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When it comes to a plan's default, many sponsors have a set-it-and-forget-it mentality. They feel their default was right when they first chose it, so there's no need to revisit it. But in a fast-changing world, inertia can cost a defined contribution plan dearly.
At AB, we don't believe your plan should sit idle. This has led us to a history of innovation, with solutions and technology designed to evolve over time. It's why we pioneered the first open-architecture target-date platform, which ensures that plans can easily access multiple investment managers at low cost. It's also why we continue to innovate every day to meet the ever-changing challenges of the DC landscape.
Change is inevitable. Make sure your default option is the strongest link in your DC plan.
Are your participants' needs the same today as they were yesterday? What will they be tomorrow? Are there better solutions in the marketplace now than when you first selected your default?
There's only one answer: Embrace a strategy that embraces change.
You need a plan default that remains flexible, designed to meet today's needs and adapt to tomorrow's challenges. This will give participants the comfort of knowing their DC plan will still be right for them down the road.
What does this all mean to you? Just that you may never have to replace your default again.
Lifetime income. Two words that can dramatically affect DC plan outcomes. After all, if an employee knows exactly how much income they will receive each year in retirement, they'll be encouraged to plan and save more.
AB is the first DC provider to implement a secure lifetime income default option backed by multiple insurers. Our design provides a secure income stream to employees for life, thereby reducing the anxiety often associated with funding their retirement years.
As a DC sponsor, you recognize the need to improve participant outcomes and yet manage your fiduciary liability. Now you don't have to compromise on either.
As a sponsor, there's nothing more valuable than knowing you have a default option designed specifically for you and your participants.
We customize your asset allocation glide path to your plan's demographics. Our open-architecture platform gives you the option of replacing investment managers without replacing your entire target-date fund. Open architecture also gives you the flexibility to mix and switch out strategies and asset classes including active and passive investments. Of course, you'll be able to do this in a manner that best suits your plan.
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OMG! That home security suggestion is too funny. It just might work around here though. I live in GA after all! Hope you have a great trip.ReplyDelete
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LOL I have seen that before! Have a fun and safe trip :-).We just got back from Disney last week and I am still trying to get back into the groove.ReplyDelete
Love it!! Have a wonderful vacation - I'm off this weekend to see my folks too xoReplyDelete
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Now THAT is funny =D Have a wonderful & safe time in Cali.ReplyDelete
I've read that before, but still think it's hilarious!! Have a fun, safe trip! (And btw, I LOVE your vignette in your first pic :)ReplyDelete
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ATLANTA, GA—July 10, 2015— Profisee, a master data management and data quality software company, first announced the availability of its Master Data Maestro™ for Microsoft's Azure Cloud platform in December. The announcement highlighted the availability of the Maestro all-in-one virtual machine via the Azure Marketplace. Well suited for evaluations, proofs-of-concept, pilots or MDM applications focused on immediate improvement to an existing Microsoft Master Data Services application, this configuration enables Microsoft partners to add value to their services and solutions by incorporating Azure-based, enterprise-grade MDM capabilities.
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015, kicking off this Sunday, July 12th, in Orlando, attendees will have an opportunity to network and meet with key Profisee executives to explore the partner opportunities inherent in the Maestro Azure solution in the WPC Expo at Booth 842, where Profisee will showcase its comprehensive multi-domain MDM solutions, now available for Azure cloud, on-premise, or hybrid implementations.
Tyler Graham, Director of Development responsible for Profisee's cloud strategy, adds, "As with Azure, our focus is on hybrid cloud solutions and application portability. Being able to kick off MDM initiatives using Azure helps partners handle POCs and pilots. Subsequently, each customer may determine their own optimal production architecture, since Maestro applications can be deployed and re-deployed into the cloud or on-premise as requirements and architecture dictate. This is the strength of Azure, and we are ensuring that Microsoft partners and Maestro customers can fully leverage this strength."
The Microsoft WPC is an annual, global convergence of Microsoft's top partners, offering opportunities to network, drive business growth, and identify new profitability opportunities. This year at WPC, session tracks Innovate, Engage, Transform, and Lead feature targeted sessions, enabling partners to more easily find the content that will help them identify new opportunities and drive profitability. WPC is open to Microsoft partners, both existing and potential. This includes business and channel leaders in SMB, Corporate Accounts and Enterprise markets. Attendees come from more than 140 countries and represent the leaders and visionaries of the IT industry, coming together to spur innovation and growth.
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Milli Vanilli—the opera? You better believe it
The pop fakers behind "Girl You Know It's True" get the full Wagnerian treatment in Wow
Thu Jan 16 2014
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Most anything in pop culture seems to be opera fodder these days, from Anna Nicole Smith to Breaking Bad. And now, Milli Vanilli. Everyone's favorite lip-synching frauds are the stuff of derision, certainly—but the stuff of high tragedy? That's the gambit composer Joe Diebes, poet Christian Hawkey and director David Levine are making with Wow, a new tuner about the doomed '80s pop duo.
Before you go crying "jukebox musical," Wow ain't that: It's an experimental work-in-progress, taking Milli Vanilli's infamous track-skip moment as a jumping-off point to mess with preconceptions about timing and staging in live performance. It's also taking a page from the immersive-theater playbook, leading the audience through various rooms at recently minted Brooklyn performance space BRIC House in the course of the show.
But yes, this is all about the rise and fall of the long-haired, shoulder-padded Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, and what Diebes described to The New York Times as a "Faustian bargain" they struck with producer Frank Farian. Pop nostalgists and opera aficionados alike can check out the show from January 23 through February 1 at BRIC House ($18, advance $15). And unlike the real Milli Vanilli, the performers in Wow will actually sing their own vocals. Girl, you know it's true.
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Albany, N.Y. • The retailer Macy's has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle allegations of racial profiling at its flagship store in Manhattan's Herald Square.
Under the agreement signed Tuesday with New York's attorney general, the company will adopt new policies on police access to its security camera monitors and against profiling, further train employees, investigate customer complaints, keep better records of detentions and report for three years on its compliance.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the settlement should help ensure customers are treated equally regardless of race or ethnicity at the retail giant's 42 department stores statewide.
"It is absolutely unacceptable — and it's illegal — for anyone in New York to be treated like a criminal simply because of the color of their skin," Schneiderman said.


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Bodies in Motion and at Rest
(Norton)As a result of his two professions (poet and funeral director), Thomas Lynch
has an unusual attitude toward tradition, decorum and memory. His new book of essays sheds light on the way he practices both his crafts.
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A Saskatoon family is struggling to find a new normal after their 13-year-old son died last month.
And it all happened because of a tragic game.
Zachary Dawson's family is going public with his story in hopes of preventing similar deaths in the future.
Dawn Dawson says her son died on Oct.14 after playing something called the choking game by himself at their home in Saskatoon.
"Cutting off oxygen to the brain to give yourself a light-headed feeling. Sometimes people pass out. Sometimes they don't. He was unable to rescue himself," she said.
Dawn admits it's hard to talk about, which is one of the reasons why she had never heard about the game before, or thought to talk about it with her son.
"We honestly think he was doing something he didn't think was wrong. That he didn't realize how unsafe it was," said Dawn.
Now she's campaigning to have auto asphyxiation somehow incorporated into school curriculums.
She says the most important thing is to educate families about how dangerous this choking game truly is.
For more on the choking game, click HERE.
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Regal rolls out new deckboatsPosted on
Regal said it has begun production on two all-new deckboat models with the Regal 27 FasDeck and the Regal 27 FasDeck RX.
They sport Regals UltraLounge aft bench and convertible sunpad. The Regal UltraLounge has a multiposition backrest that converts from an aft-facing bench seat to a forward-facing bench seat, then to an aft-facing lounger and finally to a flat sunpad that is integrated into the cockpit arena seating. The aft portion of the sunpad can be lifted to a two-position, forward-facing lounger.
Most boaters associate deckboats with practical, much like minivans and SUVs lots of storage, plenty of room for the whole family and relatively safe, Regal president and CEO Duane Kuck said. With our FasTrac hull, we made it sporty, similar to what Porsche accomplished with their Cayenne coupe, when compared to other SUVs.


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Study links lower education to faster aging
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - People who leave education with fewer qualifications are prone to age more quickly, scientists said on Wednesday.
Researchers from Britain and the United States examined the length of sections of DNA known as telomeres from around 450 people taking part in a long-term health study and found that people who did less well at school had shorter telomeres, suggesting they may age faster.
Telomeres are sections of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes, protecting them from damage and the loss of cell functions associated with aging. Shorter telomeres are thought to be an indicator of faster aging.
"The key implication of this study backs up one of the main messages to have come out of long-term studies..that your experiences early in life can have important influences on your health," said Stephen Holgate, of Britain's Medical Research Council, which part-funded the research.
He said that as with all observational research, it was difficult to establish the root causes of these findings, but said the study provided evidence "that being educated to a higher level can benefit you more than in the job market alone."
The study participants were separated into four education groups: those who had no qualifications at all, those who left formal education after exams at around 16 years of age, those who left after exams at around 18 years, and those who earned a degree from a university or other higher education institution.
The research was published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity on Wednesday.
The results showed that people with lower educational achievements had shorter telomeres, indicating that they may age faster, and the study also offered strong evidence that this is not affected by people's social and economic status later in life, as was previously thought, the researchers said. Continued...


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October 24, 2012
Self-Driving Car Forces U.S. to Study, Ensure Safety
With Google Inc. now testing its self-driving car on California highways, automakers and U.S. regulators are anticipating what safety hurdles must be overcome to make vehicle autonomy real, reports Automotive News. Regulators see autonomous vehicles as a means to reduce U.S. traffic deaths, which have declined for six straight years while killing an estimated 32,310 people last year. They're working now with the designers and potential sellers of cars that can see more and drive smarter than a human to address how to deploy the technology quickly, how to make sure autonomous cars can interact with those controlled by people, and what to do when crashes inevitably happen. "Automated driving, and the components of it, really is the next evolutionary step for what we see as safety technology in the passenger fleet," National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland said. The U.S. Transportation Department in August started a field test of almost 3,000 so-called connected vehicles in Ann Arbor, Mich. It plans to use the information from the Ann Arbor test to determine next year for passenger vehicles and in 2014 for commercial vehicles what to do next with connected vehicles. For more on the future of driverless cars, click here.
Auto Bailout Debate Just Goes On and On
The Detroit News reports that the federal auto bailout sparked renewed interest Tuesday, one day after President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney had their fiercest clash yet on the $85 billion rescue plan. "Auto bailout" was the most searched phrase connected to Romney on Google during the debate Monday night as interest spiked after a heated exchange between the candidates. Four years after the move to save the U.S. auto industry, the bailout remains one of the biggest issues looming over the 2012 presidential election. Romney's New York Times column garnered 400,000 to 3.5 million page views Tuesday. The clash between the candidates during Monday night's debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., was the second over autos in the third of three debates and the most spirited, with Obama suggesting Romney's plan would have led to the liquidation of Detroit's Big Three automakers. Romney – who opposed giving a bailout to U.S. automakers – said his plan to require bankruptcy filings first and possible government financing while under court restructuring would have worked. Click here for coverage of how the 2009 auto bailout is playing a role in this year's presidential race.
Dinky, Yes, But Don't Call Them Cheap
Architect Scott Kula used to ride a Vespa scooter to catch a train from Montclair, N.J., to his office in Manhattan. Now, he drives a Fiat 500 for the first leg of his commute. Under pressure to boost the average fuel economy of their fleets to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, big automakers are taking another run at enticing U.S. consumers to live small – or, as Mr. Kula did, to get a tiny car for commuting while keeping a larger vehicle for weekends. The number of cars under 160 inches long offered in the U.S. has grown to 13 models from nine since 2009, says Edmunds.com, a car-shopping website. Sales of "small specialty" cars, including several new microcar models, are up 39 percent so far this year, well outpacing the overall market. According to The Wall Street Journal, the newer crop of microcars takes a different tack, partly following the strategy BMW pursued over the past decade to build its Mini brand of sub-subcompacts. Launched in 2001, the Mini showed that a dinky car with distinctive styling and big-car safety features could succeed in a market still hooked on hulking SUVs. Click here to read about today's small cars.
Some Automakers Let Auto Leases End Early
With the holiday gift-giving season barely on the horizon, some motorists are already lining up to make exchanges – of their leased cars. According to USA Today, they're being lured by offers by some automakers to let them out of the existing leases a few months early if they lease a new car. Such deals are good business for lessees and automakers alike. Motorists get a new car sooner. And automakers cash in on customer loyalty while getting needed nearly new used cars to restock dealer inventories. Early-return deals often are conducted quietly by mail to lessees. For the third time this year, BMW is letting lessees of many of its 2010 models waive up to three payments if they lease or buy a new model before Oct. 31. BMW's goal in these offers, says Scot Hall, executive vice president of online car-lease exchange Swapalease.com, is to drive sales volume to pass Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. About 20 percent of eligible lessees have taken the latest deal since it started in September, about twice the rate of previous offers, says Shaun Bugbee, a BMW Financial Services vice president. Read more about automakers who are letting leases end early here.
The Internal Combustion Engine is Far From Dead
Auto manufacturers and drivers alike have long yearned for a simple solution to fuel efficiency. For a while, it looked possible. In 2009 Fortune wrote that, thanks to advances such as electric cars, hybrids and diesel vehicles, "It seems certain that the traditional gasoline internal-combustion engine is on the wane." The truth is an affordable technology to upend the standard engine still has yet to materialize. Forecaster LMC-Automotive predicts that by 2020, more than 98 percent of vehicles will still incorporate an internal combustion engine of some kind. And some 72 percent of new car sales in 2020 will run on gasoline only, says LMC analyst Michael Omotoso, down just a few points from today's 84 percent. (Most of the rest are hybrids, diesel, or ethanol-powered.) According to CNN Money, absent a revolutionary breakthrough within the next few years, carmakers from Volkswagen to BMW are now finding new ways to work with what they have. That's becoming especially important with a looming hike in fuel economy standards in the U.S. to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Read more about the current state of the internal combustion engine here.
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So what is a "Super App"? As the video tells us, an app merely tells us the temperature and weather conditions while a "Super App" would take this information and integrate it with your calendar to remind you to bring an umbrella when you are "flying to Seattle". A regular app might give you the schedule of your favorite team. A "Super App" not only gives you the schedule, it will alert you when the game starts, when runs are scored, or as the video points out, "alert you when your favorite player is on-deck".
Obviously a way for RIM to try to get some power users to consider BlackBerry over the Apple iPhone or some of the powerful new Android models being introduced this week at the MWC, the whole "Super Apps" program breaks down if developers don't do the work that RIM is counting on. It might take some time to see if this becomes a successful marketing tool for BlackBerry, but in the meantime we can give RIM credit for coming up with a super idea.
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Me? I loved him. Four simple words spoken by three...
A Heart That Can't Be Fixed
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Shingeki no Kyojin Modern AU. Levi is the captain of Rose High School's football team, The Survey Corps. When they finally triumph over their rivals, the Titans of Maria High, he looses everything close to him, is the road to recovery is too far for his feet to carry him? Or is it all just a dream? [WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE MANGA]
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There are many terms
associated with e-learning. Here are a few you will want to know:
Classes in which the World Wide Web is used as a component to assist delivery of the course; typically mixed with other delivery methods. At BCCC, many courses are web-enhanced and will have expectations of guiding learning activities through the Internet.
A webinar is a seminar or workshop in which the facilitator and participants view the same screen at the same time. Usually the webinar has an audio component that the facilitator controls and functionality that allows participants to chat by entering text, answering polls, raising their hands and asking questions.


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Some reflections on winning an ALTC Teaching Excellence Award
Henderson, Deborah J. (2011) Some reflections on winning an ALTC Teaching Excellence Award. NTEU Re-Union, p. 4.
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Since 1996, quality teaching has been recognised in the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), administered first by the Australian government Department of Education, and then from 2000, by the Australian Universities Teaching Committee (AUTC). In 2005, the awards were overseen by the government funded Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and known as the Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching. The newly elected Rudd government reconfigured the process and established the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) in 2008 to administer the awards under the AAUT nomenclature. In this edition of Re-Union, Deborah Henderson reflects on receiving an a 2010 ALTC Teaching Excellence Award in the category of Social Sciences (including Education).
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Sometimes you just may be in the mood to try something different. This is a great choice. Re fried beans, ground sirloin, melted cheddar and sour cream......I think you'll like my version.
1 can re fried beans
1 envelope of chili seasoning
1/4 cup water
1 1/2 pounds of ground sirloin
1 package of flour tortilla's
16 0z. of sharp cheddar shredded
lettuce, chopped tomatoes, olives chopped, sour cream and shredded sharp cheddar
Taco Sauce
Mix meat, water, seasoning and saute in a pan with a little non stick spray, until brown. Add beans and mix well.
Put two tablespoons or more of filling in flour tortilla, roll up and place on a greased cookie sheet.
Bake around 15 minutes till toasted. Broil for around 5 minutes to brown tops.
Garnish with chopped lettuce, tomatoes, olives, sour cream, shredded sharp cheddar and taco sauce.
* If you want the cheese melted, put in a glass bowl and microwave shredded cheddar with 2 tablespoons of milk stir until melted around 30 seconds, pour over tortilla.
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- Angelia mcgowan said...
That looks wonderful, I have never made these at home, but I will now!
- August 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- pegasuslegend said...
thank you they are very easy to make
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- "Vanilla and Thyme" said...
Yum!!! I think this will be dinner tomorrow night - thanks for sharing-
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- Mother Rimmy said...
This is a recipe the men in my family will love!
- August 29, 2009 at 11:49 PM
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Anna Nicole Smith drug trial nears its end
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for the ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith lashed out at prosecutors on Thursday for calling her "an out-of-control drug addict," as the trial of three people charged with keeping the former Playboy model loaded up on painkillers neared its end.
Steve Sadow told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury in closing arguments that Howard K. Stern loved her and prosecutors had trivialized the chronic pain she suffered for more seven years.
"He (Stern) lived with it for years. It's time for someone to stand up and say it ain't right," Sadow said, arguing that Stern had relied on the advice of Smith's doctors regarding prescription drugs.
Smith, the fashion model and actress famous for marrying an 89-year-old oil billionaire, died in Florida in 2007 at age 39 from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
Her companion and lawyer Stern, along with two doctors, are not charged with causing her death but with unlawfully prescribing and giving controlled substances to a known addict for three years.
Stern and doctors Khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor have pleaded not guilty. They could face more than five years in prison if convicted.
Judge Robert Perry last week threw out two of the charges and criticized prosecutors for being overly aggressive in pursuing the case, which is expected to go to the jury on Friday.
Defense lawyers have disputed prosecutor David Barkhurst's contention that the doctors used their prescription pads to "feed the addiction from which Smith suffered." Continued...


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Fitness Instructor — Positions Available: House of Air is looking for experienced and passionate fitness instructors that can instruct and develop a challenging workout class.
House of Air is an indoor trampoline park located in the Presidio of San Francisco. The athletic and recreational facility is host to open trampoline jump time, aerial and physical training on trampolines, and trampoline dodgeball, basketball and fitness classes. House of Air also caters to community events including birthday parties, corporate events, family events, and fundraisers.


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Book asks question: what if Jesus had been a woman?
By Elaine Lies
TOKYO (Reuters) - As a child, Kristen Wolf set up a makeshift altar in the driveway of her home, decorating a desk with a white cloth and a crucifix before proceeding to conduct a Mass and causing a stir that resulted in a reprimand.
The move came, she now says, from a sense that she was left outside the center of Catholic tradition and spirituality by her gender, a feeling that led her decades later to write "The Way," a re-imagining of the story of Jesus with a woman in the central role.
"I had a very definite sense, even as a young child, of being somehow excluded from my spiritual experience," Wolf said in a recent telephone interview.
"As I looked on it, the church leaders could only be male and our God was male, the main player was the Father's only son. The women were mostly in ancillary roles ... I never felt there was a heroic female."
Decades later, after attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and studying the Bible and mythology, as well as reading retellings of once-male stories from a female point of view, Wolf thought there was a need for a new take on the Biblical tale of the Messiah.
The result was the story of Anna, a tomboy in ancient Palestine whose androgynous appearance leads to her being disguised as a boy and sold to shepherds. Captured and taught by a group of women who live according to an ancient philosophy, she tries to spread their teachings to ordinary people.
Wolf said that she didn't want to be critical of any religion, but instead sought to tap into one of the major stories still told in modern society -- just from a slightly different angle.
"The stories need to be dusted off and re-invigorated. My intention was to create a new story that we tell differently, that brings out the timelessness of this story, this person Jesus," she said. Continued...


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The story of Netta Anderson and her contributions to both Augustana College and the Quad-City community is alive and well, thanks to Ann Boaden, an associate professor of English at Augustana.
Boaden researched the Rock Island college's early women graduates and published their stories in "Light and Leaven: Women Who Shaped Augustana's First Century."
"Working back, I found there were a wealth of women I had never heard of, or had heard of in only the most fleeting way," Boaden said. "All of these stories are just buried in the archive. These are stories people need to know."
In addition to writing about Anderson, Boaden portrays her in performances, assuming her character in costume.
Netta Bartholomew moved to Rock Island in 1888 when her father took a job as an English professor at Augustana, and she enrolled in 1891. She soon realized, though, that while the college was coeducational on paper, in practice women were not welcome in all intellectual pursuits, Boaden said.
"We were frankly told that while (the men) loved us as girls, they did not care for us as students. … (They) were so scornful of 'women's rights' about which everybody was then talking … I very much resented this male assumption of superiority," Anderson wrote in papers that Boaden located in the special collections area of Augustana's library.
"Being Netta, she set out to do something about it and the exclusionary practices it created," Boaden writes in a recent edition of The Lutheran Journal.
"She succeeded. She crashed the all-male ranks of the college's literary society despite hazing and so opened the door to membership for future Augustana women. When she found out that tradition prohibited women from speaking in the college chapel, she promptly submitted her name as a candidate for an oratorical contest scheduled to be held in that very venue. (She was allowed to participate. In the chapel.)"
After graduation, she married K.T. Anderson, a banker she had met through church. They had three children.
With no real job market for a woman unless she wanted to teach, Anderson used her abilities in support of various organizations, including Bethany Home, the Red Cross, Royal Neighbors of America and the Rock Island Woman's Club. In 1911, she helped organize and became the first president of the Augustana Alumni Association. From 1930 to '48, she was one of the few women on the college's board of directors.
She also published an academic paper on geology and was one of the first women admitted to the reorganized Rock Island Historical Society.
One of her legacies was gathering the stories of Rock Island County's pioneer women. Anderson hosted a tea party for 15 women, all past the age of 75, who had settled in the area during the 1830s and '40s. She asked them to talk about their experiences and recorded what they said.
They spoke of leaving grandparents back in Vermont and never seeing them again, of glimpsing the Mississippi and Rock rivers for the first time, and of dealing with hostile Indians, storms and endless work. They also spoke of good times. All of the accounts are found in Anderson's unpublished manuscripts.
The Andersons lived in Rock Island until 1950 when they retired to Florida, although Netta continued to visit Rock Island. In fact, she died on campus of a heart attack in August 1960. She had returned for homecoming at the age of 87.


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Just thought I'd upload a small review since I've owned this mask for about a year now.
So, just simple stuff using a 1-10 scale, 1 being shit, 10 being awesome.
Protection: 8/10
- The 'flex' part is wide as hell, and nice and flexible. It'll catch balls flying towards your face, and it won't touch your face at all.
- The part that goes directly in front of you chin, literally is the same size as my chin. so if I put my head up a bit, I'd probably get hit in the neck/chin
Comfort: 11/10
-So much venting
-Won't fog up
-Nice soft ears
-Wide, it'll fit any face
Venting: 12/10
So much air. I can barely tell I have a mask on. Other than the fact I have bright green around my lenses.
Looks: 5/10
-"Flex" part is too wide
- You'll definitely get some funny looks at the field
- Nice range of colors
Lens Replacement/Taking apart: 3/10
- I have yet to be able to fully remove the lens off this thing.
- If you want to remove the lens for cleaning, it's impossible
- If you succesfully remove the lens, you've touched the inside so many time that it'll be ruined forever. You can barely clean this thing
Contruction: 6/10
- Nice plastic, a bit cheapish on the joints
- Joints are a pain in the ass to take of, and look like they're gonna break. Seriously.
- Nice flex material.
- Lenses are very well built, won't fog up
Overall: 7/10
Good for people who:
-Have small-wide faces
-Don't wanna change the lens on this thing. ever
-Want something comfortable and well ventilated
Bad for people who:
-Will get the lens dirty
-Want to ever change the lens
-Don't want to look like fools
Suggestions: If you want a better mask, go for an i4, or Sly Profit. I've never owned either of these masks, but their owners can swear by them, and their lens change system is gorgeous. They're made by well respected companies (when was the last time a JP product was well built, other than paint (which is half decent, but it's cheap and gets the job done!)?)
If anyone wants mine, I'm selling/trading for an i4 or Sly Profit.
I've never even gotten shot by anything, just splatter from paint on the lens, but I couldn't even open the mask to clean the lens, and I'm not gonna ruin the thermal stuff, so might as well use lens cleaner.
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i bought my gf some flexes teal top pink bottoms, and i was testing them out (i has eflexes) and i tore up my hands trying to take the lense out. OMG that sucked sooooooooo bad... go eflexes!
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The time is growing near , the talk of all the next-gen hoop-la is about, the specs, the stats, the developers burning the midnight oil to make whatever camp they sit at look awsome. However, a worry looms, as primarily a PC gamer now I don't really care about what system has what anymore, most of the good stuff (for the most part) is on PC as well, my fully upgradable tower of power that takes no sides. When things start to look aged, I drop in a new part here and there and bam i am ahead of the curve and back gaming. When the next batch of systems arrives, people will have to make hard decisions on where to spend their money. The developers will be showing off their labors and everyone will take sides and lines will be drawn, consol camps will start their usual hoop=-la .
Reading into the next-box, a 1 gig card has been chosen to run things next go around, same with teh next Playstaoin and possible the Wii, what i find funny is that 1 - gig cards are outdated, for the most part you can have one for about $69 that will run just about everything on the market. My point is that there is always a leap cycle, PCs stay ahead for a while , then the home systems, then back again. However we are at an age where the hardware changes every 6 months like clockwork. In fact Nvidia (best for Intel puters) is about to release the fabled gtx690 . . whis is a friggen computer on its own. Yes, its $1000 out of the gate, but so were alot of cards that are now collecting dust. point is that hardware has made HUGE leaps, and will continue to do so. And I think that home systems need to fess up to what they are now. A lil gaming computer. I also believe that they should be upgradable; the video card and memory to be exact.
what the home system guys will tell you is that is not where the money is because they want you to spend hundreds of dollars , and continue to choose sides, they want you to love them so much that you will buy everything they offer;meanwhile the PC is not biast and just wants a lil pick me up now and again.
The rumors of no backwards compatibility are sad. You will have to hold on to your old system to play your old games, another money making scheme in the next gen IMO.
I wish I could say I was excited about whats next, as a kid with a NINTENDO and seeing a SNES I thought there was no way they could top that, I know how it feels to see the next gen. But it feels as though this time . . there really isnt anything to be excited about . .
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So, I'm Phil , like many of you I am in my early 30's coming from the golden era of video games. Like many, my first intro to gaming was on a Commador 64 , I played a dumb football game (to which I cant remember) as my taste of things to come, then onto Atari and of course onto NINTENDO. Actually my parents would not allow me to buy a the system. They could not justify spending $200 on a box that sat me in front of another box. I grew up in the age of the GI JOE and the Ninja Turtle so although some of my friends were at home playing Tetris, I was outside watch the turtles destroy the Cobra Commander. I didn't really become a gamer until about Castlevania , I remember being dropped off at the babysitters house, while parents went and did whatever parents did in the late 80s at night. I was greeted by the sitters and was handed a slice of pizza and a NINTENDO controller, which both at times seemed like foriegn objects. Being the the sitters children were not off, off at others homes doing the same thing, I was aloud to stay in one room, drink soda, eat pizza and play video games, I felt like one of the cool kids. They only had about four games, Mario bros (the staple of course) Contra, Castlevania, and Rampage. I made it through all the games save one , Castlevania.
Before I start my rant on games, and this flash back to which your already bored of, I will say I am not a Castlevania fan boy by any means. In fact, the last one I played was Symphony of the Night, and I am okay with that.
So anyway , getting past the first few bosses and ultimately being frustrated with Medusa , I realized something, I was really into this game. I felt something, a feeling, a vibe an immersion into this world, like I actually felt involved. It was a funny thing, Mario was just a "thing" , Contra had a vibe, but not a deep one, Rampage was fun, but I had played that in the arcade before, but this game, this game had something. I felt as though I really needed to conquer this castle and defeat Drac, I felt a triumph every tower of fire ball spitting bones that was crushed. I knew then this wasn't like reading a book , that my time meant something, efforts felt rewarded , secrets were uncovered by only me, I was hooked way in.
Years later of course other games did that to me too, the most special to me will always be FFVI (our 3) . If your a square fan I dont need to tell you what we already know, Secret of Mana, Evermore, Chronotrigger, even FF IV (our 2). To me in the long list of games, these ment something to me, it was a neat feeling to have them do that. However as time went on the only other game square hit a home run with was Final Fantasy Tactics, sorry Sqaure -boys, final fantasy 7 was not fun, the story was all over the place, and the battle system was waaaay to much. I love Cloud for sure, but I honestly can say having beat that game once, I never had the urge to ever try it again.
On a side note I think square has moved away from its fans personally, Dragon Quest 7 on ps2 was great but after that its all bleak to me, I though X was terrible, and everything after that was even more so. Why am I going from a Konmai classic to a square series that has been watered down to . . whatever? Because I think at one point Square was so good at telling stories with 16 bit sprites that it was almost scary . I got chill when Kefka poured poison into the water of Doma , killing everyone except Cyan. I swelled with joy the first time Chrono met Frog. I could go on and on, but I think we lost that "feeling" .
I will say first I am a very opinionated jaded gamer, I want to go back to how it was and keep it there, story telling in games is dead, lots of it is flash and your guy can do all sorts of neat tricks to kill something, but there isn't a consequence in killing anything, any sense of remorse or "how is what I am killing going to make me feel when I am done" . If you plyed the first 2 Resident Evil's you know what I am talking about more over you'd agree those games were the best in the series period.
So anyway , i think kids these days are spoiled, they are not given many opportunities to connect with characters, the run around and shoot each other or race , score, and steal to the top. In the end, they satisfy a small thing, and are ready to consume the next. What happened to the hours of exploration in a game, the side quest for the ultimate weapon, the enrichment of the story should you choose to take it. Its all point A to B now. I remember spending days leveling my characters through side quests and the like, and being rewarded and feeling as though I did something special , it's not like that anymore. I feel bad for kids getting into gaming, and not getting hit with that bug of just completely loosing themselves in the game, the story the . . everything. Now stories last about 3 hours, are made to push the player to the end, and forcing them to complete the rest of the experience by purchasing it or going online.
I can rant all day for sure, however my point is there is no falling in love anymore, its strait to the sex of it, there is no relationship building or love involved anymore, its wham bam, thanks for the online mode . If I could say anything its that we need people from square or the old school developers to fall in love with it again, to stop treating it like a billion dollar business and do it for the love. Because although its all flashy now, feels like there isn't time to fall in love. See you in my next rant, I am going to go play my super Nintendo now . .
sitting at my puter waiting for patch 4.0 to load, reading the WoW boards , and everyone complaining things are broken , all while listening to Blink 182 . . i need a strong drink
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The other day I watched an interesting TED Talk by Kelly McGonical about the real purpose of stress that totally shatters my pre-conceieved notion of what stress is. Stress in a nutshell, is your body's way of gearing you up to meet your challenges. While it is true that sometimes bad things happen that cause us stress (divorce, death, illness, financial problems, etc.), it is NOT something to fear or avoid. Stress gives us that extra "oomph" that helps us to achieve our goals (which is probably why I procrastinate so much…I need an extra level of stress to get stuff done.) It was an awesome talk with lots of great information that's definitely worth watching and contemplating, but it was what she said toward the end that really struck a chord with me. She said that rather than running from discomfort, we should search for meaning, and whatever discomfort (stress) comes our way, we would be able to handle it because we're doing something meaningful.
That made my husband and I think about the things we've run from, and the things we've run toward, and we've found this to be true in our lives. College, marriage, kids….all those things brought (and bring) a decent amount of stress in our life, but because it's something we chose, something we are passionate about keeping in our lives, the stress (usually) works to our advantage, giving us energy and courage to do the uncomfortable things.
When my husband left his job in Oregon, it was literally because it wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth living out of Hawaii, away from family. It wasn't worth it financially, mentally, emotionally. We were enduring a lot of stress and because we realized (after we got there…of course) that we weren't particularly excited or passionate about being there, we didn't accept and manage our stress well, and decided to leave. It was actually better to be unemployed in Hawaii…
This is why it's so important to do the things that matter, because we're going to experience stress no matter what. We shouldn't spend our lives trying to get away from it, but rather in puruit of the things that give our lives meaning, and by default, we will have a more positive relationship with stress because we're doing positive things with our lives. If we're doing work we love, then our stress will sustain us, buoy us up and cause us to rise to the occasion.
Is your attitude toward stress negatively affecting you? Does re-framing it this way help?


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I have convicted a felony in 2003 in state of California, However, on 2006, i got my conviction expunged. I'm a student at Grand Canyon University, and majoring in Education. I try to get my Fingerprint Clearance card from Arizona Public Safety Department, but it takes for ever. My question is...since my conviction is already expunged, set aside... Can they use it against me? Can i still enter Education program, and obtain teaching license from state of Arizona? or any other states?


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This weekend I ran with 11 others in the Ragnar Relay from Madison, WI to Chicago.
It's the most fun I've had in ages, but I'm exhausted. As in - I was awake for 35 hours straight.
I'll be posting reports from each part of the trip/race soon, but for now I'm attempting to recover. My body feels good, but I think I could sleep for two days and I'm hungry all the time.
I'm so thankful to have had this experience. The people on my team are like family now! I'm still giggling over all the funny things that took place.


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1950 Chevrolet 3/4 ton 3600 series
I know it is difficult to find parts for the huck brakes but i am in need of the toggle arm for the left rear. the toggle arm is approx. 5/8 in.n diameter is is threaded on one end, which the threads go through the front brake shoe, has a 90 degree bend alond with subsequent bends to end with a forked end. There should be a "L" stamped near the forked end.
The purpose of this toggle arm is to force the front brake pad against the brake drum when the emergency brake is applied.
Also I am in need of a right front spindle for this truck.
1950 Chevy 3/4 ton 3600 series
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ive had pretty good luck getting older cev parts from ecklers out of fla. i found wheel cyl kits and tapered front wheel bearing for 1950 chev car. i also found emergency brake parts for 1955 chev.
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D6 Factor - April 2012
Even though employment data in the sixth district have been generally positive recently, it appears that underlying momentum is not particularly strong.
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- The D6 factor decreased by 0.21 point from January to February 2012. On a year-over-year basis, it has decreased by 0.45 point. That suggests that the fundamentals of the sixth district remain weak.


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One thing I've wondered about, is the reference to people in the US living in "trailers" (sometimes referred to as "single-wide" or "double-wide"). I'm a bit confused as to what sort of living space this provides, as "trailers" here tend to translate as caravans, and whilst you could live in them I shouldn't think it would be very convenient as a long term thing, let alone having a family in one. They're generally used for holidays. So, I suspect that "trailers" are something altogether different? Can anyone enlighten me, possibly with pictures, so I get a better idea of what they're like? Are they typically one one's own land, or (similar to caravan parks here) on rented land? Can they be easily moved?
Interesting. I kind of thought it would be the opposite of that with the Accelerator always in the most protected spot nearest the middle of the car so it wouldn't get depressed in case of an accident.
Here's something I've just noticed in another thread. The OP mentioned that they don't have a TV in their bedroom and implied that it was unusual. Well, none of the adults I know who have their own homes (rented or owned) have TVs in their bedrooms! Teenagers do, and people who live in shared accommodation such as flatmates or students do, so that they have the option of watching something different from the people they share with, or so they can spend time alone. But once an adult has their own living room (including couples) I would be surprised if they had a TV in the bedroom too. Is it standard in the US or any other countries?
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Girls at risk as Bangladesh mulls lowering age of marriage, says HRW
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of girls are at risk if the Bangladeshi government goes ahead with a proposal to lower the age of marriage to 16, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday.
The impoverished South Asian nation has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, despite a three-decade-old law which bans marriage for girls under the age of 18.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government was now considering an amendment to the Child Marriage Restraint Act, which would also lower the age of marriage of men to 18 from 21.
"Setting the age of marriage for girls in Bangladesh at 16 would be a terrible step in the wrong direction," said Liesl Gerntholtz, HRW's women's rights director. "The rate of child marriage in Bangladesh is already off the charts.
Meher Afroze Chumki, Bangladesh's junior minister for women and child affairs, said no firm decision had been made yet.
"We will discuss the proposal in detail and whatever is suitable for society, we will do that based on a consensus," Chumki told Reuters.
"There are certain countries where even 14 years is allowed to get married. To avoid any illicit relations or living together, we will consider (changing) the law."
Bangladesh has the second-highest rate of child marriage in the world, after Niger, says the United Nations children's agency, UNICEF. About 74 percent of Bangladeshi women currently aged 20 to 49 were married or in a union before 18. Continued...


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Shawn handed out a blank notebook for each student, stressing the importance of this Shooters Book. In it we kept notes on how our rifles load was performing at various distances, things we learned about wind in certain valleys at certain times of the day, etc. I have continued to use mine for tracking adjustments I make to my scopes settings as I go west for a hunt and then return to my home state of Wisconsin. Elevation and temperature changes need to be monitored.
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Much time was spent by each shooter being sure that his rifles trajectory had been validated. This meant shooting at 1,000 yards or so in good conditions in order to establish an accurate trajectory profile. For example, I determined that I needed to assume a little lower velocity in order for my Shooter ballistics program to accurately predict vertical MOA adjustments for first-round hits. I had always done that -- sort of -- but now came away with a more organized approach to the principle.
This class was the beginner/advanced combo class. Shawn had sold out his classes early in the year so fast he decided to add one more set of dates. Since it was added later in the year he ended up with just three of us this time. All were somewhat advanced in our experience so less time was spent for us on shooter technique and much more on ballistics, spotter/shooter team technique and the topic of most interest to me Doping The Wind.
I have always thought that the wind is not my friend in long range hunting and shooting. It certainly is the main limiting factor in determining the longest possible distance for a successful and ethical big game shot. What I learned at Shawns Long Range Shooting Class has taken me to one more level of ability in wind calling.
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We were roughing it with wonderful chef prepared meals utilizing a Dutch oven. Also included were wonderful from-scratch brownies, steak, pork and noon-time sandwiches. Clint Eastwood, shoot-em-up movies were watched in the evening on a 50 inch TV while sitting near the bonfire. After the meal we also had the opportunity to do a little more shooting, this time at ranges up to 2,500 yards. Bob had brought his custom designed shooting bench which enabled us to elevate the bench surface upward for these super long shots.
The 50 inch TV was also used with a high definition camera to watch in real time the bullets impact up the mountain right there in camp. The flight time of the bullets out to 2,500 yards was so long that at one point Shawn was able to pull the trigger, get off the bench and make it back behind the TV in time to see his bullet impact up on the mountain. Pretty darn cool!
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Factors contributing to design-build (DB) project delivery system implementation in road infrastructure projects in Indonesia
Parami Dewi, Anak Agung Diah, Trigunarsyah, Bambang, Too, Eric G., & Coffey, Vaughan (2012) Factors contributing to design-build (DB) project delivery system implementation in road infrastructure projects in Indonesia. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Construction in Developing Countries, Millennium Hilton, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Design-build (DB) project delivery systems have increasingly been adopted by many private and public sector organizations worldwide due to the many advantages offered on projects by such systems. However, many Indonesian road infrastructure projects are still delivered using the traditional design-bid-build (DBB) project delivery system. In order to provide evidence of the benefits of DB, it is essential to identify the factors that can contribute to successful DB implementation and this paper aims to provide evidence of such factors that can promote the successful implementation of DB project delivery systems on Indonesian road infrastructure projects. Four main factors and 28 indicators were identified from an extensive literature review, and a Delphi questionnaire survey was conducted amongst 20 experts drawn from the Indonesian road infrastructure construction sector. The first round Delphi study found that regulation, competency of clients, ability to manage DB projects and external conditions were the major factors that can promote successful DB implementation.
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Re: Confused about precision vs accuracy
Aaron Fude wrote:
> I can't figure out how the precision and accuracy concepts work in
> Mathematica.
There are all about *uncertainty*.
> C. On a related issue, how do I see Pi to a certain number of digits.
> I figured out this hack:
> 1``100 Pi
In[1]:= N[Pi, 30]
Out[1]= 3.14159265358979323846264338328
> D. And finally (for now) where can I read up on rules for "precision
> arithmetic". For example, my guess that
> Precision[1`10 + 1`100]
> ought to be 100-ish rather than 10-ish.
You must have studied some physics and/or chemistry. Do you remember the
first few classes? Some time must have been devoted to the topic of
measurements and uncertainties. Similar concepts applied here.
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After two years of operating through Wooster City Schools, the Wooster Unity Project is taking steps to go out on its own.
The group's steering committee voted Tuesday night to pursue 5013 (c) status with the Internal Revenue Service, making it a true non-profit organization in the eyes of the federal government. The large amount of paperwork that comes with the task will be handled through free legal services in the community, said superintendent David Estrop.
Once the group has its status, it can apply for federal and state grants and other private funding.
"This is the next giant step to formalizing this organization. ... It's the next step to making it independent of the school district," Estrop said.
The organization was formed as a diversity, race relations and socioeconomic initiative, with several prongs in the community. The group and the United Way sponsored a poster contest last year, and the exhibit of artwork has traveled around the community.
The group discussed using some of the images to create notecards or calendars, to further promote the group and to raise funds.
The group is working to expand The College of Wooster's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration to include community events; creating an Ethnic Festival; gathering information from young people on their perspective of the issues; organizing the city's clergy; and bringing economic empowerment initiatives to disenfranchised areas of the community.
After a year of starting and stopping, the Ethnic Festival effort is back on track. Wooster City Councilwoman Inell Keller and restaurant owner Sue Min-Lee are co-chairing the event, and said they will have a formal agenda at the October meeting. Finding a location with a kitchen certified by the county health department had sidetracked the effort, but Keller said the Wayne Center for the Arts has been selected as a site and plans are proceeding.
"We're ready to go. We don't need to worry about the weather or the health department," she said.
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Chateau la Vieille Cure (Futures Pre-sale) 2011
Bordeaux Red Blends from Fronsac, Bordeaux, France
Winemaker's Notes
This wine, a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, whose vines are more than 25 years old, has been aged in oak casks. It has succulent ripe fruits and firm tannins and may be drunk young or cellared for 10 to 15 years. It is particularly well-suited to being served with meats or grilled fish.
Critical Acclaim
Wine Spectator - "Still primal, with sappy kirsch and plum notes. There's also lots of sweet toast to be soaked up, but this has a fleshy edge that belies the vintage's profile.
Barrel Sample: 89-92 Points"
The Wine Advocate - "The 2011 (mostly Merlot) struts its stuff with a deep ruby/purple color in addition to lots of creme de cassis, mocha and floral notes. Full-bodied with a juicy, opulent personality, impressive purity, a broad, expansive texture, sweet tannin, and enough acidity for definition and vibrancy in the finish, it should drink well for 10-12+ years. The 2011 is a sleeper of the vintage. La Vieille Cure may well be the reference point for Fronsac given its performances over the last decade. Consistently one of the top two or three wines of the appellation.
Barrel Sample: 90-92 Points"
Chateau la Vieille Cure Winery
With its twenty hectares in one single plot, Chateau La Vieille Cure already appears on a famous map of the Guyenne region, known as the Belleyme map, dated 1780. The vines grow on plateaux and slopes that are lucky enough to be turned to the south west. The estate runs along the River Isle at a height of 65 metres and not only drinks up the sun, but also enjoys good drainage. This situation makes the grapes that grow here generously ripe and in perfect condition.
The property has been greatly renovated since it was bought by American friends at the end of 1986, who are great Bordeaux lovers and who recognized the exceptional potential of the estate. View all Chateau la Vieille Cure Wines
About FronsacView a map of Fronsac wineries (frahn-sak, can-nohn frahn-sak)
These two regions of the right bank are northwest of St-Émilion and Pomerol. Canon-Fronsac is located within Fronsac. The wines are quite similar, with Canon-Fronsac having a slightly different soil than Fronsac. They are another example of good-value Bordeaux, benefiting from close proximity to the river and good soils similar to their southern neighbors. In the past few decades, winemakers have made more of an investment in making high-quality wine from the Fronsac region.
Notable Facts
Like most right bank wines, the principle grapes here are Merlot and Cabernet Franc, with some Malbec and even Cabernet Sauvignon in certain pockets. The wines produced from the area are fruit-driven, yet rustic. Like a good Pomerol or St-Emilion, the wines give ripe, rich, juicy fruit, but they can also have a rustic edge that helps them to last a few years in bottle.
About France - Other regionsWhen it comes to wine, France is a classic. Classic blends, grapes and styles began in the country and they still remain. Think about it - people ask for a Burgundian style Pinot Noir, they refer to wines as Bordeaux or Rhone blends - Champagne even had to pass a law to stop international wineries from putting their region on the label of all sparkling wine.
The top regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Rhone. And these regions are so diverse! It makes sense that wine regions throughout the world try to emulate their style. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are no longer French varieties, but international varieties. They may not be the leader of cutting edge technology or value-priced wines, but there is no doubt that they are still producing wines of great quality and diversity.
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We've been doing EC part-time since DS was born...I say part-time, but it's more like full-time half-assed. =) We put him on the potty after every nap, before leaving the house, right before a meal or snack, about 20 mins after he finishes eating, and any other time we think he's cue-ing us. We rarely let him go naked, though, because he was a late crawler and scootched on his belly instead, and our rental house has old hardwood that splinters, so we didn't want him to get splinters in sensitive areas. We were doing really well for a while - by about 6 mos old we were probably 98% for poops (maybe missed 1 every few weeks) and about 50% for pees (he never really cued for pees, but will usually go when he's on the pot - he also goes in his diaper when he needs to go too, though.)
DS is 14 mos now, and it's hard not to be really frustrated. I know that with mobility comes misses, and he only started properly crawling about a month ago, and is now getting ready to walk, so he's VERY impatient with the potty. But we've regressed so horribly it's like we never did EC at all. Here are our issues:
1) He's never been great at cueing, so we've mostly used timing. He used to poop like clockwork, and now there's no consistent time, so we keep leaving him on too long when we think he might poop, and then missing it when he does. We've tried to leave him on for shorter and offer it more, and now I think that the two strategies have created negative associations - he'll be playing, and pause or do something that we think might be a cue, so we'll pop him on the pot, but he SCREAMS like he's being tortured because we're taking him away from his fun. If I ask him if he needs to go, he'll shake his head vigorously and sign Done like his life depended on it. If I can tell he really needs to go (penises make that easier LOL) I might ask him again, and he'll often pee then, but I don't want to force him or make an issue of it, so I take him off. Often, within 5 minutes, he'll poop in his diaper.
2) When we first started being consistent with EC (when he could sit up), potty time was fun time - we'd read books and sing. But as he got older, especially within the last few months, he started very purposefully procrastinating on going because he wanted to look at his books. We tried leaving him on the pot after he went and continuing to read and play with him so he wouldn't think the fun ended when he went, but then that meant sometimes we'd be on there for inordinately long times, like 20 or even 30 minutes. That just seemed way too long, and defeating the purpose since there were no cues or anything going on. So we started doing less fun stuff while he was on there. See above with now he screams bloody murder most of the time when we put him on.
3) Lastly, I don't know why he won't tell us when he needs to go. The one thing we've always been very consistent with since birth was whipping off the dirty diaper as soon as he went so that he never got used to it. As a result, he HATES being in a dirty diaper - we still get up at least once or twice a night to change him because he won't sleep through wetness. But the only cue he gives is to pause in the middle of playing or babbling while he goes - no heads-up for pee at all, maybe a little loud whining right before he poops, but he often whines when he doesn't have to poop (and then we try the pot, and then he cries...). He uses signs like No, Done, and More very well, yet he won't use any sign for potty (I don't care if he uses the one we've been using, he just doesn't tell us at all.)
I know this turned into a novel, but it's just so frustrating to have felt like we were doing so well, and now I'm scraping poop out of diapers at least once a day and trying not to show him how frustrated I am because I don't want to traumatize him or make it a big deal for him. I think I'm extra frustrated because our family has been VERY negative and skeptical about the cloth diapers, the EC, everything, and I think I bragged too much at the beginning to shut them up. Now they're very "See? I told you so" if I accidentally mention anything about a miss. Any tips or advice? We're going to try more naked time, but I hesitate to go the "offer him the potty more often" route since right now he so hates going on it at all.
I know exaclty how you feel! Right around the same age my DS (now 22 mos) stopped being a regular easy pooper, and basically had no interest in pottying at all. I was SO SICK OF PEE it was really hard not to get mad whenever it went on the floor (we usually used training pants so if there were misses, it went everywhere).
But HANG IN THERE! It passes. I got through it by a combination of backing off and trying very hard not to make it a confrontation issue, ie. respecting his communication, even if it does not lead to a catch. I wound up putting him back in the waterproof trainers we hadn't used in months so that I wouldn't be so annoyed with the puddles, and basically backed way off for several days, even a week at a time, and only offered after sleep or if he obviously signalled. For poop, I did have it a bit easier - he would try so hard not to go that it was obvious what his trouble was by the way he was tiptoeing around with his butt clenched shut! I would then remove his lower clothing and follow him around with a wide mouthed tupperware and sing funny poop songs we made up to help him relax. Occassionally, he would wind up pooping on the floor or the ground outside (outdoors always did help him relax BTW), but that is also always easier to clean up than in his underwear. (Um, unless he steps in it....). Now he is generally ammenable to pooping in a potty, though he often won't sit down until the last possible moment.
The things that help when we are actively trying for catches all have to do with trying to respect his desire for autonomy. I try not to interrupt what he is doing - I will wait for when he is standing up, gently pull down his underwear and/or pants and put a widemouthed bottle or quart yogurt container under him and let it rip. I also will just sort of off handedly strip him and point out a potty strategically placed nearby and say, 'hey, I thought I'd take your pants off in case you need to go' and let him decide if it is right now or in 5 or 10 minutes. When he is playing sitting down, I just leave him be - he never stays that way for too long.
At around 18 mos, I started to consider him potty trained, although he has regressions periodically, at which point I feel super frustrated again ('I thought we were DONE!') but I try to just relax and remember that most of the time we are.
So my basic advice is don't let it get to you - if it is, back off for a while until you feel relaxed about it again.
And as for your snarky relatives, just remember, your boy is 14 mos old! If they don't have the sense to admire cloth diapering even, they are so hopelessly un-conscious of anything other than maximum convenience that I wouldn't consider their opinions as worthy of the time of day.
I liked Ma Cactus's advice. A couple other suggestions. If your DS hates wetness, you might want to put him in sweatpants with no diaper or trainer. If he gets soaked up and down when he pees, he may be more inspired to go in the potty. Fourteen months can be a really challenging age. I found it was really important to 'change it up' very often in order to make pottying exciting. He might be inspired to go if he could try going standing up. There are some relatively inexpensive child urinals on the market. You attach them to the toilet and they hang over the side of the bowl so they are low enough for little kids to go in. You could also try getting him some big boy underwear of trainers to inspire him. You could also try some potty videos like Once Upon a Potty and some potty books, make a nice private and fun spot for pottying like in a closet, a special toy he only gets on the potty, different potties in different locations, etc. We used to just keep trying all different things and eventually one would click and his strike would be over for a while.
In regards to your frustration, just think of all the dirty diapers you did not have to change! All the poos you have not had to scrape out that you would have had too! For us, our EC'd child did not graduate earlier than our non-EC'd child, but we had zillions of less poopy diapers to clean! Plus, the communication aspects and the clear skin made it totally worth it. Just tell your family that of course a 14 month old will have accidents, but the benefit is how many less poopy diapers you have had to deal with!
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It's really hard, but your feelings get communicated really clearly and frustration makes for less success (at least it did in our house). I don't think I have any particularly insightful advice to offer other than you need to step back from it and not care as much - right now pottying is causing tension between you and your child and your child knows it.
Sorry to hear about the frustration! We also had to deal with a potty pause recently with our now 14-month-old DS. He had been doing great before he got mobile, would cue almost every time and we had lots of catches. Then he stopped cuing and started refusing the potty virtually all the time, and seemed to prefer going in his diaper. We also tried to make it really fun for him to sit on the potty, surrounded it by books, and we would sometimes get him to sit on it while we read, but then he would get up and pee in his training pants. And when he pees in a diaper or trainers he usually doesn't get it all out, so we were suddenly changing him all the time. We had also tried undies for a bit but they didn't help.
We were quite frustrated, but then started giving him more diaper-free time when he was walking around holding hands (he has started walking independently but is mostly still walking while holding hands still, and scoots on his butt instead of crawling). I think we started mostly because we really wanted to get as much pee out as possible before bedtime to help him sleep better. I'd just walk around with a container to try to catch it in and a prefold for inevitable puddles. Anyway, after a little while of this we discovered that he really prefers standing to sitting for pees, and even better if he can walk around a bit first. Once we figured that out, we just had to find a way to make it work for him and us.
It took some time to figure it out, but what works right now for pees is either walking around outside (when the weather is nice), or holding him standing on the sink counter with the water running and I hold a bottle for him to pee into (haven't worked out the whole aiming thing yet). And the other thing we discovered is that once we had a comfortable method for him for peeing, he started cuing again and rarely pees in his trainers (unless we misinterpret his cues or don't get them off quick enough or he is super distracted by something new). I do a bit of offering by timing still (waking up, after a walk or a car ride, etc.) but mostly following his cues. He even is holding it better in his sleep and waking less frequently (almost always dry through his naps and only wakes once for pee at night although he usually pees in his diaper while waking up at night). Eventually I hope we will be able to transition him to peeing in the toilet but that will require some help from DH who has been gone a lot on business travel.
Now we haven't totally worked out poops. He does not have consistent timing. He has gone back to cuing for most poops but it turns out that he wants to stand to poop. Even when I know a poop is coming, I usually cannot get him to sit down or even squat, so it just gets messy. Hopefully we will eventually figure that out too. I have tried a couple of types of potties as well as a seat on the big potty. Interestingly I can now get him to sit happily on the potty more often but usually those times he just has gas, not a poop.
Anyway, I was about to completely give up but then it turned around.and we are doing really well. I hope things get better for you soon too.
Thanks so much for all your supportive responses! All the blogs and books make it sound so effortless once you get the hang of it that I thought we must have made some major mistake along the way - I'm so glad we're not alone! Even just since writing the post, we've started keeping potty trips much shorter, and he's already gotten happier about it. He signs Done very clearly, so when he says Done we take him off, even if I can tell he needs to go. As a result, he's started cuing us backwards, sort of, because if I ask Done? and he doesn't sign back, I know he has to go - and more importantly, so does he! We're missing constantly because he keeps saying Done just because he's bored, but he feels listened to, which really is the point at this stage anyway.
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