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Crafts for Kids: Easy Quilting
Introducing children to quilting is great way to keep kids busy. While there are numerous crafts and fun activities for smaller children in daycare, preschool, or elementary school, finding educational crafts for older girls can be challenging. Quilting crafts for kids can help older children learn sewing techniques, spark creativity, and bust those times of boredom. It's a skill that can be used for a lifetime.
Quilting books for kids offer step-by-step instructions about quilting. They also start with the basics such as how to thread a sewing machine and how to stitch in a straight line. The books list what types of fabrics, tools, and supplies are needed to make gorgeous quilts. Some books offer photos, a glossary, tips, actual quilt projects with step-by-step guides, beautiful patchwork ideas, and more. Once your child learns the basics of quilting, she can add to her skills and learn to make pillows, placemats, wall hangings, or lap quilts.
A Quilt for Every Occasion
Making quilts can be a fun way for your daughter to decorate her room in her favorite colors or themes. Quilts also make great gifts for any occasion: birthdays, Christmas, weddings, baby showers, graduations, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and even Valentine's Day. Quilt designs might also be geared toward a season, with flower patterns and light colors such as pink, light green, yellow, or baby blue in spring and summer. Darker colors such as red, brown, black, green, or blue will work well for autumn and winter patterns. Quilts as gifts will express love and effort because she made the gift very special with her own hands.
For the Career-Minded
Teens who want to earn extra money will find quilting to be very rewarding. It does take time and effort to make a quilt, but the returns can be excellent. She can sell her quilts at local flea markets, consignment shops, or even online through a website or auction (with parent's help, of course). Quilts are always in demand, and all styles and colors can be sold for profits. She can make quilts of contemporary styles or lovely patchwork designs like "grandma used to make!" It's her choice. She can even ask her friends and relatives about buying the quilts.
If you don't own a sewing machine, you might be able to find an affordable machine used at a garage sale or flea market. Or, check your local newspaper in the classifieds. You can buy one new in a local sewing supply store or on the Web. There are online auctions for sewing machines as well, so make sure to check all these resources to find a great deal.
Quilting skills will take some time to learn, but once she becomes confident, she can enjoy quilting as a way to relax and create something of value. If you'd like to start quilting with your daughter or even teach a class of young people how to quilt, search online today to find instructional books and websites about quilting.
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Who do the White House people think they are fooling with amateurish play on words? It borders on infantilism and attempts at acts of deception that are so obvious that it's laughable.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote about these amateurish acts of deception by the Obama administration. His column appears on this page.
An evacuation of an embassy is termed "a reduction in staff." Terror attacks are "man-caused disasters." The "global war on terror" is termed an "overseas contingency operation."
Krauthammer wrote that all of this would be comical if it didn't reflect a troubling reality: "The confusion of language is a direct result of a confusion of policy — which is served by constant obfuscation."
We agree with the columnist that in the end, this isn't about language. "It's about leadership." President Obama is hollow when it comes to leadership. He's still trying to figure out exactly who he is and he's as confused with that as he is in managing our federal government.


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The Green House Hotel was designed with one aim in mind: to prove that total luxury and total sustainability really do go together. Weddings are something of a speciality for us: we have been listed as one of the Top 100 wedding venues in the UK by not one but two trusted publications – Wedding Magazine and the Independent.
The vibe of a Green House wedding never really changes – glamorous yet relaxed and intimate, easy on the eye and the environment too. But no two are ever the same, because they are designed by and for you. Our team is absolutely committed to using their know-how to help you put together the ceremony of your dreams, and the party of your life.
Green House Wedding Package
£95 per person inclusive of vat
For further details about wedding packages and our wedding venue in Bournemouth please email our wedding planners at email@example.com with your contact details, proposed wedding date and guest numbers.
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We'll do the planning; you just need to be creative and ask the question!
Wedding planners are well established, but what about some help with the first step…the BIG question!?? You only get one chance so let us help you to make it perfect!
It goes without saying that your evening will end with Champagne and a stay in one of our romantic, luxurious bedrooms, complete with rose petals on the bed, but how else can we help? What else will make that magical moment perfect? …candlelit dinner on the lawn; a luxurious picnic hamper; fireworks and bubbles on the beach; a flash mob in the restaurant, the list is endless. Whatever you decide, we can make it happen!
Prices start from £285 for a one night stay in a luxurious large double room with roll top Victorian bath, a bottle of Champagne (you tell us when you would like it!), rose petals on the bed, 4 course dinner from our a la carte and full New Forest breakfast in the morning. Balloon rides start at £12 per person, private boat trips around the coast line start at £95! Please call Sophie on 01202 498900 or email email@example.com.
At The Green House, our philosophy is to work closely with you every step of the way to design the wedding ceremony of your dreams, and the party of your life.
For a really magical, intimate occasion, we can even arrange for you and your guests to have the whole wedding venue to yourselves for a full 24 hours. Think of it as your own perfect wedding bubble, where everything can be exactly the way you want it – and you really can dance like no-one is watching.
During the time that it's all yours, we want The Green House to feel like home, only better: elegant but totally comfortable, stylish but informal. And with your own personal staff, of course. We specialise in the sort of attentive but unstuffy service that makes you and your loved ones feel completely taken care of, yet as relaxed as if you were in your own living room.
With the run of the place, you can use our gloriously restored, Grade-II listed Victorian villa and gardens as a stunning private backdrop for your photographs. And though we say it ourselves, the old place does look good. Retaining all the charm of its beautiful period bone structure, we've gently teased it into the 21st century with Farrow & Ball eco-paints and bold feature wallpapers in a modern, muted palette; tactile natural textiles; and sculptural accessories. Plus, thanks to the huge windows and high ceilings, it's flooded with the pure seaside light that makes our south-coast location feel so special – and your pictures look great.
With no other guests to cater for, our head chef Andy Hilton and his team can focus totally on you and yours. Whether it's your sit-down wedding breakfast, evening buffet or morning-after feast (with organic Bloody Marys if required), Andy will create a unique menu for you using his passion for local, seasonal ingredients and his detailed knowledge of your personal likes and dislikes.
We've also got the sustainability side of things covered so that you can celebrate your conjugals with a clear conscience. If you have any specific priorities of your own, just ask – we will answer you honestly and openly and work with you to make sure you are happy with every single aspect of your exclusive-use package.
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Iv. Rehabilitation options for offenders sentenced to treatment
Treatment Programs
Recent research on the effectiveness of screening and brief interventions in medical settings is promising. However, most of these interventions are accomplished before drivers are arrested or charged with DWI. Counseling by medical professionals of drinking drivers injured in crashes and treated at hospitals has been shown to reduce future alcohol-related episodes (Gentilello et al., 1999; Longabaugh et al., 2001; Wells-Parker and Williams, 2002). In addition to brief intervention programs (such as where an offender who has been injured in a crash is identified by hospital professionals for a quick, on-site, screening and discussion), offenders evaluated as problem drinkers or alcohol-dependent require a more intensive and longer treatment program than DWI education alone (Wells-Parker et al., 1990; Mayhew and Simpson, 1991). Such rehabilitation may be conducted on an outpatient or inpatient basis. The option of inpatient treatment provides for:
Intensive inpatient or outpatient alcohol dependent treatment can take several approaches. An example is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which provides training in ways to confront or avoid everyday situations that might lead to drinking and works to strengthen behaviors that help maintain long-term sobriety (Kadden, 1994; Miller, 1993). Other popular approaches include motivational enhancement therapy (MET) (Miller, Zweben, DiClemente, and Rychtarik, 1992) and 12-step facilitation therapy (TSF) (Nowinski, Baker, and Carroll, 1992). In the largest, most statistically powerful psychotherapy trial ever conducted, the Project MATCH Research Group (1997) essentially found each approach to be equally effective on alcohol-dependent clients in reducing their alcohol abuse post-treatment.
Limited available evidence suggests that recidivism may be reduced if DWI offenders who are problem drinkers are required to participate in an intensive treatment program for at least 1 year. This conclusion was based, in part, on a program that included therapy sessions once a week and an individual interview with either a therapist or probation official every other week (NHTSA, 1986).
Combination treatment and education programs tailored to the number of prior DWI convictions held by an offender have been found to reduce recidivism. In California, for example, first offender programs lasted three months and were comprised of a minimum of 10 hours of alcohol education, 10 hours of counseling, 10 hours of education and counseling combined, and regular face-to-face interviews with program staff (DeYoung, 1997). Second offenders were sentenced to an 18-month program (at least 12 hours of alcohol education, 52 hours counseling and face-to-face interviews twice a week). Third and higher offenders were sentenced to a 30-month program (18 hours of education, 117 hours of counseling, 120-300 hours of community service, and more frequent face-to-face interviews). DeYoung (1997) found that repeat offenders with one prior (i.e., second offenders), were 1.5 times less likely to recidivate in the combination program than those offenders who received only license revocation. For repeat offenders with three or more priors, those who participated in the program were 1.7 times less likely to recidivate compared to those offenders who only had their licenses revoked. In other words, increasingly intense treatment, depending on the number of prior DWIs of the offender, had pronounced positive effects on recidivism rates in this California study.
Use of Medications
For DWI offenders diagnosed with alcoholism, medications to prevent drinking, such as disulfiram (Antabuse), are most likely to succeed in environments in which medication compliance can be closely monitored (Chick et al., 1992). More recently, naltraxone has come into use in the treatment of alcohol-dependent DWI offenders. The effectiveness of naltraxone with DWI offenders is unknown at this time. However, how closely offenders comply with the prescribed dose regimen is obviously an important element for any medication to be effective. In some cases, it may only work when medication is taken under direct professional supervision.
Diversion Programs
Diversion programs generally allow an offender to complete an education, treatment, and/or community service program and then dismiss the DWI charge. This results in no conviction on the driver record of the offender and means that some repeat offenders continue to be treated as first-time offenders. Programs allowing charge dismissal after completion of treatment generally do not appear to reduce recidivism (Jones and Lacey, 1991; Harding, 1989b; Rauch et al., 2002a). However, one study found that deferring prosecution for 2 years while offenders participated in various forms of treatment decreased DWI recidivism during the deferral period and, in some cases, beyond (Baxter, Salzberg, and Kleyn, 1993). NHTSA has recommended that States eliminate diversion programs (NHTSA, 2003b).
Alcoholics Anonymous
AA has been the primary aid to recovery for many alcohol-dependent offenders. For DWI offenders, AA may be most effective in hospital or correctional settings in which attendance can be monitored (McCrady and Miller, 1993). Researchers have questioned the wisdom of requiring all offenders to attend AA and to make it the core component of offenders' aftercare (Emrick, Tonigan, Montgomery, and Little, 1993) for the following reasons:
In summary, the George Washington University Medical Center (2003) has identified several components of effective alcohol treatment:
(Sources: McLellan, 2002; Miller and Wilbourne, 2002; National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1999; Project MATCH Research Group, 1997).


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Kelly's Quest
Leo Tolstoy opens his famous novel Anna Karenina with these words: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"After a period of study, meditation and pondering, two questions came up again and again as central to my career and life pursuit: How could I become a happier, more healthy, more fully developed person, who thought and acted in the world to make a positive difference? How could I help others to do that as well?"
I was "normal" in many ways with many varied interests in sports, science, relationships and a career. I was also unfulfilled and unhappy in my own, unique way. And I wanted to solve that problem . . .
I had graduated from high school the year before. I was sitting in a jet on a flight from Kansas City to visit a friend in California (my dad was an airline pilot for TWA and I had a pass to fly anywhere for free). I began reading a Psychology Today magazine article. It was an excerpt of a book by Dr. Andrew Weil called The Natural Mind. As I began reading it, I was overwhelmed. The ideas in the article struck me like a lighting bolt for some reason. It was one of those moments in my life where I was seized with interest, passion and purpose. I loved the idea that there were differing kinds of thinking, and that I could choose to understand and alter my own thinking.
Launched by the insights of Andrew Weil's book, I plunged initially into a study of humanistic psychology. I found a field of study and practice that intrigued me with a passion and focus I had never known.
I just knew such a field provided a promise of finding the secrets to fulfillment in the inner world as a means of making a difference in the outer world. I began reading, studying, and taking university classes. I couldn't get enough. I bought books by the dozen, and devoured them with eager enthusiasm.
And I knew, because of the intensity of my interest, that I would devote my life to unraveling the mysteries of healthy human development. After a period of study, meditation and pondering, two questions came up again and again as central to my career and life pursuit:
How could I become a happier, more healthy, more fully developed person, who thought and acted in the world to make a positive difference? How could I help others to do that as well?
I continued to bear in mind these questions. And gradually, answers began emerging. One was the pursuit of science. I wanted a real grounding in science.
I studied the biological sciences as attempt to root my own knowledge in the science of the outer world. I finished an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from Johnson County Community College. I pursued a science degree from Arizona State University. After I completed an undergraduate degree in Environmental Resources in Agriculture in 1976, I continued my focus on psychology and related fields. After working and living in an alternative community based on human development for two years, I entered graduate school in counseling in the Chicago-area school called Governor's State University. It was 1978. I focused on both the theory and the methods of psychology towards a Master of Arts degree in Human Relations Services with an emphasis on counseling.
I began that year with a strong interest in Andrew Weil and the psychology of self-actualization of Abraham Maslow. By the time I finished my degree at the end of the year, I had a exposure to and training in a wide range of theories of psychology and practical methods of counseling.
For one class I read all 20 published books by humanistic psychotherapist Erich Fromm as part of a class presentation on his theories. For another class I reviewed Raymond Corsini's classic text called Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy. I studied audio and video tapes of counseling sessions conducted by the most well-known therapists such as Fritz Perls, Albert Ellis, Carl Rogers, and others. I studied the methods of family theorists such as Alfred Adler, and those of his student, Rudolf Dreikurs, under my professor Ken Wieg, a student of Dreikurs. I learned a variety of counseling methods and workshop processes from professor Rick Horowitz.
Professor Horowitz introduced me to a then-brand-new approach to applying cognitive and social science. It used linguistics, computer programming, and building usable models of the thinking and communication processes of expert therapists. These experts included family therapy cofounder Virginia Satir, legendary hypnotherapist and psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson, and Gestalt therapy founder Fritz Perls. I had discovered Neuro-linguistic programming or NLP—the work of Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Judith Delozier, Steve and Connirae Andreas, and Robert Dilts.
By the end of 1978, I had my Master's degree in counseling. I had studied with several fine professors. I had talked with and learned from some of the leaders I admired, including Gregory Bateson and Milton Erickson. And with my knowledge of theories of psychology and the latest methods of counseling, I launched myself into a process of learning NLP methods by working closely with its founders.
All along I had two agendas for learning and applying the insights of cognitive and social science, one professional and one personal. The professional agenda was to learn to be an agent of healthy development for others as a counselor, consultant, coach, speaker, educator and writer. My personal agenda was to apply all that I learned for helping others, to help myself get healthy. The same questions continued to guide me:
How could I become a happier, more healthy, more fully developed person, who thought and acted in the world to make a positive difference? How could I help others to do that as well?
Back to Kansas City
I moved back to my home town in 1979-the Kansas City area-and opened up my counseling practice. Teaming up with psychologist Ramon Corrales, I began presenting workshops on NLP while I began working with individuals, couples and families. From 1980 onward, I participated in workshops from the leading experts in individual and family therapy including Frank Farrelly, Peggy Papp, Jay Haley, Carl Whitaker, Steven Gilligan, Steven Lankton, and many other fantastic therapists-always learning whatever I could from the methods these teachers advocated and demonstrated. I shared an office with William L. Mundy, a psychiatrist who trained with Milton H. Erickson and integrated many methods into his own practice, including spiritual, shamanistic practices. I kept learning from these superb practitioners.
I also began exploring what I could learn from the advances in the field of cognitive science.
I taught Theories of Psychology and Theories of Personality at Ottawa University. I kept reading.
I continued to learn NLP. I became an NLP trainer with John Grinder and Judith Delozier's NLP organization. I also worked as an NLP trainer with Steve and Connirae Andreas and their NLP organization, NLP Comprehensive.
I found that the NLP methods for influencing thinking and behavior were impressive and practical. They provide a thorough, detailed collection of options for understanding and guiding the intricacies of language, non-verbal communication and imagery for the purpose of solving problems and achieving goals.
Contributions to NLP
My own contribution to the field of NLP involved training thousands of professionals in the verbal patterns of hypnotherapy developed by Milton Erickson, and those reframing patterns of family therapy developed by Virginia Satir.
I also worked very closely with Virginia Satir during the 1980s to apply her work in family therapy to conflict more generally. She coached me directly in some family therapy sessions. This work culminated in my doctoral dissertation titled Universals of Negotiation. I completed it in 1988. Virginia Satir, John Grinder and family therapists Ramon Corrales and Larry Ro-Trock served on my dissertation committee. The 567-page document synthesized many models of conflict resolution into a new model for resolving conflicts.
Four years later, in the early 1990s, I coauthored a book and tape-set with other NLP trainers from NLP Comprehensive called NLP: The New Technology of Achievement. The book was translated into many languages and the tape-set sold more than 100,000 copies, becoming one of the top-selling NLP publications. You can get the book at this website:
and the tape set at this website:
There is a copy of it also with the Johnson County Library, in the Kansas City area.
I applied what I learned about conflict resolution with individuals, couples, families and, on occasion, with organizations. Working with people became a joy with knowledge of how to help them develop in healthy ways. Many solved tough problems and achieved far-reaching goals. It was extraordinarily fulfilling and interesting work. I continued to be guided by the same two questions:
How could I become a happier, more healthy, more fully developed person, who thought and acted in the world to make a positive difference? How could I help others to do that as well?
But What about the Workplace?
But there was a psychological rock in my shoe as I traveled in my life journey. Many of my individual clients complained about unfulfilling, demeaning and demoralizing work lives. By early in the 1990s, I realized that what helped bring about healthy development for individuals and families had not been applied with much success in business, governmental and non-profit organizations—the workplace. I wanted to break new ground. I wanted to apply the methods of healthy development I had applied with individuals and families to various types of organizations where people spent so much time working.
I developed and taught a course called Human Relations for Managers in the Graduate Business School at Rockhurst University. At the invitation of the president of Rockhurst University, Thom Savage, I began conducting retreats with corporate executives, first with consultant Charlie Sheppard, facilitator Arthur Hull, cognitive linguist and philosophy professor Mark Johnson, and cultural historian Morris Berman—and later, on my own. By the late 1990s this work grew into a set of methods for organizations called Values Based Leadership.
To create Values Based Leadership, I examined a number of fields involved in healthy human development: the best patterns of NLP, counseling, and conflict resolution; the best ideas from leadership theory; the best processes from different cultures and spiritual traditions. I then blended them into a set of methods whereby leaders could identify their own healthy values and pursue a process in the real world of work for fulfilling them on a daily basis. I wanted relatively jargon-free and use able terminology for offered for making a values based, positive difference. To look this at set of ideas, look at the summary article by David Smith, my colleague from New Zealand. It is at this link http://www.leadershipproject.net/smitharticle.html
To see another published article (by Leigh Spencer) about my motives for creating Values Based Leadership at: http://www.leadershipproject.net/kellyprofile.html
I began applying Values Based Leadership with my client organizations large and small. To this day, I continue to work with organizations to apply its framework of inner and outer skills to help my organizational clients identify and fulfill their values. For a good summary of the work in the case of a fire department see the 2006 article, Search for Values, from Fire Chief magazine that I coauthored with fire chief Richard Carrizzo. You can access it here:
NLP came about as a result of a synthesis of some of the best discoveries that emerged in the 1970s: combining effective therapists with Noam Chomsky's linguistics, software programming principles and advances in neuro science.
"I began a review, starting in the year 2000, of the latest advances in the various branches of this growing field of cognitive science and a few related fields. What I thought would take a year or two, took over eight years, my work in this area is still ongoing."
The Quest for a New Synthesis
I learned what I could and applied my skills as well as I could. And I was happy with the results of my synthesis of human development ideas for working with organizations—Values Based Leadership. But I realized—and this was a few years ago—that I had not reviewed the latest accomplishments in the fields that comprise healthy human development. What discoveries and ideas were not being applied for helping people in counseling, coaching and consulting? What new patterns could be combined to make a new synthesis for bringing forth healthy human development for people, starting with individuals, couples and families, and also to organizations?
I wanted to expand and revise my palette of patterns to draw from so I could create a unique blend of methods for each unique person with whom I worked.
I began a review, starting in the year 2000, of the latest advances in the various branches of this growing field of cognitive science and a few related fields. What I thought would take a year or two, took over eight years, my work in this area is still ongoing.
I won't go into all the details here, but I'll offer a summary of my explorations.
In cognitive sciences I found great help from the work of Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Gerald Edelman. His book called A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Consciousness provides a breathtaking view of the human mind, especially the neuro-anatomy of the brain related to emotions. With the work of Antonio Damasio, I found wonderful insights from case of brain-damaged persons into the nature of values, consciousness and our decision-making. The key books of his that I studied are Decarte's Error and The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. I also studied the latest versions of the linguistics of Noam Chomsky; and I explored a new advance in linguistics by William O'Grady—work that includes the dimension of time as a non-grammatical way of understanding language.
Through the work of cognitive linguists Mark Johnson, George Lakoff and Mark Turner I found about the stucture of images and stories and the processes by which we can change them. Mark Turner's key book in (with Gilles Fauconnier) in this area is titled The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities. These ideas describe the way we use metaphors to form concepts and the way we blend concepts to form new concepts.
I reviewed the processes of depth psychology, especially Heinz Kohut's work on the development of the self; and German psychiatrist Alice Miller's work on healing the unhealed abuses in childhood; and Erik Erikson's work about the Golden Rule, Gandhi's ethics, empathy and human development.
I studied spiritual practices for healing from some of the great religious traditions. I re-read a book I had read years before by Aldous Huxley titled The Perennial Philosophy. I looked at the history of the great religions. Karen Armstrong's book The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions is a great summary of the philosophies and methods that offer many spiritual methods for our own moral guidance today. And I studied many other spiritual works.
I explored the amazing research on the evolution of the human mind. A book by William Calvin summarizes this work. It is called A Brief History of the Mind. Calvin and several other writers are finally telling the story of how the human mind came to arise about 500 centuries ago in East Africa, and the relevance of this amazing, improbable story to us today. My explorations in this area included the work of Steven Mithin; Peter Carruthers & Andrew Chamberlain; Tecumseh Fitch, Marc Hauser & Noam Chomsky; Robin Dunbar; and Richard Klein.
I explored the recent, significant advances made by two of my colleagues in NLP theory and practice Steve and Connirae Andreas. In the case of Connirae, her book Core Transformation (with her sister Tamara Andreas) reveals a method for both harnessing and constructing important states of being, by starting with a problem and leading to a state of connection, peace and oneness. In the case of Steve, his last three books constitute an amazing breakthrough by showing how self-concept, categorization, scope and logical levels interact to generate much that constitutes how personal change occurs. The books Steve wrote are Transforming your Self and Six Blind Elephants Part I and II. They are all available through Real People Press.
I also examined the key literary aspects of fictional stories. Fiction is not just about fiction. It is also about how we tell stories to ourselves and about our self. Books on plot and character helped me understand the possible structures of the stories we tell our selves, consciously and unconsciously, about who we are and how we compose our lives as an ongoing, changing narrative.
With all these strands of thoughts and ideas in my notes and in my mind, I then I set out to find out how I could synthesize these separate strands of thoughts and ideas into an interwoven whole. I wanted to combine such new ideas with what I already knew from my studies of psychology, NLP, hypnotherapy, values and leadership. I wanted this combination to form a useable, coherent approach to help the individuals, couples, families and organizations with whom I worked.
After much study, as I write this in 2009, I'm happy with the results this journey is providing for me and for those for whom I work. My quest is still based on the same two questions:
How could I become a happier, more healthy, more fully developed person, who thought and acted in the world to make a positive difference? How could I help others to do that as well?
With my latest synthesis of methods for healthy human development, I believe I have a wider range of methods than I have ever had-for me and for you. Like an artist with a palette of many colors with which to paint, I now have a new, expanded, growing palette of patterns for enhancing the healthy development of my clients. And for me as well.
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PHILADELPHIA - They're back! The 2013-14 Ivy League champions returned to the University of Pennsylvania campus in preparation of their Italy tour in mid-August. On the team's first day back, the coaching staff handed out their Ivy League championship rings.
The coaching staff sent the graduating seniors their rings ahead of the meeting and then had all four on Skype for the event.
The rings include eight diamonds, and the logos of Penn, the Ivy League and the NCAA. They are individually enscribed with each player's name and number. More pictures of the ring can be found on the team's twitter and Instagram accounts.
Penn clinched its first Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament berth since 2003-04 with an80-64 winat Princeton on the final day of the regular season. The Quakers (22-6, 12-2 Ivy) tied a school record for wins in a season and earned the outright championship with the second-best league mark in program history.
Also last season, the Quakers earned their first win over an ACC opponent, tied a school record with two Big 5 wins, matched the best two-year stretch in school history with 40 wins (1999-01) and earned back-to-back postseason appearances for the first time. The Red and Blue led fifth-seeded Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by as many as 15 and by seven at the half before falling 79-61.
The team will be in Italy, Aug. 11-21 and play three games against European opponents. The Quakers will also get a chance to tour several Italian cities including Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. PennAthletics.com will have full coverage of the team's Italian trip.
The Quakersannounced their season openerwill be at Tennessee on Nov. 14. A full 2014-15 schedule will be unveiled later this summer.


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Feb 8, 2013 - The Associated PressWolf count nearly done
JACKSON -- Wyoming wildlife officers are wrapping up their annual wolf count, saying they expect the totals to be about 170 wolves and 15 breeding pairs.
Those totals would be well above the state's goal of 100 individuals and 10 breeding pairs.
The goal also includes 50 other wolves and five breeding pairs inside Yellowstone National Park. Park researchers say they're still formulating their estimates.
The state's first regulated hunting season for wolves ended about five weeks ago.
Officials say some of the wolves killed in the hunt had radio or GPS collars that researchers used to track individual animals and packs.
Researchers say losing those wolves makes it harder to track population numbers as well as movements.
Snowmelt 80 percent of average
CHEYENNE -- Preliminary forecasts for this year's snowmelt in Wyoming are predicting a runoff of about 80 percent of normal.
Wyoming's winter mountain snowpack melts off from April to September.
Hydrologists with the Natural Resources Conservation Service say the predicted runoff into Wyoming's streams and rivers vary from 15 percent of normal to 99 percent of average.
Generally, river basins in the northwest have the highest snowpack and are expected to see runoff closer to normal, while those in the southeast have the lowest snowpack and the lowest runoff predictions.
Reservoir storage varies widely across the state but is at 96 percent of average for the entire state. Water levels are highest on the Buffalo Bill Reservoir and lowest on the North Plate River reservoirs.
Man indicted in online threats case
CASPER -- A federal grand jury has indicted an Oklahoma City man accused of posting online threats to commit acts of violence in the central Wyoming city of Casper.
Federal officials say Glenn Allen Kirkham authored a Jan. 14 online message board posting that threatened to employ nontraditional weapons to prove that a "high score" could be achieved without assault rifles.
The message mentioned Casper but did not specify a specific target or location.
Court documents say Kirkham told investigators the post was a "work of artistic falsehood."
Kirkham is charged with transmitting a threat by interstate communications.
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The first artificial crisis was the so-called "fiscal cliff": the expiry of many tax cuts at the end of 2012.
Between the presentation of the Note and the expiry of the time-limit, however, Great Britain made three attempts at peace.
On the expiry of his apprenticeship he worked for some time as a journeyman plumber.
Unless you can escape before the expiry of the five days you are doomed.
At the expiry of the year she was, to his great joy, restored to him.
But the promise that they would again be convoked before the expiry of two years was not kept.
On the expiry of this it was not renewed, and since 1859 the district has been open to all.
How this affair ended does not appear, as the letter was written before the expiry of the five days.
We fix a term after the expiry of which the strength of the armies will be reduced.
The Bloemfontein Conference was opened upon the Reformers' emancipation day, the expiry of the three years' silence.


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Ashton Baumann is not letting the pressure of his famous surname get to him.
Baumann, whose father Alex won two gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, is quickly making his mark in the pool. The 20-year-old is competing for Canada in his first world swimming championships and will hit the water in the 200-metre breaststroke, his lone event, on Thursday.
He will be looking to use the result to prepare for future success.
"Hopefully, I'll keep improving and get on the (2016 Summer Olympic) team and get faster and faster," said Baumann.
Already something of a world wanderer, Baumann will follow up on his first international appearance in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he placed seventh in the 200. But he is not letting early success inflate his ego.
"As far as I've come in short space of time, I have a long way to go to get anywhere, really, on the world stage," he said.
Alex Baumann won gold in both the 200 and 400-metre individual medley at the Los Angeles Olympics in record times. His victory in the 400 ended an Olympic swimming gold drought for Canada that stretched 72 years.
The younger Baumann was born in Australia and has lived in Canada and New Zealand, where his family now resides, as Alex moved to different national sport administrator positions. Ashton Baumann has managed to qualify for elite international competitions despite only taking up swimming seriously around the age of 15.
"My dad being who he is, he didn't really push me into the sport as such," said Baumann. "He just wanted me to do something physically active, so I didn't spend my time on the couch for my whole life.
"So I ended up choosing swimming when I actually moved to Canada in Ottawa."
Baumann's presence on the Canadian team in Barcelona is somewhat fortunate after he and Richard Funk of Edmonton tied, with an identical time of two minutes and 14.84 seconds during world championship qualifying.
Funk had already qualified in the 100 metres, so he opted not to take part in an impending swim-off, giving Baumann a berth in the worlds along with him.
Now Baumann's famous surname, and quick success, are offering some star quality to a Canadian team that is rebuilding as another Olympic quadrennial begins. Canada is pinning its hopes at these worlds on mostly unknown young swimmers in both the men's and women's events.
Although many Canadian competitors have competed in Olympics and world championships, they have yet to contend for medals.
"He's a bright prospect," said Tom Johnson of Vancouver, part of the Canadian coaching contingent. "He's got tremendous upside in terms of his competitiveness, and very good fire in terms of his mid-meet situations."
But according to Johnson, who is serving under head coach Randy Bennett of Victoria, young Baumann still needs time to develop before he can emulate his famous father on a medal podium.
"He's still got a lot of, I think, growing to do in the events that he's swimming," said Johnson.
Breaststrokers, added the coach, tend to be older in terms of being able to develop their full capacity and strength.
"But I think we're hopeful that he'll be a player in our team over the next couple years," said Johnson. "He's not quite there yet in his physical maturity. He's only 20 years old. So he's got time."
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I don't know whether or not 'Stream' will be the name of Nintendo's new console (I don't think it will be*), but I do believe it is indicative of what the machine is all about. Could this be Nintendo's first foray into the world of cloud gaming? I think it could be, but everyone seems closed off to this idea. The codename 'Project Cafe' was even more telling in this regard. The implication is so blatantly clear and yet everyone seems to think this is impossible - you stream the game from the console to the controller and it take it with you down to the local cafe whilst sipping a gingerbread latte.
I also think the machine will be a lot less hardcore-oriented than people are expecting - why else would the codename be 'Project Cafe'? This is the kind of console that advertises itself; that people talk about down at the local coffee shop, because people are playing it down at the local coffee shop.
I could be wrong about all of this, but everyone's being too damn timid with their predictions and God knows somebody had to put their balls on the line.
* Why won't Nintendo call it 'Stream'? Because it's too close to the name of another highly popular gaming platform...


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Dozens of residents in southern Ontario thought they saw a meteor streak across the sky Sunday afternoon, and an expert said there is little doubt that is what they spotted.
"There are dash-cam videos I've seen already posted to the internet that…clearly show what I would say is unequivocally a meteor," said Peter Brown, a professor at the University of Western Ontario who studies meteors and meteorites.
Many Ontarians took to social media or contacted the American Meteor Society to report either a flash of light or a loud rumble.
The reports came in from various southern Ontario communities and parts of the United States.
Unconfirmed reports indicate loud blast over Peterborough and GTA was result of a meteor. Stay tuned for updates.
The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) May 04, 2014
Meteor just went over cobourg/porthope and broke the sound barrier. Just heard the sonic boom #meteor
Lily Garner (@Lily_garner) May 04, 2014
Looks like a meteor exploded over Toronto/Peterborough today. Raptors were just eliminated – coincidence? #dinoRock
Jeff/e/ (@JeffSmalley) May 04, 2014
The meteor society posted a comment from a person who said he was from Toronto and described a bright flash.
"It was as fast as a shooting star," said the poster who identified himself as "Doug C."
"It was as bright if not brighter than a lightning bolt."
Dana Petrillo, of Cobourg, Ont., tweeted that her house vibrated and that she first thought there had been an earthquake or explosion.
"It was a really low rumble that just reverberated through the walls. It really wasn't a shaking, like in an earthquake, but more like a wave. It really did feel like an explosion," she said in an email.
Most of the equipment the university has to track meteors was not in operation Sunday afternoon, but a series of microphones the university has in place did detect a shockwave, Brown said.
Based on the data and the eyewitness reports it appears the shockwave occurred in the area of Peterborough, Ont., and its characteristics allowed for an estimate of the size of the meteor, said Brown.
"The energy is somewhere in the order of a few tens of tons of TNT explosive equivalent," he said in an interview from London, Ont. Sunday night. "That would translate into something on the order of half to one metre in diameter and that's going to be a mass of ….a few metric tons."
It's possible some fragments hit the ground, Brown added.
"This clearly was a pretty massive event, lots of mass, so on that basis alone I think we have a pretty good chance that meteorites would make it to the ground," he said.
The odds of fragments hitting the ground depend on how fast the meteor was travelling — a relatively slow moving fireball would make it more likely that some meteorites may be found.
"It would not surprise me if meteorites are found," Brown said.


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May 15, 2012 Keyesville, California
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A man and woman in their early 20s were found stranded on a ledge approximately 40 feet down a vertical mine shaft. They had fallen down the shaft while exploring an abandoned mine.


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I have a few things to report, but first up is this: The sixth annual Metro Classic will be played on Sunday at 2 at Christ the King in Queens.
Five Section 1 players were selected for The Burbs, which take on The Boros, a team that consists of players from New York's five boroughs. Felicia DaCruz (Albertus Magnus), Brittany Horne (Carmel), Tori Jarosz (Lakeland), Lillian McCabe (Rye) and Taneka Whittaker (Lourdes) will compete for The Burbs, which has won the last three meetings.
That group of locals will be joined by two of this region's top seniors: Stefanie Dolson of Minisink (UConn) and Bria Hartley of North Babylon (uncommitted). One thing of particular note: Of the local players who made the team, only Jarosz is a senior.
If you're interested in checking out the game (the boys follow at 4), you can log on to the Metro Classic website here. Tickets are available for $10.


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PARIS (May. 14)
A French military court today granted amnesty to Louis Ferdinand Celina, novelist and anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator during the occupation of France. Celina, who was sentenced to a prison term and confiscation of his property in absentia, is now free to return from Holland to which he fled after the liberation.
His anti-Semitic ravings were considered by some to be worse than those of Julius Streicher, Hitler's top Jew hater. Celina worked under Otto Abetz, Nazi envoy to Vichy France, and preached the extermination of the Jews.


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Introduction and ponderings on James' Tar Pit
Hello James et al. A very interesting and thought provoking commentary on our ever changing quest for knowledge, albeit Canadian. I suspect that most teachers in western countries feel much the same. I pondered responding directly to your Tar Pit piece James but thought that an introduction was in order.
Before commenting, I would like to first introduce myself, mainly to contextualise my response.
My name is Deb Whittington and I am a Lecturer in vocational studies in the Printing & Graphic Arts Training Package at Central Institute of Technology in Western Australia. Training Packages have been created for all core industry groups at a National level in Australia in a partnership between Learning Providers, Industry and the Federal Government, and constitute minimum knowledge and skills required by industry.
They are at once both simpler and harder than traditional curriculum, and contain units of competence, each with their own elements of competence with criteria. Students are assessed both on-the-job and/or in a simulated workplace, as competent or not yet competent. There is no pass mark. Pure and simple – you can either do it, or you can't. You either have the knowledge, or you don't. The acquisition of knowledge, understanding and competence is overseen by workplace trainers and assessors with significant, high level experience and knowledge. I occupy that position with tenure.
Training Packages do not replace traditional high school, though many schools are now opting to deliver simulated workplace training and assessment as a vocational alternative to traditional, academic studies.
I must first say that I am by no means a traditional academic!
People talk about life long learning. I have been blessed with a moderately high intellect, and have been greedily learning all that I could on subjects that have fascinated me since I was 3 years old. I am now 57 and I still feel that I am in a lolly shop full of knowledge and there is not enough time to explore and learn all that I would like. But like many young people today, I need a better reason to learn than that it is "what is required".
I'm fascinated by Jungian type theory and it's role as a potential tool to understanding and nurturing aptitude and talent, with particular regard to left-brain/right-brain balance skills such as graphic technologies. In terms of MBTI and Keirsey's Temperament Theory, my own preferences are towards INTP with balanced I/E, moderate preferences for T over F and P over J, and very strong preferences for N over S. I have no S preferences on testing.
With your indulgence I will later post some of my observations, hypotheses and discussions over the past 10 years relating to learning, technologies, design and type (as in typology) preferences. I believe there are some very interesting correlations between the epidemic, modern diagnosis of AD/HD and Dyslexia, and aptitude for learning, technology and creativity. This has been supported in discussion with a number of learning gurus.
In response to your piece James, there is a plethora of information available as a result of the technologies of today, BUT I believe our role as educators and trainers is to provide guidance through that minefield of often insufficient or inaccurate information, to teach students to question everything, have faith in themselves, to have the joy of curiosity (or as noted Nobel physicist, Richard Feynman's book suggests – "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"), and to synthesise and provide context for their learning rather than pursue the old rote learning those of my age were often subjected to at school. We need to teach them to make informed decisions from a sound understanding.
At the beginning of each semester I ask my students who is there for the piece of paper, and who is there for the knowledge and understanding. Interestingly, to me at least, those who say they want the piece of paper, frequently do not achieve it. Those, however, who aspire to the knowledge and understanding, are often their own worst taskmasters, and rarely fail at achieving the piece of paper.
We must return I believe to where knowledge and understanding, and provision of sound reason for methodology, are again the prime target of we educators and trainers. The other will follow.


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Cape Town bids Mandela farewell: Pictures
'It is music and dance that makes me feel at peace with the world, and at peace with myself,' Nelson Mandela once said at a live performance of Jonny Clegg's anthem, Asimbonanga ('We have not seen him'), a song about Mandela's time in prison and disappearance from public life.
Had the great man been in Cape Town on Wednesday 11 December 2013, no doubt he would have broken out into his famous jive as musicians, poets and the ordinary people of the city came together to bid him one last goodbye.
It was a magical evening, with South Africa's top musicians performing at the free concert, among them Clegg (who played his famous anthem to Mandela), Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Freshlyground, the Bala Brothers, the Gravity Band and the Heavenly Voices Choir.
Eight-year-old Emihle Felebayi from Khayelitsha came with his mother, Tamara Felebayi.
Before the music got under way, rugby hero Francois Pienaar, the former Springbok captain who shared that exceptional moment with Madiba dressed in the No 6 Springbok jersey in 1995 during the Rugby World Cup, drew huge cheers from the crowd. He said Mandela had become 'one team, playing for one country'.
Initially the atmosphere was lively and noisy as some people engaged in an informal toyi-toyi in the central area, and others sang old Struggle songs in the stands. But as the evening wore on, everyone got into the groove and sang and danced along to the music.
Many took extra special care with their outfits, this woman having fashioned her entire costume out of the South African flag.
Work colleagues from radio station Heart FM Zandi Yawathe (left), Shelley Rodkin and Nathina Gazi came dressed in their matching Madiba T-shirts.
Portia Zuzani from the ANC Women's League in Khayelitsha was there with fellow members. She remembers meeting Mandela at a political rally. She asked for his signature but he didn't want to sign at the time so as to avoid a stampede. Instead, he said he would send it to her, and typically kept his promise when one of his staff turned up on her doorstep with his autograph for her.
Then, as the sky began to colour pink, the Bala Brothers, who specialise in 'Popera', an African-inspired style that fuses classical and popular music, were on stage. Their rendition of The Circle of Life took the concert from day to night and created a beautiful, reflective moment.
When Freshlyground and Ladysmith Black Mambazo took to the stage, the party was on.
As the evening drew to a close, some members of the crowd began to connect glow sticks into an enormous rope that threaded its way around the stadium, yet another display of unity and cooperation.
For those who were there, it was an extraordinary night and a fitting tribute to the great man who loved music and dance, along with the rest of us.
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Seth Benzel, Todd Pletcher's New York assistant, will open a public racing stable of his own starting May 1.
Benzel has established a firm foundation in the racing industry - first as an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and more recently with Pletcher – and plans to launch his operation at Saratoga with 20 horses, the majority owned by Gary and Mary West.
Benzel, 33, began his training career at Finger Lakes when he was 18, but followed a two-year tenure at the track with four years of education. After studying equine science and fine arts at Lake Eire College, he returned to racing full-time as an assistant to Mott for 4 ½-years, then signed on with Pletcher in June of 2002.
Pletcher, the Eclipse Award-winning trainer of the past four years, has maintained a record-setting pace since leaving the barn of his mentor, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, in 1995. Last year alone, Benzel worked to assist him with top runners such as Rags to Riches, English Channel, Scat Daddy, Octave, and Panty Raid. Still, Benzel said, the time was right for the move.
"I basically thought it was all coming together, not only where I am in my career but also in the amount of interest I was gaining from others," he remarked. "People said they liked what they saw in me and were interested in what I was doing beyond (working for) Todd. No doubt, being part of his team and that whole experience has really been a dream, and I couldn't have asked for anything better. That's definitely part of the reason I've been patient about making this move. Working with Todd has been nothing but positive and he's been very supportive."
According to the Daily Racing Form, assistant Tristan Barry will take over Benzel's role in Saratoga while the trainer reviews applications for an assistant at Belmont.


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Weirdo characters by Bene RohlmannWeirdo characters by Bene Rohlmannby Michela on Nov 21, 2013
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Bene Rohlmann is a brilliant illustrator from Munster, Germany.
This artist has a strong graphic line and a great simplicity of volumes such as a precise iconographic tecnique. He uses sarcasm and irony with incredible sense of line-work to create collages, drawings, prints and mix-media works.
Often, Rohlmann finds inspiration in old Disney icons and Marvel comics that he changes (through his very own style) into new unusual and crazy characters.
Enjoy them!
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Tribes of Neurot
A meridian is defined as the highest point, as of development or power within a given body. Suffice to say the latest album of entrancing, beyond-damaged psych-drone by Tribes of Neurot is aptly titled. The experimental soundscape sibling outfit to Neurosis taps into a new era of innovative psychedelia with propulsive, throbbing and looping drones as it forays ever further into territories uncharted and unfettered by the multiple genres the band encompasses.
Whereas many of Tribes of Neurot's previous projects have been based upon specific thematic concepts and experiments, Meridian is a return to the group's ambient/noise origins that escapes the boundaries of such pre-determined rules. The 10-track, 42-minute album creates a swirling miasma reminiscent of such diverse sound manipulators as Skullflower, Black Dice, Flying Saucer Attack and Labradford.
Its tones lope from the sub-harmonic hum and chiming, gamelan-type sounds of album opener "Displaced" to the wildly phasing tremolo and fried-amplifier sizzle of "Searing." At times, its sounds become downright nightmarish, as in the heavily-distorted sounds of waves that explode like strafing bombs on "Sub Aqua." Other times, tracks like "Wave Upon Wave" touch upon a strange meeting place between Wendy Carlos' neo-futurist analog synths and the electronic terrorism of Whitehouse. Throughout, Meridian is like a hallucinogenic trip that synergizes the noises from within our bodies with the peaking, cascading waves of the world that surrounds us.
The group has been responsible for several innovative and inspired projects that incorporate not just the impressive multimedia onslaught of Neurosis and Tribes of Neurot, but installations and "private performances" (wherein the listener is instrumental in re-creating and reshaping the nature of the group's sound) that experiment with the philosophy and semiotics of how we interpret audio. Tribes of Neurot's 1999 album Grace was released as a companion piece to the Neurosis album Times of Grace, and was designed for listeners to play the two albums at the same time, but not necessarily in-sync. The results were like a far better realized version of the Flaming Lips' 4-disc Zaireeka effort. The double disc Adaptation and Survival: The Insect Project (2002) arrived as a furthermore clever experiment that harnessed the group's esoteric thinking with a concept crossing John Cage's musical explorations with Stan Brakhage's bug-smashing film work. The group's members compiled insect noises, then distorting, synthesizing, and manipulating the recordings into freakish, buzzing noisescapes devoid of humans-playing-instruments. The result is a bizarre illustration of actual living things as instruments – from which listeners could also re-mix and simultaneously play tracks and subsequently revise the project altogether. Tribes of Neurot's A Resonant Sun project (available on the Neurosis DVD A Sun That Never Sets) is an innovative experiment modeled after an Alvin Lucier piece, in which the sounds of a recording are played in a room and subsequently re-recorded several times to distill the sound to it's finest harmonic resonance. Tribes recorded the Neurosis album A Sun That Never Sets being played on a stereo in a room, then re-played and re-recorded each subsequent repetition to stunning results that can be heard in progress track by track.
For Meridian, Tribes of Neurot takes that sonic reinterpretation of music and audience and elevates it to its highest point – similar to the way that meridians are mapped out to subdivide the latitude and longitude of the earth as well as locate nerve center pathways of the human body. The sounds borne of natural environments – both micro and macroscopic -- are mutated by chance, by design and by our own creations run amok. Does all that sound heady and complex? Certainly.
Does it also sound much more compelling and interesting than simply slapping the latest hipster rock combo's disc in the stereo? …We thought so too.
Visit the Neurot Recordings for Tribes of Neurot CDs, and merchandise from other Neurot Recordings artists.


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By James R. Healey, USA TODAY
A promising, if so far underwhelming, fuel-economy technology is gaining momentum as automakers, squeezed by social and political pressure, look under every rock to gain even a few tenths of a mile per gallon.
The technology goes by various names but by any name does the same thing: shuts off fuel to some of an engine's cylinders when the vehicle needs only partial power.
Chrysler just said that a new line of V-6 engines will have cylinder deactivation, starting in 2010. Honda (HMC) says it will have an enhanced version of what it calls Variable Cylinder Management on V-6 engines in the redesigned 2008 Accord coming this fall. And General Motors (GM) says it will use the feature on a 2008 Buick LaCrosse V-8 and '08 hybrid versions of full-size Chevrolet and GMC SUVs.
All those automakers already sell vehicles with cylinder cutoff. In most cases, it is said to boost mileage about 6%. While an impressive percentage, it typically works out to just 1 mile per gallon or so.
At Ford Motor (F), "We have it, we can use it, but the real-world fuel-economy benefit hasn't been there," says spokesman Nicholas Twork. "Not to say it won't be some day, but for the time being," Ford's not planning cylinder cutoff.
"Every little bit helps. But I think it's for marketing reasons," says David Champion, director of auto testing for Consumer Reports magazine. He figures the systems are tuned to deliver their biggest benefits during the federal fuel-economy test cycle. That's the test that generates the mileage numbers posted on new vehicles' window stickers.
"We've found that in most driving conditions, it's always in full-cylinder mode, not cutoff," Champion says. "It's a sub-10% improvement, maybe 13 mpg instead of 12" on a big pickup.
Consumer Reports gets fuel-economy readings by splicing a meter into a vehicle's fuel line to "measure the exact amount of fuel consumed in three very strictly controlled tests," he says.
Cutoff systems work by closing the valves and halting fuel to the unused cylinders, then reactivating everything in milliseconds when the driver needs more power.
Cadillac's infamous V-8-6-4 engine introduced in 1981 models tried to accomplish that by shifting among eight, six or four cylinders. But it was unreliable and was discontinued for 1982, according to Krause Publications' Standard Catalog of American Cars.
Automakers say today's computer-controlled engines and precise fuel-injection systems eliminate the earlier problems.
Chrysler pioneered the feature in the USA on the Hemi V-8 in 2005 Chrysler 300 and Dodge Magnum full-size cars.
Conversation guidelines: USA TODAY welcomes your thoughts, stories and information related to this article. Please stay on topic and be respectful of others. Keep the conversation appropriate for interested readers across the map.


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i was upgraded without needing to ask. The staff were excellent and could not have been more helpful. Location is perfect for the city centre. The best thing was the home made shortbread and the sweetest thing was the teddy on the bed. The most pleasurable thing was to come back at night and find the bed turned down with a hot water bottle - luxury. I will be back ....
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I'm reprinting a comment Ebonmuse of Daylight Atheism made on my post criticizing P.Z. Myers in full here. I thought it needed a response so I'm treating it as a semi-guest post. Ebonmuse's comments are in the blockquote, my response appears below: To understand fully why PZ did what he did, you have to be aware of the context.In this case, the context was that a Florida college student, Webster Cook, who was raised Catholic, attended a Catholic mass on his campus, went to the altar to r … [Read more...]
Desecration Follow-up: Considering the Context
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Since I had some nice things to say about P.Z. Myers earlier this week, I didn't want to post them without giving a quick overview of why I disapprove of his brand of sacrilegious confrontations. Myers takes pride in courting controversy. In his biggest stunt, he desecrated a consecrated wafer a student had smuggled out of a Catholic mass. To make it clear why I regard this kind of behavior as completely unacceptable, whether or not Catholic claims about the Host are true, consider this thought e … [Read more...]


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Hi! I am interested in injections of fat containing stem cells into my stretch marks. What can i expect from this treatment with respect to my upper (thin ones) and lower level (thick ones) stretch marks? (And as a further question maybe, how would the results compare to fraxel?) (Due to scar formation, i am not interested in tummy tuck) Thanks a lot!
What Can I Expect From Fat Transfer To Stretch Marks? How Does It Compare to Fraxel? (photo)
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Stretch marks ...fraxel or stem cells
Both fraxel and stem cells are equally ineffective for stretch marks. For your type of stretch marks only an excision and stretching the skin (tummy tuck ) would work
Expect nothing from either treatment
Both of these are completely bogus. There is no successful treatment for stretch marks other than excision as in a tummy tuck. Save your money, don't fall for the "stem cell" or "laser" promised magic - there is none.
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Civic Center Master Plan
Project Description
In the fall of 2015, after leasing the property for 40 years, Civic Center Playfield was acquired by the City of Edmonds from the Edmonds School District. The City has been operating the property as a park since 1975, with little change to its layout since its former use by the Edmonds High School. Just under 8 acres, the park is positioned near the Edmonds downtown commercial area alongside single and multi-family housing. The project goal is to provide the City of Edmonds with a Master Plan based on community input that envisions Civic Field as a signature park in the heart of downtown Edmonds.
Walker Macy, a Landscape Architecture and Urban Design firm, was hired by the Edmonds Parks and Recreation Department in April 2016, through an RFQ and interview process, to lead The Civic Field Master Planning effort. The project goal is to provide the City of Edmonds with a Master Plan based on community input that envisions Civic Field as a signature park in the heart of downtown Edmonds.
How to Participate
The design team will be working with the community to explore desired outcomes for redeveloping Civic Center Playfield. We will be hosting three online and three in-person public open houses. Each open house will address a different project milestone and will build upon feedback received from the community. In-person Open Houses held at the Edmonds Plaza Room 650 Main Street. Online open houses will be launched the day after each in-person open house and will be accessible for two weeks at the following address: http://edmondscivicfield.participate.online/
If you have questions or comments on this project contact Carrie Hite at email@example.com.
1. Park Activities
In-person: Thursday, June 23, 2016
Online: Friday, June 24-Friday, July 8
2. Master Plan Alternatives
In-person: Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Online: Thursday, August 25-Thursday, September 8
3. Preferred Master Plan Review
In-person: Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Online: Thursday, October 20-Thursday, November 3
Today, the approximately 8 acre site includes a playground, basketball and tennis courts, football field, soccer fields, track, skate park, petanque courts, portable restrooms, and two structures - the Grand Stand and the Boys and Girls Club (former high school field house).
Civic Center Playfield is currently used for community sports team practices and games by local youth organizations, nearby residents, and recreation programs as well as for events such as the 4th of July, Taste of Edmonds, Holy Rosary Field Day and the Wenatchee Youth Circus.
The planning effort will consider the full site with special consideration for six of the acres that fall under Conservation Easement Deed restrictions as follows:
-No parking
-Must be preserved as open space (i.e. used for recreation either passive or active)
-No synthetic turf
-No new playfields, existing fields can remain if desired
-Temporary festival use can be accomodated.
Two of the acres that include the field house are exempt from the deed restrictions.


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According to Jean King-Schreifels of MLB.com, the New York Yankees newly acquired players are still settling in and adjusting to life in New York. Brandon McCarthy, Chase Headley and Stephen Drew told King-Schriefels, that it has been an exciting transition, since coming to New York.
According to King-Schreifels, Stephen Drew wants a backyard for his kids to play in. Chase Headley is looking for open space and a quiet environment and Brandon McCarthy is looking for a quick commute. As the new players settle in to life as a Yankee, it can take a couple of months until the players find stability.
Chase Headley was living in a Times Square hotel, with his wife and 3-year-old son, when he first was traded to the Yankees. "I'd like to get a little bit outside the city," Headley said. "Being right in the tourist center of the world is not what I am… I'm not a big city person.
Headley, a native of Fountain Colorado, had spent his entire Major League career on the west coast playing for the Padres, but he is taking life in New York, in stride. "I'd like to get a little bit outside the city," Headley said. "With my wife and 3-year-old son, I think they would be more comfortable. That's the goal, but we'll try to line up some places. It's different, but it's exciting, too. There's nothing like it."
Brandon McCarthy who trekked from Arizona to New York has found the transition to seamless. "It's been smooth. Most of it has just been life stuff, just dealing with the city," McCarthy said. "It's a different pace of life, New York City. I don't compare it to anywhere else. That's just it's own universe."
Stephen Drew, who was acquired at the Trade Deadline, is still getting used to life in New York City. "I haven't gotten settled," Drew told King-Schreifels. "To be honest we're still trying to find a place. It's definitely an adjustment, trying to get my kids settled and everything else."
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