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ActiveRx redefines the way people age by providing strength therapy, a proven system that gives seniors the opportunity to maintain their independence, autonomy and the ability to continue to do the things they love to do.
A couple, both well into their 80s, knew their granddaughter's wedding was approaching and were worried about being able to attend. With the wedding across the country, traveling had become more difficult for them.
However, by receiving strength training with the ActiveRx team, they would not only surprise themselves in their ability to make it to her wedding, but they would surprise guests as well — on the dance floor.
"As they got to know each other, our therapist started to bring in music and dancing became part of the therapy sessions," says Bob Berkman, vice president of sales and marketing at ActiveRx. "So the first time they danced wasn't at the wedding; they have been dancing for weeks in therapy."
Berkman adds that this story illustrates why ActiveRx is making the effort to put time and care back into healthcare.
Through medically supervised exercise, ActiveRx provides senior physical therapy and rehabilitation in order to enhance function and independent living for seniors and aging adults.
But what makes them unique, according to Berkman, is the relationship building with personalized plans geared toward individual's specific wants and needs. For instance, the aforementioned couple's therapist made the wedding their goal to reach and later began to incorporate dancing into the sessions after learning that the couple loved to dance and would enjoy dancing at the wedding.
"Do you think something like that would come up if they just came in and were asked 'What seems to be the problem today?' Then passed on?" Berkman asks. "No.
"With our model, you get to know what they really value, what they fear and what's important to them."
Older adults now have to power to choose how they age.
Matt Essex, founder and CEO of ActiveRx, says that, yes, one will physiologically decline and lose a lot of strength as one ages — if he or she doesn't do anything about it. He says the average person will lose 30 percent of his or her strength by the time he or she is 65 and then another 30 percent every decade thereafter.
Essex adds this loss will also cause a major drop in a person's functionality and mobility, eventually causing seniors to lose their independence, which can also lead to an increase of falls and a decrease in bone density.
Strength therapy can change this.
"Even people well into their 90s can rebuild their strength," Essex says. "I've seen it. This is what changed me 15 years ago; I saw a man that was in his mid-90s and has just about every condition imaginable go from between a wheelchair and a walker to not having to use either of those anymore."
Essex says part of ActiveRx's goal is to correct any misconceptions. He says most of his clients are happy to participate in the therapy after receiving the facts, knowing that there is now a place that understands them and their needs.
"I think most seniors think they need to be active but are being told by their doctors and even their loved ones that being active means walking more," Essex says. "They are rarely being told to really crank out some heavy weights so they can maintain their bone density and strength."
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"You don't need to be on a body building routine where you are lifting weights for two hours a day, everyday and eating 12 raw eggs," Essex says. "You need to make it a priority, but we are only talking about two percent of one's week. We are talking about two to three hours out the total hours you have in a week."
Berkman says that ActiveRx is not only for the person who has had an accident or has lost his or her function, but it is also geared toward the person who wants to be proactive and preserve his or her health.
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Xcode 4.3 has moved to everything being wrapped up in a .app and is now located in /Applications. There is no /Developer anymore.
This is how it's gone so far:
First up I was getting errors of autoconf not found. Realised that autoconf, automake, lib tool and stuff are no longer packaged with Xcode. I'm sure there's reasons for this, and I'm also none of those reasons help us end users in any way.....
Did some googling, and found a guide for installing the latest versions of these tools from source on 10.6.8, and luckily this script works for 10.7.4.
Got it from here: Install tools - How-to
Basically this is the script:
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.gz
tar -xzvf m4-1.4.13.tar.gz
cd m4-1.4.13
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.65.tar.gz
tar -xzvf autoconf-2.65.tar.gz
cd autoconf-2.65
./configure --prefix=/usr/local # ironic, isn't it?
sudo make install
cd ..
# here you might want to restart your terminal session, to ensure the new autoconf is picked up and used in the rest of the script
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.tar.gz
tar xzvf automake-1.11.tar.gz
cd automake-1.11
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
tar xzvf libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
cd libtool-2.2.6b
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make install
So after getting these tools installed I managed to progress a little further.
Next issue I realised that the build scripts and what not all look for /Developer, and as this no longer exists we had a problem. To solve this I symlinked /Developer to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer .
This got me further.
So with all of this I've managed to get to make xcode_depends but during that process it errors out with:
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: dllloader.a(ldt_keeper.o) has no symbols
make -C lib
make -C ffmpeg
Makefile:2: config.mak: No such file or directory
Makefile:45: /common.mak: No such file or directory
Makefile:84: /libavutil/Makefile: No such file or directory
Makefile:84: /library.mak: No such file or directory
Makefile:161: /doc/Makefile: No such file or directory
Makefile:162: /tests/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/tests/Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [ffmpeg] Error 2
make: *** [dvdpcodecs] Error 2
Well, that's as far as I've gotten so far. Run out of time to investigate any further for now, but thought maybe this info would be useful to anyone else messing around with it.
And of course, any of the steps I've done come with a zero responsibility guarantee... if your computer breaks, your cat dies, or your ear gets itchy, it isn't my fault!

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BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL chronicles the history of this uniquely American art form. "Broadway," hosted by Academy Award-winning star of stage, film and television, Julie Andrews, tells two stories: the 100-year history of musical theater, and the story of its relationship to 20th-century American life, from the immigrant experience at the turn of the century to today's Broadway, where big budget new productions and revivals of classic favorites compete side by side for box office success. Peppered throughout are legendary moments in Broadway history and first-person accounts from dozens of theater luminaries -- among them late greats such as Adolph Green, Brendan Gill, Peter Stone, "Ziegfeld Girl" Dana O'Connell, Al Hirschfeld and Frances Gershwin Godowsky, and many other writers, lyricists, producers, performers, directors and scholars. Among them are Mel Brooks, Carol Channing, Betty Comden, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jerry Herman, Margo Jefferson, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Joel Grey, Harvey Fierstein, Robert Kimball, Chita Rivera, John Lahr, Rocco Landesman, Jerry Orbach, Arthur Laurents, Harold Prince, Gerald Schoenfeld, Stephen Sondheim, Tommy Tune, Ben Vereen and George Wolfe.
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Charleston Firefighters claim they've gotten little to no payment for overtime hours worked
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From our News Partners at WCBD-TV:
Since our reports began about the Charleston firefighters plan to take legal action against the city for inadequate pay, Fire Chief Karen Brack announced they will implement a new pay plan.
"We welcome all decisions by the city to actually pay them time and a half. We think that's a very good development," Attorney Ben Le Clercq said. Le Clercq spoke to News 2 Saturday after filing a lawsuit, which demands the firefighters be paid time and a half, and states they should be compensated for overtime pay lost, attorneys' fees, and interest.
"What our complaint alleges is that the city should be paying firefighters time and a half for overtime compensation. They're not currently doing that, they're using something called the fluctuating work week and the reason they use the fluctuating work week is because it allows the city to pay less than time and a half which is normal overtime compensation," Le Clercq said.
Related: Charleston Firefighters threaten lawsuit over salaries
News 2 obtained the official documents right after they were filed and learned another complaint is that recruits can and have worked up to 104 hours without being paid for more than 80 of those.
"Given the danger of what they do, given that they give their lives occasionally in the line of duty," Le Clercq said. "They have to be paid every cent that they're due."
The city has previously stated that they do not comment on pending litigation.
They have thirty days to file paperwork in response to this lawsuit.
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The simmering debate over Common Core reignited Tuesday, with three members of Louisiana's top school board asking for a special meeting of the panel to come up with new tests after Gov. Bobby Jindal scrapped the first ones.
Lottie Beebe, one of the three members of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education who made the request, said educators need to gather "to move beyond the hysteria" over Louisiana's public school landscape less than two months before classes resume.
"It is important that we have a Plan B," Beebe wrote along with BESE members Jane Smith, who is a Jindal appointee, and Carolyn Hill.
Meanwhile, state Superintendent of Education John White dismissed proposals by the trio, superintendents and school board members that the state use the LEAP and iLEAP exams for another year while new ones are reviewed.
White said exams for the 2014-15 school year have to be aligned to national standards.
"So not only is developing Louisiana specific tests expensive and unfair to teachers," White said. "But it is also illegal."
BESE officials are considering a special meeting this week, officials said.
Any gathering is sure to be contentious, with Jindal backers arguing that new tests are needed and White's supporters pressing for ways to stick with Common Core test plans four years in the making.
All the activity surfaced less than a week after Jindal said he is ordering the state out of Common Core, which represents national standards in reading, writing and math.
The governor also said he has notified the consortium that oversees the tests that go with the standards that the state is withdrawing, and BESE and the state Department of Education should solicit bids to come up with new exams.
Beebe, Smith and Hill said BESE needs "to begin the discussion of how the Louisiana Department of Education will initiate that process.
"It is imperative that we provide leadership to the school districts as they are making plans for the 2014-15 school year," according to the letter, which was sent to White and BESE President Chas Roemer, who lives in Baton Rouge.
The three BESE members also suggested that, for the upcoming school year, the state should again use LEAP and iLEAP, both standardized tests, to see what students are learning.
They said both tests are familiar to teachers, schools and school districts.
Officials of the Louisiana School Boards Association and the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents, who met privately on Tuesday, made a similar suggestion.
But White, repeating statements he has made for months, said in an interview that the state is out of LEAP and iLEAP test questions.
"To develop new ones at the last minute for essentially political reasons is unfair to teachers, unfair to students and unfair to taxpayers," he said. "Our state law requires that by 2015 tests be comparable from one state to the next."
White said after Jindal's announcement on June 18 that the governor cannot unilaterally pull the state out of Common Core test plans.
The superintendent also said that his department already has a contract with a firm — Data Recognition Corp. — that would supply the PARCC test questions.
A few hours later Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols, a key Jindal lieutenant, announced that her office was suspending state approval of the agreement.
Jindal said BESE failed to follow state bid laws.
White said Tuesday that, among other issues, the suspension could jeopardize re-tests on LEAP for students who failed to pass in the spring.
"It is nice to talk about Plan B until you realize that Plan A exists and is the only viable option," White said. "It is also the only legal action."
Follow Will Sentell on Twitter @WillSentell. For more coverage of Louisiana government and politics, follow our Politics blog at http://blogs.theadvocate.com/politicsblog/


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We are completely sold out with a waiting list of almost 40 people. Going to be good times tomorrow. Put down March 30th on your calendar for the next bus party time explosion
In continuing with the great tradition of the Giants Tailgate Party Time Explosions (3 more to come this year) we bring you the Warriors Bus Party Time Explosion. It's time to show some love to a team in Oakland, so on Saturday night, February 2nd, we're gonna pack a party bus and head over to Oracle Arena to watch the Warriors continue what has been an awesome season so far.
There is room for 47 people on the bus (I've got a few extra tickets if anyone can't ride the bus and just wants to meet us at the game). The bus will pick everyone up at Bar None at 6:00 and then head to the game. We'll stock the bus full of booze (beers and mixed drinks) with the plan being that it will be more than enough for both the ride to the game and the ride home afterward. It's a 7:30 tip which means the game will probably end around 10, at which point everyone will just get a ride back to Bar None.
Quick summary of what your ticket includes:
- Ticket to the Warriors-Suns game
- A ride on the party bus from Bar None to the game and a ride on the bus back to Bar None after the game
- Booze on the Bus
Send any questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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This is the genuine bamboo tiki bar that provides a weatherproof, outdoor station for storing and serving spirits to guests. Recalling the Polynesian beach bars renowned for serving fruity, rum-based cocktails, the bar—available exclusively from Hammacher Schlemmer—is made from 100% Vietnamese bamboo. This lightweight yet durable wood has a tensile strength of 28,000 lbs. per square inch—5,000 lbs. greater than that of steel—and is kiln-dried to remove excess moisture, resulting in a natural material that's impervious to rain, sun, and insects. The 57 W" x 27 1/4" D bar top accommodates two guests and the bamboo-tiled roof shades the bar to help keep mai tais from melting in the sun. Two hanging stemware racks holds up to 12 glasses and four bottles, and two shelves on the inside of the bar provide convenient storage for spirits, fruit juices, and bar accessories. The bar has a rounded handrail. Two included backed bamboo 40 1/4"-high stools have generously sized 18"-wide x 28"-deep flexible bamboo-patterned seats and four rungs for foot-propping. Bamboo may develop small, natural fissures that will not affect the structural integrity of the bar. Assembly required. 7' 10" H x 57" W x 27 1/4" D. (145 lbs.)
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Where I'm spending my summer
By Skates
from Tarzana, CA
Fits perfectly in my backyard by the pool. Lots of storage in the shelves and looks fabulous.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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HUGE TIP for those placing this in a humid environment
By Wailer Mon
from Jacksonville, FL
Great looking small Tiki Bar; perfect for the pool deck! Easy to assemble if you have any building skills at all. IMPORTANT TIP!: If you are going to use this in an area with a lot of moisture or high humidity, save yourself a LOT of work, by spraying EVERY piece with several coats of polyurethane! If you do not, the bamboo will mold very badly making the bar unusable. I had mine up for two months in hot humid Florida, and it was quickly covered in disgusting mold. I had to tear mine apart, spray it down with a moderate concentration of bleach and water to kill the mold. I then brushed every piece clean, and power washed it under low pressure. Once completely dry, I sprayed every inch of it with several coats of polyurethane and re-assembled. It has been through three more months of hot, humid Summer with no more problems! I wish someone had told me to do this up front! The Tiki Bar is treated with fire retardant I believe, but I keep a fire extinguisher nearby as I have strung lights and have other electrical devices operating on it. I also bought a 10 foot roll of 36" wide thatch that I cut in two and strung across both roof panels (after applying more polyurethane to that) and it really completed the look! You can easily find the thatch online. I bought some plastic tubs that fit on the shelves to keep stored items clean and dry. I am a happy camper now! It really is one of the better built Tiki Bars you can find online. I dressed mine up with numerous Tiki items I found online. Bottoms up! ~Little Kahuna
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Tiki Bar
By A.O.
from Columbia, South Carolina
Actually better than expected. Easy to put together and very sturdy. Would have given it 5 stars but not sure how it is going to hold up yet as its only a couple weeks old.
Just as pictured! ❤
By Beth
from Mansfield, Ohio
This tiki bar is so cute! Fits perfect in the corner on our back deck! It is just as pictured. Bamboo is strong & sturdy so great long lasting construction. As mentioned in another review we did not have any trouble with the pre-drilled holes. It went together easily. One person was able to assemble most of it alone. The only complaint I have is the screws were a little too long for the chairs. On the hottom of the chairs if you screw the two under the seat they actually poke through the seat. So we just didn't tighten them all the way. Still very sturdy without them tightened all the way. This was delivered very very quickly! I would definitely recommend this tiki bar to anyone who likes to have small get togethers and/or a pool area in their backyard! Perfect for even a smaller deck. We have a large back deck. Love the shelves. Lots of room for bottles. Also the storage above for glasses, etc. I really love the quality of the construction. I can't wait to have a piña colada & chill!!
Perfect Tiki Bar , , , but hard to build
By BruceG
from Ocean Isle Beach, NC
It's a great looking, very sturdy, and highly functional bar. Bottle and glass holders are a plus. The strong shelves easily hold my 1.75 liter bottles of liquor, plus mixes, etc.Assembly is more difficult than it should be. Predrilled holes do not always line up easily; a couple had to be drilled out again. The Allen Wrench tool provided is wimpy; especially for the large screws in the stools. The number tags on the pieces help match up the right parts, but they're glued on AND taped over, hard to remove.
Pool party starts at the Tiki bar
By Bonnie
from Scottsdale az
This is a wonderful addition to our pool area. We decked it out with some mini lites and it's such a delight.
This is a really cool product!
By Connie Angel
from Georgetown, Texas
I was very happy when it arrived. Better than the picture and well made. Easy to put together!Can hardly wait til I have my next party!!
By Z
from Texas
I ordered it a little late but it still made it on time for my party.It was a big hit!Im so glad I ordered it!
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ShapingNJ Hosts Faith-Based Conference
On April 27, 2012, ShapingNJ and the NJ Office of Minority and Multicultural Health hosted the first ShapingNJ Faith-Based conference, "Healthy Living for All: Bringing Healthy Eating and Active Living to Your Faith-Based Community". Held at the Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton Center for Health and Wellness in Mercerville, NJ, the conference attracted more than 100 individuals, representing nearly 30 congregations from around New Jersey.
The day included:
- Reflections and information about the need for preventing obesity in New Jersey and the role of the faith-based community.
- Descriptions of promising faith-based practices such as
- The South Ward Agricultural Garden (SWAGarden) in Newark by Rabbi Curis G. Caldwell of First Tabernacle
- Move It to Lose It by Dr. Naveen Mehrotra of the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation
- Healthy and Fit 40 Day Challenge by Pastor Natalie Mitchem from the First Episcopal District AME Church
- Creating a breastfeeding support room in a local mosque by Hafeezah Abdur-rahim
- Various Sikh traditions that support physical and mental health by Gurparkash Singh, Inderjit Singh Chhatwal, Sumandeep Kaur Chhatwal, and Jasminder Kaur from the Garden State Sikh Association and the United Sikhs.
- Healthy Cornerstore Initiative by Frances Blanco of Living Hope Church and Living Hope Empowerment Center
- Information about community engagement, advocacy and communication strategies targeted toward faith-based communities.
- A Resource panel of experts who provided information about tools, programs and other resources to bring healthy and active living to faith-based communities.


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Wildlife officials rescue gator from drain pipe
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 8:56 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 8:56 a.m.
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — Wildlife officials removed an alligator from a stormwater pipe in a Merritt Island neighborhood Wednesday.
Florida Today reports officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission used plastic piping to force the gator to back through the pipe on Tuesday. They captured the gator and relocated him to a St. Johns River marsh.
The gator had been stuck behind the grated end of the pipe since December.
Neighbors say it snapped and hissed at them when they walked by the drain pipe. They say they contacted wildlife officials earlier and were told to call a private wildlife or rehabilitation center. But the newspaper reports that neighbors feared a trapper would kill the gator.
The state agency's nuisance alligator program received 14,275 calls in 2011 and 6,995 gators were removed.
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1. Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives, 3rd edition, edited by Anne Bruner Eales and Robert M. Kvasnicka (National Archives Trust Fund Board). Genealogists have been eagerly awaiting this new and revised version of a classic research guide. Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives helps you uncover the many genealogical treasures you can find in the records of the federal government. From commonly used sources, such as the census, passenger arrival lists and military records, to the more obscure documents on lighthouse keepers and American Indians, this guide covers something for every researcher. Updates include information on the 1920 census (although coverage of the soon-to-be-released 1930 census is not included, unfortunately); increased coverage of naturalization records; enlarged chapters for African-American and Native American sources; and more coverage of the records in NARA's 13 regional archival facilities.
2. Uncle, We Are Ready! Registering America's Men, 1917-1918 by John J. Newman (Heritage Quest). A critical resource in researching men of the early 20th century is World War I draft registrations. All men — whether US citizens or foreign-born aliens — between the ages of 21 and 30 were to register in the first draft, which began June 5, 1917. In the second draft registration that began a year later, males who had turned 21 since the first registration had to register. Finally, on Sept. 12, 1918, a third registration was held for all men aged 18 to 20 and 31 to 45. This comprehensive guide, divided into two parts plus a CD-ROM, explains the draft registration process. It shows you how to locate the records, giving National Archives microfilm numbers and Family History Library catalog numbers for every draft board in the nation. The CD-ROM contains National Archives draft registration maps, giving local board numbers to help you find your ancestors quickly in the records.


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Sotomayor among commencement speakers
More than 4,800 students from the Columbia campus are expected to receive their degrees at the University of South Carolina's spring commencement ceremonies May 6 - 7.
The university expects to award 4,866 degrees from the Columbia campus, including four associate's degrees, 3,103 baccalaureate degrees, 209 law degrees, 81 medicine degrees, 105 pharmacy degrees, 59 graduate certificates, 1,166 master's degrees, 33 specialist's degrees and 106 doctoral degrees.
Also receiving degrees this spring will be the graduates of the university's regional and four-year campuses: Aiken – 294 baccalaureate and 7 master's degrees; Beaufort – 143 baccalaureate degrees; Lancaster – 115 associate's degrees; Salkehatchie – 181 associate's degrees; Sumter – 63 associate's degrees; Union – 39 associate's degrees; and Upstate – 651 baccalaureate degree and eight master's degrees.
The commencement ceremonies will begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 6, when 209 students from the USC School of Law gather on the historic Horseshoe to receive their degrees. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has represented South Carolina in the U.S. Senate since 2002, will address the graduates.
At 12:30 p.m., the USC School of Medicine will hold commencement exercises at the Koger Center for the Arts, where 81 graduates will be awarded their medical degrees. U.S. Surgeon Gen. Regina M. Benjamin will deliver the commencement and receive an honorary degree of doctor of public service.
At 3 p.m. Friday in the Colonial Life Arena, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will address graduates from Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, College of Nursing, S.C. College of Pharmacy and the Arnold School of Public Health. Justice Sotomayor, who in 2009 became the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court, will receive an honorary degree of doctor of laws.
On Saturday, May 7, former U.S. Ambassador to China and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. will address graduates of the South Carolina Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences. The ceremony is set for 9:30 a.m. in the Colonial Life Arena. Also at the ceremony, G. Bryant Wright, pastor and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will receive an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters.
At 1 p.m. Saturday in the Koger Center, Mark Smith, a Carolina Distinguished Professor of history, will address doctoral candidates in the Koger Center. Smith is an authority on the history of the U.S. South, slavery and the history of the five senses. He has written or edited more than a dozen books.
At 3 p.m. business leader M. Edward Sellers will address graduates of the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computing, the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management, the Fort Jackson Military Base Program, Interdisciplinary Programs, Palmetto Programs, the School of Music and the College of Social Work. Sellers will also receive an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters.
Sellers is chairman of New Carolina, a non-profit council of leadership in business, academia and government whose mission is to drive a long-term economic development strategy for South Carolina. He is vice chair of the Palmetto Institute, a non-profit research and educational organization aimed at creating a business, community, political and educational climate that will increase per-capita income of South Carolinians.
The commencement ceremonies in the Colonial Life Arena will be streamed live at http://sc.edu/commencement/


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
AVMA Workforce Study Important Step for Veterinary Medicine
Washington, D.C., April 23, 2013
--The American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) recently released workforce study, "
2013 U.S. Veterinary Workforce Study: Modeling Capacity Utilization,
" is an important step among many taken in recent years to help the veterinary medical profession achieve a more appropriate state of economic equilibrium, according to the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC).
"We commend the AVMA for commissioning this study," said Dr. Deborah Kochevar, dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and president of the AAVMC. "This is a very useful and important achievement for the profession."
The highly anticipated study described an overall 12.5 percent excess capacity in the profession and asserted that if present trends continue, that imbalance will persist through 2025. The study noted that gaps between capacity and demand vary among geographic regions and specific sectors of professional practice. For example, the study identified an 18 percent excess capacity in small animal practice, but noted that the demand for veterinarians employed in public health, food safety, research and regulatory affairs appears to be equal to the supply.
The study also distinguished between need and demand. Although there may be a need for more veterinarians to work in food production, especially in some rural areas, there may be insufficient demand to make veterinary practices in these areas financially viable.
"We view academic veterinary medicine and the nation's practice environment as fully integrated, constantly interacting and co-dependent systems," said Kochevar. "We look forward to active collaboration with the AVMA and other organizations in veterinary medicine to educate the profession on how to resolve its economic issues."
The AAVMC and the AVMA have historically worked closely together in providing leadership for the profession. The AAVMC lauded the AVMA's October 2011 decision to commit $5 million to support a comprehensive, multi-year economic strategy program designed to address persistent challenges such as low salaries and high educational debt-loads.
In recent years, the two organizations have held several joint economic meetings designed to assess the profession's operating environment and collaborated on numerous other programs designed to foster the quality of the profession. Dr. Eleanor Green, the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, serves as a member of the AVMA's Workforce Advisory Group, which provided insight and guidance to the study team.
Changing market conditions and characteristics have stressed the economic well being of the veterinary profession for the past 25 years. These include imbalances rooted in the way society will pay for human-quality clinical care for companion animals, the high cost of medical education, internet era changes in the way goods and services are sold to consumers, changes in agricultural production practices, a lack of funding for necessary public health jobs and other factors.
The Great Recession, which reduced consumer demand for both discretionary and advanced veterinary clinical services, substantially increased the pressure of these conditions on veterinary economics. While those long-term characteristics of the profession's operating environment persist, the nation's economic recovery appears to be gaining momentum and that bodes well for the veterinary profession.
Expanding the "demand" side of the equation will also be an important part of solving this problem. Broader public understanding of the importance of preventive healthcare for companion animal care should expand markets, Kochevar said, citing the importance of emerging programs such as the Partners for Healthy Pets Initiative.
In the early to mid-2000s, there was a great deal of discussion in the profession about an impending under-capacity, especially in public health related areas of veterinary medicine. That led to broad support for the Veterinary Workforce Expansion Act of 2005, which was introduced in the U.S. Congress.
In response to that concern, several established U.S. schools have enlarged their class sizes over the past six or seven years, which has led some to blame the colleges for contributing to the current over-capacity described in the study. "Colleges of veterinary medicine make individual decisions regarding class size based upon their mission and the population they serve," said AAVMC Executive Director Dr. Andrew Maccabe. "Enrollment patterns are not coordinated or mediated by any agency or organization."
Market forces are critical determinants of capacity and demand in an economic system and periods of friction and stress often occur as professions work through supply and demand cycles. "Our goal is to ensure that our efforts to prepare new generations of veterinarians remain in strategic alignment with the needs and expectations of the society we serve," Dr. Kochevar said.
Rising tuition and student debt load are significant problems that affect the well being of the veterinary profession. These problems are magnified by widespread recognition of the larger economic challenges threatening all of higher education.
Despite the highly publicized concerns regarding economic stress in the veterinary profession, there has been no reduction in the quantity or the quality of the applicant pool seeking admission to colleges of veterinary medicine, according to Dr. Maccabe.
"The evidence demonstrates to us that thoughtful, well-informed students continue to make rational decisions to attend veterinary school, despite the recent rise in uncertainty associated with appropriate salaries and employment opportunities," he said.
In early 2013, the AAVMC established a Financial Literacy Task Force designed to create a national approach to providing students with the financial information and counseling they need to make the best decisions about their educational programs and career development.
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Landmark Gay Rights Cases Head for Supreme Court
(NEWSER) – The gay marriage debate moves to the Supreme Court this week, where justices will hear arguments for and against the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 ban tomorrow. The federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, will be before the court on Wednesday. Decisions are not expected until mid-June.
- Among those in seating reserved for guests and family members of conservative Justice John Roberts will be his cousin Jean Podrasky, who wants to marry her female partner of four years. "He is a smart man," she tells the Los Angeles Times. "He is a good man. I believe he sees where the tide is going. I do trust him. I absolutely trust that he will go in a good direction."


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Im new on this forum, so I apologise in advance if i post this message in the wrong place or if someone already asked it, but i couln't find an answer.
As the title says, i have downloaded and burned Backtrack Final 2.0. When backtrack loads im able to login (with root - toor), but when i type "startx" to get into KDE mode, all kinds of errors appear like "Fatal IO error 104 on X server "0.0" and "Fatal server error:"failed to initialize core devices". I don't know where to get a log from the errors (someone told me /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but I have not even a clue how to open it or save it, since backtrack is running from a CD and I have no idea how to save the log that way).
So my question is, am i doing something totally wrong by just inserting the Live CD of Backtrack without any kind of Linux installed? Or is it something else that wont let me run startx? If some1 could tell me how to save the log, i could post it here, so you guys might know whats going on...
I really hope some1 can help me with this, and i thank you in advance for your reply.
Make a new ISO disk and make sure that u use the lowest writing speed, i think thats alll you can do...
I reccomend that you use the ImgBurn program 'cuz its specially made to write cd images on cd's and it has the write speed of 1x and it can verify that everything was written fine.
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Canyons Resort and the Christian Center of Park City want to collect at least 9,990 pounds of nonperishable food and baby items by Dec. 21.
"My team and I would like to ask our guests and our community to consider those who are less fortunate" and donate goods, said Mike Goar, Canyons' managing director. He noted that 5,000 families from Summit and Wasatch counties are expected to seek assistance this holiday season from the Christian Center's food pantry.
Christian Center Executive Director Rob Harter said his organization has served 41,000 people this year, mostly from Park City, Kamas, Oakley, Heber and Coalville. He said the pantry needs white rice, cooking oil, non-refrigerated juice, canned soup, dried beans, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter, jelly, diapers, baby formula, baby food and wipes.
Collection points will be set up at all Canyons Resort village hotels, at The Farm restaurant and in the bottom parking lot by the cabriolet lift. Other Summit County collection sites are at the Walmart Supercenter, The Market at Park City and Weilenmann School of Discovery.
Canyons spokesman Steve Pastorino said donations of money also are welcome but should be made through a secure website, www.ccofpc.org.


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PR Account Manager / Senior Account Manager
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- North West London
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- Holiday benefits and new business incentive schemes
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- 17 Mar 2014
- Closes
- 22 Apr 2014
- Sector
- Consumer
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- Account Manager, Senior Account Manager
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- Business to Business, Corporate Communications, Digital & Online, Internal Communications, Marketing Communications, Press / Media Relations
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Entice Communications is seeking an experienced consumer PR Account Manager/ Senior Account Manager, with a passion for health, wellness, fitness, and lifestyle brands.
We are a dynamic integrated communications agency based in North-West London, specializing in health, fitness and lifestyle brands.
The role we are seeking to fill is that of a senior level PR Account Manager, who will manage our busy consumer PR division and lead the PR outreach across consumer titles, for the prestigious brands we represent.
The ideal candidate will have between six and eight years sold experience with luxury, lifestyle, health, wellness and fitness accounts; ideally in an agency environment, and will bring great media contacts, enthusiasm and new ideas to this role.
Responsibilities will include:
• Managing between 5-10 accounts with support of junior team members
• Planning, strategy and implementation of PR campaigns across multiple brands
• Media relations outreach
• Managing 3 junior team members
• Researching, managing and implementing joint PR ventures
• Planning and implementing PR events
• Managing budgets for PR projects run on behalf of clients
• Writing press releases, and other press materials and strategy documents
• Managing and overseeing social media strategy, including monitoring social media profiles and generating content on behalf of brands
• Working closely with other members of the team, to share ideas and progress
• New business pitches – formulating and presenting pitches to prospective clients
• Reporting back to clients on the success of projects/campaigns
A team player attitude is essential, but equally, you must also be able to demonstrate that you have the initiative and motivation to lead a team and manage multiple accounts.
This job will appeal specifically to candidates in the NW London area who will be able drive to the office and park free of charge.
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Tim's Best of 2012
1. Favourite album of 2012?
Cat Power - Sun. Very sultry and soulful.
2. Favourite single?
Solange Knowles - Losing You. This song (and video) blew my mind.
3. Best gig you saw?
Bruce Springsteen in Barcelona. He played Racing In The Street. What more can I say?
4. Best gig you played?
Maybe Paraguay. 13,000 people on a beautiful warm evening in South America. Doesn't get much better than that.
ROSADO's photo of Tim at the Paraguay show
5. Best film you saw?
Moonrise Kingdom.
6. Best journey you made?
Driving through the snowy Austrian mountains towards Ljubljana was a beautiful morning on the bus.
7. Best TV show you watched?
Probably the BBC Imagine documentary about Bridge over Troubled Water. Very, very inspiring.
8. Best book you read?
I loved The Dinner by Herman Koch. A slightly strange and surprising book.
9. Best meal you ate?
Jesse's friends Rich and Erica took us to an incredibly low-key street food place in an alley in Bangkok. Simple but both exciting and delicious.
10. Best thing you bought yourself?
One of the reproduction G-Plan sofas that Hemingway Design have just done. I didn't think I would ever get so excited about a sofa. Should I be worried?
11. Best thing someone else bought for you?
Somebody in São Paulo (I'm sorry, I can't remember who) gave me a model train which I love. It's now sitting on top of a speaker in my studio.
12. Best website you visited or app/podcast you downloaded?
damnyouautocorrect.com. Read it and weep.
13. Best thing that happened in 2012 for Keane?
It's kind of obvious, but being number 1 again really was amazing. Strangeland was hard work to make and it was a very rewarding and emotional moment when it topped the charts.
14. Best thing that happened in 2012 for you?
Rediscovering my love of being a tourist. I want to spend the rest of my life travelling and learning.
15. Finally, what are you looking forward to in 2013?
Travelling and learning!
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I just finished reading The Dinner....an excellent book. It was gripping and disturbing and thought-provoking. I loved it.
Lovely Tim :)
I´m from Paraguay and I thank you for that unforgettable concert; thank you for letting us know that you felt the positive feelings that we wanted to give to you! Me (and my wife since then) will never forget you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Tim es Love for the music desde pequeño. Dedicación, gusto esquisito por componer, habilidad con los dedos. Vive para i por la musica. Multinstrumentista. Ojalá fueras mi profesor. El piano Tim es un instrumento completo, elegante, gratificante, complejo. Espero poder tocar los acordes un poco bien. Para mí eres inaccesible tocando. Te suena esto : nota, sonido, frecuencia, intensidad, armónico, afinidad, tono, semitono, etc etc Marisa. Barcelona.
travelling and learning!! itu keren,,
Aight, Herman Koch
Me he informado un poco del idioma inglés. Perdóname Tim, excited en español és emocionado. En inglés las sensaciones se describen con palabras diferentes al español. Nosotros tenemos más variedad de palabras para definir emociones. Marisa. Barcelona. I am so excited about tim's music.
I am waitting for TOM'S best 2012 to say that Vitoria in Brasil is so beautiful and I could see your show and meet you at Ilha Acústico on saturday evening. There is a VIP space conected with the stage where the star can come to stay more close and in touch with me... (I went to Ziggy Marley gig there) Did I told you that I was in Buenos Aires in Keane's Gig? The best were TOM's voice :) I loved with all my heart :):) LOVE NATÁLIA
Hi friends! I know that today you will be with usa I would like to wish you every happiness for the first shows ** TOMY will you have time to share with us your Best of 2012
nice answers! when you play in Argentina it's going to be one of the best of 2013
Welcome back to Portland - it's about time - see you tomorrow night!!
Les tecles del piano son suggerents, sensuals i musicals. És millor que un sofà Hemingway. Felicitats des d'aquí a Leonel Messi, 4 pilota d'or. Felicitats a Tito Vilanova pel seva estimació el FCB Felicitats a Pep Guardiola perquè probablement entrenarà l'any vinent a un equip anglès, Manchester ??? Un petonàs a Tim i que no li pugi la fama el cap. ( Català Language ).
I hope the boys have a good trip and a great tour!
Jajajaja grande TIM, tu eres mi inspiración desde joven espero algún día poder conocerte al igual que a los demás chicos de KEANE, sigue adelante y gracias, muchas gracias por enseñarme a amar la música. Desde COSTA RICA!!!
Tim you re a great man! This very good you want visit places! ami I love that! see new places every day! ... Hopefully this on your list to visit Mexico travel! .. I recommend Yucatan and Guadalajara are very beautiful places! I'm from Veracruz (: for if you want to come visit! .. XD Farewell ... You Have a Great Year 2013! You've earned it my love!
Os deseo un gran Tour por EE.UU. Tim, para mí eres mejor músico instrumentista que The Boss. Experimentas con los sonidos. Is it any Wonder ? y Perfect Symmetry és el CD más completo musicalmente. Recuerda que eres la razon de haber comenzado a tocar el piano. Voy lenta en el aprendizaje y lo tendria de tocar más a menudo. Te deseo lo mejor para el 2013, animos, y te aprecia, una seguidora principiante de piano. Decirte que cuando te dejas la barba de dos ó tres días me excita igual que tu el sofa Hemingway. Para mi eres un gran músico. Es un placer oír tus composiciones. Marisa. con aprecio, te admira y te sigue. Bcn.
I've never heard of Racing In The Street before. It's a beautiful song. Thanks.
Hi Tim! Thanks for these interesting answers. I didn't know about damnyouautocorrect.com ... and it's hilarious :D , I already shared it with some friends of mine who keep making mistakes and being frustrated and angry with the autocorrect. I have myself a collection of "print screens" of the best one I receive (and send). thanks for the hint :D I love it. I'm glad to know you re-discovered the pleasure of travelling, it makes you strong, happy and opens your mind....even if somehow your answer made me a little sad. It's good being home as well sometimes, and discover the beauties around the corner, but this is just because I'm living in a sort of chaos right now and, for once in my life, I'm not in the mood for travelling :S I wish you and your beloved ones to find happiness inside and outside of you. ' Love you. - Simona from Florence (Italy) or Houston ... ?? :-\
Fine :) I love this. And thank you for giving us a insight of yourself over the year. I also know about the website damnyouautocorrect.com and I think it's hilarious. I use to laugh. The human travel around the world, I love to see places, first go to and then have a look around, do everything that shows the beauty in the nature and the country, everything, you know. But it's much more I can say, it's just :D Thanks! ;D I love you Tim! I like to hear this from you, please let me know about your music taste, I'd like to know about it. But I wish you a Happy New Year! Come to Sweden, it cost for me to get to u somewhere else, tickets etc. Please come to Sweden. I love U! Beautiful!
maravillosoo!! :D te amo tim!!!
Dear Tim...I´m so glad to read that you enjoyed the gig here in Paraguay.. we loved it too... I wish you a 2013 full of travelling and learning!
Sí que deberías preocuparte porqué no es normal que te excite un sofa de Hemingway. Resultabas más atractivo cuando llevabas los pelos largos y eran los comienzos de Keane. El dinero nos hace cambiar ?
Awww...you could have stopped for a minute on your way to Ljubljana at my place...
Aww.such a nice interview Timmy. Thanx keanemusic for doing this. :)
Tim you are so lucky to be a member of Keane: you can travel all around the world! Thanks for Strangeland, just beautiful. Lots of love from The Netherlands.
Encima de la moto con casco cuando estabas en Beirut, te daba un aire aventurero. Ojalá puedas cumplir tu deseo de viajar y aprender. Yo intentaré aprender piano poco a poco con mi profesora Marta, parte en casa, parte en la Escuela Instituto Llongueras método Lacroix i te seguire all the world donde tu dejes ver. A través de estas respuestas me he dado cuenta que eres inaccesible para mi. Yo he redescubierto que es un instrumento ilimitado, y que su estudio es fascinante. Tienes suerte Tim de poder viajar mientras estás de Gira. Porqué los jugadores del FC Barcelona van de campo a campo y no sé si pueden hacer mucho turismo. Te deseo lo mejor para 2013. Una principiante en piano.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TIM :) You played an amzing show in Edinburgh. Keane always deserve to be at number 1
Ciao caro Tim, molto interessanti e simpatiche anche le tue risposte, mi ha colpita molto quella in cui dici che ami essere un turista e che ti piace tanto viaggiare in giro per il mondo alla scoperta di posti che non avevi mai visto prima: secondo me è proprio entusiasmante ed anche emozionante conoscere delle nuove città, vedere i monumenti e i ristoranti tipici di quei luoghi!!! Un abbraccio e buon week.end a tutta la band da Sabrina from Catania, Sicily!!!
Hi Tim! Thanks for sharing your best of 2012! Don't worry about your excitement over a new sofa! It happens to us all when we reach our mid thirties! ;) Lots of love, Annette H x.
Nobody remember Russia, Tom, we hope, may be ,you? Sad Russian fans
hi tim ** travel narrative that makes me dream; what marvelous representations of happiness you had to live! whether in South Africa or emotion should be intence with thousands of fans or the Austrian mountains that have caused you to offer all their beauty *** I am very very happy that all the work is founit to Strangeland translated with such success!! I am absolutely certain that the next write texts that will be the most beautiful you will share all these moments that you just live you're really a boy sentationel thank you for everything you give us ***Big KISSES from FRANCE
but I learned much more than I knew...
Mr R-O...I just finished watching a documentary on Paul Simon...Journey to Graceland..Under African Skies... I thought of you...
Tim, I'm so happy that your always have something good to say about São Paulo and Latin America as well, thanks. Needless to say how much I loved every single answer. Dude! You're my inspiration. Beijos, Regina.
thanks tim're amazing, we love living Asuncion Paraguay keane=)
My favourite music and guitarrista electrico: Jimi Hendrix.
My favourite Tim: He was playint is it any wonder?. Levantado del tamburete, con la mano derecha tocando el syntetizador rojo, con la mano izquierda tocando el piano Yamaha, con el pie accionado el pedal electrònico y su cuerpo se mueve a ritmo de la música. En definitiva baila. La cabeza parece que se le vaya a dislocar. En aquellos momentos le diría: puedo tocar aunque sea una tecla y bailar contigo ? A veces me gustaría ser aunque fuera una sola tecla de su piano. Te aprecia. Marisa. Barcelona.
Strangeland: the first CD recorder in Sea Fog Studios. "Sea Fog comes like a river rolls a stone". Tim Rice: músico, compositor, orquestador, instruments ( piano, bass, keyboards, backing vocals, keytar, guitar, synthesizer, recorder and harpsichord), creador de sonidos ( buscando una onda un poquito parecida a Jimi Hendrix, por ejemplo), habilidad con las manos, etc etc etc, What more can it say ? Marisa Barcelona
Dear Tim, I wish you a very happy new year 2013 with great success and travel! I hope that you are going to compose other beautiful songs for Tom and for you because your voice is very beautiful! I would love a song with your own voice on every album there as on Night train with Your love. It would be great that you do a live as you did for the song "your love". Moreover, other groups like depeche mode do so. Martin gore sings always at least a song in concert and Dave gahan others. I love when you sing all four, this is great, your voice blend very well! I also listen to Mt desolation, as a Bridal gown, Pitter bill and Coming home! These songs are wonderful! I hope that you will continue to write songs because you are talented, you all four and in addition you have a lot of humor! Do not change! I thank you also for my 2 photos with you after the concert at the Olympia in Paris because you had to be tired. The concert was awesome! I loved A bad dream, try Again and sea Fog... Tomorrow, I'll buy the book the dinner! The theme me please, it came out yesterday in France,. I wish you a Good American tour! See you again. Florence (Paris)
Tim.. I Love You... :) Happy 2013... Fly To Me Please..! COLOMBIA Wait For KEANE
Tim, I hope you're well. I wish you a great 2013 :-)
Thanks Tim, Keane deserve to be number 1 always, xxx
there are no words to describe how I feel! it's good to hear your issues are fascinating =) we are waiting again for a new show here for in Paraguay (^_^)/
Thank you so much Tim, your answers/opinions are always so special and enriching! Congratulations for all the fabulous work in 2012 with Strangeland, such a flawless and timeless album, such a stunning Tour! You are indeed the "Magnificent Keane"! Hope you may achieve all your dreams in 2013, wish you the Very Best! Always much love from Lisbon/Portugal***
Tim, check this book out, as well...The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Take care!!!!
Hi, Tim! that's why i love you so much because we seem to love the same things: travelling and learning, reading. I'm going to check out that book!!! Happiest of New Years to you, Tim, and to your family! * hugs & kisses from Belgium *
I'd like Brazilian fans were so numerous and passionate like the others fans of Latin America countries. Brazil is very large, so we (your true loyal and passionate fans) are scattered for all country. But even so, please come back with your own show or anyway!
Thanks Tim. I feel so excited to know that the best gig you played was in Paraguay. Please come back someday. WE MISS YOU.
KEANE, KEANE, KEANE... Asunción - Paraguay! 23 . 08 . 12. Amazing night!! for us it was the best concert... I hope to come back soon .. Happy new year! ♥
Happy New Year Tim!!! I agree with you, travelling is the most exciting thing human can experience, bcoz through it we discover our planet which sometimes is so unknown to us. Congratulations to you and all the band for making such as good work with Strangeland. I hope to see you again by Barcelona. Kisses!!!!!!
Thank you so much dear Tim! Happy 2013 for you! Waiting for KEANE this year here in Brazil! Hugs. xx
I can't wait to see you in april 2013 in Peru!! awwww!! :)
Didn't know The Dinner by Herman Koch got translated! Read that one a few years back and saw the play as well. Proud to be Dutch for once!
-Solange Knowles, do you mean Beyonce's sister? let's listen... -Bridge over Troubled Water. Simon & Garfunkel yay! I'd like Tim to teach more about his music taste!
Thanks for remember the Paraguay show. Come back soon ♥
Thank you so much for this. Love from Taiwan-Chi


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Anyone done anything like it before? Is it worth it?