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Inner tubes are an amazing product that are practically as useful when they are no longer useful for their intended purpose as when they are being used for their intended purpose. Say that five times fast. From shoe laces, to a wallet, to a computer bracket, you almost want to ask yourself, "Is there anything they can't do?"
Yet another inner tube hack was sent along to us by Nikos over at Bicyclosis. Check out his site for instructions on how to create a cool DIY tool pouch from an inner tube.
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Album title "Upright Position" on Grip Shift records.
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Thank you to all the readers who participated in our Fix it Sticks Power Hair Giveaway. I'm fairly certain that a lot of hair metal was based on rage directed at the US transportation infrastructure. Dee Snider was likely incensed that he was not able to ride his bike safely to this performance.
Or maybe a bolt had come loose and he did not have the correct tool to fix it. This could very well be the inspiration for "We're not going to take it!"
8.6 million views? Maybe there is hope for the younger generation! =)
With head firmly banging, a cheap macrobrew in hand, and the volume dial at 10, I reviewed all of the submissions and the winner is . . . Jake The Snake. Not only did he name the band, he named a record and the label behind it. And all bike themed no less.
Band: VeloHammer
Album title: Upright Position
Label: Grip Shift Records
Jake gets the sticks. Stay tuned readers, I have another giveaway in the works . . . and it will allow you to rock.
Most bike companies talk about the stiffness and compliance of frames, but reader Nick's use of his frame for leverage must make bike company reps cringe. Nick blogs at bicycleobsession and the following text and picture are credited to his site.
How to remove a stubborn cassette lockring without special tools? Or anything stubborn like pedals, bottom bracket and crankset bolt? Just use your own frame! Put your spanner inside the bare headtube (leave it free from any parts) and use the entire frame as a powerful extender. It will work on anything, trust me.
Last month I noted that I received delivery of two sets of the new Fix It Sticks. I am only one person and I can't see the need to have two sets, so I am going to give the other set to a reader.
Brian, the inventor of Fix It Sticks suggested what I thought was a great idea - a fictional hair band name contest.
So readers, if you want to try to get the sticks, leave a comment with your fictional hair metal band name(s). Comment as many times as you please. Get out the hair spray and Kickstart your Heart.
Deadline to leave your comment is May 9th. Winner will be chosen with a beer in hand, hair as high as possible, and metal on the speakers . . . cranked to 10.
In case you wonder if I have the hair to back up my claim, here is your answer.
In the olden days, one would have an idea and would get really excited about it, and yet there would be no easy way to share it so the idea would remain just that - an idea. Then the Internet came along and gave birth to Kickstarter. I'm not so sure if Kickstarter coming along was a good thing or a bad thing. It can be good to share ideas, but I swear not a day seems to pass when I don't get an email for a bike related Kickstarter campaign. It's almost become like spam.
Every now and then I do open the Kickstarter emails and think the idea is actually an interesting one. This happened recently when I received an email from the folks behind a product called the MyTask.
Smart phones are pretty much here to stay and the idea behind this is a case that attaches to your phone which can hold useful items - like bike tools. Below is some text, pictures, and a video. If these things get funded the producer has agreed to have a contest of some sort to give away to Bike Hacks readers. Enjoy . . .
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A Complete bike-tool and patch kit seamlessly integrated into your phone case
When starting out with the myTask:BIKE project, casual biker and designer Addison wanted to create a bike tool that was convenient, strong and was unobtrusive. So along came the myTask: BIKE
Built on the same platform as the myTask: URBAN, the The myTask: BIKE concept is simple, its a bike tool for those of us that just want something simple to carry with us on our commute to work or after work ride and not have to worry about remembering the tire irons, and the bike tool, and the patch kit. The myTask: BIKE is built on a removable sliding tray and adds only 6mm to the thickness of your phone, but packs 22 bike specific tools into the swappable tray. The tools are built from 440C Hardened stainless, and despite being only 1.5mm thick, are incredibly strong and will last a lifetime.
The 22 bike-specific tools included are:
- 2 tire irons
- Pedal/Axle wrench (15mm)
- 6 Allen wrenches (1/16, 2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, 6mm)
- 4 box wrenches (5.5mm, 7mm, 8mm, 10mm)
- 2 spoke wrenches (0.127, 0.130)
- Flathead screwdriver
- Phillips screwdriver
- 3 glueless tube patches
- tire roughener (for applying tube patches)
- bottle opener (for after the ride!)
The myTask: BIKE not only makes your bike tool more compact, but gives you the tire patch kit, tire levers and pedal wrench in an unbelievable slim package!
TaskLab is currently taking pre-orders and trying to generate the funds for the product manufacturing. Come join us in making your case more useful!
Long time readers of Bike Hacks might remember our Fix It Sticks Haiku contest. Well, the next edition of Fix It Sticks has been funded and I was sent two pairs in the mail. Here is a shot of the new product with a cool little inner tube pocket (USB drive thrown in for size context).
Look, replaceable stuff!
The strange thing is, I am only one person. What do I need with two pairs? Maybe it was because last time I ran the contest but did not actually get the product myself =)
I am thinking another contest might be in order to give away the second product. Check out this video on the product while I contemplate the giveaway . . . most likely over a beer.
Reader Berto, who came up with a fabulous portable shopping cart, also put together a fine looking portable workshop. Some angel investor please connect with Berto and make these things available to the masses. Full instructables write up here if you don't want to wait.
Reader Bruce sent along this simple and useful hack to carry tools while riding. And if your intent was actually to play tennis and you were carrying tennis balls instead of tools, see this previous entry for a hack to carry your racket.
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I saw a recent Bikehack water bottle tool holder. For years I have been using old tennis ball containers to do that job. I recycle plastic (not tin) tennis ball containers with plastic lids that you get when you buy tennis balls. These tennis ball tubes of various brands often come in 3 or 4 ball size. They fit great in a bicycle's bottle holder, are easy to get to when repairs are needed, and are water tight. So if you have two water bottle cages and only want one water bottle then you can use the other cage to hold the tennis tube.
Some bikes will fit only a 3 ball tube due to frame size. On bikes that fit a 4 bottle holder you can probably fit two tubes in it depending on tyre size. For the 4 ball tubes I usually put a small velcro strap around the top of the container and the bike frame to stop it moving around sideways - depends on how tight your cage is.
In mine I carry a spare tube, levers, patches, multi-tool, disposable gloves, band-aids, zip ties, elec tape and about 1m of string for tying the bike seat up to a tree branch or fence when repairing a back wheel puncture.
I find these to be better than bike shop tool bottles. The wide opening is easier to get things in and out of than using an old water bottle. I carefully remove the metal airtight seal before use. Be careful that there is no sharp edge left inside the opening when you tear off the metal seal - pliers or the edge of a screw driver can fix that if necessary.
For my night time commutes I line the inside of a clear tennis ball tube with a sheet of reflective material. If you ride in very wet conditions you might run some tape around the top of the bottle overlapping the lid, normally I don't need that.
Creative hacks related to carrying tools is a concept not new to BikeHacks (peanut butter jar, slitting a water bottle, Tetra pak) but reader Brian puts a new twist on things.
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This simple idea is a great way to be able to transport needed tools and extra supplies. Most bikes have room for two water bottles and in my case I never needed more than one for my daily riding. Since I had extra water bottles that had seen better days and an extra water bottle cage I decided to make a mobile tool box.
To make this water bottle tool carrier I simply took two old water bottles and cut them up. One bottle had the bottom cut off. The other had the top cut off and then I cut some lines down the sides so I could slide the top water bottle over it.
The system has turned out to work quite well. It is waterproof and holds everything I have ever needed on the trail, and road, for quick repairs. I even take some tape and roll it around the outfit in case I ever find myself needing to make a quick fix.
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The only thing that has ever been a problem for me is the fact that it looks like a water bottle and over the years of using this setup all of my kids have tried to grab it for a quick drink. To avoid that problem I have even started writing No H20 around it.
Our Fix it Sticks contest attracted the attention of many, including reader Felix who saw some familiarity with the product. He sent along the following -
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There's that old saying "What's new is old". The Fix-It-Sticks are a reiteration of a screw driver that Crescent Tools made years ago. I've had mine for about 13 years. I should have bought more... gave out a bunch of them and have only one left. Although it comes with 3 flat/Phillips screw driver bits, these could be replaced with hex or Torx bits.


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SEATTLE (AP) — The stagnant air that has been held over the state for nearly two weeks by a high pressure temperature inversion should clear out tonight in Western Washington and tomorrow in Eastern Washington. Forecasters say a series of weather systems will move through the state in the next few days bringing a chance of rain showers in Western Washington and rain or light snow showers in Eastern Washington.


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Test Lab Engineer
- Employer
- Matchtech
- Location
- Woodstock, England
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- Feb 28, 2012
- Closes
- Mar 27, 2012
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- Discipline
- Engineering, Mechanical engineering
- Result Type
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- Position Type
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- Hours
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Key Responsibilities
1. Lead project specific Test laboratory workstreams.
2. Ensure that work is properly planned and scheduled in support of R&D objectives
3. Design and implement Development Test Method validation and Transfer processes and methods in order to guarantee the quality of Test Laboratory results.
4. Ensure that all Test Laboratory and Document Control activities are compliant with the relevant company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Directives.
People Management
Recruitment of Direct Reports in accordance with company guidelines
Absence management
Annual Performance Review and performance management of reporting associates in accordance with company guidelines
Day to day management of associate related issues.
Knowledge and Expertise
* Previous medical device experience
* Experience Test Method Validation (MSA) and Transfer processes
* Experience of Statistical Methods
* Familiar with safe working practises
* Highly computer literate
* Experience Managing projects and Technical Support Teams of moderate size
* Degree Qualified in a relevant Technical discipline or equivalent
* Six Sigma Qualification (desirable)
Personal Characteristics
* Effective team Leader
* Flexible attitude in carrying out different types of work
* Self-motivated and well organised
* Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills
* Pragmatic
* Attention to detail
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Melody A. Grubb
ROGERS – Melody A. Grubb, 54, of Dyke Road, died at 6:25 a.m. Saturday at the St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, Boardman campus, where she had been a patient.
Born Feb. 6, 1959, in Salem, she was the daughter of Virginia L. Wylie Vaughn and the late Richard E. Vaughn Sr.
Prior to becoming ill she had been employed at Waters Cleaning in Columbiana.
In addition to her mother of East Palestine, she leaves three daughters, Julie Groves and Christina Minger of Youngstown and Jennifer Duffield of Rogers; a sister, Barbara Lee Burson of Lisbon; a brother, Richard Vaughn Jr. of East Palestine; and nine grandchildren.
The family will receive friends beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday at 1350 Beard Road, New Waterford. Burial will be in Crest Haven Memorial Gardens in New Waterford.
Arrangements were handled by the Oliver-Linsley Funeral Home in East Palestine (www.oliver-linsley.com)
Melody A. Grubb
EAST PALESTINE- Melody A. Grubb, 54, of Dyke Road passed away at 6:25 a.m. Saturday at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center Boardman Campus.
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About AJ_asher : I'm just a French Canadian girl, a dreamer, a realist, and a new Christian. I currently have a really great boyfriend, who I love. Over the past two years, I've been rebuilding my life, and recently I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere.
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Today, I was at the park with my daughter. She walked up to a boy at the swings, held her hand out, and said, "Hi I'm Vanessa, and someday you'll be working for me." FML
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Today, my grandma walked into my room and asked if the thing lying on my nightstand was a computer. I said ''Grandma, that's a clock.'' After staring at me, confused for a few seconds, she then farted, and left my room. FML
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Today, I got sent to detention for saying, "that's what she said" after a girl in my class said, "push a little harder" while disecting a frog. FML
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Today, I was on a red-eye flight, and the woman beside me was chattering loudly to her friend. I opened my laptop and got to work. Suddenly, one of the women turned to me and told me that the clicking of my keyboard was too loud. She then called me an inconsiderate selfish bitch. FML
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Today, I realized I've lived alone too long. I read 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' to my cat. I used expression in my voice, and I made sure he could see the pictures. My son called, and I told him about it. He gave me the number for the local psychiatric ward. FML
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Today, while on the phone with a client at work, I was planning on saying either "Yeah." or "Uh-huh." Without thinking, I combined the two and ended up saying "Yee-hah," like a cowboy. FML
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Today, I got no happy birthday wishes from anyone. I decided to call my sister to see if she'd remembered. My 6-year-old niece answered, so I told her it was my birthday. She said that it's tomorrow. After ten minutes of arguing with a 6-year-old, I checked the calendar. It's tomorrow. FML
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The Playstation Blog has posted a little something for PS Vita owners today. Scion is letting you have MotorStorm RC for free for a limited time.
What's the catch? You get a free Scion iQ car to use in the game.
The PS3 version will still set you back $9.99($7.49 for Playstation Plus member). Don't worry though, Sony will make sure you can spend some cash on the game, there should be a huge amount of downloadable content for you to purchase if you enjoy the racer. MotorStorm RC's reviews have been very, very good on Metacritic, so it seems like this is nothing but a bag full of win! Granted, the game hasn't shown up on the store as of this writing (which is probably the only reason work is getting done today), but you should see it as soon as the store updates with the new stuff today.


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Wish List: Suno's Printed, Tulip-Hem Dress
A resort look with a blitz of blossoms.
Into the din of products in next's color of the year — radiant orchid — comes this Suno dress, which features a blitz of burgundy-colored blossoms over an ultraviolet background. It's a statement in and of itself, with simple details like slight cap sleeves and a mermaid skirt. It's disarming and feminine, even for the most die-hard, not-girly kind of girl.
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The Shipwreck Lounge Video
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What a great Host and hostess they are. Very nice people.Jimmy and Laurel really know how to make you feel at home . Great people
Thank you Frank for the compliment. I do have to say I'm a bit embarrassed by my mono-tone voice. Those of you who know me, know that it's my husband who is the public speaker. If I hadn't had one too many glasses of champagne in celebration of the Dory Races, I don't believe I would have been on camera. Alas, I hope this is not what I'm remembered for. Please don't Litter!


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<< Link for apartments near Darien that allow small and large dogs. As for outdoor space, look at the map setting or click on the apartments that you are interested in and view these on a map. There is plenty of places where you can walk your dogs and streams and rivers where you can take them to swim. The hardest part is going to be finding an apartment that has all of these things and that is located in this area. Good luck.
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One of the first stops for tourists in search of typical Miami flavor, this exuberant two-story Latin club is definitely high energy. Here you'll find a colorful decor with illuminated palm trees, a veranda, paintings of tropical foliage in day-glo hues and a glam upstairs bar reminiscent of the Tropicana Club in Havana circa 1920.
At Mango's, the food has always taken a backseat to the scene. Live reggae and Latin bands as well as scantily-clad samba dancers and sexy tango dancers add to the allure. DJs spin a mix of reggaeton, merengue, salsa and bachata, and dance lessons are available. Another plus: the bartenders (most of them beach cuties) can dance a mambo on top of the bar as gracefully as they make a Banana Cabana cocktail. But if you go to dine, expect standard beach fare like chicken farfalle, Caribbean mahi mahi and a selection of steaks.


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Known as Flag City USA for its patriotic displays, Findlay, Ohio is just fifty miles south
of Toledo. If you're looking for
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Findlay has a long history of being home to automotive-related businesses. The Cooper
Tire and Rubber Company was founded here, and Findlay remains its headquarters. Specialty tire
maker Hercules Tire has both its worldwide headquarters and a major distribution center here as
well. Also headquartered in Findlay are Sparks Commercial Tire and Sparks Auto and
Thanks in part to its location on Interstate 75, Findlay has become an important
warehouse distribution center for companies like Best Buy, Lowe's, Cardinal Health and Kohl's.
And, even though Marathon Oil Corporation is now headquartered in Texas, Findlay remains home to
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Findlay is not
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like Putt N' Pond Sports Park and Riverside Landing Boat Rentals provides a vast range of fun
activities like swimming, water slides, miniature golf, go-cart racing, boat rentals and much
Locomotive buffs will enjoy Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation Inc.'s live steam
train rides and on-premise museum. Visitors to the museum will enjoy model-, quarter-, and
full-scale trains, as well as a Lionel train layout.
If you plan to spend your free time
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Those lucky enough to be in Findlay during the winter months, after four
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Golfers will want to head to the Red Hawk Run Golf Course, one of the area's
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AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary is thrilled to welcome best-selling author Jane Green on March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Cole Auditorium. She will discuss her latest book, Another Piece of My Heart.
Another Piece of My Heart is Green's thirteenth novel. The book follows Andi, who has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man, and at thirty-seven, she's finally found him. Ethan – divorced with two daughters, Emily and Sophia – is a devoted father and even better husband. Always hoping one day she would be a mother, Andi embraces the girls like they were her own. But in Emily's eyes, Andi is an obstacle to her father's love, and Emily will do whatever it takes to break her down. When the dynamics between the two escalate, they threaten everything Andi believes about love, family, and motherhood – leaving both women standing at a crossroad in their lives…and their hearts. Another Piece of My Heart is a novel that illuminates the nuances and truths about relationships and is Green at her absolute best.
A former feature writer for the Daily Express in the UK, Green left in 1996 to freelance and work on a novel. Seven months later, there was a bidding war for her first book, Straight Talking, the saga of a single career girl looking for the right man. The novel was a hit in England. Now Green is the author of twelve New York Times bestsellers and has been featured in People, Newsweek, USA Today, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. Green lives in Westport, CT with her husband and their six children.
AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary is made possible through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees and contributions by generous donors. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event through Diane's Books. This program is free and open to all, but seating in the Cole Auditorium is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Marianne Weill at (203) 622-7933.
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Wachusett grad wins Fulbright fellowship
Karen Wilfrid, a 2005 graduate of Wachusett Regional High School, has won a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Spain. Wilfrid is the daughter of Daniel Wilfrid and Nancy Elder-Wilfrid and graduated in May from Oberlin College in Ohio with degrees in creative writing and Hispanic studies. Wilfrid says she fell in love with Spain through PRESHCO, Oberlin's program in Córdoba. "After gaining so much from my experience there," she says, "I want to go back and give something of myself in return. Also, because Oberlin has supported my interest in teaching by giving me various opportunities to volunteer in the public schools, an English teaching assistantship in Spain seems like the perfect choice." Each year the Fulbright international educational program provides participants with the opportunity to study and teach in other countries, exchange ideas, and develop joint solutions to shared concerns under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State.


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Dodgers activate infielder Ellis from disabled list"I'm done rehabbing," Ellis said upon his return to the Dodgers' clubhouse. The Dodgers activated second baseman Mark Ellis off the disabled list Sunday and optioned catcher Tim Federowicz to Triple-A Albuquerque. Manager Don Mattingly said he was surpris… (more)Source: MLB.com
Dodgers 2B Ellis back in lineup vs. BravesDodgers second baseman Mark Ellis has returned to the lineup after missing the last 19 games with a right quadriceps strain.Source: ESPN.com


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This is the May 1, 2013 news archive. View today's Bengals rumors and news.
NFL commissioner in town next month
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will lead a special session during the 117th Annual National PTA Convention next month in Cincinnati.Share Tweet
Bengals try to corner speedbengals.com May 1, 2013Unofficially, Onterio McCalebb believes his NFL Scouting Combine 40-yard dashes were 4.27 seconds and 4.21. Two weeks later at the Auburn pro day, it was 4.29.Share Tweet
Bengals' draft puts more pressure on DaltonESPN.com May 1, 2013Two days into what had been an impressive draft for the Cincinnati Bengals, ESPN's Tedy Bruschi said, "If there was a year they can win the division, it's this year." Herm Edwards raised expectations even higher, predicting the Bengals would w…Share Tweet
Carson Palmer thinks every team would accept a gay teammateprofootballtalk.com May 1, 2013Carson Palmer has been in the NFL for a decade and played for the Bengals, Raiders and now the Cardinals, and he says he has never seen any reason to believe that an openly gay player would run into discrimination on an NFL team. Asked in an interview w…Share Tweet
Bengals to convert Auburn speedster to cornerprofootballtalk.com bengals.com May 1, 2013The Bengals have signed one of the fastest players to come out of college this year, but they're asking him to switch sides of the ball. The team announced some undrafted rookie signings yesterday, but according to Geoff Hobson of the team's officialShare Tweet
Teams that improved the most through the draftMay 1The "Path to the Draft" crew analyzes the teams that improved the most through the 2013 NFL Draft.


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After seeing the Yankees all-time starting team the other day, I thought I would take a stab at an all-time roster for my hometown team—the Seattle Mariners.
Before getting too far into this, I would like to bring up the pertinent question of the slideshow:
Other than the Yankees, is there a better starting nine in baseball history than the Seattle Mariners?
No, really. I'm being serious. I count four surefire Hall of Famers, one borderline HOFer, and one potential future HOFer (Felix Hernandez). Plus, I haven't even talked about our Hall of Fame-caliber manager and Hall of Fame-caliber GM.
Taking it one step further, I would argue that the Seattle Mariners have been the extended home of the best starting pitcher, center fielder, shortstop, right fielder, and designated hitter of the last 25 years.
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Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
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Type Information
Catalog Number: US 431312
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. M. Hall
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Collected in Santa Monica Mts., raised in botanical Garden, University of California., California, United States, North America
- Isotype: Britton, N. L. 1903. Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 3: 20.
Comments: North-facing slopes and cliffs in chaparral communities. Also in deep canyon bottoms. Typically on sedimentary conglomerate rock (9/99 Recovery Plan). Note Nakai (1987) for ssp. agourensis vs. ssp. ovatifolia.
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Rounded National Status Rank: N1 - Critically Imperiled
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Rounded Global Status Rank: T1 - Critically Imperiled
Reasons: Known from disjunct locations in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains around the Los Angeles Basin in California, with fewer than 2000 individuals at 8 or fewer extant sites (including ssp. agourensis as a synonym). Populations are threatened by dense residential and commercial development, as well as recreational activities and road maintenance.
Status: Threatened
Date Listed: 01/29/1997
Lead Region: California/Nevada Region (Region 8)
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Comments: Since Dudleya cymosa ssp. ovatifolia mostly occurs on rocky outcrops with little vegetative cover, it is only slightly threatened at this time by roadside scraping for weed control, fire suppression activities (such as brush clearing), horticultural collection, grazing, nonnative insects (Argentine ants) and plants (USFWS 2009). While in the past populations had been lost to urban (residential and commercial) development, newer development seems to be more accommodating to this taxon, leaving its habitat zoned as open space and promising protection (USFWS 2009). Yet, secondary effects of urbanization, such as recreational activities (like rock climbing and hiking), are becoming a more prominent threat. Since most of the habitat exists on private land, direct and indirect impacts from current and future development is always a threat (USFWS 2009). Climate change is a possible threat, the extent of which is not yet known (USFWS 2009).
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Comments: Kartesz (1994, 1999) and the California Natural Diversity Database (8/2000) consider D. cymosa ssp. agourensis distinct, whereas it is considered a synonym of ssp. ovatifolia by the USFWS (1997, 1999); Bartel in Hickman (1993); and the California Native Plant Society (1994). Dudleya cymosa ssp. ovatifolia is generally recognized, e.g., by Kartesz (1994 checklist, 1999 synthesis); new Jepson manual (Hickman 1993); McAuley (1985); and the USFWS (1997, 1999). LEM 23Dec99 and BMacB 26Sep2000.
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Now sprawl will save the planet, say Outer Beltway boosters
Outer Beltway lobbyists will say and do anything to unlock new land for sprawl in Northern Virginia's rural areas. The latest bizarre claim comes from the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance, whose email alert this week bore the title, "Save the Planet. Expand the Highway Network."
Sometimes, you just can't make this stuff up.
NVTA claims that a Fairfax County energy task force recommended a massive highway-expansion program as the solution to energy issues, and suggests that the county Board of Supervisors endorsed the idea.
There are only at least 3 problems with this: That's not what the task force report says, the statement NVTA quotes isn't even one of the recommendations, and the board didn't endorse anything about road expansion. Not to mention it's a terrible idea.
Highway-building won't save the planet
NVTA has been pushing for an Outer Beltway through the rural piedmont for decades, and apparently believes we should widen every other highway ad infinitum. Landowners at the edges of the developed region fund NVTA, and the edge highways they constantly lobby for will open up opportunities to create large subdivisions of single-family homes (exactly the types of housing in the locations the region doesn't need right now).
That certainly won't decrease congestion in the medium or long term, though. It will probably increase it, because thousands more commuters will then joint the predominantly east-west commuter routes to jobs.
Even if it does reduce congestion for a short while, that doesn't save the planet one bit. A review by Portland State University found congestion reduction programs often don't reduce emissions. While cars do pollute less when not in traffic, any congestion reduction also entices people to drive more, adding new emissions as well.
Transportation made up 36% of Fairfax's energy use in 2006. The national report "Growing Cooler," by Smart Growth America and the Center for Clean Air Policy, and "Cool Communities" by the Coalition for Smarter Growth in the DC region, demonstrate convincingly that smart growth and transit-oriented development are the best tools to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. The compact development of smart growth also contributes to better building energy efficiency as well.
NVTA alert warps reality
NVTA's "Save the Planet. Expand the Highway Network" alert cites Fairfax County's Private Sector Energy Task Force, which, it claims, concluded:
Due to the need for transit to use highways and the need for most trips in the County to continue to use individual vehicles, a highway program to eliminate or at least drastically reduce congestion, provides the county with the largest opportunity for transportation energy reduction in the short and medium-term.The NVTA alert also notes that "The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors recently endorsed unanimously its Private Sector Energy Task Force's recommendations." That certainly implies the board endorsed the above statement.
Besides the fact that the recommendation is dead wrong, NVTA is misleading on several fronts. This isn't really a recommendation of the task force at all, the county board certainly did not endorse this statement, and the report doesn't really only recommend highways as the solution to all problems.
The statement that the county should fix congestion with indiscriminate road-building appears nowhere in the task force's presentation to the Board of Supervisors or its formal recommendations. It does appear in a long document of "supporting material" which makes a very large number of different and sometimes conflicting suggestions.
Fairfax supervisors don't agree with highway agenda; neither did the task force
At Fairfax County's annual Revitalization Conference on October 22, Fairfax Chairman Sharon Bulova offered a very different vision than the one NVTA claims to ascribe to her. Stewart Schwartz of the Coalition for Smarter Growth attended, and reports that Chairman Bulova opened the conference with a strong statement that the county must focus addressing traffic congestion through land use policy, in particular by revitalizing and redeveloping its old commercial corridors.
The task force's membership happens to include people like Lon Anderson from AAA Mid-Atlantic, and Leo Schefer of the Washington Airports Task Force, who has long lobbied for the Outer Beltway. It's little surprise that a long list of supporting information from a task force containing professional road lobbyists and longtime road boosters includes a few road lobbyist statements. It also contains a great many recommendations that contradict the wider-roads-everywhere agenda.
Even in the congestion section, the supporting information document's long list of suggestions includes making it easier for people within 1 mile of rail stations to reach transit, and using road elements like roundabouts to improve flow without widening roads. The document advocates for tax credits and parking incentives for fuel-efficient vehicles, and encouraging more children to bicycle to school.
It's actually more telling that the task force demurred from endorsing the bad idea of focusing on expanding capacity to reduce energy use. Instead, there's a very vague recommendation asking the board to "review the transportation report" and possibly convey some findings to the Council of Governments.
Besides, the task force wasn't supposed to be about country transportation policy. A Fairfax County official said the goal was to find ways the private sector could help improve energy efficiency within the private sphere. It wasn't a transportation panel and its charge was never to try to set the county's priorities on transportation.
But for the people in Northern Virginia who single-mindedly pursue the Outer Beltway year in and year out, any task force seems to be an opportunity to push their same ideas. The Board of Supervisors should be cautious about these task forces or permanent panels, like the task force's suggestion to create a Public-Private Energy Alliance, if some members constantly try to hijack such forums to serve their own transportation and development ends.
HOWEVER, if you look at smaller projects like light rail down 7, gallows road or route 1 then you can improve the commutes of many Fairfax residents and workers for the same price that you'd get for this outer beltway which would have a lot of through traffic for not as much benefit to Fairfax residents.
Moreover, the more people you get out of their cars the more room you have for people still in them on 495, and so forth.
Hahahaha. I lol'd at your sentence about preserving open land. If this road ever is built, before the ink even dries on the contracts, there will be another 10,000 homes built on farmland. This is such a horrible idea, for a county that has much more pressing needs (95) and it saddens me that it keeps popping up.
Of course your comment was in jest, just made me laugh to even think that something like that could ever work :)
That way you help mobility as well as transit.
In 2040 77.5% of all daily trips in Fairfax County are likely to be internal; only 22.6% generally external in nature.
Doesn't that suggest that they are a group who wants to see Fairfax grow from a commuter suburb to one where people live, work and otherwise go about their daily interests outside the Beltway and don't have much of an interest in being part of greater Washington? Is it possible that they like to live within the confines of the stereotypical suburb?, as unattractive as most of us readers of GGW find it.
I agree that their pleas for saving the planet don't add up though.
not at all. A. a very large percentage of total trips are not work trips and most of those are already suburb even in 'stereotypical suburbs' B. FFX already has lots of employment and many commute trips are within the county. Thats true of lots of suburbs, though especially so in FFX. C. that does not mean there is no interest in being part of greater Washington - between the significant number of commuters to DC (and Arlington and Alex) reflected in those numbers, and the fact that many of the jobs IN FFX are connected to proximity to DC and arlington, FFX is definitely tied strongly to the region - indeed proximity to the core is a selling point for FFX vs Loudoun.
The FFX bd is surely interested in growing FFX (and especially Tysons) as an employment center. However they want to do that in part by increasing the non-auto mode share in the county, and especially for trips to and within Tysons. I think thats a goal many or most of the folks at GGW share.
I get what you're saying and maybe its just my optimistic outlook for Fairfax talking but I think most in Fairfax realize why the county is the way it is. Plus, it's too big to ignore, it's one of the most populated counties in the country and if it was a city (as was discussed last year by the BOS) it'd be bigger than Pittsburgh.
While they may not be interested in the region the region definitely needs to be interested in Fairfax. (to paraphrase and misquote Lenin).
" it's one of the most populated counties in the country and if it was a city (as was discussed last year by the BOS) it'd be bigger than Pittsburgh."
So would Montgomery, Prince George's, Anne Arundel, and Balt. Co. There's a lot of suburban counties that have populations greater than major cities, but that doesn't mean they should incorporate, especially since they're mostly low density (<5,000 sqmi).
Fairfax is still a sleepy cookie-cutter bedroom suburb. If any county should incorporate, Arlington is clearly the obvious choice. It wouldn't be a bad idea for 'Tysons' to incorporate either.
It's still one of my smart growth dreams. The idea of being able to roll up to the edge of town after going through agricultural or natural land and have a clear boundry. Would be nice! Maybe in 100 years when preserving large swaths of open land for ecosystem viability, or when fossile feul's costs are honestly tabulated, and we see the insanity of the enterprise.
Frankly, we don't need to make every highway expansion a battle in the culture/political war. We should apply similar objective economic criteria to each transportation project regardless of its politics. If the outer beltway can be paid for like the Silver Line -- with no more than a 5% contribution from the state, and the rest paid for by local governments and tolls -- then they have every right to build it. So, it's not a contentious matter of culture wars or politics, it's a simple matter of dollars and cents.
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If you really wanna press to the extreme, you could see DC as a suburb of Fairfax, given that Fairfax has twice the population of DC, and is considerably more industrial (non-political) HQs than DC, despite DC being the Capital of the US.
Lo and behold, what do I see? An immense development chock full of the Biggest McMansions Evar. Nearly as big as the White House, each and every one of all approximately 800 of them.
I drove around a bit more, and a bit more.
You don't have to drive far to find such developments... yet no matter how far you drive, there's one such development not far away.
I'm just sayin'... the Sprawl is already there.
1. I have not heard they want to finance it with only a 5% state contribution
2. If Im in Fairfax, and this road will do net harm to Fairfax's economic future, by encouraging more low density development in PWC and southern LoCo that competes with FFX (not to mention the GHG implications), why would I want even one cent of the money we send to richmond used for this? When we have many unmet needs?
And as I said, for the cost of the outer beltway you could put in A LOT of improvements to the existing transportation infrastructure here in fairfax and help the people already living in the densest parts of the county.
Just think of buses feeding our current and future Metro stops. Can you see them on Hunters Mill Road, on Lawyers Road, on and on?
People don't take mass transit cause it's not convenient and it's not convenient because we don't have a road network that will support it.
There is also a need for a connection between Fairfax and Montgomery counties, and probably Prince William and its across the river neighbor. Forcing interstate traffic to have to use core arterial roadways does no good for either the local or the through traffic.
In terms of traffic solutions for Fairfax as the county grows, the benefit of compact, transit-oriented redevelopment of the commercial corridors is that the new residents and those who downsize from their single family homes will not only use transit, but they will walk and bike more and take shorter car trips. Transit will work effectively within and between these centers.
But yes, it will be hard to serve suburban neighborhoods with transit not as much because of the road network, but because of how spread out they are. Suburban residents would need to walk or bike to the main arterial bus routes to make these work well.
As for your reference to Potomac bridge crossings, the main need is a transit connection along the Am Legion Bridge corridor to connect the Silver Line and Red Line (Tysons and White Flint). Most of our traffic involves local commuters during the peak hour and focusing on that traffic should be the priority -- with transit key for moving more people in the peak hour. Back in the early 2000's Cong Wolf commissioned a study which showed that an upriver highway bridge would harm too many neighborhoods between Ffx and MoCo and Loudoun and MoCo.
by Stewart Schwartz on Nov 3, 2012 10:41 am • link • report
I'm jist saying IF they can finance it locally, then they can build it. If not, then they can't. As for kicking in 5% from the state, other parts of VA did that for the Silver Line (which makes fairfax more attractive relative to other parts of VA) so its reasonable that they should also receive 5% state funding for their project. If the state never funds a project that helps one part of the state more than another, they'll never fund anything.
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Christina Hendricks graces the September cover of Britain's GQ and inside she poses for nice photos such as the one above! She also talked about Mad Men, wearing tight clothing and her odd fans.
GQ: What's more unpleasant on set - being in incredibly tight clothing or smoking fake herbal cigarettes?
Christina Hendricks: I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardrobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekness and tailoring. As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.
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Summer is truly here again! With all of the outdoor activities you're sure to take part in, we should review some basic ailments that come with the warmer weather.
Tick bites: Ticks are easy to find in New Jersey, especially if you engage in outdoor activities. Even if your only exposure to the "great outdoors" is a walk with your dog, you're still at risk of coming into contact with ticks.
There are a few different species of ticks present in our area; all are capable of causing illness in humans. Patients are most commonly concerned about contracting Lyme disease, although a tick bite can cause a number of other illnesses as well. Symptoms of Lyme disease include: a known or suspected exposure to tick bite; fever; headache; fatigue; and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans, which has the appearance of a bull's eye.
If your physician suspects Lyme disease, he or she may choose to perform a blood test to confirm the diagnosis. Lyme disease is easy to treat with a few weeks of antibiotics, but if left untreated, it can progress to more serious disease. The easiest way to avoid Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses is to practice prevention: use insect repellants and wear long sleeves and pants if you will be in wooded areas. Before returning indoors, perform a tick check and promptly remove any insects.
Poison ivy: Poison ivy is also common in this area of the country. This plant produces oil called urushiol, which causes skin reactions in sensitive persons. You may be exposed through direct contact with the plant, or with items which have touched the plant (garden tools, clothing, and animals). Burning brush containing poison ivy can cause the urushiol to aerosolize, and can lead to lung irritation if proper respiratory protective equipment is not used.
After contact with poison ivy, sensitive persons develop a red rash within a few days; there is usually also itching, swelling, and raised bumps or blisters. Treatment is symptomatic and includes topical hydrocortisone or calamine; cool compresses; oatmeal baths; and antihistamines. In severe cases, a doctor may prescribe oral steroids. If you are exposed to poison ivy, you should immediately wash exposed areas with rubbing alcohol or degreasing soap, taking care to rinse frequently; scrub under your fingernails; and clean all exposed clothing in a separate wash cycle with hot water. To prevent exposure to poisonous plants, you should wear long sleeves, pants, gloves and boots when working with brush or when poison plants are likely to be present.Sunburn: While exposure to UV light is a concern year-round, summertime seems to bring out our need to worship the sun. Sunburn occurs when the UVA and UVB rays from the sun cause damage to skin cells. Sunburn can be recognized by reddening of the skin, tenderness to touch, pain and swelling after sun exposure. Severe burns can lead to blistering and even fatigue and headache if they cover a large part of the body. More seriously, severe burns greatly increase the risk of developing melanoma; with repeated low level exposure, UV rays also lead to basal and squamous cell skin cancers. Treatment for sunburn includes cool compresses, topical aloe or moisturizing lotions, oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration. Prevention is key: wear UV protective clothing, as well as broad-brimmed hats; stay in the shade, and frequently apply a broad spectrum sunblock with SPF of 15 or higher.
Dr. Jacqueline Riedel is a Family Medicine physician and a member of the Kennedy Health Alliance. She practices in West Deptford, NJ, and can be reached by calling 856-384-0210.


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Global Underwater Explorers emerged out of a shared desire to safely explore and protect the underwater world and to improve the quality of education and research in all things aquatic. In line with the original vision of its founding members, GUE is committed to:
- Developing safe, skilled, and knowledgeable divers
- Undertaking and promoting underwater research
- Pursuing global underwater exploration
- Safeguarding the integrity of the underwater world
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For scuba divers worldwide, DAN means safety, health and peace of mind. Committed to improving the safety of diving for all divers, we are Your Buddy in Dive Safety.
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Project AWARE Foundation is a growing movement of scuba divers protecting the ocean planet – one dive at a time.
Over the past two decades of underwater conservation we've learned that divers are true leaders in ocean protection. We're ocean heroes numbering in the millions across the globe. We believe together our actions will make a huge impact and will help to rescue the ocean.
With new programs and more online resources than ever before, Project AWARE supports an unprecedented global movement of divers acting in their own communities to protect oceans and implement lasting change.
We're focusing in on two major ocean issues –Sharks in Peril and Marine Debris, or trash in our ocean. Truly, there are many conservation issues converging on our ocean planet at once, but we're concentrating on these serious problems where scuba divers are uniquely positioned to directly and positively affect real, long-term change in these two areas.
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We focus on action and results, designing our programs to result in saving the lives of sharks. By leveraging professional experience and expertise, Shark Savers brings the issue to the masses in many compelling forms, motivating people to stop consuming sharks, serving as the voice for a maligned species, and focusing their attention on locations where sharks need to be protected.
Shark Savers enables people to make a difference and take a stand in their home, their local businesses, and throughout shark hot spots all over the world.
Shark Savers' Mission
Our mission is to save the sharks.
We focus on education and awareness because most people still think sharks are out to kill them, or don't know that sharks are being fished towards extinction, or are unaware of the disastrous impact that shark eradication has on the oceans and food supply, or don't know that mercury in shark fin soup is hazardous.
We empower people to take action by getting involved in our programs and campaigns in order to aggregate and maximize their impact for the cause of protecting sharks.
Shark conservation is an enormous challenge because sharks are being fished out of the water by the millions each month and cannot reproduce fast enough to overcome overfishing. Sharks are already gone in many of the areas where they were once plentiful. The fishing pressure against them continues relentlessly, largely because of the market demand for their fins. We do see recent signs of hope in the results of actions of people and organizations throughout the world, although not enough to lessen the urgency of this mission.
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The shape of things to come
The US Postal service has a financial problem. That's not a surprise, especially is a time when the entire US government has a financial problem. Unlike the rest of the US government, the USPS is relatively limited in the amount of government money it can receive, and is more or less—and often less, granted—supposed to rely on postage to fund its operations. It still manages to get nice subsidies from the government, but even then it's supposed to pay those back. Eventually.
In other respects, though, it operates like the rest of the government. Nice federal workers' and union bennies, heavy bureaucracy, a monopoly on the service it provides, etc., etc. So, that makes it sort of a canary in the coal mine when it comes to government financing. Which makes this interesting:
The U.S. Postal Service would eliminate about 220,000 full-time jobs and shutter about 300 processing facilities by 2015 under a proposal to bring its finances in order, a postal official said on Friday.
The Postal Service needs to cut payrolls to about 425,000 employees and take over its retirement and health benefits instead of participating in federal programs, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told Reuters.
This will require abrogating union contracts on layoffs on retirements and health care, and restructuring its employment and benefit rules, close about 3,000 post offices, and contract out mail services to private organizations.
Naturally the unions are already screaming, as are some Democratic lawmakers.
Cry me a river. This is what financial reality looks like. This is the reality that's coming to the rest of the Federal government in the not-too-distant future. Get used to it.
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It was very curious that the USPS wanted to exit the federal government health care system, saying that the could save money.
The fact that they have 600,000 employees and 480,000 pensioners, reminds me of GM.
GM's ratio of active employees to retires is much smaller. Probably somewhere from 1:3 to 1:5. So not even close.
What they are probably shooting for is to leave the current retirees on the government and start fresh with the current crop of employees. That way their books would look good for the next 30 years or so.
The Postal Customer Protection and Affordable Postal Service Act of 2011 (aka ObamaMail)
The feds will simply mandate that you sent all your letters, e-mails, texts, IM's, tweets, Facebook posts, blog posts, etc., through an affordable, reliable, fair postal "exchange".
Called the US Postal Service.
The unions are going postal about the $5.5 billion dollar payment required by Congress through 2015 to cover retiree health care benefits. Fact of the matter, the recording of liabilities associated with the employee rights to benefits is a steadfast accounting principle that the Post Office has been ignoring. Oddly, however the USPS accountants are expensing the required payments without regard to assessing the true liability of the million or so eligible employees.
You can read my theory here.
USPS has financial problems? The solution is obvious. Charge the junk mail senders a whole lot more. After all, they have lots of money. Surely then can spare some of it to keep the overall system stable.
What's that you say? That would cause them to stop sending mail, and lower overall revenues, thus making collapse even more likely?
Well, yeah, but the left leaning media keep using the same argument on taxing the rich to fix the US financial problems.


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A 1900 kg demolition ball swings at the end of a 15 m cable on the arc of a vertical circle. At the lowest point of the swing, the ball is moving at a speed of 7.4 m/s. Determine the tension in the cable.
also i know that the tension force has the same purpose as the normal force.
please help me with this one.
So calling the vertical direction the y axis:
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But it is also dangerous. Dangerous enough to keep you from getting a job. Dangerous enough to get your fired. And, frankly, dangerous enough to get you killed.
Ironically, Facebook can be even more dangerous to you if you're NOT a Facebook user than if you are.
I would make the argument that the risks posed by Facebook are similar to the risks you face when you have sex. Even if you are disease free, your risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease is proportional to the sexual history of YOUR HIGHEST RISK PARTNER and the protections you took in your contact with them.
Yes, the more partners you have, the higher your risk of getting an STD. Having more partners does just one thing for your likelihood of getting an STD: it increases the odds that you will have sex with someone who is infected.
You could have sex with a thousand partners. If none of them are infected, none of you will get an STD. Or you could have sex with just one person and find yourself HIV positive.
Facebook is like that. One 'friend' identifies ('tags') you in a picture of from college or with your arm around an opposite sex colleague or dressed in a risque Halloween costume. Their privacy settings are set to 'public' - anyone can see. Suddenly a casual Facebook search by a potential employer keeps you from getting a job.
Facebook risk is also like the risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease in that it does not increase linearly with the number of friends you have. In the picture below, you have added two friends to your Facebook network. But, looking at the 'friends of friends' you've added, you now have a network of twelve. Unless you set your privacy settings properly, anything you post, and anything they post about you, will be seen by all these people. If their settings are 'public', anyone with a Facebook account can see.
If your Facebook friends are like mine, some of your 'friends' are quite 'promiscuous' and have 'friends' numbering in the hundreds. A few 'friends' like that - especially with low privacy settings - and you are very exposed indeed.
Unless you trust each and every one of them with all the material you and your 'friends' have up there on Facebook, you should change your privacy settings.
Why Facebook Is Dangerous
This point was brought home to me forcibly as I was going through the Facebook page of a group of Peace Corps volunteers. I was looking for pictuers of someone I knew. His Facebook account was locked down pretty hard because he had been on the job market the year before. A casual search of the internet brought up no untowards mentions of his name and no pictures at all. A Facebook search brought up his page - with a completely innocuous photo of a muppet and just enough information to know where he had gone to school.
Once I friended him, however, I realized he was in serious trouble. Photo after photo of him showed pictures that would not have given his mother pause, but WOULD have raised questions from a potential employer, or a supervisor, or a 'friended' acquaintance from a very different cultural context.
Clicking through his 'friends list' - which was visible to me now as a fellow 'friend' - I saw many similar pictures on the sites of people he knew. Typical college pictures of parties, a bit of drinking, and kids just fooling around.
His site was locked down more tightly than those of many of this high achieving, clean cut group of young adults. I only saw his problem photos as a 'friend'. Going through HIS list of 'friends' (which are often visible to casual browsers) I saw many photos I wouldn't want to show to someone who didn't know me and who I was hoping would hire me. Or to the parents of a girlfriend or boyfriend. Or to a potential housemate. Or an ex-spouse.
Typical young adult photos. And easily misinterpretted.
Just because you haven't posted pictures of yourself, doesn't mean 'friends' haven't tagged you.
When I talked to my friend and expressed my concern, he was honestly puzzled. He hadn't posted one picture of himself. Not even a Profile picture.
Where had the problematic pictures come from? People he knew had 'tagged' him. And Facebook had helped.
His old girlfriends, roommates from college, and random acquaintances from his dorm had all posted pictures on THEIR Facebook pages. And, by default now, Facebook looks at those pictures, uses facial recognition software, and suggest that they tag you. Then 'friends' put tags on them so they can share photos with you. Or friends of friends go on the site, see the pictures, and add tags.
Your boss. A co-worker. Your ex-boyfriend. A potential employer. The bigoted landlord who says he won't rent to 'those types'.
And that's a scary thing.
With Facebook, you can lose your ability to shape the self that you present to the public. And Facebook as a VERY long memory.
Not being on Facebook increases your vulnerability
Many people - both young and old - have told me that these dangers are the reason they're not on Facebook. They think staying off Facebook means they're safe.
They're wrong.
If you have an account with Facebook, you can tell them to notify you every time someone 'tags' (identifies) you in a photo (see below). You can leave the tag or remove it (go to the offending photos on your page, and click on it to see the options). You can leave it, but have it not appear on your site. You can request the person remove the photo.
Being on Facebook gives you control: Here's how
Just as you can get a sexually transmitted disease if you have sex, you can get in trouble on Facebook.
But protection reduces risk.
Important note: the suggestions I am making will tell you where to look to control your settings. One of the more frustrating things about Facebook is that they keep changing how it works. So check yourself to see what the options are. What I wrote was true on the day I wrote this post. It changed last week. It may change tomorrow. BE CAUTIOUS.
First, look at the PRIVACY SETTINGS under ACCOUNT in the upper right part of your screen and set your DEFAULTS.
Next, change HOW YOU CONNECT.
This is really important if you are looking for a job or to protect yourself from people who you do not know well .
In this section of PRIVACY SETTINGS, you can change who can FIND YOU by searching, who can send you FRIEND REQUESTS, and WHO CAN SEND YOU MESSAGES. If you want to use Facebook as a way of contacting old friends and acquaintances, you can keep these options fairly open (or public) because they are things that you control. You can always 'ignore' friend requests from people you don't know, like, or want to share information with.
WHO CAN POST ON YOUR WALL is more dangerous, in that these posts are out of your control and can potentially be seen by people other than yourself. Unless you change your settings, you have no control over them.
You probably don't want random strangers to post on your wall.
Depending on how wide your circle of 'friends' is, you might want or might not want to limit access. Who sees those posts is determined by the next option "Who sees Wall Posts By Others" on your Profile. If you're comfortable with anyone seeing them, make them Public or allow Friends to see them. If you're not, you can set it so you can get messages, but no one else can see them.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, change HOW TAGS WORK.
Tags are notes identifying you in things that you or other people post. For example, my sister put up a picture of our family and 'tagged' a picture of me as a 13 year old. She has also 'tagged' me in posts to her own Facebook page that she thought I might be particularly interested in (I was).
By default, Facebook notifies me when someone 'tags' me. That's good. It means that I get to look at pictures of myself that have gone up. And it also draws my attention to things I might be particularly interested in.
THE DARK SIDE OF TAGS is that tagged photographs automatically go up on your profile for your friends to see unless you stop it from doing so. (Look at the left side of your screen and you'll see all the pictures of recently tagged friends.
You can make all these changes retrospective by LIMITING THE AUDIENCE FOR PAST POSTS.
FINALLY, REVIEW YOUR PHOTOS. If you click on your Profile picture and look at the list of items below it, you'll see something that says 'photos'. THIS IS A MAJOR DANGER ZONE you won't see unless you look for it. My Peace Corps friend had never checked, because he knew he'd never posted pictures.
When you click 'photos' you'll see both all the pictures YOU posted, but also pictures that other people posted who they tagged as being you (they might or might not be). Think of the most embarassing picture ever taken of you. It could be there. If you don't look, you'll never know.
Your own photos will be up top. Ones others have posted of you are below. If you click on them, you'll see options. You can ADD tags. You can also remove them.
For most typical college photos, removing the tags and removing them from your Profile page will do the trick.
And, while you're at it, make your 'friend' list invisible to others. It keeps people from browsing for dirt.
Changing those settings radically reduces the odds that Facebook will get you in trouble.
At least a little.
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Kids need to be up-to-date on their immunizations before they can attend school. But do you know which shots your child needs?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a master schedule suggesting which immunizations a child should receive when. But Jane Seward, medical officer for the CDC's Office of Infectious Disease, said it's up to each state to decide which shots to require.
Texas families can check www.dshs.state.tx.us/
Your child's physician is your best resource for making sure all necessary immunizations are in place; the doctor can also discuss the pros and cons of optional shots. You can keep track yourself, though, by using the CDC's tools at www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/child-schedule.htm.
Packing a lunch is perhaps the best way to ensure that your child gets a good, nutritious meal for in the middle of the school day.
To craft a well-balanced repast, suggests Carolyn Land Williams, a registered dietitian, mother of two and co-author of Cooking Light's new "The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook" (Oxmoor House, 2011), simply mix and match items from these six major food groups. Get the kids involved in putting together their lunches, and they'll be more likely to actually eat what's packed, she said.
Pick from these six groups:
■ Grains
■ Vegetables
■ Fruit
■ Dairy
■ Proteins
■ Fats and oils
■ Nuts or nut butters
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you could always work with the sequence {(n^2-n-3)/(1+2n)}, and show that it diverges to +∞
(if M is negative, than -M is positive, saying (-M) < a is the same as saying -a < M). the same N should work.
what i would do is re-write the numerator as:
3+n-n^2 = (1/2)(6 + 2n - 2n^2) = (1/2)(6+3n) - (n/2)(1+2n) = (9/4) + (3/4)(1+2n) - (n/2)(1+2n).


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4-5-12 Affordable Care Act Update
In the States
ACS CAN and Society Divisions used the two year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court hearing to educate the public about the key provisions in the law that are helping cancer patients and their families access quality, affordable health care. Outreach activities included participating in coalition events, pitching cancer patients' stories to the media, and placing op-eds and letters to the editor. The attached spreadsheet highlights the coverage to date. If you secured local coverage and don't see it included on the list, please email links to the placements to Nicole Bender at firstname.lastname@example.com.
ACS CAN and Division state staff also continue to garner media coverage around their exchange implementation work. One great example of creative outreach occurred in New York, where they created an "exchangopoly" game board that garnered great media attention. Read about the tactic and see the board game art at State of Politics - Capital Tonight.
Finally, please remember to utilize the evergreen exchange- and Medicaid-focused template materials that Nicole Bender sent out in early February.
Report: MLR Provision Could Have Yielded $2 Billion in Rebates, Reduced Premiums in 2010
The Commonwealth Fund issued a report this week showing that consumers would have received an estimated $2 billion in been rebates or reduced premiums if the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision in the Affordable Care Act had been in effect in 2010. The MLR is the percentage insurers spend on benefits versus administrative costs. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers must spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on health care claims and quality improvement costs. Starting in 2011, insurers who miss the target are required to rebate the difference to policy holders.
ACS CAN believes the MLR provision of the Affordable Care Act will help ensure that patients are accurately informed about the portion of their premiums that are spent on medical care instead of company profits, broker commissions or administrative costs. The MLR rule is part of a critical consumer education process that will help people with cancer or at risk for cancer to make informed decisions about the plans they purchase.
Poll: Public Remains Divided
Two years after passage, Americans' views of the Affordable Care Act remain divided according to the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. Currently 41 percent of Americans think favorably of the law and 40 percent have an unfavorable view, figures little different from April 2010 taken weeks after the law was signed. The poll also measured opinions following last week's Supreme Court oral arguments and found that half of all Americans think the individual mandate should be ruled unconstitutional, while 62 percent believe other parts of the law should remain intact if the mandate is struck down.
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Vermont Updates
- ACS CAN invited by Sen. Leahy to VP Biden's Moonshot event in Burlington
- November 2015 Advocacy Update
- December 2015 Advocacy Update
- Moonshot! President Launches Cancer Moonshot with Call for Funding Increase
- February 2016 Advocacy Update
- Affordable Care Update 4.9.15
- Advocacy Update 6.10.15
- Affordable Care Act Update: Supreme Court Decision Coming Soon 6.12.15