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Services at Sienna Crest Assisted Living & Senior Care
Care Specialists are the heart of Sienna Crest's operation. Our Care Specialists truly care for and about our residents. Our goal is to treat each resident as though they are our loved one, parent or grandparent and to make them feel comfortable, secure and happy in their new home.
The philosophy of assisted living is key to the care provided at Sienna Crest:
- Maintain Dignity
- Encourage Independence
- Respect Individuality
Residents have their own private rooms with a half-bath (some rooms have a full bath with walk-in shower) – which allows them to maintain their privacy and independence. Both their living space and bathrooms have help cords, so if and when they need assistance, Care Specialists are available.
Care Specialists are available 24-hours a day to assistant residents with their care, as needed. This includes:
- Assistance with personal cares and activities of daily living from staff, for both scheduled and unscheduled needs (dressing, grooming, bathing);
- Three meals per day plus snacks;
- Medication administration so there isn't the worry about remembering what time to take medications or how many of each pill to take;
- Activities to nurture Resident's physical, emotional and social wellness;
- Entertainment in the home as well as outings;
- Monitoring health and involving the Resident's physician as needed.
Alzheimer's Care
Patience, caring and creativity are skills needed to provide the right home environment for residents with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other related dementias. Staff receive on-going training on Alzheimer's care so that they are able to meet the changing behaviors and needs of folks with AD.
Sienna Crest provides dedicated Alzheimer's care in three homes: Fort Atkinson, Mineral Point and Oregon. The home is designed specifically to provide individuals with Alzheimer's Disease an environment that meets their needs. From our internal walking path, built-in activity centers and open bedroom/bathroom design, Residents find comfort in our home because they are able to maintain their dignity and independence with staff support. Our homes have courtyards that are secure so residents are able to enjoy the outdoors safely. When you visit our Alzheimer's homes, you will have to ring the doorbell to come in, and ask for staff assistance when you leave. Our doors are locked and armed so we can help keep our residents secure.


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- May 14, 2007
UPDATE From Macon Police Department at 4:40 p.m. 03/14/14 – The Macon Police Department is continuing the investigation of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle in the early morning hours today. The department is no longer looking for the Ford F150 described in the original news release. Further information will be released as it comesREAD MORE

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Nothing to like about this place. Upon arriving the location, the staff member did know I was checking in on the date I arrived. Apparently, their "systems" were down and they did not have a room reserved. Once they were finally able to give us a room, I was told the room did not have AC. Also, the stove and refrigerator was filthy, as well as the bath tub and the bathroom floor. I was very disappointed with my stay and do not recommend this for anyone.
The fact that its was an apartment and my privacy. The bugs and roaches
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Kiwis did more Christmas shopping online last year and much of it was done at overseas retail websites.
BNZ's Online Retail Sales Index found total online sales grew by 13 per cent in December compared to December 2012.
See the report here.
But offshore spending grew faster with online purchases from offshore merchants up 24 per cent compared to the previous year.
Domestic online sales were only up 7 per cent although that was still more than double the 3.2 per cent growth in electronic card transactions reported by Statistics New Zealand.
The index revealed online sales at domestic "daily sales" stores continued to fall and when they were excluded domestic sales were up 9 per cent.
Groceries and liquor, furniture, sport and camping equipment, toys and games, entertainment media and garden supplies were the biggest areas of growth showing double digit growth compared to December 2012.
The growth in online sales is an ongoing trend.
Comparing month on month figures shows online sales for October up 11 per cent, November up 12 per cent and December up 13 per cent on the same months in 2012.
International online purchases rose from 17 per cent up in October to 21 per cent up in November to 24 per cent up in December.
The index also looks more closely at retail activity on Christmas Day and Boxing Day revealing shopping on those days has surged.
For Christmas Day it was up 13 per cent compared to 2012 and up 17 per cent for Boxing Day.
The research notes that online spending on Christmas and Boxing Days was lower than what Kiwis typically spend online each day throughout the year.
"We suspect this is partly because many people's focus is elsewhere over Christmas, and partly because people are very accustomed to attending Boxing Day sales at physical stores.
"It will be interesting to see what changes in spending patterns unfold as New Zealanders' online shopping habits continue to evolve."
It also found online shopping on Christmas Day accounted for over 25 per cent of all New Zealand retail sales on December 25 and said that could be put down to most physical stores being closed.
It noted that close to 60 per cent of the online shopping on Christmas Day was done at overseas sites.


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LOCATION No information available about the original location. Now exhibited in the site Museum.
CONDITION Both figure and pedestal are generally in good condi tion.
MATERIAL Both items are of similar coarse, brown sandstone.
SHAPE Monument 158f (figure) is a squat, standing man with a jaguar headdress; the tenon at its base fits into the socket of Monument 158p (pedestal), which has vertical sides.
CARVED AREAS The sculptured figure represents a man with a jaguar headdress, carved in the round with an inscription on his back. The pedesto I carries inscriptions on all four sides.
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On Saturday, May 18, Mission San Luis in Tallahassee will welcome all art-loving families for a one-time event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
During "Across Generations: A Family Art Day," visitors will be able to speak with artists, experience demonstrations of various art processes and participate in hands-on activities.
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Earlier this week, AdAge featured a story on Estee Lauder's social media outreach. Estee Lauder used social media to make an ingenious connection to current, new and could be/would be customers by offering free makeovers and photo shoots at its department-store cosmetics counters coast-to-coast. The event produced shots that women could use for their online profiles. This past weekend, AdAge reporter, Kunur Patel, experienced the Estee Lauder event first hand.
The event shows how luxury beauty brands are adopting social media in order to reach younger audiences and recapture customers who have fallen away. The Estee Lauder event sought to change younger consumers' perceptions of the brand by creating an "experience" (the concept that most luxury brands are based on) with professional, slightly modelesque photos that could uploaded to their social networks. Looking at initial feedback, the event seems to have worked.
While Patel felt the makeover was a bit over the top for her style, she said "the whole experience was a lot more glamorous than my previous experience with the brand" and that "Estee Lauder seemed a lot younger and more realistic" to her.
The purpose and goal of the campaign was to use online PR and social media to bring awareness to an in-store promotion and drive individuals to the event. Once everyone was present, Estee Lauder created an in-store, luxury experience that introduced/reintroduced the consumer to the brand, hopefully altering the participants' perceptions of who the products were made for.
If a woman who received the makeover uploaded the photo to any of her social profiles, she would have completed the cycle that Estee Lauder was hoping for: the customer leveraging her social network to expose her friends and family (that is, her community) to the Lauder brand.
Social media and digital technologies have hit the luxury industry hard – shattering its mystique, aspirational qualities and some of its glamour. So instead of grasping at straws and refusing to accept how consumers receive brand messages, beauty brands are adopting new mediums. Lauder's event conveyed this message:
You want to be glamorous, you can. You want to be THAT woman? Maybe you already are.
Social media has given rise to micro celebrity fever; everyone wants to be someone. Here's a clever example retail brand showing a seemingly average person how to achieve that desire.
To take it a step further, I also think that Lauder's event aided its more-established customers' adoption of social media by providing them with quality, professional photography they could share online without hesitancy.
Overall, I think the brand's outreach and social marketing strategy was successful. I'm very interested to see how it plays out.
Did anyone participate in the Estee Lauder events? What were your experiences or perceptions? Did Estee Lauder create a positive or negative experience for you? And most importantly, did you use your photo? If you did, post links!
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News: Death of Edwards is reminder of mammogram importance
Carole Krodel, 63, Johnsburg, had a dentist appointment that turned into a cancer diagnosis. Krodel, who works near her dentist's office, had two hours to kill between getting off work and having her teeth cleaned. Consequently, she chose to fill her time by scheduling a mammogram at the Centegra Gavers Breast Center."The mammogram led to a biopsy, which unfortunately did not have desirable results," said Lynn Griesmaier, Breast Health Navigator at the center.
Krodel, who did not originally believe that a local healthcare system could perform diagnostics with the same skill set as one in Chicago, traveled downtown to hear what doctors had to say. After listening to the physicians in Chicago, Krodel realized the physicians at Centegra recommended the same treatment and process. She returned to McHenry and is currently being treated at the Centegra Sage Cancer Center. Fortunately, Krodel's cancer is in a very early stage."The mammogram wouldn't have caught it six months ago," said Krodel. "I'm grateful it was such good timing."
For Elizabeth Edwards, that was not the case. A loving mother with a passion for campaigning on behalf of her husband, 2004 presidential candidate John Edwards, she simply forgot to schedule her 2003 annual mammogram. In 2004, Edwards remembered to schedule and go to her annual mammogram, which led to a biopsy and the diagnosis of stage four cancer. Edwards became a national activist and spokesperson on behalf of breast cancer. For three years, Edwards went into remission and continued to support the cause of fighting breast cancer. In 2007 the cancer returned and on Dec. 7 she passed away.
Krodel recently began her battle and much like Edwards, is now serving as an activist for annual mammograms. She said, "If you are concerned about it, you can make the time. You'll do things that are silly for a half hour, like standing in line at a store. Why not this?"
Centegra Health System is recognized as having one of a few cancer programs in the state to receive the Commission on Cancer (CoC) Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Additionally, with state-of-the-art equipment and practices, the Centegra Sage Cancer Center and new Centegra Gavers Breast Center are staffed with a team of highly-specialized oncology professionals. Patients needing additional follow-up may be referred to Centegra's conveniently located medical imaging departments for various state-of-the-art diagnostic breast exams including ultrasounds, breast MRIs and PET/CTs.Centegra Hospital – McHenry is recognized as having one of a few cancer programs in the state to receive the Commission on Cancer (CoC) Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Additionally, all the Centegra Sage Cancer Center and Centegra Gavers Breast Center nurses are oncology certified.


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December 17, 1972
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RACING: Owners, BIR celebrate 2011 anniversaries
Jed and Kristi Copham and Brainerd International Raceway will celebrate anniversaries as BIR begins its 43rd season this weekend.
July will mark the Cophams' fifth year as owners of BIR. A month later the track will host the 30th anniversary Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, the state's largest motorsports event.
BIR's spectator season kicked off this weekend with a dual event featuring the third annual Street Car Showdown on the drag strip and a NASA Midwest Regional Race on the Competition Road Course.
Events like the 25th annual NAPA Auto Parts Show and Go and the 23rd annual Muscle Car Shootout remain staples on the schedule, while the Powercruise car show will debut.
BIR will host seven other dual event weekends, five bracket racing series events, the Wednesday Night Drags-Street Legal Style program, Central Roadracing Association Superbike motorcycle racing, two Chumpcar World Series events, a Sport Compact and Diesel weekend and the NHRA West Central Summit Racing ET Finals.
In addition, BIR will continue to offer its Performance Driving School, SCCA Competition Racing License School and StreetSmarts Advanced Defensive Driving Course for teens.
Jed Copham took time out from preparing for the season to talk about issues pertaining to BIR.
Q. Did BIR have a good 2010 season?
A. The weather cooperated for the most part. Things were down a touch from past years but that is what we're seeing across the board. From what I'm hearing, most people are happy with the job we're doing, making BIR a great place to race and spectate and just overall enjoy. The economy is still a factor in every business out there, it's going to continue to be a factor in 2011. We're smack dab in the center of Minnesota, not far from the metro with a good population around us.
"For the entertainment dollar, I think we're as competitive as anything out there, plus the Brainerd lakes area is such a beautiful area to enjoy. A lot of our non-Nationals events cost between $10 and $20 a day for adults to spectate, and kids 6-12 are half-price, ages 5 and under are free.
"There's some great entertainment, especially at dual events. You will see a road race and a drag race going on at the same time. If you've never been out here we think it's worth experiencing."
Q. How will the Highway 371 construction project affect BIR?
A. "It's scheduled to wrap up the beginning of July, which I'm hoping stays on schedule.
Q. Is attendance going to be affected with gas hovering near $4 a gallon?
A. "For amateur racers I think it will hurt some, to tow their big rigs and race as a hobby. Gas prices affect everyone."
Q. What's the Powercruise event?
A. "It's the first one in the states. The concept originated in Australia.
"It's kind of a cruising car show that allows you to drive your car and do burnouts and such. Instead of just parking your car and looking at it, you can actually bring it here, park it and look at it, and go play with it the way it was meant to be played with."
Q. How will you commemorate the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals?
A. "Nationals is what BIR is most known for. It's broadcast nationally, and the fastest drivers in the world descend on Brainerd. Along with great racing we will have fireworks, bands, and vintage race cars on display.
"It's a well-rounded event. Whether you come here for the day, or move in for the week, there's something for everyone."
Q. What else is happening in 2011 at BIR?
A. "There is great racing going on every weekend at BIR. Check out our website at brainerdraceway.com or find us on Facebook (Brainerd International Raceway)."
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MVC Player of the Week
Elizabeth Kay, Senior, Bartlett, Ill. - Illinois State
Kay went a combined 7-for-15 in the Redbirds' five games at the Littlewood Classic in Tempe, Ariz., with two home runs, six RBI, five runs scored and four walks. She extended her hitting streak to eight games, the longest on the Redbirds this season. Her best performance came in the finale against Illinois-Chicago, as she went 2-for-2 with two, two-run homers, four RBI, three runs scored and a career-high three walks. She also picked up one RBI in each victory over Minnesota, and stole her first base of the season against Michigan State. Defensively, Kay was perfect, starting four games at catcher and one at third, catching one runner stealing and committing no errors. She leads the team in average (.385), home runs (3), RBI (10), and slugging percentage (.710).
MVC Pitcher of the Week
Rebekah Schmidt, Sophomore, Cottage Grove, Minn. - Drake
Schmidt finished the Hillenbrand Invitational with a 1-2 record and a 0.76 earned run average in five appearances. In 18.1 innings pitched she allowed just two earned runs while striking out 17 and walking five. Her best performance was in relief against Southern Utah going six scoreless innings allowing just two hits and no runs while punching out five.
Other Notable Performances
Alyson Clemente, Bradley
Clemente hit .467, with an .800 slugging percentage and .529 on base percentage, while driving in a team-high five runs in five games last week at the Lobo Classic. She also scored three runs and had two doubles and a home, helping account for seven of BU's 26 runs. She had hits in four of the five games. She opened the week with a 2-for-4 effort with a solo home run to help Bradley to an 8-6 win against IPFW. Clemente followed it up with a 1-for-3 game against Central Michigan. She committed just one error in 32 chances at first base and did not strike out in 17 plate appearances.
Hayley Nybo, Drake
Nybo finished the weekend 7-for-18 (.389) at the plate with two home runs, three doubles, three runs scored and eight runs batted in while slugging .889. Against No. 16 Arizona she went 1-for-4 with a two-run blast and against Purdue that same night went 2-for-4 with a double and home run and three runs batted in. For the season she is hitting .333 with two home runs and 10 runs batted in. Nybo has started 67-straight games for the Bulldogs dating back to her first game of her freshman campaign.
Halie Malone, Evansville
Malone went 4-8 at the plate with a .500 batting average. She scored one run and notched a double against Troy on Sunday while having a .625 slugging percentage with a .556 on-base percentage.
Megan Stone, Indiana State
Sophomore Megan Stone led Indiana State through five games in the Tiger Invitational in Auburn, Ala., finishing the week with a .615 batting average and 1.231 slugging percentage. Stone recorded eight hits, including two doubles and two home runs, one of which came in extra innings in the Sycamores win over Tennessee State on Sunday. Stone also recorded five RBI's and four runs scored for the Sycamores while having an on base percentage of .688 with three walks and a stolen base. On the season Stone leads the Sycamores with a .488 batting average, six doubles and nine runs batted in.
Heather Duckworth, Missouri State
After an impressive opening weekend, Duckworth turned in an even better second weekend at the UTSA Classic in San Antonio, Texas. She hit .571 (8-for-14), scored five runs and drove in three others. Her .429 average on the season is fourth-best in the Valley. Duckworth tallied at least one hit in each of the weekend's games running her team-high hitting streak to six. Duckworth had three hits on Friday, driving in a pair of runs against UTSA and scoring a run against Boise State. Then on Saturday, her 3-for-3 outing propelled MSU to an 8-6 triumph over Iowa State.
Taylor Orsburn, Southern Illinois
Orsburn had a productive weekend at the plate for SIU compiling 12 total bases. The junior tallied seven hits including two doubles and a two-run home run during SIU's five game slate at the Florida Gulf Coast University Tournament in Ft. Myers, Fla. Orsburn batted .368 and led the Salukis in RBI's, knocking in eight runs as the team finished 1-4 over the weekend.
Hayley Temple, Wichita State
Wichita State second baseman Hayley Temple led the Shockers to a pair of wins over Appalachian State at the La Quinta Inn and Suites Tournament in Ft. Myers, Fla. this past weekend. The senior from Mesa, Ariz. hit .313 with a team-high six total bases and three RBI, including the go-ahead game winning sacrifice fly in the top of the eighth inning Sunday against the Mountaineers.
Taylor Perry, Evansville
Perry pitched 7.2 innings with five strikeouts. In the tournament she allowed three runs out of four appearances and tallied a 3.52 ERA.
Regan Romshek, Illinois State
Romshek went 1-1 with a 3.75 ERA in three appearances (two starts) over the weekend at the Littlewood Classic in Tempe, Ariz. The most impressive outing of her young career came Friday night against Minnesota, when she threw her first complete game and struck out 12 to earn her second win of the season. Romshek got better as the game went on, recording the final six outs of the contest via the strikeout. After getting roughed up a bit in a loss at No. 3 Arizona State, Romshek rebounded with 0.2 inning of perfect relief against Illinois-Chicago on Sunday.
Chelsea Jones, Missouri State
Jones firmly grabbed the role of staff ace over the weekend. She appeared in all five games and went 3-0 in her starts. She tossed her first career complete game shutout in a 6-0 blanking of Boise State on Friday. She had a 2.74 ERA over 23 innings pitched and struck out six batters in the process. Her four wins this season are tied for tops in the league and she leads all Valley hurlers by inducing 81 ground ball outs this season, 19 of which she has handled herself to 1.000 fielding percentage.
Katie Armagost, Wichita State
Wichita State senior Katie Armagost put together one of her finest performances as a Shocker at the La Quinta Inn and Suites Tournament in Ft. Myers, Fla. Armagost went 1-2 with a 1.45 ERA and 16 strikeouts over 19.1 innings. She was the hard-luck loser in two starts against 2012 NCAA Tournament participants Georgia Southern and defending national champion No. 1 Alabama. Against the Crimson Tide, Armagost scattered six hits and allowed only two earned runs in the complete game 2-0 defeat. However, Armagost's finest work came in relief against Appalachian State on Saturday night. Facing a 2-0 defeat after one inning, Armagost was called on to return to the circle hours after the narrow loss to Alabama.
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6/5 Thursday Day Three
I wake up at 5am, but sleep until 5:30. Walk to the Gherkin building, which isn't too hard to navigate to and from. There is a security guy at the main entrance so I don't try to walk in, but I walk into a newsstand just so I can say I went in. I see a coffee place, but it is closed so I go across the street to a coffee stand across the street at Costa and sit outside with a vanilla latte. Coming back I dash across a street and notice several memorials dedicated to people who died on this same street.
After breakfast, I go back to my room and find I have no power (not in an existential sense but in terms of actual electricity), which is resolved when I return in the evening. I don't know what it was, but I know I have to insert my door key to get power, which I didn't have to do before. I wonder if someone rigged something.
We go to the Earl's Court stop and visit Kew Gardens. Lots of nice greenhouses, one of them with stairs to a wraparound walkway. Visit various bioregions. A peacock struts around outside. Azalea Garden. Bamboo Garden. Pagoda with a view and entrance fee that I never even see. Skip the gin section, though I seriously consider it, but I want to make sure I hit the treetop part. There is a flight of steps leading to a metal walkway eye level with the treetops. It was a real highlight of the gardens.
On to the museums. One hour for three museums and lunch. Thai at Thai Square restaurant (voted best restaurant of the year 2012), so I guess I got lucky. Waiting for 2 satays at 1:42.
"Whither thou goest, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" – Jack Kerouac and "our life is a succession of Paradises successively denied." – Samuel Beckett. These were in the Victoria and Albert museum, which has a cool glass design above the information desk in the entrance part. Glass section. Living dolls. A guy has bought one, put it in various poses and taken pictures of it. He believes its personality is revealed to him over the days. People's clutter in an exhibit titled Consumption. Burger King crown I find and wear around.
Natural History museum. See a butterfly exhibit tent outside that one must pay for, but I don't have time to spare and I did in Washington with my wife. Dinosaur skeleton.
Foucault. Complete circulatory system, I think one of ten in the world (I arrange the picture angle so that it looks like there are glowing eyes). Science museum. Steam engines. Moon rock. Lovelock exhibit that I don't have time to see. I mostly skim above the surface, but somehow I manage to spend at least a little time at all three museums.
Then it's on to Hyde Park. And Royal Albert Hall right across the street. Very green and fresh.
Peter Pan Statue. Kensington gardens.
Serge says only the queen can own swans. They are the reincarnations of dead soldiers.
Garfunkel's for dinner. Bangers and mash. Ugh! Pass. Admittedly and proudly I can be a somewhat picky eater.
6/6 Friday Day Four
Get up at 7. Get some more cash. Aldgate Coffeehouse. I am the only one there. Then breakfast.
Off to Freud's House in the Knightsbridge area where he lived for the last 16 years of his life. Quiet, leafy neighborhood. We start in the back garden that has a circle of roses ringed by pentas and such. He was very much into archaeology and compared the process of psychoanalysis to it, which makes a lot of sense. We go in two groups, and I am in the second. After the first floor with Freud's office, I sit outside and I think this is when Serge tells me about his cats and dog. Upstairs there are two videos that are pretty slow but have video and audio of the actual Freud. Someone is mowing the grass and closing the windows doesn't help except to block out the breeze. There are various books for sale in the gift shop. I get an Id shot glass (to keep my change in, of course). Kim mentions a Dali portrait of Freud that I didn't see, so I go back upstairs and she shows it to me. I am glad I saw it.
Over to Abbey Road. I cross over it the first time without even realizing it. We all stop and shoot pictures and recross the road. See Abbey House.
Serge tells us that 150 years ago when the tube was built 90% of the population could not read or write. Color tiles and visual markers were used for orientation and navigation.
Lunch at Pizza Express. I get a good margherita pizza. While walking, I see some ancient lost and found items in a window.
Regent's Park. We see some soccer and further in the distance, cricket. Serge says that what sport you watch determines your class. Working class, football. Middle, rugby. High middle, cricket. Upper, polo.
Camden Lock. Kind of a hippy market. Inhabition Coffee Shop. Vanilla coffee and a water. The people speak French so the bill doesn't get divided, but we work it out.
We walk through an alley with at least seven bookstores. Jubilee Walkway. I get a magnet for one pound with three London scenes. Some of the students have tea from the Tea Palace, but it is too late for me to try and find it.
Daawat for the meal, the best Explorica meal on the entire tour. Nice restaurant with chicken curry that doesn't have very much spice but is still good and flavorful. Good chocolate dessert with strawberry and some sort of sauce. Waterstone Books, Europe's largest bookstore. I don't get anything, but it is still nice to walk around in and they have substantial poetry and literary criticism sections. The poetry section is the second largest I have even scene (City Lights upstairs poetry room in San Francisco claims that high honor) and the largest literary criticism section I have ever encountered.
Come back and some folks get stuck in the elevator for awhile because it does not completely align with the floor, but they keep calm, mind the gap, and carry on.
6/7 Saturday Day Five
Get up at 7am. Nothing open. Breakfast 7:30. Rain in the air. The weather has been very fickle, but most of the bad weather has been during the first part of the trip. There have been large sections of great weather, sometimes for the entire day and night. Notting Hill and stop to Portobello Market. Rain. I get off the beaten track and find a café. Latte and large OJ at 202 after a big walk because I missed it going and find it coming back the other way when I changed sides.
Green Park. The weather gets very nice.
Buckingham Palace. Final run through for some event regarding the queen. So no changing of the guard and no tour, but this is quite exceptional.
Haymarket. Originally this was the place where you would buy hay for your horses. So, as Serge says, since horses were the main form of transportation at one point, it was sort of a huge gas station.
Caffe Rouge. Croque Monsieur and frites (fries). It is ham bits instead of slices of ham, but it is good anyway.
Sitting in the square listening to music through my headphones. Watching people outside while listening to music is like watching television with the sound muted. You get another version of reality than that which is normally presented to you. Everyone looks so unnecessarily serious.
Harrod's Knightbridge. Serge says you can literally buy an elephant here. I get a tin of green tea after putting down a tin of Empire tea that is one pound less. And I get a strawberry cheesecake donut that is two and a half pounds. See a piano for half a million pounds, so I guess that donut was a real bargain. Numerous food places on the first level. Furniture, clothes, everything material you could think of really.
Princess Di shrine at the bottom. We find it after we go down one too many floors.
~Dr. William Nesbitt
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Abilene was one of the major railheads on the Chisholm Trail. Cattle were driven from the Southwest to Abilene, and thence to the hungry East. Abilene is the site of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. We didn't stop, but John has toured it and it is great. There also is an Independent Telephone Company Museum there. Since John spent 30 years in the independent telephony (i.e. - non-AT&T/Bell) world, he had a special interest there. Abilene is a nice town, with many pretty Victorian homes and mansions.
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Flash supports many ways to accomplish essentially the same tasks. Depending on your movie's purpose and overall design, some techniques are much more suited to specific applications than others. In today's lesson we'll look at Movie Clip symbols—a powerful and efficient tool for creating rich content. While learning to create Movie Clips, we'll go over some of Flash's basic design and interactivity features, just to make sure we all start the course with a similar set of skills. Get ready to dive headlong into Flash's intermediate-to-advanced movie design techniques.Inner Pop-ups With UILoader
A design effect that at first looks complicated is the inner pop-up—a pop-up that loads and plays external content within the main movie Timeline. However, as with many techniques in Flash, creating inner pop-ups really isn't all that difficult, once you know how to do it. While Flash supports many ways to accomplish the inner pop-up effect, an easy and straightforward method is to load and play an external Flash movie in the UILoader component. With UILoader, you can play any Flash SWF movie from your main movie's Timeline. Designing movies this way helps keep your movies small and reduces download time. It also helps keep your main movie's Timeline simple and easy to manage.Creating a Portfolio With ActionScript
As you tackle more sophisticated Flash movies and applications, the method of laying components out frame-by-frame on the Timeline simply won't cut it. That's when it's time to unleash ActionScript 3.0. In this lesson, that's exactly what we'll do as we take on a more complicated project: building an online products and services portfolio that can showcase hundreds of products. You'll learn to make a project of this magnitude manageable by using ActionScript 3.0 to call objects from the Library dynamically—without physically placing and positioning each one on the Stage. You'll also learn the power of ActionScript classes and variables. By the end of the lesson, you'll know how to write a single event handler that can call hundreds, even thousands, of external movies to the Stage.Using an External Script to Design an Interactive Paint Application
In today's lesson, you'll learn to use one of the most important tools in complex application design, the external ActionScript file. External ActionScript files not only help keep Flash files small and manageable, but they also expand your design options and can even increase your overall productivity. In this lesson, you'll learn to write an external ActionScript class file that, when loaded into a Flash movie, will define a new class object. Then you'll use the new class object to turn the user's mouse cursor into an interactive paint brush.Using External Text and Graphics, Trace Statements, and If Conditionals
This lesson takes a straightforward procedure—loading an external image—and turns it into a multifunction chain of events. The simple event handler that loads an external file triggers other events that not only format and apply special effects to the new content, but also manipulate other objects on the Stage. First, you'll learn how to format external text files with HTML tags and load the text into Flash. Then, you'll start creating the cascade of events, which includes: using the List component to trigger a function that loads image files; which in turn passes the new content to another function that applies a tween to the images as they display; then the chain continues with simple, powerful If Conditionals that play Movie Clips—all based on the original data passed by the first event in the chain. To make all this possible, you'll use AS3's indispensable trace(); statement to find out what data your functions and statements are passing among themselves.Combining Motion Editor, Timeline, and ActionScript to Create Custom Animations
When it comes to animation, the Motion Editor is one of Flash's most useful features. It allows you to apply multiple transformations and effects all in the same tween. In this lesson, we'll look closely at the Motion Editor, at all its various options and how they work. Next we'll combine several objects containing Motion Tweens to create a sophisticated transition effect and subsequent animation sequence. Then we'll use Flash's built-in Timer to control when our animation sequences play on the Timeline. The resulting movie will be a rotating, never-ending banner similar to those you see on many of today's more popular Web sites.Special Effects With the Bone Tool, ActionScript, and the Spray Brush Tool
This lesson explores some advanced Bone tool techniques. The Bone tool uses an animation technology known as inverse kinematics (IK), which simulates the movement of animate objects, such as people and animals with skeletal structures. IK is also used in the science of robotics. This lesson assumes some basic experience with IK chains and builds on that experience, teaching you how to modify IK chains to make their movements appear more realistic. We also look at making IK chains interactive, so that your users can manipulate them at runtime. Then, we go animating IK chains with ActionScript. The lesson ends with a short demonstration on using Movie Clip symbols with the Spray Brush tool to create special effects, such as twinkling stars or rotating planets.Create a Self-Scoring Quiz With External AS3 Class Files
Flash is by far not just an animation program. Many application developers use it to create sophisticated programs that do all sorts of things, such as building online courses, creating shopping carts for online stores, and just about everything else you can think of. In this lesson, we create a self-scoring quiz, or test, where users answer a series of questions and are then given their scores at the end of the test. To accomplish this, we'll revisit the oh-so-powerful external class file, taking the technique further by creating multiple class files that reference one another to make decisions. You'll learn to use several common and highly useful programming concepts, such as Arrays, Sprites, ints, for loops, Boolean operators, radio button groups, and several others. After completing this lesson, you'll have a basic understanding of creating applications with Flash, as well as an all new understanding of the power of ActionScript.Create an Interactive Web Site With Flash Catalyst
Flash designers typically enjoy creating content in Flash Professional's visually-oriented authoring environment. Many designers do not, however, care for coding, or writing the necessary ActionScript to create interaction. New to the Adobe CS5 suite of applications, Flash Catalyst allows you to create simple, interactive animated interfaces without coding. You design the interaction and animations visually, and Catalyst writes the code for you. This lesson introduces you to Catalyst. We start with an Illustrator artboard, import it into Catalyst, and design a Web interface from the Illustrator content—a completely visual and automated procedure devoid of manual coding. Since Catalyst creates projects compatible with the Flash Platform's Flex environment, this lesson also provides some insight into working with Flex and Flash Builder.Create Drag-and-Drop, Object Resize, Rotate, and Recolor Interactivity
Many Flash applications, such as games and quizzes, call for advanced user interactivity—providing the user with control of various objects on the Stage. Some movies, for example, call for allowing the user to drag and drop objects, or move them from one spot to another. Other applications call for allowing the user to rotate, resize, and recolor objects. All of this interaction is accomplished with ActionScript. In this lesson, you'll learn to write scripts that turn control over important functions to the user. First, I'll show you a simple set of scripts that allows the user to drag and drop an object on the Stage. Then we'll look at creating sets of buttons that allow users to rotate and resize objects. After that we'll look into allowing users to change not only the color of objects on the Stage, but also the Stage itself—all with the use of a handy little component known as the Color Picker.Masks, TileList Component, and Animating With Onion Skins
In this lesson, we look at a few of Flash's lesser-known, but highly useful features. First, you'll learn how to create layer masks for producing display effects from objects you draw with Flash's drawing tools. Then, I'll show you how to build an image list—a list consisting of images—with the TileList component. Finally, the lesson ends with an in-depth look at Flash's metaphorical equivalent to the days (not all that long ago) when animations were created one drawing at a time on translucent sheets of paper, stacked one on top of the other—a process known as onion skinning. Flash's Onion Skin feature can help you significantly when developing simple frame-by-frame animations.Desktop Applications With Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime)
A relatively new addition to the Flash platform, Adobe AIR allows you to create stand-alone desktop applications with Flash Professional—fully functional applications that access and utilize system resources, such as the clipboard, system menus, Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons, print functions, and many others. AIR applications are platform-neutral, meaning that you or your users can install them on any Windows, Mac OS, or Linux computer. Any existing Flash movie can be published as an AIR application. In this lesson, you learn how to create system-level functionality (unavailable in Flash documents destined for Flash Player), and how to publish and install AIR applications—yet one more way you can utilize and capitalize on your Flash skills.
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Well I lived in Middlesbrough, I used to get the bus to Greatham, my sister Sylvia and I, we would visit our relations Uncle Jack Wright, and Aunty Nellie, we also had another relative there, Uncle Albert Wright and Aunty Florie. We would get off the bus and walk down the lane to where my aunty and uncle lived. They lived in one of the four houses next to the railway crossing gates. They were the greatest couple you could ever wish to meet. We used to stay at their home from time to time on school holidays, this we will never forget and loved more than anything we could ever hope for. We would get up early and feed Uncle Jack's chickens whitch he kept in a garden out of his back. We would also pick vegetables freshly grown from his garden. Later Uncle Jack would take us in the signal box at the station where he was the station master. Uncle Jack would let us pull the levers back when things were quiet. Later we would then go round the rear of the signal box where there were a few pig styes, we loved feeding the pigs with bits and pieces. We would then meet up with another relative of ours, Albert Wright. He woudl then call for all his friends, lads and lasses. We would all walk back fown the lane, acorss the crossing and head for the Cerebus Salt, and play by Greatham creek. These great happy times we had will never ever leave me. I used to hate the thought of going back home as the time got near. I lived in a street house with back alleys, that was all the area I lived in. The only place could go was a park a couple of miles away, and it was the same thing, day in, day out. So you can understand the very thought of going to Greatham meant so much to my sister and I. They were the kindest people, Aunty Nellie and Uncle Jack, you could never ever have anyone better. I never stop thinking of the most beautiful and happiest times we had and could ever get, when we we went to Greatham.
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Summary of the decision on complaint 1286/2011/TN against the European External Action Service (EEAS)
The complaint concerned an EU Delegation's mishandling of national administrative procedures relating to the social security entitlements of the complainant, who was a former member of the Delegation's local staff.
The complainant alleged that the EU Delegation committed a series of administrative errors when it communicated with the local authorities in relation to his employment. According to the complainant, the Delegation failed, among other things, to submit to the local authorities an end of contract form needed to regularise his social security file. According to the complainant, the Delegation subsequently unnecessarily delayed resolving the issue.
The Ombudsman made a proposal for a friendly solution to the EEAS, following which he could conclude that the EEAS is committed to resolving the issue. The Ombudsman therefore closed the case with a finding that the main issue had been settled by the EEAS.
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The Doro 916cr is your average, everyday landline phone but with a few nice features I think you'll really like. The Doro 916cr comes with a nice design, which is quite similar to the Doro 915. This means this phone still offers nothing special but it's also not a pain to look at. The phones been designed with good sized buttons with clear writing which makes it easy to use although the buttons are close together which means you may hit one by accident which could be annoying but it depends on the size of your fingers I guess. It also comes with a nice clear screen at the top displaying things like caller ID with the date an time. These plus others add up nicely and will be very useful to all people, old and young. The cord means you have good distance although you should definitely consider purchasing a wireless phone. The phone itself is also hearing aid compatible which means it could be extremely useful with older people. The phone also comes with a hands-free speakerphone which is a nice addition for any landline phone. The 56 name and number phonebook also gives you the capability to have all your family, friends and other important contacts stored on it, though this depends on how popular you are I guess, so you may have less than that or you may need to think of getting another phone or a phone book. Besides if you miss a call from someone you have a 40 minutes long, digital answering machine which is quite a good amount. All in all this phone is good especially offering a good solid build and some really nice features.


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Sheraton Kauai Resort's 391 rooms, including its 11 suites, are housed in eight buildings no higher than a mature coconut tree. Grouped together in two locations in the 20-acre resort, room categories are identified according to the primary view in either the Garden Wing or the Ocean Wing.
The resort's major facilities are all wheelchair accessible and a total of 12 ADA approved rooms are available. The Ocean Wing rooms share a common entry with one other room, making them ideal for either families or friends traveling together (based upon availability).
Bedding choices are either one king or two double beds. Children (17 and younger) stay free in their parents' room utilizing existing bedding. Cribs are complimentary. There is an additional $70 per night charge for rollaway beds*.
A full complement of guest services and facilities include the Ocean Pool, Garden Pool, the resort's signature restaurant, RumFire Poipu Beach, the casual poolside bar & grill, Lava's on Poipu Beach, [email protected], [email protected] Cafe, fitness center, a host of beach and cultural activities, a choice of championship golf courses, and shops in nearby shopping areas.
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Chapter Five - The Domino Effect - Stalled Out
Chapter Five – The Domino Effect
I remember my grandmother, Ardist, on my mom's side as an elderly woman with a gentle smile and an unmeasurable heart filled with love. Simply put she glowed kindness and love that would turn the darkest night into day. When we would visit she would take my brother, Brian, and I to the kitchen and ask, "Honey, ice cream or cream pie?"
My eyes would burst with excitement as I would beg, "Honey! Honey Grandma, please!"
Grandma would open one of her wooden kitchen cabinets and pull out a fresh honeycomb wrapped up in wax paper that my Uncle Len had pulled from one of his bee hives earlier in the day. She'd set it down on her kitchen table, which I now own and am using to write this book on, and cut a monster piece off and let me devour it while Brian would chomp down some Breyers ice cream drenched in Hershey syrup. While we ate she would sit beside us and ask, "Have I ever told you the story about your crazy Uncle Louie and the roller coaster manure cart?" Even if she had we would listen intently like it was the first time. Her brother Louie had been a legend of mischief in our family for years and we loved her stories about him.
Many of my favorite childhood memories happened in that old white house on College Street in Austinburg, Ohio. Then there was my father's mom, Viola, the polar opposite. She was a selfish radio actress from the 1940's and 50's who was obsessed with everything that brought her happiness. When something or someone no longer pleased her she would toss them aside and drown herself in a fury of booze and pills. She even tossed off her only son, my father, by leaving him in his grandfather's capable hands before running off to New York City to follow her dreams of stardom.
That would have been a good place to have left my father because his Grandfather loved and doted on him. They would spend hours together on the farm during the summer and then go fishing in the Keys during the winter. But sadly, Viola would have a moment of sobriety and decide her life wasn't complete until her little Bobby was by her side in New York City. She would call up her father and demand that he ship her son off to her on the first available train to the Big Apple so she could play the role of the good mother. Unfortunately, that role would end as quickly as one of her parts on a radio drama once the top of the hour hit.
In the 1950's doctors would treat alcoholism, which my grandmother suffered with, with mood altering drugs instead of telling their patients to simply sober up. This popular cocktail if not monitored would have interesting results in their subjects as it did with Viola. She would either be on the verge of death or flying off on a delusional tirade. Neither of these situations made for a stable home life for my father as you can imagine and explains why he was so emotionally damaged.
There are three stories my father told me about his relationship with his parents that just broke my heart. The first was when he was five years old and living in New York City with his parents. Viola had drank herself senseless and to help battle the effects of the booze downed a fist full of pills. This as you can imagine put her in a serious medical state.
After discovering Viola convulsing on the kitchen floor my grandfather, Edward, quickly called an ambulance for help. When they arrived and loaded Viola up for transport Edward jumped into the ambulance with his wife and rode off to the hospital, leaving his five year old son by himself for hours sitting alone on an apartment stoop crying for his mother's safety.
About five years later my father was awoke by sheering pain in his legs. Viola had again mixed up her favorite whiskey and medication cocktail and started to hallucinate and attacked my father with a steak knife stabbing him in the legs several times.
Finally in my father's late twenties Viola sent him a telegram on Christmas morning that read, "I wish I had ripped you from my womb before you were born. I hate you and I disown you. You are now and forever not my son." I was told my dad sent a telegram back to Viola that said, "Merry Christmas to you too."
These are only three of the major blow ups Viola was prone to have on a regular basis. It's no surprise my father decided to start drinking following a childhood filled with chaos such as that. However I wonder how our lives would have been if she had never picked up her first drink. The Bible speaks of how the sins of the father will follow his children for generations. Looking at the mistakes in my life I have to say that passage is quite accurate.
But those stories at the time didn't help me understand my father any better as I quickly walked into his ICU room at Ocala General where he lay dazed after waking from his coma. I was filled with a mix of emotions. I was thrilled he was still alive because the little boy inside me still loved his daddy. But the man I had grown into was angry that his drinking had brought us to this point. It was only years later that I truly understood how Viola's actions had launched a decades long domino effect that reached far beyond her years. However there has to come a time when someone is brave enough not to be the next domino to fall, and my father was not that man. I just pray I can be. I hope the love my mom and her mother taught and gave me will give me the ability to push back. So far I have teetered several times but I am still standing.


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Strong Yen Threatens Japan's 'Galapagos Effect'
Billionaire Masayoshi Son has a stark message for Japan's policy makers: I'm through waiting for you gents to revive the economy.
That's the upshot of the move by Softbank Corp. -- where Son is chairman and chief executive officer -- to buy a 70 percent stake in Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20 billion. Investors are obsessing over whether it's a good bet by the wireless carrier. Foreigners don't tend to make much money on forays into U.S. phone companies. But we're missing the bigger point: Japan's second-richest man is turning at least part of his back on his aging and shrinking population and his face toward overseas markets that offer growth opportunities.
The issue here is the strong yen. Japan failed once again last week to convince the Group of Seven nations that an overvalued currency is gutting its economy. Koriki Jojima was recently named Japan's fifth finance minister in three years and, like the others, sees a weaker yen as job No. 1. That's not going to happen when the dollar and the euro face worse fundamentals than the yen.
The head-in-the-sand dynamic pervading the Ministry of Finance leaves Son no choice but to venture abroad. The firm yen has its benefits, making overseas acquisitions more affordable than ever for cash-rich Japanese companies. Fast Retailing Co., Kirin Holdings Co., Lawson Inc. and Rakuten Inc. are turning to faster-growing markets amid deflation and ugly demographics at home. Yet Son's move grabbed the most headlines.
Son is a gambler who bet well earlier on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan Corp. Whether Sprint will be a repeat performer is anyone's guess. Yet here's one additional plus that comes from this latest wager: addressing the "Galapagos syndrome'' that undermines Japan Inc.
Japan's mobile-phone producers are the market equivalent of the endemic species that Charles Darwin found on the remote islands off Ecuador's coast. Their products are highly evolved and distinct from anything found elsewhere, but not particularly suited to thriving beyond the water's edge.
Son's Sprint deal will test that phenomenon at the perfect moment. It also challenges the dogma that a strong yen is always bad for Japan.
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 126.96.36.199
I'm at the edge of the pond getting ready to dip my toes into AdWords for the first time. However, I have a question about click fraud. Is there any way to prevent nefarious people (like competitors) from running up your bill, like if you see the same IP clicking on your keyword ad(s) repeatedly in a short timeframe to exhaust your limit? Does Google provide a way to deal with these chronic offenders so you don't have to pay for their unscrupulous actions?
You should be more worried about fraudulent sites in the search and content network. While it will depend on what industry you are in, you can often find sites that popped up a couple days ago sending 3-4 times the traffic of Google itself. While easy to catch, you could spend all your free time sending reports to Google for the fraudulent traffic.
So what I'm trying to say is to be less worried about the 5 or so clicks a competitor might ding you for, and be more worried about the 2,000 some fly-by-night site will send you of complete crap traffic.
Is there any way to take a proactive measure
Proactive measure? If you mean to be proactive in stopping it before it starts then no.
But if you mean to be proactive after the first click then yes. The easiest way that I know of to stop it before it gets out of hand is to programmatically check each referring site clicks come from. I've set our scripts to spider each page immediately and either take action through the API if a less desirable site is found or let a human run through the info in our reports and decide what to do.
Yahoo says I can't block these sites and does not seem to be interested in helping.
Any one else with same issue?
I fully expect this b@stard to click on my AdWords 2,000 times a month. He's that kind of a jerk. If I have their IP, can/will Google block them before the funny business begins, or do I need cause?
I'll worry about the other kinds of fraud when I notice them. In the meanwhile, I'm reluctant to engage AdWords.
Is there any way to take a proactive measure?


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Replace refrigerator gasket on LG model lfc25770st
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Replace refrigerator door gasket.
3 door configuration. French doors on top, freezer drawer on bottom.
Model LG LFC25770st.
Gasket separates left hand door with right hand door.
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Hello, whenever I am having problems with my refrigerator I go onto the Sears Home Service website where they give me troubleshooting information and helpful tips on appliances. I have attached the link below. Hope this helps!
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I'm sending you some pictures with instructions to remove and replace this gasket. It can be a little tricky. I hope this will help you. If you do not feel confident repairing this problem yourself, then you can have it repaired at your home by a Sears technician. Here is a link for the website:
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Thank you for the attachments. While helpful the att with picture (not diagram) was very blurred and I am not able to determine if the gasket is properly seated. The original gasket was torn at the center top (between 2 french doors). I am not sure if the cause of the tear was due to not being lubricated sufficiently or if the doors were too close together.
Are the top 2 doors adjustable (sideways) so as to increase/decrease the gap between them? If no adjustments is provided then I need to re-check the installation.
Are the top 2 doors adjustable (sideways) so as to increase/decrease the gap between them? If no adjustments is provided then I need to re-check the installation.
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"Ditch the Workout- Join the Party!" Many of us have heard this Marketing slogan for the hot and ever so popular fitness class Zumba®, but can you be a part of the party AND still get a great workout? Inquiring minds want to know! With that question posed, the American Council on Exercise (ACE®) commissioned Dr. Pocari and his team at the University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse's Department of Exercise and Sport Science to get the facts about the effectiveness of this Latin-inspired dance-fitness workout currently being performed by more than 12 million people worldwide!
This ACE-sponsored research study was designed to determine the average exercise intensity and energy expenditure of a Zumba Fitness® class. All 19 subjects in this study were healthy females, ranging in age from 18-22 years old, and each had previous experience taking Zumba Fitness® classes. Once a baseline of fitness was established for the study subjects (using a maximal treadmill test that measured both heart rate and oxygen consumption), each subject participated in a single Zumba session while equipped with a heart-rate monitor. While the exact length of the class varied depending on which day it was conducted (class lengths were anywhere from 32 to 52 minutes each), the same Zumba-certified instructor taught all of the sessions.
Upon reviewing and calculating all of the data, the researchers found that participating in a single Zumba Fitness® class burned on average 9.5kcal per minute, making it both a fun AND effective workout! In fact, Zumba Fitness® classes have been shown to burn, on average, more calories per minute than other popular group fitness classes, such as step aerobics, Pilates, hooping and power yoga, formats which the team at the University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse have also conducted research studies for.
With that being said, researchers concluded that Zumba Fitness® classes can serve as an excellent way to improve cardiorespiratory fitness while also positively affecting body composition, in addition to strengthening the core and improving flexibility with the numerous hip and midsection movements included in these classes. It is, however, important to keep in mind that depending on the choreography and the instructor there can be a wide range of intensity for Zumba® classes, just like any other group fitness modality.
The bottom line is when it comes to long-term adherence to regular exercise the enjoyment factor is key, and Zumba® has proven that there's no shortage of fun in these high-energy (and effective) classes!
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On October 5, 2006 by Donncha With 4 Comments - Beach, Black and White, Inch Strand, Ireland, Kerry, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Signs, Sky
A sign points the way to the public toilets, or restroom, at Inch Strand, Co. Kerry.
This sign can be a much sought after sight on a long journey!
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
"Mom! I need to go!"
"I can't hold it any more!"
Everyone rushes to the public convenience when they hit the beach.
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October 5, 2006
Looks like this sign is getting a little overgrown. That could be trouble for a few beach-goers!
October 5, 2006
an excellent shot, very amusing.
October 11, 2006
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Watching State of Origin on Wednesday night confirmed to me how hard Australia will be to beat at this year's World Cup, but also how big an advantage it is for their top players to be involved in such a tough series.
Australia automatically have a head start over the Kiwis because they get three tough games together and they lift to another level. It's something the NZRL needs to look at in the future, whether a game can be arranged at the same time, because we are already on the back foot and it's why the game against the Cook Islands a week before the tournament starts will be a crucial part of our preparations.
What Origin also highlighted for me is that desperation and character will win you the World Cup, not skill and finesse. By winning eight series in a row, Queensland have shown an amazing ability to lift and find something special when they need to. It helps that they have two or three players who will probably be made Immortals at the end of their careers and they know how to win games.
In saying that, all teams are vulnerable and Australia are beatable. Some of their players might also find it difficult to sustain a high level of performance for so long after Origin, the NRL playoffs and then the World Cup.
I'm really excited about the Kiwis' World Cup chances and, as a selector, this will be the most difficult side I have had to pick.
What I want to see 100 days out is players desperate to be there, players who make it impossible for us to leave them out of the 24-man squad.
I don't see any weak areas and just look at the options we have in the outside backs: Manu Vatuvei, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Sam Perrett, Jason Nightingale, Josh Hoffman, Kevin Locke, Glen Fisiiahi ...
We also have good stocks in the back row - as much as we would love to have Sonny Bill Williams there, we could cover his absence - up front and in the centres.
My one big hope is that Rabbitohs hooker Issac Luke stays fit. He is crucial and probably fits the category of New Zealand's most important player, because he has an x-factor, an ability to turn a game.
He's also a player the Australians fear.
I really hope Benji Marshall is available because he exudes class on and off the field.
He is a good leader with World Cup-winning experience, is a big-game player and, at his best, there's no one better at creating opportunities.
I'm really disappointed the NRL hasn't done more to try to keep Benji in league, whether that's creating an ambassadorial role, helping him find another club or topping up his salary in the same way other codes do for marquee players.
He puts bums on seats and kids adore him.
The Kiwis still have some good options in the halves in Kieran Foran, Shaun Johnson and Thomas Leuluai but you would still love to see Benji in the UK and France at the end of the year.
Australia are not going to be the only challenge at the World Cup.
England will probably have the strongest side for some time and some of the Island teams will be difficult and then there are other factors like UK conditions, different refereeing interpretations and crowd support.


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Synaptics (SYNA ) sees first quarter revenue down 9%-10% sequentially. First Albany cut its rating on the stock to underperform from neutral.
Analyst Joel Wagonfeld says company management confirmed the cloud hanging over the Synaptics story--it has been designed out of Apple's next-generation iPods. He notes guidance calls for fiscal 2006 first quarter revenue to be down 9%-10% sequentially despite seasonal growth in notebook PCs (which account for over 60% of revenue). This suggests Apple revenues will be down at least 65% sequentially. He notes the second quarter revenue estimate of $40 million to $50 million suggests Apple-related revenue may be zero by then (which would be consistent with Apple's quick end-of-life transitions). The analyst cut hsis $1.20 fiscal 2006 (June) EPS estimate on $244.8 million in revenue to 76 cents on $187.7 million in revenue.


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New excavations conducted by the University of Tübingen (Germany) and the Onsekiz Mart University of Çanakkale (Turkey) at the site of Sirkeli Höyük near Adana (southern Turkey) have revealed the remains of a massive bastion fortification dating to the Hittite Imperial Period (ca. 1300 BC). Sirkeli Höyük, one of the largest settlement mounds in Cilicia during the Bronze- and Iron Ages, was already known to archaeologists and historians because of two Hittite rock reliefs located at the site.
The better preserved rock relief of the two shows the Hittite King Muwatalli II (ca. 1290–1272 BC), opponent of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the famous Battle of Qadesh in Syria and is thus the oldest Hittite rock relief known so far.
On the upside of the rock, just above the reliefs, various shallow pits or basins are found which apparently are to be connected with the reliefs and were used for libations in the course of cultic activities.
These pits were part of a larger cultic installation which also included a building to the west of the rock reliefs. This ensemble is thought to be a cultic installation for the Hittite King.
Excavations at the site were conducted between 1992-1997 by the Universities of Munich and Innsbruck. In 2006 excavations were resumed by the University of Tübingen and the University of Çanakkale. The project and its organization are based at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology and Assyriology at the University of Tübingen. The Institute of Prehistorical Archaeology and the Institute of Classical Archaeology are associated with the project.
At the University of Çanakkale the project is based at the Institute of Prehistorical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology and Classical Archaeology. The project is carried out under the patronage of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
In the course of the first two campaigns conducted in 2006 and 2007 the massive fortification bastion in the north-western part of the city was excavated. Finds made within the complex show that the building was constructed during the Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 B.C.) and apparently modified and re-used during the Iron Age (1200-600 B.C.). Later, the surrounding area of the mound was occupied by Hellenistic buildings. The finds reveal that the site was engaged in cultural exchange and trade with the Levant, the Aegean and different regions of Anatolia in the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.
The site of Sirkeli Höyük may possibly also be identified with the ancient cultic city of Lawazantiya which is known to have been the home town of Hittite Queen Puduhepa, wife of King Hattusili III (ca. 1265-1240 B.C.).
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By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY
About 60% of toddlers and preschoolers who are overweight or obese during their preschool years still weigh too much at age 12, setting them on a path toward adult obesity and its attendant health problems, a study finds.
The finding could be a rude surprise to parents who think children will outgrow their baby fat. Research shows that overweight children and adolescents are at an increased risk of developing diabetes, high cholesterol and other weight-related health problems.
Scientists at 10 U.S. universities examined the records of 1,042 children whose height and weight were recorded seven times from ages 2 to 12.
The researchers define children as obese if they are in the 95th percentile of the weight-to-height ratio, meaning they weigh more than 95% of kids at the same height, and as overweight if they fall in the 85th to 95th percentile. These categories differ from those used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which doesn't call children obese. The CDC calls such children overweight or at risk of becoming so in those percentile ranges.
Findings of the new study, reported in September's Pediatrics:
• 80% of children who were overweight or obese during their early school years were overweight or obese at age 12.
• 40% of kids who were in the 50th percentile or above by age 3 were overweight or obese at 12.
• The more times a child reached the "overweight" category during the preschool and elementary-school years, the more likely he was to be overweight at 12.
"This is sobering but not hopeless," says lead author Philip Nader, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. "We can be comfortable as pediatricians counseling parents to act early to make sure that kids get plenty of exercise, limit TV time, eat healthy foods, eat less fast foods."
Says Keith Ayoob, associate professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York: "This research means that lots of kids are going to be at risk for serious diseases decades before they should be. We don't have the luxury anymore to see if kids will outgrow their baby fat, because they are not doing it." Ayoob was not involved in the study.
Ayoob says parents often serve their kids "an enormous amount of food. Unless kids are doing manual labor in the fields, they don't need these huge portions."


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by Susan Hartenstein
The Arts @ Fort Tilden –
Exhibitions@ sTudio 6 and 7 galleries: Gifted: A Holiday Member Exhibition and Sewn and Thrown: A Pottery and Quilt Exhibition of Juried Original Works. The exhibitions and special events run through December 18, 2005 in the Rockaway Center for the Arts at Fort Tilden, Gateway National Recreation Area, Rockaway, Queens, NY. Admission is free to the exhibitions and special events. Gallery hours: Saturdays 12-4 p.m., Sundays 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. For further information contact Rockaway Artists Alliance: (718) 474-0861; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; or visit: www.rockawayartistsalliance.org.
The Exhibitions Committee of RAA announces the start of: "Gallery Sitters Events." Artists exhibiting in a particular show, and who run the Gallery during open hours on a particular day, now have the opportunity to use the gallery during those hours as a venue to talk about their work, do demonstrations, present music, etc. Saturday, Dec 3, 12pm - 4pm: Laura Flego. Learn to make a simple seasonal wall hanging in colonial style. There is a $5 per person donation. Please call the office for details and to reserve a space. (718)-474-0861.
Sunday, Dec 4, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Susan Locke and Gene Nichol will hold a handbuilding pottery demonstration.
Date to be announced: A day of spoken word hosted by Mary Kelly.
The musical, Little Shop of Horrors, will be presented by The Rockaway Theatre Company at the gloriously heated Post Theater at Fort Tilden on the following dates: December 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 @ 8 p.m.; December 11 and 18 @ 2 p.m. and December 10 @ 3 p.m. For tickets: (718) 850-2450. Director: John Gilleece, Musical Director: Jeff Arzberger.
Elections for RAA board members and officers will take place at the general meeting, Monday, December 12 in building T-149 in Fort Tilden at 7:30 p.m. The 2005 RAA Holiday Party will follow.
Call to artists: A Primary Exhibition , a juried exhibition of artworks that are created with a limited palette. Paintings in oil, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil, watercolor and other painting mediums will be considered. Color schemes include: monochromes (1 color), primary colors (red, blue, yellow), limited palette of 1 to 3 colors and their shades and tints. Deadline for receipt of entries is December 20, 2005. The show will run February 4-February 26, 2006. Go to www.rockawayartistsalliance.org for full prospectus and entry form or contact the RAA office. See contact information above.
Pat Bishop, James Cantirino, Christian Le Gars and John Russo are participants in a Small Works Show at the Brooklyn Fine Arts Gallery, 515 Court Street at West 9 Street, through December 18. All works are priced under $200. Weekdays: 4-7 p.m.; weekends 2-5 p.m.
Rockaway Artists Alliance member Esther Grillo is one of twelve artists chosen to participate in the Alumni Exhibition: Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Brooklyn College. This very fine show is on view through December 16 at The Brooklyn College Art Gallery at the Brooklyn War Memorial, 195 Cadman Plaza West. Maria Rand is the curator of a varied collection of works from some excellent artists that have studied at the college.
Esther Grillo is a versatile artist whose intelligence and imagination are represented by several works that include reliefs and installations executed in mixed media. With an abstracted vision, she is able to reach the emotional core of the viewer, and to make commentary on the human condition. Janice Mehlman finds interesting spaces that she photographs in abstract ways and prints with a digital process on watercolor paper. So intriguing are these large, powerful images, which appear at first to be paintings, that the viewer is drawn deeper and deeper into their mysteries. The huge photographs of expansive vistas by Helène Aylon give a monumental and eternal quality to the words of the Bible, that accompany them. The geographical formations the artist has chosen are feminine and even sensual. Soft, geometric, beautiful cityscapes and Italian towns seen from a distance. Each of these oil paintings exhibited by Diane Horowitz is small. Arranged in a group, they are very effecting. Ben Katchor's strange comic strips of contemporary commentary are done with great skill. Sheila Goloborotko has several works on view. Some are intaglio prints and silk monotypes. Working with anatomical drawings, she has figuratively created maps of her own brain – in a sense, self-portraits. Believing that in our culture we have a territorial need to map ourselves, she, like the discoverer of her own brain, has named and labeled its areas as an explorer would name the areas on a map. For more information about Alumni Exhibition: Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Brooklyn College call (718) 951-5181.
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving weekend. Use that leftover turkey creatively.


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Pfizer: Making It 'Leaner, Meaner, More Efficient'
When Pfizer (PFE) CEO Jeffrey B. Kindler first met with Corey Goodman about being the head of the pharmaceutical giant's Biotherapeutics & Bioinnovations Center (BBC) based in San Francisco in the summer of 2007, he handed him a big assignment: Kindler wanted Goodman to develop a new model to do research in a more efficient, more entrepreneurial way.
Developing a different model of drug development is crucial to Pfizer's future. Over the past decade, the percentage of drugs developed by the pharmaceutical industry that actually make it to market has dropped from 10% to a mere 5%. Pfizer, like other pharmaceutical companies, can't afford for such a low success rate to continue over the long term.
Goodman wanted to create an environment that would nurture the same type of innovative spirit that exists at biotechs such as Genentech (DNA). To do this, he broke up his research center into smaller groups of scientists and gave them more responsibility. Instead of handing off drugs when they went into clinical trials, scientists would continue to oversee them. That gave them a greater sense of ownership than they had in the past.
Recently, Pfizer has reorganized its entire research group and even its business units in a similar manner to Goodman's research center. The goal is to capture the same innovative spirit. BusinessWeek's Emily Thornton recently spoke to Goodman about Pfizer's transformation. Below are edited excerpts from their conversation:
What initially sparked the shakeup of the way research is conducted at Pfizer?
It wasn't done with a recession in mind. It was done looking at inefficiencies. Looking at how much it costs to bring drugs into the clinic. We were looking at the notion of these large research sites the pharmaceutical companies have, and we were asking ourselves how can we bring in some of the models from the biotech world. We not only built the model in [our research center]. But we adapted that model to the overall global research effort.
It's the right model for the industry. It also happens to be a great model when one is going into financial instability and a recession because it allows you to keep your eye on innovation and drug discovery in these small, very efficient units. It's this whole notion that people have more accountability and more ownership of what they're doing if they're working in small groups where the people who are functioning as the chief scientific officers are accountable from the earliest stages of discovery all the way to taking those drug candidates into the clinic and showing that the mechanism works in humans.
This was how we wanted to make Pfizer leaner, meaner, more efficient, more entrepreneurial, and have people have more accountability for what they're doing. [Our] goal, of course, is getting more drugs into the marketplace for patients and bringing in more revenues for shareholders.
How different is this from the way Pfizer operated in the past?
[In the past], you would have a very large research and development group where the research groups would hand things over to the development people right when things first went into humans. Then when things would make it through the clinic, that's when it would be handed off to the commercial group.
I understand that Pfizer's business units are also now being organized in the same manner as your center. Is that right?
Now the commercial group is taking the responsibility back at the beginning of the pivotal clinical trials. It's broken up into smaller business units, each of which is focused on certain types of patients and certain types of diseases. That way, for instance, the oncology unit is completely focused. They have outside experts. They have outside advisers.
They work with the doctors to figure out what patients need so they can make the right decisions about what kinds of drugs they should really be bringing into [later trials] that will really have a major impact on human health. Even a company as large as Pfizer has to decide where to place its bets. And what you look at is where there are huge medical needs and large market opportunities. That will have both a large impact on health and on shareholder value. At the same time, you're looking scientifically and asking where you think there will be the kinds of mechanisms where you think you can actually move the needle and make a difference. We want to make drugs that will have a major impact on human health.
What changes have you noticed since this reorganization began?
The group that has been working in this model the longest is my division. A year later, it's clear the degree of productivity is extremely high. It's higher than what you've seen in the pharmaceutical industry before. We're very excited about some of the new drugs. And the best is yet to come. It's giving people a sense of identity. A sense of their own culture, a sense that they can make decisions locally. That really sets people free in terms of getting the creative juices going, and that's the model I think big pharma is going to have to turn to in the future to be more efficient and more innovative.
The way you'll be able to judge Pfizer's model is by asking: Have more drugs that are going into the clinic making it to the marketplace? We've got to lower attrition to save costs and get more drugs to the market. We have to be smarter about how we do that. The pharma industry can't go forward with this much attrition and this much money being spent.


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