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Started by Pretz , Jan 23 2013 09:35 AM
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:35 AM
I'd really appreciate some advice.
For the first time, I have put my items up for sale on ebay as an auction.
I didn't select a buy it now option.
There is just over a week remaining but I have just had someone email me asking me if I can put a buy it now option.
a) Is it fair to other people who are watching the item?
Especially since I have offered to combine postage to those who buy multiple items.
b) would you just reduce the remaining time?
I want to do the right thing for everyone who isinterested in the item.
I'd also find it hard to pick a price. ALso, if I did this for one auction, I wonder if other people would do the same thing....
Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:41 AM
QUOTE (PinkNBlue85 @ 23/01/2013, 10:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
When I change from an auction to a buy it now price it is generally because someone has offered me an amount I am happy with. I don't pick a random number. Maybe you could ask your interested party how much they are willing to buy X item for and if your happy list at that price.
Thankyou. That is a good idea.
I was surprised that she didnlt indicate what she'd be willing to pay in her mail.
Do you think it is fair to the other people who are watching the item?
I'm just curious, because I don't want to put anyone out.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:42 AM
I will sometimes watch an item just to see what it went for. I have also listed items with 15 watchers, but no one bid so item didn't sell.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:45 AM
QUOTE (lsolaBella @ 23/01/2013, 10:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I will sometimes watch an item just to see what it went for. I have also listed items with 15 watchers, but no one bid so item didn't sell.
TBH that hadnt occured to me ...
I now wish I had done that myself so I could know what a reasonable price is for this.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:26 AM
QUOTE (Pretz @ 23/01/2013, 10:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
TBH that hadnt occured to me ...
I now wish I had done that myself so I could know what a reasonable price is for this.
You can do a search for items similar, and then click 'completed listings' as a filter, and it will show you any that have completed in the last few weeks and what they went for, if they sold or not, etc.
I would not put a buy it now unless you're very sure what price you would be happy to sell it for. Or set a really high/optimistic buy-it-now price.
I wouldn't reduce the auction time, people watching it might not get a chance to bid if they had in their head that it was ending much later.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:39 AM
QUOTE (PinkNBlue85 @ 23/01/2013, 11:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Like a pp stated just because people are watching your item doesn't mean anyone is going to bid so no I wouldn't feel I am being unfair in offering it to someone who is interested in buying it rather than leaving it open and no one buying it.
It is possible though that you could miss out on people who are going to bid.
There was an expandable clothes rack I needed urgently but the ebay auction was a week away so I contacted the guy with a price in case he would consider ending it early because I was going to buy a different one that day if not, but he didn't want to (fair enough). It ended up selling for twice the price I offered, so he made the right decision.
(Note to self - next time aldi has the expandable clothes dryers, pick up a few and sell them on ebay - they'll go for double what you bought them for!)
Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:49 AM
How about an 'or best offer' option rather than a buy it now that way you have the option of whether or not to accept the offer. Usually people put a high amount on the item but put a 'or best offer' amount underneath it. That way people can see you are open to offers and then you could end up getting more for the item that you first thought.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 11:20 AM
Thankyou so much everybody.
These are some fantastic suggestions!
I hadn't realised that I could check completed auctions. D'oh!
I'm a complete novice when it comes to selling.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:36 PM
I get this all the time....I used to use another overseas auction website and it was very rare to have a buyer seeking to do an "under the table" purchase. But whenever I've put big items on ebay my listing attracted multiple buyers wanting to do the transaction out of ebay. Is it quite common??
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This paper is an extended version of paper published in The Annual IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC 2012), London, ON, Canada, 10–12 October 2012.
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
An automatic power management system, to monitor the distribution of power to a set of load banks, is presented in this paper. The required power is generated from a laboratory-size pitch-controlled wind turbine experimental workstation. The management system is a sequence of logic expressions, based on the generated power, a profile of the banks' states provided by the supervisor and the banks' priorities, to obtain an optimal behavior of the system and to ensure the load requirement. A modified PI pitch angle control is proposed to regulate the generated power for tracking the power reference in order to maintain a consistent brilliance of the load's LEDs, to reduce the activity of the pitch actuator and to deal with fluctuation problems. Experimental results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed automatic power management system for load banks supplied by a pitch controlled wind turbine.
In recent decades, wind energy has become the predominant viable source of renewable energy. Scientists and engineers have gained vast experience in handling small to large capacity generation system. Wind power generation is also estimated to produce 12% of the world's electricity requirement by 2020 [
A power management system can control the power generation at optimum levels to meet the load power demand [
The power management system changes the amount of the requested and provided power during its operation. Therefore, this power must be regulated to track a power profile requested by the supervisor. The pitch angle controller can adjust the pitch setting at its optimum value to achieve power tracking [
In this paper, a Boolean-based power management system is developed for supplying a set of load banks from wind energy sources. It is designed for an automatic switching of the banks depending on the request of a supervisor, the availability of power from wind, and the banks' priorities. The supervisor can manually turn the banks' ON-OFF switches, and a power reference signal is generated based on the switches being at state ON, which is used as a reference to control the wind turbine power output. A pitch angle control strategy is used to regulate the power through the pitch actuator, the only control system available in the wind turbine, as there is no power electronic interface between the generator and the load to allow controlling the wind turbine outputs.
A modified PI pitch angle control is proposed to reduce fluctuation in the power, reduce activity of the pitch actuator and maintain a consistent brilliance of the banks' LEDs. In case of excess wind power compared to the power reference, as requested by the supervisor, the pitch actuator of the wind turbine will change the pitch angle of the blades to reduce the generated power to the reference one. For the other case, where the wind turbine cannot produce enough power to meet the demand of the supervisor, less priority loads will be automatically turned OFF by the automatic power management system. The Boolean-based method presented in this work can be applied for a small-scale network with a limited number of isolated loads and can be used in remote areas where less demand of energy is required.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: the experimental setup (wind turbine and electronic load) is described in
The wind turbine experimental setup consists of five-blade turbines connected to a DC generator through a gearbox with a ratio of 1:1 to change the horizontal rotation of the shaft to a vertical one as the generator is mounted vertically. The wind turbine is installed in a tunnel, and the generator is directly connected to an electronic load (circuit board with LEDs). A servo motor, used for controlling the blade pitch angle, emulates the behavior of a variable-speed hydraulic servo system [
The power captured from the wind by the rotor of the turbine is given by the nonlinear expression
The power produced by the generator is carried out from the measured voltage and current, and given by the following expression
The wind turbine experiment system, with major components, is presented in
Wind turbine experiment workstation by Quanser Inc.
The electronic load consists of 6 parallel equal banks of 20 LEDs in each bank in series with a resistance as shown in
Schematic of the load banks.
The load banks can be switched manually ON/OFF using switches on the front panel as shown in
Configuration of the load banks.
The aim of the automatic switching system is to manage the distribution of power to the banks based on the available power from wind and the power demand by the banks. A supervisor is changing the power demand by manually turning the banks' switches ON/OFF, and the automatic switching system will make the decision of turning the banks' switches ON/OFF based on the generated power and some conditions related to power demand.
The design of the logic for the priorities of the banks' automatic switching is based on the following conditions:
(1) The number of banks turned ON will be determined by the power generated from the wind turbine.
(2) A bank is considered to be ON if it is illuminated without flickering and with minor power fluctuation.
(3) Based on the amount of generated power, the banks are ranked by priority from the left to the right in the load (Bank 1, Bank 2, … and Bank 6). However, the priorities can be assigned to different banks by switching wires into the multiplexer.
(4) A supervisor can manually turn ON/OFF any bank (
The signal of the power reference is built based on the state of the manual switches given by the supervisor. The Boolean expressions of the priorities of the banks' automatic switching are given as follows:
Conditions of the generated power.
|Generated power (
Table of generated power conditions has been built based on experimentation and observation. Depending on the manual switching of the banks, it is observed that for each bank a power of 0.1 W is required to illuminate the bank's LEDs and remain bright enough to be considered ON.
The measured power fluctuates around the power reference because of various factors such as random variation of wind speed, noise measurement in sensors and the continuous activity of the pitch actuator. The logic of the automatic switching system is based on constant step changes of the power reference following the supervisor's request. Therefore, without any power error tolerance around the power reference, the banks will switch ON and OFF each time there is an error between the measured power and reference one as shown in
Switch's states based on the power error.
|Bank's switch
It can be seen from
In order to overcome this problem, an error-dependent threshold for automatic bank switches can be added to the logic of the automatic switching system. The appropriate power threshold
The acceptable power range
Therefore, if the generated power
The profile of the power reference is generated based on the banks' switches, manually turned ON by the supervisor, or the available power from wind. Therefore, the power must be regulated to track the power reference. In the experimental wind turbine, used in this work, adjustment of the pitch angle of the blades is the only way to regulate the power required for each bank or a combination of banks, and is done by the pitch servo-motor as shown in
In a basic control strategy, the controlled power is compared with its reference and the error signal is sent to a PI controller to produce the optimum pitch angle
Using such a controller, the pitch angle is continuously changing, which can damage the pitch actuator, as it is in high activity. Moreover the pitch actuators have the limitation of influencing the power regulation performance of the wind turbine [
The power management system is developed for step changes in the profile of the power reference based on banks' switching states and the available power. Therefore, the operation of the system is based on the power error compared to the error-tolerance
(1) A change between two steps, as shown in
(2) A change in the power while the reference is constant, as shown in
Power reference profile and generated power.
The modified pitch angle controller is based on the variation of the power error. If the power error is outside the error band ±
Proposed PI fluctuation pitch angle control strategy.
Flow chart of the PI pitch fluctuation controller.
Experimentation is carried out to validate the performance of the proposed power management system and the pitch angle fluctuation controller. Algorithms and I/O data acquisition are implemented in Matlab/Simulink/QUARC. QUARC generates real-time code directly from the Simulink model and runs the generated code in real-time on the Windows target—all on the same PC. The Data Acquisition Board Q2 seamlessly interfaces with Simulink using Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) blocks provided in the QUARC Targets Library [
The choice of the proportional gain
Initially, one bank must be turned ON in order to connect the generator to the load. Also, the banks can be manually turned ON/OFF by the supervisor before running the system. Then, the automatic switching will change the states of the banks depending on the generated power from the wind turbine and the bank's priority.
The power reference is generated based on the state of the bank's switches, manually chosen by the supervisor and the available power from wind. The pitch angle controller adjusts the pitch angle in order for the generated power to track the reference one as shown in
Generated power, reference power under PI pitch angle controller.
Automatic switching of the banks for the power reference of four banks (PI pitch angle controller).
The result of the modified PI pitch angle controller for the same application is shown in
Generated power, reference power under modified PI pitch angle controller.
Automatic switching of the banks for the power reference of four banks (modified PI pitch angle controller).
Generated power and pitch angle under PI fluctuation controller.
Generated power and pitch angle under PI fluctuation controller.
Generated power and pitch angle under PI fluctuation controller.
Generated power and pitch angle under PI fluctuation controller.
The proposed system aims to distribute the generated power from wind turbine to LED electronic load banks, and a Boolean-based power management system for automatic switching of load banks has been implemented in this work. The logic expressions have been developed based on the generated power from the wind turbine, the profile of the banks' states provided by the supervisor and the sequence of priorities. The generated power has been controlled to track the power reference profile by a PI controller-based pitch angle control strategy. A modified PI controller-based pitch angle control has been developed and implemented to reduce the activity of the pitch actuator and maintain a consistent brilliance of the LEDs' light. From the experimental results, the switching system changes the state of the banks' switches based on the available power and the modified PI controller, and the based pitch angle control system reduces the activity of the pitch actuator by providing a smooth change in pitch angle.
This work was supported in part by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) at Saint Mary's University under FGSR Grant.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Security guards, alternatively called security officers, perform a vital function in numerous industries worldwide. Whether armed or unarmed, mobile or stationary, or uniform or plain clothes, they help their employers protect property and interests, while also supplementing the crime-detection efforts of traditional law enforcement agencies. As a result, they are frequently best situated to identify potential criminal acts.
Closely monitoring their assigned location, be it static or patrolled, allows security guards to spot suspicious behavior and prevent problems, including illegal activity.
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text: So in this month's GQ I was looking at some of the summer suits they had and noticed that one really nice looking one was only $120 and it was from Uniqlo? I know they only have one store in the US which stinks because I live in Dallas, but does anyone know anything about this brand? I know they are Japanese.


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Social Media Examiner's 2012 Social Media Report was released a few days ago, and I was finally able to sit down and digest it. There were a lot of interesting results that I will be happy to talk about at another time, but one thing in particular jumped out at me and has me thinking.
It has to do with the result below:
Social Media Examiner's report shows that 72% of marketers have NO plans to use daily deals in 2012.
Daily deals were all the rage a couple of years ago for consumers, and in many ways, they're still a hot item. The main contenders in the beginning were Groupon and Living Social, but now every newspaper, radio station, and start up company has them. Before, daily deals were limited primarily to restaurants, beauty services, teeth whitening, and auto details. Today, you can get amazing deals on travel, excursions, and big ticket items. If you have signed up to receive these alerts from the big guys, plus all the local companies offering them, no doubt you wake up in the morning with the arduous task of clearing out your inbox.
And do you know what's happening? People are starting to tune them out.
I'm in no way implying that daily deals will be gone by the end of 2012, but if 72% of marketers have no plans on using daily deals, it can't be a good sign—especially for the smaller, home-grown options. I'm also struck by the issues that Groupon is currently experiencing. It seems they just can't get a handle on being a public company. They've gone from being a media darling to being in the hot seat in a manner of months. Personally, I think Google is breathing a 6 billion dollar sigh of relief that their offer to buy Groupon wasn't accepted last year.
Yes, the results indicated that 2% more of marketers plan on using daily deals in their marketing efforts than in 2011, but 27% still pales in comparison to the 72% that have NO intention of using it (If you're curious as to who makes up that 72%, the vast majority of marketers who answered the survey were in companies that had 2 – 10 employees.). If these marketers aren't using daily deal sites, then who's going to keep them alive? Think about it, how often do you see a major brand like Pepsi or Krispy Kreme using daily deals?
My question to you is this: Have you used daily deals in the past, and do you expect to use them this year? Why or why not?


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A Constant Urge to Buy: Battling a Compulsion
By DANIEL GOLEMAN
Published: July 17, 1991
THE couple had a combined income above $350,000, but neither of them could control the urge to go on spending sprees.
Finally, at the end of one month they found themselves penniless, their credit cards to their limit, their checking account overdrawn. They did not know how they would find the money to eat for the last few days of the month.
So, in desparation, they cashed in their last liquid asset: travel and hotel awards they had earned for airline travel. The couple flew to Hawaii and stayed there in a hotel with a prepaid meal plan. And so they survived another month.
The tale of the Hawaii trip came to light during a meeting of a self-help group for compulsive spenders that the couple had joined to fight their buying habits. Of course, most of the stories told by members of the group were far more grim; rare are the compulsive spenders with such elegant solutions to their desperate finances.
Those in the self-help group are part of a growing number of compulsive spenders, for whom shopping has little or nothing to do with the specific objects purchased. Instead, new studies are finding, the trip to the store has become a ritual assurance of love and self-worth, offering an escape from loneliness, despair and anxiety.
While many shoppers occasionally make a purchase for such reasons, the new research focuses on those who continually act against their own better judgment, making purchases that they ignore or regret afterward. The research offers a methodical diagnosis of the problem, analyzes some of its psychological causes, and suggests what treatments might be most effective.
The problem cuts across all income levels. "We find compulsive shoppers with incomes under $10,000 a year, and over $300,000 a year," said Dr. Thomas O'Guinn, an associate professor in the College of Communications at the University of Illinois. His research has found that for compulsive spenders of all income levels, an average of 40 percent of household income after mortgage or rent goes to pay for past purchases, as against 22 percent for the general population.
About 6 percent of people fall into the category of compulsive spenders, according to a 1989 study by Dr. O'Guinn and Dr. Ronald Faber, a researcher in the School of Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota. They define compulsive spenders as people who say they are continually unable to control the urge to buy despite the overwhelming burden of debt.
They base their estimate on the extent of the problem on data from 386 people who have joined self-help groups and from a comparison survey with a random sample of 285 people. They used the first group to determine a profile of a compulsive spender and then questioned those in the random sample to estimate how many there were in the general population.
Researchers say the problem seems to be more common among women than men: in self-help groups for compulsive spenders, about three-quarters of participants are women, said Dr. O'Guinn. But, he added, "Women may be more likely than men to admit the problem or seek help. The true proportion may be closer to 60 percent women, 40 percent men." Problem Called Extensive
Other researchers see the problem as extremely common. "Almost all of us are compulsive buyers to some extent, some more than others," said Dr. Alain D'Astous, a business professor at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec.
One hallmark that immediately sets compulsive shoppers apart is repeated purchase of things they do not use or even hide away.
"It's not the products they buy, but the process of buying that matters to them," Dr. Faber said. "When you ask them, 'Can you tell us about something you bought that was really meaningful?' they typically can't think of a thing, even though they've spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Researchers are finding the emotions that drive people to compulsive spending have much in common with those seen in people with other addictive habits. One of the most marked is low feelings of self-worth; shopping seems to be used to bolster sagging self-confidence. That may be the reason that interaction with salespeople matters so much to compulsive shoppers, Dr. O'Guinn said.
"They'll tell you about a shopping binge: 'I knew I shouldn't have bought this, but I didn't want to hurt Maggie's feelings,' " he said. "When you ask, 'Who is Maggie?' They'll tell you she's the clerk at Neiman Marcus. Some of them will list shopping clerks among their best friends."
Dr. Faber added: "Clerks give some compulsive shoppers a much needed feeling of importance, of feeling good about themselves. One woman said her most valued possession was a thank you note from a clerk from a store where she often shopped."
Another factor that abets the compulsive shoppers' habit is an unusually strong ability to fantasize. "They can easily dissociate spending from its consequences," said Dr. O'Guinn. "That's how they rationalize going over their credit card limit or writing bad checks. They're easily capable of deluding themselves with a vague fantasy that they have some extra money coming in."


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could anyone please tell me if this is possible and how, i want my dorsal hump back ill do anything if it could grow again any possible way to make it grow? i know this sounds like a stupid question but have to ask it, what can i do to get the bump back? there has got to be a way to get it looking like it did before, i have heard about the injected fillers, but would that look natural like the bone that used to be there? please help?
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There are many materials that can be used to augment the bridge including temporalis fascia, cartilage and GoreTex. The correct choice depends on exactly what you need and the comfort level of your surgeon. I hope you find this information reassuring.
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Regret is the most common emotion to experience early on. You do need to allow this at least 6 months to really settle down. It takes almost one year for all of the swelling to go down but by 6 months you should have a good idea of the look you will have. I have found that by then patients usually get used to their new nose and like it. If you still hate it then you could have other procedures done. You need to know at the outset that if you do have other surgeries that you will never have the exact bump you had before. I would part with this in your mind right now. Once you have altered the bone and cartilage structure it is changed forever. You may indeed have cartilage grafts, or fascia grafts placed to augment the nasal dorsum. It just might not be exactly as it was. Just give this time. Keep talking this out on real self or with your surgeon but it is very early. FYI, when I had my Rhino many years ago, way before I wanted to be a Plastic Surgeon it took me about 3 4 months before my nose felt like my nose. It happens very slowly.
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Hi there,
You asked this question last week, at which time you mentioned that you were only 4 weeks post op at that time. It's clear that you are really struggling with your new nasal appearance, which is distressing for you. You mentioned in one of your posts that it now looks "too perfect", and you're regretful of having had it changed. You're doing the right thing by discussing this in Realself. It's good you can express your concerns. If possible, though, let some time go by before making any changes to your nose - from a surgical point of view it is very early days and the nose will change a lot in appearance over the next few months. It will change - you're not looking at a final result. If you remain regretful in 6 months from now, then a surgical change could be considered, as by that time you'll be beginning to see a more final result.
Posting some pictures of before and now might also help to gain more informed opinions about your concerns.
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Nasal dorsum issue
If your nasal dorsum was over-resected during rhinoplasty, sometimes cartilage grafts are used to augment the dorsum. This can be from the septum or rib, or ear. Good luck.
Getting Dorsal Hump Back
Although it is hard to tell without seeing your pictures what you are describing is possibly an over-reduced bridge which can be reconstructed with your own cartilage - such as in the example below
Learn more: http://www.seattlerhinoplasty.com/html/before_n_after_set2.php?procedure=revision_rhinoplasty/w400&id=03B
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Summer steamrollers like The Avengers sometimes feel like cinematic beat-downs. Good or bad, the mechanics of these big brawls can be numbingly repetitious. Their vulnerable manflesh stuffed into kid costumes and muscle suits, superheroes battle one another bloodlessly, bumping and grinding in the service of saving the eternally imperiled world. Borrrrr-ing! For an antidote and a really good time, go see Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh's funny, exhilarating, down-and-dirty celebration of a different breed of costumed superstud—and a much earthier brand of bumping and grinding. Soderbergh's footloose movie about Tampahunks who strip for a living is no Nashville, but this director shares Robert Altman's eagle eye for the idiosyncrasies of folks who populate a showbiz subculture, as well as his ability to riff on rhythms of half-heard, possibly improvised conversation among guys who share a trade, however infra dig. Drawn from Channing Tatum's own stint as a stripper back in the day, the script—by first-timer Reid Carolin, the actor's producing partner—doesn't aim for big narrative fireworks. The story flows the way life does when you mostly live at night: working up a head of steam onstage, stoned, sleeping around with strangers, your days slipping by in a hangover haze. The movie's mornings-after and afternoon delights are drenched in bruised, golden-dirty Florida sunshine. That exquisitely decaying light can wear its denizens down, but it's also energizing, a real turn-on. Magic Mike catches that alternating beat in hot bursts of physicality and dreamy, drug-fueled languors. A slow-simmering love affair between Tatum and quirky charmer Cody Horn warms up during walks in the sun. As disengaged as a pleasant, vagrant breeze, Soderbergh's camera drifts around their conversations: casual, intermittent, sometimes inaudible, punctuated by laughter. Nothing's nailed down in Tampa's fluid light; Soderbergh's taking moving pictures of the flux and flow of human experience. (The director shot and edited, under his usual aliases.)
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It has been confirmed that Kangna Ranaut will play the role of Abhishek Bachchan's wife in Ram Gopal Verma's next movie Department. RGV met her on Monday and was impressed with her as he finalised her role then and there.
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October 31, 2002
Regulation of horse racing is motivated partly by society's ambivalence about gambling, observers say. Leaving that aside, however, there is much to be said about the purely economic aspects of regulation, particularly in view of the sweeping changes in the legal gambling market in the last few decades.
However, critics argue there is a powerful case for eliminating many of the rules for how horse racing is organized - strictures that simply don't make sense in light of any modern rationale for economic regulation.
They make the following recommendations:
- To enhance free markets, states should, at most, set reasonable licensing conditions for off track betting and account wagering and let the market determine the distribution.
- States should stop regulating takeout rates -- the percentage of the betting the track takes for its profit -- since designing pricing strategies to appeal to different sorts of bettors is the essence of competition in free markets.
- States should routinely permit new wager types -- with full disclosure to bettors.
- Thoroughbred racetracks should be free to buy and to sell simulcast signals based on market considerations.
In Maryland, for example, thoroughbred and harness interests have been aligned by a system of sharing all simulcasting revenues, regardless of origin, on an 80-20 basis -- a process dubbed "parity." Proponents of deregulation argue states should have more latitude in setting new rules.
- Each state should determine the level of costs and of corresponding benefits in evaluating the appropriateness of aggregate tax burdens of racing.
- Taxes pegged to the net (track takeout) rather than the gross are more consistent with efficiency.
- Among the 12 key racing states, only Delaware currently uses this approach.
Source: Louis A. Guth and Michael D. Shagan, "Revisiting Regulation: Why the reins should be loosened on thoroughbred horse racing," Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter, 2001.
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Vocal cord nodules, commonly called singers nodes, are noncancerous growths of tissue that develop on the vocal cords. The vocal cords, located in the larynx, are constructed of two fibrous bands that vibrate to produce sound. When these bands are overused, generally seen in the case of professional singers, the bands may thicken, resulting in the development of nodules. The condition occurs most often in children and adult women.
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Learning often begins when facts contradict our assumptions. While attending the kickoff summits of the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Reduce Infant Mortality (IM CoIIN) in July, I became aware of at least two facts that contradicted my previous assumptions: (1) that infant mortality rates for non-Hispanic blacks are higher in the upper Midwestern states than they are in the deep South and (2) that the declines in infant mortality in several southern states over the past decade have been steeper than anywhere else in the country. We need to learn more about the "why" behind these results so we can apply these lessons elsewhere to reduce disparities and improve overall outcomes.
I was not surprised to learn at the summits that two states—Washington State and my home Commonwealth of Massachusetts—are successfully narrowing the chasm between non-Hispanic black and white infant mortality rates. However, they are still far from achieving the aim that was made so forcefully at the summits by Arthur James, MD, from Ohio: that we need to eliminate, not narrow, this divide. These observations were reinforced when the Boston Globe reported in late August that non-Hispanic black infant mortality rates declined sharply in Boston over the past three years, from 13.8 in 2008 to 6.5 in 2012. Although still more than double the rate of white babies (3.0), this improvement is remarkable, one that then Boston Public Health Commissioner Barbara Ferrer attributed to a broad focus on maternal health during the pre-and post-conception period and to ongoing support for women and their children up to the age of five.
But another fact contradicted my well-founded belief that social inequality is a major driver of infant mortality. A report released in September indicated worsening income inequality in Boston during the same time period as the reduction in infant mortality and disparities, with Boston having one of the most unequally distributed incomes of all U.S. cities and Massachusetts having one of the most unequal of all the states. What can we learn from this? These findings make me want to know more about the relative contribution of income inequality versus absolute levels of social disadvantage.
Massachusetts, for example, has a reasonable safety net, so perhaps most disadvantaged women in this state don't have the level of extreme material deprivation that may occur elsewhere and lead to the dire outcome of infant mortality. Perhaps targeting the provision of healthcare services to low-income and minority women before and after pregnancies, as Commissioner Ferrer suggests, can mitigate the impact of adverse socioeconomic conditions—through identifying and treating medical conditions (e.g., hypertension, substance abuse); through enabling effective family planning; or by providing a portal to broader social services (e.g., emergency housing).
Abraham Jacobi, a 19th century founder of pediatrics in the U.S., and Jack Geiger, a more recent founder of the community health center movement, both emphasized that we who care about health need to directly address the upstream social conditions that shape health. As has often been reported, Geiger sought to include funding for a tractor in his Mississippi-based health center's budget so that the poor and malnourished people in that area could farm the land and produce food to feed themselves and others. At the same time, both of these giants also recognized that healthcare services themselves play a critically important role. Addressing upstream social conditions and providing healthcare services should be a "both/and," not an "either/or."
NICHQ and our partner organizations are working with public health leaders and their partners from 31 states and nine territories/jurisdictions to help them reduce infant mortality and eliminate disparities over the next three years. Choosing what to do is not abstract—they need to set priorities and commit resources to get results. For their first pass, the teams have preliminarily prioritized five strategies to work on together over the next 18-24 months: safe sleep practices, perinatal care interventions, reproductive health and other health services, smoking cessation and improved treatment of health risks for women (including substance abuse and mental health). Cross-cutting these priorities were several themes such as building more effective and timely data systems, strengthening family capacity and, yes, tackling social determinants and keeping equity front and center. The state, jurisdiction and territory teams and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Service Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the initiative's funder, will reflect on and refine this list. Each team will then choose up to three of the strategies and get to work.
If together we can sustain the type of learning that challenges our assumptions, the type of learning that has begun in the IM CoIIN, I am fully confident that together we will succeed in having more infants—regardless of race or income—living to celebrate their first birthday.
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Katy Perry's Performance Stopped in the Middle of a Bad Lip Sync!
We hope this was set up... because it's extremely obvious that the first performance is lip synched.
(Huffington Post) - Here is a video of Katy Perry obviously lip syncing at the 15th annual NRJ music awards in Cannes this past weekend. Her vocal track is completely out of alignment with her singing (and if it seems like maybe this video is just a little wonky, wait until one minute in).
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Muneca's/Dolly's development is now a Bubba Chinos
The latest Bubba Chinos opened August 1.
Danielle Lirette
The new sign outside 4500 Washington Street caused more than a few drivers to slam on the brakes -- not just because they suddenly realized they needed some fiery Bubba Chinos green chile, but they wondered what had happened to the longtime tenants of the building, Muneca's Mexican Restaurant and Dolly's, which at various times had been everything from Dolly's Party Time to Dolly's Sport's Bar to Dolly's Chili Spot.
"I'm Dolly," says Betty Kelley, when asked about the changes at the location, where she's been for the past forty years, the last twenty of them at some variation of Dolly's. And the restaurant business is still there, but on August 1 she turned it into an outpost of Bubba Chinos, serving the dishes initially introduced at the first Bubba Chinos at 160 Federal Boulevard. See also: - BubbasChinos owner Leonard Cordova makes changes in his business plan - Bubba Chinos serves up authentic "Chicano" cuisine - Photos: Mural behind Bubba Chinos pays homage to rap legends
"The food is excellent," Kelley says of the original Bubba Chinos recipes. But because they're now coming out of Kelley's kitchen, in a very different neighborhood from the original Bubba Chinos, they taste a little different here, she says.
Leonard Cordova is a grandson of Stella Cordova, the late, legendary powerhouse behind Chubby's. Many of her offspring went into the Mexican food business, including Leonard, who opened his first restaurant in 1999. A few years ago, Leonard had big plans for franchising Bubba Chinos outposts around the country -- but after a few missteps here in Denver, he's scaled back those plans.
But Kelley's operation looks like a good next stop for Bubba Chino's. She's put up a partition in the vast restaurant space, and might lease out some of the building to another business -- but right now, things are definitely cooking at 4500 Washington.
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New Pitt women's basketball coach Suzie McConnell-Serio has a great deal of confidence in her system that produced five consecutive 20-win seasons across town at Duquesne.
"As a coach, I always have high expectations," McConnell-Serio said Thursday during media day. "Personally, I go into a season wanting to win 20-plus games. As a coach, you try to make them believe they're better than they are."
Changing jobs while remaining in her native Western Pennsylvania, McConnell-Serio accepted the daunting challenge of turning around a Pitt program coming off three straight losing seasons while making the transition from the Big East to the ACC.
And while McConnell-Serio's system helped her craft an impressive resume at Duquesne, it's a system predicated on strong guard play and quickness. As a result, McConnell-Serio will have to scale down her system — at least in the beginning — to accommodate four post players, including 6-foot-11 redshirt freshman Marvandene "Bubbles" Anderson.
"We have a lot of work to be done," McConnell-Serio said. "I've always played smaller and more up-tempo. When you have a player who's (6-11), that's not going to cut it. You're not going to be putting those players at the 3-point line to be an offensive threat."
It's a delicate balance, but it's one that McConnell-Serio believes her roster can handle.
The offense will start with guards Brianna Kiesel and Ashlee Anderson. Kiesel is the team's leading returning scorer and top passer with 89 assists last season. Anderson has played in 91 career games, more than any current Pitt player.
"It will start with our guards," said McConnell-Serio, who was the point guard for two U.S. Olympic teams. She also starred in the WNBA and set several NCAA assist records at Penn State. "Bri will dictate the tempo offensively. She will stop the ball defensively."
"There's a lot for me to learn from her," Kiesel said of her new coach. "(She) brought a different type of optimism to the team."
Said McConnell-Serio: "We try not to talk about the record that this team had previously. That's behind us. We're looking for a fresh start in the ACC."
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Jeffrey Browning, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department Clinical Nutrition, Advanced Imaging Research Center, Internal Medicine
The focus of my research is the comprehensive study of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in humans. The overarching goal is to understand the metabolic derangements that lead to this disease through the application of advanced imaging and metabolic techniques. Translating these basic science techniques to the clinical realm allows for a more complete understanding of the pathophysiology of NAFLD and extension of this understanding through complimentary studies utilizing traditional clinical research tools (epidemiology, retrospective and prospective studies, and clinical trials). In addition to the knowledge gained, this approach allows for the development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic modalities in a logical, disease- and patient-oriented manner.
My initial interest in metabolism began during medical school when I participated in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies using a variety of stable isotope tracers to investigate glycolysis in rats. As a result of my initial work, I have returned to the group at the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC), becoming proficient in the application of high-field NMR spectroscopy and stable isotopes to track metabolic pathways in humans. The primary goal of my research is to create an integrated approach to the study of hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism that allows for multiple simultaneous metabolic flux measurements to be made. We have already applied these techniques in rodents as well as humans (with and without NAFLD) under a variety of conditions.
It is my view that disease-oriented research should be comprehensive in nature, exploiting available basic science modalities to enhance our understanding of the pathophysiology of a disease while simultaneously translating this new-found knowledge into the clinical realm. This allows for a focused and logical approach to the study of a disease, an approach that has a high likelihood of impacting clinical practice and improving patient care.
- Medical School
- UT Southwestern Medical School (1998)
- Internship
- University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (1999), Internal Medicine
- Residency
- University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (2001), Internal Medicine
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (2004), Gastroenterology
Featured Publications
- Adiponectin as an independent predictor of the presence and degree of hepatic steatosis in the dallas heart study.
- Turer AT, Browning JD, Ayers CR, Das SR, Khera A, Vega GL, Grundy SM, Scherer PE J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2012 Jun 97 6 E982-6
- Use of 2H2O for estimating rates of gluconeogenesis: determination and correction of error due to transaldolase exchange
- Browning JD, Burgess SC Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2012 303 11 E1304-12
- Excessive hepatic mitochondrial TCA cycle and gluconeogenesis in humans with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
- Sunny NE, Parks EJ, Browning JD, Burgess SC Cell Metab. 2011 Dec 14 6 804-10
- Short-term weight loss and hepatic triglyceride reduction: evidence of a metabolic advantage with dietary carbohydrate restriction.
- Browning JD, Baker JA, Rogers T, Davis J, Satapati S, Burgess SC Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2011 May 93 5 1048-52
- The effect of short-term fasting on liver and skeletal muscle lipid, glucose, and energy metabolism in healthy women and men.
- Browning JD, Baxter J, Satapati S, Burgess SC J. Lipid Res. 2011 Dec
- Hepatic triglyceride content in individuals with reduced intestinal cholesterol absorption due to variants in Nieman Pick C1-like 1.
- Ramirez R, Cohen JC, Hobbs HH, Browning JD Hepatology 2011 Aug 54 2 736-7
- T(2) measurement of J-coupled metabolites in the human brain at 3T.
- Ganji SK, Banerjee A, Patel AM, Zhao YD, Dimitrov IE, Browning JD, Sherwood Brown E, Maher EA, Choi C NMR Biomed 2011 Aug
- Fasting reduces plasma proprotein convertase, subtilisin/kexin type 9 and cholesterol biosynthesis in humans.
- Browning JD, Horton JD J. Lipid Res. 2010 Nov 51 11 3359-63
- Patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing 3 and the pathogenesis and progression of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
- Browning JD, Cohen JC, Hobbs HH Hepatology 2010 Oct 52 4 1189-92
- Progressive adaptation of hepatic ketogenesis in mice fed a high-fat diet.
- Sunny NE, Satapati S, Fu X, He T, Mehdibeigi R, Spring-Robinson C, Duarte J, Potthoff MJ, Browning JD, Burgess SC Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 2010 Jun 298 6 E1226-35
Featured Books
Gallstone Disease. In Sleisinger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 8th edition
Browning JD, Sreenarasimhaiah J (2006). Philadelphia, Saunders
Honors & Awards
- Holder, Lancaster Family Fund in Gastroenterology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX (2010)
- Disease Oriented Clinical Scholar (DOCS)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX (2006)
- Diplomate
American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology (2005)
- Research Excellence in GI and Liver (REGAL) Award
University of Kansas Medical Center / Janssen Pharmaceutica / Centocor / Ortho-Biotech Products (2005)
- NIH Training Fellowship
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
American Liver Foundation (2003)
- Diplomate
American Board of Internal Medicine (2001)
- Ben Friedman Award for excellence in teaching
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (2001)
- Ben Friedman Award for excellence in teaching
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (1998)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- Medical Director (2010)


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Do You Think Nancy Pelosi Will Keep Obama in Check?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants Congress to roll back the Bush tax cuts for families earning $250,000 ASAP, and she's also open to investigating the Bush administration. Barack Obama on the other hand, isn't so hot on those ideas.
Yesterday Politico pondered how Nancy Pelosi will act when she disagrees with President Obama. Pelosi won't look for a fight with Obama, since they agree on most broad policy, but she will probably use the media to keep some leverage over Obama. In other words, she won't keep her disagreement a secret.
Since the Democrats in power will be taking up a stimulus package, health care, and managing or ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, do you think Nancy will help balance Barack's power?


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With the Federal Reserve being the largest buyer of Treasury bonds in the last 3 years, free money is essentially being used to fund the deficits.
The key point made by Gross is that the money printing exercise is just backed by government or central bank trust. If investors doubt the capability of the sovereign to repay the debt, the bond market might not take much time to collapse. More importantly, it makes perfect sense to print money if it leads to an incremental impact on real GDP growth.
However, in the current scenario, the real economic activity remains weak (lowest money velocity in last 50 years) along with the weak real unemployment rate (U6). Therefore, it is time for the Fed to pause and introspect on its policies than to continue printing money. As mentioned by Gross, there is no doubt that the economy is headed for much higher inflation in the long term if the current policies are perused with.
From 1960 to 1980, the total credit market debt increased by USD3.9 trillion. In the same period, the GDP increased by USD2.4 trillion. In other words, one dollar of debt had an incremental impact of 61 cents on the GDP.
Coming to the most recent decade, the total credit market debt from 2000 to 2011 increased by USD27 trillion while the GDP increased by USD5.2 trillion. The impact of debt on GDP growth during this period has witnessed a sharp decline. For every one dollar of debt, the incremental impact on GDP was just 19 cents.


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what are contraindications of enameloplasty...i know that enameloplasty is done to make fissure or pits to make them self cleansable
What are Contraindication of Enameloplasty?
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Enameloplasty contraindications
Generally minimal removal of the enamel (Enameloplasty) is safe but if already too much of your enamel is missing maximum care should be taken to prevent further loss. The enamel is a very strong material that protects the teeth and once it is lost the tooth becomes more vulnerable to cavities, faster wear of the teeth and potential loss in the vertical bite dimension. Should a tooth ever require a dental restoration you can always achieve a much stronger bond and seal between the enamel and the restoration. There are times when enameloplasty is required to re-contour the shape of your teeth to achieve a more favourable appearance or to correct a bite interference.
What Is Enameloplasty
Enameloplasty is a very conservative procedure, as it only involves smoothing/recontouring a thin bit of enamel in selective areas for a variety of reasons. In most cases, the benefits outweigh the risks (sensitivity). The only true contraindication would be if you have enamel that is compromised due to fracture or decay that extends into the dentin, in which case you would most likely need some sort of restoration.
Enamoplasty is ok for virtually everyone
Enamoplasty simply means to change the shape of the enamel of the tooth, whether from adjusting the bite (occlusal equilibration) or the tips of the front teeth to change appearance.
The only contraindication would be if a tooth was so severely worn that any removal of tooth structure might lead to exposure of the nerve, but in that case, there are bigger issues to address. One must be careful when adjusting a bite, as it may lead to more involved and expensive treatment. Often, bite issues are corrected by ADDING to the size of a tooth and not taking away. A thorough evaluation by an experienced dentist is important.
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Enamelplasty is safe
Enamelplasty as defined by the dental community is completely safe and usually only involves minor reshaping of the teeth. It is most commonly used in esthetic procedures to create more uniformity in the smille.
Contraindications to enameloplasty
Because enameloplasty removes tooth enamel care should be taken in the process.
Enamel is the hardest tissue in the body and as such allows us to chew effectively with very few problems. Removing too much enamel can expose the dentin of the tooth which wears more readily than the enamel. Enamel is also a very good insulator and when it is in tact, can help prevent tooth sensitivity. When the enamel is thin or the dentin is exposed there is more likelihood that the tooth will be sensitive to temperature, sweets, etc.
The most common reason for enameloplasty is to recontour a tooth to make it look better or to smooth a small chip. It can also be used to adjust a person's bite (also known as coronoplasty) so that the teeth will fit together and function more harmoniously. Bite adjustments should also be done carefully so as not to promote TMJ problems by altering the bite. As long as small amounts of enamel are removed there should be no problem.
Enameloplasty is usually done in areas that are easily cleaned with a tooth brush and floss. It would be more risky in a non-cleansable area. In that situation a tooth could become more susceptible to tooth decay in that area.
Enamelplasty a very conservative treatment option
Enamelplasty is the process of removing slight amounts of enamel without going into the underlying dentin of the tooth.
Obviously, taking away any tooth structure is not the best. However, if the enamel is de-mineralized or stained, the benefits outweigh the risks. If the enamel is healthy we have to ask why it is being altered. First, if removing some healthy tooth structure will prevent long term damage such as a cavity, it is the right thing to do. Often grooves in back teeth harbor bacteria. These bacteria can lead to tooth decay. By opening up the grooves, and placing some type of restoration material or sealant in them, the long term prognosis for a healthy tooth is excellent.
Now, lets talk about enamelplasty in cosmetic areas of the mouth. Often the teeth can have enamel removed to improve the shape of the tooth. As long as the enamel is not completely removed and it is polished after the adjustment, no short or long term problems will be present. Fluoride after this would be a good idea, though not necessary. Dramatic improvements in a person's smile can be made by reshaping the enamel. Considering the other more aggressive options that patients undergo to improve their smile, this is usually a first option, along with whitening.
The third situation that enamelplasty is beneficial is to correct bite issues. Often, minor reductions of enamel can ensure long term stability of the bite, stop patients from grinding, eliminate headaches and improve jaw comfort. Always ask what option are available to treat you condition and remember that conservative dentistry is always the best.
Enameloplasty and tooth reshaping
Enameloplasty should not cause any problems as long as it is conservative and doesn't take away any more enamel than necessary. It has a long history in dentistry and is also sometimes used for adjusting the bite (ususally called equilibration when used for that). In orthodontics we use it frequently for slight adjustments in tooth size and shape both for appearance and to improve the way the teeeth fit together. It is also sometimes used to gain slight amounts of space when needed. Another common use in orthodontics is to reduce enamel on the sides of the teeth to alter tooth form in order to help reduce the problem of triangular spaces where teeth were severely overlapped before being straightened and there is not enough gum to fill up the triangle that results between them when they are lined up straight. The main contraindication might likely be excessive tooth sensitivity if that has been a problem. I have rearely seen sensitivity problems that didn't resolve fairly quickly but can never be totally sure.
Enamleplasty for teeth
The procedure enamleplasty involves the selective recontouring or reshaping of the teeth (also called odontoplasty, stripping, or slenderizing), small amounts of tooth enamel are removed to change a tooth's length, shape, or surface. This is ofter done on front teeth.
On molars this procedure is done to adjust a bite but not to make pits more cleanable. The procedures with the pits and fissures is more commonly known as a sealant, which "seals" the deep grooves.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.
Reading Romantic Novels - Poem by Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.
Women of today aren't women of yesterday.
A somersault has occurred in her way.
She has come out of man's entanglement,
With her own earnings and own involvement.
Her mixing with men is very common;
To love at first sight has come uncommon.
No longing; no tryst; no more pining.
Many men around, she is a darling
Of all and not anyone's belonging.
She tantalizes men around with a suspense.
Yet she hasn't changed from her past woman
In one respect: she loves reading novels
Of romance where a prince finds on his way
A damsel in distress, whom he rescues
And subsequently falls in love with her.
Yes, she still finds interest in reading
Love scenes that ardent lovers would enact,
As an escape rout from the one that she leads,
And that involves a shallow intimacy
With men, who have no sense of commitment.
Reading romance is still a fantasy
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Best Of :: People & Places
Excited about collecting all 50 state quarters? Screw that. Nedra Soloman has a state-centric collection with some bite. Inside her Katydid Insect Museum -- reputedly the only such establishment west of the Mississippi -- is a display case with space allotted for an insect from each state. (Should you find yourself in North Dakota anytime soon, perhaps you could pick her up a little something?)
In the pest-control biz since the 1960s, Nedra and husband Al decided two years ago to share their global assortment of insects, arachnids and reptiles -- all pinned, caged and encased in exhibits named for Nedra's granddaughters.
Not drawn to a building full of black widows, snakes, termites, tarantulas and Happy the downhearted iguana? Say a quick prayer to Gratus of Aosta (patron saint for the fear of insects, duh) and face your phobias. Thanks to Nedra's knowledge and charm, the whole ordeal somehow avoids The Silence of the Lambs creepiness and becomes a pleasant educational experience. After all, this is the home of a turtle that nods hello and a scorpion about to birth 25 babies. How could it not be a place of joy?
Randy Johnson
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23023 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale
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KPNX Channel 12
Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central
Phoenix Theatre's Little Theatre
Bank One Ballpark
401 East Jefferson
How could one guy hurt so many people and maintain the highest approval rating of any elected official in the county? We've gotta hand it to you, Sheriff Joe: You are one fine politician. We'd like to bottle the sheriff's elixir and sell it for those interested in doing good, rather than evil, but for now we'll applaud Arpaio for making the decision not to run for governor this fall. The mark of a good politician is not just knowing when to run, it's knowing when not to run -- and somewhere beneath all that hair grease, Arpaio must have had some self-awareness (or some political consultant) telling him his record in office just wouldn't have held up in the shadow of the governor's race.
Joe Arpaio's not going to win any awards for promoting human rights, and like others we've elected, he's dangerous. But as a politician, he's got all the rest of you losers beat.
Really, we're not making this one up. Court Rich is a first-year associate at Nearhood Law Offices in Scottsdale, and a recent graduate of Arizona State University's law school. Since he'll be specializing in business litigation, he may even see the inside of a courtroom -- a rarity for a lawyer these days. But will he be rich? Remains to be seen, although he does have a head start in the public relations department. Turns out Court Rich is the brother of Jordan, who's married to Jason Rose, who runs a PR firm in Scottsdale. And Rose can already see the ad on the back of the phone book: "Need to go to court? Want to get rich? Call Court Rich. 1-800-COURT-RICH."
So often, people in our (un)fair city use their power for evil. We're happy to celebrate a couple of powerful Phoenicians who, as far as we can tell, do nothing but good.
Instead of building skyscrapers, Cindy Dach and Greg Esser are busy constructing culture. Dach is director of events for Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe. Esser runs the public art program for the City of Phoenix. Thank Dach for bringing Amy Tan, David Sedaris, T.C. Boyle and Dr. Andrew Weil to town for readings. Expect Garrison Keillor this fall. Esser gets credit for that cool mountain-like bridge over the 51 and the public art coin project along Central Avenue.
On the side, Dach writes fiction and Esser paints. In their spare time this year, they created two of the city's most vibrant art spaces.
Dismayed by the lack of artist-run galleries in the Valley, earlier this year Dach and Esser opened eye lounge, in a building they bought and refurbished. The space -- at 419 East Roosevelt, next to Modified Arts and across from the Paisley Violin -- quickly became a favorite stop on First Fridays, and, in September, Esser opened 515, a spin-off gallery just a few doors down from eye lounge.
We can't wait to see what Dach and Esser do next. We're exhausted just thinking about it.
A few blocks north of Phoenix's business district sits Trinity Cathedral, the 82-year-old Episcopalian church that houses the perfect getaway for those looking for some artistic time off. Between the cathedral itself (surprisingly modern and warm inside) and Bishop Atwood Hall you'll find the Cathedral Center for the Arts show space, a light, narrow gallery that makes for the perfect aesthetic refuge. CCA hangs art there regularly, oftentimes the work of lesser-known artists, and the quality of the shows is consistent.
But it also offers a kind of cathedral-like quiet that many downtowners seem to crave; the gallery's guest book is salted with thanks from midday visitors for providing an oasis where they can sit, look and ponder. Now the secret's out.
And another tip: The brickwork labyrinth in the courtyard -- modeled after one at the medieval Chartres Cathedral -- makes for another neat diversion, especially for the kids.