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Dan Herron has his old Indianapolis Colts locker at the team complex, the spot in between wide receiver Griff Whalen and kicker Adam Vinatieri.
Just like last season, Herron will be counted upon to fill a void left by running back Ahmad Bradshaw suffering a season-ending injury.
"Boom" couldn't be happier.
"Glad to be back, man. Glad to be back," Herron said Wednesday. "Very happy. Very happy.
"I was happy to see my teammates, my coaches. I'm happy to see you guys."
He couldn't stop smiling as he spoke. And he laughed long and hard.
He was thought to be gone for good on Sept. 6. For some inexplicable reason, the Colts used Herron on a kickoff return in the preseason finale and he re-aggravated an old left shoulder injury. Just like that, the fourth-year pro who started three games last season was waived injured in final roster cuts.
Herron was granted his release from injured reserve. He knew his injury wasn't season-ending. He just needed time to get healthy and the Colts decided they couldn't carry his roster spot for a lengthy amount of time.
The Buffalo Bills eventually signed him. He was used sparingly in four games, rushing 11 times for 37 yards and catching three passes for 20 yards. The Bulls waived him, which couldn't have been more fortuitous when the Colts claimed him on Nov. 26.
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"You never know with this business," he said. "I just knew if I kept working hard, something would shake for me.
"Coming back here was just like almost a dream come true. This is like home for me. I'm just happy to be back."
Herron got his start with Cincinnati in 2012, but he proved himself worthy of an NFL roster spot with the Colts. He appeared in all 16 regular-season games last season, scored his first pro touchdown on a 49-yard run, averaged 4.5 yards per carry with 351 yards rushing on 78 attempts and caught three passes for 20 yards.
In January, he etched his name in the Colts record books, tying a franchise playoff record with 10 receptions. He scored touchdowns in postseason wins against the Bengals and Denver Broncos.
When the Colts signed free-agent Frank Gore in the offseason, Herron was still considered an ideal backup who could spell the starter on third downs. "Boom" had proven his versatility as a pass receiver.
"I think we all saw when he was here the way he carries the football, the way he runs, his ability to be an every-down back," head coach Chuck Pagano said. "Certainly he'll give us an option when Frank needs a spell, to go in on early downs. If he gets a carry or two here I think he's more than capable of generating and creating yards for us.
"A good pass protector. A good third-down guy. I think out of the backfield, we all saw him be a viable option when things were taken away deep down the field. He's really good on check downs. Once our guys found him on those, he was able to create some yards and get some first downs for you in that respect."
Bradshaw was lost to a season-ending wrist injury just three days after Herron was claimed.
"Obviously you never want to see anybody go down," he said. "Me and Ahmad are very close. I talk to him all the time. You never want to see that happen, but it's kind of like one of those things, they always say, 'Next man up.' I've really got to take advantage of this opportunity and make the best of it."
One thing that has changed since he left is the quarterback. Matt Hasselbeck is 4-0 as a starter for the injured Andrew Luck. But that's OK, too. Herron spent the past two seasons on the scout team in practice with Hasselbeck, so he's comfortable with the backup passer.
The playbook hasn't changed too much. Herron has been able to get re-acclimated quickly.
It's fair to say "Boom" is anxious to play Sunday night, when the Colts (6-5) visit the Pittsburgh Steelers (6-5) at Heinz Field.
"Any way that they want me to help this team, special teams, playing on offense, if they want to throw me on defense, whatever it may be, I just want to help the team win games," he said. "Whatever I can do."
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- Seiko Epson Corp slipped to a loss in the year to March 2006 (FY05),
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The firm also took special restructuring charges in response to the challenging business climate facing it.
For the year Seiko Epson posted a net loss of 17.9 bln yen, reversing a year earlier profit of 55.7 bln yen.
It spent 45.5 bln yen in order to accelerate structural reforms.
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Name: Jose Tabata
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 205
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"Absolutely not," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said emphatically. "I think he was the youngest player in the Florida State League this year and he hit over .300. The conversation should end right there.
"The Florida State League, first of all, is a bandbox. It's big-time ballparks so it's not a home run place. Regardless, he [was] 18-years old, he came in and hit .300 in the Florida State League. He's a child amongst men, and to have that type of success is something we're excited about his potential."
One of the top prospects in the organization since debuting with the Gulf Coast League Yankees in 2005, Tabata has never hit below .298 in any one season even though he has faced much older competition along the way.
And while his middle-to-the-opposite field approach is mature beyond his years, he continually gets knocked for connecting on no more than five home runs in a given season.
"He's going to hit for a high average, I see that," said former Yankees hitting coordinator and current Toronto Blue Jays hitting coach Gary Denbo. "When we talk about developing hitters - my game plan for developing minor league hitters has been and will always be that power is the last thing we're concerned with.
"From a fans' standpoint, sure they'd like to see home run numbers and imagine what that might translate into at the major league level, but what we want to see is disciplined hitters. He's 19 years old in the Florida State League putting up outstanding offensive numbers."
Actually playing his entire 2007 season as an 18-year-old [he turned 19 three days after his last game] the Yankees are not only patient with his developing power game, they are puzzled as to why so many are expecting it to show up already.
"I don't have a concern at all," said Carlos Rios, the Yankees Director of Latin American Scouting. "We know the power is there. He's more focused on hitting for a high average and hitting doubles. I think as he matures and his body gets stronger, the power is there.
"Right now we want him to be a quality hitter and as he grows the power will be there. If you've seen him take BP, you know he's got power. That's got to be translated into the game, but that comes with at-bats. Remember he's a young kid."
Austin Jackson - Tabata's teammate over the last three years and who doubled Tabata's home run production in Tampa last season - is dumbfounded by the criticism.
"Everybody says that he needs to hit more home runs and my opinion on that is - for what? The guy is hitting over .300, he's on base, he's driving in runs, he's stealing bases - what more can you ask of the guy? In the minor leagues I don't see why they want a guy to hit a lot of home runs anyway because it's all about developing in the minor leagues.
"If a guy is hitting that much [home runs], he shouldn't even be in the minor leagues. Everybody says 'well he doesn't hit for enough power', but he's hitting .315 or .320. He's an incredible player."
Tying a career-high with five home runs last season, some wondered if chronic problems with his hamate bone, which Tabata had removed by season's end, zapped him of his developing power. Rios quickly dismisses that notion.
"No the injury didn't have anything to do with his lack of power," he quickly revealed. "The injury is something that happens to a lot of Latin hitters because they use their pinky in the bottom [of the bat].
"It's very common. If you look out there, there's a lot of guys who hit with the knob of the bat like that and get that type of surgery. Latin players, for years, like to use that. It's normal, it happens."
Staying at the minor league complex throughout the offseason to rehab his way back and reportedly in the best shape of his career, the Yankees believe Tabata is on the cusp of learning how to become a better power hitter.
"He's proving right now at this level that he's a good hitter," said current Yankees hitting coordinator James Rowson, who also served as Tabata's hitting coach at Tampa last season. "I think it's important that we recognize this guy is a good hitter first and his power will develop.
"He's going to hit for power, he's a big strong kid. Sometimes you have to take this time to learn what pitches and zones you handle best and that's what he was figuring out [last] year, what pitches he's able to handle best and drive out of the ballpark.
"He doesn't have to worry about his swing mechanics as much because he's got a good swing. I think this was a great year for him to get a feel for what he's able to do and he's only going to get better."
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Batting and Power. Tabata is simply a phenomenal hitter. He has a powerful line-drive swing whose natural motion is up-the-middle to the opposite field. While he doesn't draw a lot of walks he does have a very patient approach offensively. His tremendous bat speed gives him excellent plate coverage as well. Not only can't opposing pitchers get fastballs inside by him, they have a hard time sneaking pitches on the outside as well and he has power to all fields. While his home run totals might not suggest it, he swings a pretty thunderous bat and he learned how to pull pitches much better last season in an effort to increase his power production.
Base Running and Speed. Tabata is an aggressive runner on the base paths. Despite being a somewhat average runner, perhaps slightly above average, he has averaged better than 17 stolen bases per year in his career. Having potential weight issues at points throughout his young career, he has begun to understand the value in taking care of his body by getting in better shape and that can only help his success in the running game.
Defense. Tabata has the ability to play all three outfield positions if called upon, but his less than superb speed relegates to him to playing centerfield only in emergency situations. And while his arm is quite strong, more than enough to man right field, he projects best as a big league left fielder - that's where he could shine as an above average defensive player.
Projection. Tabata's solid overall game is among the best at the minor league level and he is one of the safest bets to reach his potential in the entire farm system. Learning the importance of keeping himself in shape and getting stronger, his body has taken on a new dimension over the last year and that bodes well for his future success. His uncanny hitting ability and developing power project him as a potential three hitter in a big league lineup someday. Often compared to Manny Ramirez for the physical resemblance, some scouts envision him as a young Gary Sheffield type. Either way he has the chance to be that kind of special run producer.
ETA. 2008. Tabata will once again be one of the youngest players in his league when he starts the 2008 season in Double-A Trenton. Vowing to reach the big leagues this year after participating in big league camp last season, we're not about to doubt his ability to achieve that goal. While we have been projecting his ETA as 2009 for quite some time, expect him to get a cup of coffee with the Yankees sometime this season if he remains healthy.


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A 19-year-old college student home in the Bay Area for spring break was shot and killed early Saturday morning in the Mission District.
The victim and a friend were walking near the intersection of Bryant and 24th streets around 3 a.m. when a man got out of a car and asked the victim if he was in a gang, police said. The man then shot the victim in the upper body.
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Showtime and CBS Sports premiere A Game of Honor tonight (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET) about the fierce rivalry between the U.S. military academies that culminates in the annual Army-Navy football game.
President John F. Kennedy said its "easy" to pick the real winner of the Army-Navy college game: the people of the U.S.
The film captures the emotion and pride of the Army's Black Knights and Navy Midshipmen who'll go on to serve in the U.S. military -- and likely never make it to the NFL.
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During reception day at West Point, the new cadets are welcomed at Eisenhower Hall -- then briskly given 90 seconds to say goodbye to their Moms, Dads, brothers and sisters. The transition from warm family life to the cold reality of barracks life is "instant and jarring," notes the narrator.
We meet high school fullback Maika Polamalu, first cousin of NFL star Troy Polamalu, on the day before he enters the U.S. Naval Academy. "I'm just glad to be a Samoan," he says.
The documentary builds up to this year's Army-Navy game won 27-21 by Navy. The doc is an intriguing look at one of sports most unique rivalries. Check it out.
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He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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What is being tested?
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, watery liquid that flows around the brain and spinal cord, surrounding and protecting them. A CSF analysis is a group of tests that evaluate substances in CSF in order to diagnose conditions affecting the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).
CSF is formed and secreted by the choroid plexus, a special tissue that has many blood vessels and that lines the small cavities or chambers (ventricles) in the brain. It is continually produced, circulated, and then absorbed into the blood. About 17 ounces (500 mL) are produced each day. This rate of production means that all of the CSF is replaced every few hours.
A protective blood-brain barrier separates the brain from the bloodstream and regulates the distribution of substances between the blood and the CSF. It helps keep large molecules, toxins, and most blood cells away from the brain. Any condition that disrupts this protective barrier may result in a change in the normal level or type of constituents of CSF. Because CSF surrounds the brain and spinal cord, testing a sample of CSF can be very valuable in diagnosing a variety of conditions affecting the central nervous system.
Though a sample of CSF may be more difficult to obtain than, for example, urine or blood, the results may reveal more directly the cause of central nervous system conditions.
- Infections and inflammation in the meninges, the layers of tissue that surround the spinal cord and brain, can disrupt the blood-brain barrier and allow white blood cells (WBCs) and red blood cells (RBCs) and increased amounts of protein into the CSF. Meningitis, an infection in the meninges, and encephalitis, an infection in the brain, can also lead to the production of antibodies, which can be detected in the CSF.
- Autoimmune diseases that affect the central nervous system, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and multiple sclerosis, can also produce antibodies that can be found in the CSF.
- Cancers such as leukemia can lead to an increase in white blood cells in the CSF and cancerous tumors can result in the presence of abnormal cells.
- Alzheimer disease is an irreversible form of dementia. Measuring amyloid beta 42 (Aß42) and tau protein in CSF may help establish a diagnosis for this disease.
These changes from normal CSF constituents make the examination of cerebrospinal fluid valuable as a diagnostic tool.
For more on CSF tests, see the "How is it used?" section.
How is the sample collected for testing?
A sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is collected by a health practitioner from the lower back using a procedure called a lumbar puncture or spinal tap. Often, three or more separate tubes of CSF are collected, and multiple tests may be run on the different samples.
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Dan walked away from an award-winning career in television to attend the world-renowned American Film Institute Conservatory. He began working as a production assistant on feature films in his senior year in high school. After paying his dues in several late night comedy shows, Dan established himself in sports television. He was an associate producer and writer for NBC's coverage of the Athens Olympics and a producer and contributing writer for the short lived ESPN series "Classic Now". Dan is a 2008 screenwriting graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory. Read more... "The 7th Claus", an official selection at the CineVegas International Film Festival. Upon graduation, Dan co-wrote the feature length film "Removal" (co-written and directed by Simon), which premiered at the 2010 AFI FEst and was an official selection at the 2010 Dubai International Film Festival. Removal was picked up for distribution by Lionsgate Films in 2011. In collaboration with director/producer Alexandre Aja and 20th Century Fox, Dan co-wrote "The Pyramid" with Nick Simon, which opens world wide in 2014/2015. Prior to AFI and his screenwriting career, Dan spent five years in sports television concurrent to working on his bachelors degree in film production from CUNY Brooklyn College, where he wrote/produced/directed four short films that played at festivals throughout New York City.


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Struggling To Let Go: Why? Let Peace Be.
Kate, a regular reader of freedomforall.net wrote "I have long been struggling to let go of the need to look for others for help and/or approval, for them to say I'm OK." in the comments to my recent post Inside Out and Back To Front". That post was about the difference between a life directed from inner resources and a life directed at satisfying externally percieved desires and threats.
When Kate writes "struggling to let go" she is emphasising another key obstacle on the path to realisation. In trying to get from "here" to "there", in exerting effort to "achieve" peace, we are unknowingly setting in chain a causal process which will preclude us from our goal. We are taught in early childhood that we are not OK. We learn to run around looking for the things and experiences and behaviours which will make us OK. They do not exist yet we are busy all our lives seeking them out. Similarly we try to seek out our own peace.
Meditation, the path to peace, is fundamentally the opposite of this process. Yet in trying to find peace we bring our hunger, our thirst, our craving for it to the fore. By doing so we ensure we will never find it because the satisfaction of this lack of peace can not be found through seeking which is the opposite to peace. The only way to satisfy it is to ignore it, to ignore all contents of mind, to sit.
Not to hypnotise oneself into not noticing but to notice and then laugh, let go and ignore: to develop, to cultivate, "the watcher" – that part of oneself which sits on the sidelines taking notes but not actively doing. Peace is a state of mind in which the current states of mind you inhabit have been worn out by their own activity. When they stop there is peace. You can't use them to find their own absense, you can use the watcher.
Breath by breath, if you are sitting in the right way, peace descends upon you, or grows up from the ground to inhabit you. Sitting is just about letting peace be. Recovery can be a struggle but at some point it has to become an outbreath. It has to become a realisation that the dangers of the past have gone, that the habituated responses to them are a self maintaining pattern of fight/flight. That the struggle of recovery has become the thing you are strying to recover from. The knowing has to be incorporated – it has to be a bodily knowing. And for such a bodily knowing to happen, the thinking mind has to stop struggling and settle down first.


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Personality Number
Your Personality number often serves as a censoring device, both in terms of what you send out, as well as what you allow to approach. It lists the characteristics you project and indicates how others are most likely to perceive you before getting to know you well, and so by learning about your Personality Number you can get insight of how others view you. It discriminates in the kinds of people and information you let enter your heart and mind, and it is those aspects that you feel comfortable sharing with people at the outset of a relationship.
Personality Number is one of the five core numbers that include your Life Path Number, Heart's Desire (aka Soul Urge) , Day Number (the day you were born on), and Expression (aka Destiny) Number.
Your Personality number is derived from the consonants of your full name at birth.
Each letter in your name is given a single digit number, based on the chart below.
In the case of your Personality Number, we are only interested in the consonants of your full birth name.
What about the letter Y? The letter Y is a bit tricky to use. Sometimes it is considered a vowel and at other times a consonant, depending on how it is used and how it sounds within the name.
When to use the letter "Y" as a VOWEL
- when Y serves as a vowel and sounds like a vowel , or when Y is the only vowel in the syllable (Mary, Carolyn, Betty)
- When Y precedes another vowel in a syllable and provides the vowel sound (Bryan, Wyatt)
When to use letter "Y" as a CONSONANT
- when Y follows another vowel, and it doesn't provide for a separate vowel sound (Murray, Hayley)
- when the syllable already has another vowel (except when Y precedes another vowel in a syllable and provides the vowel sound)
- when the Y is used in place of a J sound ( Yamaha, Toyota, Yoda)
To calculate your Personality number, assign each consonant of your name a number from the above chart. Do this separately for your First Name, Middle Name (if you have one), and Last Name (Surname). For each of your names add the numbers up separately, reducing them down to a single digit value. When you have the numbers for each of your names, add these up and again reduce to a single digit to come up with your Personality Number. If at any time in your calculations you encounter a master number (11,22, or 33) do not reduce it any further.
Example Calculation 1: John Winston Lennon
John Lennon's Personality Number = 5 + 9 + 9 = 23 = 5
Example Calculation 2: Oprah Gail Winfrey
Note that I have used the "Y" in Winfrey as a consonant.
You might find other charts showing different perspective numbers assigned to each letter. The methods on this website and in the readings I provide are based on Pythagorean numerology system which uses numbers 1 to 9. Chaldean numerology system follows a slightly different system using only numbers 1 to 8 (more to come on this topic at a later date)
Click on the numbers below to read a summary of both the positive and negative traits assigned to each number. Please note that the definitions below are specific to the actual numbers (1 to 9, 11, 22 and 33). If you would like to know how these numbers are interpreted within the context of your numerological chart, please visit the following page for an in-depth numerology reading. It is completely FREE - http://seventhlifepath.com/numerology-personality-reading/
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 33
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- July 10, 2017 at 12:22 pm
Help so for
Jason Thomas white
It's 11-1-1
Can you help I'm just a little confused lol
- July 15, 2017 at 12:08 pm
11+1+1=13. 1+3 =4
- June 29, 2017 at 2:03 pm
- June 29, 2017 at 2:02 pm
Would life be to know about my past life
- June 6, 2017 at 6:23 pm
Hi, I have a big doubt. I was born with two names and two surnames. Later they concealed my second surname, but it wasn't my choice. Later again because both of my two names where misspelled (my first name was originally Talia but was supposed to be Thalia and my second name is Jasmin but was supposed to be Yasmin) I've changed my name in Thalia but my second name stays Jasmin. How this affect my expression number? Which I have to look for? 'Cause in my "original" name it was 11 and now is 3. Reading what they mean now I feel more like a 3 but if I think about the past I feel like an 11. Maybe I'm both? I mean, I was born and 11 but I "developed" in a 3? Because I feel like that but I'm not sure. Thank you!
- November 19, 2016 at 8:15 pm
Trying much about myself, my past, present and future
- May 26, 2016 at 6:22 pm
My personality number is supposed to be an 8, but after reading all the personality profiles of each different number, I find that i'm more like a 3. Is there any reason to why that is?
- February 12, 2017 at 8:52 pm
I'm relatively new to the numerology, but there is more than just one number to our numerology charts. Our life lesson number (birth date added up and reduced), soul number (vowels in the full name), Outer personality number (adding the consonants. This is indicating how the outside world views us), and the Path of Destiny number (adding up the full name). So how you're viewed may be different from what you're more like. (I'm supposed to be rather conservative, but everything else about me kinda contradicts that. Everything else described in how others view me is pretty accurate. I'm also looking into various descriptions of my numbers.)
Also, it helps to look into various occult to combine them (i.e. astrological birth charts, numerology, palmistry to best have an in depth helpful look within yourself.) 🙂
- June 29, 2017 at 7:06 am
In case you didn't get it, personality number is how strangers view you. Life path, expression or even heart's desire would describe you as a person, not this.
- June 29, 2017 at 7:10 am
From a 3 with expression number 2 yeah im not 'in love' or 'shy' or anything like what people told me as a kid.
- May 24, 2016 at 7:07 am
I would like to know how to interpret the cycle numbers, the day number and The Heart's desire number? Do you use the information for the Life Path number to interpret each cycle of your life? Do you use the information for the Expression/Destiny Numbers to understand your Heart's Desire Number and your Personality number? Many thanks. Lisa
- March 25, 2016 at 8:34 am
Hello,I have a doubt concerning the greek alphabet in numerology. In the time of ????????? (Pythagoras) the greek alphabet had more letters ,that is for example ,there was a letter between E and Z (and others as well)which automatically brings vowels like I and also other letters in alignment with the roman alphabet if you take a close look to it. This makes it interesting and more difficult for us greeks to find out as myself I don't use the ancient alphabet anymore and any of greeks any more. The thing is that calculations become so different than calculating with roman alphabet and makes you wonder ,"what if the letters at the time of Pythagoras were right and not the ones now?" Makes completely different results while the vowels and consonants come (some )at the same positions with the roman method which makes some sense suddenly. I mean why calculating the l letter in a different altogether position? Which one makes it appropriate?
These were my thoughts hope we find an answer cause this is so interesting.
- February 3, 2016 at 8:23 am
Hi my birth name is sunit bhatia. Middle name Kaushik but I don't use my full name other then my bank passport n government id. I recently changed my last name to morarjee. How would it affect my future? Will my destiny be according to my birth name or the new last name I have got now. My bday is on 03/03/84. Sunit Kaushik Bhatia I get 6 6 9 in my destiny expression hearts soul. But sunit morarjee I'm getting 4 11 9. Will my destiny n luck change after changing the name or will it remain as my birth name. Thanks.
- October 10, 2016 at 8:51 pm
I believe that your full birth name may be the one that matters most, because I changed my first name to be more masculine, but then I added everything up with both my current name and my birth name. Despite the fact I dislike my birth name, the readings were much more accurate for that, but then again I'm not an expert at this.
- January 5, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Namaste!!!! You are so bad ass for doing all this!!! I had come across you a couple yes ago. Maybe 1yr ago. I was getting emails from you for ever and I wasn't conscious at that time so I was wondering how I had ur email ect. Now I am awake and I came across u again a couple days ago. I'm really glad I did so yeah thank you! Love and light forever!!????????????
- January 2, 2016 at 1:33 am
Hi Seventh, I really appreciate my own numerology form that you sent me previously.
Just a curious question though, how does your calculation method differ from affinity-numerology and paulsadowski?
- December 6, 2015 at 12:12 am
Hi all. My life path number and personality number are both 11. The interesting thing is that when I also look up the meaning of my first middle and last name, they all say the same thing, which is consistent with life path 11. Is this common? What does it mean when both the numbers are 11 and your name indicates the same qualities associated with 11?
Thank you so much for taking time to answer my question.
- October 3, 2015 at 4:03 pm
There should be a difference between me and my Dad.
- October 3, 2015 at 10:52 am
What if there is a "Jr" at the end of my name?!
- August 10, 2015 at 1:47 pm
The calculator shows different answer here, when I did it on my own it's something else. What do I do?
- July 18, 2015 at 2:34 am
i want to know my personality number
- July 22, 2015 at 4:04 pm
Take my lund Richa !!
- June 4, 2015 at 5:21 am
If we calculate consonant of first name and it count 11 then what we have to do we have to merge with single number or not
- May 8, 2015 at 3:09 pm
Hi Seven,
I still dont get it how to calculate personality number…please explain more on it.
- April 12, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Just wondering about two middle names. Are the two names calculated as one name?
- March 28, 2015 at 3:19 pm
I put my name in to be calculated and it didn't give me the correct numbers. For my first name, Monica, it calculated the number 7, and when I did it myself, I get the number 3.
- March 16, 2015 at 1:37 pm
I hate this is not giving me the answers I want that or I'm not doing it right
- March 18, 2015 at 9:55 am
Sorry my computer was dying and I was typing this super quick X3 I just want to know how to do this……………….its my first ever time doing a number chart thou
- February 1, 2015 at 10:37 am
Hi Seven,
My life path number is 11. however my personality number is 8. i am quite confused as to the impact of these two aspects in my life. it would be great if you could enlighten me on this matter as i don't know much about numerology.
- March 17, 2015 at 12:48 am
Hi seven,
I received my free report a few weeks back and i am quite satisfied with it. when i say 'quite' it's mostly because i am born on the 8th jan 1991. however having a life path number 11 i cant really relate to the characteristics a life path number 11 normally have.is it just me?
- December 21, 2014 at 2:58 am
Hi Seven, I received my free report today and I am very impressed with it! Until now, I always felt dissatisfied and disappointed with numerological reports, they seemed restrictive, judgemental and wildly inaccurate… but I felt there had to be something in numerology, so I kept searching. I found your site and am so happy I did, your report is spot-on and gives me so much insight into the nooks and crannies of my numerological chart! Thank you so much for an amazing chart and restoring my faith in numbers 😉
- October 25, 2014 at 6:58 am
Hey ,my date of birth is 11 august 1995 .. I want to know ,that what will be my lucky years and dates for me …..please help me
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Quality of NHL Hockey in 1994-95
Since I have access to the NHL Vault, I was curious to watch some hockey from the shortened 1994-95 season. As many of you know, the league scheduled a 48-game season that started on January 20, 1995. The regular season came to an end on May 3rd, with the playoffs concluding on June 24.
So the game I decided to watch was from an early part of the season with the Kings visiting the Oilers on February 25, 1995. At that time, I was 13. Watching the game now as a mature adult, I have to say, the quality of hockey was very bad.
The months of no hockey and a shortened training camp led to many injuries and slow starts for many players, and this game was reflective of that. To my surprise, Kent Nilsson was playing for the Oilers (didn't realize he made a short lived attempt at a comeback at 38).
And my oh my how the mighty had fallen. Gretzky was starting to age as he was already in his mid 30s by then. The Kings were two seasons removed from their Cup Finals appearance in '93 and this team was just bad, on paper and on the ice. The Oilers weren't much better as well.
There really wasn't much parity in the NHL at this time. Only 13 clubs finished with a record that was above .500 with the other half of the league finishing below a .500 winning percentage. Should also add that the amount of clutching and grabbing going on made it really tough to sit through a game. It killed all momentum and speed as there wasn't much offensive flow or creativity going on in hockey during this time period. I think the lockout and the subsequent shortened season was the precursor to the dead puck era.
Interesting... I can't speak to the quality of the NHL product in 1995 as that was around the time I was learning to walk (and, in turn, skate :naughty:), but I do have a question as to the length of the season. Being that the playoffs started on May 6, could it have been possible that, without the high number of short series (3 sweeps in the semis and one 5 game series, with the Final being another sweep) that the playoffs could have bled into July? A 7 game series in the semis and the Final going 6 or 7 would have added another week at least, does anyone know how that would have affected free agency (it seems the draft was pushed back considerably)? I can just imagine all those people who think the season is too long now must have hated it ending in late June and dreaded the thought of the Cup being awarded in July :laugh:
More teams with inflated records is not what parity is, and I wish that those responsible for setting up the current system would stop insulting its fans ability to do basic math.
So much for your theory. The quality of hockey during the lockout season was terrible. Go revisit the games from that season and see for yourself. So many players showed up out of shape and relied on clutching and grabbing. The sport was in much better shape prior to the lockout. Not that it didn't have its fair amount of infractions and obstructions happening, but there was a drop off in entertainment when the league resumed play in '95.
If there are a lot of +.500 teams in the league, that means that the losses that those teams are not getting, are being sucked up by bad teams. In 1993, the Lightning, Sharks and Senators finished a combined 44-195-13, which means they finished 151 games below .500 between them. That also means that the other 23 teams finished a combined 151 games above .500. No surprise that 16 of them had +.500 records. That's not parity.
For an opposite example, the 1996 Detroit Red Wings finished 49 games above .500, and by some amazing coincidence, only 2 other teams in the Western conference finished +.500, because many of their losses translated into wins for the Detroit Red Wings! That's not parity.
16 teams finished +.500 in 1993 isn't parity. 3 Teams in 1996's Western conference isn't parity. An equal number of both suggests parity.
Also, the "parity" in 1994-95 mostly arose from top and bottom teams not separating themselves over the short season. It had nothing to do with quality of hockey. Sort of like how, on the first day of the regular season, each team has either one loss or one win, and things spread out from there.
1994-95 Rosters
Basic isssues were that the 1994 NHL Entry Draft selections out of junior did not go to the training camp and did not make the rosters. Also the minor league eligible players who played in the minors did not have much of a shot at making the NHL teams post lockout roster.
This place needs more Johnny Engine.
I had a suspicion about this year.
Not that I'm against expansion, but I do believe the league expanded too quickly by introducing five new teams in a span of three years (San Jose in 91, Ottawa and Tampa Bay in 92, Anaheim and Florida in 93). That may have skewed the number of teams that finished below .500, but Florida and San Jose quickly transformed into contenders shortly after they debuted.
A number of players who probably had no business of being in the NHL became regulars as a result of these new teams creating 100 new opportunities for players. For the most part, the goaltending talent on those expansion clubs were well below average, but then again, I found good goaltending to be very sparse during the 90s expansion era up until the mid-late 90s.
The influx of sub .500 clubs wasn't a result of the league's point distribution system for wins-losses-ties. The league went from having 21 teams to 26 in a short amount of time and teams that lacked skill relied on a stifling defensive system in order to win games because they couldn't match up talent-for-talent. This led to a lot of boring hockey which I believe started with this particular shortened season.
To the OP, 1994-'95 was not a memorable season at all. Not just because of the shortened season, but also because of the players that season. Mario sat out all year. Gretzky showed the first signs of really slowing down. The aura of the Canadiens was starting to get wiped out as they missed the postseason. Roy had a bad year too. The NHL was almost in a transition period of time. The stars that would show up later in the decade weren't all hitting their peak yet. Lindros broke out as did Jagr but Kariya and Forsberg were rookies. Messier was older as well and less effective. It was also the first of the great old stadiums to go. Chicago was in the United Center by now replacing the classic Chicago Stadium. This was Boston's last year in the Garden as well.
Then the postseason was one of the worst in NHL history. The dreaded trap bored us all to death. Jersey winning the Cup in 1995 was a blow to the game of hockey as was the awful officiating in the Quebec/NYR series. Not really a memorable NHL year. A sweep in the final too.
friesen, wiemer, brett lindros, matt johnson-- all '94 picks from the CHL who played significant games that season. smyth, bonsignore, storr, richard park, wayne primeau, curtis brown, tavis hansen-- '94 picks from the CHL who played in a few games.
Jersey don't forget scored 5 in the two home wins. Their 67 goals in 20 games would look brilliant if we saw it today. Hell the Kings romped 16-4 but only scored at a 2.5 goal per game pace. Is today's hockey much better? Not a ton IMO. Less sloppy but even more robotic). I've seen most of these on NHL Network Classic Series episodes and few of the series were that exciting. Even the highly offensive Flames-Sharks series lacked much excitement outside of games 1-2 and 7. Some of 1994's series were classics and arguably the only 1995 series that could come close to that would be the Leafs-Hawks which went to 7. Pens-Caps was another Washington 3-1 series collapse yet it wasn't a thrilling series, just one full of mediocre goaltending all around and Jagr making it look easy. Flames-Sharks was too wide open, sloppy and too many one-sided games to be considered classic. Irbe was brutal (doing his special delivery giveaway goals and then flipping out in game 5 with a helmet headbutt to Sheldon Kennedy that got him ejected and Kennedy busted up real nicely. Wade Flaherty got a chance as a result).
It was in fact the highest scoring 7 game series in NHL history plus the Flames somehow lost it despite outscoring San Jose 35-26 and setting a new NHL record with 6 shorthanded goals in one series (the Sharks hold the NHL post-season record for most shorties allowed in one playoff year with 11 and they did this in only 10 games somehow. That speaks to the sloppiness). Well it had to do with Trevor Kidd being awful but he wasn't alone since many goalies had to iron out the kinks and many were in what would normally be mid-season form for the playoffs and not clutch form. For example, Ron Hextall gave up a GWG slapper from just inside the blue line down the wing from Claude Lemieux and Garth Snow was not much of an improvement. Ed Belfour fell apart with many stinkers in the Western Final including an OT whiff in game 3 that buried the Haws for good.
Kirk McLean and Curtis Joseph didn't even look too hot plus Quebec was doomed with a Fiset-Thibault duo and we saw just why Jim Carey "Net Detective" would someday be labelled a fluke. Hasek had done commendable work but it wasn't enough since Philly bested Buffalo in every facet. Potvin did ok in a first round exit too. It was a crappy display outside of Brodeur and Vernon but even Vernon looked lost in games 3-4 of the Cup Final. But overall 1995 paled next to even 1992 when there were sweeps abound. At the end, it was a disappointment, featuring all the Canadian and most of the original six clubs gone by the 3rd round. Also it lacked the star power seen in 1994 (Messier, Leetch, Richter vs. Linden, Bure, McLean), 1993 (Gretzky, Robitaille, Blake vs. Roy, Muller, Damphousse) or especially 1992 (Lemieux, Jagr, Stevens, Barrasso, Francis, Tocchet vs. Roenick, Chelios, Larmer, Belfour). Looking back, 1995 was the lamest playoff year since 1977 (which was simply a Canadiens cakewalk without any upset stories along the way).
Not mentioned in the rundown above, but I remember Vancouver - Chicago being an entertaining series, despite the sweep. 3 overtime games, which has to burn badly.
Unless your a Devils fan, the most exciting things about that season was the Legion of Doom line uniting, the emergence of Jagr as an offensive force, the Wings and the Nords.
That season was probably the worst NHL hockey I've ever seen over a course of a season and playoffs.
But yes, you basically summed it up. The Nords' young stars and Jagr's Pens battling it out, while the Legion of Doom threw its weight around, and the Wings tore it up in the west.
Wasn't the 95 season the first year of the NHL on fox?
I still can't believe Detroit lost that year in the finals. One of the biggest shockers in NHL history.
Felt that this is a relevant topic to bump up considering that we may be seeing a similarly scheduled season should the NHL season start in January.
I just hope the quality of hockey is considerably better than what we witnessed in 94-95 with so many players coming to camp out of playing shape. Typically coaches tend to believe that players get their skating legs and into game shape around a month or so after the start of the season.
In addition to that, does anyone recall when the NHL trade deadline was scheduled in 94-95? I'm thinking if they play between early January and late April, that they may just schedule the deadline at the mid-way point to give players and teams enough time to make adjustments.
Quality were poor in '95 I think. Players were kinda slow and tardy. After about a 30ish games it started to fire up and the playoffs were pretty good. I still put an asterix on that season tho.
The quality of hockey between lockouts (94-2004) was crap. Huge goalie equipment, stifling defensive strategies and 2-1 games put people to sleep. It was a truly dark time for the NHL.
Sadly, NHL hockey has moved back in that direction the last couple of years.
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Hey everyone, I'm new to the Spiceworks community and would love to hear any opinions on a business I'm trying to launch. I hope I posted in the right place. It's long, but bear with me!
So first off, I'll tell you what I am trying to do, and then a bit about my situation. My main life career goal is to be a business owner. I've been employed since I was 14 and am now 21. I've had several "mini" businesses in the past, all of which were at least somewhat successful. I've contemplated the "get a full time job in the field then start a business later" idea for quite a while, and I feel that not only will that increase risk (as far as start up) and complicate my life, but I also fear I will become too comfortable in my position and not have the drive that I have at this point to do what I truly want to do.
I'm currently looking at starting a small business working with other small to medium business. I would either install new computer networks, or upgrade old ones. Eventually I would like this to be a medium sized business, but for now, small is great.
So a little about me.... I am currently 21 and as far as schooling, I have an Associate in Science and am attending a 4 year university at the moment. I landed my first IT job at age 14, and I hate to say that because most people tend to shut down when the read that age. I worked at that job for 5 years, and really enjoyed it. The network itself [originally] was a 3 building network of around 300 machines or so. Each building was networked but for the most part, ran on their own. My primary responsibilities were on the client side of things.... I generally would bring a client computer from individual parts all the way to running at the desk of the user, and take care of any software or physical networking needs as well. Other than that, general maintenance of older machines and any odd jobs would be taken care of as well.
In 2008 I quit that job to start a new one. I was offered a "data technician" job at a local company that does electromagnetic interference testing on electronics. We specifically work on the power control systems for the up and coming Boeing 787 Dreamliner. I currently have this job, and my primary responsibility is to work with the computers involved with testing while and after we test. I then organize, come to a conclusion on results, and archive the data.
During this time (2003 and on), a friend and I have started small businesses for fun I guess. We've done small things like sell on eBay, and larger things like starting a wedding videography business. The latter was the latest, and had most potential, but when we sat down and truly talked about it, that was not something we wanted to do for the rest of our lives, and stopped.
Also during that, I did residential computer service on the side. This went on for a few years, and I had a decent client base from word of mouth. I never had any dissatisfied customers, but I stopped taking new clients as I didn't have time to deal with all the "I don't want to pay you but hey can you fix this?" with my schoolwork. I still help certain people from time to time, but that's it.
From all this I learned a few things. First of all, I loved business, and was happiest when that was what I did. I simply needed to find something I enjoyed doing. I also learned that I want to work with other business owners, not residential people. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all business owners are going to be easy to work with, but I feel you have to have something going for you if you have a successful business, and the profit margin is higher anyways. I also really don't care how many hours I work. Sometimes I don't get home from my current job till 3 or 4 in the morning anyways. Most of my shifts are 10+ hours, which is fine with me. The less I work, the more my mind wanders, and that's bad!
So on to some things that help me, and challenges I am currently facing.
As far as things that help me out, I have a town house with an office in a nice area, where I can conduct any offsite work. It is located in a smallish town, with relatively low quality competition. I have a good [quiet] room mate and am easily able to cover my bills at this point. I have a decent working car, and no major life issues at the moment. I also have two decently qualified helpers I could pay to help me out on these types of projects. I have very good people skills, and I believe that was the key to me getting both jobs I've had. I have never been interviewed for a job, simply talked to a lot of people over life, and apparently made a good impression.
Now onto the challenges. The first issue is that in my 5 years in IT, most of my work was client deployment. I currently have a Windows 2008 server that I have been using here at my home, but I've dealt very little with this sort of thing in a corporate environment, and when I did, it was Windows 2003 server. I realize the important things are similar [such as Active Directory] but I feel I need more experience with both 2003 and 2008. My way of dealing with this was to only sell certain types of networks so to speak, networks that I've created at home or simulated in some other way. I.E. a Microsoft Exchange network for a small office that deals primarily with secretarial work.
The other issue I have is reaching clients. First of all, I want to - at this point - only deal with small to medium businesses. The main avenue I have found for advertisement is craigslist, and well who knows what I'll get there. I have some small business owners in the family that could maybe refer me, but one owns a State Farm, and has no control over the IT aspect of his business, and the other is mobile and mainly deals with bars and clubs. As far as the networks I would like to work with, I'm not sure what to offer a bar or club, but I suppose I could come up with something. Employee management comes to mind.
And then the major limitation, I have never done a job like this, at least not outside my day job, so I don't have experience to sell. Other than undercutting the competition for a job or two, I'm not sure what else I could do. This is also the main reason I want to work with smaller businesses at this point. The projects are much smaller scale and would allow me to get my feet wet and learn without risking some major $$$$ for a large company.
So, is there any recommendations on what my next move could be? Any comments at all? I know there are a lot of experienced people on here, so really, any reply is a good one. I sincerely appreciate you reading that whole thing!
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Apr 5, 2011 at 6:31 UTC
I have spent a lot of my youth vacation in Genoa at my grandparents, and Genoa/Dekalb/Sycamore area is Retirement capital and farmers from what I have seen. Have you thought about focusing on a niche market in SMB? You have a prime location for Agricultural, find some bigger farms around.
Have you gone to the chamber of commerce and taken a look at the local companies?
Apr 5, 2011 at 6:46 UTC
I just closed the doors on my tech business. I could have done really well, but in the end I wanted to further my education and resume full-time work. Nothing beats full benefits. Plus it's still a tech related job, it lets me make my own hours, and the pay is decent. The position was actually offered to me by a client of mine. Now they practically own me, that's the downfall. I try my best not to take on side/personal jobs.
There is a lot of work involved in owning a business and simply put... I enjoy life way to much to be working all the time. If I am going to be up til 3 or 4 in the morning, as you mentioned, it's not going to be work related.
Get someone to handle accounting because you will eventually get too busy.
If your sole drive in life is to work then you are going to do really well. But your work (and everybody's demands) will eventually own you. I think you could use a little more experience/education, but that's based primarily on your age. I could be completely wrong. If you are going to support SMB then step up your windows server game.
Apr 5, 2011 at 6:57 UTC
Get someone to handle accounting because you will eventually get too busy.
I think you could use a little more experience/education, but that's based primarily on your age. I could be completely wrong. If you are going to support SMB then step up your windows server game.
Apr 5, 2011 at 11:17 UTC
Have you gone to the chamber of commerce and taken a look at the local companies?
Yes, first things first, get out to the local chamber of commerce and start introducing yourself. Well i guess first thing is to have a solid business outline of what it is that you cover, what your rates are and have a couple business cards in your pocket. Our local CoC lets you sit in on two meetings before you have to become a dues paying member to visit. Luckily it was only $50. The other thing is to pick up a copy of 'The 4 Hour Workweek' at your local bookstore or off of Amazon. Find your initial niche. If you have parochial schools in the area, they generally don't have enough in their budget to pay a full time network administrator, get in there and offer your services for a contracted rate of a few hours a week at a hourly rate. You will be the sales department if you have people skills and whore yourself. Then your buddies that hopefully have a better understanding of servers and networking infrastructure can help you do a "complimentary" audit. Look especially at what you can do for them with what they all ready have as they will tend to think that you're sleezy if you just want to sell them all new equipment. Get creative. setup the ability to assist remotely and be more responsive. Take turns answering the phone from your "office" and if you do a good job they'll be your best advertising via word of mouth. Have someone you can pay a salary less than what the hourly rate charged to the client is be a "partner" or co-owner so that you don't have to worry about paying them taxes and as a smaller percentage co-owner they will be responsible for their own taxes. Do the math and make sure it makes sense. Find a small CPA who you can either trade services with for them to do your Accounts billable and payable or that doesn't charge too much, unless you feel like spending late nites in front of Quickbooks (which most shops i know start out doing). And make sure your taxes are in order. I know two small shops that have closed and one friend who got in serious trouble through sheer ignorance of the tax they owed the state. Reach out to other small shops, if luckily you get some good business rolling, subcontract to others attempting to do the same thing as you to make sure that your clients don't feel neglected waiting for a response from a 3 man shop. Check out the subcontractors and have them sign non-competes so they dont steal the clients out from underneath you. And finally make sure that if you bring on the client you check in on them on a regular basis to get feedback or just make sure that everything is okay with them, build the relationships, but unless you literally pick up a keyboard or climb under a desk don't bill for these visits. Consultations are one thing, but the relationship building shouldn't be charged for (but like tim says in 4hww, know if and when you're being taken advantage of).
Apr 6, 2011 at 11:43 UTC
Having ran a business for years, I've found it's contacts that build you up. I still to this day do a lot of talking to people, handing out cards, and etc.. Thee's a seies of books called Guerrilla marketing, It has a lot of good tips on how to market yourself.
Apr 6, 2011 at 4:43 UTC
Well I appreciate all the replies!
As far as my location, I have doubts and would probably end up working in my hometown of rockford for a majority of projects. Dekalb and Sycamore have some good businesses, but you are right, it is limited. As far as agricultural, I never thought of that. I have a [wrong] prejudice that farmers are "old school" and would have no use for something I would offer but that's not a good way for me to think. My boss at my current job actually has an almost-son-in-law as a farmer, I may be able to get some ideas from him. Also, I took a look at the CoC website after you mentioned that, and there is very little listed in this field, just one major company. The rest were web designers.
As far as education, I have been studying for some various certifications (Active Directory, Windows Server 2008, etc.) to build towards an MCITP. I figured that would help me stand out and help me learn the software better while I'm at it. So far it's simple enough, but tedious.
Good advice, and that's a pretty major move to take, I admire that. If you can find a job that gives you freedom off hours that's pretty good. I have gotten the idea lately that most jobs are about as much work as owning your own business anyhow. Of course take that with a grain of salt, but having seen my dad work like a slave day and night, weekend and weekday, and often for free, well you might as well own it. He's an electrical engineer working for a large company in Rockford. I remember one night he came home from work, packed his bags and went to Pheonix, only a few hours notice. Seems like a little much for not enough in return. It's taken a toll on family life. I know not everyone's job is like that, but I was around it for 20 years, not sure how he does it. It's a small but important part of my drive to do things differently.
All good stuff, and I completely forgot about the CoC until you and Texkonc mentioned it. I'll be heading there soon. I do have an accountant in the family that would be willing to help me out for a good price, so I will probably be using her services. Also, I actually worked for a parochial school as my first IT job, so I have good experience there.
I'll be checking out that book. I actually had a pretty wealthy business owner as a previous residential customer, I am planning on giving him a call.
Great stuff everyone, the more the better!
Apr 7, 2011 at 3:00 UTC
Having ran a business for years, I've found it's contacts that build you up. I still to this day do a lot of talking to people, handing out cards, and etc.. Thee's a seies of books called Guerrilla marketing, It has a lot of good tips on how to market yourself.
oh yeah, forgot about the Guerilla Marketing book, have flipped through it several times and bought it for my previous employer as a gift, but gave it to him before reading it myself. (one of the best examples of an agency in seattle that's great using guerilla marketing is Wexley School for Girls - hilarious website)
Apr 7, 2011 at 10:51 UTC
Something not to ignore, but a lot of places have some organization dedicated jsut to starting up small businesses. Some offer courses. I took one years ago called Smart Start, and it was worth every nickle. Covered legal, advertising strategies, and so on.
Another good book, more for inspiration that anything else is NUTS. It's all about the founding and rise of SouthWest Airlines. Even if you don't get anything business out of it, it's an enjoyable read.
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