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The country crooner has a few months left to finish the follow-up to his 2010-released album 'Get Closer'.
New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban has just announced the September 10 release date of his forthcoming eighth studio album "Fuse", channeling the attention he's been getting lately to good use, focusing it more on his music and less on his stint as a judge on "American Idol". The 45-year-old musician only has a few months to go to make it in time for his new album's due date and he's wasting no time to get it out in the press and to his eagerly-awaiting fans.
For his much-anticipated follow-up album to "Get Closer" released back in 2010, Urban enlists anew his longtime producer Dann Huff and kick starts new partnerships with Eric Church and Little Big Town record producer Jay Joyce. He also signs up Taylor Swift collaborator Nathan Chapman and rocker Butch Walker for the new project.
"It's just been really creatively liberating to me," Urban said about his newfound opportunity to work with such remarkable musicians. "I love collaborating. It's the thing I've always loved doing, whether it's writing or performing or being in the studio, I love the collaborative process. I think finding people's strengths is the thing I love the most."
But an interview with Keith Urban will not be complete without asking him whether he will be back to judge another season of "Idol", and so the season twelve judge with the sunny disposition obliged with an honest "I have no official information of anything." He reassured "Idol" followers that the producers would eventually figure it out what they want to do with the show next year, confidently saying, "They always pull it together."


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GATESVILLE – Coryell County commissioners on Tuesday proposed a 2013 tax rate equal to last year's rate – 44.9 cents per $100 property valuation – and a 2014 budget trimmed to ensure a 25 percent reserve.
The commissioners' court was unanimous on the proposed tax rate, but split 3-2 on the budget that has $11.7 million in general fund revenues and $12.8 million in expenditures.
The general fund will begin the year with a $4.2 million fund balance.
Commissioners Don Jones and Jack Wall joined County Judge John Firth in support of the budget. Commissioners Daren Moore and Justin Latham voted against the proposal.
Like last year, the budget provides 2 cents of property tax for capital improvement funds earmarked for construction of a new jail by 2017.
Details of the budget will be available to the public Monday, Aug. 19, on the county website and in the offices of the county clerk and county judge in Gatesville and Copperas Cove.
After several public hearings, the commissioners will take a final vote on the budget and tax rate on Sept. 16.

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All relationships have their ups and downs, but you know, it's nothing a good woman can't work through. And here, in what we have decided to be Pink's latest relationship guidance video, the punk-haired pop-lady is here to help make YOUR marriage work. [A Pinkard of the pops, if you will - Ed]
Hey bitches. Pink here. See, it don't matter how good your life looks from the outside ...
It don't matter how big your house is, how low your chandelier hangs, or how long your driveway is (you know what I'm sayin'? Heh. I mean, like a penis. Oh - you got that?). No matter how well-hung your house is, sometimes things in your marriage ain't going right. Sometimes, something in that house is wrong.
Like this clown ornament. That's just wrong. Can you imagine coming in late at night a little wasted, from a party, and staring that in the face? No. Wrong. But that's not the point right now.
The point is, people argue. Don't go thinking that people don't. Because they do. Sometimes they even threaten to leave. Like right here. Sometimes they even pack their clothes, and threaten to walk right out the door.
And these little blow-ups can happen over somethin' stupid. Like someone not doing the ironing properly. Or wearing things you don't like. Or constantly referring to their manhood as a driveway, and perhaps driving Tonka trucks up and down it while they're sleeping. Or, perhaps, not cleaning up, so that maybe, a person's prize collection of marbles gets left lyin' around ...
In a place that might not be considered ideal, health and safety-wise. But since when was health and safety sexy? Am I right, ladies?
Well, I'm right and I'm wrong (but on purpose, because let's face it: I'm ALWAYS right, beeyatches! YEAH!), because being unsafe is sometimes the only way to find safety. That's deep, write it down.
See, there's nothing more romantic than for your honey to wake up and find you looking after him.
Even if, to make sure he gets that way, you have to make sure he gets some sleep. You can use a fine whisky, or a nice bout of enthusiastic exercise, just before bedtime (You know what I'm sayin', right ladies? I mean, like sex. Oh - you got that?). Or you can knock him out with a golf club. They're all just tools in the deployment of the battle to save YOUR relationship, right?
Right. Role play is also good. Here I am, pretending to be both naughty nurse, and Tiger Woods. It's most men's fantasy come true. In a kind of "Hey baby, you should let me show you how good it feels when I nurse you better ... or I'll whack you again with a golf club" kind of way. Because trust me, ladies - it's completely normal, natural, and - most importantly - matrimonial behaviour.
[DISCLAIMER: Unless you mean "normal, natural and matrimonial" in a legal, moral sense. Or if you intend to use "someone pretending to be me on the Guardian/music website told me it was OK to do it," as your legal defence at a later date. In which case it's not right then, either.]
Um. Sorry - to get back to the guide to being a great wife: you should also cook. All the time. With big knives. Really big, sharp, knives.
If you think this will result in you spending too much time away from your partner - don't worry. You can always buy your sweetheart a loving pet.
An ever-attentive and eager pet, that will always be around whenever your wandering poppet gets distracted.
And coming back to that role play, make sure to get him involved. Whether they like it or not. Remember, often people are cautious about trying new things. It might seem unusual for them to be bound, gagged, painted and paraded in front of an audience of dolls, but that doesn't mean they won't like it!
Next - you should always show an interest in their interests. If your partner's interest is in early 1980s horror films starring Jack Nicholson, then you should of course pander to that interest, by researching it, joining in, and chasing them around the house with a sharp axe.
(It's probably secretly what they want, y'know! Yeah!)
And sometimes? Sometimes, you should just be prepared to admit that you were a bit wrong. That perhaps tidying up isn't that overrated after all, and maybe those marbles could have been cleaned up.
But you know what? Even though little oversights like that might lead to tumbles, falls, and moments that might seem like they could break the back of any relationship, if both of you have those ...
Then that's all that matters.
With these simple tips, ladies, you too can end up happily wed. Or dead. Or somewhere in the middle. And by that, I mean either in prison, or with a multi-platinum recording career. Heh! Yo' welcome!


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A resident of the tornado-struck city of Bendigo has hired security guards to protect a damaged home from looters.
The mini-tornado which ripped through the suburb of California Gully just after 5pm yesterday has destroyed 10 homes and seriously damaged more than 50 others.
Val Burke said her family was forced to hire security guards after someone tried to break into her daughter's badly-damaged home last night.
"There was someone going around about 3.30am and we thought we've got to do something about this," she said.
"So we got security over straight away to you know, protect things."
But a Bendigo police spokesman said claims there had been looting in California Gully were "absolute garbage".
"There has been no suggestion of theft anywhere in the area," he said.
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The NSW government has delayed returning the state budget to surplus for a second consecutive year amid a worsening global economic outlook and a sharp drop in mining royalties.
Releasing the half-yearly budget review on Thursday, Treasurer
This financial year, a forecast deficit of $824 million has been revised downward to $776 million.
"We have a big challenge," Mr Baird said. "We have two deficits over the next two years."
State mining royalties are expected to take a $1.9 billion hit over the next four years, including $500 million this financial year, due to lower coal prices and the high Australian dollar.
"There is a weakness in commodity prices around the world," Mr Baird said.
But he said payroll tax and stamp duties were holding up.
A $1.4 billion surplus is predicted in 2014-15, up from a forecast $562 million in the June budget.
Roughly in line with previous forecasts, a $1.8 billion surplus is forecast in 2015-16.
Mr Baird said the state's finances were in a "break-even position" over the next two years and he would not commit to delivering surpluses in any year.
"If we see any deterioration . . . in Europe, the US, Asia – China in particular – that's going to impact us," he said. "So those numbers which start to look good towards the last few years of the estimates, well, they deteriorate.
"We are determined to take the actions necessary to put us on a sustainable path."
Mr Baird also announced that former federal Treasury official Maryanne Mrakovcic has been appointed associate secretary of the NSW Treasury to help "drive an improved budget process across the NSW government".
The appointment comes after the state's Auditor-General,
His report, released in late October, found a forecast $337 million deficit for the 2011-12 financial year was in fact a surplus of $680 million – a difference of $1 billion.
Nine of the 37 errors were made by state Treasury, the highest incidence of errors of any state agency.
But Mr Baird said the majority of the errors related to "timing differences, accounting differences [and] balance sheet issues".
"We are needing to improve it, and we are taking the action to do that," he said.
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It is an uncanny metaphor to imagine the ordinary human mind as a distracted, constantly moving and flustered monkey. This Buddhist metaphor is even more relevant in the era of smartphones and hyper-connectivity. Our in-house psychologist Leah explores how the monkey mind can be tamed through living a more mindful lifestyle.
What is digital anthropology? In an ongoing blog series, VINAYA's in-house anthropologist Sammi demonstrates through exploring different questions and ideas. Here, Sammi puts herself in the shoes of the device that within a single generation has gone from being unknown, to being a paramount object for modern life on which we all depend.
Kathryn Parsons is the CEO of Decoded, a business driven to propel a new generation of individuals around the world to thrive in the tech world through coaching and education. She is a self-proclaimed entrepreneur, educator, feminist, as well as a campaigner for code and a digital economy– but that doesn't mean she doesn't know when to switch off.
When Britain and Europe woke up to the news of Brexit, a global emotional turmoil ensued. The EU referendum, one of the biggest democratic exercises in British history, had generated a result that left the world in flux. Here's a look under the hood at VINAYA Lab's research into emotion, in collaboration with our friends at Vent.
Wearables have yet to convince the world of their transformative power. Super smartwatches and fitness trackers may have become a part of our daily lives, but they still struggle to create lasting meaning for the user. However, as a period of senseless innovation evolves into super smart sensing technology, we're shifting into an entirely new paradigm that will bring new meaning to wearables: "Welcome to emotional technology."
So we started our work on ZENTA– the world's first biometric-sensing wearable for both body and mind.
Beyond filtering the noise around you, ZENTA empowers you to deal with the noise yourself. As we like to say, this super smart accessory is "inspired by humans, perfected by science". ZENTA is an entirely new way of understanding your body and mind. And with that, comes an entirely new way of expressing yourself digitally, a new emotional lexicon.
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When Nina Faulhaber and Meg He became friends while both working as VCs at Goldman Sachs in London, they decided to quit their jobs to follow their dreams of starting an activewear brand together. Just over a year later, ADAY, a line of fashionably functional activewear designed for you to wear from breakfast meetings to pilates and out for cocktails, was launched in London and New York a year later. Both are global citizens, high-flying graduates, and were nominated as Forbes 30 under 30 (together with their good friend Kate Unsworth, our CEO). This mover-shaker duo can teach us a thing or two about bringing our A-game.
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College Station TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2011
Germplasm and stay-green technology utilized by Texas AgriLife Research corn breeders could make growing corn on limited water a greater possibility in the near future, according to AgriLife Research studies.
Thomas Marek, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer and superintendent of the North Plains Research Field near Etter, walked through fields of corn this year that showed a stark contrast between existing commercial corn varieties and experimental germplasm developed by Dr. Wenwei Xu, AgriLife Research corn breeder in Lubbock.
In a research project designed to pump only 12 inches of irrigation to supplement whatever Mother Nature provided and still grow 200 bushels of corn per acre, 2011 showed the extreme differences irrigation and germplasm can make on a crop, Marek said.
It also showed the production risks and costs associated with potential limits on irrigation water for a high water-use crop, he said.
The research project is jointly sponsored by the North Plains Groundwater District and the Ogallala Aquifer program.
"This was an extremely dry year as we had no soil moisture. And we only received a little over 2 inches of total rain during the entire growing season, with most coming too late to help production," he said. "We were expecting on average a 10-inch contribution.
"Our irrigation goal with the project was to get the corn crop up, manage the limited irrigation water to pollination, and then let the 'rainfall chips' fall where they may with the three varieties," Marek said.
The plots were 12 rows wide, 300 feet long with four replications each at four plant populations.
Within the commercial varieties in this extremely dry year, some individual corn plants have no ears and some have relatively small ears, he said.
However, growing right next to these varieties under the same conditions is an experimental variety being developed by Xu that has nearly full ears. Marek said the difference is in the germplasm and stay-green, which is a drought-resistance trait.
"There's a marked difference in the stress conditions of these commercial corn plots versus the experimental varieties," he said.
The experimental germplasm variety has a pretty good sized ear on the plants and the plant exhibits good turgor pressure or plant strength, Marek said. The experimental variety that had not been irrigated in a month "still looked strong and green" in September, while the commercial varieties were beginning to dry out.
"It was apparent the commercial varieties were severely stressed, more so than the experimental variety," he said.
"These types of germplasm being developed by Dr. Wenwei Xu will be integrated into the commercial varieties through the corporate commercial companies' breeding programs," he said. "The desired traits that are being derived through the AgriLife Research corn breeding program will be integrated into those new proposed varieties."
But Marek said germplasm alone won't be enough to sustain a corn crop through a summer like the one just experienced. Even in wetter years, greater production on less inputs are going to be required to feed the increasing global population of the world.
"The irrigation management or scheduling plays a vital role, up to 50 to 60 percent," he said. "It's paramount to get the combination of irrigation and genetics correct to achieve these types of production levels.
"These particular germplasms show extreme promise," Marek said. "But it's a synergistic effect where you need both genetics and irrigation management if you are going to derive the potential of the new variety going forward, especially in extreme and limited water conditions, which are prevalent throughout the Great Plains region."
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Powerful lobby groups opposed to genetically modified (GM) food are threatening public acceptance of the technology in Europe, research suggests. They are also hampering Europe's response to the global challenge of securing food supplies for current and future generations, researchers claim. Drawing upon a decade of evidence, researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Warwick Univers ... read more
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On Thursday, stocks opened lower on a spike in the U.S. dollar and worries over Europe's debt structure. The early strength in the dollar caused weakness in commodities and commodity-related stocks. However, the afternoon session had a broad advance that overcame many of the early losses.
Last week, U.S. jobless claims declined to 366,000, which was slightly more than expected, but the report appeared to have little impact on trading. Consumer credit for December expanded by $14.6 billion, which beat expectations of $13 billion.
At Thursday's close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 42 points to 13,944, the S&P 500 fell 3 points to 1,509, and the Nasdaq also lost 3 points at 3,165. The NYSE traded 663 million shares compared with 447 million on the Nasdaq. Decliners exceeded advancers by about 1.55-to-1 on both exchanges.
On Thursday, the dollar spiked up against a basket of currencies after European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi voiced concern over strength in the euro, and immediately after that the dollar jumped. This advance caused selling pressure on commodities and stocks.
The chart of the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE:UUP) shows that it is at the top of a triangle that, if broken, could lead to a further advance. Note the buy signal from the MACD.
The powerful January uptrend has slowed, as illustrated by the falling momentum graph. But despite the currency pressures, the low of the day rebounded from just under 1,500 to close in the higher range of the day.
Conclusion: It's beginning to feel like old times with European concerns creating unwanted headline risks. The rate of advance has slowed, and a close under 1,500 could result in a quick penetration of the 20-day moving average line at 1,493 and a quick test of the major support line at 1,475. But the bull is very much in charge and a near-term pullback would be welcome for bargain hunters.
Ed Hyman, chairman and founder of ISI Group, may have it right. He recently said, "While many continue to look for a major sell-off, I just don't think so, believing we will trade higher into the State of the Union [Feb. 12], which should serve as the bears' chance to finally get a 5% – 7% pullback."
I doubt that we will see a pullback to 1,400 (7%), but a test of the line at 1,475 is likely in late February.
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Tokyo (AFP) June 10, 2013
Japan's economy grew faster than previously thought in the first quarter, offering renewed hope for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth-boosting plan after two weeks of stock market tumbles.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index had soared about 80 percent in the months since Abe campaigned for the nation's top job in November, pledging to drag the world's third-largest economy out of years of growth-sapping deflation.
But the Tokyo bourse stumbled in recent weeks, plunging about 18 percent to near bear market territory as doubts emerged over the premier's policy prescription of big government spending and aggressive central bank easing.
Markets were unimpressed with the so-called "third arrow" of his sweeping fix for the economy -- structural reforms -- which Abe unveiled last week as part of a blueprint dubbed "Abenomics".
But the 58-year-old leader vowed to press on before mid-term elections next month that are likely to solidify his Liberal Democratic Party's legislative power.
"The upward revision (for economic growth) confirmed that the Japanese economy remains on a firm recovery track," said Hideki Matsumura, senior economist with the Japan Research Institute.
Earlier Monday, the Cabinet Office said revised data showed annualised growth came in at 4.1 percent in January-March, up from a preliminary reading of 3.5 percent and well ahead of many other industrialised nations who are struggling to stoke their economies.
The annualised figures, which show the level of growth if quarterly data were stretched over an entire year, comes as economists sift through recent figures for signs that Abenomics is taking hold.
The IMF has said it expects Japan's economy to grow 1.6 percent in 2013.
The Cabinet Office also said revised figures for real GDP showed Japan's economy grew 1.0 percent in the first three months of the year, slightly better than the preliminary 0.9 percent growth reading.
The improvement was partly due to an upward revision in capital spending, a key measure of confidence among the nation's producers.
In other upbeat data, consumer confidence improved in May over the previous month with the number of Japanese who expect prices to rise sitting at a near five-year high, as Tokyo works to reverse years of falling prices which have crimped private spending and business investment.
"We expect the economy will continue to grow for now but consumer spending may be dampened in the current quarter after a sizeable adjustment in the Nikkei index," Matsumura said, referring the recent drop in the Tokyo stock market.
However, the Nikkei bounced back back on Monday with a 4.94 percent jump, the biggest one-day boost since March 2011 when Japan was pounded by a quake-tsunami disaster and subsequent nuclear crisis.
Also Monday, official figures showed Japan posted a surplus on its current account for the third straight month in April, as the weaker yen helped boost the value of income from overseas investments.
Japan's surplus doubled year-on-year to 750 billion yen ($7.6 billion) in its current account, the broadest measure of trade with the rest of the world, helping offset a widening trade deficit.
Japan's import bills have soared in the wake of the Fukushima atomic crisis two years ago, which saw Tokyo turn to pricey fossil-fuel alternatives after switching off the disaster-struck country's nuclear reactors.
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With a market cap of has a large market cap size. Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) has been on the stock market since its IPO date on the 3/27/1986. Equifax Inc. is in the Credit Services industry and Financial sector. Average volume for Equifax Inc., is 680.25, and so far today it has a volume of 0. Performance year to date since the 3/27/1986 is 20.46%.
To help you determine whether Equifax Inc. is undervalued the following values will help you decide. P/E is 36.3 and forward P/E is 22.94. PEG perhaps more useful shows that Equifax Inc. has a value for PEG of 3.1. P/S ratio is 5.78 and the P/B ratio is 6.37. The P/Cash and P/Free cash flow is 163.68 and 37.51 respectively.
At the current price Equifax Inc. is trading at, 133.37 (0.00% today), Equifax Inc. has a dividend yield of 0.99%, and this is covered by a payout ratio of 32.10%. Earnings per share (EPS) is 3.67, and this is looking to grow in the next year to 11.68% after growing 19.30% this past year. EPS growth quarter over quarter is 17.20%, and 11.70% for sales growth quarter over quarter.
The number of shares outstanding is 118.8, and the number of shares float is 117.97. The senior management bring insider ownership to 0.60%, and institutional ownership is at 90.80%. The float short is 2.46%, with the short ratio at a value of 4.27. Management has seen a return on assets of 8.70%, and also a return on investment of 14.10%.
The ability for Equifax Inc., to deal with debt, means it current ratio is 0.4, and quick ratio is 0.4. Long term debt/equity is 0.76 and total debt/equity is 1.23. In terms of margins, Equifax Inc. has a gross margin of 66.20%, with its operating margin at 26.10%, and Equifax Inc. has a profit margin of 16.20%.
The 52 week high is -0.19%, with 47.90% being its 52 week low. The 20 day simple moving average is 7.16% and the 200 day simple moving average is 19.66%.
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President Obama, who will turn 50 on Aug. 4, says he wants a special birthday present: "a debt ceiling deal."
Obama told NPR's Tell Me More program in an interview to be broadcast Friday that a proposal by the Senate's "Gang of Six" underscores the value of a "balanced" approach to debt reduction.
The $3.7 trillion deal features "Republican senators acknowledging that revenues need to be part of a balanced package," Obama told NPR's Michel Martin. "And you had Democratic senators acknowledge that we're going to have to make some difficult spending cuts."
Obama said:
"In order for us to solve the debt and deficit problems, we've got to cut spending that we don't need. We have to eliminate programs that may not be working. We've got to make some tough decisions around things like defense spending as well as domestic spending.
But we're also going to have to have more revenues and we can do that in a way that is not hurting the economy -- [and] in fact could potentially help the economy by closing up some loopholes that distort the economy."
House Republicans oppose any tax increases as part of deal to reduce the government's red ink as it raises the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, saying the problem is government spending.
The parties are trying to forge an agreement by Aug. 2, the day the Treasury Department says it loses borrowing authority and faces default.
On NPR, Obama said dealing with the debt problem will enable lawmakers to deal with other issues, such as unemployment.
"If we are able to do some serious work on debts and defciits than it removes the focus solely on what we can't do," Obama said. "What government can't do ... and we can get back back to talking about what are some things that we can do."
Obama defended entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, though he said modest changes may be needed:
"A lot of the spending cuts that we're making should be around areas like defense spending as opposed to food stamps. … What is true is that given the rising number of seniors and given the huge escalation in health care costs, that if we don't structure those programs so that they are sustainable, then it's going to be hard for the next generation to enjoy those same kinds of benefits.
And so we are going to have to make some modest changes that retain the integrity of the program but make sure that they're there for years to come. And that's not even just a deficit problem, that's a step that even if we were all Democrats up here on Capitol Hill, we'd have to start making to make sure the integrity of those programs are preserved."
As for the delay in raising the debt ceiling, Obama said, "You've got some members of the Republican Party who've been down playing the consequences of default. The irony is Ronald Reagan, I think, when he was president, repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the United States to be impaired in any kind of way.
"I also think, in fairness, that the decisions we've got to make right now are tough ones, and nobody likes them. I mean it's always easier to give people more benefits and cut their taxes than it is to raise more revenue and reduce benefits. What we've got to do is to have an honest conversation with each other about each side taking on some of their sacred cows and, frankly, that's what the American people expect."
The president also defended first lady Michelle Obama ordering a high-calorie meal, despite her nutrition and fitness initiatives:
"Michelle doesn't take that too seriously. Michelle knows that -- well, let me put it this way, Michelle's never hid the fact that her favorite food is french fries, or that she's going to have a burger once and awhile. The whole point that she's been making -- which is common sense and so this should be a non-issue -- is how do we make sure that our kids in particular have balanced meals on a regular basis?"
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It was just a year ago today that Josh Turner's Why Don't We Just Dance went gold, Randy Travis went to number one with Three Wooden Crosses in 2003 and Dolly Parton was at number one with Starting Over Again back in 1980.
Here's the rundown for Today In Country Music History for 24 May, 2011.
- Josh Turner earned a gold single for "Why Don't We Just Dance" in 2010.
- Buddy Jewell made his Grand Ole Opry debut in 2003.
- Randy Travis' "Three Wooden Crosses" climbed to Number One on the Billboard country chart in 2003.
- David Lee Murphy's debut album, Out With A Bang, was released in 1994.
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After the doctor receives the threatening note, Olivia says she is going to send a copy to the documents department so "They'll analyze the handwriting, the paper, and the ink." They couldn't analyze the paper and ink from a copy.
Trivia: The poster on the wall during Peter's dream is of the 11th mission of space shuttle Challenger in June 1984. In our universe, the Challenger was destroyed during the launch of its 10th mission in June 1986.
In much of the episode, sleep is said to be generated from the thalamus and the computer probe is said to be implanted there, upon which activation of the probe renders the subjects into a dreamlike state to perform violence. However, the thalamus is regarded as the relay center of the brain, sort of like a neural switchboard. Deeper REM sleep, in which dreams are largely present, is actually actively produced by several sets of nuclei in the pons, which is located below the thalamus closer to the brainstem.
Trivia: The Observer can be seen at the Nayak Sleep Clinic, walking down a flight of stairs in the background as Olivia stands at a balcony.
Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is BETRAY.
Walter: Don't worry, Son. I promise to wear my shorts to bed so that if you bring any young ladies home, there won't be any embarrassing moments.
Walter: The ride back was invigorating. The turbulence over Ohio was like being in the belly of a seizing whale. I screamed like a little girl.
Astrid: I'm sure that went over well with the rest of the passengers.
Kashner: (watching a skull cracking) Do this kind of thing often?
Astrid: Brains? No. Although Walter gets particularly excited whenever we do.
Walter: I need help putting this on.
Astrid: Walter, I do not think this is a very good idea.
Walter: Don't be such a grinch. I've told you science should be fun.
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Australia: January 20, 2010 on GO!
Germany: April 12, 2010 on ProSieben
Poland: October 7, 2010 on TVN
Finland: October 20, 2010 on MTV3
Czech Republic: December 24, 2010 on Nova Cinema
Slovakia: April 9, 2012 on Markiza
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Kirk Acevedo is credited, but only appears in a picture during the episode; when Olivia is telling Peter about how she met Charlie.
Peter: There is also a copy of Max Planck's book on entropy in his backpack that should keep him busy for a couple of hours.
Dr Max Planck, PhD (1858-1947) is widely held as the founder of Quantum Theory. He won the Nobel Prize in 1918. The book Peter is referring to is most likely Entropy and Temperature of Radiant Heat, which was a 470-page paper published by Planck over a series of months in a German physics journal. It was translated by physicist Morton Masius and compiled into a book and published in 1989 by The American Institute of Physics.
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CHICAGO - New U.S. Women's National team coach Tom Sermanni will get a double look at his new team against his native country's national team, when the U.S. Women's National Team makes a two-game tour of the southeast to open 2013 as a second match against Scotland has been added on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn.
The kickoff time at the home of the NFL's Tennessee Titans and broadcast information will be released at a later date.
Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, Jan. 11, at 10 a.m. CT through ussoccer.com, by phone at 1-800-745-3000, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers throughout Central Tennessee (including Kroger stores) and the LP Field ticket office (open Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
The USA will play its first match of 2013 on Feb. 9 at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Fla. That match will kick off at 5 p.m. ET.
The Feb. 13 match will mark just the fourth for the U.S. WNT in the state of Tennessee. The USA played two games against Sweden in Chattanooga in 1997 (one of them a closed-door contest) and faced Canada at LP Field (when it was named The Coliseum) on July 2, 2004, in one of the final matches before the 2004 Olympics in Greece.
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Can you really learn the art of leadership from a book? Chris Middendorp is sceptical.
A cartoon Bob Hawke and a cartoon Frank Sinatra fight for supremacy in the Australian comedy flick The Night We Called It a Day. It's 1974, the two hard-drinking hipsters are cult figures and charismatic leaders of their own tightly controlled worlds. Hawke (David Field) is the larrikin trade union supremo, Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) the petulant boss of the Rat Pack.
In a farcical story, resembling an episode of The Simpsons more than the true incident on which it is based, Sinatra finds himself under siege in his Sydney hotel after refusing to apologise for making some scabrous comments about Australian female journalists being like cheap hookers. Hawke leads 114 unions in black-banning Sinatra. For three days, the notorious crooner is marooned in his penthouse, without power, water or room service.
It becomes a national crisis and it looks as though only divine intervention will be able to heal the rift. Re-enter Hawke, who realises that if he can negotiate a solution, the status of Hawkey will be considerably enhanced. The film presents a stripped-down take on the Hawke legend. His leadership secrets are his capacity to make himself the centre of attention and his prodigious capacity to throw back booze. The situation resolves itself without Hawke's help, but he takes the credit anyway in a fiery speech. The unions give Sinatra back his creature comforts, the show goes on and Hawkey looks like prime-ministerial material.
The movie suggests that Sinatra and Hawke are not all that different, each man sharing the belief that if you've got charisma, you can get away with anything. Leadership is show business.
We live in cynical times and it's tempting to agree with futurist John Naisbitt, who said that leadership involved finding a parade and getting in front of it. But for all our cynicism about the subject, leadership has become one of the great cultural obsessions of our times.
Infinitely more elusive than astrology, tremendously more arcane than religion, leadership in all its ineffable glory preoccupies us like no other subject. From John Howard to Mark Latham, from Nelson Mandela to Slobodan Milosevic, from Kerry Packer to Mick Malthouse, leaders good, bad and ugly are nothing less than the glue of human history.
This notion that leadership is show business is exquisitely lampooned in The Office , the BBC's sardonic comedy series featuring Ricky Gervais as David Brent, "the boss from hell".
Gervais's portrait of leadership is as painful as it is hilarious. Brent, the manager of a small company, has poorly digested some leadership platitudes from half-read self-help manuals. He spouts nonsensical advice that never seems to match the situation. But the real secret, Brent thinks, is that if his staff think he's cool, they'll follow him anywhere. "You'll never have another boss like me. Someone who's basically a chilled-out entertainer," Brent exclaims to general cringing.
Brent isn't an evil man, he's just an idiot. And no amount of sucking up to his staff or quoting pseudo-spiritual management axioms is going to hide the fact that he is a talentless git; the leader as loser. The outrageous success of The Office suggests that there are many bosses out there just like David Brent.
Brent's monstrous thirst to be adored and in charge satirises our own ambitions. Leadership may or may not be show business, but it definitely is big business. It seems we're yearning to uncover how it's done, how we can move up, how we can be great. Pandering to this desire are numberless manuals, textbooks and primers offering to impart successful leadership skills. A veritable presidential library of tips. It's "Read and You Will Lead".
If these self-help volumes aren't to your taste, there's also a vast range of books by or about successful leaders, promising to pass on their hard-won secrets. From former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani's self-important mega-seller Leadership, to Jack Welsh on Leadership , by Robert Salter, to assorted leadership principles quoting everyone from General George S. Patton to Benedictine monks.
There's a fundamental assumption underlying this massive body of information - that leadership can be learned from a book.
The pundits' general argument is that to be a leader, you need to be a better human being. Clearly, most of the material is influenced by that classic volume of self-improvement How To Win Friends And Influence People , written by Dale Carnegie in 1937.
A lot of thought has been put into explaining how to lead, but considerably less effort has been spent on answering a more pertinent question: what is a leader? It's as if leadership is merely a style rather than a phenomenon in its own right.
Leadership The Sven-Goran Eriksson Way focuses on the winning strategies used by the Swedish-born coach of the England football team. The authors, Julian Birkinshaw and Stuart Crainer, explain that "leadership is universal. The climber who strides to the front on a tricky mountain ledge is a leader. A factory worker who organises union activities is a leader. Politicians are leaders. So, too, are soldiers, CEOs, and many, many more."
It's a typically broad definition, because books on leadership rarely attempt to be more precise. Get too specific and down go the sales figures. We want to believe that leadership could apply to us all and isn't just for those rare individuals, the elite athletes, chief executive officers or prime ministers.
A central purpose of these books is to gently foster the hope that one day even you, the reader, may amount to something. It's like a New Age quest for self-discovery - unleash that leader from deep within - just as Dr Bruce Banner unleashes The Hulk, that extraordinary green giant buried deep inside the otherwise bland boffin.
Leadership is a slippery if not impossible subject to define precisely because the word means different things to different people. Just as one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, one man's great leader can be another's sublime fool.
Perhaps the true art of leadership involves having the courage of your convictions. Paul Keating once observed that leadership is not about being popular; it's about being right and being strong. Making unpopular decisions and sticking to them because you believe them to be right surely must be a key attribute of strong leadership.
But where does it leave you? It has been argued that Keating's hubris, his obsession with his "big pictures" at the expense of ordinary voters' priorities, cost him the prime ministry. Weighing up that guard-changing election of 1996, politics professor and Age columnist Robert Manne observed that Keating's vision "went down in middle Australia like a lead balloon". You can't lead people where they don't want to go. Not unless you're Joe Stalin.
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When trying to unpack the leadership conundrum, Bob Hawke may be a good place to start, precisely because he is largely out of public view today. It's worth remembering that as prime minister, Hawke was one of Australia's most beloved leaders, even if his later activities - including a term as cub reporter for 60 Minutes and his speculation in African stone carvings - has somewhat eclipsed his former glory.
The Hawke Government: A Critical Perspective (edited by Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston) reminds us that Hawke wasn't just a popular leader - he was, for a time, a national folk hero. His abilities to enthuse others verged on the metaphysical, his relationship with the electorate frequently described as a love affair.
Commenting on the Hawke leadership style, Bramston writes: "Hawke preferred to communicate directly with the electorate on television and radio, where his physical presence had a greater impact. He used anger, force, logic, humour and optimism to great effect."
Bramston argues that the man's charisma was so powerful that the "essential ingredient in Hawke's popularity was that he was not perceived to be a politician". Yes folks, Bob Hawke was in show business - the prime minister as chilled-out entertainer.
Bramston's later analysis becomes even more interesting, because the identified attributes of Hawke's leadership approach are the same attributes you'll find extolled in 90 per cent of the current publications on how to be a leader. Think of them as the Essential Platitudes for Success .
Hawke "projected confidence", "responded to the times", "fostered optimism", "brought people together", "stressed harmony and reconciliation" and "shared the aspirations of those he led".
We're hearing similar rhetorical promises coming from that truest of believers, Mark Latham, whose 2003 book From The Suburbs bursts with suggestions for "reinventing collectivism" and "reconnection". Latham-the-leader may filch from the odd Clinton speech, but he has also borrowed from the Hawkey style manual.
The engine of the leadership books industry is propelled by two basic ideas: the fostering of consensus and getting people to work together. Today's leaders aren't autocrats, they're harmony makers.
Leadership Promises For Every Day , by John C. Maxwell, is a kind of holy book for would-be bosses and reconnected prime ministers everywhere.
Maxwell is one of the most prolific writers on the subject and isn't shy in invoking God - "our Ultimate Leader". Maxwell aims to give readers core leadership values. He sprouts familiar maxims: "Gather the best team possible." "Give credit for success to the team." "Serve others to help them grow and thrive." "Vision attracts others to the leader." Maxwell's key point is this: to be a person of influence, you must recognise what matters to the people you lead. Find out what they "cry about", "sing about" and "dream about". Sadly, it doesn't tell you what you then do with that information. Presumably you use it to get your acolytes on side - appeal to their desires and fears. Not in the Machiavellian sense, you understand, but in the nicest Christian style imaginable.
The Leadership Challenge Journal , by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, emphasises personal reflection. Full of inspirational thoughts, this book encourages you to put down some of your own ideas on its conveniently lined pages.
"The leader's unique legacy is the creation of valued institutions that stand the test of time." Huh? Sounds like a fortune-cookie maxim prepared by a half-cut MBA. "Leaders strengthen others by sharing power and providing choice, making each person feel competent and confident." Better. But there's no attempt to explain how you do it. Other advice is more familiar. "Model the way." "Inspire a shared vision." "Enable others to act." And the big one - "Today's critical currency isn't intellectual or economic capital but social capital - the collective value of the people we know and what we'll do for each other."
What does it all really mean? There's a lot of shared vision and social capital going around these days. It's one thing to inspire a shared vision, but what should that vision be? And isn't the other advice simply common sense? Respect. Listening to others. Creating a good team. Sharing a goal. All sensible notions that would work anywhere. None of it amounts to wrestling arcane secrets from the crepuscular deity of people management.
You wonder if there's something deeper behind all this. If Plato was right when he said that only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it, then we're all in a lot of trouble. Aren't these books targeting those of us who would be the rulers of men? And isn't there an irony in vast numbers of people earnestly following a book in order to lead?
The literature may have another purpose. It's tempting to conclude that these works of guidance are consumed by people who want a greater insight into the authority figures in their lives. Helping people to make sense of their leaders may be the books' real function. The next best thing to having power is understanding it. This facilitates a greater quality of engagement with our leaders, and is the first step in helping to lead them to serve us better.
This brings us to what is by far the most entertaining and the most troubling of recent books on the subject - the preposterous but popular Leadership Sopranos Style by Deborrah Himsel. Himsel uses Tony Soprano, the libidinous thug and gangster from the popular Mafia series The Sopranos , as a good leader paradigm. Sure, Tony kills people and runs girls and rackets, but apparently he also epitomises the finest principles of leadership. Unlike other writers on the subject, Himsel eschews the lofty New Age vocabulary of other leadership manuals. "Being receptive to feedback isn't the same as pinning a kick-me sign on your rear end." The good boss "has the last word, and when he says he's heard enough, he expects the other person to shut up". And if they don't shut up? Do you have the dissenter whacked? Himsel lovingly recounts how after a disagreement Tony Soprano "uses a staple gun to indelibly imprint the lesson of who's in charge". Thankfully Himsel concedes that The Sopranos provides only a metaphor for leadership: we shouldn't take it literally.
In his book Looking For Leadership Donald Horne, with characteristic Australian plain talking, cuts through all the mysticism about leadership and furnishes us with a simple but helpful definition. "Being a leader doesn't necessarily mean being a seer or a priest or a Fuhrer, but at a minimum it does mean competence in public performance - speaking clearly and persuasively and, at times, touching the imagination."
How much better off would this world be if our leaders could just manage that?
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How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Legendary Broadway musical and 1967 movie starring Robert Morse as an ambitious window cleaner who follows the advice of a self-help book and hits the big time. But he soon learns that if he's going to remain on top in business, the book won't help. He'll need some of his own ideas.
How To Win Friends and Influence People
If most of the books on leadership are really a form of self-improvement manual, then this book, which has sold more than 10 million copies, is the one that started it all. According to author Dale Carnegie: "Believe that you will succeed, and you will."
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The gospel according to Mark Latham. "When people ask me what Labor stands for, I believe the answer is straight-forward: we are anti-establishment."
The Prince
Written by Italian diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli and published in 1532, the book offers cynical but realistic advice to help a prince remain in power. Caustic guidance from an era even more cynical than our own.
Gripping BBC espionage series featuring the paranoid world of spy leader Tom Quinn and his MI5 agents. Somehow Quinn manages to keep his cool and make sensible decisions even though leading his team is like trying to wrestle a dragon with 12 heads. Series three is in production.
Leadership Soprano Style
Author Deborrah Himsel tries to convince us that we can learn a lot about leadership by watching a fictional character who happens to be a Mafia boss. A curious and amusing idea, but is it in bad taste?
The Hawke Government
This book, edited by Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston, reminds us of Bob Hawke's leadership style and investigates the triumphs and disasters of his government.


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In the First Person - A Candid Conversation with Martin Seifert, President, Nufern
Interviewed by: Stephen D. Fantone, President & CEO, Optikos
Complimentary Executive Interview and Networking Reception at
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Featured Speaker: Martin Seifert, President, Nufern
Martin Seifert is the president of Nufern in East Granby, Connecticut, which was founded in 2000 as a Telco specialty fiber house. Nufern successfully changed to a fiber laser and amplifier supplier for the industrial and military/aerospace markets in 2003, and was sold to Rofin in early 2008. In 2010, Nufern expanded it's product family by acquiring the fiber optic gyroscope coil winding business of Optelecom-NKF. While Seifert has predominantly been a business leader for the last twenty nine years, he has a technical background and is named on a number of Nufern fiber, chip, and laser patents.
Prior to Nufern Seifert was the President and GM of Lucent Specialty Fibers, a position which came as a result of his successful turnaround of the foundering SpecTran specialty optical fiber manufacturing company and its subsequent sale to Lucent in 1999. In 1992 Seifert started and managed a successful combined hardware and software business at Rockwell where he was also involved with merger, acquisition, and divestiture activities. Before being recruited to turn around SpecTran, he was COO of Schweitzer Engineering Labs, a 350-person private company making mission critical microprocessor based control and protection systems. From 1984 to 1989 Seifert managed a drives and control system service organization within Bucyrus-Erie.
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Mar 5, 2013 - StaffRiverton High School hosts the top speech and debate students from western Wyoming this week for their national qualifying tournaments, and school officials have sounded the calls for judges.
The best competitors from this week's National Forensic League district tournament earn spots in the NFL National Speech and Debate Tournament in Birmingham, Ala., this summer.
Judges are needed for:
• humorous interpretation of literature, or humorous "interp," in which students perform 10-minute cuttings from funny plays, books, movies and essays;
• dramatic "interp," the more-serious cousin of humorous interp;
• duo interp, similar to the two aforementioned events, except that the cuttings are performed by two people;
• original oratory, in which speakers deliver a persuasive speech that they have written themselves;
• extemporaneous speaking, when students draw a current-events topic at random and have 30 minutes to research, compose and memorize a 5-7-minute speech;
• NFL student congress, a mock legislative session;
• public-forum debate, a logic-based argument pitting two teams debating a standard topic set at the beginning of each month of the season November through March;
• Cross-examination or "policy" debate, similar to public-forum debate but with a greater emphasis on outside evidence and debate strategy according to a strict set of rules;
• Lincoln-Douglas debate, which is a one-on-one competition rather than two-on-two, and which stresses persuasiveness based on established values more than recitation of evidence.
Judges are given instruction sheets with event rules and a point-by-point ballot to guide them. A typical competitive round takes about one hour.
In the NFL district format, competitors are eliminated gradually over the course of the tournament. The top two finishers in each event qualify for nationals, although it is not unusual for a third- or fourth-place finisher to receive a spot as well because some speakers qualify in more than one event and must state their preference, sometimes leaving spots open for lower finishers.
The Riverton High School team is coached by Annette Thornton. Among the senior leaders this season are Jace Flanagan, Jaden Brummond, Sean Thornton and Dallin Cooper. Flanagan, Brummond and Thornton all are previous national qualifiers.
A team champion also is named, along with an NFL chapter of the year and an NFL district student of the year.
Judges may serve for one round or several, depending on their interest and availability.
Anyone interested in judging is asked to contact Thornton or activities director Jeremy Hill immediately at 856-9491.
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BVB Album Details and Hecklers
Digging: Shinedown - delete this
The shittiest bands always release an album ever fucking year
Digging: Uchu Conbini - Feel the Dying Note
Back in the day Maiden and Zeppelin and lots of bands put out an album every year
Digging: Madonna - Music
Fucking genre-bending mudslides
Poor Andy, this band is probably in great fear of what creating even worse material could do for them, people would probably start throwing bricks instead of water bottles.
Biggest bunch of arrogant, overrated douchebags since Miami Sound Machine
Where is Wylie to come in wielding his sword to defend BVB???
that was back in the day, currently I think that there's a larger chance to get big in the music business if you're a hot guy/girl even if you dont know shit about music.
plus, a lot artist that are actually good musicians sell their integrity once they hit the jackpot.
"He stood up on stage and told them to come up and fight him" , would probably end up on youtube "scrawny emo kid gets his ass kicked"
@andcas he must be rolling around in his coffin, and yes I am aware that he isn't dead
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Just another album to raise my objectivity rating.
Haha, I was there when he did this. In fact he stopped the band several times to give some stupid speech about the hecklers. Arrogant guy, terrible band.
Honestly, I'm a sucker for glam metal soloing, and if these guys got a singer with some sort of range and wrote lyrics that weren't so damn cheesy sometimes, I could probably enjoy them...
They are writing a concept album? Let me guess, scene kid gets pushed around and beaten up. So he decides to write gay songs about how he is special and no one understands him but his fat equally scene girlfriend. Then they die.
Digging: Tyler, the Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy
There you go, two eps and two album, and the dude is already acting like he's fucking Lars Ulrich
Oh Hay there, Snide.
It's like you follow them on twitter, Snide.
"It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel."
I'm actually excited for the new album lol, Andy Sixx isn't exactly the best vocalist, but I love the instrumentals of the band. Talented dudes.
big veiny balls
Really curious about what would have happened had someone actually taken the vocalist up on his offer.
is asnideremark someone's shitty alt or just someone with autism
that band was bad.
I don't even know what else to say.
Fucking bad.
I am going to 5 this so hard, everyone on sputnik is going to stand up and take notice.
lol at that drummer's level of enthusiasm
That running man stage move needs to die
at least the front man has a decent haircut now. his fringe was just ridiculous
Me write review? I would but it would not make sputnik happy. I just can't get myself to write any review. I think it is a confidence thing. Perhaps if I get the first one out of the way, the rest would just follow easily.
@andcas is it just me or did that kind of music and image go out of style no less than 4 years ago??
"It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel" fucking lol. [9001]
They've got to be the stupidest looking bunch of dudes around.
They've got to be the stupidest looking bunch of dudes around. [666]
'We're Writing A Punk Rock Record'
imagine all the kerrang readers calling Black Veil Brides the best punk band ever
Digging: Brandon Seabrook - Die Trommel Fatale
Make a news article about a shitty band.
80% of the comments come from shitty users trying to be funny.
apparently they're "bullies" or something (the hecklers)
I know heckling is a bit douchey but the way this band act and talk makes me want to slap them all hard in the face
Digging: Denzel Curry - 13
everything about this band is complete wank
They said they want to stay relevant so they have to release a new album already
Fucking lol Snide
"We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world."
At least they can recognize that they're not the second coming of christ. I really hate it when shitty bands think they're the be all and end all of music.
"It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel"
At least they can recognize that they're not the second coming of christ. I really hate it when shitty bands think they're the be all and end all of music.
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McDavid's sophomore season may top Crosby as best in recent memory
As far as sophomore seasons go, Sidney Crosby had one of the best the league had ever seen.
After receiving continuous support from their communities Jon Sim, Colin White and the Play the Pros Society will continue to give back the their community for the sixth straight year.
"It's huge being able to do this after the 13 to 14 years we've played pro and we've had a lot of supporters and a lot of people help us along the way so we wanted to find a way to give back," said Sim.
Giving kids the chance to play hockey is the main reason that Sim and White helped begin the annual Play the Pros fundraising event, aside from giving back to other children's charities.
"We choose different charities, but mostly it's for underprivileged kids to play hockey and donate gear throughout Pictou County through the NHLPA Goals and Dreams program," said Sim. "So far in six years we've donated up to 150 sets and the money alone is over $140,000. Hopefully we'll help put a kid through hockey and maybe he'll get to the live the dream we got to live."
The day consists of a kids game in the afternoon follow by an adult game at night, played at the John Brother MacDonald Stadium. There is also a silent and live auction, as well as comedians after the adult game.
Coming up with this plan came after bouncing around different ideas, such as playing golf in some form.
"We enjoy doing golf tournaments as well, but this is a different activity," said Sim. "You get to go out and play hockey with the NHL guys and mess around in the locker room. It's just a lot of fun being able to do this with the kids and adults from the area."
Each summer the players all travel home, rather than staying in the respective cities where they play throughout the season. White said it's about that feeling of home and stepping away from work.
"You like to get away from your job you know and it's a great get away to come back here for us," he said. "It's a lot slower paced, which personally I like because the hustle and bustle of the city gets to you after awhile. It's nice to see family and friends and enjoy where we grew up."
"The biggest thing for us is getting the kids involved because it's great to have a dream, but along the way you make a lot of friends and it's a confidence builder just to be a part of team," said White. "Most of us have made our friends through hockey so we like to give them the same chance to play sports that we did."
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Date: Aug. 11
Location: John Brother MacDonald Stadium
To sign up for kids game contact Dave Wilson: 755-4780
To sign up for the adult game contact Craig Clarke: firstname.lastname@example.com
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) The captain of the Harvard football team was indefinitely suspended and could be kicked off the team after he allegedly broke into his former girlfriend's dorm room and later assaulted her.
Matthew Thomas, 22, faces charges after his arrest June 5, including assault and battery, domestic abuse and breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony at a campus dorm.
Witnesses saw the 6-foot-1, 245-pound Thomas choke the alleged victim with one hand before "he suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest," according to a criminal complaint filed in Cambridge District Court by Harvard police.
The woman was treated at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge for her injuries, including a large welt on her lower back, police said.
Thomas, a senior from Mount Airy, Md., was an all-Ivy League linebacker.
"I'm deeply troubled by the allegations," Harvard coach Tim Murphy told the Boston Globe for Saturday's editions. "Based on his arrest, I suspended him indefinitely from the team on June 8. If the allegations prove to be true, he will be dismissed from the team. We are just awaiting due process."
A call to a listing for a Matthew Thomas in Mount Airy wasn't immediately returned Saturday. A spokeswoman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's press office said no further information about the case was immediately available Saturday.
According to police, the alleged victim returned to her room after a party that she and Thomas attended separately, and she found him passed out on the floor. She woke him to confront him about a relationship with another woman, the two began yelling and he began to hit her, according to the police report.
Officers said they needed to awaken Thomas after they aided the alleged victim and that he appeared confused about why police were there.
His arrest was first reported last month by the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.
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So it seems that .change() does work on an input field, which I like and may stick with. .blur() also works too.
Any differences here in browser support?
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It is said that with Sclerotherapy there is a "High Risk" of having a Stroke. What are the chances for this risk?
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Am I a Candidate For Ultrasound Sclerotherapy for the Feet & Lower Legs? I Have Neuropathy and Increased Platelets In Blood.
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Twitter's new "You both follow" and "" features were a pleasant surprise on Friday the 13th!
I was checking out new followers for my @YoYoSEO account and following back people in the search industry. I then "met" @DeanSutton of Nottus Marketing.
Ah… I was away from Twitter much of the day. Now, this is a new feature I found useful. I quickly went to Twitter search (http://search.twitter.com) and found a new story by Mashable:
Twitter Rolling Out "You Both Follow" Feature
I like "You both follow" because…
I want to ensure, first, that followers are real people.
- If I know them, then I'll shout out a Yo!
- If they don't have a bio link, I usually don't bother and move on.
- If their profile name ends in a number, window closed.
- If they tweet their own blog posts or affiliate sales, they may get blocked or reported for spam.
- If they interact with people in the search and social media space, immediate attention.
- I may take a moment to look at their followers, to see if they have "votes" from people whom I trust.
Twitter's new "You Both Follow" solves that!
I instantly saw that Dean Sutton was followed by some of the same people followed by Yo! Yo! SEO, and we both followed some people I admire and respect.
Twitter's new "You both follow" feature is an instant peer review – trust signal!
Dean, nice to meet you!
I may not use the feature to review followers of my @lookadoo account as often, because those email notifications are filtered into a folder and often ignored. This is nothing personal but a time management issue. So if you want me to know about you, please shout out. Let's engage!
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Editor's note: This article is by Keith Whitcomb Jr. of the Bennington Banner, in which a longer version was first published on Feb. 5, 2014.
BENNINGTON — Despite the emergency room being no place to deliver psychiatric care, at times the local hospital's ER is half-filled with people in need of mental health care, some of whom have been there for weeks awaiting placement in a more appropriate facility.
The problem is not expected to go away, said William Hall, director of engineering at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, and so the hospital plans to renovate existing storage space near the ER into a three-bed area specially designed to house patients suffering a mental health crisis.
Hall expects the renovation will cost between $120,000 and $140,000. Construction is expected to begin the first week of March. The space will have an office for nurses and security staff who can monitor patients via closed-circuit television to allow them solitude. It will be handicapped accessible and there will be a bathroom with a shower.
The Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, formerly the state's primary mental health facility, closed in 2011 when it was flooded by Tropical Storm Irene. Its replacement in Berlin is expected to open this summer. But hospitals statewide have been struggling to place their psychiatric patients, and some worry the pressure on their ERs will not be completely alleviated.
The Vermont State Hospital had 54 beds; the new one is expected to have 25.
"We believe that we are building a state mental health facility in Vermont that's going to be an example for the rest of the country, that's our plan," said Gov. Peter Shumlin Monday in an interview. "You have to remember that we lost our state hospital in the middle of the night, we still don't have it back, and we believe that the additional 25 beds along with the enhanced community-based care, which is what we're really beefing up, is going to reduce the need for acute care when prevention in the local community works better, is more cost-effective, and better for patients."
He said the state is still in crisis in the meantime, and hospitals have handled things well.
Locally, there is skepticism the new facility will alleviate the pressure on the ER.
"The long and short of it is that in total by the end of the summer it's anticipated that they will have increased the capacity of the system by 10 beds, and I don't think anyone realistically thinks that's going to fix the problem," said Dr. Adam Cohen, medical director of SVMC Emergency Department.
Cohen spoke to the Banner in early January and said that during the previous week, seven of the ER's 16 beds were occupied by patients in need of psychiatric care, two of whom had been there for over a week.
"They are very resource-intensive patients to take care of," he said. "In many cases we need a sheriff and a full-time one-on-one provider to take care of these patients."
An emergency room is not a good place for someone in need of psychiatric care, Cohen said.
"It's bad for them, they're in a high-stimulus environment that usually makes them worse. It's bad for the other patients in the ER," said Cohen. "Imagine you're next door with your 3-year-old and there's a violent, out-of-control, psychotic patient in the room next to you screaming profanities the whole time you're there. That's not good for anyone else in the ER."
The new rooms will allow patients in mental health crisis to be away from the noise and hustle of the ER, but they can still be monitored to make sure they do not harm themselves or others.
Hall said the rooms are an extension of the ER, not a new department. No new services will be provided by the hospital, which does not offer psychiatric care.
This problem is not unique to SVMC.
"There is very poor access to psychiatric treatment in the state," said Cohen. "Again, not a local problem, not a Vermont problem, but a problem nationwide, but if you come to the emergency department there is a likelihood that your wait times will be longer because we are treating a large population of psychiatric patients in a system that is designed, at this point, to offer them no recourse but to go to the emergency department and wait there for a long time for treatment to be available."
People in need of emergency care cannot be turned away, and when a patient has nowhere to go, Cohen said, emergency rooms end up being a catch-all place to put people.
"We've had to develop training programs to handle these kinds of things, and it's been a lengthy process," said Cohen. "I feel that we have the training and the policies in place now to help us handle this population as best we can under the circumstances, but this is not the purpose of an emergency department."
He noted that providers have been assaulted by patients numerous times, which adds to the rate of staff turnover.
Contact Keith Whitcomb Jr. at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @KWhitcombjr.