache, the school nurse sees him and sends home a note of explanation. Thank goodness Rahul's injuries weren't any worse (although a broken leg is undoubtedly painful and a concussion could have lasting impact). Who knows what would have happened had the mom not been able to pick him up that day or didn't immediately realize he needed medical attention?
Has your child ever experienced a fall or sickness at school that you felt was not given proper attention?
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My research interests span several areas in laser spectroscopy and materials science. I have used lasers to study high energy vibrational states of dioxetanes and to monitor the presence of the nanoparticles that comprise soot by heating them with a laser to incandescence. I have also explored the techniques of cavity ring-down spectroscopy and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to monitor various species in trace amounts. Another interest is synthesizing carbon nanotubes in flames and other environments. These structures, which have diameters of a few to tens of nanometers, have a number of unique properties (high current carrying capacity and tensile strength) that make them desirable for many applications in nanotechnology. I have also used a technique called electrospinning to create nanofibers of polymers or metal oxides suitable for sensor technology. I am currently working on a major revision of the general chemistry curriculum supported by a grant from the Board of Regents. My goals are to develop a new laboratory program that emphasizes current applications of chemistry and to refocus the course around structure and reactivity with the aid of molecular modeling software.
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The Washington Redskins have been right at the center of the NFL season so far. It was always going to be an exciting year, regardless of the results. The first two games have proved that already.
Victory in Week 1 preceded heartache in Week 2—as is traditional in D.C. Both games made the headlines but for different reasons.
Many questions about the team have been answered, but others have just multiplied. The storylines that have already emerged will last the season, forming excuses and validation for fans as the weeks roll by.
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Below are a collection of B2B social media statistics collected from various sources covering a wide range of topics. We hope you enjoy digging into the numbers. If you have any other interesting stats, please add them in the comments and include the source with link.
- 86% of B2B firms are using social, compared to 82% of B2C. (Source)
- B2B firms aren't as active in their social media activity with only 32% engaging on a daily basis compared with 52% of B2C firms. (Source)
- More than half (53.5%) of marketers surveyed said they currently use social media as part of their marketing strategy. This is up from 2009, when 45.0% of marketers said they used social media for marketing. (Source)
- Annual growth in US B2B online marketing spend is forecast at 8% in 2010 and is set to reach 14% by 2012. (Source)
- B2B advertising spend on social media and lead generation sites is forecast to grow at an annualized rate of 21% and 17% respectively to 2013. (Source)
- Online accounted for 7% of the B2B marketing mix in 2008. This is set to reach 12% by 2013. (Source)
- Two thirds of B2B marketers believe that online must be complemented by traditional marketing activities. (Source)
- Only 50% of B2B marketers formally analyze metrics to judge ROI – but those that do find online marketing more effective. (Source)
- B2B marketing spending on social networking sites is predicted to rise 43.3%. (Source)
- Forrester predicts B2B interactive marketing spending to reach $4.8 billion by 2014 – almost double that estimated for 2009 ($2.3 billion). (Source)
- B2B social media marketing spending will grow from just $11 million in 2009 to $54 million in 2014. (Source)
- US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion. (Source)
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- 36% of B2B execs surveyed said there was low executive interest in social media in their company, compared with 9% of B2C marketers who said the same. (Source)
- 46% of B2B respondents said social media was perceived as irrelevant to their company, while only 12% of consumer-oriented marketers had the same problem. (Source)
- According to an eMarketer study, B2B online marketers focus on lead generation (38%), retention (34%) and awareness (28%). (Source)
- The top applications for the use of social media for b2b marketers are thought leadership (59.8%), lead generation (48.9%), customer feedback (45.7%) and advertising on sites (34.7%). (Source)
- Asked to rate the effectiveness of specific social media sites in their marketing efforts, more than one-half of respondents said that Facebook was "extremely" or "somewhat" effective. Somewhat fewer said the same of LinkedIn, and just 35% considered Twitter effective. (Source)
- In contrast, when Hubspot surveyed B2B companies in North America about lead generation through social channels, 45% rated LinkedIn effective, compared with just 33% who said the same of Facebook. (Source)
- Methods generating the highest B2B ROI are topped by advertisers' own websites, followed by conferences, exhibitions and trade shows; direct mail; search engine keywords; and e-marketing/e-newsletters. (Source)
- B2B advertisers see cross-media marketing as most effective; 78% combine three or more major marketing methods. (Source)
- 34% of B2B marketers said they were not measuring social success at all versus just 10% of B2C respondents. (Source)
- Website traffic, brand awareness, engagement with prospects and engagement with customers are the leading metrics used to measure the success of social media for B2B companies. (Source)
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- 60% of B2B firms have no staff dedicated to social media compared with 54% of B2C players. (Source)
- Just 10% of B2B firms use outside agencies or consultants compared with 28% of B2C firms. (Source)
- B2B product marketers were spending an average of 3.4% of their marketing budgets on social media in February 2010, and B2B services marketers were spending 6.5%. Respondents expected those proportions to reach 7.4% and 11%, respectively, over the next year. (Source)
- B2B marketing spending on social networking sites is predicted to rise 43.3% in 2010. (Source)
- 39.2% of B2B marketers say they plan to boost their marketing budgets in 2010, 47.5% plan to keep them flat; and 13.3% plan to decrease them. Among those that plan to increase budgets, 11.1% plan to raise them by more than 30%; 18.8% plan to increase them between 20% and 29%; 31.1% plan increases between 10% and 19%; and 39.0% plan to increase budgets less than 10%. (Source)
- Within online marketing, the top areas that will see spending increases include Web site development (70.7% plan increases), email marketing (68.6%), search marketing (62.3%), social media (60.3%), video (50.7%) and webcasts (46.0%) (Source)


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A captivating first novel from new writer Rebecca Lloyd, in which magic and imagination thrive among the mundane issues of a boy s everyday life.
Danny Broadaxe is a young boy who looks after his disabled dad. When their neighbour, John Seeping, goes on holiday he asks Danny to feed his tropical fish. Little does Danny know that John's wife, Vaquita, whom everyone thought moved away years ago, is still living in the house in the bath. Vaquita tells Danny that she is really a halfling creature part human, part porpoise and longs to return to her home in the sea. But will Danny believe her? And can they change each other's lives for ever?
Rebecca Lloyd first started writing when working in Africa as a medical parasitologist. She now runs two creative writing courses in Bristol and has had numerous short stories published, winning the inaugural Bristol Short Story Prize 2008 with her story, The River. The Halfling is her first novel.
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Baseball-Obsessed Kid: What's a Sports-Averse Mom to Do?AmyReiter
As one of those picked-last-for-kickball kids with no affinity for team sports, a longstanding aversion to gym teachers and a son who is a particularly avid baseball fan, I have the eerie feeling that Elana Sigall is describing me when she writes in the October issue of Parents:
I never liked sports growing up. My poor hand-eye coordination makes it a challenge to drive a car, let alone hit a ball with a bat. I don't like watching sports on TV and I don't even like sports metaphors. So I never imagined that I would have a kid who was so focused on baseball. It was alienating to watch my son drift farther away from me toward anyone else he knew who could talk about plays and records and suicide squeezes. I was starting to feel a little desperate, reduced to begging for good-night kisses. I knew I had to find a path to baseball or I was going to lose out on a connection with Julian.
In the piece, Sigall (a writer-mom I now know socially after our sons bonded over their mutual baseball obsession) recounts how she found a way back into 6-year-old Julian's world by baking him a baseball cake, learning about all his favorite players as she lovingly formed them out of fondant. Somewhere along the way, as she drew pinstripes on Yankees jerseys with a food-writer pen and carefully sculpted mitts and belts and shoes, she became a fan, invested in a game her son adored and able to speak with him about it.
It's a wonderful story of hope for non-sporty moms of sporty sons. And it left me wondering how I might penetrate my own son's sports sphere. I'm not much of a baker, but I'm a big Broadway fan. Maybe we can listen to "Damn Yankees" Original Broadway Cast recording together.
How about you? Has your kid had an obsession (sports or otherwise) that's left you behind? How have you found your way back in? Or have you given up?


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Someone in another thread mentioned leangains so I did a bit of googling-seems to follow a 8/16 type of IF window, but then there's all the extra stuff about percentages to eat, training days etc. I want to keep things as simple as possible, and not got bogged down too much by breaking everything I eat and do into formulas etc. Maybe I'll try 1/6 next week, or just 8/16 IF by itself and see what happens Never in a million years did i ever think I would have this kind of 'problem'!
Happy news first...I am down in weight this morning to a new low of 170.8. So at the end of my first month on ADF I've lost 6.8 pounds and ONE inch each off my bust, waist, and thighs and a half inch off each of my hip, calves and arms. And, since starting Primal at the beginning of February I've lost a total of 11.2 and a few more inches. Not bad at all!
So I started ADF at 177.6 and am 170.8 this morning. The biggest surprise was the inches I think. Though I do feel like my clothes are fitting better, they didn't seem that loose, lol. I'll take it.
On a not so happy note, OMG, my stomach is still hurting and I am definitely having bathroom issues again. I'm wondering if I should do a little n=1 and cut out dairy for a few days. I was thinking it started with the carrots and onions I had on the weekend, but now I'm not so sure. Veronica...yes your comment about the bathroom struck home with me, lol.
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I would not worry about the two days of fasting while you are switching over. First, find the level of primal eating that lets you maintain, then work from that to see how to get the two days in once you have stabilized. You are improving your health in other ways by going primal, so I think any lessening of the SIRT1 effects will be balanced out. Also, it can be too tricky to be tweaking two systems at once!
And, just as our bodies benefit from switching up exercise routines, there may be good sides to NOT fasting regularly for a little while. I seem to recall an article about that and SIRT1. Hmmm...need to go look at all the stuff again.
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Started off my Up Day with a pork chop, 2 eggs, and the last piece of pumpkin 'pie'. I did NOT want to let that go begging in the back of the fridge. Finishing off some beef stew leftovers for my lunch, then having something new for dinner. Not sure what yet, but Honey and I are both wanting some vegetables. Hmmm...ratatouille sounds good. But it makes such a lot. NO leftovers! Maybe Siobhan's zucchini. There are never leftovers of THAT!
And, if the scale starts to creep up I can always throw in a dd to balance things out
Thanks for the input everyone!
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I have been skipping breakfast for probably 8 years, since long before I heard of intermittent fasting. I started skipping breakfast because with my decreased activity level, I didn't seem to need as much food as previously, and I preferred to eat 2 good meals rather than 3 smaller ones. Also, it was easier to skip breakfast with no ill effects, even when I was eating more carbs. In the morning you are in the fasting mode until you start consuming fuel. You're just not as hungry. And if you do get hungry, it's so minor it's not even an inconvenience.
Can you post your numbers when you originally lost weight. Did you loose 8 lb every month or it's decreese when you get close to your goal weight. How many DD a week you had?
I went thought April with 15 DD. But now would like to go to Mon, Wed, Fri. I don't know what to expect from my body because first 2 weeks went so great and then everything stall. Any ideas?