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Rox Baseball Begins
The St. Cloud Rox kick off their second season in central Minnesota this Friday. The Rox host the Thunder Bay Border Cats at 7:05 Friday night under the lights at Joe Faber Field. The game will feature former Minnesota Twin Greg Gagne throwing out the first pitch, live music that begins at 6 p.m. and post-game fireworks.
The Rox are a Northwoods League baseball team made up of college players from across the nation. There are four SCSU Huskies in the Rox lineup this summer including outfielder Eric Loxtercamp, outfielder/first baseman Garrett Fischer, and pitchers Reese Gregory and Kyle Fischer. Across the Northwoods League SCSU is represented well with 10 Huskies playing for five different teams.
Other Huskies in the Northwoods League include:
- Logan Spitzack (Rochester Honkers)
- Adam Harlander (Duluth Huskies)
- Garrett Harrison (Green Bay Bullfrogs)
- Karl Sorensen (Willmar Stingers)
- Chris Kubitz (willmar Stingers)
- Corey Fitzgerald (Alexandria Blue Anchors)
- Scott Sanderson (Alexandria Blue Anchors)
- Travis Enger (Lakeshore Chinooks)
- Nick Mairs (Wisconsin Rapids Rafters)
- Michael Jurgella (Wisconsin Rapids Rafters)
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Old media coverage of cutting-edge toys is increasingly hapless. If you ever have trouble sleeping, just read the gadgets column in a lifestyle mag. The big newspapers' gadget blogs are phoned in, too: they want to beat techie sites like Engadget and Gizmodo, but they stick with a stuffy approach at odds with the enthusiast subject matter. This blurring of "blog" and "newspaper" also makes mistakes look like journalistic misrepresentations.
A great example of all this is at Digits, the WSJ tech blog. The Journal's Ben Charny writes about a dinner hosted by the people who run the Consumer Electronics Show. Slipped into a post so perfectly unexciting that it reads like an AP news item, Charny offers an amazing fact: "Apple plans to attend the show's 2010 version, marking the first time in memory the Cupertino, Calif., consumer-electronics giant will be there."
Wow! But there's a problem.Not only is there scant evidence this is the case, CEA president Gary Shapiro denied the rumor at the very event Charny attended. And there's no source, named or otherwise, for that claim.
Engadget's Ryan Block, who also attended, takes it down, hard. But while Block strikes each debunking note with excruciating precision, the way he did it was a missed opportunity. It's as if Block, far more popular and credible than his target, thought the reverse was true.
Responding to a one-line mistake with a big wall of text feeds the assumption that old newspapers are the ones with reputations to live up to, and that bloggers are better at reading than they are at reporting. But the truth is that blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo and the Crunches are coming close to supplanting traditional outlets entirely when it comes to technology news.
It's time for bloggers to stop chipping away at the credibility of fusty rivals, assume that they have no credibility advantage left at all, and simply get on with the job of out-writing them.
After all, responding to something at all grants it a measure of equality, and responding to it at greater length offers it primacy. This is why scientists are so leery of smacking down flat-earthers and the like: it gives them credibility they don't deserve. A better way to put a screw-up in its place it is to make fun of it, or give it a quick kick in the balls.
It's not just about technology reporting, either: online news will polish off its traditional counterparts by ignoring, rather than reacting to, their mistakes. Instead of attacking its credibility when it wanders into our yard, it's time for us to invade theirs--before they get a clue.


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If you're new to Twitter and trying to follow our book club reading of de Kooning: An American Master, these basic definitions might help.
The @ symbol
Use this in front of someone's Twitter name when you're giving them credit (retweeting something they originally wrote) or responding to something they tweeted. Twitter adds a hyperlink to the name following the @ symbol. You can click on the name to see more about that person and read their tweets.
For example, here is a tweet of mine from this morning:
(I was responding to a couple of tweets between @cara19 and @vmartinart)
When you use the @ symbol in front of someone's Twitter name, this tweet appears in a column called "@Replies" on that person's Twitter page. They'll be able to see who has responded to their tweet, retweeted what they said, or joined in the conversation.
Which brings me to . . .
Image ©Kim Shields, San Jose Mission Courtyard
The # (hashtag) symbol
I'm going to simplify this definition as best I can. It's direct from the Alyson Dictionary (I made it up as this is how I understand it).
When you have a group on Twitter that is tweeting about the same thing, the leader of that group designates a specific word (or series of letters and numbers) to use on Twitter. The leader then tells everyone in the group to use this word–preceded by the hashtag–when discussing the subject on Twitter.
This streamlines the conversation. How? Because it makes it easily searchable. If everyone was using a different word or making up their own, the group members would have to conduct multiple searches and guess the possibilities.
Here's the clincher: The word after the hashtag must be written exactly as described (although capitalization doesn't seem to make a difference). No spaces!
I, as the leader of the de Kooning book club, designated that our hashtag is #dekooning. I did so in this blog post and in subsequent tweets.
You can go to Twitter Search and type in #dekooning and follow our conversation.


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Introduction. On June 17, 2010, the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Health & Human Services, and Labor issued an interim final regulation detailing changes that will -- or will not -- cause an employer's group health benefit plan to lose its "grandfathered plan" status.
The three Departments then issued three sets of interim final regulations that address changes made by the Affordable Care Act that apply to plan years beginning on or after September 23, 2010:
One of these new issued regulations implement provisions of the Act applies to all group health plans (choice of primary care physician and benefits for emergency services); the rest will only apply to nongrandfathered plans.
Employers must now weigh the potential benefits of preserving their existing group health benefit plans' grandfathered status against the costs they may incur to achieve that objective.
Background. At the end of March, Congress passed and the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Days later, Congress amended that legislation when the President signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (we will refer to the two pieces of legislation collectively as the "Affordable Care Act"). The Affordable Care Act (i) authorizes the creation of state insurance exchanges, effective for 2014, through which insurers will offer "qualified health plans" -- plans that offer a panoply of benefits mandated by the Affordable Care Act, satisfy Act-mandated limits on employee deductible and out of pocket obligations, and satisfy Act-mandated underwriting standards that must be used to determine premiums; (2) beginning in 2014, obligates individuals to enroll in a health plan that offers "minimum essential benefits" or pay a penalty; (3) beginning in 2014, obligates "large employers" (50 or more full-time equivalent employees) to either offer employees the opportunity to enroll in an affordable employer-sponsored group health plan or pay a penalty; and (4) obligates employer-sponsored group health plans to incorporate a variety of new coverage, benefit, and nondiscrimination requirements. Some of those requirements are effective within the next few months; some take effect in 2014.
Wherever there is a general rule, there is an exception. The Affordable Care Act (1) permits "grandfathered health plans" to serve as a plan in which individuals may enroll in order to avoid the individual-level "pay or play" penalty and to satisfy the employer-level "pay or play" penalty; and (2) exempts "grandfathered health plans" from having to comply with a number of those new coverage, benefit, and nondiscrimination requirements.
The Problem. The Affordable Care Act tells us what constitutes a "grandfathered health plan": a group health benefit plan that covered participants on March 23, 2010 (the date of enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). The Affordable Care Act says that enrolling new participants will not cause a plan to lose its grandfathered status -- and provides virtually no other guidance.
The Concern. Employers that sponsor group health plans that were in effect on March 23, 2010 need to know what changes they can make without losing grandfathered status so that they can evaluate (1) whether grandfathered status is important to them, and, if so, (2) if preserving grandfathered status may prove to be the less costly route, what they must do to preserve that status.
All group health plans -- grandfathered or not -- will be required to comply with these new requirements (some take effect for plan years that begin on or after September 23, 2010 and some will take effect later):
Plans that successfully preserve their grandfathered status will escape these requirements:
Of these requirements, which are the ones that are likely to result in material additional costs to a group health plan that loses its grandfathered status? Focus on these:
What Changes Will Cause a Grandfathered Plan to Lose That Status and Become a Nongrandfathered Plan?
The June 17, 2010 interim final regulations list these events as ones that will cause a grandfathered plan to lose its grandfathered status:
How Should Employers Determine the Potential Costs They May Be Forced to Incur in Order to Maintain Grandfathered Status and Compare Those Costs to the Savings They Hope to Reap From Preserving Grandfathered Status?
To accomplish this feat, first determine whether the employer sponsoring the plan really has a choice. If the employer does have a choice, then determine whether the employer must preserve grandfathered status in order to keep the plan. Finally, assuming the employer still has a choice, determine whether preserving grandfathered status will generate cost savings and whether those savings offset the loss of freedom in changing plan design elements necessary to preserve grandfathered status.
Does the employer really have any choice? If the employer sponsors a fully insured plan, the employer may not have a long term choice. Several of the largest health insurance companies have already informally said that they will not sponsor two sets of health insurance products (grandfathered and nongrandfathered). Those companies have already announced that they will only sponsor nongrandfathered plans.
Therefore, most employers that sponsor fully insured plans need not flagellate themselves through worry over preserving grandfathered status: these employers are unlikely to be able to preserve that status in any event. Instead, they should continue to evaluate their health plans and the plans' costs as they have done in the past, even if that means changing insurers or instituting features that cause the loss of grandfathered status.
The only employers with fully insured plans who possess a meaningful shot at preserving their grandfathered status are employer sufficiently large that health insurance companies will be prepared to underwrite and obtain state insurance commission approval for the plan design that employer desires.
Does the employer sponsor a fully insured plan that does not satisfy the nondiscrimination requirements that will apply to nongrandfathered plans? If the employer sponsors a fully insured group health plan that currently does not satisfy the nondiscrimination reaquirements that will apply to nongrandfathered plans, the employer must assess the cost of adding a sufficient number of nonhighly compensated employees to the plan so as to enable the plan to meet the requirements. How much is that likely to cost? Compare that recurring annual cost to the additional expense the employer may incur in order to avoid losing grandfathered status. Those additional expenses fall into these sorts of categories:
For sponsors of self insured plans: Determine the additional expenses the employer may incur in order to preserve grandfathered status (see the categories of expense, above) and compare that cost to the additional compliance costs the employer will incur if the plan loses its grandfathered status and must now provide the additional features that apply only to nongrandfathered plans. Self-insured plans are not at the mercy of health insurers -- at least, not directly. Employers that sponsor self-insured plans should determine what, if any additional costs, they will incur if their plan(s) lose grandfathered status. For many self-insured plans, the additional costs may not be substantial. Those plans may already offer fully subsidized preventive care services, a broad range of in-network providers, and may already use independent reviewers of appeals of claims that have been denied for medical reasons. The one requirement that may affect some self-insured plans is the limit on cost sharing that will apply to nongrandfathered plans.
If the savings associated with preserving grandfathered status is small, and the costs of preserving grandfathered status is material -- giving up the ability to increase the proportion of plan costs that employees must absorb --, then self-interest impels these employers to continue to pursue plan design issues and changes as they traditionally have performed that task, even if the results mean, loss of grandfathered status.
In the preamble to their interim final regulation on grandfathered status, the Departments confirm that most employers will make group health benefit plan design decisions without regard to the effect those decisions may have on their grandfathered status. As a result, the Departments also believe there will be few grandfathered plans left standing by 2014:
Click on the links below for more information on the provisions of the Affordable Car Act that do and do not apply to grandfathered plans, including the Public Health Service Act section, description, and it's effective date.
Provisions in subtitles A and C of title I of The Affordable Care Act that do apply to grandfathered plans.
Provisions in subtitles A and C of title I of The Affordable Care Act that do not apply to grandfathered plans for so long as they retain grandfathered status.


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Lovely cat, Chris! Does the single fang bother him in any way? Does the bell really help warn the birds that he's on the prowl?
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I have a cat with one fang as well. He's the one warming my lap at the
moment. Every once in a while, I put one hand underneath him to try to warm
my fingers. It was in the low 40s today and I was determined to get some
bulbs planted in my new Spider- Unusual forms daylily bed. I've got to
increase my thyroid hormones!
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He loves sitting on my desk in front of my computer screen or on my
printer. I have a tank with two baby garter snakes on my desk and he is
fascinated with them. He does something very strange after I shower. He
comes into the shower stall to drink some water and then he proceeds to go
out of his way to walk out of the room by way of my slippers or shoes that
Ive left out. By that I mean he steps into them with his wet feet!
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OGDEN -- Five former standout athletes and two longtime supporters make up the 2014 class of inductees to the Weber State University Athletics Hall of Fame. The WSU Wildcat Club is pleased to announce this year's class of inductees, presented by the Cuturbus Automotive Group.
This year's Hall of Fame inductees are: Harold Arceneaux (men's basketball), Brad Barton (men's track and field/cross country), Eddie Gill (men's basketball), Sessions Harlan (men's basketball) and Fine Unga (football). The class also includes longtime donors Tom and Nancy Davidson who will receive the Reed K. Swenson Award.
This year's class will be honored at the Wildcat Club Hall of Fame Banquet on Friday, Feb. 28, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Ogden. The class will also be recognized at Weber State's men's basketball home game against Northern Arizona on Saturday. March 1. For more information about Hall of Fame weekend contact the Wildcat Club at 801-626-6576.
Of all the moments in Weber State's athletic history, perhaps no moment is more remembered than the night of March 11, 1999, when the Weber State men's basketball team defeated North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The win goes down as one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history. The Wildcats were led in that game by Harold "The Show" Arceneaux who scored 36 points to beat the Tar Heels and bring national prominence and attention to Weber State.
Arceneaux played two years of basketball at Weber State and is one of the top players in the program's history. He came to WSU for the 1998-99 season along with Eddie Gill and immediately made a name for himself. He earned Big Sky MVP honors and All-District honors that season and set a then WSU single-season record for points in a season with 713 (later broken by Damian Lillard). He led the Wildcats to the Big Sky title and a trip to the NCAA Tournament where they met third seeded North Carolina. Arceneaux had 36 points and knocked down five three-pointers in the upset win over the Tar Heels and he and the Wildcats became one of the darlings of the NCAA Tournament.
Two nights later, Arceneaux was right back at it scoring 32 points in an overtime loss to Florida in the second round of the tournament.
As a senior Arceneaux came back for another great year, averaging 23.0 points per game and once again earning Big Sky MVP honors. He scored 40 points twice that season and scored 30 or more eight times.
Since leaving Weber State, Arceneaux has played basketball professionally on every continent in the world and at nearly every level. From summer leagues in the NBA to minor professional leagues in the United States and to countries near and far, Arceneaux has continued his show all over the world. He has played for professional teams in Australia, France, Portugal, Argentina, South Korea, Philippines, Brazil and Mexico where he spent the 2012-13 season as a player coach for the Lechugueros De Leon in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Eddie Gill teamed with Arceneaux to form a combination that became known as the Thrill and the Show. Eddie "The Thrill" Gill played two seasons at Weber State from 1998-2000. He was part of the memorable 1999 Wildcat team that won the Big Sky Championships and knocked off North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
After playing at the College of Eastern Utah and Salt Lake Community College, where he earned Junior College All-American honors, Gill immediately made an impact as a junior at Weber State. He averaged 14 points, 4.6 assists and 2.7 steals per game that first season, earned First Team All-Big Sky honors and was named the Big Sky Newcomer of the Year. He was also named the MVP of the Big Sky Tournament by averaging 18.5 points, 7.5 assists and 3.5 steals per game in the two tournament wins to clinch a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Gill scored 16 points along with five rebounds and two steals in the win over North Carolina and followed that up with 19 points and five assists in the second round overtime loss to Florida.
Following their outstanding junior seasons, Gill and Arceneaux returned for their senior seasons. Gill started all 28 games and averaged 16.3 points, 7 assists and 3.2 steals per game, the single-best steals average in a season in WSU history.
In February 2000 he posted a triple-double in a win over Montana State in his final game at the Dee Events Center. He had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists in the only triple-double in Weber State history.
Gill finished his two-year career with the Wildcats scoring 919 points in 61 career games. He earned First Team All-Big Sky honors each of his two seasons and still ranks as Weber State's career leader in steals with 178, 13th best in Big Sky history. He has the top two single-season records for steals in WSU history and still holds the WSU school record with nine steals in a game. He is also third in school history in career assists and eighth in Big Sky history in career free throw percentage.
Following his days at Weber State, Gill went on to have a long professional basketball career, spending seven seasons playing in the NBA. He appeared in 187 career games, the second most of any player from Weber State, and spent time with New Jersey, Memphis, Portland, Indiana, Seattle, Toronto and Milwaukee. He started in nine NBA games and while playing with the Nets, Gill scored the eight millionth point in NBA history in April 2001. He also played professionally in the NBDL, IBL, USBL and in Greece and Italy.
Brad Barton ran four years of track and field and cross country at Weber State from 1984-91. He earned Big Sky All-Conference honors five times and was a Big Sky champion and All-American in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. He also still has three times on the WSU career top 10 lists.
As a senior in 1991, Barton captured the Big Sky title in the steeplechase at the conference outdoor meet in Bozeman, Mont., posting a time of 9:52.45. He also finished second in the 1,500 meters that season. He went on to earn All-American honors by finishing third overall in the steeplechase at the 1991 NCAA Championships, tied for the third best finish in the steeplechase by any Wildcat at the NCAA meet. He posted a time of 8:31.45, which ranks as the third best time in Weber State and Big Sky history.
In indoor track, Barton twice earned All-Conference honors and twice competed at the NCAA Championships. As a junior in 1990, he finished third at the Big Sky Championships in the mile and went on to compete at the NCAA's. In 1991, he finished second in the mile at the conference meet with a time of 4:04.97, which was the second fastest time in conference history at the time. He later competed in the NCAA Championships in the mile. Barton is the fifth fastest miler in Weber State history. He is also seventh all-time in the 3,000 meters.
As a runner for the WSU cross country team for four years, he was part of the WSU team that finished 11th at the NCAA championships in 1984. During the 1990-91 school year, Barton became the first athlete from Weber State to compete in three NCAA Championships in the same year.
Barton earned All-Big Sky honors five times and earned Academic All-Conference honors four times in his career. Coaxing his former collegiate coach, Chick Hislop, out of retirement, Barton recently renewed his competitive running and set national and world records. In 2013, he set a Master's 45-49 age group indoor mile world record with a time of 4:16.83. In outdoor track, he posted a time of 9:17.59 in the steeplechase, setting a new American record for the 45-49 age group. He is the fastest over 40 steeplechaser in U.S. history.
Barton is a celebrated corporate and youth speaking professional.
Sessions Harlan played two years for the Weber State men's basketball team and was part of one of the greatest teams in school history. Harlan appeared in 57 games with the Wildcats from 1968-70, playing along side Willie Sojourner and Justus Thigpen.
Harlan, a native of Detroit, came to Weber State for the 1968-69 season after playing two years at Iowa Central Junior College. His first season he teamed with Sojourner and Thigpen to made history under new head coach Phil Johnson. The Wildcats opened the season with a loss at West Texas State, but responded by winning their next 12 games. They then lost a non-conference game at Seattle, before winning their next 14 games. The Wildcats finished the Big Sky season a perfect 15-0, the best record in Big Sky history and just one of two teams to ever finish the regular season undefeated. They advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight season and pulled off a 75-73 win over Seattle in the first round. It marked the first victory in the NCAA Tournament for any team from the Big Sky Conference. The Wildcats then lost an overtime game to Santa Clara in the West Regionals before ending their season with a win over New Mexico State.
The Wildcats finished the year 27-3, the best record in Weber State history. Harlan earned first team All-Big Sky honors and averaged 13.4 points per game.
As a senior in 1969-70, Harlan again earned first team All-Big Sky honors and helped lead the Wildcats to another Big Sky title and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. That season he averaged 13.1 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.
In his two seasons with the Wildcats, Harlan averaged 13.3 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
Fine Unga played two seasons in 1987 and 1988 for the Wildcat football team and still ranks as one of the school's best running back.
In two years with the Wildcats, Unga totaled 2,298 rushing yards, which still ranks fifth in rushing in school history. He is also seventh in WSU history in all-purpose yards and 10th in career rushing touchdowns.
Unga, a native of Provo, Utah, came to Weber State after two seasons at Dixie Junior College where he earned Junior College All-American honors.
In 1987, his first year with the Wildcats, he helped Weber State to a 10-3 record and a 7-1 mark in Big Sky play under head coach Mike Price. Unga became just the second Wildcat ever to rush for 1,000 yards in a season as he totaled 1,032 yards with six touchdowns. He rushed for 220 yards in a win over Northern Arizona, at the time the third best single-game total in school history. He led the Big Sky in All-purpose yards and finished fourth in rushing to earn first team All-Big Sky honors.
As a senior in 1988, Unga rushed for 1,266 yards in 11 games for an average of 115 yards per game. The season total still ranks as the seventh most yards in a season in WSU history and his 13 touchdowns are the sixth most in a season.
In his two seasons Unga totaled 19 career touchdowns and had 3,663 career all-purpose yards.
Nancy Davidson and the late Tom Davidson have been longtime supporters of Weber State University and will receive the Reed K. Swenson Award, given for dedication and contributions to Weber State Athletics.
In addition to numerous charitable organizations, Tom and Nancy have been tremendous supporters of Weber State University and the athletic department. They were longtime season ticket holders and members of the Wildcat Club. Tom was also a past president of the Wildcat Club and he and Nancy are charter members of the Champions Club. Tom also served on the WSU Athletic Advisory Board.
Tom and Nancy's generous donations to the WSU Athletic Department include the Tom and Nancy Davidson Office Complex at the Dee Events Center and the Tom and Nancy Davidson Track Locker Room at Stewart Stadium. Tom passed away in April 2013 at the age of 83.


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One of the last things you want to hear when you first walk in to the office is someone asking what that smell is. Because it's clearly you. And by you I mean me, because exactly this happened last week.
I had recently purchased a new cologne and, in my excitement to try it out, I got a little trigger-happy and practically saturated myself with it before leaving the house. I guess I should have realised something was up when several bees tried to pollenate me while I was waiting for the bus.
Last year, US designer Tom Ford released a list of Fifteen Things A Man Should Have and at number five was the owning of a signature scent. And while the wearing of a cologne of some sort has become a regular part of many men's daily grooming routine, the art of wearing it is still something many of us struggle with.
Most might chuck it on as an afterthought before leaving the house without any thought as to how it will wear several hours later. And when you work in an office, there is nothing worse than a Brian Fantana-type knocking you unconscious with his own personal brand of Sex Panther.
So what are the tricks of the trade that you can apply in order to avoid becoming the office muskrat?
The first thing to figure out before wearing a cologne is your skin type – oily skin tends to hold fragrance better and longer, so you won't need to think about a refresher in the afternoon. As dryer skin tends to absorb much faster, your cologne will have a much shorter lifespan so you can probably afford a touch-up after lunch and mask that burrito you ate.
Secondly, there are some scents better left to being worn after 6pm. Musks, patchouli, incense, and the current must-have ingredient, oud wood, are the kinds of fragrances and notes that are best left out of the office as they tend to sit heavier. Lighter scents based on citrus, woods such as sandalwood and even some florals are much more suitable and subtle enough to wear to the office and not to get under your workmate's nose.
Placement – where should you wear your cologne for best effect? Coco Chanel famously said that a woman should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed. Well that's great for her, but your work colleagues don't need to know where you like to be tickled. Two shots. Max. To the chest. Try and avoid wearing it on the neck during the day – your cologne should work with your own body heat and rise up from under your shirt, really only taking effect when someone stands close to you.
Lastly – don't hesitate to own more than one. Christopher Sheldrake, the "Deputy Nose" and Head of Research and Development at the House of Chanel, suggests owning multiple colognes is much the same as owning multiple suits that you wear for specific occasions. "It is natural to have a fragrance wardrobe," states Sheldrake whom, it should be noted, has a vested interest in saying so. "A fragrance expresses the way we feel or what we want to communicate. An all-day 'comfortable' fragrance' should sometimes be replaced by a sexier, evening fragrance."
Personally, I keep a selection of three, maybe four maximum, on rotation at any given time. This gives me a good selection that carries me not only from weekday to weekends and evenings, but also seasonally, with lighter and more refreshing scents worn during summer and warmer, woodier ones during winter.
Do you think colognes are suitable for the office?


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EconSouth (Third Quarter 2005)
|John C. Robertson is assistant vice president in charge of the regional group of the Atlanta Fed's research department.
On and Off the Information
If the information technology (IT) sector were a rollercoaster, it would have provided quite a ride over the past decade. Businesses' use of and investment in IT contributed significantly to the U.S. economy's rapid growth during the 1990s. Between 1996 and 2000, the IT-producing sector was responsible for an estimated 1.4 percentage points of the nation's average annual real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 4.6 percent. Since 2000, however, the IT sector has struggled. The level of IT manufacturing output declined sharply as business investment spending on IT retrenched during the 2001 recession. The Economics and Statistics Administration estimates that in 2002 IT-producing industries contributed only 0.1 percentage points to the economy's 2 percent annual growth.
IT's boom rolled through labor markets
Such extraordinary movement in the labor market presents unusual incentives and opportunities as well as challenges for workers. For instance, the IT boom may have led some workers to invest in training that may not be easily transferred to other industries. Other workers may have enjoyed wider opportunities derived from having worked in the sector during the boom.
Experience pays off—maybe
According to the study, workers transitioning from the IT service sector likely earned higher wages than comparable workers who had no IT experience during the boom. In other words, having worked for an IT service provider during the boom appears to have boosted those workers' post-boom, non-IT earnings. For IT manufacturing workers, however, having produced high-tech goods during the boom seems to have brought no wage benefit, probably because manufacturing experience is not typically transferable to jobs in nonmanufacturing industries.
Following the boom to Georgia
Interestingly, though, the decline of the IT sector did not cause a disproportionately large shift out of the Georgia workforce. In fact, Georgia's IT boom brought a net migration of skilled workers into the state, and many of them have remained in Georgia even if they are now working at businesses whose primary activity is not IT-related.
While these results are compelling, more research is needed. For instance, the nature of the data used in these studies restricted the analysis to workers classified by industry. But not all workers in IT-producing industries have IT occupations, and many non-IT industries, such as finance or healthcare, have a large pool of IT workers. Indeed, it is likely that the demand for IT service workers such as computer programmers or network administrators in non-IT industries generates the relatively higher wages for workers who had IT-industry experience during the boom. In contrast, the absence of IT manufacturing occupations outside the IT sector explains why workers transitioning out of such jobs experience relative drops in wages.
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In the odd way life meanders along, I had a couple of connections to Plutonium Mountain.
In the early nineties, one of the operable units I managed for the Los Alamos Environmental Remediation Program was OU 1144, Technical Area 49. [Caution: enormous pdf that takes a long time to load.]
TA-49 was the site of underground hydronuclear tests, in which assemblies of plutonium and enriched uranium were subjected to explosions to determine their properties. The tests were done between 1959 and 1961, in response to severe concerns about the safety of one of the bombs in the US nuclear arsenal. Although they were not tests involving nuclear explosions, they became an issue in the moratorium on nuclear testing in force for part of that time, and they laid a basis for the technologies involved in the underground tests under the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited atmospheric tests in 1963.
When the work plan for OU 1144 was written, several tens of kilograms of plutonium and enriched uranium were located there. I have seen no notice of their removal, so I assume they are still there, deeply buried, probably in the form of oxide powders blown into the rock, the area fenced and monitored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
It must have been in 1995* that I received an e-mail from Steven Gitomer, the Laboratory's liaison with the International Science and Technology Committee. Steve regularly sent around lists of proposals to be reviewed. The ISTC is the international organization that provided funds to scientists in the countries of the former Soviet Union to keep them employed in peaceful projects. This e-mail listed a proposal from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Alatau (near Almaty), Kazakhstan: "Characterization of Radiological and Non-radiological Contaminants at the Semipalatinsk Test Site," Sirazhet Khajekber, Project Manager. Okay, I thought, that's like what I'm doing, and I was intrigued by Semipalatinsk, one of the main Soviet nuclear test sites.
I found the proposal to be comprehensive and impressive. I wasn't sure that the National Nuclear Center of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Alatau, near Almaty, could complete the large amount of work they proposed, but I figured it was worthwhile to give them the chance. A month or so after I sent Steve my review, he asked me if I would be the US partner for the project. The ISTC required a partner. I wasn't sure that was appropriate after my having reviewed the project, but Steve assured me it was okay.
So I became a part of the project. Sirazhet and I exchanged e-mails regularly, and I shared my experiences in environmental remediation and made suggestions. I received their progress reports. The project was a large one for the National Nuclear Center. They worked hard on it.
In the late nineties, NATO was sponsoring workshops in the countries of the former Soviet Union and was urging the Laboratory to plan some. It was perhaps late 1997 that I first heard that there was an area at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site that had plutonium scattered on the surface from tests similar to the ones that had occurred at TA-49. At that time, I had just connected with Tõnis Kaasik in Estonia about a former yellowcake plant in Sillamäe that continued to produce rare earth metals and oxides. In the spring of 1998, we proposed a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on what needed to be done to stabilize the kilometer-long tailings pond on the Gulf of Finland and to reengineer the plant not to produce the outflow to the tailings pond.
Two other proposals from the Laboratory went to NATO that spring, one of them related to Semipalatinsk. My workshop was to be held in Tallinn in early October, so I kept plenty busy with that, although Tõnis and his staff did most of the logistics. The other two proposals were funded later, and one is mentioned in the "Plutonium Mountain" report, page 17.
Khajekber's team at the National Nuclear Center fulfilled all their promises, and I worked with them on a followon proposal, "Development of the Basis and Choice of the Technology for Removal of Surface Contamination and Techniques for Limiting Secondary Contamination of the SNTS Territory," which was funded in 1999.
I continued to hear about the hydronuclear tests at Semipalatinsk in classified conversations at the Laboratory. I didn't want to be involved, though, because I didn't want to deal with the hassles of classification. My projects with the National Nuclear Center were open; we could e-mail each other, and I could talk about it to whomever I wanted.
My Kazakh colleagues also avoided the areas in which plutonium was reported to be on the surface, although they sampled water coming from tunnels in the Degelen mountains. Two of the people involved in our project – Vladimir Solodukhin and Sergei Lukashenko – are mentioned in the "Plutonium Mountain" report. They and others may have been aware of the surface plutonium problem.
The State Department provided funds for US collaborators to visit ISTC projects. I planned twice to visit Kazakhstan while I worked at the Laboratory, and both times had to sadly e-mail Sirazhet to say that I wouldn't be coming. Even before 9/11, many signoffs were required up the bureaucratic chain for foreign travel, particularly to the big bad Former Soviet Union. The excuse that was given to me was that the DOE couldn't figure out who should sign off because the funds were coming from State. I'm not convinced that it wasn't a matter of office politics nearer home.
So after I retired in 2001, my first big trip was to Kazakhstan. On my own dime. Sirazhet and his daughter, Bayan, met me at the Almaty airport in the middle of the night – the old airport, which was chaotic, to say the least. I stayed in a nice hotel in downtown Almaty with blooming linden trees along the street in front of it and a big park with a beautiful orthodox church and the Museum of Musical Instruments across the street. High mountains beyond, the Tien Shan. The photo at the top of the post is the view from my hotel room.
The earlier disappointments made the meetings all the more joyful. I toured the laboratories where where the work was done on our project and met everyone working on the project, as well as the director of the Institute, Kairat Kadyrzhanov. I timed the visit to coincide with an international conference. And then we went to Semipalatinsk.
It was a couple of hours plane trip from Almaty to Semey, then another couple of hours on a very bumpy road to Kurchatov City. Here I am with Rajmund Gwozdz (left), Sirazhet (right), and Igor Kurchatov (above).
The view from the balcony outside my room at sunrise the next morning. The river is the Irtysh. I have been told that the National Nuclear Center's guesthouse used to be where the generals stayed for nuclear tests. The sunrise was accompanied by the singing of hundreds of birds, including the first cuckoos I've heard.
We saw the same sort of "mining" for metals described in the report. Here's one trench.
We were in the Degelen Mountains, too. Here's one of the tunnels that was closed early on. My colleagues had measured significant plutonium in the water coming out from under the closures and were concerned that the closure would prevent remediation. Although the larger amounts of plutonium have been removed, much is likely to remain in the tunnels in powdered form, driven into the rock. That will continue to leach out.
Most of what is written about Semipalatinsk features ominous skies over a dry, desolate landscape. I was there in the early summer, and the steppe was abundant and beautiful. Many raptors circled the skies, and I saw my first hoopoe. The vegetation varied from one area to another, much of it lush. Where we stopped for lunch, I hated to walk off the road, because the ground was covered with little houseleek-type plants. Crunch. Crunch. Hated that! There were low bushes with pink flowers and many other flowers. Here are a couple of photos to show what I mean. I could have spent a month taking pictures.
So I didn't work directly on "Plutonium Mountain". But Sig Hecker has graciously said that my project helped to build the trust that was needed to work with the Kazakhs on that much more difficult project. I hope so. It was a great experience.
*I am writing this post more or less off the top of my head, not consulting the documents in boxes in my garage. So dates are approximate and may be wrong, but I've done enough double-checking that they are probably not too far off.
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How can I keep my dog from urinating on my bed?
I have a mother & daughter dog. The mother had 2 puppies & 1 was stillborn, so Lexi grew up with no siblings & the mother & hija always both slept on top of my bed. I put a tarp on top but most days I have to clean it up. I've never seen it happen, but I think it's Lexi because it never happened b4 she was born. She's a wonderful, kind, sweet, loving, & obedient dog otherwise. Any ideas?
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Ya, There is this spray that you can spray and it makes them not want to go there. You can get this at Pets Mart.
Cocoa answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
It sounds like a dominace issue. One or all are doing that to claim the bed. I had this problem with Pixie when she was a pup. She was a very dominating dog. She has to earn the right to sleep in my bed. Try putting them in their own bed on the floor. If that works for a few nights then move their bed to the foot of yours then if that works you might be able to let them sleep with you. Take control now.
Pixie answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
You didn't say what breed or size dog you have. If it's a small
type dog, do like I did and get those risers to raise the bed up higher off the floor and then she can't jump up into the bed. Worked for me and my dachshund.
Member 509875 answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
1st figure what time she is put on the bed and make sure the bladder is empty,if it is the evening withhold h2o before bedtime,and no food either make sure she went out to pee ,and do not make play time on the bed, or ruff house.empty bladder makes a dry bed.esp. for those teeny weenie dogs
hope this can help a little.
Member 106092 answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
Member 400571 answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 1
Try no water after 7 PM....Plus lots of potty breaks outside. OR no more getting on the bed. My 4 dogs sleep in my bed, BUT I had to stop giving water after 7 PM . Their bladders can only hold so much. My female could sleep right through urinating. Since I stopped the water after 7 PM..no more accidents.
Star Shea answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
How old and what kind of dog is it?
You shouldn't give puppies water or food past lets say 8pm or even 7pm. Before bed they should be taken out for their last walk of the night emptying everything out. Then hopefully the problem should go away. You shouldn't free feed your dog unless you are around to take it outside, specially if it's a puppy. If you are gone all day then just leave a little not a full bowl. Right when you get home you should take your dog out. Being consistent is key. Don't yell at them just clean it and take them outside. My mommy just told me it was okay and took me outside. No, dogs likes going inside, but sometimes we just can't wait. But yelling gets us nowhere.
The best dog book I read is called, The art of raising a puppy, and How to be your dogs best friend. From The Monks of New Skete, New York.
Good Luck.
Rio Dolce answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 1
When we don't put my dog in his crate...HE PEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry I do not no what the problem is or how to solve it.
Toby answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
I have no answer I have a rescued pom and she still goes in the house ,you can walk her forever and sometimes she will go outside and other times she will wait till she's back inside. I am at a loss with her
Kasey answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
Restrict her water after 6 PM and take her out just before bedtime. just like you do with kids. Maybe she has a urinary or bladder problem. Have you consulted her vet?
Hershey answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
Yeah.... OMG! We have had this problem with our dogs for over 13 years!! They always pick my husbands side of the bed, too. When we were just camping over Labor Day our Yorkie, who is only 15 months old, did it in our trailor bed. She was upset because we were cooking outside and left her inside. She is pee pee pad trained and outside trained and had never done this before!! Our Beagle, Hailey, who died last year at the age of 11, use to do it all the time. She did it when she was mad at us or when we were gone all day and she was alone. Again, always hubby's side of the bed. My husband is always their favorite person!! I am a SAHM and he is gone all day and they just love him. SO, I just learned that when I know they are going to be angry with us or upset because they are not getting the attention they want..... KENNEL THEM! Hope this helps!
Member 731146 answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
hi. just some friendly, if not professional advice on your problem. you are making it VERY convenient for your doggie to pee on the bed, supplying a tarp. that is a no, no and no. i am also sure it is lexi. how old is she? this does make a difference. let me know, and re-training is not that hard.
RUBY BEGONIA ALEXANDER answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
I am not usre if this will work. But being a small dog why not get him a litter pan and train him to potty in that when he can not go out doors. The other anser is every time he /she whimpers make sure you listen and take him out. Around fifteen to twenty minutes after the dog has eaten take them either out or to the litter pan. Seeing how he is small and can not get up onto the bed with out help don't allow him up ther euntil after you see him void them bring him up on the bed. Has he been neuterd? if not thats the first thing you want to do because then he isn't urinating but marking his territory. Well thats my anser to the problem. Hope I have helped in some way.
Simon Barsinister now deceas answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
You said you've never seen her do it. Well I had a Rottweiler once that was actually peeing in her sleep. She would be sound asleep, and just start peeing. It took a long time before it finally happened right before our eyes. Before that, I thought she was doing it on purpose. And it was, of course, right on her own bed, which is why it was so confusing.
We took her to the vet, and he gave a medication which made it stop. I wish I could remember what it was. But it sure solved the problem. If you want, I can try to have the vet look it up. It was about 6 or 7 years ago.
Hearth answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
Pixie is right on. This is a dominance issue, marking of territory, females do it as well as males.
First and foremost, the bed is yours, you are the alpha....the bed should be 'invitation only'.
Loving and kind, sweet, and obedient are human terms, pack hierarchy are dog issues, and it's not uncommon for the 'child' to challenge the adult for dominance.
Set the standards, and define what the hierarchy in your pack is going to be. Allow one dog, which you will let be the dominant one, on the bed, and the other on the floor in a separate dog bed.
The wetting/marking should stop, and you will head off any 'fights' in the future, by establishing who is dominant.
On a quick note aside, puppies have a puppy license until about 5-6 months old...they can get away with alot, after the 'license' expires, then they will be nipped, growled at, or bit to be put in their place.
Monty answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
Two thngs. Have you tried crate training before allowing your dog on the bed. If it is a small enough crate, she won't want to mess while she sleeps. Then when she gets trained to not mess in the crate, the house, and your bed becomes an extension of the crate. The second suggestion is a dog diaper holder called Tinkle Trousers that you can order on the web at www.tinkletrousers.com One of my dogs is very old and incontinent, and I tried regular doggie diapers, which never fit right. Tinkle trouser uses baby diapers like Huggies, and fits from the front around the neck to the back. They stay on really good, and are much more comfortable for the dog then regular doggie diapers.
Calamity - Memorium 1995-2009 answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
For the most part - all of the answers seem straight-forward common sense. I had a little male chihuahua visiting my house over the weekend and I have 3 dogs. Well, this little dog took it upon himself to claim the entire house as his territory including the bed. It must be a territorial thing trying to be alpha, even amongst humans bc I later found out much to my dismay - he also does this at his house.
MAX! answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
I have two chihuahua's and my new baby who now is 6 months peepee'd on my bed a few times. I tried the wake up in the middle of the night deal and put him on the floor so he can use to peepee pad i put by the bed notta... It was hard to do but i put the crate next to my bed and had him lay in it for awhile so he got use to being by the bed. Then i woke up let him do his business and he slept with me and his sis... it worked!!! It was hard to have him not sleep with me for a week or so but he hasnt went peepee on the bed since.
Princess Sophie answered on 9/8/08. Helpful? / 0
how old is your doggie? and what breed? just curious about the breed. is he just marking or is he really peeing?? If you are putting him in bed w/you at night, then you could try not giving any liquids a few hours before bedtime and make sure he goes out and does all his peeing before he goes nitey, nite. Hope this helps.
Have you considered him sleeping somewhere else??? I know that's hard as me and my bro sleep w/ mama & dad.
Lil Man answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
if you dog pees on your bed again, ignore her for 15-30 mins, while you cleaning up.
this has helped with my JRT puppy.
ignoring them, seems to be the worst punishment for them. so while you clean up, dont even look at her. dont be mad or kind or upset or forgiving. just totaly ignore her. before you know it she'll stop peeing (inside period) just to get you not to ignore her ever again.
i got this training tip from a dog training book.
it worked like a charm!!!
good luck
Dexter answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
I had this same problem. He would go out with another dog,come in hop on the bed and pee. He was going to puppy school at the time. I asked the trainer who said this was the sign of a sick puppy.
A vet visit confirmed a bladder infection. After treatment,no more bed peeing
I would consult a vet as soon as possible
Member 84490 answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 1
Not trying to be harsh but the easiest way to stop it is not to let your dogs on your bed. By allowing your dogs into your sleeping area you are telling them that they are your equal and you are not their pack leader so give them their own bed or crate them at night in a crate big enough for them to stand up, turn around and lay down in. A crate is like their den and they will not soil it. My dogs love their crates and will just go in them any time during the day to sleep. They are never used in a negative way ever!!
Seba answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
Don't first consider it a dominance or behavior problem. Many people have already suggested taking the dog out to pee right before bed and restrict night-time water. That is probably all there is to it. If it is the mother dog, possibly the prenancy changed something and needs to be checked out by the Vet.. Both doggies would benefit from going out before bed. I (Betsy) pee in my sleep when I don't go before bed. Sometimes when I am very sleepy, Mom makes me go out... and watches until I go. I do get stuborn sometimes!
Betsy answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
this is really hard to stop becuz that is how she was trained to go. she couldnt get off the bed easily so she went pee pee there.
we have this sad problem with puppy mills where the dogs are not let out of their crates. they learn to soil their bedding and then they keep doing it. the best answer for that is to get your puppies from great breeders, not pet shops or breeders who have several breeds or lots of dogs.
try to retrain: let your dog out after sleeping, eating, drinking, chewing, & playing hard. voice a command when it peepees outside [do peepee], & praise when they do it. every time they need to go voice the command & praise when they do it. there will be alot less urine in your bed, and hopefully the dog will learn. you might try another dog bed close to the outside door- be diligent!
check with vet to make sure there are no other problems. some puppy mill dogs are born with defects such as lack of kneecaps that make it hard for the dog to go down stairs.
starbucks answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
Have you taken her to the dr. My sister Chloe urinates in her sleep, she doesn't even know she's going. You should let a dr. check her out for UTi's and incontinence.
Chloe answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 1
Try removing all liquid at 6 pm and making sure he goes out before he goes to bed and the biggest thing is to make sure it is not a medical problem.
She could also be marking her territory and maybe a crate is in oder or have none of them sleep on YOUR territory.
In this respect you can certify your role as the pack leader.
Member 667834 answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 2
My 10 yr old shepherd developed the same problem and it was related to having a weak sphinter muscle. The vet put her on PPA (phenylpropanolamine) and there have been no further problems. The PPA worked within a day or so. She still takes it daily. Or your dog may be having a problem because of a urinary infection-have you checked that out?
Good luck!
Member 178746 answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 1
My boxer Stella dribbles on my bed when she is scared--thunderstorms, fireworks, etc. Since one can't always predict the weather, I lock her out of my bedroom when I go to work. If a storm is coming, I leave a radio on in a couple of rooms to help drown out the noise. It has worked so far. The frustrating thing is--it was always on MY side of the bed.
Stella answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
Minnie answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
I have a small dog named Rocky and he is a very good dog when I first got him he was 4 months and we had that problem every night even with his poop sometimes but after awhile he stopped all by himself like within 1 month or so. Now he just barks if he needs to go and I open the door for him! I usually try to make him go before him and I sleep and then he's good till the morning!
Member 686040 answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
For a small dog sometimes getting off the bed is scary and then they're afraid they can't get back up on the bed. My husband built a ramp with a platform at the end that allowed my chihuahua to go up the ramp stop on the platform and walk directly onto the bed. We put the ramp at the foot of the bed and then he was able to get on the bed and off the bed without having to be scared. He was a much happier guy and I was happier too.
Adam Lee answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
Twinkle used to pee on our bed but we were able to somehow train her not to by letting her pee before bed time outside of the house.
She somehow got used to it and in fact, even during midnight, when nature calls, she wakes us up by barking or use her hand to wake us up.
If still your dog pees, a sprayer, particularly lysol or any aerosol would help.
Twinkle answered on 9/9/08. Helpful? / 0
Do to being put on bed before being potty trained, this is the correct space for her as she knows it. I would flip my mattress and take her water and food away around six oclock she will live till morning without water and food. It may not work just turning your mattress for she is still a pup but she will pick it up when she gets older. I had the same problem, otherwise you need to let your baby sleep in a pin of some sort with out water and food.
I never did understand why when they sell the crates they put a water and food dish in the crate and really think the pup can eat and drink and not need to go, they're bladders are so small and they get use to going on towels blankets or what ever bedding is used in the crate. Good Luck
Member 667154 answered on 9/10/08. Helpful? / 0
One night my dog peed on my head(first night in the bed) so what i did was put a cage outside after he peed and made him stay in there. He didnt pee again on the bed!!!
duke answered on 9/10/08. Helpful? / 1
This sounds like the dog is sending a message. Trudy used to do this when she was highly unpleased with a situation. Once the issue Trudy was dealing with was resolved. No more urination in the bed.
Letting the dog out more frequently still isn't going to solve the problem as dogs can somehow even get a few drops out after spending hours outdoors.
You could well be having a domination issue. The pup is attempting to dominate you as she is an alpha bitch. She is alpha and is trying to make you and or possibly her mother the beta or omega. In this instance you need to make both the mother and daughter know YOU are the alpha in the house.
This isn't accomplished by striking the dog, yelling or other angry behavior on your part. You must make the two dogs respect you be giving firm commands and even tempermant. Once both of the dogs know YOU are in charge, the wetting of YOUR bed should probibly end.
Also, some breeds like Terriers are especially strong willed.
Trudy answered on 9/10/08. Helpful? / 0
If you are not actually seeing your dog peeing it could be urinary incontinence. My dog had a leaky bladder problem beginning when she was about 1 year old. It became progressively worse. One day she was sleeping on a concrete patio and she voided in her sleep. Phenylpropanolamine sold under name of PROIN and requires a vet perscription. A holistic vet also suggested I massage her bladder area to make her contract and strengthen the muscles. The med was a godsend.
Memphis answered on 9/10/08. Helpful? / 1
Maybe you should not not allow your dogs to sleep with you. Therefore, if they are not on the bed, they cannot pee on the bed. Also, when you are not in your room or at home, close the door to your bedroom. My Boxer would pee on our bed when we left her at home along to show she was mad at us (separation anxiety). When she was much younger, she did it right in front of us to show she "owned" the bed and so we should not dare attempt to keep her off. Our trainers who train dogs for the police and the military as well as for regular pet owners, and the Dog Whisperer all say to not allow dogs to get on your bed let alone sleep with you. You need to show your dominance. Also, talk about your romance disappearing when there is a big Boxer laying between you, and a Boston Terrier curled up between your legs.
Gizmo answered on 9/11/08. Helpful? / 0
Many things. Take water away from dog/puppy 2 hours before bed time. Put newspaper down right below the bed. Take the dog/puppy out right before you go to bed, and take it out again as soon as you wake up. When the dog goes on the paper, be sure to say "good dog," many times!!! This works for my dog.
Tipper Sitko answered on 9/11/08. Helpful? / 0
I'm glad you posted this question because we have some of the same issues with our dog Chewy. he is about 4 months old now and a pit. He's a well trained dog and for the most part does his business outside but every now and then he will pee in his bed inside his crate. It's really weird - but after reading some of the answers on here it could be that he is mad at us and does it to get attention. We use to yell at him before but quickly learned that doesn't work - now we just clean it up and ignore it and not make a big deal out of it because ultimately its the attention he wants. We also take him out every chance we get but I think we need to really stop giving him water past 7pm. I didnt know if that would be considered mean to take water away from them but it will help reduce accidents. I would recommend crate training her for a few nights and see what happens.
Chewy answered on 9/11/08. Helpful? / 0
This is typically an insecure dog's way of marking only what she is willing to protect. It usually isn't a potty training issue once the dog is over 7 months of age, but you need to give more info; how old are both of your dogs? What breed are they? Do you walk them often? Why do you let them sleep in the bed when they are marking all over it? Please give a little more info and I might be able to give you a little more help.
Sammy answered on 9/11/08. Helpful? / 0
We had this problem with Dexter, our Lab. We tried EVERYTHING under the sun to no avail. Then I discovered that he had emotional issues (came from a farm that had LOTS of animals). If we don't pay enough attention to him, he potties on the bed.
You also must consider whether she has problems, like an infection or blockage, with any part of her urinary tract-this is more common in dogs than most people think. If her sibling was stillborn, there may be issues with Lexi that you don't yet know about. I'd take her to the vet for a thorough exam. Expensive, I know, but if you are like me, she is like one of your kids and worth the expense!
Dexter answered on 9/11/08. Helpful? / 0
We make sure that our dog, Tupe, pees first before he goes to sleep in our bed. Like other advices given, no water after 8pm. And he wakes us up at 4am so he can pee again. When he hears the word "Labas?", up he goes and runs to the door, which means he has to pee. But the whole night, he sleeps like a baby, no trips needed for him to pee. Good luck!
Tupe answered on 9/12/08. Helpful? / 0
Before you go to bed take both of your dog's outside to do their buisness or you could take them for a walk in the nieghborhood.
Winston answered on 9/14/08. Helpful? / 0
Sometimes it's a hormonal problem. Check with your vet. I have that problem and now my mom gives me a pill every day to keep it from happening.
Teekah answered on 9/15/08. Helpful? / 0
take dog out every two hours or after it eats or plays or when it wakes up........or put in a pen for now, how old is puppy?
Member 602077 answered on 9/15/08. Helpful? / 0
when they pee, of course you scold them, but make sure you scold them good. be mad at them for atleast an hour. when you cleen up the pee, poor vinagar all over the spot so they loose the smell and they forget that they ever peed their.
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*R.I.P* Arnie- Our guardian answered on 9/16/08. Helpful? / 0
My dog had the same problem she would pee on the bed.. what i did was use a doggie diapper. which you can get a pet stores.
it help keep her dry and the bed dry too..
also you may want to find out if she has infection by having the vet do a uti on her. sometimes that makes them go more...
as my dog got older and more mature she stop doing it... also you may want to get a crate for your dog and let her sleep in that for awhile.... do not lock her in it all night though..
Roxie Stafford answered on 10/11/08. Helpful? / 0
ur dog might need to stay in one room, or a room u can manage to clean u can try puting pee pads down or take them on walks before u go to bed. good luck!
Hazel answered on 7/12/09. Helpful? / 0
ok, first of all, why are letting your puppy sleep on your bed? puppies are supposed to sleep in crates when they're puppies. if you let your puppies sleep on your bed this young, they will get dominant and maybe aggressive of your bed. and also, while they are puppies, you must wake up two or three times to let them out in the middle of the night because puppies can't hold a whole night.
Joey answered on 8/20/10. Helpful? / 0
The simplest answer is to CLOSE your bedroom door when you're not home. This issue is NOT about "dominance." Rather, it is typically about anxiety (possibly over your being gone). It could also be b/c she's not completely house-trained. But if you close the door to prevent access to your room when you're not there to supervise, that's the first step to solving the behavior. (it doesn't mean she can't sleep on your bed - that's a matter of personal preference. The problem is when you're absent). Make sure you take her out to empty her bladder JUST before you leave. Whatever room you leave her in, leave a piece of clothing you've worn & not washed in her resting area, so she has your scent nearby. Most dogs pick the bed to urinate on because it smells so strongly of you. Also, it's comfy. ;)
This is an old question, so I hope you've solved the issue for your girl, & that other people read it so they can learn too.
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Rotorua's museum will soon allow weddings and private birthdays to be held in its main foyer - but they will come at a cost.
Rotorua District Councillors voted to change the museum's policy regarding private functions at a meeting of the council's economic and regulatory services committee yesterday.
Museum director Stewart Brown said that although the museum regularly hosted corporate functions there was a steady stream of inquiries for private parties and weddings.
Mr Brown said allowing private functions and weddings would open up a new revenue stream for the museum, with the foyer and mezzanine costing about $2000 a day to hire.
The new policy also contains strict guidelines for those wanting to hire the venue. Two security guards approved by the council must be hired while a museum staff member must be on site for the duration of the event. The council's approved caterers could only be used on site, while only council approved wedding or party planners could be used.
Functions would finish no later than midnight, with a final clean-up time of 1am.
The museum could host functions catering for up to 300 people.
Mr Brown said care would be taken to make sure the museum was "a completely controlled environment". Doors to the Don Stafford Wing and the northern part of the museum would remain locked.
Councillor Merepeka Raukawa-Tait opposed the idea, saying she was concerned about the many taonga stored at the museum, saying even "well heeled" patrons could get rowdy at times.
"There are irreplaceable treasures there that are significant to the people of Rotorua. I'm concerned about the security and safety of our beautiful museum," she said.
"I think you'll find the price would prevent the sort of people you are talking about ... we are looking at a higher class of people," Mr Brown said.
Deputy mayor Trevor Maxwell said it would be another drawcard to the most photographed building in New Zealand.


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Brainerd City Council: Proposed 2013 tax levy approved
A proposed tax levy that duplicated the one approved in 2012 was before the Brainerd City Council Monday night.
Presented by staff, Council President Mary Koep and Personnel and Finance Committee Chairwoman Bonnie Cumberland, the preliminary levy was set at $3,953,486.
"Our goal was to keep the levy no more than last year (2012)," said Koep. "So we kept that dollar amount in this preliminary levy at the flat dollar rate of last year."
The total of the debt redemption levy was set at $1,500,000, which includes improvement bonds, airport bonds and public facility lease revenue bonds. The subtotal of the purpose of the levy was set at $2,453,486.
In addition, the preliminary levy resolution included a housing and redevelopment authority of $108,080.
With an adoption of a proposed tax levy required by the state by Sept. 15, council approved the 2013 preliminary tax levy with a 5-1 vote. Council member Bob Olson voted against it, saying he thought it should be lower.
"We can also reduce our levy once we set a preliminary," said Koep. "It can go down and can be reduced, but it can not go up."
Also discussed by the group, with no action immediately taken Monday night, was a proposed 2013 budget. While the levy reflected the flat amount from last year, a few changes were added to the 2013 budget, one of the biggest being the proposed establishment of computer capital fund.
"As you know in this world and environment, we need updated computer equipment," said interim city administrator and finance director, Theresa Goble. "With that, we have identified some funds we can transfer from 2012, with savings from the 2012 budget in order to keep our equipment up to date and run all the software to make finance data and permit work."
Goble said in the recommendation for the proposed establishment an immediate transfer of $38,000 from the 2012 budget, using savings of $20,000 in the city administrator budget and another $18,000 in the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust refund received in April. The preliminary budget also included the addition of a street and sewer employee and police officer.
The proposed budget can be worked up until the final adoption, to be done before Dec. 20, 2012. A public hearing on the levy is scheduled for Dec. 10.
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This webinar provides a summary and analysis of the Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act (MPCAA), which was drafted by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to articulate and confirm the role of the state Attorney General in protecting charitable assets. Moderated by Charities Regulation and Oversight Project Lead Counsel Cindy Lott and featuring a panel of three state charities regulators and a former practitioner / current academic, the webinar details the historical context, perceived need for and goals of the Act, the drafting process, and the Act's substantive content, which addresses three primary areas: 1.) an articulation of the powers and duties of the attorney general in charities regulation, 2.) charitable registration and annual report filing requirements and 3.) notice to the attorney general of reportable events and legal proceedings. In addition, the panelists identify and discuss some of the debated aspects of the act and drafting process. The ULC approved a final draft of the Act at its 150th annual conference in Vail Colorado on July 12, 2011.
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Cindy M. Lott, Lead Counsel, Charities Regulation and Oversight Project, National State Attorneys General Program, Columbia Law School
Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, Associate Professor, West Virginia University College of Law
Eric Carriker, Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
Therese Harris, Chief, Charitable Trust Bureau, Office of the Illinois Attorney General
Bob Carlson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Missouri Attorney General
Additional Resources
Mark E. Chopko, Coming to a Statehouse Near You: The Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act, Stradley & Ronan Stevens and Young, LLP (Jan. 2012)
Wendy N. Davis, With Charity to All - Except for Scammers: Tougher Laws Seek to Nail Bogus Nonprofits, ABA Journal (Dec. 1, 2011)
Jeffrey D. Devine, Approval of Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp (Sept. 2011)
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Comments on the Protection of Charitable Assets Act, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (Feb. 1, 2011)
Susan N. Gary, A Model Act to Protect Charitable Assets Will Benefit Charities, 4 Taxation of Exempts 23 (Jan. 2012)
Alexandra Magaris, Esq., Protection of Charitable Assets Act: What the New Uniform Law Would Mean for Nonprofits, Venable LLP (April 18, 2011)
The NonProfit Times, Commission Adopts Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act, (July 13, 2011)
The NonProfit Times, Protection of Charitable Assets Act On Agenda For Uniform Law Group (June 15, 2011)


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Jason Capel is in his fourth season at the helm of Appalachian State University's men's basketball program.
Capel has led Appalachian State to postseason victories in each of his first three seasons as a head coach. The Mountaineers enjoyed perhaps their finest season under Capel in 2012-13, when he led them to a second-place finish in the Southern Conference's North Division and a berth in the SoCon Tournament semifinals, where they nearly upset top-seeded Davidson in one of the most exciting games in Appalachian postseason history.
Capel took the reins at Appalachian State on April 21, 2010 and, at 30 years, three months and six days old at the time of his hire was the nation's youngest Division I head coach. He went on to make a splash in his very first game as a head coach, opening the 2010-11 campaign with a victory at heavily favored Tulsa that garnered the Mountaineers votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in four seasons.
Appalachian got even stronger down the stretch of Capel's first season at the helm, winning 7-of-8 games in February and earning a first-round SoCon Tournament victory. He finished 2010-11 as the first head coach in Appalachian State history to win double-digit SoCon games and only the fourth mentor in the program's annals to post a winning overall record (16-15) in his initial campaign. The Mountaineers' 16 wins are tied for the second-most by a first-year head coach in school history.
After leading a young squad to a 13-18 record in 2011-12, Capel led his 2012-13 squad from the depths of a 1-7 start to wins in 14 of the next 20 games, which propelled the Mountaineers to a first-round SoCon Tournament bye for only the second time in six seasons. After easily dispatching Furman in the second round, Appalachian led top-seeded Davidson for much of the ballgame before the vaunted Wildcats took the advantage late in the ballgame. However, Capel's Mountaineers withstood the storm and were in position to send the game to overtime but a would-be three-pointer came up just short as time expired and the Apps fell to the eventual NCAA Tournament participant, 65-62.
Capel has coached three all-conference performers in his three seasons as head coach, including the program's all-time leading scorer (Donald Sims) and the 2012-13 SoCon Defensive Player of the Year (Nathan Healy). Under Capel's tutelage, Healy also became the first Academic All-American in program history.
Despite taking over as the 15th head coach in Appalachian State men's basketball history with a relative lack of coaching experience, Capel is a basketball lifer with a vast playing resume and a spot in one of college basketball's top coaching lineages.
Capel first burst on to the national scene as a star forward at North Carolina from 1998-2002, where he was a two-time all-Atlantic Coast Conference selection (2001 and '02) and the Tar Heels' leader in scoring (15.6 points per game), rebounds (8.6 per game) and steals (29) as a senior. He helped lead UNC to the Final Four in 2000, recorded the second triple-double in UNC history with 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against Buffalo during the 2000-01 season and was a candidate for 2002 Wooden Award, which is presented annually to college basketball's most outstanding player.
After graduating from North Carolina with a B.A. in communication in 2002, Capel embarked on a professional playing career, which included successful stints in the NBA Developmental League and leagues in Japan, Italy and Serbia. In his first season as a pro, he averaged 11.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per game to help lead the NBDL's Fayetteville Patriots, which was coached by his father, Jeff, to a league-best 32-18 record and a D-League Finals appearance.
Following the conclusion of his playing career, he spent two years as a college basketball analyst for ESPNU and Raycom Sports before joining the Appalachian State bench during the 2009-10 season as an assistant coach.
In his only season as an assistant, Capel helped lead the Mountaineers to the second-most victories in school history (24), their first Southern Conference Tournament title-game appearance since 2000 and a berth in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT), only the fourth postseason appearance since joining the NCAA Division I ranks in 1973. Appalachian State earned CIT victories over Harvard and Marshall (the first postseason wins in the program's Division I history) and advanced to the tournament semifinals. Capel worked primarily with Appalachian's post players in his season as an assistant and mentored one of the SoCon's top front lines in Isaac Butts, Josh Hunter and Andre Williamson.
Capel is a member of one of college basketball's most distinguished coaching families. His father, Jeff, compiled 122 wins and made three NCAA Tournament appearances in 12 seasons as head coach at Old Dominion, North Carolina A&T and Fayetteville State prior to moving to the professional ranks where he has served as an assistant with the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and Philadelphia 76ers.
Capel's older brother, Jeff Capel III, was a 1,000-point scorer at ACC rival Duke University before moving on to the coaching ranks. The older Capel brother served as an assistant coach at Old Dominion and VCU before taking over the head coaching role with the Rams in 2002. He also served as the head coach at the University of Oklahoma from 2006-11, where he led the Sooners to a Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 2009. He now serves as an assistant on legendary head coach Mike Krzyzewski's staff at his alma mater.
A native of Fayetteville, N.C., Capel was a McDonald's All-American and ranked as high as the nation's No. 5 high-school player after concluding his prep career at St. John's at Prospect Hall (Frederick, Md.), where he helped lead his team to the USA Today national championship in 1998. He spent his freshman and sophomore years at Indian River H.S. (Chesapeake, Va.), where he was named Virginia's Player of the Year as a sophomore. He began his prep career as an eighth-grader, when he made the varsity team at Greensboro Day School while his father was head coach at N.C. A&T.
Capel married the former Ashley Heath in August 2011 and the couple resides in Boone with their son, Myles, who was born on June 21, 2013.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee's Sarah Bowman continues to make history. This time, the senior distance runner from Warrenton, Va., has become the first Lady Vol to be featured on the cover of Track & Field News. The nine-time All-American, three-time NCAA champion and 11-time SEC victor appears on the June issue of the magazine, which is now on sale at newsstands and available online at trackandfieldnews.com.
After an NCAA Indoor Championships performance where her meet-record victory in the mile and her anchor leg on the world-record-setting distance medley relay helped the Tennessee women claim their second NCAA Indoor team title in five seasons, Bowman again wowed the track & field world at the Penn Relays in April. She anchored the Big Orange to a world record in the 4x1500m relay, ran on the American-record-setting 4x800m relay and brought home the baton for another victory in the distance medley relay in Philadelphia. Those accomplishments, along with her anticipated appearances at the SEC, NCAA Mideast Regional and NCAA Outdoor Championships over the next six weeks, make her a popular topic of discussion in the sport.
Bowman is only the seventh college woman to appear on the front of the magazine, which touts itself as "The Bible of the Sport Since 1948" due to its global coverage of prep, college, professional and Olympic-caliber athletes. The last collegiate female to grace the cover of TFN was Villanova's Carrie Tollefson, back in August 1999. Dating all the way back to 1948, the only others have been Amy Acuff of UCLA in March 1996, Holly Hyche of Indiana State in August 1993, Carlette Guidry of Texas in July 1991, Dawn Sowell of LSU in July 1989 and Gail Devers of UCLA in May 1988.
"It's a great honor," UT Head Coach J.J. Clark said. "You don't make the cover of Track & Field News because you're slow. She's just had a tremendous year, and she's deserving of being on that cover.
"They could have chosen others, but they felt she was worthy of this distinction. I'm just very happy about it, because it is big for our program. It's big to have Tennessee and Sarah Bowman on the front cover. More importantly, I think she just deserves it."
The Big Orange standout is the second Tennessee student-athlete to be so honored. Vol middle distance great Jose "Tony" Parrilla was the focus on the front of TFN in March 1994.
"Sarah takes things in stride," Clark said. "For her, it's just a matter of getting to the meet and doing the best that she can. She's very humble, and I believe she will just remain Sarah as she goes through this entire process and into her transition as a professional runner."
Bowman and her 12th-ranked UT teammates are in Gainesville, Fla., where they will begin competition Friday at the SEC Outdoor Championships at Florida's Percy Beard Track. The Lady Vols won the league indoor title back in March.
|June 2009 cover of Track & Field News, featuring Tennessee's Sarah Bowman. Photography is by Kirby Lee/Image of Sport. Complete June issue is available to purchase at www.trackandfieldnews.com


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On August 14, officials from China and North Korea convened in Beijing to discuss the development and management of the Rason and Hwanggumphyong and Wihwa Islands Special Economic Zones in North Korea. The DPRK delegation was led by Jang Song-taek. The Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement that
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The two sides agreed that with the joint efforts by the two Governments and enterprisesof the two countries, the cooperation in developing the two economic zones has yielded impressive results and entered the stage of substantial development. The two sides have jointly done the planning that will contribute to new progress in establishing mechanisms, training personnel, compiling detailed plans, laws and regulations, making customs clearance convenient, establishing telecom links, cooperating in agriculture fields, as well as building projects. Government of DPRK has done revision of Law of Rason Economic and Trade Zone, and formulated Law of the Hwanggumphyong and Wihwa Islands Economic Zone.


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