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Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN; Fineout-Overholt, Ellen PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN; Stillwell, Susan B. DNP, RN, CNE; Williamson, Kathleen M. PhD, RN
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk is dean and distinguished foundation professor of nursing at Arizona State University in Phoenix, where Ellen Fineout-Overholt is clinical professor and director of the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice, Susan B. Stillwell is clinical associate professor and program coordinator of the Nurse Educator Evidence-Based Practice Mentorship Program, and Kathleen M. Williamson is associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice.
Contact author: Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, email@example.com.
This is the first article in a new series from the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation's Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values. When delivered in a context of caring and in a supportive organizational culture, the highest quality of care and best patient outcomes can be achieved.
The purpose of this new series is to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to implement EBP consistently, one step at a time. Articles will appear every two months to allow you time to incorporate information as you work toward implementing EBP at your institution. Also, we'll schedule "Ask the Authors" call-ins every few months to provide a direct line to the experts to help you resolve questions. Details about how to participate in the calls will be published with January's Evidence-Based Practice: Step by Step.
Do you ever wonder why nurses engage in practices that aren't supported by evidence, while not implementing practices substantiated by a lot of evidence? In the past, nurses changed hospitalized patients' IV dressings daily, even though no solid evidence supported this practice. When clinical trials finally explored how often to change IV dressings, results indicated that daily changes led to higher rates of phlebitis than did less frequent changes.1 In many hospital EDs across the country, children with asthma are treated with albuterol delivered with a nebulizer, even though substantial evidence shows that when albuterol is delivered with a metered-dose inhaler plus a spacer, children spend less time in the ED and have fewer adverse effects.2 Nurses even disrupt patients' sleep, which is important for restorative healing, to document blood pressure and pulse rate because it's hospital policy to take vital signs every two or four hours, even though no evidence supports that doing so improves the identification of potential complications. In fact, clinicians often follow outdated policies and procedures without questioning their current relevance or accuracy, or the evidence for them.
When a spirit of inquiry—an ongoing curiosity about the best evidence to guide clinical decision making—and a culture that supports it are lacking, clinicians are unlikely to embrace evidence-based practice (EBP). Every day, nurses across the care continuum perform a multitude of interventions (for example, administering medication, positioning, suctioning) that should stimulate questions about the evidence supporting their use. When a nurse possesses a spirit of inquiry within a supportive EBP culture, she or he can routinely ask questions about clinical practice while care is being delivered. For example, in patients with endotracheal tubes, how does use of saline with suctioning compared with suctioning without saline affect oxygen saturation? In patients with head injury, how does elevating the head of the bed compared with keeping a patient in a supine position affect intracranial pressure? In postoperative surgical patients, how does the use of music compared with no use of music affect the frequency of pain medication administration?
The Institute of Medicine has set a goal that by 2020, 90% of all health care decisions in the United States will be evidence based,3 but the majority of nurses are still not consistently implementing EBP in their clinical settings.4 To foster outcomes-driven health care in which decisions are based on evidence, providers and health care systems need a comprehensive approach to ensure that their results are measured.5 Without EBP, patients don't receive the highest quality of care, health outcomes are seriously jeopardized, and health care costs soar.6 Findings from recent studies also indicate that when nurses and other health care providers engage in EBP, they experience greater autonomy in their practices and a higher level of job satisfaction.7 At a time when this country is facing the most serious nursing shortage in its history, empowering nurses to routinely engage in EBP may lead to less turnover and lower vacancy rates, in addition to improving the quality of health care and patient outcomes.
To accelerate the use of EBP by nurses and other health care providers, some insurers have instituted pay-for-performance programs that offer clinicians incentives to follow evidence-based guidelines. And Medicare no longer reimburses hospitals for treating preventable hospital-acquired injuries or infections (such as falls, pressure ulcers, or ventilator-associated pneumonia). Although these measures should improve the overall quality of care in our hospitals, it's well known that extrinsic motivators are typically not more successful in facilitating a change in behavior than intrinsic motivators. Therefore, for EBP to accelerate and thrive in the U.S. health care system, nurses must have
* a never-ending spirit of inquiry and consistently question current clinical practices.
* strong beliefs in the value of EBP.
* knowledge of and skills in EBP along with the confidence to use it.
* a commitment to deliver the highest quality evidence-based care to patients and their families.
In addition, health care institutions must sustain a culture that embraces EBP, including providing clinicians the support and tools they need to engage in evidence-based care.
EBP is a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from well-designed studies and patient care data, and combines it with patient preferences and values and nurse expertise.8, 9 However, there's no magic formula for what percentage of a clinical decision should be based on evidence or patient preferences or nurse expertise. The weight given to each of these three EBP components varies according to the clinical situation. For example, evidence-based guidelines might indicate that a young child with an ear infection receive amoxicillin and clavulanate (Augmentin) if the infection hasn't resolved with amoxicillin. However, if the child dislikes the taste and it's likely that the medication won't be taken, patient preference should outweigh the best practice guideline and an alternative antibiotic should be prescribed.
Although EBP may be referred to as evidence-based medicine, evidence-based nursing, or evidence-based physical therapy within various disciplines, we advocate referring to all of these as evidence-based practice, in order to stimulate transdisciplinary evidence-based care and avoid the specialized terminology that can isolate the various health professions.
When nurses implement EBP within a context of caring and a supportive organizational culture, the highest quality of care is delivered and the best patient, provider, and system outcomes are achieved (see Figure 1).10 Despite outcomes being substantially better when patients receive evidence-based care, nurses and other health care providers often cite barriers that prevent its delivery, including10, 11
* inadequate EBP knowledge and skills.
* a lack of EBP mentors to work with providers at the point of care.
* inadequate resources and support from higher administration.
* insufficient time, especially when there are demanding patient caseloads and staffing shortages.
Conversely, a number of factors facilitate the implementation of EBP, including8, 12, 13
* EBP knowledge and skills.
* belief in the value of EBP and the ability to implement it.
* a culture that supports EBP and provides the necessary tools to sustain evidence-based care (for example, access to computer databases at the point of care and time to search for evidence).
* EBP mentors (advanced practice clinicians with expertise in EBP and organizational and individual behavior-change strategies) who work directly with clinicians at the point of care in implementing EBP.
Once nurses gain EBP knowledge and skills, they realize it's not only feasible within the context of their practice setting, but that it reignites their passion for their roles and assists them in delivering a higher quality of care with improved patient outcomes. We use the term Step Zero to refer to the continual cultivation of a spirit of inquiry as an essential foundation for EBP, and we recommend the routine use of a standard set of questions in practice (see Questions that Spark a Spirit of Inquiry) and the use of the strategies in Strategies for Building a Spirit of Inquiry.
Remember, EBP starts with a spirit of inquiry (Step Zero). As you embark on this wonderful journey to promote the highest quality of care and the best outcomes for your patients, reflect upon Step Zero, the EBP paradigm, and how you practice care. The Case Scenario for EBP: Rapid Response Teams will provide a context for learning EBP throughout the next several columns. We'll use this case in each column to focus on successive steps of the EBP process. In the meantime, we encourage you to answer the Questions that Spark a Spirit of Inquiry and implement two Strategies for Building a Spirit of Inquiry in order to start your own EBP journey and begin building a spirit of inquiry with your colleagues at work.
* Who can I seek out to assist me in enhancing my evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge and skills and serve as my EBP mentor?
* Which of my practices are currently evidence based and which don't have any evidence to support them?
* When is the best time to question my current clinical practices and with whom?
* Where can I find the best evidence to answer my clinical questions?
* Why am I doing what I do with my patients?
* How can I become more skilled in EBP and mentor others to implement evidence-based care?
Write "WHY?" on a poster and place it in the staff lounge or restroom to inspire questions from nurses about why they're engaging in certain practices with their patients. Gather the responses in an answer box. After one month, take the responses and arrange them according to common themes. Address the themes in a staff meeting.
Review and answer the Questions that Spark a Spirit of Inquiry.
Create a poster with these questions and post them where your colleagues will see them. Think about these clinical questions when caring for your patients.
You're a staff nurse on a busy medical–surgical unit. Over the past three months, you've noticed that the patients on your unit seem to have a higher acuity level than usual, with at least three cardiac arrests per month, and of those patients who arrested, four died. Today you saw a report about a recently published study in Critical Care Medicine on the use of rapid response teams to decrease rates of in-hospital cardiac arrests and unplanned ICU admissions. The study found a significant decrease in both outcomes after implementation of a rapid response team led by physician assistants with specialized skills.14 You're so impressed with these findings that you bring the report to your nurse manager, believing that a rapid response team would be a great idea for your hospital. The nurse manager is excited that you've come to her with these findings and encourages you to search for more evidence to support this practice and for research on whether rapid response teams are valid and reliable.
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When Grisel Papaccio developed a potentially fatal blood clot in her lower left leg, she insisted on going to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC) for the expert care she needed.
Her symptoms began with a backache at work on Good Friday and worsened over the weekend, as swelling developed in her left leg. By Monday, the 39-year-old married mother of two was unable to walk. Testing done that day revealed that a large
blood clot, known as a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), had formed in a major blood vessel in her lower leg. If not treated, a DVT can travel to the lungs and cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.
Papaccio was diagnosed with May-Thurner syndrome, a rare condition in which a DVT compresses the blood vessels in the leg. He treated the DVT successfully in ARMC's advanced cardiac catheterization laboratory.
Papaccio, who spent two days in intensive care after treatment, says she is "absolutely satisfied" with her experience at ARMC. "Everyone acted quickly and properly, and made me feel so comfortable and reassured through everything. If I had to do it over again, I would choose AtlantiCare in a minute. I wouldn't want to go anywhere else."

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Some of the most beloved members of the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital team are the four-legged volunteers in our Pet-A-Pet Program. A hospital can be a frightening place to young children and these loveable and cuddly canines provide a much-needed – and welcome – diversion. Families and hospital staff also benefit from taking a moment out of their day to unwind in the company of these dedicated dogs.
All of the dogs in the Pet-A-Pet program, as well as their owners, participate in a rigorous screening and orientation process.
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AMATEUR radio hams are usually excited by the faint buzz of a distant shortwave station, but a group of scientists believe they have received a message from extra-terrestrials.
Astronomers think that a signal picked up by a radio telescope last year shows the highest probability yet that ET's family may have returned his call.
In February 2003, scientists involved in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the huge radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at about 200 sections of the sky.
Unexplained radio signals had been detected twice by the same telescope in these areas and scientists were trying to confirm the findings.
It may sound fanciful, but a report in the journal NewScientist reveals how the team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared - except for one which has got stronger. Detected on three separate occasions, the signal is "an enigma", say researchers.
So far, explanations have included conjecture that it could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon, or may even be something far more pedestrian, such as an artefact on the telescope itself interfering with measurements.
But the astronomy team says that it also happens to be the best candidate yet for a contact by intelligent aliens in the six-year history of the SETI@home project, which uses programmes running as screen-savers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope.
Dr Dan Wertheimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California (Berkeley) and the chief scientist for the project, said: "It is the most interesting signal from SETI@home. We are not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it."
Named SHGb02+14a, the possible alien communication has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz - one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.
Some astronomers have suggested that aliens trying to announce their presence would be likely to transmit at this frequency, and SETI researchers regularly scan this part of the radio spectrum.
The unexplained signal appears to be emanating from a point between the constellations of Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1,000 light years, and the transmission is also very faint.
Dr Eric Korpela, of the research team, said: "We are looking for something that screams out 'artificial'. This just doesn't do that, but it could be because it is distant."
So far, the telescope has managed to pick up the signal for only about a minute in total, which is not sufficient for astronomers to analyse it fully.
Dr Korpela believes that it is unlikely the "message" is the result of any obvious radio interference or noise, and it does not resemble any known astronomical object.
Others, however, are more sceptical, saying the current lack of explanation does not mean that it could only have been produced by aliens.
Dr Jocelyn Bell Burnell, of the University of Bath, said: "It may be a natural phenomenon of a previously undreamed-of kind - like I stumbled over."
It was Dr Bell Burnell who, in 1967, observed a pulsed radio signal which the research team at the time believed was from extra-terrestrials, but which later was confirmed as the first sighting ever of a spinning collapsed star.
Other questions arise over the signal's frequency, which oscillates by between eight and 37 hertz a second.
Paul Horowitz, a Harvard University astronomer who looks for alien signals using optical telescopes, believes that the drift in the signal makes it "fishy".
David Anderson, the director of the SETI@home project, is also sceptical but curious about the signal. He told NewScientist: "It is unlikely to be real, but we will definitely continue to observe it."
Meanwhile, a new analysis of interstellar communications claims that, rather than sending radio signals, aliens would find it far more efficient to send a "message in a bottle".
Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey claim that beaming a radio signal that can be detected 10,000 light years away would demand a million billion times as much energy as just shooting out matter on which the data is inscribed.


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If your idea of nightlife includes hitting a bar for drinks and socializing, then our Detroit guide is just what you want. Capitalizing on first-hand experience and extensive research, we've located the best bars in Detroit for hanging out and kicking back in. From long-lived mainstays like Town Pump Tavern to busy places like Bo's Brewery & Bistro that get lots of 10Best reader approval, we present the top bars in town and offer details about them all. What's the energy like? How do the bartenders pour? Are most bars located in the Downtown area? No fear - we share all the facts!
Atwater Block Brewery
Housed in an 18,000 sq ft re-purposed factory building, the Atwater Block Brewery seeks to revive the proud tradition of Detroit breweries. The lagers that are produced here are German in everything but location – not only are the malt and hops imported from Germany, the brewing equipment is also German. The brewery also produces specialty ales, made from the finest American hops. The Dirty Blond (unmalted wheat, coriander, and orange peel) and the Vanilla Java Porter (coffee beans, vanilla extract, chocolate malt) are just a few of the tasty beers on tap here. (313-877-9205)
Garden Bowl
Part of the Majestic Theater Center complex, the Garden Bowl (built in 1913) ranked as the metropolitan area's oldest and largest bowling alley for several years – at one point it featured a billiards tournament area and more than 20 lanes. Today, the Garden Bowl offers 16 lanes of bowling fun, complete with DJs and a full bar. On the second level is the trendy Magic Stick pool hall. The nearby Majestic Theater is a live music venue that has featured the likes of Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, and Los Lobos. (313-833-9850)
Gravity Bar & Grill
A great suburban alternative, this estimable establishment gets lots of positive buzz. The well-attended place offers both a restaurant and bar, and both of them are perennially busy. The menu takes inspiration from around the world, and its beautifully presented dishes are both delicious and affordable. Among them are cumin- and ancho chili rubbed grouper and herb-tinged Tuscan steak. Make it a point to hang out at the bar, either as a way to absorb its energy and camaraderie or as a way to bookend a terrific meal. A neighborhood favorite. (248-684-4223)
Dakota Inn Rathskeller
Family-friendly and bursting with energy, this establishment is known for beer-drinking, sing-alongs, and good times galore. The place's Bavarian architecture and its collection of steins and mounted deer heads lend notes of authenticity, and you'll find folks regularly quaffing premium brews and dancing in traditional style. In keeping with the theme, patrons don German garb and belt out familiar tunes with abandon. Naturally, you can enjoy a good bratwurst or sauerbraten when the appetite calls. (313-867-9722)
Motor City Brewing Works
Devoted to making and serving handcrafted brews, Motor City draws a crowd of connoisseurs, who appreciate the extra effort and the premium flavors. Offering ales, lagers, porters, stouts, and even hard ciders, the place knows how to accommodate folks of all tastes. A half-dozen brews are served year-round; others make seasonal appearances. Brick-oven pizzas are the accompaniment of choice. (313-832-2700)
Town Pump Tavern
A terrific place to meet up with friends at the beginning of a night out in the Motor City, this West Montcalm Street watering hole scores big points for its pub grub and impressive selection of domestic and imported quaffs. Located behind the building that houses the Second City Theater, the Town Pump features upscale, pub-like decor, including a few cozy couches that are great places to lounge after work and plan the night's adventures. (313-961-1929)
Royal Oak Brewery
A favorite with downtown business types, who want to stop off for a quick brew, some tasty grub, and a chance catch up on the latest sports news before calling it quits for the night, Royal Oak features some of the area's top Belgian-style ales and a pub menu that that offers a surprisingly eclectic array of options. From Louisiana-style jambalaya and fish 'n' chips to calzones and shepherd's pie, the Royal Oak's kitchen serves up some of the metro area's best bar food. (248-544-1141)
Bo's Brewery & Bistro
One of Pontiac's preferred watering holes, this family-owned place specializes in microbrews. You'll find an upscale scene at Bo's, complete with hardwood floors, exposed brick walls, stainless steel railings, and a neat mezzanine area. Add to the mix a few big-screen televisions, and it's easy to see why local business folks flock here after work or on weekends to catch the game. Bo's menu, almost as popular as its beers, includes fajitas, pizzas, chicken potpie, burgers, salads, and sandwiches. (248-338-6200)
Jacoby's German Biergarten
A neighborhood fixture since 1904, Jacoby's wood-paneled and brick-walled interior hasn't changed much since the beginning. The 20 beers on tap (and many others available) make sure that everyone has his/her drink of choice, and hunger-killing bar snacks like crabcakes and calamari means there are no reasons to stop making friends at Jacoby's. (313-962-7067)
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Surveys are finally 100%! Yeeee haw! That means the last three rewards are going out the door.
So... I have received a couple returns; unable to deliver. I'll contact individuals... Read more
It's been a loooong haul...
Hand-processing rewards... was not a good idea. I started out sending rewards by just printing the labels and bringing the packages to the post office. It seemed easy enough, but... Read more
Bad Boards to Good Boards
I finally found a good workaround for the bad boards... a surface mount connector that bonds well to the connection with a little solder paste.
DigiKey Part #: 931-1182-ND
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These Aren't the PCBs You're Looking For...
No Jedi mind-trick... the PCB manufacturer messed up the antenna connection drill size on the shield. They have been totally awesome to turn around replacements lightening quick... but this will... Read more
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Just a quick update!
I received the component order from DigiKey yesterday, just got an email that the PCBs are on the way, and a phone call this afternoon that... Read more
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We live in the middle of a war. The war of good and evil.We have our government military doing good in the world, local churches and synagogues and various social organizations doing good. Unfortunately those same groups are part of the evil that exists. Satan and his evil spirits are roaming throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Does the United States have those evil spirits in Washington, D.C.? The rest of the country?
From Washington, D.C. we see endorsement of murder in abortion, we see endorsement of gay "marriage," we see infidelity and lying and reckless spending, I would say there are evil spirits in Washington, D.C. In the country we see people killing each other for no reason and we have people with laissez-faire attitudes. More evil spirits?
There are three Bible verses, that fit current government and society: Revelation 3:16, 2 John 1:7, Isaiah 5:20.
"But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth."
"I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist."
"Woe unto them that call
evil good."
There are many antichrists in our country today. Woe unto them. I wonder what that woe will be?
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U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey chose a distinctively south central Pennsylvanian as his guest at Tuesday night's State of the Union Address - York Mayor Kim Bracey.
And the freshman Republican senator seemed genuinely delighted to have the second-term Democratic mayor accompany him to the annual presidential address.
"It was really a pleasure to have Mayor Kim Bracey, York mayor, join me for the President's State of the Union Address," Toomey said Wednesday.
"We started by having traditional dinner with senators and their guests and had a delightful time with her and great conversation, and then went into the chamber for the State of the Union Address itself," he added.
Bracey was a lower-profile companion compared to U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, who wrapped his arm around newly minted Penn State head football coach James Franklin for the event.
However, with a 2016 re-election set to take place on a presidential election year, Toomey's appearance with a Democrat will boost his reputation as a lawmaker willing to work across party lines.
Toomey continued to show off his bipartisanship during a conference call with reporters Wednesday by applauding some of the ideas put forward in President Barack's Monday night speech.
But the bipartisanship ended on Obama's pledge to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors.
"If we increase the minimum wage we're going to put people out of work," Toomey said.


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So, I hope that provides some constructive context for why this section takes the tone that it does, and that no one will be unduly offended by the content.
Concerns, Complaints, Criticisms
OK-- here's the big tamale'.
Few things get as much attention on talk shows as complaints. No one likes to hear them, and yet it seems that's about the only context that will compel someone to participate.
People talk about how much they hate listening to complaints, and yet the shows with the most complaining usually get the best ratings.
There are dozens of wonderful things to talk about every day in our community, and yet the only things that seem to really drive people to the phones in droves are the massive negatives -- labor problems, taxes, health care, even church disputes!
And the "Mother of all Ironies" I find in this complaint situation is the times I hear people say that they turned off Town Meeting on a given day because there was too much complaining. But when I turn it around and ask "Well why didn't you call in with something more positive?", I get a bunch of "Duhhh, uhhh, well, duhhh, I don't... ummmm." Oh... so it's fine to shut out the discussion, but not worth your time to improve it -- is that your point?
If I could manage to identify what it is about human nature that makes the least liked elements of society the very same issues that draw the most attention, I'd probably get a Nobel Prize. The fact that people will fall all over themselves to sound off about party politics, but would sooner have a hole drilled in their head than share the details of something wonderful in the town, is completely beyond me.
But I digress...
As much as we may all think we hate complaining, that fact is that it's a very important part of the public process. While it's certainly sad that complaining seems to be so much more popular than complimenting, we mustn't ignore the necessity of the expression of contrary points of view. As with other areas, if everyone remains silent when a bad idea is put forth, then bad ideas will rule the day. It's only through trial in the fires of public debate that the refined will of the people is advanced.
Being in radio most of my life, I have discovered a very critical truth: There's complaining, and then there's complaining. What I mean by that is that there's basically 2 ways to complain -- the helpful way, and the rotten way. The reason people hate complaining so much is because too many "complainers" use the rotten way. And the reason so many are afraid to say anything that could be construed as complaining is due do a deathly fear of being perceived as a rotten complainer.
What I hope to share in this section are some perspectives on how to complain, criticize, and express concern in a way that is helpful and non-corrosive -- because I believe that if we can remove the fear that potentially helpful concern-raisers have about coming off like whiners, then those good folks will feel more empowered to participate.
Key errors that turn a constructive complaint into a rotten one:
-- getting off topic
-- such as dredging up "side issues" from the past
-- such as dragging in personality conflicts
-- offering no suggestion that there might be 2 sides to the story (i.e. my way is the only way)
-- perhaps acknowledging 2 sides, but offering no interest in the "other" side (i.e. no interest in discussion or learning)
-- passing judgment when one should be asking questions
-- assassinating someone's overall character because of a particular decision or behavior
-- saying something/someone is wrong, but then offering no better ideas. It's really easy to bash an idea you don't like. Any idiot can do that. But what's rare, and much more valuable, is a person who raises concerns about an issue and then offers an alternative. THAT'S constructive. The other is just whining. Now, you may have concerns about something, and genuinely not have a better solution even thought you've racked your brain. That's FINE. But have the good manners to ADMIT you don't have a better idea when you present your concern (see example below).
SO... let's play around with this a little.
First, here's how NOT to do it:
"Yeah, I think it's just ridiculous that council is raising property taxes again. I was born and raised in Cordova, and 20 years ago, we only had 2 people at city hall. Why the hell do they need 20 over there now? This is just another lame attempt by council to control how we use our money. They think we're all stupid. They need to wake up and smell the coffee."
And now the analysis :-)
(1) First, the overall tone is adversarial and negative -- lots of words like "ridiculous", "lame", or "stupid". Usually a lot of talk like this just betrays a lack of intelligence or preparation on the part of the speaker. It conveys inflexibility and an "I've got it all figured out" mentality without offering any constructive invitation for dialogue.
(2) "I was born and raised in Cordova" -- this is a pet peeve of mine. Being born and raised here DOES make one a special member of the town, but is does NOT give someone a right to be mean or a jerk. Sure, you have the benefit of experience and can bring a wealth of information to a discussion from a unique perspective IF dialogue is your goal. But to simply use that as the preamble to a string of mean comments reduces the honor of being born and raised here to a simple bullying tactic -- as if what YOU want is more important simply because of your history, regardless of whether it makes any sense. Don't use that phrase to beat someone over the head -- it makes you sound foolish, not honorable.
(3) "We only had 2 people at city hall back in the old days" -- arguments like that, without any supporting facts, are tired and overused. The fact is (excuse the cliché) that the only thing that's unchanging in the Universe is change. There may be very good reasons for keeping something the same, but proposing to keep something the same, or revert to the past, simply because "that's the way it's always been" has never (in my experience) led to any productive outcome. If you're going to suggest such an approach, augment it with specifics -- don't just blurt that out and make yourself sound like a curmudgeon.
(4) "This is just another lame attempt by council... they think we're all stupid..." -- here again, grandiose, rhetorical statements like this without any specifics are just argumentative and useless. Phrases like that are tired and terribly overused. Nothing will make people tune you out or dismiss you faster than statements like these. Plus, they convey no suggestion that there may be more than one side to the story -- the speaker has it all figured out and is not interested in anything other than his/her own opinion. If I had a dime for everyone I've seen go down in flames using such an approach, I'd own my own jet.
(5) THE BIG WHAMMY -- There are NO suggestions or better ideas here. In my experience, this is the single most crucial element that differentiates between constructive (good) and rotten (useless) complaints. If you are going to insist that a particular course of action is wrong, then PROPOSE SOMETHING BETTER. Any chump can disembowel another person's ideas, but the folks that make a real difference are those that point out the flaws in bad ideas and then (with equal vigor) present a better way to accomplish the goal. Or at the very least, they admit that the problem is a hard one and that they don't necessarily have any great answers either; BUT, they still have concerns about the plan of action being proposed. You don't have to be able to solve a problem in order to have the right and responsibility to express concern about a particular approach. Maybe the best you can do is throw out some suggestions, or simply confess that it's a tough problem as you point out the flaws in the current solution. But if all you do is spew a bunch of mean bile and attack an idea, and then walk away with no offer to be a part of a solution, then you betray either ignorance or a high degree of self-centeredness.
So, how can we do this better?
Here's the wrong way again:
"Yeah, I think it's just ridiculous that council is raising property taxes again. I was born and raised in Cordova, and 20 years ago, we only had 2 people at city hall. Why the hell do they need 20 over there now? This is just another lame attempt by council to control how we use our money. They think we're all stupid. They need to wake up and smell the coffee."
And now an alternative:
"Hi -- I just wanted to express concern about the idea to raise the property taxes again. I know that council has a really tough challenge with the budget. I've listened to the meetings and know about the higher insurance and increased fuel costs, and I don't envy them the decisions they have to make. But my concern is that property tax only targets year round residents. I'd like to see something more comprehensive like maybe a little more sales tax, or some visitor taxes. I could also see cutting back the budget in (such and such an area), because I think we could do without that, at least for a while. Anyway, I know the city is working hard on this and I appreciate that, but I just wanted them to know that I believe there are other ways to go about it besides property tax again, because I'm worried about us being able to afford our homes if it goes up much more. Thanks!"
Now I know people will have varying opinions on this. Some would see the second approach as wimpy or soft, while others would agree with me and see the first approach as sullen and unproductive. The fact is, this is America and we can express ourselves pretty much any way we like -- but the fact remains that some ways are simply more effective than others (no matter how much some would seek to deny that fact). I've attended virtually every council meeting for the last decade, seen a large number of other public meetings, and I serve on local and state boards -- and I can tell you with certainty that the latter (productive) approach always gets more done, whether it's at a public meeting, or on the Town Meeting talk show.
So, things to remember in preparing your concerns, complaints, criticisms:
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-- Be aware that there may be more sides to the story than yours, and be wise enough to acknowledge that fact.
-- Don't beat up on personalities -- focus on the issue.
-- PRESENT ALTERNATIVES (or at least admit it when you don't have any better ideas).
And one last thing.... if you complain about a situation, take the time to follow the issue and be certain to offer a compliment if you see positive action get taken. Let's keep things in balance. If you speak out against property taxes, and council later follows your advice and raises revenue some other way or cuts spending, then make a mental note to call in again later and compliment them. If you complain about potholes, then make a mental note to call in and praise the crews after they finally get fixed. And so on and so on...
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WAILUKU - The 13th annual Maui Disability Alliance Legislative Forum will be on Oct. 22 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Velma McWayne Santos Community Center in Wailuku.
It will be a potluck event that will include the presence of elected officials and candidates for political office, representatives of more than two dozen agencies that provide services, and panel discussions on issues such as employment, transportation, education, family support, behavioral support, medical, dental, homelessness and housing.
The public is invited to share with the lawmakers and candidates their experiences as a person with a disability, or as a parent or relative of such a person. About 120 people had indicated they will attend as of Tuesday.
Invitations to elected officials and candidates were sent.
As of Tuesday, the confirmed participants included state Sens. Roz Baker and Shan Tsutsui; state Reps. Joe Bertram III, Angus McKelvey, Joe Souki and Kyle Yamashita; and County Council Members Gladys Baisa, Jo Anne Johnson, Bill Medeiros, Mike Molina, Joe Pontanilla and Mike Victorino. State Senate candidate John Blumer-Buell and County Council challengers Michael Howden and Kai Nishiki have confirmed they will attend.
Mayor Charmaine Tavares and Gov. Linda Lingle will send representatives.
The forum is sponsored by Maui Developmental Disabilities Committee, Mental Health America in Maui County, state Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, The ARC of Maui, Hawaii Families as Allies, Easter Seals Hawaii, Maui Kokua Services, Challenge Maui, Maui Family Guidance Center, Community Children's Council of Maui and Hana, Autism Bridges Maui, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hale O Lanakila Clubhouse, Lokelani Ohana, Aging With Aloha Coalition, Self Determination Group-Spinal Cord Injury Support Group, state Workforce Development Division, Mental Health Kokua and Nurse Finders.
For more information, call Colleen O'Shea Wallace of the Mental Health America in Maui at 242-6461 or Mary Matsukawa of the Maui Developmental Disabilities Committee at 984-8218.


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A 14-year-old Philadelphian fell short Thursday night in the Championship Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
After cruising through the first three preliminary rounds Wednesday, Lena Greenberg of Chestnut Hill was one of nine young spelling experts who survived three rounds of the semifinals Thursday afternoon. She rattled off the spellings of catallactics,contrecoup, and cholecystitis in rounds four through six.
In the finals, Greenberg made it through rounds seven and eight, nailing otosteon and yttriferous, but fell short on her third word, geistlich. She spelled it geistleich.
"My biggest regret is that I knew the word already," Greenberg said afterward. "Otherwise, I feel very happy. It was a brain freeze. . . . I was tired. It was a long day."


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Edinboro man pleads guilty to charges in beer distributor theft
An Edinboro man has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $550,000 from a beer distributor in the borough.
Robert J. Stablein, 61, pleaded guilty before Erie County Judge Shad Connelly this afternoon to three third-degree felony counts of theft by unlawful taking under a plea agreement with prosecutors that involves the dismissal of six other felony charges.
Stablein also agreed to pay full restitution, totaling $544,934.84, that Stablein admitted to taking from Edinboro Beverage Distributors Inc., 300 Mill St. in Edinboro, between 2009 and 2011.
Stablein faces up to 21 years in prison and $45,000 in fines, Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri said in court this afternoon. Connelly set sentencing for June 11 before Erie County President Judge Ernest J. DiSantis Jr.
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Surviving a Celebrity Family: Rob Reiner And Nine Other Heirs Tell How They Made It
Michael Douglas has made Kirk one proud grandpa
For Kirk Douglas, the high point of the Cannes Film Festival was greeting son Michael, 34, and grandson Cameron, 5 months, at the airport. Kirk was there adorning the Croisette as a 62-year-old sex symbol and Michael was glowing in the glory of his film The China Syndrome, which won the best-actor award.
If Michael, who produced as well as co-starred, is the hotter property at the moment, it wasn't always so. "Kirk Douglas was certainly a hard act to follow," says Michael. "I mean, there he was hanging from the cross in Spartacus, walking across the ranks of oars in The Vikings..." Agrees Kirk: "I think having a famous father was a pain in the ass for him."
Still, Michael managed, bolstered in part by a stable home life. (Though his parents divorced when he was 5, his mother has been remarried 23 years and his father 25.) Michael didn't decide to be an actor until his senior year at the University of California. "I guess that the sons of famous fathers are all late bloomers," he says. "I knew the sons of film stars who committed suicide, took drugs. I consider myself fortunate." In any case, Douglas and wife Diandra are determined to keep Cameron away from Hollywood. "I guess," laughs Michael, "I'll have to think about raising him to cope with the famous-father syndrome."
He grew up a Wyeth, but Jamie wasn't a model son
Unlike so many other eminent men, Andrew Wyeth was not an absentee dad. In fact, son Jamie, now 30 and a notable painter himself, recalls: "Father was always home." So, for that matter, was the boy. Convinced that art was his calling, he dropped out of school (as did Dad) after sixth grade in Chadds Ford, Pa. Jamie did take correspondence courses but devoted himself to art. His father gave him little formal instruction, but tough criticism ("There is not much bullshit about him," notes the son). In matters of the heart, Andrew, a hot-blooded romantic in his youth, also exerted influence. "At 14 I had a 23-year-old mistress," smiles Jamie. "He set a bad example."
Jamie, married for 10 years to Phyllis Mills, pals around with Rudi Nureyev and Andy Warhol, but says his dad, 61, is his closest friend. They screen old movies, dress up in costumes and have never outgrown their passion for toy soldiers. (Perhaps their love of childlike things comes from the original artist in the family: Andrew's father, N. C, was the famed illustrator of Treasure Island and other juvenile classics.) At least, though, the Wyeths spare each other youthful tantrums. "We're similar in that we don't have tempers," reports Jamie. "We sort of blow ourselves out in our work."
Now Bump Wills is stealing Dad's stuff
Elliot Taylor Wills got his nickname from his prenatal gymnastics, and as "Little Bumpy" he matured into a superb athlete—with minimal help from his dad, retired Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills. "We weren't at all close when I was a kid," says Bump, as he is now called. "It was hard to accept discipline from a man who was only home two months out of the year."
By the time Bump, now 26, was at Arizona State, Maury was concentrating on a sportscasting career—and had more time for his family. The senior Wills, 46, got Bump his first job with a team he managed in Mexico. The scouts were soon alerted, and the Texas Rangers signed Bump as a second baseman in 1977. "I wanted him to be a shortstop, but he didn't want to have anything to do with it," says Maury. "My first season, I tried to play differently than Maury," says Bump. Now he is swinging more like Dad and has shown some of Maury's base-stealing talent. (He snagged 52 last year, but his father broke Ty Cobb's record stealing 104 in 1962.)
Still, old inhibitions persist, and Bump's childhood stutter sometimes recurs when his dad is around. As for his number on the playing field, 30—Maury's old number—was in use when Bump arrived at the Rangers. Eventually it was up for grabs but Bump is #1 and plans to keep it that way.
Arthur Rubinstein's not playing John's song
After-dinner recitals by precocious offspring are trial enough for guests, but in the salon of piano virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein they were agony for the kids too. "We were on the front lines," recalls composer and actor John Rubinstein, 32, about the impromptu concerts he and his older sister, Lolly, were required to deliver. "My father hung out with people like Stravinsky. Dinner didn't mean chicken and noodles. It meant who did we have to play for this time."
Despite those evenings, John was a staunch promoter of his dad's career. In music shops he often slyly moved Rubinstein albums into the front of the racks. Arthur performed as many as 100 concerts a year and was constantly off in some foreign city. "I am very guilty," admits Rubinstein, 92. "I didn't find much time for the children, unfortunately." Moreover, there was what John calls the "European" distance between his Polish-born parents and the children. "If I were to sit down and pour my heart out, they would be uncomfortable."
Still, the family was close. "My parents bestowed enormous love on us," says John, the youngest of four. In return, Arthur found he had sired his severest critics. "I heard him play one piece maybe 800 times," John reports. "So when people were raving, I might come and tell him that he had done it too slowly—and he would know it too."
Young John gradually shifted his interests to acting. After dropping out of UCLA, he starred in the movie Zachariah, played the title role in the Broadway musical Pippin and appeared often on TV's Family. (Arthur tries never to miss any of his son's performances.) In recent years John—now married to actress Judi West and the father of two—has also begun writing orchestral music—for movies like The Candidate and Jeremiah Johnson and for TV in The Ordeal of Patty Hearst. Would he consider dashing off something for the old man? Arthur answers for his son with a shrug: "He doesn't write my kind of music."
An Edsel, of all things, is in Ford's future
At 16 he got his own car—a new silver-white Mustang—and at 30 he developed one. Edsel Bryant Ford IPs Falcon, a compact with polyurethane fuel tank and bumpers, is selling smartly in Australia, the country he and wife Cynthia temporarily call home. As assistant managing director of Ford's operation Down Under, Henry's only son is steering toward the top in the company. When Henry, 61, retires in October, the job of chief executive will go to Ford President Philip Caldwell. But Edsel's turn may come. "There's no reason why he shouldn't be chairman if he has the ability," Henry has said. "I hope so."
Originally Edsel felt no pressure to go into the business. "When I graduated from Babson College, my father said, 'Don't ever feel you have to join the Ford Motor Company'—and that wasn't just casually over a glass of wine one night. For years he said so." But once Edsel signed on, he recalls, "My father and I had something more to talk about than the weather or how much weight I should lose or why I didn't get better grades in college."
Over the years Edsel has absorbed values from both parents. From his mother, Anne (who divorced Henry in 1964), he learned fastidiousness. "I take a shower twice a day if I'm going out for dinner," says Edsel. From Henry he learned "a sense of fair play." Edsel adds, "Dad always listens too. If I ever had a problem I'd tell him about it, whether I was right or wrong. Sometimes he'd say, 'You were a jerk to do that, but now you have to live with it.' "
David Wallace changed his name, but not racket
When his first—and only—son was born in 1947, Irving Wallace recalls feeling: "I was out of my mind, that here is a boy carrying on my name, right?" Little did he know that 24 years later his son, David, would reassume the family's ancestral name. At 31 the scion has published six books under the name David Wallechinsky. Three, The People's Almanac #1 and #2 and The Book of Lists, were co-written with Irving, 63, the author of 22 works. How to survive as a father-and-son writing team? The Wallaces provide some tips (with a little help from a shrink):
(1) Rise above feelings of competitiveness. When the New York Times phoned the Wallaces' Brentwood mansion to interview David, Irving likened it to a TV commercial—the one in which a girl asks Henry Fonda: "Aren't you Jane Fonda's father?"
(2) Be open. "I remember sitting down with David," says Irving, "to have that great cartoon talk: sex." But David recalls: "In the late '50s it was bad taste to talk to your parents about sex. We learned from our peers."
(3) Respect each other's values. "I grew up in a traditional way. You married and had children," says Irving. "Here's David, living with a woman for five years [Flora Chavez], treating her as a wife. He has a legal contract with her. There's no tension."
(4) Don't put pressure on each other. "I keep thinking about this Peanuts cartoon in which Linus had failed to make the honor roll at school," says David. "He sighs and says, 'There's no heavier burden than a great potential.' "
Barry Goldwater Jr. wanted to campaign alone, thanks
"He'll always be 'Sir' to me. He'll always be that one degree higher," says California Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr., 40, about his dad, the senator from Arizona. Nevertheless, the two Republican pols share a close if rather formal friendship—and a passion for flying, carpentry, photography and the great outdoors. "Thanks to him, I can still light a fire with one match," says Barry Jr., who represents a district south of L.A.
Yet the son rides nobody's coattails. The elder Goldwater, 70, recalls, "When he decided to run for office he called me at 3 in the morning to say he had made up his mind." Barry Jr. also remembers: "I told him to stay home and send money. He did." Once elected in 1969, the young congressman quickly established his own fields of expertise. (He has authored important right-to-privacy and energy legislation.) Still, subtle competition exists between father and son. "Occasionally we appear somewhere to speak together, and I'm determined to do better than he does...and I do," says Goldwater Jr.
In raising his own son, Barry III, 4 (Goldwater Jr. was divorced this year), he makes a special effort to seek out the young boy's opinions. "Dad did not do that with me," Barry Jr. says. "I was an adult before he asked my opinion on something, and then I almost cried."
Goldwater also intends to explain the facts of life to his son. "I can't remember who told me about sex," he shrugs. "I think I learned it on the job."
Gypsy Rose Lee's love child was a Preminger
Growing up the son of Gypsy Rose Lee had its bumps for her only child, Erik, now 34. "It was not easy to be the male child of a famous stripteaser. It was embarrassing. I was ashamed—and ashamed of being ashamed," he says. His greatest trauma, however, was learning at age 17 that his real father was not Gypsy's second husband, writer Alexander Kirkland, as he had always been told. Instead it was tyrannical film producer Otto Preminger, with whom his mother had had a three-week affair in Hollywood in 1944. ("Gypsy didn't want anyone to know because she had an afternoon television show, watched by housewives, and she feared losing her audience," explains Preminger.)
Shortly before Gypsy's death in 1970, Preminger set up a meeting in Paris with his son, then a 22-year-old Army computer programmer. "Getting to know Erik was just like making friends with someone," says his father. Recalls Erik: "I was a tightass when we met." But a few "rip-roaring drunks" and chats about sex over the years helped loosen up the son. "Otto reveled in my life. He always wanted to know who I was seeing—and seemed a little wistful."
Otto was also eager to make up for lost time. In 1971 he adopted Erik, who then took the Preminger name and joined his movie production company. Today, after a stint of scriptwriting with Elaine May, Erik is holed up in Los Angeles doing a biography of his mother. His second wife, Brigid Guinan, is a British Airways sales representative in San Francisco and they see each other on weekends. Otto, at 72, is filming his 33rd movie, Graham Greene's The Human Factor. Father and son talk on the phone often, and Otto reports: "From the very first moment, we liked each other—and I love him."
Carl Reiner had doubts, but Meathead didn't listen
All in the Family, worried Carl Reiner when he first heard about the show, "sounds like a real crapshoot." His son Rob had already taken the role of Archie Bunker's maligned son-in-law, "Meathead." But, after all, actor-director-writer-producer Carl, 57, was the guy who once said Rob "showed no talent." He couldn't believe it when producer Norman Lear, a family friend, had first found young Rob funny. "Are you kidding?" asked an incredulous Carl. "That surly kid?"
Growing up as one of the three Reiner offspring clearly had its trials. "People would come up to me and say: 'Your father is wonderful, so talented and kind, so funny.' And I thought, 'Well, that's great, but what about me? How do I figure in on this?' " says Rob, now 32. To make matters worse, communication with his father wasn't always easy. Witness the obligatory sex talk. "We were driving along a busy thoroughfare in L.A. and I remember trying to be very cool," says Carl. "To make sure I wasn't embarrassing him, I looked him straight in the eye." Rob's only response was to cry out: "Dad, keep your eyes on the road!"
At Beverly Hills High School, Rob finally found his niche in a drama class with Richard Dreyfuss and Albert Brooks. "It was a group I could relate to," says Rob. "Up until then I had been a loner." After graduation he directed Dreyfuss in a local production of No Exit and finally won his father's approval. "This is good. No bull," said Carl. Still, the father refused to allow his son to read for a role in his movie Enter Laughing. "I feel bad now that I never helped, but I didn't want to reject him," says Carl. (Eventually Rob managed to land a role in Where's Poppa?, directed by his father.)
After all the awkward times, Carl is now touchingly close to Rob and his wife, Penny (Laverne) Marshall. "He's outstripped me in recognition and success at his age," admits Carl with unabashed fatherly pride, "but happiness is the underlying thing I feel about that. Each generation gets a little better about understanding themselves." Rob has come round to calling his dad "a very regular guy—he takes Ex-Lax." But "seriously," says Rob, "we had a very normal upbringing. I thought everybody had Mel Brooks over to the house."
Joining Pop's company was Chris D'Amboise's turning point
Daddy was out dancing most of the time when Chris D'Amboise was growing up. "The responsibility of fatherhood consisted of a lot of guilt for not spending enough time at it," says Jacques D'Amboise, 44, for 26 years a star of the allegedly starless New York City Ballet. Chris remembers Papa as "this frightening figure who would come home late at night after a performance and down five quarts of milk." But Chris became the only one of Jacques' four children with a lasting interest in ballet. At 19 he is now himself a member of the NYCB corps, and the dancing D'Amboises are the preeminent father-son team in American ballet.
That sometimes creates problems for Chris: "If I make a mistake, people say: 'Just because he's Jacques' son, he thinks he can get away with anything.' " Then, too, there is the watchdog aspect. "If I'm feeling lousy one morning and don't feel like working hard in class, there he is watching me," says Chris.
In the 16 months since Chris joined the company, he has danced two ballets with his father. For Jacques, the greatest thrill of having a son in the family business was sitting in the audience one night with his wife, Carolyn George, a onetime soloist with the company (and now one of its photographers). Recalls Jacques: "He danced his first principal role, and we just sat there in the audience holding hands, watching our son."
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text: Explore The Argo-Saronic Islands Salamína Égina Angístri Póros Ýdhra Spétses Share To explore the island's interior and south coast, head out of Ýdhra Town on the street that leads past the Miranda hotel or around the eastern edge past the Piteoussa: as you start to climb, a left turn leads to Áyios Nikólaos, keeping right heads to Profítis Ilías. Profítis Ilías and Mount Éros The monastery of Profítis Ilías and nearby convent of Ayía Efpraxía are about an hour's climb above Ýdhra Town. What must be the longest stairway in Greece (or alternatively a zigzag path) constitutes the final approach to Profítis Ilías (closed noon–4pm, but water and loukoúm are hospitably left at the gate). If you want to go further, a rather tougher, harder-to-follow trail continues left behind the monastery to a saddle overlooking the south coast. From here a pathless scramble brings you within twenty minutes to the 590m summit of Mount Éros, the Argo-Saronic islands' highest point, but the path itself branches: right to the chapel of Áyios Mámas, on whose feast day of September 2 there's a pilgrimage of people and animals to be blessed; left eventually circles down to the sea at the tiny hamlet of Klimáki, a couple of hours' walk in all. Áyios Nikólaos The path from Ýdhra Town towards deserted Áyios Nikólaos monastery offers spectacular views back down over the harbour before reaching, at the top, a broad, easy dirt track heading straight across a high plateau towards the monastery. Just beyond Áyios Nikólaos is a small settlement, from where you can in theory head down to Limnióniza, a scenic cove on the south coast an hour and a quarter from Ýdhra Town. However, it's a steep scramble on a path which is hard to find and there are no boats back unless you arrange to be picked up by water-taxi. A far easier alternative is to follow the broad track down from Áyios Nikólaos to Mandhráki, where you can have a swim before taking the boat back to town. Cape Zoúrva This is Ýdhra's eastern tip and is about three hours' walk from town, on a path that heads east from Áyios Nikólaos. There are several small chapels along the way, along with the substantial Moní Zoúrvas. Perhaps the best way to do this trip is to take an early morning water-taxi to the cape, and walk back to town along the island's spine. Read More


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Kenmore seeking feedback on changes to regional business zoning
The City of Kenmore is hosting an open house to gather public feedback on proposed zoning changes in the city's regional business zone Feb. 4.
The event is from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Kenmore City Hall, located at 18120 68th Ave. N.E. Staff will give a brief presentation on the project and the preliminary Planning Commission recommendations at 7:15 p.m.
The Regional Business zone stretches along much of SR 522 in Kenmore, but also includes significant waterfront properties—private marinas, Kenmore Air, the Glacier NW/CalPortland property and Lakepointe, as well as the Plywood Supply property and Kenmore Square area.
Proposed changes include new definitions for land uses and recommendations for prohibited uses in eight subareas of the Regional Business Zone. The Planning Commission will be making a final recommendation to the City Council later this year, after considering public comment and input.
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- Title: Mysteriously Mesmerized
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I really like it when Riku wears that blindfold~
Smexy....If I was in Kairi's place I would be mesmerized too! ♥
It's a bit out of character...but, I decided to go with something different instead of the same old story line of the game >3<
Instead of the usual "mysterious masked man", Riku is the "mysterious blindfolded man" lqtm >w<
**I do not own Kingdom Hearts!**
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The Nike Air Max has a very curious story. It was Tinker Hatfield's first big hit. He had wanted to unite two ideas floating around at Nike, which were to have as much air as possible, and to make it visible. The air aspect was all well and good, but only those who tried on the sneakers recognized its benefit. In order to make people want to try them on, something had to be done so the technology could be seen. But how to make it work? The inspiration came to Hatfield during a trip to the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
The design of the Pampidou Centre was revolutionary to Parisians. In a place filled with romanticism, Renzo Piano created a building inside out. All that is functional about the building is external. Air shafts, piping, elevators… are elements visible to all in bright colours. This is what inspired Tinker Hatfield to "externalize the technology" of Nike sneakers. Even the transparent piping of the outdoor staircases evoke the visible air chamber. This museum has become emblematic to sneaker head and blogger Kike from sz9, who, during his honeymoon trip to Paris, was looking for Pompidou just to compare them with the Nike Air Max.
There was also a functional aspect to having the visible air chamber. Supposedly air was better than foam, and the visible air was the best way to remove all the foam possible in the shoe. The worst was people's reaction. Would you drive a car with transparent tires?
Now you'll have an idea of how far inspiration can take you…
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A Milwaukee man was shot and killed late Monday night, according to Milwaukee police.
It happened about 10:30 p.m. Monday in the 2700 block of West Lisbon Avenue.
Police said Marcell F. Alexander, 24, was found shot in the hallway outside his apartment.
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City plans to use money from sales to pay off outstanding CDC debts
Last week, Rohnert Park's City Council decided to sell four pieces of property the city owns, three of them on Avram Avenue.
The reason for the sale was Gov. Jerry Brown's decision in 2012 to eliminate all city redevelopment agencies who have been using the funds created to help finance low and moderate income housing.
Soon to be on the market are the former city hall on the corner of Commerce Boulevard and Avram, the two office buildings between the old and new city halls, 100 and 120 Avram. Both are two-story structures and both are vacant.
The fourth property is at 435 Southwest Blvd., once a fire station and police headquarters until it was razed.
It's the only vacant lot of the four properties.
Gov. Brown's move was approved by state legislators, and cities throughout the state lost their funding for low and moderate housing funds. Therefore, the council decided to sell them at market rates which could include low, moderate and high-end rental rates.
Protests to the council's decision came from county agencies who contend the need is for low and moderate housing units, not open-market rentals.
The city said it needs the money from the sales to pay off debts still outstanding from the Community Development Commission (CDC), the successor agency to the departed redevelopment agency.
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The 2012 interdisciplinary conference on Global Identities in the Digital Age will help to widen the lens on experiencing and teaching world history in the digital age. The Conference Organizing Committee invites interested 4-12 teachers, college and university faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students to submit paper proposals on any subject, period or area of world history. Conference organizers welcome proposals that connect world history teaching and research. Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
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• Conflicts over local identities, global identities, & identity politics
• The role of social media in defining and redefining identity and nationalism
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Proposals on any subject, period or area of world history or globalization from teachers, faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are welcome. Proposals may include individual papers, collaborative projects or roundtable discussions of a topic or theme connected to world history. We encourage the submission of papers by promising undergraduates. We ask that the faculty sponsoring undergraduate papers submit the proposals for undergraduates.
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Jon Venables (Jamie Bulger's killer) back in prison..
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disgruntled "Sadly some of the more vitriolic comments on subjects like this originate from moderators of this forum which beggars the question on judgement does it not?"
You mean ME - I was a Moderator - but for reasons, which are no ones business, I am no longer. Regardless of what you think about my opinions, I am entitled to them - as you are.
RE: "I do accept that there is a case to be made that some are just born without a sense of morality or empathy. But surely a tiny minority? Therefore the nuture vs nature aregument kicks in. How could you kill a child as a result of the lack of nurture?"
How does the 'nature/nurture' debate 'kick in'? Lost me there...
Nurture: "raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;".
Nature: Genetic.
It would be quite easy for someone who has not been nurtured to turn into a killer. If they have not been nurtured and valued, what else would be left for them? Pchizophrneia starts in childhood also (Double bind) 'You're damned if you do and damned if you don't'.
You may find these interesting:
BOWLBY - Original researcher on the Nature/Nurture debate (attachment theory and bonding in childhood):
Rutter - Who disagreed with Bowlby. One of his works 'Maternal Deprivation Reassessed'.
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@Kay, I was talking about if you were there when some vigilante decided to dish out his or her punishment on Jon Venables, possibly killing him in some nasty, painful, fashion - just he had done.
But if you'd been somewhere where you saw two young children taking another child somewhere, would you have had any reason to suspect it was to murder him? It could be two older brothers finding a child that had walked off, or kids playing.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
jonmorris with regard to if I were somewhere where someone was 'dishing out punishment', I probably would stop them from taking the law into their own hands.
Let's face it, none of us know if Little James Bulger gave any indications of being with people he didn't want to be with. Although from the reports at that time, I think (if I remember rightly), Little James DID give indications he was with people he didn't really want to be with.
Me being me, I would probably have stopped them to ask if everything was OK - and particularly the child.
Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing....
--- Quote from: jonmorris on March 10, 2010, 06:17:11 PM ---@Kay, I was talking about if you were there when some vigilante decided to dish out his or her punishment on Jon Venables, possibly killing him in some nasty, painful, fashion - just he had done.
But if you'd been somewhere where you saw two young children taking another child somewhere, would you have had any reason to suspect it was to murder him? It could be two older brothers finding a child that had walked off, or kids playing.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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I think this is an extremely emotive subject, I understand that that Jamie's mother feels that she has a right to be kept informed about what is happening to the murderers of her son, but I am not sure that she does.
A decision was made to release the offenders, which was not a popular move, but can a ten year old be imprisoned for the rest of their life? We are all very different people to who we were at 10 years old. I know that they did a terrible terrible thing but as an adult they may be different given support.
I am worried that there will be innocent people caught up in the witch hunt surrounding his detention, can you imagine being a 27 year old looking vaguely like him arriving in a prison anywhere in the country ??
I think that if they name him he can never have a fair trial for whatever it is he has done.
It could be that by getting himself back in the system that he is proved to be a truely evil person who has proved that you can't ever rehabilitate every offender.
These are my thoughts and they disjointed, but if he had been recalled on licence and no one said anything would anyone have been any the wiser?? I expect that the authorities thought that it would get out so they went on the offensive and this has resulted in this situation.
Speaking generally here, I think these stories can bring out the worst in some people (not on this forum necessarily). In the past week I've been sent 5 texts claiming to have the details of Jon Venables new identity, invitations to facebook groups amounting to "lets find him and kill him", not to mention overhearing people in the street describing in detail what they would do to him.
Ive never got this. Someone you have never met, did something to someone else you have never met, and yet it compells you to actually remove that person from existence? People would actually kill this man for what he did to a child nearly 20 years ago?
I've no doubt for a second that most of this is simple posturing, 'look how outraged I am' nonsense - but we've already seen one poor bloke incorrectly labelled as Jon Venables now in hiding!
I was sickened at the time of Bulgers murder, I was sickened reading some of the more graphic details of it and I'm sickened to even think of it. But short of this happening to someone close to me I cannot comprehend even tracking this man down, let alone killing him.
Slightly more on topic though having read the details of Jamies final hours, the people who saw a child being kicked/covered in blood/crying for its mum and did nothing will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. Whilst its easy to judge in hindsight, whilst I cant imagine someone killing a complete stranger, I also can't imagine seeing an older child kick a TODDLER in the stomach and not intervening immediately.
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Before we start looking forward with predictions for 2011 in B2B social media, we thought we would look back at our predictions for 2010. It is worth looking at these predictions not to determine our skill at predicting the future, but to see how quickly or slowly various aspects of social media were adopted or ignored by B2B companies.
1. Sales Staff Get Social Media Savvy
This is something that definitely started to happen in 2010, but not to the extent that we might have thought. The first steps of this occurred, which are the education and awareness of the benefits of social media to a sales force, and a big part of that is through the growing online conversation about sales 2.0 and social CRM.
2. Inbound Marketing Gets Cash
Spending is definitely increasing around areas that bring customers to online destinations, including social media. According to the CMO Survey, social media spend is expected to be around 10% of the marketing budget for B2B companies within one year, and up to 18% within five years.
3. Location-Based Fills In The Gaps
Location did not happen for B2B companies in 2010. The value of the check-in, and even the growth of location-based coupons, did not adapt well to the complex relationship-building process for B2B social media. Even Foursquare, the leader in location-based applications, acknowledges a consumer retail focus and prevents non-retail businesses from claiming their venue on the site by stating "we're trying to limit foursquare specials to places where people meet, socialize and linger. Think: cafes, bars, restaurants, coffee shops, museums, theaters, etc." This limits experimentation of non-traditional approaches of checking in.
4. Social Media Lead Generation Becomes Common Place
While social media lead generation is definitely happening across multiple platforms, this is not a common occurrence. Many B2B companies are still challenged how to move beyond engagement to lead generation.
5. Social Media Publishing Gets More Multi-Media
The growth of audio and video content has been huge in 2010. While every successful campaign like the Old Spice Guy encourages clients and bosses to ask for viral videos, causing marketers to cringe (because you don't make viral, it happens), they do increase the awareness of video as compelling online medium.
6. Influencer Marketing Gets Even More Important
With the decline of traditional media, marketers are looking for other ways to share their messages, and influencer outreach is definitely a growing approach. With sites like Klout to measure online influence, as well as other determinations based on site page rank or offline industry influence, many in the B2B space are learning who to reach out to.
7. Mobile Can No Longer Be Ignored
It is hard to find any statistics that don't point to the growth of mobile in the US and around the world. Look at growth of smartphones, sales of iPhones, the growing Android platform and even a Gartner report from earlier this year that says the number of mobile phones that can access the web will exceed the number of PCs by 2013. More B2B marketers are understanding the importance of a mobile experience, especially as it relates to communicating on social networks and driving traffic back to their content.
8. Corporate Web Sites Get Social
Some B2B companies who understand the importance of connections through social media have made corporate web sites more social. This is not something that has gotten very pervasive, but there has been a large adoption of social media follow badges and share buttons across many B2B sites.
9. Social and Real-Time Search Drive B2B Social Media Adoption
More B2B communicators became aware of the importance of real-time information and the required response using social media and other outlets. Google, Twitter and even Facebook pushed the notion of real-time to the top of their platforms, which helps B2B companies see the importance of social media adoption.
10. B2B Gets Smart About Social Data
Most B2B companies are still overwhelmed with the amount of user generated content created around their customers, prospects and industries, and there just have not been good solutions for mining this data for actionable information. The beginnings of this are happening with social CRM platforms, but it is very early in that space.
11. The Firewalls Start To Come Down
Many B2B companies started 2010 by blocking access to social sites on their corporate networks. Not much has changed in those instances, but as social media matures, B2B companies will start to understand the business value of employees accessing sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. If companies are worried about employee productivity or inappropriate online comments if employees have access to social media sites, that is an employee problem, not a social media problem. And with the continuing growth of mobile, employees will bypass corporate networks entirely when searching social sites for business recommendations or polling their networks for information.
How does this compare to what you have seen in 2010 in your B2B companies? Let us know in the comments below. And look for our 2011 predictions next month.


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HANOVERTON - United Local High School Class of 1961 will meet for lunch at 1 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Salem Hills Golf and Country Club.
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LISBON - The Columbiana County Board of Developmental Disabilities plans to meet at 7 p.m. Dec. 19 at the administration office, 7675 state Route 45.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - Admission is free to the Polar Express exhibit at the Lou Holtz Hall of Fame from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. A train leaves daily at 5 p.m. with letters for Santa written by children. Sign-ups are being accepted for the drawing of a Keystone Pennsylvania Train Set donated by Crouse Tru Value of North Lima.
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SALEM - Salem Community Hospital and the Salem Community Center are co-sponsoring a blood drive from 1 to 7 p.m. Dec. 28 at the SCC, 1098 N. Ellsworth Ave.
Individuals who have not donated blood since Nov. 2 are eligible to give, and new donors are welcome. All donors will be entered in a drawing for a Das Dutch Haus gift certificate. Appointments may be made by calling 330-332-7227. Walk-ins will also be accepted.
Swim lessons set in January
SALEM - Swim lesson programs begin Jan. 12 at the Salem Community Center and continue every Saturday through March 2. Six learn to swim levels are available, along with a Mommy and Me level for infants and their parent. Cost is $70 for non-members and $55 for members. A multiple child discount is available. To sign-up call 330-332-5885.
Free tax clinics offered
LISBON - The Family and Community Resource Center is holding four tax clinics during the 2012-13 tax season, with more possible sites for tax completion in the works. This is a free service provided to those making $60,000 and below.
The first tax clinic in coordination with the statewide tax event will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 2 at the FCRC Community Center at 134 S. Market St., Lisbon.
Wellsville Public Library at 115 Ninth St., Wellsville, will hold the second one from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 15.
East Liverpool area residents can attend one of two OBB Tax Clinics: at KSU-East Liverpool, 400 E. Fourth St. from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 1; or Shining Reflections at 509 M. St. from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 5.
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96 horsepower is not safe to drive
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The performance is extremely lacking. The car would function better in flat warm climates. Don't purchase this vehicle if you live in snowy areas, or the mountains. Cause chances are it will die on you in nine months. The performance is extremely lagging, its dangerous for me to even drive on the highway. While driving on the highway, it decided to half stall. The car was still going, but it seemed as if the fuel wasn't reaching the engine, like it was jammed. If in the event that it stalls, take you foot off the gas for five seconds, then floor it to regain the proper speed. The car's lagging can be explained by the 96 horsepower. Thats right 96 horsepower. For those of use that live in the mountainous regions that is not enough. So in the end you are just better off just getting another car such as a buick that has significantly more horsepower especially if you want to get around safely. This is definately one embrassment that pontiac should hope to forget, as well as the azteck.
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