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This is the cordless prelit holiday trim that can be hung anywhere indoors or outdoors without requiring unsightly extension cords or proximity to an outlet. Only available from Hammacher Schlemmer, the wreath, garland, basket, and sconce are decorated with solid, swirled, and sequined ornaments painted in red, green, or glittering gold. Woody pinecones and clusters of berries nestle among dense greenery that replicate the growth patterns of actual conifer branches. Each piece of trim is festooned with glistening white LEDs that provide cheerful illumination. Boughs are made of weatherproof PVC that will last for years. An automatic timer turns the LEDs on for six hours and off for 18 hours. Requires three D (wreath and garland), two C (basket), and four C (sconce) batteries that will power the lights for an entire holiday season. With 40 LEDs, eight clusters of berries, 15 ornaments, and five pine cones. 9' L x 9" Diam. (6 lbs.)
"I was very pleased with this purchase. The garland is beautiful and I love the timer for the lights! " - D.B., Texas
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Prelit Garland
By Cooper
from Katy, Texas
I thought it was perfect. I only wish the battery compartment was smaller. I could not wrap around stairwell as had hoped without battery case showing.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Beautiful garland
By Happy decorator
from Pennsylvania
We used this garland to decorate our steps. It was beautiful!
Fabulous Outdoor Display!
By cdnpi1954
from London, Ontario
I bought 6 of these Garlands and the Wreath which worked so well in our very cold climate outdoors! They look beautiful with the snow on them, the timer worked every time and they hang around the garage doors like a postcard!I got so many compliments on them that I gave my older stuff away! They are easy to hang on hooks, sparkle in the sunshine and create my festive holiday! Love them!
As pretty as the picture.
By BC
from Woodbridge, VA
We use our garland on the banister of our stairs. It has a timer the was easy to use and it comes on every night at our designated time and goes off again at our designated time. We love it. Plus it is beautiful. The quality is excellent. Glad we bought it. Very pleased with the end result and get many compliments about it.
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By Abby
from Nova Scotia Canada
A high quality garland-even prettier than the photo implies.
Beautiful garland!!!
By DMarie
from Delran, NJ
I bought this garland to hang on my railing inside my house. It is a beautiful decoration! It is very well made, and very easy to hang up. I bought it because the lights were battery operated and also, because it looks so pretty on line. This garland is a stunning piece of decor and I have received many compliments!!
No Messy Cords
By Scrappy
from Pittsburgh
battery box is weak.
Pricey but well made
By Theresa
from Westminster, CO
Ordered 1 garland to try out. Even though the garland is packed extremely well, it is very hard to get unpacked (twist ties are very difficult to undo). Loved the 1st one so ordered 2 more. Was a bit disappointed because I discovered that 1 of the ornaments was broken and the battery pack wasn't attached to garland like 1st one (I have to reattach with glue gun). It was not worth trying to repack and ship back for replacement. Haven't opened the 3rd box, but hoping it is perfect like the 1st one I ordered. The biggest problem is the bulky, heavy battery pack. I did manage to drape the garland and bring it down along the front of the newels and purchased cording to attach garland to posts/railings. A bit of a struggle putting up yourself, but very pretty when its finished.
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: We apologize for your issue with the breakage during shipping. If you do decide to exchange, please do not hesitate to call us at 1-800-321-1484.
Beautiful but battery case is very heavy
By PEF
from Canada
Great colours and wonderful detail on this garland. I really like having no cords to deal with but be warned - the batteries are all D cell and therefore the end with the battery housing is very heavy!
Cordless prelit garland - great features
By Iowa Runner
from West Des Moines, IA
We used the pre lit Garland for our stair railing. The timer works great - the only problem is you *have* to be home at the time you really want the garland to start to light up and then it runs fine for 6 hours. If you wish to turn it on at another time, no problem by just turning the switch - but if you want to put it back on timer for following days, you again need to be home at the time you want the timing to start. The Garland barely sheds any needles - a real plus! The decorations are pretty and large so they add to festive look. It wraps easily around the hand railing and the wire is easy to shape. Note: the bulbs are round globe bulbs, which I don't like as much and don't match my other lights on other garlands, but they light up just fine. They do give off a slightly different colored light - a little whiter. I bought a 2nd one this year because such a nice product. The batteries are easy to install, but the box is a little bulky, but it is green so easily blends in with greenery.
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Home List of Titles Nanostructured optical fibre arrays for high-density biochemical sensing and remote imaging
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/71531
- Title
- Nanostructured optical fibre arrays for high-density biochemical sensing and remote imaging
- Author(s)
- Deiss, F.; Sojic, N.; White, D. J.; Stoddart, P. R.
- Abstract
- Optical fibre bundles usually comprise a few thousand to tens of thousands of individually clad glass optical fibres. The ordered arrangement of the fibres enables coherent transmission of an image through the bundle and therefore enables analysis and viewing in remote locations. In fused bundles, this architecture has also been used to fabricate arrays of various micro to nano-scale surface structures (micro/nanowells, nanotips, triangles, etc.) over relatively large areas. These surface structures have been used to obtain new optical and analytical capabilities. Indeed, the imaging bundle can be thought of as a "starting material" that can be sculpted by a combination of fibre drawing and selective wet-chemical etching processes. A large variety of bioanalytical applications have thus been developed, ranging from nano-optics to DNA nanoarrays. For instance, nanostructured optical surfaces with intrinsic light-guiding properties have been exploited as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platforms and as near-field probe arrays. They have also been productively associated with electrochemistry to fabricate arrays of transparent nanoelectrodes with electrochemiluminescent imaging properties. The confined geometry of the wells has been loaded with biosensing materials and used as femtolitre-sized vessels to detect single molecules. This review describes the fabrication of high-density nanostructured optical fibre arrays and summarizes the large range of optical and bioanalytical applications that have been developed, reflecting the versatility of this ordered light-guiding platform.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy
- Source
- Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 396, no. 1 (Jan 2010), pp. 53-71
- Publication year
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
- Biosensor; Electrochemistry; Imaging; Nanosensor array; Optical fibre sensors; SERS; Single molecule detection
- Publisher
- Springer
- 1618-2642
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 Springer-Verlag.
- Peer reviewed

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County Judge David Silva said during preliminary budget discussions Tuesday that the current jail is 25 years old, and it is time to start planning.
"I told the sheriff we are looking at the possibility and feasibility of building a new jail in the next year and a half," Silva said. "We don't know if that is going to happen or not."
With mounting repairs and the need to make further improvements, it might be time to look at construction.
"I can appreciate something that is 20 plus years old and trying to keep it running," he said.
Dolores "Chach" Rodriguez, who heads the jail, said that even their walk-in freezer, which is a fixed part of the jail, is starting to wear out.
"The floor is falling in," she said.
Then there are the air conditioning units which are reaching the end of their lives.
There is the question of money though.
"I want to go to talk to the judge in Karnes County and see if we can borrow some money," Silva said jokingly.
"Maybe they can give us a grant."
Currently, Bee County has about $3 million in reserve funds. Karnes County reserves surpass that amount exponentially because of the amount of Eagle Ford drilling and related activity to the north.
The thought of a new jail brings up the question of just what does it cost to run such a facility.
This year, commissioners are being asked to fund $15,000 in cleaning supplies, an increase of $5,000 from last year.
Then there is the cost to purchase clothes, beds and sheets.
Rodriguez asked the commissioners to fund about $8,000 worth of supplies such as clothing, bedding and linen caused by a depletion in the commissary fund.
The commissary fund is where loved ones, friends or even inmates themselves put money to purchase snacks and other nonessential supplies.
A portion of the money spent by the inmates goes back to the county jail for purchasing items for the inmates. Rodriguez was referring to this portion of that fund.
Lt. Ronnie Jones, with the sheriff's office, said, "We have been purchasing stuff for the inmates out of that, and it includes indigent prescriptions, which has killed us this year."
Commissioner Dennis DeWitt joked, "You have to put clothes on them. I think we would probably get in trouble with the jail commission if we let them run around naked."
Right now, they are stretching the money as far as they can.
"We have been trying to get by with mattresses, but we just go through them," Jones said.
Also in need of repair are the gates that keep the prisoners secured.
Dennis Vasquez, maintenance supervisor at the jail, said, "Surrounding area jails have already upgraded their gates where they have a single motor above each gate.
"We have one motor, and everything is mechanical.
"It is getting to the point where I am going to have to call someone in, and it is going to cost us an arm and leg."
Vasquez is hoping county leaders will add $9,000 to his $6,000 maintenance and repair budget for next year.
Silva was sympathetic to the plight of those trying to keep the building running and up to code. But, he reminded, Bee County is not as flush with funds as other areas.
"It is almost impossible to keep up with, and you are just one department," Silva said.
"The money goes only so far.
"I feel the pain. I see it. You are not trying to convince me; I am convinced. I know this is a need."
Seeing an increase in budgets is something that the judge and county leaders are becoming used to.
Even items like the cost of training are going up for deputies—specifically the cost of ammo.
"So bullets are increasing?" Silva asked. "Or do we have more people?"
Lt. John Davis, also with the sheriff's office, said, "Ammo cost has skyrocketed.
Commissioner Ken Haggard said, "It is all those ammo hoarders.
"I work with guys that buy cases and cases, and they are not even law enforcement. But they have to have that ammo. Supply and demand drives it up."
This is just a sampling of what commissioners were handling this past week as they began the first round of budget discussions.
In all, officials from 56 departments appeared before the court to make their case for additions to their budgets. Some were minor; others were more significant.
No decisions were made, and none expected as commissioners take a preliminary budget and whittle it down to a manageable size that the county can fund.
Silva said, "If we got everybody everything they wanted, this was about two or three years ago, our budget would have been $19 million. Our budget at that time was like $6 million.
"I know these are needs. I know we will have to look at what those needs are more."
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Re: Goooood Morning SHR - Wednesday
So off we had to go to the hospital which wasn't too far away. Was 1 or 2 people waiting when we got there, the rest was already in a room. Was a good bit of cars in the parking lot for the ER. One man came in as my hubby was getting questioned about this & that & temp taken & blood pressure taken & that man was rushed back in because he was having chest pains.
We didn't have but a 5 min wait & got called back to a room. I was a little worried because it was room #13. But then I was born on a Friday 13, so that's ok.
Took a bunch of blood, took a urine sample (well.....he gave one, they didn't take it ) & tried hooking him up to IV but the RN couldn't because he was so dehydrated. She got someone else & he got it first try. Pumped him with 2 IV bags & gave him some medicine for nausea. He started to feel a little better 1/2 way done with the IV.
When IV was finally done, they gave him ice chips. So far he didn't throw up & still felt ok enough for something to drink. So the RN brought in some Siera Mist (yuck) & gave him about 1/4 a cup. He drank that & sitll was ok, so they wrote him a prescription for nausea & sent him home.
He doesn't have the flu, there's a bad virus going around & that's what he has. She herself had treated 3 other people that night with this same thing. For her, she's not had one flu patient come in, it's been this virus instead. But that didn't mean someone else didn't treat someone with the flu. Said his runs could last up to 14 days & he should start to feel better today since he started with it on Monday.
I just hope the rest of us doesn't get it
"We know that Mother Nature is a woman. If she were a man, there would be no rain on race day."


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December 11, 2013 —
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—Winter, though not yet officially here, has already asserted itself with storms, icy roads and school closings. Those come with the territory, but so too does the pre-eminence of basketball, the flagship sport of the winter season. Week one was a whirlwind for this rock maven. (The rock is a reference to a basketball, for all of you unfamiliar with the term).
Following the 79-32 Monticello boys win over Sullivan West reported in last week's paper, this writer/photographer journeyed to four more games that included a trio of girls basketball games and a riveting down-to-the wire 68-65 boys basketball win by Monticello in the opening round of the Lake Region Tip-Off Tournament. Monticello staved off a furious comeback by Pocono Mountain East, a team that beat them in the opening round a year ago by two points. Junior Devin Williams led the charge with 16 points and eight rebounds. Sophomore Donavan Williams had 15 points including a trio of treys for the Panthers (2-0). Sha-Shawn Drayton posted 13 points in the win. Pocono Mountain East rode seven three pointers to pull within three of tying it up and missed a three-point shot at the buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime. The championship game against Wallenpaupack was postponed due to weather and played on December 11. In girls action, Sullivan West fell to Deposit in its opener on December 2 by the score of 35-29. That same night Tri-Valley defeated Ellenville 76-50 and Roscoe/Downsville fell to Delhi in the opening round of the Walton Tournament. Tri-Valley bested Livingston Manor 61-18 on December 4 as Katlynn Greffrath led the Lady Bears with 20 points on the night as T-V ran out to a 25-1 lead by the end of the first quarter. Caroline Martin and Sabrena Smith each contributed 12 for the 2-0 Lady Bears. In other girls action, Monticello defeated Eldred 60-52 and improved to 2-0 with a 43-13 win over Sullivan West (0-2). Roscoe//Downsville improved to 1-1 with a 45-38 consolation tourney win over Walton. In boys action Eldred (1-0) defeated Tuxedo 58-43 while Fallsburg (1-1) fell to Goshen 73-49 but then defeated Family School 74-20 in the opening round of the Hambletonian Tournament. They will play Chester for the tourney title on December 13. Tri-Valley (1-0) defeated Oxford in the opening round of the Walton Tournament while Sullivan West fell to Walton. (Sullivan West won the tournament last year.) T-V will face Walton for the tournament title while Sullivan West battles Oxford in the consolation round. The Section Nine Football Coaches announced their All-Star Selections. In Class C/D Sullivan West's Andrew Stabbert and Zach O'Connor were named to the first team, as were Liberty's Quinn Jackson, Tri-Valley's Justin Swarthout and Roscoe/Downsville/Livingston Manor's Brad Dreher and Liam Fogarty. Sullivan West's Cody Franskevicz, Brian Stauch, and Sean Hart were awarded Honorable Mention. Stabbert, Jackson and Swarthout were the three Sullivan County players named to the All-Section All-Star team and will attend a dinner later this month in Middletown along with the rest of the section's elites chosen for that special honor. For albums of photos from this week's compelling basketball action, visit www.sportsinsights.smug.com [1]. For more detailed game stories visit www.sportsinsightsny.com [2].


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Pettus ISD has named Clay Gillentine as its finalist; S-TISD has named Dr. Randy Hoyer as its finalist.
Gillentine is the director of administrative services for the Teague Independent School District; Hoyer is the Kenedy County Independent School District superintendent.
Hoyer was chosen from five candidates, all with doctoral degrees. "We were fortunate to have so many qualified applicants," says James Bennett, president of the S-TISD board of trustees.
Twenty-five people applied.
Gillentine has served a teacher, coach and assistant principal and principal at the Pine Tree Independent School District.
By law, the two school districts cannot officially hire Gillentine and Hoyer for at least 21 days after public notice of their being chosen as finalists.
S-TISD plans to hire Hoyer at a special board meeting June 30; PISD plans to hire Gillentine July 9.
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IMy question is...how soon after drinking a caffeinated beverage does the caffeine and/or substance affect breastmilk? I think my son has a sensitivity to chocolate (just as I did as a child). I also think I may have waited too long (about 2 hours) to pump this evening, after having a cup of hot chocolate. Would my breastmilk already be affected?
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Peak Pilates® Announces the Release of Six New DVDs for MVe® Line
Brand-new DVDs for the MVe Chair and Reformer
Peak Pilates has announced the release of six new workout DVDs specially created to accompany the MVe Chair and Reformer programs. In addition, Peak Pilates has also released the MVe Reformer Instructor Education Level-I DVD, examining in-depth over 100 exercises and is designed as a teacher-trainer tool. Each DVD is taught by a Peak Pilates Master Trainer and utilizes the MVe Chair and Reformer equipment, although the workouts can be done on any reformer and most chairs. Each workout DVD includes an Instructor Teaching Guide with music recommendations, workout variations and detailed exercise lists with modifications, advancements, equipment setup and cueing to guide the instructor through teaching a flowing and fun class.
Each workout sequences together exercises in 50-minute formats set to music, and is anchored with the Peak Pilates Perfect Ten Exercises, providing an excellent and well-balanced framework that allows for mastery of the exercises for instructors and participants alike. Instruction of modifications and variations to accommodate all participants is also included, making these workouts ideal to replicate in a small group class setting.
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- Balance and Control Chair (beginner)
The MVe Balance and Control Fitness Chair Workout was developed for the active aging participant or anyone wanting a lighter workout than the entry-level MVe EveryBody Chair Workout provides. Learn how to use the support, assistance and resistance of the MVe Fitness Chair to build functional strength, stamina, coordination, balance, control and flexibility. Combine familiar chair exercises for this population with the MVe Fitness Chair exercises to give your participants a true fitness edge. This workout requires a set of light hand weights for the upper body strength conditioning exercises and a mat for the ending series on the floor.
- Latin Fusion (intermediate)
Let the Latin rhythms move your hips and burn calories for a stronger and leaner body. The MVe Latin Dance Fusion Fitness Chair Workout is designed to raise your heart rate, tone your abdominals and build endurance. Enjoy moving your body to Merengue dance steps as you experience the challenge of the chair.
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Get your energy in motion with the MVe EveryBody Fitness Reformer workout. This is the ideal entry-level reformer workout designed for every body. Enjoy a combination of beginning Pilates reformer exercises, stretches and postural exercises that will introduce your participants to the benefits of equipment based workouts. From the moment the music begins, your class will experience the synergy of a body working from the core. The springs will provide the resistance and the instructor will provide the focus in order to center body and mind while experiencing a totally new workout.
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Score a perfect 10 with this workout! The MVe Perfect Pair is a total-body workout that will challenge your core and develop your stamina while strengthening and lengthening your muscles. Learn to work with concentration and control to get the results you're looking for. It's the perfect introduction to both the MVe Fitness Reformer and Chair in a 50/50 session.
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The MVe Reformer Instructor Education features a visually rich, comprehensive instructor education manual detailing over 100 hundred exercises in the Level-I program. Includes program guidelines and teaching tools along with detailed exercises pages that provide exercise basics, equipment set-up, and movement essentials, along with tips for modifying the difficulty of the exercises.


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Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series DVD
Back in 2005, Universal began issuing Leave It To Beaver on DVD with the first two seasons, a bit less than a year apart -- the Season One set came in both a basic DVD edition and a deluxe package, the main feature of which was an authentic 1950s-style school lunchbox outer container. And then there was nothing -- from 2006 until the early summer of 2010, no further episodes were seen on DVD. It seems as though Universal did a major re-thinking of their DVD strategy, at least where vintage programs were concerned, and started licensing them to specialists in the field, Timeless Video getting the westerns and police shows while Shout Factory has gotten the rights to more mainstream comedies. And this 37 disc set of the complete six-season run of Leave It To Beaver is a mother-lode, 234 half-hour episodes plus bonus features, comprising more than 6090 minutes (that's 101 hours) of programming. By most reckonings, a list price of $200 is pretty hefty, even for the complete run of a classic 1950s series, but this reviewer jumped on it, owing to the overall quality of the show, which seldom ever faltered (though it it can be argued that Leave It To Beaver "jumped the shark" with the 1962 episode "Three Boys And A Burro" -- oh, sure, Ward and June Cleaver, upstanding citizens of Mayfield's suburbs, or any other parents in that area, are going to say yes to their boys buying a piece of live-stock, a burro no less . . . .). And the quality does hold up, for the most part -- fortunately, as series star Jerry Mathers matured and gradually grew out of the role, and the makers ran out of new situations for his character, the writers and producers were able to devise more stories dealing with older brother Wally (Tony Dow), and these, plus the work of the supporting cast, carried the series for probably at least a year of strong programs past the point where it, otherwise, would have started to fade. The quality of the transfers on the first two seasons in this set is identical to the those on the old Universal disc editions -- all shows are, of course, full-screen (1.33-to-1) and in black-and-white; the first season episodes look superb, the second season less so, with a surprising amount of grain in some of the sequences, but this isn't sufficient to put off viewers. And the sound is strong throughout, the chaptering more than adequate, and the menus easy to access and maneuver around. As to seasons three, four, five, and six, which are new to DVD, the transfers are excellent, with none of the grain that seems to be unique to some of season two's shows. For the purposes of this set, the bonus features that appeared on the free-standing first-season set (principally the pilot, It's A Small World")) have mostly all been shifted to a disc in the last set. The inclusion of previously made features focusing on the series and its evolution and production makes this set a vital resource for fans -- even this longtime viewer, who knew a fair amount about the show, found new information in the featurette "Forever the Beaver: The Cleavers Look Back", and enough new information so that it was a necessary pleasure to go back it more than once -- the stories about interactions with Robert Mitchum and Steve McQueen on the Universal lots were just two of many highlights. The audio bonuses, which are culled from radio appearances by the cast, are also very funny to hear, filled with good humor and a generous spirit on the part of all concerned. In short -- and with this series, it's appropriate -- the reunion and retrospectives are like walking in on a series of joyous family gatherings. The set is formatted as a series of slim multi-disc jewel cases in a larger slipcase, which makes this a fairly compact affair but simple to open and play. Each set comes with an insert providing a "map" to the episodes. Each disc opens automatically to a simple, easy to use menu offering individual episode access. And the audio bonus features are simple to activate or shut down during viewing.As to the viewing experience itself, the array of the complete series in one place bears out what a lot of serious fans always knew about Leave It To Beaver -- beyond its other virtues, in terms of comedy and entertainment, the program was virtually a mirror of how white, middle-class America (which, like it or not, and for better or worse, was what defined America in those days) saw itself, and wanted to see itself. The creator/producers, Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who also wrote a good many of the early scripts and supervised the writing for the full run of the show, managed to tap into several rich veins of material, all rooted in reality. Watching the show from beginning to end, which is a herculean task best pursued over a period of many months, one absorbs some of the best writing about childhood foibles and anxieties ever set down in an entertainment context. And thanks to the fact that the series always made a good effort to stay in contact with the environment and social world it sought to portray, one sees a surprisingly realistic reflection of how childhood and teen-age life changed between 1957 and 1963. (Indeed, one suspects there may be a doctoral dissertation to be mined out of this series, for someone willing to do the excavation). In other words, its a series that can be enjoyed on a multitude of levels, by those who remember it and those who lived it, or viewers who didn't arive until long after it left production.
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- Rating: Not Rated
- Number of Discs: 37
- Run Time: 6090 Minutes
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- Studio: Shout Factory
- DVD Release Date: June 29, 2010
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
- Genre: TV Series
- Color: Black & White
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Southwestern Stuffed Acorn Squash
Makes 6 servings
Getting started Equipment you will need: large baking sheet, colander, large skillet with cover, cutting board/knife, wooden spoon Preheat oven to 375° Do right away when you get home: Action steps 1 & 2
3 acorn squash, (3/4 to 1 lb. each)
Cooking spray
1 small onion
1/2 medium red bell pepper
2 cups cherry tomatoes
1 clove garlic
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed
5 ounces ground turkey
1 Tbsp. chili powder
1 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. salt Hot sauce, optional
1. Cut squash in half horizontally. Scoop out and discard seeds. Coat baking sheet with spray. Place squash cut-side down on sheet. Bake for 45 minutes or until tender.
2. Meanwhile, peel onion and chop into small pieces. Rinse red bell pepper and cherry tomatoes and chop into small pieces. Mince garlic clove. Rinse black beans in colander.
3. Lightly coat a large skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium heat. Add turkey and cook, stirring and breaking up with a wooden spoon, for 3 to 5 minutes until lightly browned. Add onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, garlic, beans, chili powder, cumin, salt, and hot sauce. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes until tomatoes are broken down.
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
4. Reduce oven temperature to 325° when the squash are tender. Fill squash halves with turkey mixture. Top with cheese. Place on baking sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes until filling is heated through and cheese is melted.
Suggested Side Items: cornbread muffin and glass of milk
Tips: Omit red pepper sauce for a milder taste, or try adding cayenne pepper for an extra kick. Substitute a 15-ounce can of no-salt added diced tomatoes for fresh tomatoes to cut down on preparation time. A balance between green and orange coloring is optimum when selecting acorn squash.
Shopping list: 3 acorn squash, (3/4 – 1 lb. each) 5 oz. ground turkey 1 small onion 1 pint cherry tomatoes 15 oz. can black beans (low-sodium) Shredded Swiss cheese
Nutrition Analysis per serving (1/2 squash): 260 calories, 7g fat, 15g protein, 38g carbohydrate, 7g fiber, 482mg
Check for: Garlic
Chili powder
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NASCAR's most recent winner showed his iRacing skills by racing "The Magic Mile," from the comfort of a racing simulator setting the record of the day with a lap of 30.3 seconds. Coming in a close second was radio host Bill Thomas of WPKZ 105.3 FM and 1280 AM out of Fitchburg, Mass. with a lap of 31.31 seconds.
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Instead, 20 years ago — one year after she married her husband, Bob, ex-Navy — she walked into what is now Christus Spohn Hospital as a certified nursing assistant — bottom of the proverbial rung.
Today, she is a registered nurse, holds a master's in leadership nursing, is a weekend charge nurse and has just been elected Christus Spohn's shared governance chair for the local region.
Nursing wasn't going to be her profession.
"I grew up working on my parents' ranch near Pawnee," she recalls. "I wanted to be a veterinarian."
But Marty, who is the youngest of three children, found that time and circumstances intervened.
"I was born late, so when my parents' health started to deteriorate, I found I was having to care for them more." Her interest in caring for humans, instead of animals, started then.
Two months after being hired, she was promoted to unit clerk — transcribing doctors' orders, answering telephones, organizing medical records. But along with the title was employment full time.
With the goal of becoming a registered nurse, Marty started classes that year at what now is Coastal Bend College.
"My manager kept encouraging me to stay in school," Marty says.
In the fall of 1998, she entered the RN program at Victoria College.
A year later, to gain some practical experience, she was accepted in VC's Licensed Vocational Nursing program for the summer semester.
It was professionally advantageous, she says,
She was graduated with an RN associate degree in 2000.
Three years later, Christus Spohn named her a unit manager for medical/surgical, radiation and the telemetry unit.
With her eyes planted firmly on the educational prize, in 2005 she took part-time classes at CBC — courses Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi required to complete a bachelor's degree.
She was graduated in 2009; one month later, she entered the university's master's degree program in nursing leadership, which she earned two years later.
Marty immediately applied to enter the university's nurse education program — four classes, one each semester.
She should receive her certificate next year. The hospital has paid for most of her educational journey.
That the tuition reimbursement program was a good investment is indicated by a program Marty began at Christus Spohn Hospital-Shoreline in Corpus Christi to prevent patients falling. The number of falling incidents fell dramatically.
Is a Ph.D. next?
"Oh, I don't know about that," she says. "But my husband says I might as well keep going."
She may not have the time.
Currently, she works weekends at Christus Spohn as a charge nurse, and spends one day each week in Corpus Christi as the shared governance chair for the local region — which includes Spohn hospitals in Beeville, Alice, Kingsville and three in Corpus Christi.
"I work with frontline nurses, those by the bedside," she explains. "I'm helping to empower them to have a voice to improve patient outcomes." It allows them to extend their influence into administrative areas previously controlled by managers.
"I also work to retrain nurses in this time of a nursing shortage," she says. To that end, she says she works to get flexible hours for nurses and a competitive salary.
And, looking back over her own career, she stresses, "I want to make sure nurses have the education that they need."
"Nursing shared governance is an important way for nurses to have a voice in their professional practice," says Jim Cato, the hospital system's chief nursing executive.
Still, that idea of working with animals lingers, sort of.
"I miss the animals, but I don't miss the work."
But, at home, she and Bob relax with two lambs, two dogs and three cats.
She also continues to look forward. "My long-term goal, maybe in five years or so, is to be an educator at a university."
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I can usually feel 3 letdown's during a feeding (LO only takes one breast per feeding). My question is, when does LO get the hindmilk? Is he getting only foremilk until all the letdowns are over? Or is he getting hindmilk just before each new letdown?


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One of the most unique relationships you'll have in your life is with a sexual partner -- a spouse, a hump puppet, a cardboard cutout of Kate Upton, a room-temperature melon. This person (or people, I don't judge) will exist in a state you allow no other person to exist in, even outside of all the crotch-slathering goodness you enjoy. Simply by virtue of the nudie-time fun you have together (or if I want to be sweet and sappy and suggest it's true love), you will put up with and tolerate the most heinous of activities, intentional or otherwise, that you would never accept from anyone else, including family members and close friends, let alone creepy strangers or handsome Cracked columnists.
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I remember with great clarity the first time I took a shower and was shocked to discover that my testicles had somehow gotten themselves into a noose and I was choking the life out of them while I bathed. There was a brief moment of utter bafflement as I stared down, unable to see anything besides my resplendent dong and pubic thicket, and pondered if I was having some kind of schizoid episode. Was my scrot afflicted with some kind of virus? Did I have a dick ghost? Was gravity no longer operating around my junk? It was a tense few seconds. Then I realized I had a long hair lassoing my business and I was inadvertently pulling it tighter and everything fell into place.
Getting someone's hair caught up in your tender zones is a workplace hazard in the business of sensual kanoodling. You put your face here, your hands there, a pillow here, and eventually things end up in exotic locations. It's not a big deal for the most part. And although every subsequent time you pull a foreign hair out from your crack you're always just a little surprised to see it, it's like the surprise you feel when you see there's still one beer left in the fridge.
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It's like Christmas had a baby with kung fu movies and you can drink it.
All this being said, I defy you to present any other situation you will ever find yourself in that would not lead you to squeamish, awful discomfort upon finding someone else's hair anywhere near your genitals. If you hit the shower at the Y and get even the barest hint of an idea that someone else might be thinking of letting their hair get near you, you'll clench up tighter than a clam being attacked by an octopus.
If you ever discovered one of your friends' hairs in your ass, you'd be rightly mortified. I'm going to assume women would handle this situation differently from men; perhaps they'd even share the story and laugh about it afterward, while most dudes would engage in some serious panic scrubbing while they desperately tried to piece together how such an unfortunate thing could have occurred. Of course women are also more likely (in my experience) to end up finding an errant pube on the soap or the toilet seat, as opposed to a long head hair choking the life from their junk, so maybe that's the trade off, but at least it's still arguably familiar. If you just run afoul of a strange hair, forget about it. I found a stray hair on my jeans after being on a bus once and I rubbed my entire body against a brick wall to get it off rather than touch it because in my mind everyone I don't know likely has crabs that have herpes. Is that normal? Probably not.
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According to most polls on the subject, flying, spiders, and snakes are three of the most common fears in the world. Things like ghosts, public speaking, dogs, and other predictable phobias pad out the lists. I've long had a fear of people using my toothbrush. If I think anyone has used it, I will just throw it out and get a new one. If it touches the floor, it gets thrown out, too. Why? Because it's for cleaning my mouth. I don't want the decayed food particulate of anyone else's head holes coating the bristles and potentially finding their way into my mouth. I feel like it's basically on par with taking a hobo's face in your hands, forcing him to smile, and then thoroughly licking his teeth and gums. I understand it's not really like that at all -- why should it even be a hobo? That's just how I feel.
Chances are, no matter how less insane and neurotic you are, there's definitely a double standard in life when it comes to your personal grooming products. If your special someone uses your toothbrush, you may not immediately microwave it within a bowl full of bleach and then throw it in the garbage afterward anyway, but your reaction will absolutely be different than if you have guests over for a party and you discover some random drunk in your house brushing his teeth with it.
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"At first I was just brushing my teeth, but before I knew it, it was all up in my ass."
When a loved one uses your toothbrush, you sigh, maybe not even audibly, and you stare at it, and then you rinse it for a lot longer than you normally would, and then you try to focus on something else until you're sure it's going to be as sanitary as it ever was. Likewise if they use your deodorant: There's that brief moment of feeling like you've been violated -- one that's extra special for the ladies when they find that errant pit hair I mentioned earlier mashed into their Lady Speed Stick -- and then you shrug it off.
The only time I'd ever allow a stranger to partake of my toothbrush and deodorant willingly would be in some kind of apocalyptic scenario in which I was forced to bond with another human being, Riggs and Murtaugh style, and even then, he can just have my toothbrush, I'll use a twig and some baking soda. The deodorant I am willing to wash off in between uses. Again, this may be extreme neuroses on my part, but let's be reasonable -- isn't sharing a toothbrush a bit like waiting for someone to wash their ass with a washcloth and then rinse it clean and hand it to you for you to do the same? There's no reason for that. We're not animals.


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regarding - intriducing soldis for eczema baby-is taht ok?
1.doctor saw teh patches on his body and still sugested we coudl try.but i am hesistant and seeking second opinion.any advice?
last 3 days we tried him on rice ceral and the red pacth udner his neck is now itchy despite two days we used steriod creams.
2.on a side note, do i feed cerealonly in morning?what are best suggested times?
i am worried to use teh sterioid cream anymore as totally we have used it 6-7 times on and off
3.also i am trying to watch my diet so much to see if anything in it is causing allergy to my exclusively breast fed baby-what else can i do?worried abbt his eczema..
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WEIRTON – A parent/player meeting will be held for the Madonna High School girls soccer team at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the school cafeteria for those interested in playing for the 2013 squad.
Questions should be addressed to coach Bob Kolanko at (304) 479-9317.
Bears to hold volleyball camp
NEW MANCHESTER – The Oak Glen Volleyball Camp, facilitated by the Fairmont University coaching staff, will be held June 10-12 at the high school.
The cost is $100 per person and each person will receive a T-shirt.
The camp will be held from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from noon to 3 p.m. All players should bring a light lunch to eat between sessions. All grades will meet at the same time.
Deadline is June 1.
For information, contact Oak Glen volleyball coach Ethel Riser at (304) 387-2344.
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UNIONPORT – A junior golf program will start at Red Oaks Golf Course on Wednesday. The six-week program will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. each Wednesday. The cost is $35.
For information, call Red Oaks at (740) 944-1400.
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STEUBENVILLE – The Big Red Boosters Club will meet at the high school conference room at 6 p.m. Monday. Night of the Races has been set for June 22 at the Spot Bar.
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SALT FORK – The annual Salt Fork Junior Invitational will be held July at Salt Fork State Park Golf Course with a 10 a.m. shotgun. The cost is $30 per person ($20 for those with Salt Fork golf memberships).
Awards will go to the top three finishers in the boys divisions (17-18, 15-16, 13-14) and top two in girls divisions (16-18, 13-15).
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It was last season in late June and early July, and we were in Las Vegas sitting in a sportsbook at the Belagio when it hit us: why don't we take some money out of our emergency savings, and plunk it down on the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the whole damn thing? It almost seemed too easy. The Dodgers were just starting to get on a roll but the oddsmakers really weren't onto them just yet. A lot stood to be made if someone had the gusto to plunk down the bet.
And as a wise gambler once told us; this is exactly why you do not bet. Luckily, we talked ourselves out of it and stayed away from it. But it was maybe only because we had a marriage to worry about if things didn't work out for the Dodgers in the postseason.
Los Angeles would soon thereafter go on a 46-10 roll. National League pitchers seemed to figure out Yasiel Puig, but not entirely. The Dodgers ran into a buzzsaw of a team in St. Louis whose rotation got hot at just the right time, and looking back that St. Louis team excelled at all the small things that the star-power Dodgers did not. Small execution, great defense, and exceptional pitching helped the Cardinals prevail.
We were happy to see the legendary Dodgers succeed. We would have been fine with them taking the title last year. It's good for baseball when the Dodgers are good. In our opinion, they play in America's most enchanting city, in a gem of a stadium in the sunshine, with the grandfather of baseball calling their games late-night in the Midwest all by himself.
They have an eclectic roster and a charismatic ownership group. Their GM looks like a guy who could have you whacked. There are a lot of things to love about this team heading into 2014.
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And you're damn right we're bullish on the Dodgers. Did 2013 scare us off a little bit with the way they eroded in the NLCS? Absolutely not. We started with this team because we're picking them to win the whole damn thing in 2014. As we have been so often in life (and sometimes not enough), we were just a year early on the Dodgers. They're a year better, a year wiser, and they're going to still come into your town and stomp your team and probably drink all the tequila your city has to offer this season. Click through the jump to learn more about our projected 2014 champions.


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Membership » Donations
The Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Donations to the Museum are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
The Museum gladly accepts cash donations that help fund the preservation and exhibition of the Museum collections and support our educational programs.
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Past Exhibition
Blue Post and Lintel I, 1965
John Harvey McCracken
American, 1934-2011
Plywood, fiberglass and lacquer
102 x 32 x 17 in. (259.1 x 81.3 x 43.2 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Weisman
© The Estate of John McCracken, courtesy David Zwirner, New York
Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture
The Norton Simon Museum presents Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture, an exhibition that examines how the great sculptors of the 20th century were influenced by Constantin Brancusi and his groundbreaking use of space and material. Featuring 19 works from the Museum's renowned collection of post-war art, by sculptors as diverse as Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Barbara Hepworth, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, John McCracken and Robert Irwin, the exhibition demonstrates how sculpture moved from being a self-contained, three-dimensional object to one that engages with its surrounding space. In a variety of ways and in a variety of materials, including marble, wood, stainless steel, felt or Plexiglas, the sculptures on view illustrate some of the most innovative moments in art making in the latter half of the 20th century. The exhibition is on view from April 26, 2013 through January 6, 2014, in the Museum's temporary exhibition gallery.


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Philadelphia in Talks Over Wi-Fi Network; Won't Say WhoA spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter said negotiations are under way. But he would not say whether they involved a community organization or a company.From CNBC.com, June 12, 2008
Meraki Unwires San Francisco's NeediestBiswas says Meraki will set up its system of Wi-Fi repeaters and Internet broadband access in "all" of the low-income housing communities in San Francisco, including the Altamont Hotel, where Newsom and Biswas will make the announcement.From GigaOM, June 12, 2008
MetroFi Shutting Down Citywide Wi-Fi DealsThe company has told the majority of the nine towns and cities they service (including California and Illinois) that they're shutting down the networks on June 20.From DSL Reports, June 12, 2008
What Are the Prospects for FemtoCells in US Market?If there's one safe bet regarding femtocells, it's that success or bust, they're guaranteed to go down in telecom history as one of the most-watched and most-hyped technologies ever.From Unstrung Insider, June 12, 2008
Many US Tech Workers Eager to TelecommuteMore than a third of U.S. technology workers would accept pay cuts of up to 10 percent to work from home and avoid the expense of commuting to the office, according to a survey released on Tuesday.From Reuters, June 12, 2008
10 Cities With Widespread Wireless InternetWhile you're searching for a signal, broadband wireless activist Glenn Strachan suggests looking to these cities for widespread affordable access.From Discovery Channel, June 12, 2008
MarketPlace: Municipal Wi-Fi Isn't Dead YetTwo years and $17 million later, wireless Internet in Philadelphia's scheduled to expire tomorrow. The city had grand plans for what it hoped would be a national model for what's called municipal Wi-Fi, high-speed Internet pretty much anywhere in the city for a fee if you could afford it, free if you couldn't.From American Public Media, June 12, 2008
City Government Business Drives Municipal Wireless Network ImplementationSuccess will require city governments to examine the business reasons for building wireless networks, since the wireless efforts of community groups will not address local government requirements.From Government Technology, June 12, 2008
Leaves Degrade Wi-Fi Service for Some in MinneapolisThe re-emergence of leaves this spring has caused network delays and slower-than-expected download speeds in parts of the citywide network.From Minneapolis Star-Tribune, June 12, 2008
T-Mobile, AT&T, Starbucks Resolve Wi-Fi DisputeMOU to resolve differences over how the coffee house operator should transfer its Wi-Fi access from T-Mobile USA to AT&T.From CNN Money, June 12, 2008


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Collins, 48, comes to Princess Anne from Winston-Salem State
University in North Carolina, where he was named head coach in 2006. His last
four Ram teams averaged nearly 20 wins per season and qualified for the NCAA
Division II tournament in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
"It feels like I'm coming home, professionally," Collins said. "I'm
looking forward to the challenge of re-engaging with some of my old friends and
rivals in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference."
Collins is no stranger to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Before
taking the Winston-Salem State job, he was head coach for four years at Hampton
(Va.) University, where he was MEAC's 2005 coach of the year. His team won the
conference tournament the following season, earning an automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament.
"The university has an opportunity to hire an outstanding coach. He's
an even finer person," UMES athletics director Keith Davidson said. "He has a
proven record of success at his previous institutions."
Collins was Hampton's assistant head coach in 2001 when the 15th-seeded
Pirates pulled off one of the most memorable upsets in NCAA tournament history,
defeating the 2nd-seeded Iowa State Cyclones. Two years later, he
was promoted to the head coaching position at Hampton and established a school
record for most wins by a first-year coach.
"He's had great coaching experiences where he's worked previously,"
Davidson said. "He's an excellent recruiter who has great relationships with
players and we believe he's the right person for our program."
The university and Collins agreed to a four-year contract with a base
salary of $135,000.
Collins teaches an offense that puts a high value on fast-break
scoring and he believes in employing man-to-man defense roughly two thirds of
the time.
He told the UMES search committee he expects his players to be "the
hardest working team in the country," and to follow a strict code of conduct
off the court, including taking caps off when indoors and when traveling.
"We are excited that Coach Collins has accepted the opportunity to
lead our men's basketball program," President Juliette B. Bell said. "He has
demonstrated that he is a proven winner and a role model when it comes to
guiding student-athletes on and off the court. The University of Maryland Eastern
Shore and its Hawk Nation welcome him to our 'nest.'"
In his 12 years as a head coach at two universities, Collins has
compiled a 181-171 record, including his first three years at Winston-Salem
State when he was trying to position the basketball program to compete at the
Division 1 level. He scheduled road games against the likes of Georgetown,
Notre Dame, Kansas and cross-town neighbor, Wake Forest of the Atlantic Coast
Collins graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1991 with a bachelor's
degree in business administration and management, and was a four-year letterman
on the Colonels' basketball team. He was selected to the Ohio Valley Conference
All-Freshmen team and was Honorable Mention All-Conference as a senior. After
college, he played in the Helsinki, Finland Classic (tournament), earning MVP
Collins was as an admissions counselor at his alma mater from 1992 to
1994 before joining the Old Dominion University basketball program as a
restricted earnings coach.
He was on the Monarchs' bench in 1995 when the Colonial Athletic
Association champions shocked Villanova University during a first-round win in
the NCAA basketball tournament.
Collins, the youngest of 10 siblings, is the son of two
non-denominational ministers. He grew up in Southern Pines, N.C., where he
graduated from Pinecrest High School and helped his team to 18-5 and 20-4
records during his junior and senior years. In 1984, he earned All-State honors
and was conference Player of the Year.


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If you wear #51 for the Mariners, you are a future Yankee!…
I thought I was supposed to wear the white uniform!…
In recent years, it has seemed as though no Yankee trade sneaks up on you. Even with Curtis Granderson, there were rumors swirling around before the deal was finally consummated. It has seemed like the press has been tapped into GM Brian Cashman's inner thoughts. But admittedly, the Ichiro Suzuki trade surprised me.
Years ago, this would have been a headline deal but it's now obviously the acquisition of a former great player in the twilight of his career.
In recent weeks, I had seen other owners in fantasy leagues start to drop Ichiro from their rosters. I had not been keeping up with his stats but I knew he was no longer the player he once was. But if anything, Derek Jeter has shown what goes down does not necessarily have to stay down. Some are suggested that Ichiro will be revitalized in the midst of a pennant race and the spotlight of New York. Maybe so, maybe not. But if you asked me if I prefer Ichiro in the outfield over DeWayne Wise or exposing Andruw Jones or Raul Ibanez to too much play, the answer would be, without hesitation, yes. I was a bit disappointed when I first heard the news of the trade as visions of Shane Victorino or Denard Span were dancing in my head. Yet, the realist in me knows that the cost to acquire either of those players would have exceeded the reward. On the other hand, Ichiro is simply a rental for the remainder of the season. He'll be a free agent in the off-season so he'll hand left field back to Brett Gardner when he departs the Stadium in October.
I remember the thrill of seeing my first game at Safeco Field. The player I was most interested in seeing was Ichiro and he did not disappoint. He came through with a few clutch hits and showed why he has been one of the better players over the past decade. The Yankees have missed a clutch bat so hopefully a revitalized Ichiro means that they'll have the "pest" they need at the plate and on the base paths.
I know that the pitchers the Yankees gave up were not top shelf talent (D.J. Mitchell and Danny Farquahar) but they have the chance to be good major league pitchers. I always hate to see good talent leave, especially if Ichiro's days in pinstripes do not go beyond the next couple of months. I always remember how much I hated watching Jay Buhner punish the Yankees while wearing a Mariners uniform and wondering what could have been if the Yanks had held on to him. Now, with former top prospect Jesus Montero in Seattle, there are multiple players in the Great Northwest who could haunt their former team. The Mariners go for 20-something former Yankees while the Yankees go for almost 40-something ex-Mariners. I think the M's have the better business formula even if it isn't showing up in wins quite yet.
Now that I've gotten over the shock of the trade, I will admit that it is nice to see Ichiro in a Yankees uniform. It will be even better if he can get on base with consistency and make crossing home plate a common occurrence.
If there's one thing about the trade that struck me as unusual, it is the consummation of the deal prior to the start of the Yankees-Mariners series in Seattle. The trade guaranteed the Mariners fans would be subjected to watching the first three games of Ichiro's post-Seattle career in an opposing uniform. Not any uniform but the most hated and despised uniform in most parts of the country outside of NYC. The Yankees apparently had conditions Ichiro had to agree to (batting in the bottom of the order, moving to left, and accepting an outfield rotation to get the bats of Jones and Ibanez into the lineup). So, perhaps the Yankees had the upper hand in this deal and argued that it had to happen sooner rather the later. For the Mariners, the motivation is clearly to move on and to further develop their further stars.
After the Cliff Lee debacle when he went to the Texas Rangers for Justin Smoak after the Yankees thought they had acquired him, I really didn't think the Yankees would forgive the Mariners and their general manager. But after the Michael Pineda and Ichiro deals, there is no evidence of hard feelings. Cliff Lee just wasn't meant to be a Yankee. He proved that with his own decision to rebuke the team to re-sign with the Philadelphia Phillies. Lee is a good pitcher but some guys weren't meant for Broadway.
The question now is if the Yankees are done dealing before the trading deadline. With the returns of Joba Chamberlain and Andy Pettitte looming on the horizon, perhaps they are the moves that can catapult the Yankees to the World Series. I can't really think of another move the Yankees need to make other than further enhancing an already good bullpen. Sure, if the Philadelphia Phillies called to say that they'd trade Roy Halladay for Ivan Nova, you'd pull the trigger, but seriously, that's not going to happen.
For the lack of better words, Ouch!…
After moving back to the Bay Area and living in what is described as A's territory, it was really tough to see the Yankees swept in four games against the upstart A's. While the Yankees hold a 7 game lead, the race is far from over. I still expect the Tampa Bay Rays to make a run, and of course, I am always fearful the Boston Red Sox make some major moves that propel them back into contention. I'd be foolish to underestimate Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles. So, every day, Brian Cashman needs to be trying to find ways to improve the team. The nice thing is that I know he is.
Open the Cooperstown doors now…
I think I read recently that Mariano Rivera would like to make his return in September rather than next spring. While I doubt he'll be able to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if he did. He is clearly one of the most gifted athletes of our time. He is my favorite current Yankee and he'll be on the fast track to Cooperstown when he retires. I am sure that his spot in Memorial Park has already been reserved, along with Derek Jeter's. It would have been great to watch guys like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle play, but I am glad that I lived in the Rivera/Jeter era. I look forward to telling my grandchildren that I saw the game's greatest closer play. As a kid, I thought Rich "Goose" Gossage was the greatest closer. I never realizvbbbbb
But are they Yankees fans?…
I am the proud owner of two rescue kittens named Nathalia and Sophie. They are sisters and at times, they are the synchronized twins. Two American Shorthairs, both black and one with with a white undercoat, they have proven their love of baseball. During the recent Yankees-Red Sox series in Boston, the sisters were engrossed in watching the game, just like their roommate (me). I love this pic…
And the winner is…
The next week should be fun as teams race against the trading deadline. Maybe it will be quiet, maybe not. I fully expect the Red Sox and in particular, GM Ben Cherington, to make a bold move. I respect Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster for preferring to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Atlanta Braves (I should qualify that by saying my favorite NL team is the Dodgers). The Tigers have been active as evidenced by their recent acquisitions of Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante. I saw tonight that the Pittsburgh Pirates were close to acquiring Wandy Rodriguez, who has long been on the radar for both the Yanks and Red Sox. I almost missed the trade of Astros closer Brett Myers to the Chicago White Sox. I think the Sox have the market cornered on goatees.
I am still missing Minneapolis but I am enjoying this baseball season. Life is good.
P.S. Looking for some great photos? Check out Erik van den Ham's website, http://www.panoramio.com/user/62613. Excellent!
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Ichiro to the Yankees really surprised me too. Love love the picture of the kitties! It was tough getting swept by the D'Backs. Hopefully the Dodgers take it on the Cubbies.


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FSB urges tough new rules on 'shadow banks'
The Financial Stability Board on Sunday published recommendations for new regulations to contain the risks posed by the "shadow banking" sector.
"Shadow banking" refers to a whole range of activities that ultimately do the same thing as regulated banks – lending and borrowing money – but are structured so as to avoid the costs and scrutiny faced by the regulated banking system. Such activities have grown nearly three-fold in the last 10 years – the FSB estimated the assets covered by the scope of its review at $67 trillion, as of the end of 2011.
Regulators blame them for masking the true extent of the risk that built up in the financial system before the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a generalised crisis in 2008.
As such, finding a way to understand and mitigate the risks shadow banks pose has been one of the their top priorities over the last four years.
In its report, the FSB, a Basel-based organisation mandated by the Group of 20 largest advanced and emerging economies to coordinate the regulatory response to the financial crisis, came down particularly hard on money market funds.
It proposed clear rules limiting the assets that money market funds can invest in, and forbidding them from offering investors capital guarantees. It also suggested that they be required to hold statutory minimum levels of liquid assets and to mark all their assets to market.
Money market funds have generally marketed themselves as low-risk investment forms where the possibility of a loss was hardly if ever acknowledged. When the price of one US-based fund, the Reserve Primary Fund, fell below its net asset value in 2008, the shock was big enough to trigger a generalised run on money-market funds, as investors came to realise that their money was only as secure as the products the funds had invested in. In many cases, that was short-term paper issued by other "shadow banks" to fund holdings of bonds backed by often poor-quality mortgages. The FSB said its recommendations were aimed most of all at reducing the susceptibility of money market funds to runs.
The FSB also took aim at the practice of securities lending and repurchasing – the "repo" business that many banks and funds use for short-term funding. Many banks, particularly those that make markets in securities, consider it an indispensable part of their short-term liquidity management. The repo-ing out securities has also become more popular as a routine source of short-term cash. Since the crisis, far fewer banks are now prepared to lend even short-term funds without taking some collateral as security.
However, the FSB has also identified the securities lending and repo business as a way in which participants have managed to increase leverage and risk. Funds have often lent out the securities in their portfolios and then reinvested the collateral in such a way as to squeeze more returns out of underlying portfolios.
The FSB recommended such deals be logged in trade repositories so as to improve regulators' overview of the market, and suggested a review into directing such trades through central counterparties, or CCPs. CCPs have been the central element of the FSB's strategy to bring more transparency to the market for over-the-counter derivatives.
It also suggested that fund managers be forced to disclose more to clients as to their use of repos, and suggested a limit on the amount of money that can be borrowed against certain collateral.
In addition, the FSB said intermediaries who lend out securities owned by their clients should not be able to use the received collateral to fund their own activities. It said it would issue a final set on all of the issues in its report by September 2013.
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Sharing My Entrepreneurial Mindset
"In all honesty , the entrepreneurial learning path that I traveled since 1995 came about because I never really embraced the idea of working for someone else . It was never about the money --- I was really forced to pursue this path because I don't enjoy not being in charge of my own destiny. Taking orders from others, in all due respect was never an issue when it came to working a job. It was simply never my long-term goal to be 'one more' notch in the belt for someone else's enterprise or fortune other than my own. In other words , it was never my intention to work for the man---- I wanted to be in control of my own life."
The comfort and perceived safety of a corporate job never caught my attention long enough to influence my dreams to move away from the excitement and potential riches of the startup home profession world. I had tendered my resignation to follow an entrepreneurial impulse after having observed just a few inconsistencies with my own spirituality that kept on telling me that "somethin's not right with this picture!" The audacity of manager's goofiing-off time while holding the "worker bees" like myself to the clock as I was at that time, including a few other hard realities about not being in control of my own time and my own life on many levels, just didn't feel like true justice and freedom for all!.
Being an entrepreneur means you can determine your own destiny and experience the gradual adrenaline rush and high's of building something from the ground up. There's no better feeling than putting your heart and soul into your own company to deliver a product (or service) that you're passionate about. But start-up life has been dramatized by the media in a way that doesn't quite capture reality.
Working from home can also be the hardest thing you'll ever do to have financial security. There are controllables and uncontrollables in this unpreditable world we live in. However, having an entrepreneurial mindset and self-discipline to move forward with strong passion and desire can make a non-plush office and late night brainstorming through stratgies for success seem very unappealing. Being a self-starter with the discipline to self-manage is a good beginning for helping lay the foundation for success.
While working from home, I have had my share of long and tedious work days as a work at home professional, during which I have oftentimes worked the equivalent of double and even triple shifts at times. Add to that the necessary and unexpected typical interruptions on the phone conversations, dealing with family matters and get togethers, running errands, etc. etc., and you get one heck of a very tired mind and body. Yet what outshines it all is continuing to exercise my own power and ability to imagine life beyond failure and with financial freedom. Not working to manifest my own ticket to freedom is no different than accepting "lack" and "limitation" as a natural state of existence. Working for "the man" doesn't support such dreams!
What really captures the essence of a startup no matter how you size it up is the exhausting, long and chaotic and turbulent ride uphill. The truly inspired will put their own vision always foremost in their mind and this is the essence of an entrepreneurial mindset and self-discipline path. It's a labor of self-love to remain fully-charged while enjoy (almost) every minute of your climb towards success because there isn't any other option but to forge onward. To become a work at home professional, no matter the challenges, can be a very lonesome experience because no one else can trailblaze your path for you but you.
Self-Discipline and tolerance for risk
One test every entrepreneur-in-the-making should consider is their tolerance for risk. Having an entrepreneurial mindset and self-discipline to work at home can be a life of uncertainty on many levels. However, working for an established company with comforts of a guaranteed paycheck or salary on a certain day of the month, althought not so much the case these days due to economic decline in the last decade, has it many drawbacks too. It means potentially spending more time with your co-workers than with your family, more often than not the case. It means being responsible for not just your own livelihood, but also for every person in your particuar department and the company. And last but not least, it means there is the perpetual disconnect from your aspirations whatever they may be.
In restrospect, uncertainty alone will not chase me away from pursuing my entrepreneurial path. Uncertainty will never overshadow my ability and strong desire to create my own reality, and out of this reality evolved my and my son's vary own online business's from the knowledge and skills we've gained over many many years. So I have hit a few home-runs along my journey, and so it ain't so bad as it may be for most who do not have skills in online marketing and tools as I do have. As a result of years of online markeitng experience and know-how, together my son and I created syndicationmasters.com (syndr.com), a social media synidation platform that generates good social signals on Google, and giveawayfrenzy.com people where companies and individuals giveaway free prizes by doing contest in order to gain traffic to their business or corporation.
These two online business's of ours evolved while observing the online marketing trends as bloggers and doing web development. It's the love for doing online work and keeping pace with innovated online marketing that as of nearly two months ago, lead me to turn my focus once again to mobile technology. I'd dabble in it every now and then to see where this technoloy trends were going. I found through research that the mobile app technology of Paid2Save Network is revolutionizing the mobile industry and experince due to ease of access for the 80% of mobile users that love to shop for bargains online.
In a world where there isn't much of an employment guarantee due to outsourcing, downsizing, company layoffs, as well as closing down business, having a start-up business through a very solid affiliate business may not be a bad idea. By no means am I selling you on the idea of simply walking away from your job, if you do have one. Altough both options mentioned above can be risky, the greater risk may be not makig a clear decision for how-to measure a set of risks in either direction, and therefore losing the window of opporunity for either 'not walking away from a dead-end job" at the right time, or for "walking away from an opportunity" too soon" before thoroughly researching the entrepreneurial path to determine if you do have "the entrpreneurial mindset and self-discipline to travle the bumpy road ahead.
So why would anyone put up with the possibility of riding a slippery-slope up and sometimes down the ladder towards financial success? It is because anyone with even the slightest entrepreneurial mindset and self-discipline knows that being an entrepreneur also means you may actually build a company that becomes legendary or create a product that makes peoples' lives better. You may build a profitable business that you run for years and pass on to your children. But if you start your new journey into a home based business, do it for the right reasons and with realistic expectations, and it will be smoother and much more enjoyable.
No matter where the entrepreneurial urge comes from, deciding to follow it is a life-changing move. When it comes time to make the final decision, the two main questions to ask yourself are, No. 1, am I prepared for the long and arduous journey up the slippery-slope, and No. 2, am I willing to do whatever it takes to become intellectually enriched with the fundamentals of business succes? Of course, there are many other questions to ask yourself. I know there are many other soul seearching questions to ponder, such as am I resillent enough to get back up in case I fail and to do it over-and-over and over again? Failure is truly the act of never letting go of fear! If you never began what you have only dreamed of then you have already failed!
My Best Entrepreneur Advice is to Start
Join the Mobile App Marketing Revolution! The Paid2Save Network has the only patented mobile app marketing technology on the planet. It not only is results-based marketing (merchants pay on the back-end after sales, unlike Groupon that charges 25% to 40% upfront with a no guaranteed contract) but it pays mobile phone users 5% for every referrals sale made via their "free" downloadable app. Go here to download your own free app and began sharing it with friends and family before someone other than yourself gets to them first. MUST USE CODE 83596, any you may have to verify via your email or Facebook account.
One of my business's to help my team is syndicationmasters.com (syndr.com) and also on Fiverr.com/livenow111 where you can learn more about one of my vary own online marketing programs that helps online marketers gain great signals from Google that help their syndicated content rank high. Check us out!
In addition, I am passionate to share my online marketing skills and services and my training and motivating know-how.
I hope you'll join me and allow me to work with you to help you invest in your dreams for financial success!
Jennifer Patton
Work at home professional


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Community Outreach with QuestionPoint
Programs and events offered through virtual reference are a cost-effective way for UK public libraries to engage with their community. The users do not need to visit the library in order to fully participate, and in many cases the speakers are offsite as well. Not only does this raise the profile of the library - it can open up many intriguing ways to collaborate with community leaders, artists and subject experts, regardless of their location. And it can be a lot of fun, too!
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