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Under General Procurement, a description of each Procurement commodity is provided as well as the link to the Dun and Bradstreet report request form (D&B). Please be advised that the submittal of this D&B form does not guarantee that you will become an IBM supplier. Also included under each sub-commodity is a contact name, phone number, and E-mail address for questions regarding the process.
Under Production Procurement, a description of a Procurement commodity is provided for you to select the commodity that best describes your product and/or service. Also provided is a Procurement contact name, E-mail address, and phone number for inquiries.
General Procurement
Business services: The Business services council consists of five unique and distinct sub-commodities: (1) Professional services, which includes Business and IT consulting, incentives (IBM Business Partners), marketing professionals (Sales and Support Staff), translation (Foreign Language) and certification (ISO&UL). For technical sub-contracting, such as programmers, engineering consultants, customer engineers, technical writers, program managers, and systems analysts, go to Technical services. For adminstrative services, such as secretaries and clerks, go to Complementary workforce; (2) Education services, which includes on-line web based learning, purchasing of CD-ROMs for computer based learning, instructor-led classes, design and development of e-learning and instructor-led class materials, classroom rentals, and purchasing of course materials; (3) Human resource services, which includes HR consulting, HR program/benefit administration, recruiting, outplacement, medical services, Health/Welfare related benefit procurement delegated to HR. (4) Market intelligence, which includes custom research, secondary research, access to proprietary data on-line, list brokers, list maintenance, and analyst relations procured through outside suppliers; and (5) IBM business insurance which includes Property & Liability Insurance to sufficiently cover IBM's operational risk. Coverage includes Professional, General, Auto, and Aviation Liability Insurance. In addition, Worker Compensation Insurance is purchased to cover IBM employees that suffer work related injuries.
Elisa Sanchez
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Complementary workforce: The Complementary Workforce (CWF) Council establishes and maintains relationships with suppliers who provide administrative, manufacturing, customer care center, and financial output services (contractors that augment the needs of IBM and its customers). Requirements in the U.S. are supported by several global, national, regional niche, and diversity suppliers. Services procured are temporary administrative staffing on a global basis, including secretarial, general administrative, receptionist, procurement support, call center, light industrial, and financial output services. Currently, IBM has no plans to expand its complementary workforce supplier base. However, if you are interested in providing IBM with information regarding your company's capabilities, please send it to firstname.lastname@example.com
Evandro Allevato
55 21-21324666
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Connectivity: The Connectivity Global Council works with suppliers that provides the following products and services:
- Network Equipment Services and Maintenance: Routers, switches, hubs, modems, wireless, WAN (Wide Area Network) equipment, and associated services.
- Converged Communications Equipment, Services and Maintenance: PBX exchanges (Private Branch Exchange), telephone sets including headsets, voice managed services, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) hardware and phones.
- Infrastructure Installation Services: Cabling solutions for voice and data networks including the design, physical installation, integration of services; wireless services, equipment; security installation services including cameras, access devices, DVRs (Digital Video Recorder) & new technology.
- Power Protection Equipment: Uninterrupted Power Supplies and services to protect computer and network equipment from outages caused by power spikes, surges, and blackouts.
Agustin Carlomagno
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Facilities maintenance, design and construction: The Facilities Maintenance, Design and Construction Council (FMDC) is chartered with establishing a global strategy and the resulting supplier relationships to fulfill requirements for IBM internal needs, Business Transformation Outsourcing, and resale activity supporting Global Services Site and Facilities as follows:
- maintenance for internal use includes all services and/or supplies that are used to maintain the appearance, safety, or environmental standards of a facility;
- design and construction includes services and/or supplies associated with the rearrangement and construction of a facility for both internal and resale, including data centers;
- products and services for resale used to outfit or refurbish customer data centers (excludes cabling/networking);
- furniture includes the services and/or suppliers associated with the rental, purchase, installation, maintenance, and repair of all furniture within a facility.
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Facilities services and operating supplies, maintenance, repairs, and operating supplies MRO: Responsible to purchase: Cafeteria services, electricity and gas requirements, environmental services, physical security services, and maintenance, repairs and operating supplies (MRO) goods and services.The FSOS Council strategy is to drive requirements through a global network of certified,core suppliers which deliver a significant competitive advantage in business terms to IBM, have a proven and demonstrated commitment to quality,customer satrisfaction,and a drive to continually standardize and re-engineer processes to provide IBM with the best cost product in the market. Consideration for business is occasionally given to other suppliers to perform as a sub-tier partner with one of our core suppliers based on their competitiveness, ability to deliver, and diversity status.
Luis Pulice
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Hardware maintenance and services: The hardware maintenance and services council works with suppliers to augment IBM's own maintenance and service capabilities. For hardware maintenance, we work predominantly in the fixed cost maintenance agreement arena with suppliers that have extensive product and geographic scope. Services included in our scope are IMACs (moves,adds,changes), break/fix, and similar hardware-related activities. We do not support consulting, network services, software, internet services, parts refurbishment, etc. Our strategy is to drive our requirements through suppliers that deliver the highest quality services at the most cost effective rates. Primary considerations for new suppliers are breadth of product coverage capabilities, true direct service capabilities on a national level and extended service, level capabilities up to and including 7x24 coverage with two-hour response. Strong parts logistics is also a must, with the ability to provide parts coverage in all locations and at all service levels. Certified MWBE (minority,women owned business enterprise) suppliers may apply for adjusted selection criteria.
Luis Antonio Goncalves Vieira
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Information technology (IT) equipment: Copiers, facsimile (FAX), audio/visual (AV) equipment (maintenance), mail processing/document handling equipment (maintenance), VCRs, televisions (TVs), cameras, and network print management services. Desktops, laptops, servers, printers, personal computer (PC) associated peripherals, hardware configuration (hardware integration/software transfer), memory (does not include hardware components utilized in the manufacture of IBM products, maintenance, or technical services solutions), automatic teller machines (ATMs) with associated services, point-of-sale (POS) equipment with associated services, kiosk hardware, radio frequency identification (RFID) equipment, and life cycle management (LCM) services.
Luis Antonio Goncalves Vieira
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Marketing communications: The council purchases items that promote the brand image and sales of IBM products and services. Advertising, demand generation, and direct marketing are handled by an Agency of Record, Ogilvy & Mather, and Ogilvy One. At this time, no new agencies will be added for this business. Lead Generation is handled by a Global contract, and no additional suppliers are being added at this time. Public Relations is handled by two Agencies of Record and no new agencies will be added to this business. Marketing collateral and sales promotions design and content are under contract with a limited number of suppliers. IBM currently has a global logo merchandise catalog program with no plan to increase the number of licensed logo merchandise suppliers. George P. Johnson Corp. is the agency of record for marketing events. Creative, sales enablement, and recognition events are managed within a small group of contracted event suppliers in effect through 12/31/10 - 30 percent of which are certified Minority, Women-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) firms. No additional suppliers are being added at this time. Print Services supports the post design of offset and digital printing, CD/DVD/Raw Media, fulfillment lettershop, standard and custom forms, and offsite reprographics.
Larissa Macaferri Licatti
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Software: The software council handles licensing of third-party software for internal use, resale, or outsourcing customer use. This includes both commercially available software (whether modified or not) and custom-developed software. Licensing is dependent upon the requirements and needs of our internal IBM clients and IBM outsourcing engagements. IBM's strategy is to drive requirements through selected suppliers who deliver significant competitive advantage in both price and business terms to IBM and provide consistent high quality products supports by performance metrics.
The following is not supported by our software council: Marketing and development relationships, equity and acquisition proposals, joint venture proposals, technology submissions consisting of patents and white papers, any ideas relating to IBM products and services and works-for-hire (technical services).
Robson Eliezer Ribeiro
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Technical services commodity: Technical Services Commodity: IBM made a strategic decision to fulfill U.S. technical contractor requirements through our National Technical Services Core (NTSC) Supplier Program. Consideration for core status is occasionally given through performance as a sub-tier partner with one of our core suppliers. Our core suppliers are required to flow the terms of its contract with IBM down to sub-tier firms and will submit potential sub-tiers via the "Supplier Subcontractor Nomination Form" to facilitate the timely assessment and registration of the sub-tier. The best way to show IBM that you should be considered as a core supplier in the future would be through performance as a sub-tier partner with one of our NTSC suppliers. This indicates to IBM that your company has the knowledge and ability to deliver the services IBM needs. Interested suppliers are requested to contact one of our suppliers directly to form a sub-tier relationship. For further information including contact information for our NTSC Supplier program send an E-mail to email@example.com.
Evandro Allevato
Telecommunications: Telecommunications encompasses all the voice and data transport services through fixed or mobile architectures. Based on the supply base and the client set, the telecommunications spend is segmented into four major sub-commodities: 1) Wireless/mobility services (audio conferencing, cellular, pagers, and wireless data); 2) Wireline voice transport services (local voice transport, long distance, toll free); 3) Wireline data transport services (wide and metro area network, managed network services); and 4) Wireline internet services (internet broadband services, Web hosting, and e-business services).
Leslie Vazquez Lopez
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
Travel: The travel council strives to provide the lowest priced, best-in-class travel solution anywhere in the world within the boundaries of the IBM corporate travel policy that differentiates the IBM traveler and optimizes the travel process through e-travel industry solutions, from travel reservation inquiry through to expense reimbursement. The travel council consists of six sub-commodities: 1) Airlines; 2) hotels; 3) auto rental; 4) travel agency; 5) auto lease; and 6) ground transportation.
Eduardo Wanderley Murad
Dun & Bradstreet report request form
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Production Procurement [Actives, optics, passives components: Include transistors, FETs (field effect transistor), diodes, rectifiers, crystals, oscillators, inductors, ferrites, capacitors, magnetics, circuit protection devices, relays.switches and resistors."AOP Council does not manage relationships with component brokers and/or distributors"
McTamaney, Thomas E. (Tom)
Build to specification: Build to specification parts such as non-product parts and sub-assemblies designed and fabricated from an IBM drawing (e.g., fixtures, equipment spares, shipping trays, and containers, jigs, dies, pallets and machine shop services.)
Ron Firkey
Semiconductor materials: 200/300 millimeter bulk and silicon on insulator (SOI) (product, test, monitor, and reclaim) wafers and other specialty gases and raw materials used for R&D and production of semiconductor and electronic packaging products.
Thomas Forsberg
Networking and communications products: Sourcing and procurement of networking communications products (switches, adapters, HBAs, HCAs, RAID etc.) in support of IBM Systems and Technology Group's customer solutions. These products span all communication technologies, to include ethernet, infiniband, and fibre channel.
Kristen Styers
Electronic card assemblies: The finished product that a contract manufacturer (CM) ships to IBM. CMs take a printed circuit board (or raw card), places components on it (such as memory, AOP (actives/optics/passives), logic, etc.), then test the assembled product per its requirements prior to shipping to an IBM plant (or in some cases, another CM) for assembly into one of our products ( z-Series, server, etc.)
Verdi SH Chang
Electronic components:
Paul Freel
Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM):
James E. Moyer
Interconnect and optics: Connectors (high performance, power, sense, LGA's, etc.); Cables (high performance, power, sense signal, flex cable assemblies, mechanical & molded line cords); Optics (transceivers and fiber optic cables)
Mario Monaco
Monitors: TFT LCD and CRT displays
Douglas Paluti
Logic, Central Processing Units (CPUs), chipsets: x86-based central processing units (CPUs) predominantly industry standard Intel and AMD processors and the corresponding system logic chipsets that support those processors. It supports multiple IBM brands ranging from low-end server to storage even retails solutions.
Albert Setia
Logic-standard and custom: Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), programmable logic devices/field programmable gate arrays (PLD/FPFG), linear-analog devices-power/thermal management, voltage regulation, audio, vendor transistor logic (VTL), timing solutions-clocks, frequency synthesizers, micros-microcontrollers, application specific standard products, networking, and communications.
Patrick T. Oneill
Logistics: All shipment modes of air, ocean and ground transportation worldwide, as well as antecedent services such as third party logistics,warehousing and storage, freight bill payment, records retention and vital records retention and management, tape media migrations,inventories and audits.
Pam Burkland
Pat McMinn
Mechanical parts: Made up of parts and assemblies from fabricated metal, injection molded plastic, machined operations, and castings. Examples of parts/assemblies which are part of this council's responsibility are: frames, covers, chassis, brackets, HDD (hard disk drive) trays, CEC (central electronic complex) cages, and rack slides/kits.
David Hu
Memory: Memory semiconductor is used to store data electronically.
Andrew H McLaughlin
Vivian Wei
Power: Power supplies, bulk power, DCA's, motor drive assemblies, VRM's, power modules.
Mario Monaco
Thermal (cooling) devices: Consists of all methods of cooling or thermal management of IBM products. Types of thermal devices include: Heatsinks, Fans, Fan-sinks, Blowers, Modular Refrigeration Units (MRU), Evaporators, Cold Plates, Modular Water Unit (MWU), Heat Exchangers, Liquid Cooling Components, and Manifolds.
Duane Ruff
Printed circuit boards: Printed wiring boards. Various PCBs ranging from low- to high-end technology. Boards span all divisions within IBM.
Daniel K. B. Chan
Storage commodity and systems peripherals: HDD (hard disk drive), optical, tape.
Evan Davis
Service Parts Procurement and Warranty (SPPW):
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Foop is looking for new volunteers. If you are interested in helping out with the Forest's Food Coop then please contact me or come along on a Friday at the Forest 3-6pm.
A shift involves setting up the table with the food and then taking peoples money! Depending on what we need there may also be bagging up of food and ordering to be done.
It is good fun as you are in the café so you get to chat to people and of course you get cups of tea and a meal for your hard work.

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Self-report questionnaires of nurses in Taiwan reveal that critical thinking ability and nursing competence are both at the middle level and there is a correlation between the two
- Department of Nursing, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Correspondence to Susan G Forneris
Department of Nursing, St. Catherine University, 2004 Randolph Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105, USA; sgforneris{at}stkate.edu
Implications for practice and research
Concepts such as 'critical thinking and nursing competence' are paramount to nursing practice. Chang et al, explore this relationship in practicing nurses. The importance of their work surrounds the positive correlation between critical thinking and nursing competence and the implications for nursing practice:
■ Engage a learner-centred approach;
■ Use the expertise of practicing nurses to guide thinking of novice nurses;
■ Develop nurses' reflective practice.
The complexities of our healthcare environments call for ever increasing professional accountability and decision making of the practicing nurse. Patient outcomes and indicators of quality and safety clearly underscore the demand for high levels of critical thinking and nursing competence.2 Critical thinking is often used synonymously with clinical reasoning, …


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The Worst Company to Work for in America
Headlines hit daily. Like military deaths or run-of-the-mill murders, we barely think twice about a few hundred jobs lost here, several thousand there.
We're so freaking desensitized to it all.
Citigroup Bloodbath: $1 Billion Charge, 11,000 Jobs Cut and 84 Branches Gone
11,000 jobs. 11,000. That is a bloodbath, brother. It's been going on for years at Citi. It's probably not over.
According to TheStreet's Shanthi Bharatwaj, "The six largest banks in the U.S. have shed 24,000 jobs in the last year." At least one Wall Street analyst thinks Bank of America (BAC) should do like Citi and blow a bunch of people out .
I'm no rube. I get it. Lean and mean resonates with investors, even if Citi can't pull it off.
But, it's the banking sector. We have come to expect mass firings and incompetence on a road to nowhere.
Unless you have several bonuses in the bank and a considerable salary at one of these big banks, I can't imagine they're the greatest places in the world to work. Lots of the Citi causalities probably weren't making a ton of money. Branch closures makes it obvious that quite a few did not earn much at all.
This sort of thing resonates with me because I used to work in radio.
There's not a crappier industry. The competition for poster child of all things crappy in radio -- and corporate America for that matter -- begins and ends with Clear Channel (CCMO) .
Clear Channel makes the big banks, airlines and even Wall Street look chill.
Here's a company with a shocking $20 billion in debt, $6 billion in revenue, $1 billion in cash and tens of millions in quarterly losses. Yet Clear Channel manages to find a way to fly its CEO Bob Pittman around in a private jet. ( footnoted has a great story on that from last year).
Not a day goes by without, at the very least, rumors of mass firings at one or more Clear Channel stations. They don't care who you are -- a beloved talent with great ratings or an intern in the promotions department -- if they pay you money, you're fair game to get cut loose in the next round of goodbyes.
It has to be this way, however. It has been this way for as long as I can remember. That's what years of mismanagement and ineptitude do to businesses and, in traditional radio's case, an entire industry.
How Pittman and other Clear Channel executives can look their employees, investors and the public in the face touting the company's digital presence, iHeart Radio , and clout with listeners and advertisers is beyond me. Have they looked at the balance sheet? Have they looked at how they singlehandedly killed and continue to kill an entire medium?


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1. Manny Pacquiao - Best fighter I've ever seen with my own eyes. The entire package. So fun to watch. Amazingly improved his speed and power in moving up from 108 to 145. Fight with Floyd would be the biggest fight of my lifetime, surpassing Hagler/Leonard and Tyson/Lewis.
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr - Best defensive fighter I've ever seen with my own eyes. Public opinion has turned on him a little with the layoff, followed by the Marquez mockery. Needs to fight and defeat Pacquiao to be seen by the public how he sees himself.
3. Paul Williams - Some people have Mosley/Marquez in this spot. A win over Pavlik would have cemented Williams here at #3 ... but he has a hard time finding people to fight him despite a willingness to fight at 147, 154, and 160. Has the issue of not being a massive financial draw, an uncomfortable style (very tall, long reach, high punch output), and also very tough to beat.
4. Miguel Cotto - I still have Cotto here despite the loss. Cotto beat Mosley, and I don't think you can use the Margarito fights as a comp in comparing them. Mayweather's gloves were loaded vs. Cotto, and not loaded against Shane. Cotto showed his guts in the Pac Man loss. Took a lot of punishment vs Margarito and Pac Man ... also had hard fights vs Judah and Clottey. Will they start to have an effect on Miguel?
5. Shane Mosley - Looked really good against Margarito, but it seems like many forget ... Shane looked very average in the two fights before that, an unimpressive win over a shot Mayorga and a loss to Cotto. Shane is also 38, and has been through some wars. Still in great shape, and could easily stay productive into his 40's like Hopkins, but that is rare in this sport. Fight with Berto should tell us a lot.
6. Juan Manuel Marquez - Fought Pacquiao to a razor thin split decision loss just 20 months ago ... is it possible the men have separated that much in that short period of time? I think so. Manny has added 15 pounds of muscle, JMM is still best served at 130. And the Mayweather fight should not be used as evidence to knock him out of the top 10 lb for lb. Needs to get back to fighting 130-135 at the most. Still the best in the biz at that weight till I see otherwise. Ask Casamayor and Juan Diaz.
7. Chad Dawson - Very talented, very technically sound. He'll also bore the living shit out of you as he stays away from guys and uses his natural talent to 10-9 his way to easy wins against the bums at 175. If he was smart, he'd jump into this mix at 168 ... I think he could easily get down to that weight. How good would a Dawson/Andre Ward fight be?
8. Arthur Abraham - This guy has sold me. Unorhodox style, hard to hit, big strong guy ... who looks just as strong at 168 as he did at 160. He wears you down. Then starts to chop away late with his very good power. Andre Dirrell, very confident after holding his own vs Froch, will be another good test for him.
9. Bernard Hopkins - After taking Calzaghe to the limit, then dominating Pavlik ... was hoping we'd see Hopkins fight a couple more big fights. No one but Dawson at 175 though, and there's not enough money in that loss for him. And he's been unwilling to stay down near 168 and mess with some of the Super Six guys after beating Kelly. Instead? He'll fight a tomato can in a couple weeks here, then a well known tomato can in Roy Jones in the spring. By the time he's done with that he'll be going on 46 years old.
10. Wladimir Klitschko - Hard to tell just how good he is fighting bums like Brewster, Thompson, Rahman, Chagaev. Even against those chumps, it's easy to see this guy is a very good heavyweight. He'll never get the label as a great heavy cause he's had no one to prove it against. A win over David Haye would be a good start.
11. Israel Vasquez - Far from dominant in first fight back from eye injury suffered in 3rd fight with Rafael Marquez.
12. Rafael Marquez - Also has taken just one fight in 20 months since epic triolgy with Vasquez.
13. Vitali Klitschko - See #10.
14. Andre Ward - Very impressive beating of Mikkel Kessler vaults US Olympian into the pound for pound mix.
15. Timothy Bradley - 24-0 with four very legit wins in a row at 140. Under the radar.
16. Juan Manuel Lopez - After a meteoric rise at 122, struggled in his last fight against some guy with like 15 losses, putting a real step up fight on hold.
17. Ivan Calderon - Just keeps winning at a weight class (108) that gets next to no pub.
18. Nonito Donaire - Stepped up to 120 and looked average after a reign of terror at 112, which included early TKO wins over Darchinyan and Raul Martinez.
19. Chris John - Avenged BS Juarez draw by taking him apart in the rematch.
20. Kelly Pavlik - Had the world by the culones before a bad loss to Hopkins and a very bad staph infection in his hand. Can he come back?


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WCA To Showcase New Orthopedic Center
Community residents attending the WCA Center For Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation open house are invited to meet and chat with orthopedic and rehabilitation physician specialists, William Fritz, M.D., Peter Robinson, M.D., and Brooke Kelly, D.O. P.C., on Sunday, from noon to 3 p.m. The open house will be held at the new Center located directly behind WCA Hospital, 31 Sherman St. Building, Jamestown. Follow the open house signs.
Guests can tour the medical practices on the second floor of the complex and meet the office staff of board-certified orthopedic surgeons, Fritz and Robinson. Kelly, board-certified physiatrist and medical director of the WCA Medical Rehabilitation Program, will also be on hand during the open house to discuss the top-rated inpatient medical rehabilitation program at WCA Hospital, located on the third floor, and answer questions.
"Our new Orthopedic Center brings together a collaborative team of expert physicians and health specialists whose focus in orthopedics and rehabilitation, gets individuals young and old back to the activities they enjoy in life," said Betsy T. Wright, WCA Hospital president/CEO. "Our open house gives our community a chance to tour our beautiful new Center and meet our outstanding and specialized team of physicians and staff who provide a full service of orthopedic and rehabilitation needs for the whole family."
Fritz received his medical degree from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York City and completed an orthopedic residency and fellowship in microvascular surgery/plastic surgery from the University of Pittsburgh. A highly skilled surgeon with more than 30 years of experience in orthopedic medicine, Fritz provides the highest standard of orthopedic care in the diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. His medical practice is located at the Center For Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation, second floor.
Robinson received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School and completed an orthopedic residency from Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and Hospital For Special Surgery. An expert orthopedic surgeon with over 35 years serving the orthopedic care needs of the community, Robinson is a physician-member of Jamestown Area Medical Associates, located at 15 S. Main St., Jamestown. His medical practice is located at the WCA Center on the second floor.
Kelly is responsible for the medical oversight and coordination of care for patients on the medical rehabilitation unit at WCA Hospital and is the only physician in the region who is trained in rehabilitation medicine. Kelly is a native of Lakewood and returned to the area following graduation from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and her residency with New York University.
In addition to meeting the physicians, guests can take a self-guided tour through the new Orthopedic Complex during the open house. Attendees are invited to sign-up for free speech, hearing and swallowing screenings and register for a free foot bone density screening (individuals are encouraged to register for foot bone density screening by calling WCA Hospital Wellness at 664-8677 before the event). Additional wellness activities offered during the open house include free blood pressure checks, carpal tunnel testing, grip strengthening demonstrations, fall risk assessments, and bone strengthening exercise demonstrations. Kids and family members alike can play Wii-HAB.
Visitors will have a chance to enter a raffle to win a 32-inch HD LCD flat-screen television. Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the WCA Center For Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation. The first 500 guests will receive a free monogrammed tote bag.
The WCA Center For Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation brings together one team for a wide range of treatments and rehabilitation including orthopedic care, 24/7 emergency orthopedic care, sports medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and hearing services. The Center boasts a new spacious and beautifully decorated waiting room, new PT/OT gym, state-of-the-art sound room for hearing tests, and a centralized registration and reception area – all handicapped accessible with front-door parking for patients.
For more information visit www.wcahospital.org or contact Linda Johnson, WCA Hospital public relations and marketing at 664-8614.


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Married at 80
While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only meant citizenship but the ability to have legally recognized marriages without fear of the loss of a spouse through sale. The Bureau helped facilitate and record marriages. This is an 1865 register of marriages among freemen in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The register contains information about the couple's former relationships and family while enslaved.
National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Additional Resources
- Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview
- Sealing the Sacred Bonds of Holy Matrimony - Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records
- ARC Gallery: African Americans
- ARC Gallery: Civil War


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Open your web browser.
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Choose the app launcher in the upper right corner , and then choose Mail, Calendar, or People (your contacts / email addresses).
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How do I turn off Clutter?
Sign in to Outlook on the web. For help, see Sign in to Outlook on the web.
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On the navigation bar, go to Settings > Options > Mail > Automatic processing > Clutter.
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The Clutter folder remains in Outlook even after you turn off the feature.
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Outlook on the web is the web browser version of Microsoft Outlook that is used by businesses and organizations. Outlook on the web can only be used to access Office 365 for business and other accounts that are hosted on a server that's running Microsoft Exchange Server.
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Our weekend exercise. Try this 10-minute bell sound meditation and then share your experience with us.
What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the inside as from the outside.
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What I wish to do with this wild, precious life is something I struggle continuely to get a handle on. Staying active and open to presence is also something I really do think more about than actually do, at least during this phase of my life. This week's program captured a handful of sentiments via analogies to light. I'd like to pass along Ralph Waldo Emerson's words, his analogies to light, to illuminate my take on each of these things, because I have to admit, I agree wholeheartedly with him: 'There is no place to anchor, no resting point. "We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them." There is no answer to this dilemma, no solution, but there is a best course of action. We have nothing but our conviction of the adequacy of the present moment to throw into the uneven balance. "We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath, past or to come'.
From Chapter 67 of "Emerson The Mind On Fire" by Robert D. Richardson Jr:
Most of Emerson's books contain one essay on doubt: it is "Circles" in the first volumes of essays, "Montaigne" in Representative Men, and "Experience" here. The Emerson of this essay, like Thoreau on Katahldin, is avid for "contact" with "reality".
"Experience" confronts and accepts a world in which "dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion" without clamoring for redemption or quick deliverance. "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus." "The secret of the illusoriness," he adds, "in in the necessity of a succession of moods and object." There is no place to anchor, no resting point. "We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them." There is no answer to this dilemma, no solution, but there is a best course of action. We have nothing but our conviction of the adequacy of the present moment to throw into the uneven balance. "We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath, past or to come".
We are obliged to live within "the beautiful limits," and we cannot have power simply at will. Emerson now concedes that "power keeps quite another road than the turnpike of choice and will, namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life."
"Experience" is not a despairing essay. If Emerson accepts no one vision, no one set of facts, he proposes an entirely new order of fact. "It is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul or the like, but the universal impulse to believe [his emphasis], that is the material circumstance and is the principle fact in the history of the globe." The essay builds to a powerful acceptance of subjectivity, which Emerson calls the "Fall of Man." We learn, he says, "that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their error." This new awareness, this subjective self-awareness, is like a black hole, ravenously threatening to absorb all things. "Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in, and God is but one of its ideas. Nature and literature are subjective phenomena, every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast." The same subjectivity that gives authority to us as individuals sentences us to a world of relative truth. "People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon." As he accepts subjectivity and uncertainty, so he can now accept disunity: "I am a fragment and this [essay ] is a fragment of me."
But Emerson will not settle for Fichtean solipsism or the sophist's shrug. He knows what the Stoic has always known. Real knowledge may be unattainable; the question therefore is not "What can I know?" but "How should I live?" Sartre said of the prison experiences of members of the French Resistance, "It is not what they do to you, it is what you do with what they do to you that matters." Emerson ends with a similar assertion: "I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farm is not the world I think." The last sentence is his bridge back: "The true romance, which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power." His own drive for practical power brought him to this" "To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." "Experience" is about the impossibilities, miscarriages, and mortgagings of power. Emerson conceded now for the first time that nature may have been very "sparing of her fire" in making us. But "Experience" is not a flaccid or defeated essay because Emerson's tough articulateness and awareness are also weapons. The arsenal of power is larger than we think, and the fire within may be modest, but it is still sufficient.
Throughout this program, my grandfather's core philosophy rang in my head and was reinforced by the discussions in "Holding Life Consciously." Before heading off to college, he repeated the YMCA mantra of "Mind, Body, and Spirit" to me; emphasizing the importance of maintaining all three aspects of existence no matter what your context. As I move through life, I find different avenues of furthering myself in these three broad categories, and somehow I've found no other template for happiness more successful than the constant pursuit of improving mind, body, and spirit. I stay active physically, constantly pursue knowledge, and explore methods of communicating with, and expressing, my inner-most spiritual entity.
I enjoyed your post. My
I enjoyed your post. My mantra for happiness has always been "Eat right, exercise, and socialize." Socialize meaning do activities with positive people. I do believe our paths to happiness are very similar. Much peace, love, wisdom, and happiness to you my friend.
I was in my garden two years ago just after my diagnosis of breast cancer. I was contemplating the future--fearing, wondering what the final outcome would be. Asking myself if I had led a "full" life, etc. I looked up and saw a bird floating on the strong wind currents, up and down, floating, soaring---I thought how wonderfully smart that bird is-not worrying about the future, not reflecting on the past--just living in the moment---that beautiful moment.
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Just to say I found Krista's summary of Arthur Zajonc's interview very interesting, particularly his words about how a meditative letting go stance seemed to alleviate the Parkinson's tremor in his hand. And then the article continues to use hand imagery as we use it, one the one hand, & on the other hand.
I wonder IF deep meditative states alleviate tremors and if so, why. I also do know personally that I do live in a meditative state that is hard to describe but this allows for reflection without interfering thought, no doubt similar to that described by yogis and others. This is hard to describe, a state of mind, but it is different and I think it is a kind of emptying which allows for deepening spiritual perception.
Many seek monastic type retreats and the spiritual healing of slowing down and spending contemplative time with Nature.
After listening to the enlightening and brilliant conversation on On Being between Krista Tippet and Arthur Zalonc on how science and humanities can be integrated in the betterment of humanity, I feel compelled to say that I think it is high time the "movers and shakers" of the world such as, conservative political ands religion leaders, stopped playing "hard ball" with issues related to the stifling of stem cell research funding. If stem cell research is fully explored, it can bring about fruitful results in the challenging sectors of medicine such as neuroscience and oncology. Such results that can go a long way in bringing hope of enhanced quality of life to millions people like Arthur Zalonc who have been diagnosed with debilitating dementia –related conditions such Parkinson disease and those diagnosed with the various forms of dreadful cancers. We can not claim to have conquered diseases while such conditions continue to cause suffering to those already diagnosed and others who, due to hereditary issues, continue to live a life full of psychological trauma due to the fear of high odds of being diagnosed in future.
The whole world should pool all its resources into funding stem cell research rather than secretly funding expensive mass destruction war systems and space programs which, I strongly believe, are nothing but futile attempts to conquer the outer space while the "inner space" of our being is seriously wanting and ailing.
I have no doubt that stem cell research can herald a new era in which I can envision plastic surgery being taken a notch higher to a level beyond aesthetic plasticity to, say, neurotic plasticity where brains can be surgically repaired using stem cell technology to the enhancement quality of millions lives.
The complexities of our world today make it difficult for the average person to fully experience all facets of life. Technological advancements have removed feeling and limit the possibilities of our imagination. The interview with Arthur Zajonc, Holding Life Consciously, brought me to the realization that with the proper mindset and effort one can experience an entire spectrum that I hadn't dreamed was possible.
Zajonc points out that many spiritual traditions do not have practical applications but yet makes a connection between the physical and scientific nature of light. Once we commit to seeking out knowledge and exploration of our surroundings, light begins to transcend many levels of human existence. Light allows us to see what is, without light, invisible; we can see both inside ourselves and the world around us. In order to gain a truer picture of life and a clearer perspective, it requires that we acknowledge all of our spiritual and sensory emotions.
In his commitment to knowledge, Zajonc helps to bring awareness of humanity into science; two areas most don't often associate with one another. As a professor of physics and contemplative, he successfully connects and intertwines his human experience with his scientific background, finding deeper meaning in both as he encourages us all to "…bring all of who we are to all the world is."
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Thank for sharing this replay.
The complexities of our world today make it difficult for the average person to fully experience all facets of life. Technological advancements have removed feeling and limit the possibilities of our imagination. The interview with Arthur Zajonc, Holding Life Consciously, brought me to the realization that with the proper mindset and effort one can experience an entire spectrum that I hadn't dreamed was possible.
Zajonc points out that many spiritual traditions do not have practical applications but yet makes a connection between the physical and scientific nature of light. Once we commit to seeking out knowledge and exploration of our surroundings, light begins to transcend many levels of human existence. Light allows us to see what is, without light, invisible; we can see both inside ourselves and the world around us. In order to gain a truer picture of life and a clearer perspective, it requires that we acknowledge all of our spiritual and sensory emotions.
In his commitment to knowledge, Zajonc helps to bring awareness of humanity into science; two areas most don't often associate with one another. As a professor of physics and contemplative, he successfully connects and intertwines his human experience with his scientific background, finding deeper meaning in both as he encourages us all to "…bring all of who we are to all the world is."
This podcast was based on a conversation between Arthur Zajonc who is a physicist and Krista Tippet. Zajonc tells the story of how his professor inspired him to become more interested in learning so he sought out information on different philosophers and writers. Previous to this occurrence with his professor, he admits that many things did not seem clear to him and it was his professor that was able to notice that he was having difficulties. Throughout his research of others, he discovers that he believes knowledge is simply an epiphany. It isn't something that we can pick up like we can pick up an object. It is something that just comes to a person.
The conversation eventually leads in to Zajonc talking about how science was created due to epiphanies instead of processes. The process is what follows the epiphany to determine whether the thesis is true. At this point, Tippet brings up Steve Jobs which to be honest, I was a little surprised by. The fact that Steve Jobs created Apple which we all know as the company who created the Ipods, Iphones and Ipads, changed humanity as we knew it. Jobs' one creation has influenced technology forever as will science as a whole.
In my opinion, I found this podcast to be one of the more interesting On Beings that we have had to do. In relation to the viewpoints of Jesus and Socrates as teachers, I believe that this showed a perspective of Socrates' viewpoint. I say this simply because Zajonc believed the knowledge was already within him and that it wasn't something a teacher could make him learn. However, it was the teacher who brought the problem to his attention just like Socrates helped the students find the knowledge within them.
Holding life consciously 11/13/2011 This was an interesting broadcast. Arthur talks about a German scholar Gerta that believed that scientist should understand phenomena within themselves. Gerta believed that there should be a world view based on human experience. One thing he said that I found intriguing was that "colors are deeds and sufferings of light and darkness". The idea that scientist look at colors based on light and not as colors themselves. I think that we all do that. People look at the big picture (light or darkness) and don't look at the smaller things in life (the different colors). Arthur goes on to talk about science being created due to epiphanies and not processes. The epiphany happens first and then we do the process to figure out if it is true or can happen after. When the scientists like Einstein were figuring out theories they took the implications of their religion, languages, music, etc. into play to figure out different facts. This intrigues me because that is how a lot of things I write about are done. I don't care to brain storm ideas or processes to obtain my writing. When it comes to me I write, and I think it makes the work more interesting. The basic understand I got out of the broadcast was that we should use our minds to figure out different aspects of our lives through thinking, experience, and through what we already know. Religion can be done this way as well. We can meditate, think and use our past experiences, and seek knowledge to form our understandings
Goethe also said, (David Schiller, 1994)
" Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
I wonder about the circular nature of Zajonc' logic, starting with the notion that his own path of cognitive meditation starts with a search for knowledge based on Western thinking or a path of active inquiry rather than faith.
I noticed that faith appears more than once in the form of grace as his contemplative practice unfolded in the broadcast.
The anecdotes about scientific enquiry in concert with a practice of Western cognitive meditation seem to stand at odds with the methodical cognitive exercises seeking to unlock the interior nature of exterior objects.
We heard that scientists like Einstein receive inspiration outside of an empirical cognitive process of search and discovery. Does the spiritual scientist use this methodical path when he experiences an answer to his scientific question, or does he/she receive an answer in an unexpected flash of insight/grace/inspiration/intuition/imagination walking in the park or waking up in the morning in the time between dreaming and awakening consciousness?
It seems that western and eastern contemplation both rely on grace to find answers to questions posed by the path of scientific enquiry.
Arthur Koestler of "Darkness
Arthur Koestler of "Darkness at Noon" fame also wrote a little-read book titled "The Act of Creation." I originally bought it years ago because I thought it was about what we think of as "creativity" (art, poetry, sculpture, etc.), but it was all about the act of *scientific* creation. It was fascinating. He delved into Darwin, for example, and talked about the decades Darwin spent in research and travel and thought before having his Eureka moment of natural selection. It's well worth reading, especially in the context of this interview -- looking deeply into the links among our creations and discoveries and how we arrive at them.
The abundance of mystery is
The abundance of mystery is indeed a gift -- both a challenge and an invitation to intelligence: How to balance mystery and suffering, receptivity and active lovingkindness? Thank you for rebroadcasting this installment of "On Being"; I will return to it. What jumped out at me this time through is the apparent affinity between meditation and lucid dreaming.
This is so boring and self
This is so boring and self absorbed. I come back every once in a while to see if you've discovered the boringness in your inability to see the power of your own angst; in your trying not to be full of angst, your circular recursive self-fulfilling process is really really boring! it should be 'On Being Snoozeworthy' because you've mastered that! Try to be proud of that, check the box and move on to something else. Protestantism or Buddhism, its all very very flat.
Too bad that he left the
Too bad that he left the Catholic Church, maybe he can find his way back to the Church.
Most great men from the 1600s to the 1800s were involved in science also. A polymath, of course. Goethe's 'Faust' is very Catholic.
Reportedly at his death Goethe said 'More light!'.
Socrates left science to study man, 'Man is the proper study of man', sounds similar - it's how the physical world is experienced also.
To put scientific reason in a larger context, the unity of truth, one might read Pope Francis' recent encyclical 'The light of faith'.
Contemplation is fine, but
Contemplation is fine, but where is God?
Buddhism the best of human spirituality? Einstein was also fascinated by the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist. How about the long term and ongoing dialog on faith and reason under the aegis of the Catholic Church (see Pope Benedict, 'Faith and reason').
One can say that prayer is, as well as contemplation, a way to insight and knowledge (as the Curies). One is in communion with the one who created the physical world.
When they were discussing the
When they were discussing the number of planets, the number 9 was OK, being 3 squared (God would have made as many as he wanted, of course), but eight is better since it's the number of completion ... and now we see that there are eight planets.
In the 1950s Pope Pius said that we were all the children of two specific people, whom we call Adam and Eve. He was laughed at, but in the 1990s the biologists finished the study of the human genome and found ... that we are all descended from two unique individual persons.
I would suggest, from Catholic theology, that the number of dimensions of the physical world is 12, if you see a string theory which has 12 dimensions, bet on that.
I don't mind meditating on
I don't mind meditating on the sound of a bell (no pun intended), but I'd rather meditate on Jesus on the Cross, or on Mary. They have more to teach me. I guess one can learn about bells and sound and perhaps arrive at more correct physical theories.
Having listened to thousands
Having listened to thousands now of scientists interviewed on this program who have expanded their concept of knowledge from the reductionist view of scientific reason, I guess the west is finally crawling away from this reductionist view of reason.
Parkinson's, how sad! I'll pray for him. Perhaps he will decide that knowledge will not help him personally, and that one has to search for more, which is love, love and communion with God.
'Do not build on this world, because even the forms of this world are quickly passing away.' Jesus
Jesus tells us that if we
Jesus tells us that if we seek him, the Trinity will live within us ... and we will be led to the truth, and will have peace. May he find the fullness of peace.
I was fascinated by the
I was fascinated by the interview of quiet contemplation with Arthur Zajonc, especially with the information about his diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease. My husband has PD and has some experience with meditation; I have considerable experience with meditation and it has helped tremendously with my caregiving. I want to thank Professor Zajonc for the interview. I am most eager to read his writings.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In two weeks I will be attending the annual International Council of Shopping Centers RECon global conference in Las Vegas. While there, I will be conducting interviews with many leading retail REIT CEOs and other industry executives.
The early indications are that this year's event (May 19-22) will attract more than 30,000 attendees and more than 1,000 exhibitors, making it an unparalleled networking event, or what I call the super bowl for shopping centers. It's also a great time for me, The Intelligent REIT Investor, to compare report cards with some of the "best and brightest" retail minds on the planet.
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The first-quarter results were exceptional. Here's what CEO Stuart Tanz had to say:
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With respect to ROIC's balance sheet, the company recently retired more than 58% of its existing warrants, and that has provided positive news for investors. I view the recent warrant activity as an important endorsement of the company's accomplishments to date as well as its future growth prospects. With the warrants that have been exercised thus far, ROIC has received approximately $157 million of proceeds to invest.
Also for the first quarter, ROIC had $24.4 million in total revenues, as compared to $16.6 million in total revenues for the first quarter of 2012.
Additionally, the company had net income of $2.3 million for the first quarter of 2013 as compared to net income of $1.1 million for the first quarter of 2012. Funds from operations (or FFO) for the first quarter was $11.5 million as compared to $8.4 million in FFO a year ago.


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Sandra Fluke, the young woman who testified before Congress that she needed someone (you) to pay for her birth control, lost her bid for Senate in California. She was pushing for "progressive change," which meant, in part, that someone (you) would be paying for lots of birth control. No one should be without. No questions asked.
Unless, of course, you want to have children – more than your fair share. Or if you're poor. Or not American. In these cases, there's a problem.
Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times, is throwing around words like "bewildered" and "nuts" when it comes to keeping certain people from getting pregnant. We simply aren't doing enough to stop them. Globally, he says, we're under-investing in getting birth control to the developing world. Here in the U.S., Kristof says, we need to get long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) into young people, fast. (Never mind that LARCs are more expensive in the long run and have hideous side effects for many women.) (more…)


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Even though the worldwide x86 microprocessor market began to rebound in the second quarter of 2009 in terms of units, increased popularity of ultra low-cost microprocessors by Intel Corp. undermined ability of Advanced Micro Devices to sustain its market share, claims IDC. The market research firm warns that the demand for personal computers is still weak and the chip market recovered because of product refreshes.
PC Processor Market Increases 10.1% Sequentially
In Q2 2009, worldwide PC processor unit shipments rose 10.1% from the first quarter, compared to a decline of 10.9% from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009. Still, unit shipments declined 7.0% year over year.
Market revenue increased 7.9% from the first quarter of 2009, compared to a decrease of 11% from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009. Second quarter revenue declined 15.3% compared to the same quarter in 2008.
Intel's overall PC processor shipments increased 12.5% from Q1 2009 to Q2 2009, whereas AMD's overall PC processor shipments increased 1.8% in the same period.
While the increase is unusually positive for the second quarter of a year, IDC analysis of the results indicate that Intel and OEM inventory refreshes drove this performance and not the return of significant end demand for PCs.
Intel Posts Market Share Gain, Thanks to Atom, Refreshes
In Q2 2009, Intel earned 78.9% unit market share, a gain of 1.6%, while AMD earned 20.6%, a loss of 1.6%, and Via Technologies earned 0.5%, an increase of 0.1%.
Intel's shipments of Atom processors designed for netbooks increased 34% in Q2 2009 quarter-over-quarter. With such an increase in unit shipments, there is no surprise that Intel managed to gain market share globally, whereas AMD, which does not have a platform that would compete head-to-head against Atom, did not.
"The percentage of Intel's revenue earned in Asia/Pacific grew from 51% in Q1 2009 to 55% in Q2 2009. This fact, combined with the significant sequential 'snap-back' rise in Intel's overall processor shipments – particularly Atom shipments – while AMD's overall shipments were about flat, indicate that the PC processor market did not recover in Q2 2009. Instead, the market balanced out due to Intel driving Atom processors into ODMs who manufacture the systems, particularly in China and Taiwan," noted Shane Rau, director of semiconductors: personal computing research at IDC.
This results indicate that netbook OEMs, having held off buying Atom processors in the first quarter and depleted their inventories, began refreshing those inventories in the second quarter. IDC estimates that the inexpensive Atom processors for netbook PCs represented 25% of Intel's mobile PC processor shipments in Q2 2009 and 8.1% of Intel's mobile PC processor revenues in the second quarter.
By form-factor, the rankings were as follows:
- In the desktop PC segment, Intel earned 70.2%, an increase of 0.2%, and AMD earned 29.4%, a sequential decrease of 0.5%. Via Technologies commanded 0.4% of desktop PC processor market.
- Intel commanded 86.9% unit share in the mobile PC processor segment, a gain of 2.6%, AMD finished with 12.6%, a loss of 2.4%, whereas Via earned 0.5%, down 0.2% from the prior quarter.
- In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 89.9% market share, a gain of 0.6% and AMD earned 10.1%, a loss of 0.6%.
PC Processor Market Still Weak
Having identified Intel and OEM's refreshing inventory as the major factors in the second quarter of and not the return of end demand, we cannot yet say that the PC processor market is recovering, it still is in weak condition, IDC claims.
"Going forward, IDC believes that ODMs and OEMs have balanced out their inventories and so we can't rely on inventory replenishment to drive market improvements. Instead, we can only rely on what actual end demand really is, and that means we have to be cautious not to be over-exuberant that, say, the traditional back-to-school PC buying season will materialize into a bullish second half. It won't," added Mr. Rau.
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I dont know about you guys, but personally I think the standard Rails documentation leaves much to be desired. The blue header, the vanilla code examples... the whole iframes thing. You can tell it was designed by a programmer... which is not bad in and of itself, but as a designer I feel the CSS and overall GUI needs some love.
I have roughed up a few comps and would be interested in your feedback.
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Cerebral_DownTime wrote:All 3 of the places MvF visited in Columbus are killer. Thurman's Cafe has the best burgers on the planet. If you're ever in town, stop there, you will not be disappointed. They put ham on their Thurman Burger..... Just in case a giant burger isn't enough. The Thurmandelphia Steak Sub is also incredible.http://www.thethurmancafe.comBow your heads!
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OldDawg wrote:Isn't there a "thurmanator" burger as well???I saw the Columbus episode you mention. It seems these establishments would qualify for a DDD visit as well.I love watching DDD much more that MvF. Lot of unique offerings at DDD. I am partial to the family owned diner (with a lot of tradition) concept as well.
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U.S. Women Fall to Germany at World Grand Prix
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 7, 2010) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team lost to Germany 25-23, 25-22, 16-25, 25-23 on Saturday evening during the opening weekend of preliminary pool play of the 18th FIVB World Grand Prix in Gdynia, Poland.
Team USA, which falls to 1-1 in this year's World Grand Prix, concludes the Pool B preliminary round weekend against host Poland (2-0) on Aug. 8 at 7:15 a.m. Pacific Time.
Germany, which also defeated the U.S. twice at the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix, overcame a 15-11 deficit with an 11-5 scoring run en route to winning the opening set 25-23. Germany controlled much of the second set winning 25-22. Team USA used a key 5-0 scoring run to take a 17-10 advantage in the third set to ease into a 25-16 victory. In the fourth set, Germany battled from deficits of 15-11 and 19-16 to capture the set 25-23.
"Congratulations to Germany for a good game," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. "I think we played good enough to get to the tie break. Unfortunately, we didn't get it. We played better than yesterday and we hope we will improve before tomorrow's game against Poland."
Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) paced the U.S. with 24 points on 20 kills on 42 swings and four blocks. Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) chipped in 16 points via 12 kills on 35 attacks and four blocks. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) contributed nine kills on 17 attacks and a match-high five blocks for 14 points. Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) came off the bench to score 10 points with eight kills and two aces. Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) charted three kills and an ace for four points, while Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.) recorded two kills. Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) rounded out the American scoring with a block and kill for two points.
Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) had a team-high 16 digs for the U.S., while Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) added 13. Glass turned in 14 digs and 40 running sets on 112 attempts. Hodge had a team-high 10 excellent receptions on 28 attempts to go with 13 digs.
"I think it was a hard match," said Tamas, the U.S. captain. "There were a lot more long, difficult rallies. I was sure we would have the fifth set."
McCutcheon started Larson and Hodge at outside hitter, Akinradewo and Bown at middle blocker, Hooker at opposite and Glass at setter. Davis was the designated libero for the match. Barboza subbed into the match in the first two sets and started the final two sets in place of Larson. Tamas started the third and fourth sets in place of Bown, while Sykora was the libero for the third and fourth sets.
Although the U.S. out-blocked Germany 14-6 and had a 55-48 kill advantage, the Americans had 30 errors during the match to the Germans' 21. Germany won the battle at the service line with a 7-3 advantage in aces.
Heike Beier tallied a German-high 15 points with 10 kills and five aces, including three key aces in the fourth set. Corina Ssuschke added 10 kills and two blocks for 12 points, while Margareta Kozuch added 11 kills.
"It was a very difficult match," German Head Coach Giovan Guidetti said. "The United States has made some great improvement since last year. They were amazing in block. Most of all I want to congratulate my team, because they didn't give up, they really wanted to win this match. Sometimes they impress me with their determination and I am very proud of them."
Next week the U.S. squad travels to Bangkok, Thailand, for the second preliminary round weekend and will challenge Italy on Aug. 13, Thailand on Aug. 14 and Puerto Rico on Aug. 15. The U.S. concludes pool play in Hong Kong with matches against Germany on Aug. 20, Thailand on Aug. 21 and China on Aug. 22.
In other action today, Poland (2-0) defeated Dominican Republic (0-2) 25-23, 25-16, 25-14 in Pool B action. In Pool A held at Sao Carlos, Brazil, the host Brazilians improved to 2-0 with a 25-20, 25-19, 25-20 victory over Japan (1-1), while Italy (1-1) topped Chinese Taipei (0-2) 25-15, 25-20, 25-19. At Chengdu, China, the host Chinese (2-0) defeated Thailand (0-2) 25-16, 25-16, 25-22 and Netherlands (2-0) swept Puerto Rico (0-2) 25-9, 25-12, 25-21.
Volleyball fans across the world will be able to watch three FIVB World Grand prix matches a week as FIVB TV announced on Aug. 5 that it will stream matches on the Internet. One match per day from the three preliminary rounds as well as all matches form the Final Round will be streamed live on http://www.laola1.tv/en/int/fivb/video/203---.html. USA matches will be shown twice during the World Grand Prix, including the Aug. 13 match against Italy and the Aug. 22 match versus China. This weekend's matches on FIVB TV are Poland versus Germany on Aug. 6, Thailand versus China on Aug. 7 and Brazil versus Italy on Aug. 8.
In addition, fans can watch all three USA matches this weekend live on Universal Sports (www.universalsports.com), while the next six matches played in Thailand and Hong Kong will be available tape delayed for same-day coverage. Selected matches will also be shown on Universal's television channel. All matches will be on-demand after they take place. To find out if Universal is in your home area and its daily schedule, click here.
For more information on the FIVB World Grand Prix, click here. For more information on the U.S. Women's National Team, click here.
The U.S. gained a 2-0 lead to start the opening set as Hooker slammed a kill after a Germany service error. Germany quickly erased the deficit and took a 3-2 lead of its own. Hooker scored consecutive points to give the U.S. the lead back at 6-5. Germany switched the lead back to its favor at 7-6 on back-to-back points. Trailing 8-7 at the first technical timeout, the U.S. went back in front at 9-8 on a service ace after a Germany error. Team USA extended its lead to 11-9 on consecutive Germany errors. The Americans stretched the advantage to three points at 12-9 as Akinradewo ended a lengthy rally with a block leading to a Germany timeout. The U.S. inched its lead to four points at 15-11 with a Hooker kill and Germany attack error. Out of the second technical timeout, Germany scored back-to-back points to cut the gap in half at 16-14 and chipped away to within one at 18-17 forcing a USA timeout. Germany tied the set at 19-all after a USA net violation and Germany ace. Germany gained the lead back at 21-20 after a U.S. attack went wide, then widened its advantage to 22-20 with another USA error. Bown hammered an overpass to save one set point, but Germany ended the set with a 25-23 victory. Hooker led the U.S. in scoring in the first set with six points. Both teams committed several errors as USA gave Germany 11 points on miscues while the set winner gave the Americans 10 points.
Germany picked up an early 3-1 advantage in the second set. Hooker tied the set at 3-all on a kill and block, then Akinradewo followed with a block to yield a 4-3 advantage for the U.S. Germany returned to the lead at 6-5 after a service ace. Hodge turned in consecutive kills to return the U.S. back in front at 7-6, but it was Germany reaching the first technical timeout with a lead at 8-7. Germany gained a three-point cushion at 11-8 after consecutive USA errors and a kill. The U.S. cut into the deficit with a Hooker kill and Hodge block to close to 13-12. Akinradewo then added a block to tie the set at 13-all. Germany broke the tie with back-to-back points for a 15-13 advantage. Germany extended its advantage to three points at 19-16. Barboza answered with back-to-back kills to close the deficit to one at 19-18. Germany scored a three-point advantage at 23-20 after a U.S. attack went long. Akinradewo put up a block and Hooker followed with a powerful attack to close the score to within one at 23-22. However, Germany closed out the set with the final two points for a 25-22 victory. Hooker led the U.S. with six points in the second set, while Hodge add five points. Germany limited its errors to one in the second set, while the U.S. gave Germany nine points on errors.
Team USA scored a 3-0 lead to start the third set with a Germany error and kills from Hooker and Akinradewo leading to a Germany timeout. Germany closed to within one at 7-6 after a U.S. error. Barboza followed a Hooker kill with an ace to increase the U.S. lead to 11-8. Hodge added a kill to extend the margin to four points at 12-8. Germany cut the deficit in half with two quick points at 12-10. Team USA responded with kills from Akinradewo and Hodge around a Germany error to take a five-point edge at 15-10. Hodge put up a block to give the U.S. a 4-0 scoring run into the second technical timeout with a 16-10 lead. Out of the break, Germany hit long for USA's fifth straight point at 17-10. Germany cut into the gap with consecutive points at 19-14. Barboza and Hodge pocketed consecutive kills to return the Americans in front by seven at 21-14. Out of a German timeout, the U.S. added to the lead at 23-14 with a Germany error and Barboza kill after Tamas drove into the bench to save the ball. Germany connected for back-to-back kills to slice the gap to 23-16. Akinradewo gave the U.S. set point at 24-16, then Germany hit long to end the set at 25-16. Hooker pace the Americans with six points in the third set, while Hodge added five points. Germany committed six errors in the set.
The U.S. started the fourth set in front 3-0 on a Germany error, Barboza kill and Hooker block. Germany came back with consecutive points to close to 3-2. Akinradewo, Hodge and Hooker put down consecutive kills to push the U.S. advantage to 6-2 leading to a German timeout. Germany responded with back-to-back points including an ace at 6-4. Team USA jumped its lead to 10-6 with a Hooker kill followed by one from Tamas. Germany sliced the deficit to one with three unanswered points at 10-9 leading to a USA timeout. Out of the break, Germany tied the score at 10-all on a passing error by the USA. The U.S. responded with a Barboza kill and Glass block. Team USA increased its lead to four points with consecutive Akinradewo kills and a block from her for a 15-11 lead. Germany charged back again with five straight points to take a 16-15 advantage, capped by an ace going into the second technical timeout. Out of the break, the U.S. gained a 17-16 lead with a Hooker kill and Hodge block. Barboza followed with an ace and Germany hit wide on the next play extending the U.S. lead to 19-16 as part of a 4-0 scoring run. Germany came back to score four consecutive points, including two aces, to regain the lead at 20-19. Germany extended its advantage with a third straight ace by Beier to take a 21-19 advantage. The USA regrouped with an Akinradewo block and Hooker kill to tie the set at 21-all. Germany scored the final two points of the set to win 25-23. Hooker was credited with six points in the fourth set, while Hodge and Akinradewo added four points.
U.S. Women's National Team Preliminary Roster for FIVB World Grand Prix
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Ogonna Nnamani (OPP, 6-1, Bloomington, Ill., Stanford)
2 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
17 - Nellie Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - Destinee Hooker (OPP, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Jim Stone (Columbus, Ohio)
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Leader for Poland/Thailand: Reed Sunahara (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Team Leader for Hong Kong/Japan: Laurel Iversen (Kalaheo, Hawaii)
2010 FIVB World Grand Prix Schedule
Pool A (Sao Carlos, Brazil * Ginasio Nilton Olaio Filho)
Aug. 6: Brazil def. Chinese Taipei 25-15, 25-19, 25-12
Aug. 6: Japan def. Italy 30-28, 27-29, 25-20, 25-13
Aug. 7: Brazil def. Japan 25-20, 25-19, 25-20
Aug. 7: Italy def. Chinese Taipei 25-15, 25-20, 25-19
Aug. 8: Brazil vs. Italy, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 8: Japan vs. Chinese Taipei, 1 p.m.
Pool B (Gdynia, Poland * Gdynia Competition Hall)
Aug. 6: USA def. Dominican Republic 26-24, 22-25, 25-14, 25-19
Aug. 6: Poland def. Germany 25-18, 16-25, 25-22, 26-24
Aug. 7: Poland def. Dominican Republic 25-23, 25-16, 25-14
Aug. 7: Germany def. USA 25-23, 25-22, 16-25, 25-23
Aug. 8: USA vs. Poland, 4:15 p.m.
Aug. 8: Germany vs. Dominican Republic, 7:15 p.m.
Pool C (Chengdu, China * Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau)
Aug. 6: Netherlands def. Thailand 25-22, 25-22, 25-23
Aug. 6: China def. Puerto Rico 25-20, 25-18, 25-22
Aug. 7: Netherlands def. Puerto Rico 25-9, 25-12, 25-21
Aug. 7: China def. Thailand 25-16, 25-16, 25-22
Aug. 8: China vs. Netherlands, 4 p.m.
Aug. 8: Thailand vs. Puerto Rico, 7:30 p.m.
Pool D (Bangkok, Thailand * Keelawes 2)
Aug. 13: USA vs. Italy, 3 p.m.
Aug. 13: Thailand vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 14: Puerto Rico vs. Italy, 2 p.m.
Aug. 14: USA vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 15: USA vs. Puerto Rico, 3 p.m.
Aug. 15: Italy vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Pool E (Macau, China * Forum de Macau)
Aug. 13: Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 13: China vs. Netherlands, 9 p.m.
Aug. 14: Brazil vs. Netherlands, 2 p.m.
Aug. 14: China vs. Dominican Republic, 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 15: Netherlands vs. Dominican Republic, 1 p.m.
Aug. 15: China vs. Brazil, 3:30 p.m.
Pool F (Okayama, Japan * Okayama Momotaro Arena)
Aug. 13: Chinese Taipei vs. Poland, 3 p.m.
Aug. 13: Japan vs. Germany, 6 p.m.
Aug. 14: Germany vs. Chinese Taipei, 2 p.m.
Aug. 14: Japan vs. Poland, 5 p.m.
Aug. 15: Germany vs. Poland, 2 p.m.
Aug. 15: Japan vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m.
Pool G (Hong Kong, China * Hong Kong Coliseum)
Aug. 20: USA vs. Germany, 3 p.m.
Aug. 20: China vs. Thailand, 8 p.m.
Aug. 21: USA vs. Thailand, 1:15 p.m.
Aug. 21: China vs. Germany, 3:45 p.m.
Aug. 22: Germany vs. Thailand, 1:15 p.m.
Aug. 22: USA vs. China, 3:45 p.m.
Pool H (Taipei, Chinese Taipei * Taiwan University Gym)
Aug. 20: Brazil vs. Puerto Rico, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 20: Poland vs. Chinese Taipei, 7 p.m.
Aug. 21: Puerto Rico vs. Poland, 2:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: Chinese Taipei vs. Brazil, 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 22: Brazil vs. Poland, 2:30 p.m.
Aug. 22: Chinese Taipei vs. Puerto Rico, 4:30 p.m.
Pool I (Tokyo, Japan * Yoyogi National Stadium)
Aug. 20: Italy vs. Netherlands, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 20: Japan vs. Dominican Republic, 6:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: Dominican Republic vs. Netherlands, 2 p.m.
Aug. 21: Japan vs. Italy, 7 p.m.
Aug. 22: Dominican Republic vs. Italy, 2 p.m.
Aug. 22: Japan vs. Netherlands, 5 p.m.
Final Round (Ningbo, China * Ningbo Beilun Gymnasium)
Aug. 25-29: Teams TBA


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These days, if you want tranquillity in Israel, you go to the shore. Inland, whether in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, where I spent the last two weeks at meetings of the Jewish Agency for Israel, one is assaulted by the tumult of Israeli politics, the storms of a society seeking to sort out the levels of decency it will tolerate, and the battles over how a durable peace with Israel's Palestinian neighbors will be achieved.
If one were just an ordinary tourist here for a visit to the Holy Land, it would all be "very interesting." Few nations are as open about the issues churning within them. After all, washing your dirty national linen in public is bad for tourism. That's the conventional logic. But there is nothing "conventional" about Israel. Nor are Jews, like me, "tourists" here.
We arrive with a feeling of belonging, of responsibility. The land not only belongs to current Israeli citizens, but it is our legacy as well. From the sands on which I meander in Herzliya, south to the tip of Eilat, north to Metulah, and east to Jerusalem, this land is our national treasure -- ever since Abraham and Sarah birthed us. As Jews, we don't whip in and out of Israel. Israel whips and churns inside us.
That's what is happening in my gut. Lots of agitation.
During my visit, I joined Israeli friends for, of all things, a protest rally in Tel Aviv Museum Square. The rally was titled "Stop the Extreme Orthodox." Thousands, of all ages, filled the square. Speaker after speaker condemned the vicious verbal and physical attacks by the extreme Orthodox (haredim) on liberal Jews and non-Jews at the Wall and other holy places; called for freedom of Jewish religious practice to be granted to all Israelis; and demanded an end to Orthodox Jewish students being given an exemption from military service.
The mood was restrained anger. The message of this first demonstration of its kind was clear: "Stop the extreme Orthodox from leeching upon our society and encroaching upon our lives." Clearly, liberal Jewish and secular Israelis have in common a sense of revulsion for the anti-democratic and increasingly dogmatic coercion of the extreme Orthodox in Israel. The topic is a constant wherever one goes.
At meetings of the Jewish Agency, many of the same issues are agitating. The Jewish Agency is the vehicle through which our Jewish Federation Council contributions, mingled with those of other Jewish communities throughout the world, are allocated for rescuing Jews in distress and resettling them in Israel. Its work also includes enhancing Jewish continuity and education in Israel and in the Diaspora.
Responding to the lack of sensitivity exhibited by the Netanyahu government in submitting the "conversion bill," which would further delegitimize liberal Jewish movements here, the Agency Assembly doubled its allocation to the work of Israeli Reform, Conservative and Modern Orthodox movements, from $2.5 million to $5 million. Provoked by an attack at the Western Wall on Assembly participants who were bringing notes given to them by Russian children they had just visited in the former Soviet Union, the Agency Assembly strongly censured the Israeli government for not protecting the rights and lives of all who visit holy places.
While noting that the prime minister had, finally, convened a special committee of seven Israeli religious leaders, including one each from the Reform and Conservative movements, and mandated them to reach a solution on the issue of conversion by Aug. 15, the Assembly received him with a distinct lack of enthusiasm. Trust between the Diaspora and Israeli government leaders is at a precarious low ebb.
And it was not much improved at the meeting I attended with Israel's chief rabbis, Yisrael Meir Lau and Eliahu Bakshi-Doron. The gathering at their new offices was between them and the Joint Committee on Jewish Unity of the Knesset, on the one hand, and the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, on the other. Our purpose was to express to the chief rabbis our concerns about the growing gap between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, and to explore where, in cooperation, we might begin to find sources of repair.
The meeting began positively. Both chief rabbis lamented our "divisions." Quoting from the Jerusalem Talmud, Rabbi Lau warned that Jews dare not wound one another, for to do so is "to injure your own body." We all agreed. When Rabbi Bakshi-Doron made the point that our "greatest challenge is assimilation, is loss of Jews," we all nodded in accord.
But, then, both chief rabbis made it clear that while they were pleased to meet us, when it came to reaching understandings with liberal Jewish leaders on matters pertaining to "Jewish law [halacha] and personal status," such as marriage, divorce and conversion, there was only one way -- and it was their Orthodox way. As the meeting ended, Rabbi Lau went so far as to tell me, triumphantly, "When Reform rabbis agree to the law of God according to Torah, then they will no longer be Reform!"
While the meeting concluded with an agreement to meet again, the two rabbis felt constrained to issue their own public relations statement. It announced that they "made clear in the meeting that they have no intention of negotiating with streams which do not recognize halacha," and that "those who belong to such streams should repent."
Ironically, the very ones who began our meeting by criticizing those who "wound other Jews," ended up shamefully inflicting insult and injury on those with whom they met. In doing so, the chief rabbis have made forging an agenda for a next meeting a greater challenge.
"This is the first time I've felt myself inside the caldron of a society in the making," a friend said to me. "It's a bit frightening."
So it is. Contrary and extreme forces are clashing with fury here. They are competing for the soul of this still new nation. At the shore or inside the country, one feels the distinct tug of the tides.
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Dog Days on Trails - Page 2
Injuries and Treatment
According to Dr. McKenzie, most dogs develop surprisingly few injuries from distance running. "They are natural athletes,"
she says. With head-stabilizing muscles and an economical long- distance gait, dogs also possess a few traits that we might envy: an astounding aerobic capacity four times as efficient as ours, and the ultimate tool for balance on uneven terrain—a tail!
Barring congenital disorders, the major concern stems from the fact that a loyal dog will follow you off the end of the earth, or until it collapses from exhaustion. McKenzie cautions that most dogs will keep going until they develop heat stroke. Watch for symptoms like excessive panting, lethargy or disorientation. Any of these warrant immediate action—cool the dog's belly and armpits with cold water and get it to a vet as soon as possible.
Because dogs don't sweat, they can only dissipate heat by panting or losing it through their paws and bellies. "Hydration and cooling go hand in hand," says McKenzie, so offer ample water and time to lounge in a mud puddle or creek. During the dog days of summer, lie low when it's hot and exercise early or late. Large, deep-chested dogs are at risk for a serious condition known as bloat, in which excess air gets trapped in the stomach and puts pressure on internal organs. Swallowing large portions of food during vigorous exercise can trigger this—so feed only small amounts during and immediately after long runs.
Choosing a Breed
When searching for a running companion, look for breeds valued for their working abilities. These include pointers, spaniels, retrievers, collies, heelers, and terriers. In colder climates, sled dogs do well. Regardless of a dog's pedigree, though, they probably love to run. According to McKenzie, a team of poodles completed the Iditarod three times!
We trail runners all want the same thing: to rediscover that ancient feeling of movement in our lanky bones and let the challenges of nature coax our instincts out of hibernation. That elusive need drives us to the trailhead morning after soggy morning. Says Robbins, Roxy conveys that same emotion: "She looks up with a smile on her face that says, 'I just love everything we are doing right now.'"
PACKING FOR TWO: Consider bringing these items to make long runs with your canine companion safer and more enjoyable.
> Collapsible water bowl and extra water.
> First-aid kit with moleskin and superglue. Take a page from mushers—with these, you can quickly mend a torn pad.
> Snacks. For runs under a couple of hours, your dog will be fine without food. However, for a 50K, bring some treats or a bit of dog food and allot small portions.
> Light leash. Even if your dog behaves well, you may encounter an exposed section of trail, a deer that's too tempting to ignore or another cranky canine.
> Booties. In snow or on sharp, rocky terrain, booties help protect your dog's paws. Get your dog sized by an expert at a good pet store and allow it time to get used to the feel. However, do not use booties in hot weather—they prevent heat dissipation from its paws.
> Rubber band. Unless you relish the sound of jangling tags, silence your dog's IDs.
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I am no video whiz and my damned Flip HD is super shaky, but here is some footage of Dom making both Squares and Circles at DiFara. You can see the square (Sicilian) is par-baked with some sauce on top to mitigate center bubbling/bloating as many of us are doing at home.He also pours a hefty amount of EVOO under the crust before topping and finishing the square. Intriguing is the use of a different sauce for the square, which he takes out of the cooler and puts back into it when done with the squares, while the sauce for the regular pie stays on the counter. I'll have to ask next time I am in there with more time what the difference is. Listen to that damned olive oil hiss in the pan!For what it's worth, here is the amateur footage I took:I've never done a Sicilian in a higher temperature oven, but am doing so soon. --K
Matthew.....with sauce
Matt,That's a beauty.Did you cook the sauce?Peter
Matt,I asked about cooking the sauce because the Sicilian sauce that Dom uses is apparently the only cooked sauce that he uses. His son told me that one time when I happened to pass through the kitchen area on my way to the restroom. The sauce was cooking on the stove and Dom's son said it was the Sicilian sauce.Peter