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Syracuse, NY -- Dozens of martial arts students from across Central New York took part in a flash mob this afternoon at Carousel Center to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central New York.
Nikki Bronner, a 37-year-old cancer survivor and co-owner of the North East Academy of Martial Arts, organized the event to raise $6,000 in order to sponsor a wish for the program. Bronner, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 1990, received a wish when she was a teenager.
"Being able to give back means so much to me," said Bronner, whose cancer has returned three times since she was a teenager.
About 60 martial arts students of all ages showed off their karate moves to Michael Jackson's song "Thriller." The students performed outside the Old Navy store on the ground level of the mall as dozens spectators watched from the balconies.
Bronner, of Hastings, was able to raise the $6,000 needed to be a wish sponsor before Sunday's flash mob performance. She said she believes she's raised about $2,000 more, which will go towards granting another wish.
Jim and Pam Overtoom, of Cicero, had two children, Brady, 9, and Jamey, 7, perform in the routine. Bronner is their instructor.
Brady and Jamey Overtoom have been involved in martial arts for about five years and Pam Overtoom said she was glad her children could take part in today's event.
"It hits home with us," she said. "I'm a two-time cancer survivor."
Pam Overtoom said her children learned a valuable lesson about giving back by taking part in the flash mob.
Carter Clark, 7, of Camillus, takes martial arts lessons at Tearney's Martial Arts where his father Will Clark is the head instructor. Carter Clark stood front row during the performance and said he liked to perform in front of the crowd and cameras.
"I really like doing it in public," Carter Clark said. "It was fun."
Bronner owns the martial arts school with her sister and brother-in-law, Tisha and Ed Trotman. Their son, Dylan Trotman, 16, helped Bronner coordinate the routine.
"He was a big help with this," Bronner said. "Everyone has been so helpful and excited to help."
Bronner said she always wanted to give back to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but didn't think she had the means do it.
"Make-A-Wish made such a tremendous impact on my life," she said. "When you go through what I went through you think that life can't get any worse. But when they showed up to grant my wish, it was like a shinning star. It truly gives you hope that life will get better. You just have to keep fighting and you'll get through it."


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MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Gov. Robert Bentley today signed into law a bill to authorize borrowing up to $25 million to help more counties participate in a road and bridge improvement program.
The bill, by Sen. Paul Bussman, R-Cullman and Rep. Mac McCutcheon, R-Huntsville, established the Rural Assistance Match Program.
RAMP will be available to counties that are unable to provide the 20 percent matching funds required to participate in the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program.
The governor established ATRIP to help local areas access funding for road and bridge improvements, according to the news release.
Under RAMP, counties and cities that are unable to meet the 20 percent local funding match required to leverage federal ATRIP funds can receive up to $1 million in state funds to match an additional $4 million in federal funds.
The bill the governor signed today will authorize the Alabama Highway Finance Corporation to borrow up to $25 million by selling bonds to provide the money for RAMP."ATRIP is improving public safety by replacing old bridges and repairing and widening outdated roads," Bentley said in the news release. "Better roads and bridges help a community attract new jobs."
Since Bentley unveiled his ATRIP initiative, 439 road and bridge projects have been announced, according to the news release. Sixty-one of Alabama's 67 counties have received ATRIP funding for road and bridge projects.
The six counties that have not received ATRIP projects so far are Fayette, Hale, Lawrence, Marengo, Wilcox and Winston. Other counties that have received limited ATRIP funding and are also eligible for RAMP assistance are Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Lowndes, Marion, Perry, Pickens and Randolph. In all, 22 counties are eligible to participate in RAMP based on current local funding needs.
"Thanks to this legislation, those counties now have the resources available to participate in ATRIP and receive much-needed improvements," the governor said in the news release.

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Swing Dance Demo and Lessons set for Dec. 7 at Penn State York
Penn State York's Diversity Committees invites students, faculty, staff, and members of the York community to learn how to swing dance on Friday, Dec. 7 at noon in the Community Room of the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center. The program is part of the campus' First Friday Series focusing on world dance and is free and open to the public. Previous programs have included Salsa and Bollywood dance lessons.
The York Swing Dance Club, a local nonprofit organization, will show off their moves and encourage those who attend to learn some swing dance steps. Get ready for the Lindy Hop, the eight count pattern that is the core of swing dancing. Swing dancing developed during the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, although the earliest of these dances predate swing era music.
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Microsoft User CALs Price Increase
October 2012
From 1st December 2012 Microsoft will introduce User CAL differentiated pricing across ALL Volume Licensing Programs which will see the price of User CALs increase by 15% whilst Device CALs will not change price.
Current Situation – CAL Differentiation
Microsoft offers both a per user and a per device option when purchasing Client Access Licenses (CALs). Traditionally the price has been the same regardless of which option customers chose. Going forward Microsoft will differentiate between these CALs and will be raising the price of the User CAL by 15%. The device CAL price will remain unchanged.
The Changes
The following User CALs will incur a 15% price increase on 1st December 2012:-
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- SharePoint Server Standard and Enterprise CALs
- System Center 2012 Client Management Suite
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- Windows Server RDS, RMS, Terminal Services CAL
Customers with Enterprise Agreements have fixed pricing for committed products for the term of the enrolment so will not be affected by the differentiated CAL pricing until their next renewal.
Please Note: Public Sector pricing under the PSA12 Agreement will remain the same and is therefore not affect by this change.
For general information on the current Microsoft Licensing schemes click here.
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The choice between selecting User CALs vs. Device CALs depends on economic factors and ease of management. Having fewer devices than users means it may make sense to license per device. However, if it is easier to track devices than count users, the per device licensing model offers an appropriate solution. If the opposite is true, per user CALs may well be a better fit.
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A top-secret movie shoot is shutting down part of downtown Albuquerque starting Wednesday and ending next week.
Lead Avenue west of Broadway Boulevard will be closed until Tuesday, Aug. 28, between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The city confirms it's due to a filming of a movie but won't say what movie is being filmed due to privacy and security reasons.
We're told film crews will start building later this week, with filming tentatively set for next week.
And it just so happens the movie "Two Guns," starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington, is slated to begin shooting sometime this month, but the city won't say if that's the project in question.


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MURRYSVILLE -- A man lured his wife to the parking lot of an animal hospital by claiming her dog had been hit by a car, then fatally shot her friend and critically wounded another before taking his own life, police said Monday.
Michael Lunsford, 21, lured his 22-year-old wife, Ashley McHugh, to the lot outside the East Suburban Animal Hospital, east of Pittsburgh, at about 7 p.m. Saturday, Murrysville police Chief Thomas Seefeld said.
The couple had wed two months ago and were living with McHugh's parents, said Seefeld, who described the couple's marriage as "rocky."
McHugh had been visiting friends in Armstrong County when he called her about the dog, the chief said.
McHugh began arguing with Lunsford once she realized Lunsford's story was a ruse, Seefeld said. Gina Llewellyn, 50, and her daughter -- McHugh's close friend Lynall Llewellyn -- got out to help McHugh when it appeared Lunsford was threatening her.
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If you're planning a conference in a public space in the United States, then ADA-level accessibility is pretty much a given, especially in any facility built since 1990. But there are things you can do to close the gaps for disabled attendees.
DAISY is a specialized text reader format that can be used for anything from textbooks to news articles.
Seth Kenlon gives a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring audible interface Emacspeak.
Traditional work paradigms are collapsing. Shaun Gillies says open source models offer a more humane future of and for "work."
Kendell Clark shares how he fell in love with Linux and why he is on a mission to make it as accessible as possible.
After losing his larynx to cancer earlier this year, Ken Starks has become a major proponent of improving the quality of Linux text-to-speech (TTS) software.
Priyanka Nag explains why learning about Mozilla was love at first site, and how the open source project and her role in its community are helping deliver an open web to India.
Assistive technology such as Augmented/Assisted Communication (AAC), Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text (TTS/STT), magnifiers, screen readers, and eye gaze systems enable people with disabilities to accomplish what others take for granted on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the majority of assistive... Read more
Linux accessibility is good, but could be much better. Learn about many of the free accessibility tools Linux and open source solutions offer, and find out about the areas that need improvement.
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Advances in mechanical hand and robotic arms impress
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THE march of the robots has begun. And the handshakes, high-speed catches and tweezer-flexing.
Robotic limb technology is advancing in leaps and strides. But it is mechanical hands that have seen the greatest recent improvement.
A British man, 53, has recently been fitted with a new carbon fibre mechanical hand by prosthetics company RSLSteeper which he controls by manipulating the remaining muscles in his upper arm.
Not only does it look more human than most, it is highly effective.
With it, he can grasp an egg, type, pour water - and play building blocks.
After more than four years of life without one hand, he now hopes to return to life as though he had two fully functional hands.
"You can't understand what it's like to walk around with something like this... It feels right... It does feel human, and you can gesture... and if your not gesturing, it's half your conversation," Nigel Ackland said.
"I don't actually tire. I can sit there all night and watch this (his hand's movements) - until the battery runs out."
And the technology seems destined only to get better.
A Japanese robotics research agency has released video of mechanical arms tossing a mobile phone, bouncing balls, flexing and spinning a pen, and using tweezers - all at ultra-high speeds.
It is achieved through tactile, force and weight feedback sensors in the dextrous hand combined with an advanced vision computing system.
The Ishikawa Komuro Lab's anthropomorphic robots are purely experimental at this stage, but elements of the technology may soon be appearing at a factory near you.
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New Orleans Hornets rookie Anthony Davis' rookie season has been solid, but not spectacular. While it may not have lived up to the heightened preseason expectations, the No. 1-overall pick's first year has had its bright spots.
"The Unibrow" didn't turn around the Hornets' fortunes in his first season. He won't even finish this year as the NBA's top rookie, as Portland guard Damian Lillard seems to have a lock on Rookie of the Year. For all of the hype, Davis' big games have been few and far between.
However, he's managed to show glimpses of being the franchise cornerstone he was drafted to be. As of March 24, Davis leads all Hornets in rebounds (averaging eight boards a night) and blocked shots (just under two a game).
His offensive output has been a work in progress, as he's averaging just 13.2 points per game. Still, Davis has really come along as of late, averaging 16.3 points and 10.6 rebounds per game for the month of March.
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MILL CREEK - Elkins defeated rival Tygarts Valley 35-32 Friday in the boys area middle school title game.
Jarrette Zopp and Curtis Bullock had eight points for the Hornets (12-6).
Kobe Haynes followed with seven points for Elkins.
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Elkins Middle School players celebrate after winning the area middle school tournament Friday at Tygarts Valley High School. The Hornets defated Tygarts Valley 35-32 in the championship game.
Rece Wamsley had 11 points, while Caleb Riggleman had 10 points for the Bulldogs.
Jace Stanley finished with eight points for Tygarts Valley (13-5).
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FRANKLIN - Shanda Howell finished with a team-high 23 points to lead Tygarts Valley past Pendleton County 61-51 Friday night in Potomac Valley Conference action.
Paige Pritt followed with 21 points, while Erin Murphy had 10 points and six steals, while Charity Lower had six rebounds and four assists for the Lady Bulldogs (15-6, 6-3 PVC), who led 36-29 at halftime and 49-41 after three quarters of play.
Nicole Hedrick had 18 points and five assists, while Kaylee Edwards and Danielle Gray had nine points each for the Lady Wildcats.
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A few years ago, if you told someone that you put your savings into an online bank, people would look at you funny. They ask whether or not your money was safe and secure, as if your dollars were actually locked away in a vault at the local bank. They'd ask whether you could talk to a human being if you needed to or if the banks themselves were safe ("because they'd heard stories").
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Alabama residents can stock up on supplies like flashlights, portable generators, first-aid kits and weather radios to prepare for natural disasters and emergencies - and get tax breaks on those items during the state's first severe-weather-preparedness sales tax holiday.
The tax-free period begins at 12:01 a.m. July 6 and ends at midnight July 8.
The state's 4-percent sales tax will be waived during the three-day period, and the Huntsville City Council, the Madison City Council and the Madison County Commission have all voted to waive their sales taxes for that weekend.
To be exempt from sales taxes, an item must cost $60 or less except for a generator, which is covered if it costs $1,000 or less.
"Alabama is no stranger to severe weather," said Gov. Robert Bentley in a statement to The Times, and "we must be prepared for whenever severe weather strikes."
In April, Bentley signed into law House Bill 436, which provides the sales tax holiday. The tax holiday was a recommendation of the governor's Tornado Recovery Action Council after the tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011.
Alabama now has two statewide sales tax holidays.
The state's seventh annual sales tax holiday for certain school supplies, computers and clothing begins at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 3 and continues to midnight Aug. 5.
Local governments had until last Friday to let the Alabama Department of Revenue know if they plan to drop their sales taxes on the weather-preparedness items.
As of Friday morning, 192 were participating, 83 were not, and 200 hadn't notified the department one way or another, said Nancy King Dennis, the director of public relations with the Alabama Retail Association.
Jesse Whitaker, the manager of Lowe's on North Memorial Parkway, said the store carries most of the tax-exempt items, and he expects portable generators, batteries and flashlights will be big sellers.
"Because of the time of year, many people may also take advantage" of the tax break on coolers, he said.
"My hope," Bentley said, "is that everyone will take advantage of (the tax holiday) and prepare themselves and their families for a natural disaster."
Starting next year, the holiday will be the last full weekend of February, the governor said, to coincide with Severe Weather Awareness Week, before the primary severe weather season.
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The council meeting is about to wrap up. Please check back later at www.al.com for stories.
11:35 a.m. - Councilman William Carroll urged the council and the city's administration to get together in the coming week and work out a compromise so the city doesn't face potentially hefty fines from the state for not complying with its storm water management program.
11:30 a.m. - With no discussion, the City Council voted unanimously for the Joe Jefferson Playhouse agreements.
11:26 a.m. - The Mobile City Council voted down the $498,000 contract with The Mobile Group. The vote was 4-3, though it takes five votes to have the agreement approved. Voting against were council members Reggie Copeland, John Williams and Bess Rich. Voting for it were Council members Gina Gregory, William Carroll, C.J. Small and Fred Richardson. Check back later at www.al.com/mobile for more.
11:22 a.m. - Quite the discussion on the storm water management contract. Councilman John Williams said he would like to see measurables placed within the contract and evaluated each quarter. Councilman Fred Richardson, who supports the $498,000 contract with The Mobile Group, said the city cannot do that. Councilwoman Bess Rich said she thinks there might be a less expensive way to handle storm water management. Councilman C.J. Small said it's time to move forward with The Mobile Group. Council President Reggie Copeland said other cities handle the storm water management contract in-house and Mobile should consider doing the same. Mayor Sam Jones said that would cost $600,000 or more.
10:59 a.m. - Resident Robert Hammas expressed concerns he's had about throws from Mardi Gras floats damaging his vendor business along the parade route. Hammas will speak with Al Stokes, the mayor's chief of staff, about a possible resolution.
10:54 a.m. - Chris Lee introduced the "Live Better Mobile" initiative that will be unveiled further during a news conference right after the City Council meeting. The goal of this group is to reduce smoking, teen pregnancy, and obesity in an effort to improve Mobile County's overall health score.
10:46 a.m. - Mayor Sam Jones is doing his weekly announcements of events and recognitions for the week/month including a Keep Mobile Beautiful clean-up event. More will be announced during a news conference on Thursday. The month of April is the "Great American Clean-up" month.
9:17 a.m. - Mayor Sam Jones said the city will host potential Airbus suppliers during a 4 p.m. session April 8 at the Center for the Living Arts in downtown Mobile. The Airbus groundbreaking is 10 a.m. An event for Safran Engineering Services will take place at 8 a.m.
9:11 a.m. - Williams said he's pleased with the lease agreement with Joe Jefferson Players. He had asked for a new agreement be written last week.
9:08 a.m. - Councilman John Williams asked city staff regarding the purchase of $8,100 for portable toilets from a Mississippi company. Williams said he's surprised there are no local companies who can provide the toilets. Brad Christensen, with the city's Architectural Engineering Department, said people know about the city's needs for the toilets, such as during Mardi Gras.
9:05 a.m. - No debate this morning on the $498,240 contract with The Mobile Group for the storm water management plan. This issue has been debate a lot in the past month. Council President Reggie Copeland said it will be simply voted up or down during the 10:30 a.m. council session.


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May 12, 2014 | Helen Berman, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research at Rutgers University, was honored with the Benjamin Franklin Award from Bioinformatics.org at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo for her work building the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The Franklin Award has recognized contributions to free and open science since 2002.
Berman serves as the director of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank.
The process of building the PDB took 40 years, Berman said, and it shouldn't have.
"We need to collapse the way we think about things, and go a lot faster... so that all disciplines can open up their data and share data. It's the only way we're going to get advances in science and medicine."
Benjamin Franklin, for whom the award is named, "had huge knowledge about science, about technology, and--what I think is most important--community," said Berman. "Those three areas must come together in order to create an open environment."
For the PDB, the science and technology evolved together since the crystallization of the first protein in 1934. Scientists began by focusing on RNA, progressed to DNA, and can now characterize large macromolecular machines. On the technology side, X-ray diffraction gave way to electron microscopy then to high throughput structural genomics and hybrid methods.
But the key component that led to the success of the PDB, Berman said, was the community that evolved to support the open science effort.
Berman traces the PDB's theoretical genesis back to the work of John Desmond Bernal, who along with Dorothy Hodgkin crystallized the first protein.
J. D. Bernal was a charismatic man and social thinker, Berman said. "He influenced the way in which this whole community has operated from the beginning in terms of data sharing, in terms of wanting to be a collaborative community."
In practice, the PDB had its birth in a 1970 petition that Berman and colleagues signed. "I'm not even sure who we thought we were writing this petition for!" Berman said. But a year later, at a Cold Springs Harbor event organized by Jim Watson, Walter Hamilton, a crystallographer at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, agreed to host the Databank.
"The first thing [Hamilton] did after saying, 'Yes, we'll do it at Brookhaven,'" Berman remembers, was, "he then flew over to England and talked to his colleagues at Cambridge, because he knew what very few people knew back then: that you can't do anything unless you make it global and share with other countries."
That Databank was announced in an October 1971 article in a Nature journal called Nature New Biology, and included seven structures. "All that fuss over seven structures," Berman commented, "but it turned out to be very important."
When the PDB launched, there were no requirements that data be submitted to the Databank, Berman said. "But community attitudes from the beginning evolved in such a way that we could create this database and also create the standards and figure out how to operate between data sources."
In the early 1980's, one researcher called it "immoral" not to contribute data to the Data Bank. Later, contribution became mandatory for publication.
From there, the community worked to develop standards and a dictionary; to form an international organizing collaborative; to include experimental data; and most recently to validate and curate incoming data.
The community "self-policed," Berman said, on each of these issues, pushing toward a more open, rich, and organized dataset.
Today the Protein Data Bank comprises nearly 100,000 3-D structures stored in an worldwide archival database accessed by a wide range of researchers, many of whom are not structural biologists. It's interesting to see how the Data Bank is being used, Berman said. "Sometimes it has nothing whatsoever to do with biology! Basically, we just have a really great dataset to do statistical analyses."
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But most importantly, Berman said, is understanding the communities of data producers and data users and getting them to work together. While the science and technology are important, engaging the invested communities is essential to the achieving open data.
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Passion and Companionship
Recently I've been reading Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science. In the chapter on "Love and Attachments", he talks about two kinds of love: passionate love and companionate love.
Passionate love is the love you feel when you first fall in love with someone. It is like a drug, a cocktail of tender and sexual feelings, elation and pain, anxiety and relief, altruism and jealousy. In contrast, companionate love grows slowly over the years and is defined as "the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined".
Both types of love are crucial to our lives as human beings. Passionate love is important as it drives us to seek out and start love affairs. During these love affairs we have lots of sex, which (if nature has its way) leads to a baby. And hopefully all that fun time together will lead to the development of companionate love as well. Because after the passion of the love affair cools, companionate love needs to be there to keep us together in the long-term.
Without companionate love, couples would (and do) find it difficult to stay together long enough to raise their children to maturity. Thus, in the ancient world in which our brains evolved, a lack of companionate love could be the difference between death and survival for a couple's children. If we hadn't developed a way to form long-term bonds and develop sustainable relationships, then we may never have developed into the super-intelligent species we like to think of ourselves as today.*
What does this have to do with business?
Now what can this analysis of love tell us about the business world? As with love we need both short-term and long-term incentives. If we just have short-term incentives then we get nothing but various kinds of get-rich-quick schemes. The examples of short-term focused businesses are endless: from mining for diamonds at the expense of the environment, to running manufacturing plants with slave labour, to selling sugar water to kids at premium prices. All of these kinds of ventures sacrifice the long-term health of everyone for the short-term profit of a few. On the other hand, if the profits from business only started to show up after a few decades, then there would be very few people willing to take on the risks of entrepreneurship.
So short-term profits are good in that they provide businesspeople with the immediate incentives (and the ability to feed their families) that they need to create new ventures. But without long-term incentives, when the short-term is all that matters, some really awful businesses can result. To be blunt, without long-term incentives, without "companionate" love for the long-term health of a business, people will just do what is natural and move on to find another area of the economy to f***.
However, when long-term and short-term incentives are combined, you have great potential for profitable, sustainable businesses that will be more valuable for their owners in the long-run. The kinds of businesses I would be happy to invest in. Like a diamond miner that works to make sure they don't damage the environment, and then sells their diamonds at a premium to eco-conscious consumers. Or a healthy drinks company that becomes the exclusive supplier to schools around the world because they don't sell over-priced sugar water. Or an investment firm that structures deals for its clients which actually have clear understandable benefits for them and not just for the financial wizards who created the deal**.
According to Haidt humans developed love through evolution so that we could be more successful in the long-run. We could have kept running around the plains of Africa, bonking each others brains out (both literally and figuratively). This might have been a lot of fun and involved a lot of passion. However, we would probably have never developed the large brains that have enabled us to dominate the planet. But now that we do dominate the planet our ability to continue evolving, without destroying the planet or each other, is being put to the test. It seems to me that in business, as in love, we need both passion in the present and commitment to the future.
"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi
*Haidt points out that the most plausible theory for why love developed in humans has to do with the narrow pelvis required for upright walking and our large brains. The result of this mismatch between large head and narrow birth canal is that babies are born in an unusually undeveloped state when the brain is still small. In humans, the brain grows rapidly for two years after birth, followed by a slower but continuous increase for another twenty years. Humans are the only creatures on Earth whose young are utterly helpless for years, and heavily dependent on adult care for more than a decade. Furthermore, studies of hunter-gatherer societies show that mothers cannot collect enough calories to keep themselves and their children alive, so they require the support of an active father.
**As a trained financial wizard myself I'm more than happy for bankers to make lots of money. It's just that I realise that if they stop screwing their clients, then they can make much more money over their entire careers than they're likely to make from a few golden years of cheating people.


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Examining your life is a means of codifying your values and the value system of the individuals you interact with on a daily basis. We seldom investigate what motivates us—living our day-to-day lives becomes little more than habit. Looking at your life through the eye of an explorer allows you to uncover the forces that have shaped your pattern of belief and behavior. In doing so, you will discover what is truly important to you on a soulful level and what has become a part of your life out of convention. You can then take what you have learned and organize it into a coherent guide to life. From your musings, a practical philosophy will emerge. When you take the time to examine your life today, you will discover how your life has evolved.
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Volunteerism finds its heart in Old Sta. Mesa, Manila as UNV marks International Volunteers Day
29 November 2002
Manila: Twenty-five-year-old Jonie Bioco has given up a good-paying job as a supervisor for a drug company to become a United Nations Volunteer in Barangay 598, Zone 59 in Old Sta. Mesa, Manila.
He does not have any regrets because volunteerism has become his way of life.
"I was searching for my heart and I have found it in Barangay 598. I know I will become more effective as a community volunteer rather than as a drug supervisor because I am reaching out to thousands of people."
Jonie applied to become a volunteer last February 2001 and was accepted after two months through the Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency.
Jonie has been a volunteer for only seven months now, and yet, he has managed to organize 11 block leaders composed of more than 2,000 households.
How did he manage more than 2,000 households? He asked these block leaders to organize six streetleaders each (or a total of 45 street leaders) who have eventually organized 50 households (or a total of 2,250 households). This was a core concept in community organizing and Jonie considered it a challenge to mobilize them without having to spend any single centavo for any meetings.
He painstakingly reached out to the community, listened to their needs and wants, talked and, most importantly, made friends with them.
"Interpersonal communication is essential to getting people to organize, to identify problems and to draw up their own solutions."
Jonie took every opportunity to discuss the values of cleanliness, health and sanitation, teamwork and pride in his or her barangay. These discussions worked wonders as Barangay 598 eventually realized how volunteerism played a role in realizing these values.
The community members are now actively engaged in development activities. The block and street leaders have become catalysts to draw up solutions to problems like waste management. Initially, the community members have agreed to assign a garbage collector for every block to ensure that waste is properly and regularly collected. They are now discussing ways to maximise the management of the "Material Recovery Facility", a junkyard for recyclable garbage funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and technically supervised by the Metro Manila Development Authority.
Jonie realized that he could not solve the world's woes and, therefore, takes things one at a time.
But now that he has the attention and interest of Barangay 598, Jonie conceptualised this programme to recognize the youth, housewives and family heads who have joined the pool of local volunteers in Barangay 598 to celebrate International Volunteers Day.
"We have just started our work but we are certain that community volunteerism would go a long way in Barangay 598 because we have the commitment and steadfastness of the block and street leaders", he said.
Jonie talked with such passion and idealism of the young. No wonder, as a student he pioneered a community outreach project Kaabyan (friend) in the De La Salle University where he finished his Management in Information Systems in 1999.
"I want to help and I could stay on in this work for eight years, the maximum period for volunteers."
"My work as a United Nations volunteer helped me become more whole as a person since working with the poor has filled the void in my heart. I have become more in touch with reality and this has immensely made my life more satisfying."
Jonie is not, however, alone in his feat. There are four other volunteers, including Royce Aman, Karla Marsia Rey, Roselyn Tubig and Gina Saculsan working with the "Community-Based Ecological Solid Waste Management System in the Philippines". This is a project of the Metro Manila Development Authority, Japan and the United Nations Development Programme, which incorporates the functional elements of waste generation, discharge and storage, collection, recycling and final disposal, in an integrated and community-based approach.
In the Philippines, there are 34 national and four international volunteers working for the United Nations Volunteers Programme or UNV.
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Trends in Healthcare- CVS and the Wellness Program
Times are changing in the world of healthcare. Nothing demonstrates that more than recent news from CVS.
In case you haven't heard by now, CVS just announced they will implement a "voluntary" Wellness Program for it's employees. The program will require employees to either fill out a health screening questionnaire including a disclosure of their weight or pay a $50 surcharge per month.
Normally my knee-jerk reaction would be that CVS is being, well CVS. I'd consider them utterly reprehensible and complain about their unfair treatment towards their employees.
But unfortunately for workers in the United States, this move by CVS is a growing trend. Companies are now treating obesity like smoking. And they're making patients pay for it. Fair or not, this is our new reality.
Company providing health insurance are realizing that obesity is a high risk group just like smokers. This means that an employer like CVS wants to know what percentage of it's employees are in these high risk groups.
The trend now is that employees may have to answer questions or even undergo some sort of health screening requirement to get the best health insurance rates. And what if something is wrong? Well, that might just cost you.
The entire concept of insurance is based on pooled risk theory. And employers are realizing that it's perfectly legal to separate employees based on risk factors such as obesity or smoking and charge those patients accordingly.
So what do I think about CVS's policy? I don't like the idea of employees having to jump through hoops to get a preferred health insurance rate. And I definitely don't like the idea of being penalized $600/year for not participating in a "voluntary" program.
It reminds me of the mail-order refill policies that are "voluntary" but come with a significant co-pay reduction versus filling those same maintenance drugs through traditional retail pharmacies. I'd hardly consider that to be voluntary.
The bottom line is that companies are really starting to concern themselves with the health of their employees. Healthier employees use less healthcare services and miss less work. And employees that use more healthcare services due to a risk factor such as obesity may have to pay higher rates or a penalty going forward.
This new CVS policy is more a sign of the times rather than a reflection of them specifically. But if this CVS policy becomes the norm at other companies and not the exception, that doesn't bode well for the rest of us.
The Redheaded Pharmacist
3 Comments to "Trends in Healthcare- CVS and the Wellness Program"
By Pharmaciststeve, March 22, 2013 @ 11:17 pm
I will believe that CVS is concerned about the health of our society.. when they stop selling tobacco and alcohol products. Of course, selling those products… makes profits at the store level and continues to cause people who use/abuse these products to need medication… which CVS makes money both at the store level and via their PBM (Caremark).
It is corporate hypocrisy at its best …
By Joi @ Rx Fitness Lady, March 23, 2013 @ 10:40 am
I don't have problem with it. I just think the gym membership perk should come with the new rules.
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By Chris, February 15, 2014 @ 3:45 pm
Interesting to see the first comment, in light of the recent announcement that CVS will stop selling cigarettes, which I applaud. With the 40 some odd million Americans now signing up for health insurance at healthcare.gov, have you noticed that some corporations are now increasingly shifting existing employees to part time work and recruiting new employees to part time schedules without health insurance? Health insurance as an offering through one's employer is disappearing. Employer's would LOVE to eliminate that cost and responsibility. In ten years, I think there will be more Americans on some government health plan than through their employer. A single payer system is what we may very well end up with anyway, regardless of how we vote at the polls. In theory, that could really simplify our third party claim burden as pharmacists. Like the Redhead Pharmacist, I don't like employers collecting health information among its employees and using that to make business decisions. How long before they have job ads specifying maximum BMI along with college degree requirements?
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Introduced in 1955, the TR3 was one of Triumph's biggest sellers and a true classic British roadster. It had minimal protection from the elements, a graceful shape, and doors cut so low that you could reach out and touch the ground. While perhaps less visually appealing than its contemporaries like the MGA or the Austin-Healey 100, it was a lively performer with 95 horsepower from its 1,991 cc Ferguson tractor motor, and as the first British production car with front disc brakes, the TR3 was a trendsetter as well. With many thousands sold between 1955 and 1957, it solidified Triumph's fan base, especially in the all-important American market, and made the company one of the leading names in sports cars. There were Triumphs before it and certainly plenty of memorable ones after it, but the TR3 may very well be the most important one of them all.
The TR3 underwent two significant changes in its production life. The first came in 1957, when it got a wider, shallower grille, larger bumpers and a locking trunk. The second came during the last year of production in 1962, when Triumph was preparing for the release of the TR4 but were unsure what the public reception would be. Just to be safe, they made a run of TR3's with the hotter engine and gearbox from the TR4. Today, the three phases of the car's life are divided into TR3, TR3A and TR3B, although the factory didn't refer to them as such in period.
That brings us to this car, located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's a late TR3 (pre-TR3A) commonly referred to as a "small mouth" car, which looks a lot more like the earlier TR2 than the TR3A and B. But what it really looks like is, well, just awful. Pink is a color reserved for certain Cadillacs, Barbie's Corvette, and bubble gum. It's definitely not something you do to a respectable English roadster, especially if you ever plan on getting rid of it. Whoever had this poor car in the early '60s clearly never thought of the word "resale" when he painted the body, wheels and even some of the mechanicals pink before giving it to his wife. I hope she liked it.
What this car does have going for it is that it would be a solid project car. With 20,000 original miles, it definitely didn't have a hard life (other than people probably pointing and laughing at it) and most everything on it is original and pretty well-preserved. TR3's have seen a slight jump in value over the last couple of years, but they're still somewhat affordable classics. With so many made and with such a straight example as this, it could be a pretty manageable project. And what would step one be on this restoration? New paint!
Check out the 1957 Triumph TR3 here on eBay, where the reserve is not yet met at $5,100.


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Jewel, who has teamed up with Mary Kay as a spokesperson for their "A Kiss for Country" initiative to eliminate domestic violence, puckered up Tuesday, leaving lip prints and an autograph to be auctioned for the charity.
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As for her life now, Jewel says it's a far cry from her days on the streets. "We have a pretty normal life at least what's normal to me having grown up on a ranch," she says of the working Texas ranch she shares with longtime boyfriend Ty Murray.
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Moore: Cowboys' humiliating loss is devastating in these ways ...
NEW ORLEANS — Despite the creative and frustrating ways the Cowboys have found to lose this season, they have always taken pride in being competitive.
They can no longer make that claim.
New Orleans' superiority was obvious and devastating. The Saints toyed with their feckless opponent Sunday evening on the way to a 49-17 victory.
Most people who come here must spend 10 to 12 hours of drinking on Bourbon Street before they suffer this level of humiliation. All the Cowboys needed was a little over three hours at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to achieve that state.
"Well, I didn't expect this,'' owner Jerry Jones said. "I didn't see this coming.''
Injuries mount and confidence wanes as the Cowboys enter the bye week. The worst loss in Jason Garrett's tenure as head coach doesn't set the stage for a positive stretch run.
Yes, the Cowboys are 5-5 and still have a tenuous hold on first place in the NFC East with Philadelphia. But this in no way resembles the team whose previous four losses were by a combined total of 14 points.
"It's embarrassing to lose,'' Jones said. "It's embarrassing to not be representative, not be competitive, all of those things.''
To be fair, in many ways this isn't the same team that suffered one point losses to Kansas City and Detroit on the road.
Jason Hatcher, the one constant in what has been a game of musical chairs in the Cowboys defensive line, was unable to play due to nerve damage in his neck. Hamstring injuries to linebackers Sean Lee and Justin Durant kept them from finishing the game.
Subtracting three starters from a defense that was already missing three others in defensive end Anthony Spencer, cornerback Morris Claiborne and safety JJ Wilcox was a recipe for disaster.
This game wasn't about Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan taking his revenge against an organization that fired him 10 months ago.
It was about a Saints offense that amassed a franchise record 625 yards for a regular season game and set an NFL record with 40 first downs.
"Someone told me we set the record, is that true,'' quarterback Drew Brees asked afterwards. "Did we do that? Ok.
"It's just a single game record. It's not like we set the total yardage record that goes for the whole season. I think it says a lot just about today.
"Today was extremely efficient. We averaged close to eight yards per play, which is a ton.''
This game didn't develop into the shootout many envisioned. How could it when tight end James Hanna led the Cowboys in receptions with three?
Tony Romo completed just 10-of-24 passes for a season-low 128 yards. His only completion to Dez Bryant came in the second half when the Cowboys trailed by 25 points.
Bryant had just two passes thrown in his direction all evening.
Hard as it is to believe, the Cowboys led in this game. Twice. A Darren Sproles fumble on a punt return allowed the Cowboys to jump to a 3-0 lead. A strong start on the ground by DeMarco Murray staked the Cowboys to a 10-7 edge one minute deep into the second quarter.
That's when the game unraveled for Dallas.
Lee was lost with a hamstring injury during a 14-play, 80-yard touchdown drive by New Orleans that consumed 8:56. How did the Cowboys offense respond?
Three-and-out. The Saints scored another touchdown.
The Cowboys came back with another three-and-out. The Saints came back with another touchdown.
You get the idea.
New Orleans scored 28 unanswered points. Brees completed 19 consecutive passes during the stretch to equal his career high.
Brees threw for 392 yards and four touchdowns. Backup running back Mark Ingram ran for 145 yards and a touchdown. Receiver Marques Colston caught seven passes for 107 yards and a touchdown.
"Nothing is ever easy,'' New Orleans coach Sean Payton said in a statement that must be labeled less than truthful. "We played a team that was nicked-up.''
The problem for Dallas was the players not nicked up didn't do much.
Garrett likes to say his team must be prepared to play well at home, on the road, in the parking lot or on the moon.
He apparently never said anything about New Orleans.
"They were simply better than us tonight,'' Bryant said. "They just went out there and executed.
"I think they scored on damn near every drive.''
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Some of you guys need to relax. The game has gone poorly so far but 2-0 is not exactly an insurmountable edge.
Agreed. How many times have we seen the Wings not play as well as they should and still win? I'm not saying we should be happy about it, but the doom and gloom is a little much.


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November 28, 2012, 09:18 PM
Does anyone have any idea what this gun is worth?
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November 28, 2012, 09:43 PM
That's like saying I have a yellow '72 Camaro. What's it worth?
What kind of condition is the gun in? Is the finish original? Are the grips made by Colt? Any after-market parts? Got a photo?
We need a lot more info for even a guess.
November 28, 2012, 11:03 PM
Take it to a gunstore, gunshow, or local guy who can do a hands on inspection, to make sure it isn't altered, reblued, has genuine ivory, etc, to determine condition and estimated value to a collector. Even with detailed pictures, we could get it wrong.
November 29, 2012, 11:44 AM
See told you I have no gun knowledge! Everything is original, hardly used, no box. My dad is ill and I am his daughter and trying to get rid of his guns. I was afraid to go into a gun store without any info at all on the gun and getting ripped off. I search google and I can't find anything close on this gun his others were easy to find. I will try to get a picture up soon. Thanks
November 29, 2012, 12:23 PM
When you post the pictures be sure to post left and right hand sides as well as the back of the grip.
I advise taking the pics using a stable mount for the camera outside in indirect light with the camera set on timer and the flash off and with the camera close enough to not need zoom.
November 29, 2012, 01:04 PM
check gunbroker.com
November 29, 2012, 02:49 PM
This is the best I can do as far as pictures. Thank you all for taking the time to respond to me. I am so very thankful. I might be able to post more later.
November 29, 2012, 03:08 PM
The grips are aftermarket plastic, not ivory.
The rest of the gun appears to be in 90% condition or better.
It should be worth 3 figures easily, even more if you can find the original brown plastic Coltwood grips, and box & paperwork.
As it sets without the original grips, box, or papers?
Maybe $1,500 - $2,000 tops, if you can find the right person looking for one.
Of course a dealer will tell you it is worthless, and offer you $250 for it!.
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November 29, 2012, 03:32 PM
Ask relatives or friends (maybe your father if possible) for the name of a gun dealer they buy from and trust. Then, unless you are in a big hurry, ask the dealer about a consignment sale. That is where you and he agree on an asking price, he puts the gun out at that price, then takes a cut (usually 15% or so) of the sale price. The trouble is that the item might not sell for a while (I think that one would sell quickly in spite of the grips) and you won't get cash until it does.
November 29, 2012, 06:27 PM
I think that a pair of vintage Colt grips will be a good investment to improve sellability and value.
November 29, 2012, 07:07 PM
Thank you all. You have inspired my husband and I to signed up for gun safety lessons at our local range. I am now a proud owner of my dads small collection. Please take time to tell your loved ones all about your collection before it is too late.
November 29, 2012, 07:25 PM
Were post-war commercial hammers blued on the side or bare metal like the 70 series? I wonder if it is a GI parts swap?
November 29, 2012, 08:13 PM
put those crazy grips on ebay and put a set of walnuts on that gun and it will increase the value.
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There might be another marriage for a superhero in the future. DC Comic's Batwoman has proposed to her girlfriend. In "Batwoman 17", Batwoman, also known as Kate Kane, pops the question to her police detective girlfriend Maggie Sawyer. Batwoman has been one of DC Comics biggest LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender) superheros since 2006 and has had several relationships while guarding Gotham City. But now, it appears Batwoman may be ready to settle down. "Batwoman 17 came out this week. It's a really special issue because Batwoman, who is DC's leading gay character, proposed to her girlfriend and revealed her secret identity at the same time," said Thor Parker, Social Marketing and Events Director for Midtown Comics. "It's always exciting to see that kind of stuff happen in comics because, you know, they are trying their best to mirror what's happening in the real world. So, this is a big deal in reality, they try to reflect that in comics," he added. In the United States, marriage equality is at the forefront of a political battle, with President Barack Obama announcing his support for gay marriage. But, if Batwoman were to wed, it would not be the first gay marriage in the comics. Last year, DC Comic rival Marvel broke new ground when gay superhero, Northstar of the X-Men series, married his boyfriend. "Actually, just recently Marvel Comics had one of their gay characters get married in an X-Men book last year. Which was really exciting because I think that was the first mainstream gay marriage in a superhero comic. So now it's two men getting married in that one and now Batwoman and her girlfriend are getting engaged possibly. I mean it ended as a cliffhanger, so we are not sure if she's saying 'Yes' or if she's saying 'No' or if the wedding will even happen. You know comics are crazy. A lot of things can go wrong so we'll see. We have to wait for the next issue," warned Parker. The publication of "Batwoman 17" comes about a week after DC Comics announced it had hired Orson Scott Card to write part on an upcoming "Superman" story. Card is on the board of the National Organization of Marriage, which opposes gay marriage. Parker says there is no connection between the two. "Batwoman 17" hit store shelves on Wednesday (February 20). Video Source: Reuters
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