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|7th October 2009, 07:04 PM
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No problem dear Ostry.... we use, down here, in brazil to enlarge specifications
It is possible that monster burns...you just point something possible...and you got the Brazilian spirit man.
Here..everything is enlarged...specifications here are peak, IHF, instantaneous, not continuous and those things..for sure they are this way....eheheheheh
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|7th October 2009, 10:35 PM
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This circuit will be tested tomorrow.... the supply voltage is more realistic
as my supply will drop to 82 volts under load.
I am using the Dx Standard schematic, to use the same board..this will turn more simple to builders..no special board.
Power now will drop to 340 watts into 8 ohms, and this is more reasonable to use 4 transistors...this will be more safe.... if people want more power, then include the fourth power transistor and connect 4 ohms speakers.
The input filter is in place...passive filter.... -3dB at 400 hertz..no losses into 5 hertz.
Sensitivity was adjusted and condensers are also more realistic, to save some money, and to reduce condensers size.
This gonna be tested tomorrow...wish me luck.
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|8th October 2009, 12:08 AM
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That looks interesting Carlos - I will certainly follow this tread closely.
Given the design parameters you described, it seems you are on the verge of creating the DXzilla - a monster that will smoke lots of Brazilian drivers.
This will certainly resonate with the "powerholics" as you call them.
I have never seen that driver you showed on the first posts - I remember Novik, Bravox and Selenium (the last two are still in business).
Please keep in mind that most drivers (I am aware of) available in Brazil are very inefficient just like most drivers intended for the MI guys (cheap and inefficient by design).
As for the components your friends sent me (to deliver to you)... I hope I can manage time to spend a couple of peaceful weeks in Brazil in the very near future.
That will be after a coordination meeting in Korea (for a project in Libya of all places) towards the end of this month.
Be well and get on with it!
"All measurements are wrong! Thus, measurement is the art of handling errors."
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|8th October 2009, 06:58 AM
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Yep... they like power, and i like to see them building and listening amplifiers...
and when build mine ones i feel even more happy..that feeling we have about "contributing to mankind"....doing something better than earn money only... feeding my big belly with food that we buy with money.... i am trying to feed my spirit, to become a better person.
They are very uneficient, yes, you have agreement Duda...not good alike US and UK drivers...ours is hard to move, have small compliance, heavy coils..and all that stuff is bad for our ears, results bad..... they make the driver tolerate power just turning them hard to move, and thick wire to the coils.... alike to make a car resistant, bullet proof, with thick armour, and then the car does not move, not power enougth to be fast and acelerate... this is the way they are building speakers, alike armoured vehicles...and they are doing this way because market is asking for that kind of stuff, to install in automobiles and with kilowatt amplifier (class D), they go pumping bass around.
The idea Duda, as i told you before, some monthes ago, and you agreed, is that we will have easy balance of bass, mids and treble...this will allow us to have better sound when we have not anecoic room and nor special microphones, also no spectrum analiser to check and equalize our speakers considering our rooms... this way, three knobs may do the job, and, building those amplifier with the same proportion of tones we have in normal music, we can set them same position to have a reference of what may be (more or less) the flat reproduction (not considering room acoustics and speakers..electricaly flat beeing considered the proportion, the ratio of tones that use to be 60 percent for basses, 30 percent for mids and 10 percent for treble).
Another advantage is that sending more simple waveform to the amplifier, or less complex waveform, the audio became better..speakers does not to have to follow complex movements, sometimes receiving "order" from the power amplifier to move forward to the bass while moving backwards for the treble tone.... not having too many frequencies to beat one each other, we will have better performance related harmonics and harmonic distortion.... we know, that simple orchestrations, not dense, not filled with several instruments and several singers same time, sounds much better to amplifiers...or they reproduce better...this is the point.
Other advantage that makes sound better is that you gonna be rid of passive crossover to the speakers, the filters, the ones we call in Brasil as "frequency dividers"...those inductors, resistances and capacitors that turns amplifier unstable...those things are not more used.
I love the passive filter, they are less precise and distorts more than active, but cheap and easy to make...for the future i will make them active too.... this way, to the amplifiers goes the frequency they are expecting to receive into their input... amplifier goes filtered to high frequency into the input, output and feedback line, avoiding high frequencies if they are not made to reproduce highs...this turns the unit safe.... against oscilations.... a slowered down amplifier..not needing to be fast as will reproduce only 1 to 300 hertz or a little bit more than that (bass unit).
I have found, building things in my home..that we have a lot of interaction into the supplies... each channel must have independent supplies, as noises and fluctuations of voltage goes messing the sound...so, this turns a little bit complex as supplies must be many...to a stereo TriAmp you gonna need 6 power transformers.... and i found that transformers with double output is no good too..the winding interact and core saturations are a problem too..so...there's a chance to folks to use all that junk of transformers they have...put them to work folks!... also use that buch of condensers you have collected througth the years, as those ones are doing anything , just laying down and scratching one against the others inside your junk box.
I am listening huge advantage into the quality..audio quality became better while using my BiAmp... and i hope the TriAmp will sound even better...i will be rid of some passive filters i am using into the output (mids and highs filter) and will be rid of power supply interations.
I am excited with that, and found that solution listening neighboor that have Panasonic BiAmp systems..they play more clear than others... even having worse circuit than some Sony, worse power amplifier chips and more dense circuit (more stages, a lot of buffers and electronic switches) they are playing even better sound... i have a lot of neighboors with many brands around...and the Panasonic plays better sound..... i think the BiAmp they use (subwoofer speaker, and double power amplifier..one for treble and other for basses).
So... alike the powder without smoke..... not a discovery, just to be attention about what is going on around my home.... the clever folks already have pointed the solution for us..we have just to follow them and do something about.
Sorry, Brazil only to be sold... top secret ultimate schematic, not to share...encapsulated VAS:
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|8th October 2009, 07:26 AM
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Thank you, Greg Erskine (Gerskine at our forum) by your kind cooperation
Board was made by Greg.
I have installed the output transistors bellow the board, attached to the heatsink and connected to the board using 2 inches long wires... non parallel wires.
Sorry, Brazil only to be sold... top secret ultimate schematic, not to share...encapsulated VAS:
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|8th October 2009, 02:40 PM
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Simulator and real life is really different
The amplifier gave me a bad time.... i had to tweak a lot to make it work, a lot of changes were made..then i felt it ugly, too much hot (small Heatsink) and i decide to make another one to use 62 plus 62 (non loaded voltage).
Tomorrow i will listen this one..the other was not fine...supply droping a lot...no good supply, also i had not condensers enougth and this resulted that supply was not filtered in a decent way...well....no way to do that one with this transformer and without big condensers to 100 volts....for a while, lets go with lower power.
Sorry, Brazil only to be sold... top secret ultimate schematic, not to share...encapsulated VAS:
|8th October 2009, 04:40 PM
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|8th October 2009, 05:09 PM
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Based on my experience with speaker manufacturers in Brazil for the last 20+ years, I have a hard time to believe the published specs.
"All measurements are wrong! Thus, measurement is the art of handling errors."
|8th October 2009, 05:46 PM
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I didn't say I believed them. I just posted the link.
|8th October 2009, 05:58 PM
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Some of the junk they put in "white van DJ speakers" can be really low efficiency - 88dB or even less and can have Qts over 1.0. Most of them are made in China. They also can be had for $20 for a 15" (so if you blow it it's no big loss). The ones Carlos is using aren't that bad - they're something like an Eminence Beta 15 or a bit up from that.
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September 24th, 2012 11:13 PM #6
Definitely Azalea! I think Felix and Azalea make a great pair, and Azalea just feels so fresh and memorable to me. To me, Veronica doesn't feel timeless at all, it feels very dated to the 80s/90s... Although I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just that that's when it was most popular. But I knew a Veronica that completely destroyed the name for me, and I just can't appreciate it at all, sorry. I vastly prefer Vera and Verity.Ashley | namenerd | Christian | storyteller
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I'm afraid I must agree with Eos that Veronica sounds like a mean girl name. Plus there's that Hannukah song, which isn't bad- actually kind of fun.
Azalea has a nice sound. The Z in Azalea stands up to the X in Felix. Azaleas are rather humble plants, not my favorite, but maybe you have a special connection to the flower? Veronica on the other hand, is a wonderful genus. Bright blue, attracts butterflies. Also called Speedwell.
What about Zinnia? A great flower and a great sound, would go well with Felix.
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Girl names are just so hard for me! I grew up with a girl called Oni, and she was a pretty cool character, which is why I love the nickname. One minute I am in love with Veronica/Oni and the next I'm in love with Azalea. I have also been thinking of using them both... Veronica Azalea. If Felix was a girl we were thinking Bianca... My true love is Olivia, always has been. But it's just too popular! I want to love a name like I love Olivia.
Zinnia is pretty, but I feel like I would like it on someone else's baby. I just think it might be too much for me.
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One of the ways to identify whether a people group is oppressed is to note how seamlessly a rhetoric has been swallowed and then regurgitated. The global pregnant population has thoughtlessly vomited phrases like, "he wouldn't let me," and "I wasn't allowed," in relation to decisions about their bodies for so long that when we hear about intrusive things like mandatory drug screening done without knowledge or consent, we begin to qualify it as "necessary" or make feeble attempts to separate ourselves from the ones it directly affects.
Drug screening sometimes happens at prenatal visits and sometimes happens during routine blood draws following the birth. Most often, low-income patients and those on state funded assistance are targeted. Sometimes patients are informed about the testing; most often they are not.
"I was surprised after the birth of my daughter when the nurse came in with an adhesive bag to place over her vaginal area in order to collect urine for a drug test. I had never heard about this test, and asked if it was common practice. She replied that my midwife had specifically ordered the test for me. I tried to refuse and the nurse and a hospital social worker came in to inform me that if I refused, social services would be contacted and my daughter would not be released with me from the hospital. I relented, they collected the sample, performed the test, and of course, it was negative. I'm a birth doula now, and have been for over a decade. I often think on this experience, and wonder why exactly my midwife had done that to me. I think it was likely prejudice- I was a young, single, tattooed and pierced mother who was receiving DSHS (medicaid). Her assumption was that I was a drug addict because of my appearance, relationship, and socio-economic status. Im still mad about it." – M., USA
"I was drug screened at my hospital birth, and wasn't informed until it came back with a false positive. I was lucky that a nurse on staff new that a medicine I was prescribed for acute heartburn caused false positives for methamphetamine. The doctor who prescribed it nor the pharmacist who filled it nor the leaflet that came with it warned it would have that effect on a drug test. I was mortified. They made my husband leave me while in the early stages of labor to assess that I wasn't on drugs or suffering abuse…It was scary and traumatic." – C., USA
"The hospital where I birthed did a drug screen without my knowledge or consent. After coming back positive for THC, my baby was withheld from me in the hospitals nursery until someone from DCFS was able to asses me as fit to care fore my child. This took 2 whole days! It ruined my chances of breast feeding since I could only see my baby girl with hospital supervision and cast a horrible shadow on my entire birthing experience." – D., USA
Drug screening in pregnancy is one example of the way in which pregnant people are teated as mere baby pumping, product-dispensers under a system of quality control. A patient's agency in this process is deemed irrelevant, as their individuality, and their authority over their body are held in contempt of their baby. The supposition is that babies must be protected from their mothers and in doing so we have reduced half of humanity to being premeditative criminals who would, if given the chance, ignorantly or intentionally harm the fetus growing under their own hearts.
How We Justify
The rationale for justification I've heard usually goes something like this:
"It's sad that it's come to this, but, you know, some women just don't even care about their babies. So, it's up to us to protect them. I don't like the idea of being tested, but I don't really care, I've got nothing to hide."
And then to that, I've heard the response about how we all "should" care because what if her test came back with a "false positive" – like in the story, above? It's a legitimate concern, but it certainly doesn't capture the enormity of the situation. And in fact, I think that reasoning represents a much more sinister problem.
This isn't about protecting only the "good" portion of the population. This isn't about "us" vs. "them" in some kind of perverted extension of the War on Drugs. This about all patients and the way that pregnant people are deemed to owe their bodies and their very lives to society as a whole. Where women are people, but the lowest forms of people; where a pre-formed human contained within her fleshy walls, under her pumping heart, fed by her own blood, may be deemed in competition with and superior to the one holding its very potential.
These "for the good of the baby" assertions reveal an age-old social construct that places women under the squeaky white shoe of her superiors.
These philosophical positions that suggest we protect unborn babies from their mothers also reveals an even broader and pervasive perversion that is as old as civilization, itself – the division of humans by class; the "us" vs. "them" mentality that we cling to for survival. The one that holds one person as better, more valuable, more intelligent; and the other as bad, ignorant and discardable. The one that offers us a sense of protection; that if we can just establish enough difference, enough separation, that we will be free of the potential oppression.
"Well, I don't care, I don't take drugs, so go ahead and test me," misses the point, entirely, because it is singularly, narrow-mindedly, selfishly focused. It presumes that all other women who drug test positive are "bad;" that they are deserving of the repercussions. It makes a broad sweep to brush all women into one of two corners:
"Good Women Who Don't Do Drugs"
"Bad Women Who Do Drugs and Hate Their Babies"
To hold this position we must really wrestle with the idea that there is actually a significant portion in any given population that truly don't care about the outcomes of their pregnancies or their developing fetuses. It assumes the formula:
X Behavior + Pregnancy = Criminal
It is a reality that drug dependent babies are born to people every day. It is a sad reality that should not nor need not be dismissed as we discuss this issue. But holding that reality as justification for an end result of healthier outcomes is illogical.
Blanket policing of pregnant people and enforcing punitive measures does not improve health outcomes for patients or their babies. In fact, the fear of criminalization and of losing one's child actually results in fewer people seeking prenatal care and often needless separation of babies and parents.
In order to throw all positive drug-tested women and babies into two corners, we need to acknowledge that one will be heaped with:
The occasional pot smoker
The woman with a legal THC prescription
The woman with prescribed pain medication from her doctor
The woman with an Oxycotin addiction, making painful attempts to abstain
The heroin addict, too deep into addiction to think straight
The woman who ate or ingested something that resulted in a false-positive result
Aside from the reality that the piles are not one-dimensional, is the realization that nearly all of the above folks give a lot more than two shits about their kiddos. It's a lot easier for our brains to make neat piles of "those who care" and "those who don't" – to fold them by color and size like stacks of t-shirts at the Gap. It makes things easier to understand; it keeps our belief systems – about ourselves, and humanity and right and wrong – orderly and easy.
But like most issues, it's way more complex than that. Because rather than there being two even stacks of "the ones who care" and "the ones who don't," is a huge heap of unfolded shirts in various sizes, colors and levels of distress. But they all sit on the same table. And are you ready for this?
They all care.
The one that's pressed and neat and folded perfectly at the seams doesn't care more than the one with wrinkles and stains and holes in the sleeves. She just has more support; she has access to resources. The spills, the wear and tear, the wrinkles do not necessarily denote self-loathing or malicious intent. What it does reveal is struggle, lack of access to certain forms of support, probably inadequate income, and potentially illness and addiction.
Sometimes it can be easier to identify ourselves by what we are not, rather than what we are. This lack of depth, this unwillingness to share the struggle, this denial of oppressive realities; the way we turn our backs on others and mutter to ourselves about their stupidity; the way we motivate ourselves to survive through division, through elevation and superiority are visceral reminders of our own attempts to survive.
It matters that people are being jailed for poor pregnancy outcomes.
It matters that people are having tests performed in secret in order to incriminate them.
It matters that babies are being pried from their parent's arms as another deems their worthiness to parent.
It matters not just to those specifically affected; it matters to us all. It matters because it represents a foundational choke-hold on pregnant people.
It's time to stop caring selectively about pregnancy and birth-related issues. The protection of homebirth or a woman's desire to use her vagina to birth is no more sacred than another's right to privacy or informed consent or right to refuse within the containment walls of the labor room. These issues all matter, not just because of their interconnectedness or ability to bleed into one another, but because they all affect pregnant people.
Let's stop caring about the issues we face, as individuals, and start caring about the issues that WE face, collectively.


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Stratford Branch Library is hosting an after library hours movie night this Thursday, March 13th at 6 pm projected on our movie screen. We will be showing an Oscar winning film based on a popular memoir. Refreshments will be provided. This film contains mature themes and content and may not be suitable for children. Stop on by the desk for more information or call us at 281-426-3521. See you there!
And the winner is...Ashley Ardoin! Ashely is a long time patron of Stratford and a fan of all types of romance novels. Her "date," Paullina Simon's The Bronze Horseman, received high ratings on her Rate-a-Date card.
The Stratford Book Club is featuring the book If You Ask Me: (and of course you won't) by Betty White on March 12 at 10:00 am. If You Ask Me mixes seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven-decade career in Hollywood, with a focus on the
Stratford Library is getting into the dating business - blind dating! For the month of February we'll be hosting Blind Date With a Book. We've gift wrapped several love stories and romances and have hidden all the information about the book except for the category. We invite you to check out one of these books, take your "date" home, unwrap it, and settle in for a romantic read. Perhaps you'll discover a new author or genre that you like! Return the book with a Rate-a-Date bookmark filled out and be entered into a drawing for a date for two at Baytown's Premiere Cinema.
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This is a great program for teens (and adults who are still colorful at heart) to create works of art out of a canvas, crayons, and a hair dryer. You don't need to bring anything but your imagination! The program is on Thursday, December 19th at 4:30 pm. Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. For more information please stop by the information desk or call 281-426-3521. You can also check out a calendar of all library events here.
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/31/2010
Publication Date: 9/30/2010
Citation: Carillo, Y., Pendall, E., Dijkstra, F.A., Morgan, J.A., Newcomb, J.M. 2010. Carbon Input Control Over Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in a Temperate Grassland Exposed to Elevated CO2 and Warming. Biogeosciences. 7:1575-1602. Interpretive Summary: The global atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature are increasing due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Both climate change factors can have large impacts on C storage in rangelands. Most of the C in rangelands resides in soil, and even small changes in soil C storage could lead to a marked change in the atmospheric CO2 concentration. Yet, there is a high uncertainty how combined effects of climate warming and atmospheric CO2 increase will affect C storage in soils. Here we studied the effect of elevated CO2 concentration (from 390 to 600 ppm) and warming (1.5/3° C above ambient temperature during the day/night) in a semi-arid grassland in Wyoming. Soils were taken after 2 and 3 years of elevated CO2 and after 1 and 2 years of warming. Labile C pools (with fast turnover) and decomposition rates of resistant C pools (with slow turnover) were determined in laboratory incubations. Labile C increased with elevated CO2, but only during the first year of warming, indicating that the warming effect on labile C was transient. No effects of elevated CO2 and warming on resistant C decomposition rates were observed. However, a positive relationship was found between the rate of decomposition of the resistant C and plant biomass suggesting that loss of resistant soil C through decomposition (the largest C pool fraction in the soil) can be enhanced with greater plant inputs. Thus, these results show that increased plant C inputs into the soil, caused by elevated CO2 and warming, do not necessarily result in increased soil C storage. Results from this study will help to predict long-term soil C storage with computer simulation models.
Technical Abstract: Elevated CO2 generally increases soil C pools. However, greater available C concentrations can potentially stimulate soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition. The effects of climate warming on C storage can also be positive or negative. There is a high degree of uncertainty on the combined effects of climate warming and atmospheric CO2 increase on SOM dynamics and its potential feedbacks to climate change. Semi-arid systems are predicted to show strong ecosystem responses to both factors. Global change factors can have contrasting effects for different SOM pools, thus, to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of multiple factors on soil C storage, effects on individual C pools and their kinetics should be evaluated. We assessed SOM dynamics by conducting long-term laboratory incubations of soils from PHACE (Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment), an elevated CO2 and warming field experiment in semi-arid, native northern mixed grass prairie, Wyoming, USA. We measured total C mineralization and estimated the size of the labile pool and the decomposition rates of the labile and resistant SOM pools. To examine the role of plant inputs on SOM dynamics we measured aboveground biomass, root biomass, and soil dissolved organic C (DOC). Greater aboveground productivity under elevated CO2 translated into enlarged pools of readily available C (measured as total mineralized C, labile C pool and DOC). The effects of warming on the labile C only occurred in the first year of warming suggesting a transient effect of the microbial response to increased temperature. Experimental climate change affected the intrinsic decomposability of both the labile and resistant C pools. Positive relationships of the rate of decomposition of the resistant C with aboveground and belowground biomass and dissolved organic C suggested that plant inputs mediated the response by enhancing the degradability of the resistant C. Our results contribute to a growing body of literature suggesting that priming is a ubiquitous phenomenon that should be included in C cycle models.


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I agree, although after sending the picture of my current Y to Burns, he said it's pretty close to how they do it. I sent him a better pic to review.
It's on my list, I just need to get some cash together. Another $230 plus welding wasn't in my budget for this, yet.
Also working on getting some parts together for another small project, plus buying a head, and still trying to save up for the ATI damper. Ugh...
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The problem is the Y pipe, period. There is no loss in power going to larger and larger pipe after the merfer. The merger must expand too fast, causing the exhaust gases to cool and slow down, which is why there is a loss of low end power. I've pointed this out before.
The Single 3" pipe has just a bit more surface area than dual 2" pipes, and when the merger is designed correctly, there should be no loss in power. Period.
From Bimmerworlds graph, I don't see a loss in power, but I do see a dyno run that was started later than the inital baseline, which causes a huge dip at the begining as the engine revs under load.
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The payoff had been $220 million, and Judge Steven Rhodes ordered the city to negotiate a better deal. He must approve the settlement that's opposed by pension systems.
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If you spend some time every day making faces with your baby, he'll not only love all the attention but he'll learn how to make faces back at you, which he'll also enjoy. Babies love visitors so invite friends and family over so they can get in on the action too.
Don't be upset or anxious if separation anxiety hitsSeparation anxiety is very normal part of your baby's development and will usually disappear by 18 months. If you need your baby to be OK about you leaving him (you're returning to work, or expecting another baby) try introducing a gentle desensitisation process by letting him get comfortable in your arms while another person is in the room. Ask the friend to play with him while he sits in you lap, and once he's comfortable with that, try transferring him into the lap of the friend but stay close. If this is successful, trying leaving the room for a few moments. If your child cries, take him back and try again later.
Toddlers learn social skills by playing with friends
Yes, toddlers are notoriously tricky when it comes to sharing and turn-taking but they'll never learn those vital skills unless they get to practise them. Invite a friend over to play, but make sure you have enough toys for everyone to play with so you can (hopefully) avoid sharing issues!
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Shaquille O'Neal, early in the first quarter of an exhibition game in October, 1997, faked a move, changed direction and drove to the hoop.
A surge of pain shot through his abs. He had strained his lower abdominal muscles, a microscopic tear of the muscle fibres.
It was a recurring problem for the 25-year-old centre, then in his second year with the Los Angeles Lakers, and, at the time, Shaq remembers, it felt like his abs were "ripped in half, hanging together by one little thread."
Lakers medical staff didn't know what to do. They prescribed drugs and rest. A year-long recovery and surgery loomed. "One wrong move," Mr. O'Neal says, "and I'd have been out my whole career."
The Lakers staff searched for options and came across a Canadian who had successfully treated a similar injury. "This guy in Canada," Shaq was told, "he can fix you."
"It was like a solar eclipse," laughs Alex McKechnie, the "guy in Canada," as he recalls that January, 1998, day when Mr. O'Neal – all 7 feet, 1 inch, and 325 pounds of him – arrived at his office door in the Vancouver suburbs. The Glasgow native had moved to the West Coast in 1974 and established himself as a go-to physiotherapist for many of Canada's top athletes.
In the mid-nineties, Mr. McKechnie began to hatch new techniques for his practice. He believed the answer to the abdominal-injury riddle lay in the core muscles, and he started to develop products and workout systems that targeted those muscles.
His first invention was called the Core Board. Similar to a wobble board, the Core Board presented an unsteady perch on which to stand, requiring a person to co-ordinate and use many different muscles to maintain balance.
The second was a system of rubber Thera-Bands, later named Core X. With this apparatus, Mr. McKechnie would use one band to tie patients' right wrists to their left knees and another band to tie their left wrists to their right legs, with the two bands connected by a central ball. Once the injured athletes were all bound up, he'd get them to perform basic sporting moves, such as strides and pivots.
Working with Mr. McKechnie, Shaq would at one moment be tied up like a marionette, and then he'd perch his huge frame on the makeshift wobble board. It felt, Mr. O'Neal remembers, a bit "silly." But he was determined to skirt surgery and kept at it. It worked – he was back on the court several weeks later.
Over the next two years, Shaq spent his summers in Vancouver, training with Mr. McKechnie. By the autumn of 1999, he arrived for work with the Lakers more formidable than ever. He played almost every game and scored a career-best, league-leading 30 points a game, topped by a scorching night when he slammed in 61 points on his 28th birthday.
He won his only regular-season MVP trophy and seized the biggest prize of all, leading the Lakers to the title – the first of three consecutive championships.
"He's the resurrector," Mr. O'Neal said of Mr. McKechnie in 2003. "He brought me back. I was dead, and he brought me back."
With the Shaq seal of approval, other celebrity clients followed. The Lakers hired Mr. McKechnie full-time, and people around the physiotherapist began to envision the mass-market potential for his products and methods.
He had a fistful of aces: famous clients, a percolating fitness zeitgeist and his own credentials as a respected physiotherapist. Yet he has struggled in the guise of sporting goods entrepreneur. The Core Board, launched commercially in late 2000, disappeared after just five years on the market. The Core X System, which debuted in 2009, hasn't fared much better. To Mr. O'Neal, Mr. McKechnie is the resurrector, but whether the wily white-haired Scot – dubbed the silver fox by the Lakers – can work similar miracles on his own business is to be seen.
"The core" is technically known as the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex, more than two dozen pairs of interconnected muscles that work to stabilize the spine, pelvis and hips. It is the central force that provides the foundational strength for upper and lower body movement.
The idea for the Core Board was born in the mid-nineties, when Mr. McKechnie was walking his dog. Passing a playground, he was inspired by a child bouncing on a spring-mounted horse, seeing exercise potential in the recoil and torque of the spring.
"Some of the simplest things are out there and stare us right in the face," Mr. McKechnie says. "Like a Post-it note. How simple is it? It's functional. In my rehab program, there was a need: 'How can I do that?' It was working back from that, really. It's not like I sat and said, 'I need to go invent something.' "
In 1999, as Mr. McKechnie was settling into life in Los Angeles, he made a local connection that led to a deal with Reebok, the shoe company, for the Core Board. Reebok hoped to recreate its success from the 1980s, when an aerobics instructor named Gin Miller came up with an exercise program that involved stepping on and off her porch step – an idea that Reebok turned into a sales phenomenon worth an estimated $750-million.
The Core Board enjoyed a brief spell as a hot item, with one published report indicating that 20,000 units were sold, at $249 each, in the first year – a fast $5-million haul. Looking back, Mr. McKechnie feels Reebok made mistakes marketing Core Board. By 2005, with the licensing deal set to expire, Reebok was bought by Adidas-Salomon AG, and the Core Board disappeared.
The Reebok experience left Mr. McKechnie feeling burned by big business, and he left it behind to focus on his physiotherapy practice. But not long after, Mr. McKechnie met Jeff Cowan, a businessman who had dealt in medical supplies and was running a printing and embroidery business. The two men struck a bond, and Core X System LLC was started in 2009, a company majority-owned by Mr. Cowan and an unnamed partner, with Mr. McKechnie and two others as minority owners.
The basic product cost $69.95 and included the bands that connect the arms and legs, as well as instructional DVDs and the like. An "elite" version went for $129.95.
What's kept the company afloat so far has been the patronage of professional sporting teams. Core X says it has made sales to two dozen NBA teams, a dozen in the NHL, another dozen or so in football, as well as Premier League soccer teams such as Manchester City, and college sports programs.
"We never had to market to teams," Mr. Cowan says. "It was word of mouth, the best marketing. It was Alex's name."
But reaching a broader audience, the real goal, has proved a much bigger challenge. Mr. Cowan at first plowed money into infomercials. The pitch for Core X: "Used by top athletes to strengthen and beautify the bodies of everyday people." The results were underwhelming.
"I think we probably sold a thousand units," Mr. Cowan concedes. "People are looking for the magic pill. Our system works, it's backed by science, but if you leave it in the closet, it won't move itself."
Core X took in roughly $100,000 in those early months in 2009. Mr. Cowan, bowed by the failed infomercials and running out of cash, then turned to the Internet. He attempted to sell Core X through the company's own website, advertised the product through Google, and secured deals with online retailers such as Costco.com.
Sales did pick up, but to this day they remain slow: Core X had projected sales of 5,000 units for 2011, up from about 3,000 in 2010.
It is a break-even proposition at best. As of September, 2012, sales were moribund, and the product was no longer available through Costco. The Core X website had been revamped, as planned. The new pitch: "Fun! Fast! Easy!"
The question of how a star physiotherapist with a slew of celebrity endorsements has failed to translate all that into a profitable business is a thorny one.
One problem for Core X is positioning. The product looks complicated, seemingly for use by pros only. "It doesn't look like it's fun to do," admits Mr. Cowan, "and that's what sells right now." But more fundamentally, according to several consultants, Core X lacked a clear focus when it went to market – and it has failed to spark an emotional flare.
The trick is to turn something that may in fact be a need into a want, says Graham Robertson, who spent more than a decade marketing products for Pfizer Inc. and then Johnson & Johnson.
"A lot of the Core X messaging is rational," says Mr. Robertson, who works now at Level5 Strategic Brand Advisors in Toronto. "When people have back issues, muscle issues, it's highly emotional – the emotional component is the big missing element [in Core X's marketing]. Every brand has that magic point. The magic is where it gets emotional, where the product becomes a brand."
The challenges facing Mr. Cowan and company are daunting. Even a big specialty player such as Nautilus Inc., with its well-known Bowflex brand, has seen its stock collapse 90 per cent in the past five years as sales plunged by two-thirds. The fitness market is tough. Still, Core X's salesman-in-chief remains confident of ultimate success.
"Core X is on the cusp," Mr. Cowan says. "This could blow up to be huge."
It could also fade into obscurity, like so many faddish products before it. As for Mr. McKechnie, he says he does not stay awake at night devising ways to sell Core X, despite his stake in the company.
Last year, he joined the Toronto Raptors. The role of director of sports science is the most expansive of his career. Bryan Colangelo, the team president, calls Mr. McKechnie a "guru."
Business is more complicated. Mr. McKechnie is not a businessman. He is a healer.
"Day to day, I don't run it," Mr. McKechnie says of Core X. "Obviously, Core X is used in my life, every single day. For the most part, I'm promoting it constantly.
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Your success is important to us at Empire College. Read more about successful students who attended Empire College.
Angela Zevon
Assistant Accountant
Manly Auto Center
Program: Specialized Associate Degree – Accounting (May 2011 Graduate)
Date of Hire: December 2011
High School: Casa Grande High School
Read more about Angela
My previous background was in quality assurance in the manufacturing field. I became a manager with a manufacturing company in Santa Rosa and opted for a voluntary lay-off. Then I decided to go into the child care field and did in-home care for four years. I loved what I was doing but learned that I needed separation between home and work.
Following that, I went through a medical crisis in my life. Once I was healthy and able to drive, I decided to go back to school. I knew that I needed to acquire more skills to be able to compete in the work force. I always liked structure, numbers and forms and, with the background I had, there was a lot of accounting tasks that I had done. I am a very goal-oriented person and needed to be challenged in my job. My sister had attended Empire College, graduated, and has been in her job for seven years.
I think my outgoing personality and willingness to learn were a plus in getting this job. I do bookkeeping – post car deals and do the daily deposits (we deal with a lot of different banks). It's different than what I learned at Empire College because we are using ADP's accounting system. However, since I had learned Peachtree and Great Plains, the transition wasn't so intimidating.
My advice to students is to make sure you call everyone back when you have your resumes out there. Even if it is a position you don't think you want, you do not know where it might lead. Have an open mind. I love what I am doing. I am not just doing one thing all day; there is variety. Everyone I work with is great, and my bosses are good teachers.
All of my teachers at Empire College were wonderful and very helpful. I enjoyed them all. Carol was a wonderful teacher and she made learning fun.
Barbara Abbay
Medical Assistant
Gordon Medical Associates
Program: Clinical Medical Assistant (February 2011 Graduate)
Date of Hire: October 2011
High School: Piner High School
Read more about Barbara
I had attended Empire College and earned my associate degree in the 80s. I got a job right away, then started having babies. After that I worked as a server for five years, but did not want to continue working nights and weekends. Since I was a child I have wanted to be in the medical field. Retraining for a career in health care was the best thing I have ever done. I got the best job in the world; I love it!
I was originally hired here to set up medical records. I started at that in the hopes of getting an "in" to become a medical assistant. Right now, I am cross training at the front desk and in the lab. I do spirometry, blood draws, nebulizer, and various treatments. Gordon Medical is an innovative health clinic, providing traditional and holistic medicine. I love my job and working with the doctors and nurses here, as well as the other Empire grads (there are three others). I am grateful every day to be here!
What classes were helpful in my present job? My aha moment was when I was looking in the medical charts and understood what was there! I recognize this language and the abbreviations. Every day I hear something I learned at Empire College. Recently I have been helping with blood draws and have found that, even if you have not done a blood draw in a while, it is like riding a bicycle.
It took me a while to get a job, so my advice to students is to be patient but be very on the ball. Apply for every job you can. Everyone is impressed with your employment portfolio. Employers would tell me they had already interviewed five people but had never seen a portfolio like mine with grades, certificates, etc. showcased. It really works! Most every interview I had I got a second interview. Don't get discouraged. The job that is meant for you will come to you. I know that 100% right now.
Betsabe Aparicio
Family Resource Assistant
Social Advocates for Youth, YWCA, Becoming Independent
Program: Legal Office Administration (June 2011 Graduate)
Date of Hire: January 2012
High School: Lewis Adult School
Read more about Betsabe
I never thought I would be doing this when I was in class. I thought I would be in an attorney's office. That is where I saw myself. Through an encounter someone else had with family law issues, I became aware of this need.
I have a client list of seven that I meet with on a weekly basis to determine what is going on in their lives, what barriers they have, and what has not worked in the past. I receive information from their social workers of any domestic violence or other issues. We discuss resources that are available in the community for them. Sometimes clients think they have wasted their time if they have utilized those resources in the past. I work with them for about eight weeks; visits can be here or at their home. If they do not have a home, then we meet at the Living Room or a park, etc.
A lot of local services are intertwined. Our clients are referred to us by the California Parenting Institute and CPS. In addition to SAY, I work for Becoming Independent and YWCA (a total of 55 hours per week). I have one Spanish speaking client at SAY, and the majority of my clients at the YWCA are Spanish speakers. I answer the hotline a portion of the day, so my bilingual skills are important.
The biggest challenge I have in my job is being emotionally detached. Certain things may trigger me to want to take clients under my wing and save them. Realizing that I cannot always change things is difficult. I must accept where they are and what they choose.
I have noticed that sometimes a client can be in such a panic that they don't see the big picture. For example, taking a bus is a better alternative than getting a car because the biggest priority is to keep their house. I try to keep clients aware of what they need versus what they want. We live in the moment sometimes and don't always do what is best. I try to help them see that now it is time to correct that.
The Empire skills I am utilizing are interviewing skills and being confident when meeting new people. With my legal skills, I understand restraining orders and child support. I document cases in Microsoft Office. My portfolio and the great reference letters I had from my instructors were very helpful. I liked the fact that instructors at Empire all had experience in the field for which I was training. That made it realistic.
I took a tour of Empire College when I was 17. I had a social worker because I was a teen parent. Since I did not have a social security number, I had to establish my residency in order to attend Empire College. When I wrote my letter to Immigration, I said: "I want to walk across the stage as a graduate of Empire College." My social worker inspired me and made me see the vision. That is what I want to do for my clients. I was 19 years old when I enrolled at Empire; I am 21 now with a 5-year-old daughter who is my inspiration.
Daniel Ryan
Senior IT Engineer
KLH Consulting
Program: Network Specialist (September 2011 Graduate)
Date of Hire: October 2011
High School: Santa Rosa High School
Read more about Daniel
I was laid off from the construction industry at 49 years old. Fortunately I qualified for retraining through Sonoma County Job Link. The process was to choose three schools to research. I checked out SRJC and ITT Tech as well as Empire College. My research indicated ITT is not as helpful with career services and job placement. Empire College met my needs because of the ability to get you back into the workforce quicker and the programs are certification driven. Empire College did a good job of giving me job leads.
There are at least six Empire College graduates working here who have been hired over the past 12 years, including my supervisor. I have been here five months and have recommended two other Empire College hires. KLH has over 50 employees and a diverse client base, located primarily in Sonoma, Napa and the Greater Bay Area.
Initially I was doing remote server maintenance. Now I do desktop support for clients and sometimes help desk, giving advice regarding networks, desktops, workstations, laptops, and servers. I work primarily with one client, a major health care company.
KLH also provides both on-premise and cloud services for its clients. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and also work with Apple products (mostly laptops and iPhones). I use a specialized Professional Service Application for work order tickets and use email heavily for communication.
My advice to students is:
- Listen when your teachers tell you the guy sitting next to you might be the one that helps get you a job.
- Work as hard as you can. Do your best. Get good grades.
- Develop a good personality. In IT there are a lot of people who don't make it through the interview because they cannot talk with people. Unless you are going to be a programmer, you need to be able to talk with people.
Dan suggested that Empire consider teaching a ticketing system of some sort. With AutoTask, every note, every stat can be correlated into reports to assess where time is spent and where resources are lacking. He also thought entry-level programming might be helpful.
He mentioned that CompTIA now has an IT health certification which emphasizes high-level security.
David Fackrell
Special Events Coordinator
DeLoach Vineyards
Program: Tourism, Hospitality & Wine Industries – Accelerated (June 2011 Graduate)
Date of Hire: November 2011
High School: Blackfoot High School
Read more about David
David's background is unique. He worked in corporate training in Japan for 18 years. He taught English to home-stay students in Sacramento. From there he went to Mexico for five years to teach. Now he is the Special Events Coordinator for DeLoach Vineyards. Here's what he shared with us:
I work with vendors, caterers, restaurants on various occasions/events that are held here – from corporate events to weddings and anniversary celebrations. I thought it might be more difficult working with brides because I am a guy; however, I have found that I can help get the groom more involved.
My main goal is to share what Sonoma County and DeLoach Vineyards offers to our guests. It is exciting because we are growing our events program and are working to expand our distribution to Asia.
Some of the people I work with now are past graduates of Empire; we are a close-knit group that continues to be a resource for each other. Social networking (Facebook and LinkedIn) is a big tool in our industry to help bring in visitors and guests. Networking is crucial in this field, and one of the advantages of Empire's program is that Sheri Eachus (Hospitality/Tourism Department Head) not only taught us the industry but introduced us to her connections. I continue to go to events held twice monthly by a concierge group.
When I was job hunting, I took my portfolio to every job interview. I added the hospitality certifications to my resume, which was a big plus. Having that, especially in this industry, shows you have the necessary education and experience. In the hospitality field, winejobs.com is a crucial tool in job hunting.
Most of the students at Empire are in a transition and have other backgrounds. They have lots going on in their lives. When you return to school, it's easy to get distracted with finishing classes and getting good grades. Those are important, of course, but it is also important to do your research on the industry while attending Empire. Be patient and persevere.
Johnny Romeo
PC Technician
Simple Office Solutions
Program: Specialized Associate Degree – Information Technology – Microsoft (April 2008 Graduate)
Date of Hire: March 2010
High School: New Vistas
Read more about Johnny
"Johnny has been gung-ho to learn and is becoming certified on Sharp copiers at Simple Office Solutions (SOS). About a year ago Johnny started coming into the store every couple of months looking for employment. He was always personable and networked effectively so that when we were ready to hire, Johnny came to mind," says Teisha Titus, office manager at SOS.
SOS has twelve employees, three of which were hired in the last few months. "We are not slowing down in this economy," said president, Tom Pierucci. SOS is a dealer for HP, Sharp, and Dell. They service and sell copiers, printers, computers, and fax machines, with their primary business being contracts for copier service. Along with a large number of local customers, they have national and statewide accounts, such as Homeland Security, Caltrans, San Quentin Prison, and DMV.
"Feedback from customers about Johnny has been great," Tom says. "We are a call center for problems, and it is important to keep things light and as positive as possible."
"Johnny definitely uses his own initiative and will do whatever is needed," adds Teisha.
Along with Jarrad Barone and Eddie Samuels, Johnny is one of three Empire graduates currently employed at Simple Office Solutions. Since being hired, Johnny has been removing viruses and installing drivers, performing QuickBooks file transfers, and supporting Outlook. He is hoping to train with Jarrad, who is the Mac technician, in the near future as well as becoming Sharp certified.
Johnny learned about Empire College through a family member who recommended he check it out. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College previously but preferred Empire College's hands-on instruction, a method best suited to his learning style. "I learn more that way," he says. Prior to graduating from Empire, he achieved his A+ certification.
Jon Nussbaum
Linux Systems Administrator
Disney ImageMovers Digital
Program: Specialized Associate Degree – Information Technology – Security (January 2008 Graduate)
Date of Hire: January 2010 (employed following graduation as a network specialist with Rotofactory)
High School: Montgomery (2004)
Read more about Jon
After graduating from Empire College, I landed my first IT job at Rotofactory, in Santa Rosa, CA. I spent a year and a half there as head of their IT department and was then approached with an opportunity to work for Walt Disney's - ImageMovers Digital, a company known for its motion capture performance recently seen in Disney's A Christmas Carol.
Currently there are 15 people in IMD's Information Technology department. We have a ticketing system that every artist has access to. Some of my responsibilities include answering to trouble tickets submitted by Artists, tasks from upper management that include hardware and software management and deployment, and development/troubleshooting current hardware and software issues with vendors and support groups. Our trouble ticketing system is accessible by any employee at IMD, where they state the problem that they're experiencing followed by a level of importance, and it's up to us to figure out how to solve these issues, in an according priority hierarchy. Anything from new keyboards to render blades that won't turn on, IT is on it round the clock!
Disney has made the decision to close IMD's doors after the completion of our next film, Mars Needs Moms, which will release in theaters March 2011. IMD will hold job fairs with other digital image companies within the industry and I hope to land a position that allows me to continue working with my fellow colleagues from IMD.
"One particular highlight of my visits with employers and graduates has been with Disney ImageMovers Digital. One of our I.T. grads was hired last December, after being recommended by his previous employer. His current boss complimented Jon for his training at Empire College and stellar work ethic as well as ability to use initiative in solving problems as they arise. He said he wouldn't be able to do his job successfully without Jon in his department."
~ Lucille Inman, Director of Career Services, Empire College
Kendall Rocca
Educational Aide
Anova Center for Education
Program: Computerized Business Skills (December 2011 Graduate)
Date of Hire: November 2011
High School: Montgomery High School
Read more about Kendall
I was hired one month before graduation because I started my job search personally ahead of time. When I first came into the classroom, most things were handwritten. I said, "This isn't organized. Let me type it up, and get it organized for you." I learned that the more organized you are, the easier your day will be.
We are a K-12 school for autistic children. Working with children with disabilities is very difficult. We have crises intervention training, and many meetings about how we can continue helping the students. I feel that my input is heard and valued when discussing what is best for the students.
The computer software skills I learned at Empire College have been tremendously helpful in my job. I have made tests and have revamped the entire banking system for the high school in an Excel workbook. (Students earn actual money to go on mall trips as a reward system.) I have been teaching my coworker how to maintain the Excel workbook, and she is very grateful for my help and excited to learn how to use the software.
The Career Transitions class with Carl Oeschger helped me very much. I learned a lot about myself, how to work with other people, how to tone down some of my characteristics and accept others better. Really, all of my Empire classes have been beneficial and applicable on this job. Being fresh out of school makes it easier for me to teach the students.
Prior to coming to Empire College, I had a certificate in childhood development from the National Homeland Security and mixed credits from SRJC in business and child development. I was teaching pre-school and had my hours cut back with the downsizing economy, so I decided to go in another direction. The biggest thing I obtained from Empire College was confidence that I have something to bring to the table, something of value that can help other people.
Cindi Ott, Jeanette Landin, and Rose Batzdorff were very influential instructors. I feel that I had a great relationship with all of my instructors, but those three stand out the most for me. I attended the Reno Air Races in 2011 where there was a horrifying accident. The support I received following the event stands out as being very true of the spirit at Empire College. They truly care about you and your success.
My advice to students is: you are going to get out of your Empire education what you put into it. I attended every day. Everything goes so quickly at Empire College; if you miss one day, you are already behind. You invest your money and time into this, so why not get everything out of it? I am the kind of person that if I got 99% on a test, I wanted to know what I missed and understand it.
Anastasia McCrary & Caitlin McAllister
Paralegals (left and right in photo)
Second from right: Orchid Vaghti, Attorney at Law, Empire College School of Law graduate
Law Offices of L. Stephen Turer
Program: Specialized Associate Degree – Paralegal (August 2008 & December 2010 Graduates)
Date of Hire: September 2008 & January 2011
High School: Murdock High School & El Molino High School
Read more about Anastasia & Caitlin
Stephen Turer: We came to Empire when we were looking for a temporary replacement. We were told Caitlin would be a perfect fit as an intern, and she was. She was within one month of graduation. We took advantage of as much of her skills as we could. When she started applying for other jobs, we knew we had to keep her. Caitlin has tremendous potential. She has good grounding and learns as fast as we can throw things at her. She is doing case law – drafting motions.
I have been very satisfied with the quality of the graduates from Empire College. Anastasia was hired from about 20 paralegal applicants. She has gone beyond our expectations. She is one of the most loyal, hardest working employees I have had.
I have taken all of our law clerks from Empire College School of Law, four in all. I only select law clerks from Empire College; they are very capable.
There are not that many new lawyers who have the experience to go to trial. I would not normally have a six-month attorney sitting in the second chair. They would not be ready for it. Seeing the practical points of the legal process through her Empire education gave Orchid an advantage.
Empire Law School gives people who have the ability to become lawyers, but can't stop and take three years off to go to law school, the opportunity. It is an untapped source of talent and has served a huge role. It allows people to improve their lives.
I have been in trial for three weeks. Everything went like clockwork at the office. They are one of the best – if not THE best staff – I have had. They are loyal, smart, helpful and friendly.
Caitlin: I have an AA degree and some units from San Francisco State. Of the 4-5 of us who started our Empire programs at the same time, all got jobs within 2-3 months of graduation. I really enjoyed Empire College and it got me a job that I really love. I am grateful to be given the opportunity to work here.
Anastasia: Going through a divorce, going to Empire College was a milestone in my life. I had been doing marketing and working on commission. I was a single mom. I have a lot of gratitude to Empire College because they placed me here. I love both of my bosses.


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Poet of post-Stalin thaw Voznesensky dies at 77
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky, who rose to prominence during the thaw which followed dictator Josef Stalin's death and never bowed to the Kremlin, died in Moscow on Tuesday. He was 77.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the much-loved poet had "truly become a person of dominant influence" in a telegram sent to Voznesensky's widow on Tuesday.
"His poetry and prose became a hymn to freedom, love, nobility and sincere feelings," Putin said.
Voznesensky, an architect by education with a passion for painting, finally chose to become a poet, and his works -- first published in 1958 -- fast made him famous in the Soviet Union.
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