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The most vital thing that Dru meditation will do for you is to bring you to that still place inside you, with its sense of accomplishment, fullness and deep curative properties that only meditation and yoga can bring.
Dru yoga is a form of yoga that relies on directed respiring, soft flowing movements and visualization. Its foundations were set in traditional yogic convention. Dru Yoga works on the body, spirit and mind. It aims to improve adaptability and strength, create core stability and build an increased sense of positive thinking. It is thoroughly relaxing and revives your whole being.
Dru yoga was built to be practiced by people of all different fitness levels, different capabilities and all age groups. This is a yoga form that you can pick up quickly and discover more about it over your lifetime.
Dru meditation is one way to discover how to meditate in order to feel that inner tranquility or to be a stress reliever, then try Dru Meditation. The Dru approach to meditation will help bring you balance regardless of what or how you are feeling. If you are perturbed, Dru meditation will aid in bringing you a sense of quietness. If you are exhausted, this form of meditation will give you energy. It will help bring peace to your spirit if you're feeling anxious.
The most vital thing that Dru meditation will do for you is bring you to a still place inside with the sense of accomplishment, fullness and deep curative properties that only meditation and yoga can bring.
If you truly want to learn Dru meditation, the only way is to go to a workshop or a meditation retreat in your neighborhood. If you can't do that, you may try a led Dru meditation available on CD.
You'll find that Dru meditation can help relieve fatigue and stress and bring you focus and calm. If you do just 10 minutes of daily meditation, it will make a great difference.


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Using the Fall for Developing Early Literacy Skills
Amber Keck, Children's Librarian
As summer changes into fall, there are lots of opportunities to introduce literacy concepts to your child. At Manhattan Public Library, we encourage parents and caregivers to embrace organic ways to instill a love of reading in children. One of the important factors in a child's learning to read is their enjoyment of the books and stories. It is important to find stories that your children enjoy and look forward to reading with you. In the Children's Room, there are numerous books on leaves, hibernating animals and other aspects of fall. Here are a few books that you can read with your children, followed by any or all of the described activities.
Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
In Apples and Pumpkins, a little girl and her parents visit Comstock Farm, where they pick apples and pumpkins. Visit an apple orchard and a pumpkin patch with your children. Ask them questions about what they observe around them. What does the air feel like? How many people do they think are there picking apples or pumpkins? Are they feeling happy? When you get home, count how many apples were picked. Have your children join you in making a special treat with the apples or carving the pumpkin. Suggest that they call a friend or family member to tell them about the experience that they had.
Imitating activities from books gives deeper meaning to the story that your children are reading. Retelling stories and experiences builds the concept of "beginning, middle and end."
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
Leaf Man uses photos of leaves and other pieces of nature to tell the story of how leaves progress through the fall. Take a nature walk with your children and have them take notes in a homemade or store-bought journal. They can look for specific things or just simply observe the world around them. Gather leaves and sticks to bring home. Use the sticks to make letters on the sidewalk. Try to find bits of letters or shapes in the veins of the leaves. Make your own leaf man and exchange stories with your children about what your leaf man has done or will do.
As you observe nature, you will most likely use words that your children don't yet know. When children are exposed to a larger vocabulary, they tend to have greater reading success. Don't be afraid to use new words to describe the scenery around you. Making letters out of real objects gives more depth to the letters themselves and emphasizes the fact that they form words and have meaning.
The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri
The Busy Little Squirrel follows a squirrel as he prepares for hibernation, gathering seeds, nuts and fruit. Make your own "snack mix" with your children and try to form letters out of the pieces of food. Have them help you cook a meal and talk about what you like to eat in the winter. The more you talk with your children, the more they will learn about communication, words and stories.
Visit the Animals Neighborhood at the library to find non-fiction books on squirrels and other hibernating animals. Consider reading non-fiction stories about the changing of the seasons, found in the Science & Nature Neighborhood of the Children's Room.
Attending a storytime at MPL is a great way to get your child engaged with stories in different formats. Storytellers coordinate activities during storytime that associate with the books being read. Visit the website to see the current storytime schedule, or stop by the Children's Room to pick up a schedule. Youth Services librarians are always willing to offer ideas to help your child develop early literacy skills, even starting from birth.
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Join hundreds of sustainability professionals from across the Washington, D.C. region for our community's premier social event of the season: the Green Tie Affair. This annual winter celebration regularly brings together 350 of the most informed and influential individuals in green building for networking and delicious food and drink. We are thrilled to announce that this year's event will take place at the Embassy of Finland—the first LEED Platinum embassy in the United States. Proceeds from this year's event will go toward education, advocacy and community outreach efforts in the coming year.
When: Thursday, Feb. 25, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Where: Embassy of Finland, 3301 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008
Winter evening cocktail attire, particularly attire that includes the color green, is encouraged at this event. We'll have a prize for the best green tie and best green dress of the evening. The embassy's chef and catering team have put together a menu of traditional Finnish fare made from local ingredients.
Tickets are only $50 for USGBC-NCR members who register before the early bird deadline of February 11. After the early bird deadline, member tickets are $75. Nonmembers may purchase tickets for $75 any time. Due to security restrictions at the embassy, registration for this event will close on February 19. Please note that refunds will be available only until Feb. 11, minus a 20 percent administrative fee.
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To the Front, Volume 2
Civil War Battlefield Photography, 1863-1865
de Robert Shenk
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To the Front is my two -volume collection of my favorite Civil War battlefield photos taken largely during my five years working for the Civil War Trust. During my time at the Trust I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit most of major battlefields and many of the smaller ones as well. As one with a passion for photography, I was always so impressed with the physical beauty of these places that witnessed so much carnage. I hope that the images in these two volumes will help to not only spur your own visits to these places, but will also increase your desire to ensure that this hallowed ground remains preserved for posterity. Volume 1 covers battlefields from 1863 to 1865.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Historia
Apaisado grande, 33×28 cm
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- Fecha de publicación sep. 21, 2013
- Idioma English
- Etiquetas Mobile Bay, Civil War Trust, Civil War, Confederate, Franklin, Appomattox, Petersburg, Wilderness, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Gettysburg, Landscapes, Battlefields
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Rob Shenk is the Senior Vice President of Visitor Engagement at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Possessed with a lifelong interest in photography, Rob has a particular interest in historic landscapes and architectural subjects. Shenk's photos have appeared in web publications, books, popular calendars, magazines, and other printed material. He lives in Great Falls, Virginia.
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Komli Media acquires Singapore-based online advertising network Admax
BANGALORE: Online media network platform Komli Media has acquired Singapore-based online advertising network, Admax, in a cash-and-equity deal, said Komli's CEO, Prashant Mehta. Mehta declined to reveal the deal size.
With this buyout Komli intends to expand its reach in South East Asia, which Mehta termed as a billion-dollar opportunity. "We will be able to leverage Admax's team, expertise and relationships in all the South East Asian markets," said Mehta.
Admax, launched in 2006, claims to be the largest online advertising network in the region, with a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Admax will give Komli access to a publisher network of over 4,000 local and international websites.
Komli estimates the online advertising market in the region to be worth approximately $250 - 300 million, and growing at 30-40% per year. "Our target is to become the leaders in the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific market as that will add tremendous value to our global operations," Mehta revealed.
Komli, founded in 2006, has followed the acquisition path to speed up growth in different geographies. The Admax deal is its sixth acquisition in two years and the second in the region. In mid-2011, the company had bought out Singapore-based online media sales venture Aktiv Digital. Komli had earlier acquired Australian website representation firm, Post Click, and UK-based online ethnic marketing company Indoor Media.
The company has favoured the inorganic route for acquiring technology as well. In late-2011, the company took over the India business of video advertising venture, Jivox, and in July 2011 acquired mobile advertising and publishing network, Zestadz.
Admax will be rebranded and the 100-strong team will join the existing Komli team in the region. Komli is targeting to reach $100 million in revenue in the next 12 to 24 months, said Mehta.


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I must have been about five or six the first time I sat on a horse, and I've been hooked on them ever since. I was introduced to the sport of horseback riding, otherwise known as equestrian, through my aunt and my cousins who live in New Jersey. My aunt had a riding school and I would spend summers with my cousins riding everyday. Unfortunately, I chose to fall in love with probably the most expensive sport to participate in, so having my own horse wasn't in the cards for me growing up. When I was researching the different organizations at the University of Alabama before graduation high school, I found that an equestrian team had started the year before. I have now been on the team for three years, and it's given me the opportunity to ride consistently and be surrounded by other equestrians. The team has grown so much since my freshman year. It's very exciting to be a part of something exciting happening at the university that also happens to be a hobby I love.
I wouldn't say I stuck with riding over other sports because of the stylish attire, but it doesn't hurt, right? Tons of designers like Gucci and Ralph Lauren have been inspired by traditional equestrian clothing and often incorporate equestrian motifs into their collections, like bits and stirrups. The traditional show attire for hunt seat includes a black helmet, a white button-down with a choker collar, a navy or other conservative color show coat, light tan breeches, a leather belt, knee-high black boots and black riding gloves. There isn't too much room for experimentation within the hunt seat show world, but you can add small touches like patterned riding socks or a colorful lining in your show jacket. During practice, however, the dress code is much more relaxed. Riding breeches are pretty standard throughout, but they are offered in many colors to choose from for schooling. I usually wear more athletic dri-fit tops during the warmer months and collared shirts layered with sweaters when the temperature dips.
The Olympics is possibly the biggest stage for equestrians to compete on where the whole world is watching. It is very exciting to see the best riders and horses around the world go head to head on some of the most creative, challenging and well-designed courses that horse and rider can compete on.
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We've selected these apps based on their usability, user reviews, frequent updates, and overall impact in offering support and information to people affected by HIV. If you'd like to suggest an app for this list, email us at email@example.com.
There is a lot of information and terminology you have to learn and keep track of if you or a loved one has HIV or AIDs. From all the medications used to treat these conditions, to learning about new research, it can be hard to keep up. These apps can remind you to take your medications, teach you terms related to HIV, and even find the services you need nearby.
AIDSinfo HIV/AIDS Glossary
Created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this app provides definitions of all the terminology relating to HIV/AIDS in both English and Spanish. It features an audio tool so you can actually hear how the word should be pronounced in either language. This is a great tool for patients, students, and health professionals.
The Body
With this app, you have access to all the content on TheBody.com on your mobile device. Get all the latest news, find out about ongoing research, and research other topics of interest connected to HIV and related illnesses. An easily navigable menu allows you to connect to the topic of your choice, including personal stories from others with HIV.
When you have to take multiple medications every day, things can get confusing. You might miss a dose or even take the wrong amount. With this app, you can input all your medications, with dosage and timing information. Then, it will remind you when it's time to take one. With a click of a button, the app will populate a chart showing your family, doctor, or care provider that you are taking everything as prescribed.
Many people don't realize that medications can cost different prices depending on where you get them. This app can work wonders if you're juggling numerous, pricey medications, making it quick and easy to find the cheapest price for any prescription you need to fill. And, if you are taking multiple medications, it has a tool that will find the best price for all of your medications in one place. That way you don't have to run all over town to save money.
This app compiles information relating to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, and puts it into an easy format. Search for articles, blog posts, and videos by classification and location. Simple alarm tools can be configured to multiple medications and remind you when to take them, meaning that you don't miss a dose if you're busy watching or reading something else on the app.
HIV Risk Calculator
If you've ever wondered how at risk you are for getting or transmitting an STD while performing a sexual activity, worry no more. Whether you may or may not have HIV/AIDS or you think your partner might, this app can answer all your questions. Learn the level of risk for all types of sexual contact, from kissing to intercourse, as well as steps for prevention.
HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator
Developed by AIDS.gov, this app is a search tool based on your location. It helps you find a number of different HIV/AIDS related services within a given radius of your current location or any location you input. These services include: housing, testing sites, health centers, and more. Simply input what you need, and get all of the options within your area, all in an easy to read map format.
Liverpool HIV iChart
When you're taking multiple medications for HIV/AIDS, or any other condition, drug interactions are a major concern. This app outlines the risks and potential side effects of combining many medications, whether they're prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, or natural supplements. If you have a headache, want to take a multivitamin, or have seasonal allergies, you need to know what medications may or may not be OK to take with everything else.


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Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, 18:37 GMT
Nato: A history of crises
Nato faces one the most serious crises in its 54-year history following a move by France, Belgium and Germany to block plans to bolster Turkey's defences in case of war with Iraq.
They argue that beginning military planning now would undermine diplomatic efforts to avoid a war.
The rift in the transatlantic alliance is so serious that some commentators say it will cause its demise.
But Nato is no stranger to disagreement, and has survived many crises in the past.
French dissent
Its solidarity was threatened in the 1960s when the French withdrew from its integrated military command.
Then, as now, the French were dissatisfied with what they saw as American and British domination.
From Nato's birth in 1949, France has been an uncomfortable member of the alliance, insisting on its own nuclear strike force.
Nato had little choice but to move its headquarters from Paris to Brussels after France left its military structure, although it remained a political member.
In the 1980s Nato was strained by disputes over the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear forces and a row over the Soviet gas pipeline to Europe.
Nonetheless, during the Cold War, the alliance remained central to US foreign policy while western Europe sheltered under Nato's umbrella, supported by American military strength.
But then capitalism buried communism, the Berlin Wall came down and many began to question whether Nato still had a role in the new world order.
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Civil wars in former Yugoslavia gave Nato a new job keeping the peace in the Balkans.
However its intervention in Kosovo in 1999 to defend ethnic Albanians came only after a series of disputes among its members.
After 11 September, the US ignored the Nato structure when it led a coalition into Afghanistan.
Yet the number of eastern European countries queuing up to join Nato shows that it remains relevant, especially to those from the former Soviet bloc.
And despite the current row, the Americans are keen to preserve Nato. It may again survive, but it risks sliding into irrelevance.
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Oreo Truffles
Recipe by evelynathens
These are so easy to make and so easy to eat! Cookies and Cream in truffle form. Divine!
Top Review by KatyMomma
I cannot give this a better review?! I LOVED making these! I found this recipe for a Christmas get together and it got the reaction that I was hoping for. Another family member thinks she is the queen of snacks and sweets, but her Puppy Chow went untouched as my truffles flew off the serving tray! It was a heavenly treat that I will include in my sweet treat recipe box. I plan on out-doing her every holiday from now on.... :)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lb Oreo cookies (3 sleeves)
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract (using different extracts allows for subtle flavour changes...I've used mint extract, upped to 1 tsp) (optional)
- 1 lb milk chocolate
- 1⁄2 lb white chocolate
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- Using a food processor, grind cookies to a fine powder. With a mixer, blend cookie powder, cream cheese and vanilla extract until thoroughly mixed (there should be no white traces of cream cheese).
- Roll into small balls and place on wax-lined cookie sheet. Refrigerate for 45 minutes.
- Line two cookie sheets with wax paper. In double-boiler, melt milk chocolate. Dip balls and coat thoroughly. With slotted spoon, lift balls out of chocolate and let excess chocolate drip off. Place on wax-paper-lined cookie sheet.
- In separate double boiler, melt white chocolate. Using a fork, drizzle white chocolate over balls. Let cool.
- Store in airtight container, in refrigerator.
- Note: When I am exceedingly lazy (most often the case these days), I forego the chocolate 'dip' and merely roll my truffles into various mixtures - chopped nuts, chocolate sprinkles, vari-coloured candy sprinkles, cocoa powder, chocolate shavings, coloured sugars -- still pretty -- less work.


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Unveiling the official title is director Darren Aronofsky himself who says the movie will not be a sequel in any conventional sense.
After confirmed as the director of second Wolverine film, Darren Aronofsky has given an update from his upcoming project. Met by HitFix during an event to promote his latest work "Black Swan", the filmmaker revealed the official title of "Wolverine 2".
According to the site, Aronofsky said his film will be simply called "The Wolverine" without any number attached to it. Additionally, he referred to this follow-up to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" as "one-off" and claimed it won't be a sequel in any conventional sense, but further explanation has not been available.
As said before, "Wolverine 2" will follow Hugh Jackman's Logan in Japan and dealing with ninjas as he struggles whether to follow his animal killer instincts or the life under a samurai's code of honor and respect. Principal photography is set to be kicked off in early 2011 for a targeted 2012 release.


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Equinox to the Southern Caribbean: Celebrity Equinox Cruise Review by wwcruisers
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Equinox to the Southern Caribbean
Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Embarkation: The worst we have ever encountered at Ft. Lauderdale. It was clear that there were serious Customs/Immigration issues, as disembarkation of the previous cruise was very slow. We were checked in by 11:00 a.m., but boarding did not commence for another two and a half hours. Celebrity did their best to make everyone comfortable. The suite area was nice, but even that became quite crowded by the time we were allowed to board.
Ship / Cabin: Equinox was as lovely as I remember Solstice being. Everything was in good repair, and spotlessly clean. We did not have a lighted make-up mirror in our suite, but one was More eventually provided, upon request. These used to be listed among the suite amenities, but apparently they no longer are. We also did not have a corkscrew to open our wine. All of our previous staterooms have had a one. Our butler told us they were not providing them anymore, due to "safety concerns". I found this very irritating, as our good Pedrini corkscrew had been confiscated from my carry-on upon embarkation. Following Celebrity's instructions, port security took it, because of the 1-inch foil cutter on it (never mind the 6-inch steak knives we would be given at dinner, that night). After several phone calls and a trip to guest relations, our corkscrew was finally returned to us.
Main Dining Room: Generally speaking, the food quality was hit-or-miss. Most dishes in the main dining room tended to be over-salted, even for cruiseline food. We could not get escargot anywhere (even in the specialty restaurants). The crab-stuffed mushrooms that replaced escargot on the menu were simply horrible. They are no longer served in the escargot dishes, so they came out watery and lukewarm -- with little or no evidence of crab in the stuffing. After our last two X cruises, it was a pleasant surprise that the chefs on Equinox actually knew how to prepare a steak which was ordered "rare". The beef quality in the MDR was something else, however. The prime rib was fatty and the steaks (even cooked rare) were so tough that we had trouble cutting them. When we sent dishes back, there was a great hue and cry by the staff (including the maitre'd), but things did not really improve much. Neither my husband nor I care much for desserts, but the varied sorbets on the MDR menu were always a great way to end a meal.
OceanView Cafe (buffet): We only had a few meals here, mostly in the Asian Food section. Their stir-fry for lunch was very good, although the station itself was set up rather awkwardly. There was no place to wait while your food was being prepared, without being in the way of people trying to reach the non-stir-fry offerings. One evening, after a long day in port, we opted for an early buffet dinner of sushi and miso soup -- both were simply delicious!
Specialty Restaurants: We dined in each of the specialty restaurants: Murano, Silk Harvest, and Tuscan Grille. The food and service in each was outstanding, but our hands-down favorite was Murano. Their table-side preparations were amazing! In Tuscan Grille, I think more people would order the Caesar Salad, if the menu explained that it is prepared table-side, with delicious freshly-made dressing. Silk Harvest was wonderful, but much more food that the four of us could eat -- we couldn't even think about dessert.
Entertainment: After our experience on Millenium last fall, it was a real relief not to have the constant thumping of techno music piped in all over the ship. What "canned" music they did have was appropriate to the various venues, and not too loud. The live music throughout the ship was quite good. The ship's "party band", Southside, was one of the best groups I've encountered on X. The late-night comedian was funny, without being too explicit (although it was definitely adults-only material). One thing that I didn't understand was why there was no live music at the gala brunch. We've seen that on other ships, and it adds a very nice touch.
I can't say enough great things about the Hot Glass Show, and the ship's resident artisans from the Corning Museum of Glass. We attended one show during daylight hours, but the most amazing shows were at night. On the last sea day, they held a charity auction of four of the pieces that were made on our cruise. It was held in the Centrum, and was very lively and well-attended, raising money for both breast cancer research and glass-blowing scholarships. We don't go to very many of the shows in the theater, but the Cirque-like production (Equinox, the Show) on the last formal night was quite good.
Service: I would have to characterize the overall service as good -- but there were glitches. For instance, having had past problems with tuxes rented through Cruiseline Formalwear, we had asked our butler if he could have my husband's tux delivered early -- so he could try it on and inspect it. But, the tux wasn't delivered until nearly noon the next day (first formal night), and there were indeed several problems that required alteration and repair. My husband (who was not happy) explained to the butler that this was the very scenario he had wanted to avoid. After that, things got a little better. On one of the last sea days, we let our butler know that our friends would be stopping by for a glass of wine on the balcony, and asked if he could bring something other than the usual afternoon tea canapes (which we really don't care for). We were very pleasantly surprised when he showed up with a whole tray of assorted hot and cold appetizers, including a cheese plate, and shrimp cocktail! Our room steward was outstanding. Our room was kept very clean, and we always had plenty of clean towels and ice. To my dismay, I quickly realized that the new Bulgari bath products provided in the suites were not to my taste. I found them to be over-perfumed and oily. After telling our room steward, they were immediately replaced by the lemon-grass products that we are used to finding in our cabins on X.
Disembarkation: Here again, there were long lines and delays. We were one of the first groups called, but still found ourselves in a very long customs line. To make things worse, there were not nearly enough porters for people who needed them, which added to the delays -- as well as causing confrontations between passengers. Celebrity's answer to the Customs/Immigration back-ups was to encourage as many passengers as possible to self-disembark. This did not work too well, as many people were still struggling to get off the ship with all of their luggage, when the first regular embarkation groups were called.
Overall Impressions: As long-time passengers on Royal Caribbean, we saw a steady decline in the quality of food and service on that line. That was part of the reason we have largely switched to Celebrity as our cruise-line of choice. However, we are starting to see some of the same changes occurring on X. There has been a notable shift from emphasizing service to focusing on sales: drink & restaurant packages, future cruises, shore excursions -- you name it, X is selling it. Oh, and yes the rumors are true: the dreaded art auctions have returned -- with a vengeance! The daily bulletin (Celebrity Today) used to prominently feature guest lecturers, and various events throughout the ship. Now, it's just one big commercial flyer for whatever they are selling that day. We had to search the fine print in the schedule to find the things we wanted to attend, such as the Gala Sea-Day Brunch.
The few Captain's Club events scheduled for the cruise are all printed in one flyer, stuffed into an envelope with the coupons. But daily, we found personalized "invitations" on our door to attend jewelry sales, art auctions, and other "events" that we had absolutely no interest in. By contrast, many people on our CruiseCritic roll-call reported that they never received an invitation to the Connections Party. Ours was only delivered late on the night before the event -- like it was an afterthought. On most cruises, we have found our Connections Party invitations waiting in our room when we boarded.
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After almost three years in the wilderness for leveraged buyouts, the $2.7 billion bid for
And while there's much excitement about the return of private equity, not everyone is happy about how the chips have fallen in the new era of Australian private equity.
One of the biggest talking points of this deal has been the new-found eagerness among Australia's Big Four banks to venture out of their comfort zone into the leveraged space.
The majors' new enthusiasm for leveraged finance, coupled with their relative strength in the aftermath of the crisis, and inherent knowledge of listed corporations, may make them a force to be reckoned with.
But some bankers have expressed their concern about how the Big Four are using their clout in PE land. The major banks were said to be influential in negotiating terms of both the winning and runner-up bids.
In particular, the local banks were said to have forced mezzanine debt providers out of the financing in favour of bridge equity, creating conflict among the international banks that pointed to global industry standards that facilitated participation of mezzanine debt providers.
Critical to the success of past private equity financing deals, mezzanine debt financing is the layer of more expensive junior debt that bolsters the capital structure yet maintains the required levels of leverage for sponsors to ratchet up their returns.
While mezzanine debt can provide added protection to senior lenders, it is not always favoured by them. Banks ideally would prefer more equity and don't like to cede control of certain outcomes to junior lenders in the form of inter-creditor arrangements. Also if senior debt financing is in short supply, banks can often drive a hard bargain and restructure the deal so they are able to capture the spread that would have found its way to the mezzanine debt provider.
Direct mezzanine debt is absent in the Healthscope deal but a bridging facility is understood to be in place whereby equity will be replaced by subordinated debt raised at some point in the near future, typically within 18 months.
By replacing pre-committed equity with subordinated debt down the track, the sponsors can reduce their overall cost of capital and increase the concentration of the company's profits.
Mezzanine debt's absence in the deal was no surprise to some in the industry. The market rate for mezzanine debt financing has been pushing 18 per cent and with such attractive returns, PE houses that have been taking more risk for a similar return have balked at the cost.
Mezzanine debt has proved expensive but one solution would be to raise the funds through a subordinated debt sale to retail investors. This was the route taken by Myer and BIS Cleanaway in 2006.
Because less sophisticated retail investors typically demand a lower premium than institutions to access debt and do so in smaller more palatable chunks, the retail outlet is a feasible way to raise affordable junior debt. It may even allow the banks an avenue to earn bonus fees through lead manager roles in the bond issue. Unfortunately, because such debt is subordinated, it would not benefit from the government and ASIC's new scheme to fast track bond issuance through prospectus relief.
There are other options. In the 2006 PBL Media buy-out, the mezzanine bridge was sold down directly to institutional investors. Today, there may be more funds out there prepared to take a slice of the action at a rate that beats the mezzanine debt providers.
But regardless of the specifics of the financing, there now appears to be a palatable blueprint in place among sponsors, and debt providers that should see future PE deals fast tracked.
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Our insurance company was disputing with us about where we lived (Brooklyn or Pennsylvania). Finally, we seemed to convince the person on the phone that the car is in Pennsylvania enough of the time that we qualify for insurance there. We were all set -- we thought.
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Elaine Auyoung
English, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
The Suggestiveness of Realist Novels
This project argues that the phenomenology of reading nineteenth-century realist fiction is shaped by an unacknowledged but fundamental aesthetic struggle, using cognitive accounts of reading and perception to reveal the way in which realist writers use empirical details to cue readers to conceive of implied persons and scenes that seem to exist beyond the printed page.
Mark Collier
Philosophy Discipline, Morris
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophers challenge the status quo in philosophy by casting aside their armchairs and incorporating data about how people across a variety of cultures think about philosophical topics. This approach is extremely controversial since it challenges a number of traditional assumptions that philosophers have made while going about their business.
Katharine Gerbner
History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Christian Slavery: Protestant Missions and Slave Conversion in the Atlantic World, 1660-1760
This research asks why enslaved and free Africans participated in Christian rituals in the Protestant Caribbean, arguing that their conversion conditioned the emergence of whiteness, transformed the practice of religion, and redefined the idea of freedom in both Europe and the Americas.
Njeri Githire
African American & African Studies, CLA, Twin Cities
(In)edible ideologies: Food, Identity and the (Post)Colonial Subject in African Literary and Cultural Expression
This work examines the representation of food, (non)-eating & related tropes in contemporary African literary production as a lens through which to critique the intertwined histories of global economy and local practices that generate oppressive material conditions determined or symbolized by lack of food.
Dominic Taylor
Theatre Arts and Dance, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Ice, Man – Black in White:
Black Bodies on Stage in Classic White Roles
Recently there has been a spate of work on Broadway and in other venues that use African-American actors to exemplify classic White constructions of culture. How do these works function, and how might Black Culture invert & invigorate these works using alternative mechanisms of performance?
Faculty Fellows, Spring 2015
Matteo Convertino
Environmental Health Sciences, Public Health, Twin Cities
HumNat-Health: From People, to People.
Theory, Computers, Art
The advancement of science imposes the interaction of models and laypersons to manage and prevent negative outcomes of complex human-natural systems. This research aims to develop a computational environment enabling clinical researchers, experts from other disciplines, and stakeholders to execute computing experiments on a distributed grid infrastructure.
Katherine Hayes
Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Bohemian Flats Public Memory Project:
Archaeology, Public History and Heritage
The Bohemian Flats Public Memory Project will investigate the historical and archaeological remains of riverfront immigrant communities of the turn of the 20th century as a means to evoke public dialogue on the issues of immigration in the past and present in the Twin Cities.
Kathryn Milun
Sociology & Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, Duluth
Creating Sustainable Infrastructure With Commons-Based Design: The Solar Commons Project and Beyond
Using solar infrastructure owned as a community trust, the Solar Commons in Phoenix, AZ, generates revenue for local low-income housing. I will work with colleagues in design, environmental engineering, law, and anthropology to reiterate the Solar Commons as a community wealth-building tool in MN.
Leslie Morris
German, Scandinavian & Dutch, CLA, Twin Cities
She did not speak
I am writing a hybrid memoir that moves between prose poetry, memoir, and philosophical inquiry, and has at its center an extended rumination on loss, memory, narrative, knowledge and family secrets. This project is an attempt to grapple not only with buried family history and the mystery of my subsequent illness, but more broadly with the links between knowledge, the unconscious and family history. In writing the project, I foreground epistemological questions not only about the origin of memory and narrative, but the very knowability of the nature of consciousness. How can representation exist if the experience of my coma, which caused profound effects, is not present in conscious memory? I am not seeking epistemological stability to elucidate the lacunae of my coma or my family's Holocaust experience. Instead, the epistemological darkness is what I intend to explore.
Erik Redix
American Indian Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Duluth
Deluge at Bakweyawaa: American Colonialism in the Twentieth Century and the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe
In 1923, the Winter Dam was completed to generate hydroelectricity and created the Chippewa Flowage, a 23,000-acre body of water that devastated the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe (LCO) Reservation in northwest Wisconsin. The creation of the Flowage destroyed cemeteries, roads, wild rice beds, and the community of Bakweyawaa. Throughout the 1910's the tribe repeatedly voted against offers by Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power Company (today known as Xcel Energy) to flood tribal land. In 1920 the federal government interceded via the passage of the Federal Power Act, which allowed the Federal Power Commission to condemn tribally owned lands without consent. The following year, Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power was granted a license to build the Winter Dam despite the protests of the tribe. In the license, Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power was required to address serious issues such as relocation of the village of Bakweyawaa and the flooding of roads, burial sites, and wild rice beds. However, the power company failed to adequately address most of the damage caused by the creation of the Flowage. The creation of the Flowage obliterated the ability of the Lac Courte Oreilles to survive by traditional labor, resulting in decades of poverty.
David Valentine
Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Off the Rock: Human Futures in Outer Space
Commercial outer space—or "Newspace"—advocates seek to transform humanity by developing infrastructures to colonize outer space, which as an urgent task to ensure humans' survival. My study seeks to understand these visions in US American historical and cultural terms, but also asks about the naturalized assumptions we have about life and humanness.
Grad/Postdoc Fellows, 2014-15: Sawyer Seminar
Nenette Luarca-Shoaf
Art Historian, Curator
The Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture
This work considers visual representations of the Mississippi River between 1830 and 1861, building on recent scholarship that has dealt primarily with text-based narratives and descriptions, and focusing on images of the river that circulated widely, such as landscape paintings, prints, panoramas, urban views, and river maps. These objects helped to cultivate different aspects of the river's character.
Jane Mazack
Water Research Science Graduate Program, Twin Cities
Entomology and Stream Ecology in SE Minnesota
This project will determine whether D. mendotae and other cold stenothermic insects require cold temperatures to complete their life cycles and whether climate change, specifically warmer air temperatures, will eliminate these cold stenotherms from stream systems and alter the diet and growth of trout that inhabit these streams.
Laurie Moberg
Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Fluid Landscapes: Materializing the Future after Natural Disasters in Thailand
This project considers how experiences with global climate change disasters affect human imaginings of the future and relationships with nature. Examining recurrent episodes of flooding on Thailand's rivers as climate change disasters, I question how human and nonhuman stakeholders, from river communities to state administrators to environmental NGOs to rivers themselves, make meaning from floods and negotiate a disrupted and uncertain future in their aftermath. Unprecedented floods in 2011 drew these constituencies together in a shared experience of nature's unpredictability; varied responses to the floods, however, demonstrate conflicting understandings of both human and riverine capacities. Specifically, the Thai state's 350 billion baht (US$11 billion) water management plan to subdue Thailand's unruly rivers has provoked public outcry and anti-dam protests from NGOs and northern Thai river communities who see the plan as destructive to river ecosystems and community lives and livelihoods. My research intervenes in this critical post-flood period as people develop new narratives about water and reformulate their relationships with rivers. Using ethnographic methods to engage both human and nonhuman perspectives, I query how human actions and articulations work to materialize different visions of the future and how rivers both participate in and disrupt these human practices and agendas.
Grad Fellows, Fall 2014: Community of Scholars Program
Jamal Adam
Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development
Identity Development of Somali College Students
This qualitative research will conceptualize how undergraduate Somali students at a research university construct their identity in the context of their lives as college students and how they describe the influence of the opportunities and challenges they encountered there on the trajectory of their individual identities.
Jameson R. Sweet
History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
The Mixed-Blood Moment: Race, Land, and Law among Dakota Mixed-Bloods in the Nineteenth-Century
This work examines the Dakota "mixed-blood" reservation in Minnesota and how decades of litigation, debates over citizenship and the legal definition of mixed-blood, treaty negotiations, and legislative acts regarding this land, were formative to federal Indian policy.
Maiyia Yang
Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development
Educational Identities of Karen Refugee Women in the Twin Cities Metro
Using primarily interviews and observations, this study will elicit insight about the educational experiences of nine Karen refugee women and how they negotiate what it means to be educated in different sociocultural contexts from their lived experiences in Burma, Thailand, and the USA
Visiting Fellows, 2014-15
Emily Johnson
Choreographer & Director, Catalyst Dances
SHORE is a multi-day performance installation of dance, story, volunteerism, and feasting. It is a celebration of the places where we meet and merge – land and water, performer and audience, art and community, past, present, and future.
Anaïs Nony
French & Italian, Moving Image Studies, CLA
Technical Memory: Thierry Kuntzel's Video Art and the Early Web Experience in France
My work is the first rigorous and systematic study of French theorist and video artist Thierry Kuntzel (1948-2007). Kuntzel merits this attention because his work has particular relevance for the current age of proliferating mobile devices as it questions how engaging images on screens can fundamentally reshape practices of memory. This sustained study of Kuntzel's oeuvre examines and emphasizes the continuity between his influential film theory and his largely neglected video experiments in seriality and the simultaneity of multiscale viewing. My project extends our understanding of how a new visual culture emerging in the 70s reorganizes relations between memory and the constitution of the individual subject. It thus serves as a pre-history of contemporary screen mediation and offers a range of critical insights into our current digital and wired mediascape.
Karin Vélez
Department of History, Macalester College
Catholic Landings in Frontier Zones: Jesuits, Converts and the Flying House of Loreto, 1290-1750
This research is interested in spiritual encounters, comparative empire, the spread of Catholic devotion, the experience of indigenous women on the American frontiers, and the communal formulation of myths.
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2015
Ryland Angel
Counter-tenor and Composer
The Call
Inspired by the ancient Swedish form of 'calling' from hilltop to hilltop, Angel's project will be a mass exploring various ways of interpreting "the call": to worship, to prayer, to people, to artistry, to harvest, to eat, to attention, to mindfulness, to action… Potential co-writers include Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Swedish producer Emanuel Olsson, and Ann Waltner.


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When orientation for incoming first years rolls around the last week in August, the 497 students in the class of 2017 will launch their Bowdoin careers with a four-day trip with either the Bowdoin Outing Club or the McKeen Center for the Common Good. Some will also take part in the Bowdoin Science Experience.
This year, the Outing Club and the McKeen Center are offering, on top of many popular older trips, five new expeditions. Orientation trips introduce first-year students to one another and to the land and people of Maine. Groups of eight students, along with two or three upper-class leaders, head out to unique wilderness areas or communities to explore the outdoors, meet Mainers, volunteer and have fun.
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The Texas WIC Dietetic Internship (TX WIC DI) is designed to assist qualified nutritionists employed within the Texas WIC program, either by the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) or WIC local agencies, to become registered dietitians.
1. Why does Texas WIC have a dietetic internship?
The mission of the Texas WIC Dietetic Internship is to prepare competent entry-level dietitians to enhance the quality of nutrition services delivered to WIC clients and their communities.
2. Will the WIC State Agency provide financial assistance to WIC local agencies if they have an applicant selected for an internship?
Yes. While the nutritionist participates in the internship program, his or her salary continues to be a WIC allowable cost which can be billed through regular WIC funding.
In addition, the State Agency will supplement the local agency's regular WIC funding by providing extra special funding equal to approximately 90% of the intern's salary and benefits for the 8 months that he/she is participating in the internship, and an additional small sum ( varies each year) to help defray other costs (travel, supplies etc.) for the intern. If the intern has to take leave without pay to participate in the internship, the state agency will not provide this additional financial assistance. This extra financial assistance is provided to the WIC local agencies so they may hire temporary staff to help cover the clinics while their employee is participating in the internship or to help pay for the costs of the intern while he or she is participating in the internship.
3. How many interns can be selected for each class?
The internship can select up to twelve interns per year.
4. Is there a minimum number of years required working for WIC before a nutritionist can apply?
Any nutritionist currently working for a WIC local agency or WIC State Agency and has worked for WIC for at least 6 months is eligible to apply. A WIC local agency may have its own policy about the minimum time the nutritionist has to be employed by the local agency before supporting the application.
5. Is a nutritionist in a part-time position or a temporary position eligible to apply?
A WIC nutritionist in a part-time position is eligible to apply. A WIC nutritionist in a temporary position will have to check with their local agency/DSHS employer regarding their employment situation. If the local agency or DSHS cannot assure that the employee will remain employed during the internship as well as the 2 years after taking the registration examination for dietitians, then the nutritionist will not be eligible to apply.
The Texas WIC Internship will accept more than one application from the same local agency. The local WIC agency director/DSHS Unit Manager may not be able to allow more than one nutritionist to participate in the internship each year.
7. Are DSHS Region and State Agency nutritionists eligible to apply for the Texas WIC Dietetic Internship?
If the nutritionist is funded on a WIC budget, then a DSHS nutritionist who works in a DSHS region or DSHS Central Office is eligible to apply as long as they meet the other admission criteria.
8. Will preference be given to local agencies that lack registered dietitians (RDs)?
Lack of RDs in a WIC local agency is taken into consideration. However, this should not discourage WIC local agency directors who employ RDs from encouraging their nutritionists to apply for the Texas WIC DI. Although a WIC local agency may have one or more RDs on staff, there may be a need for additional RDs because of the large number of clinics that still may be left un-served by an RD.
9. What are the selection criteria?
All parts of the application are important, including:
10. What is a DPD verification statement and where do you get one?
A Didactic Program in Dietetic (DPD) Verification form is the method used by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to ensure that the required academic preparation has been obtained by the individual. This form must be submitted as part of the application. As part of the Dietetic Internship Centralized Application System ( DICAS) you will asked to provide your DPD Director's email address. DICAS will request the DPD verification statement. Many professors are not working during the summer months, and students who wait until late May or June to ask for verification statement may not be able to get one before the application deadline. Your application will not be reviewed without this verification statement.
To obtain a hard copy of your DPD Verification Statement, contact the DPD Director of the University where you received your degree. If you do not know how to contact the DPD director of your university, please refer to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics website.
11. Can a nutritionist apply for the Texas WIC DI if they have a Plan IV Verification Statement from an undergraduate program in dietetics?
No. Dietetic internships can only enroll individuals with a verification statement indicating completion of a Didactic Program in Dietetics. Individuals who have completed Plan IV and wish to become Registered Dietitians should contact a university with a Didactic Program in Dietetics and have their transcripts reviewed. The Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics will determine what academic coursework that individual will need to obtain a DPD verification statement. A nutritionist may try contacting the university he/she graduated from or a nearby university. A complete list of universities with Didactic Programs in Dietetics may be found at the website www.eatright.org.
12. Who is on the selection committee?
All of the applications will be screened and reviewed by an internship selection
committee consisting of:
13. Will an interview be required of the applicants?
Telephone or online (such as Skype) interviews may be conducted with applicants at the discretion of the selection committee.
14. Can a WIC nutritionist who has not yet completed all of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Didactics Program in Dietetics courses apply?
Students currently enrolled in classes must submit a "Declaration of Intent" listing courses in progress. Successful applicants must supply signed verification statements and final transcripts to Texas WIC DI prior to the start of the internship.
DICAS provides for your DPD director to login and submit the verification statement of declaration of intent statement. Please verify with your DPD director that they have done so.
15. Can interns complete their supervised learning experiences in their own communities?
Not necessarily. When possible, supervised practice sites will be utilized in the area of the state where the intern is employed. There is no guarantee that the intern will be placed in his/her home community. Most of the community nutrition supervised learning experiences can be accomplished in the intern's community if there is a willing RD preceptor. If there is not an RD in the intern's LA, then a nearby LA with a willing RD may be sought. There will be approximately 7 – 10 weeks that the interns will be in Austin for seminars, supervised experiences and the major project presentations and graduation.
16. What is the expected role of the WIC preceptor?
The WIC preceptor will assist the intern in scheduling all supervised experiences and assignments within the WIC local agency and other community sites. The WIC preceptor must review community assignments and complete evaluation forms for the intern indicating whether or not he/she met the expected competencies for the community portion of the supervised learning experiences. The WIC preceptor does not have to be present at all times with the intern, but should be present at regular intervals in order to be able to evaluate the intern's performance. The WIC preceptor will also be asked to give feedback to the dietetic internship director in order to improve the quality of the internship.
17. Is there a minimum GPA and/or DPD GPA requirement?
No, but preference will be given to applicants with a cumulative GPA and a DPD GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale.
18. What can an applicant do if their undergraduate GPA and/or DPD GPA are less than 3.0?
The applicant should consider taking upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in advanced nutrition and nutrition therapy.
19. Is participation in the internship an allowable WIC cost?
Yes, USDA has stated in a policy memorandum that federal WIC funds can be used
to support the development and operation of a dietetic internship that is approved / accredited by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Texas WIC Dietetic Interns will charge their time to WIC Nutrition Education, if they are receiving a salary while participating in the internship. Other expenses that the WIC local agency may pay the costs for include professional textbooks and travel to internship facilities.
20. Is the Texas WIC Dietetic Internship approved by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics?
Yes, the Texas WIC DI is currently granted initial accreditation by the Accreditation Council of Education in Nutrition and Dietetics(ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 120 S. Riverside Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, (312) 899-0040, extension 5400.
21. If a WIC local agency does not pay the intern's salary during the time he/she is participating in the internship, is the intern still expected to sign a Letter of Agreement with the WIC local agency specifying a work obligation and financial payback if failing to complete the work obligation?
Yes. The intern is still receiving substantial benefits by participating in the Texas WIC DI even if he/she has to take leave without pay. Most dietetic internships have significant tuition costs and few internships allow the intern to remain employed while completing an internship. Although each local agency can specify the terms of the contract (Letter of Agreement) with his/her employee, we have listed recommendations in the Prospective Student Brochure. The intern's salary is just a portion of the total costs of administering the Texas WIC DI. Because there is a significant financial investment that WIC State Agency is making with the internship, a good return on the investment is expected, e.g., registered dietitians providing high-risk nutrition counseling services in local agencies that previously had few or no RDs on staff. For a sample Letter of Agreement, please contact the Texas WIC DI Director. The DI Director can also provide a list of WIC local agencies that have had an intern in the DSHS DI in past years. These WIC Directors may be able to answer administrative questions that are common to other WIC local agencies.
23. Once an applicant is accepted into the Texas WIC DI, is there any preparation before the internship begins?
Yes, there is a substantial time commitment for the intern between September and when the internship begins in January. Many assignments and case studies are required during this time period. Many former interns report that they spend 10-20 hours each week researching and completing these assignments. Interns are expected to satisfactorily complete all these assignments during this time period, and can be dismissed from the internship for poor performance on these assignments.
24. How should letters of recommendation and official transcripts be submitted with the application?
These are submitted through DICAS.
25. Do I need to find my own facilities and preceptors?
No, you do not need to find your preceptors. However, when you know for sure that you are going to apply (and have your WIC Director's approval) to the Texas WIC Dietetic Internship, please email email@example.com or call her at 512-341-4510 to inform her that you are planning on applying. In many areas of the state, established relationships already exist for facilities, but for others, we will need to find new facilities and preceptors.
26. Do I get any credit for my WIC experience?
Yes, you are given a maximum of 180 prior learning hours for your WIC experience.
27. Still have questions?
E-mail or call Melissa Mouton at email@example.com or 512-341-4510 or 512-709-6278.
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We try to concentrate on the impact that this charity has had in the fight against fuel poverty and we welcome comments on what more could be done.
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Verizon Wireless customers have been complaining for a while, wondering when the carrier would get around to launching the Treo 650. The story going around was that Verizon Wireless wouldn't bother with any smartphone that wasn't EV-DO compatible, which also meant rumors that PalmOne was working on an EV-DO 650 for Verizon Wireless. Well, now, the company has admitted that it will be offering the 650 at some point, though, the details are skimpy. It's not clear if it will be EV-DO or not. Also, Verizon will not be supporting dialup networking (DUN) via Bluetooth, effectively adding to their long list of crippled Bluetooth offerings. Of course, this was the same thing Sprint got slammed for when it launched -- leading them to back down and promise DUN support (though I don't think it's actually come out yet...). So, will Verizon Wireless face the same pressure for crippling Bluetooth? Derek adds: Update on Sprint's 650: They just released a Treo OS upgrade patch which touches on Bluetooth, but it didn't include DUN. They are still promising to do it by the end of the year. I expect they want to re-organize their pricing schemes in order to have a special offering for phones used as modems for laptops (SPCS Vision's $10/mo. is too low.)


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Day-parting strategy sets the c-store operator above the competition.
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- During a meeting of the area Small Business Chamber at the Coastal Georgia Center, The Parker Cos. President and CEO Greg Parker told members technology is a key to the convenience company's success, Turnto10.com reported.
Parker, who owns several regional companies including Laundromats, self-storage facilities and the Parker's Convenience Stores and Parker's Market convenience stores, said his company is using technology to position itself above the competition -- a key part of which is a day-parting strategy, the report stated.
"People come in at different times of the day for different things," Parker said during the meeting. "In the morning they're buying coffee, and in the evening it's beer."
Offering specials and bundling target purchases with complementary items also helps increase sales and customer satisfaction, he said.
"I look at places like McDonald's as my main competition," he said. "They have drive-thrus and bundle offers."
In addition, Parker said small businesses can learn from big corporations is the importance of data collection and analysis. His stores track what does and doesn't sell, and adjust inventory accordingly.
"We do that for each individual store, not across the board," he said, adding other forms of feedback are invaluable. Ways he collects information include video terminals at all his stores, which ask customers about their experience after a transaction is completed.
Parker also stressed the importance of quality employees.
"I invest heavily in people," he said. "Convenience store clerks are some of the toughest jobs with the toughest labor pool."
To that end, he created Parker University, which teaches the skills needed to handle food, lottery, gas pump transactions and money orders, the report stated.
"You can teach happy people to be competent, but you can't teach competent people how to be happy," Parker said. "You can have the perfect store, with the perfect lighting and landscape, but it won't mean anything without the perfect team."
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There is no need to buy in to the myth that healthy food has to take hours to prepare and taste awful. It's simply not true. Here is a very simple and tasty recipe treat your family are sure to enjoy!
Almond Flatbread
1 cup almonds, ground
1/2 cup gluten free flour mix
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 cup maple syrup
Juice from 1 lime
4 tablespoons chia seeds
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup water
Cashew Cream
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1/4 cup water
1 banana
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 teaspoon cocoa powder
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a medium bowl add the ground almonds, flour, baking soda, sea salt, vanilla, and maple syrup.
3. In a small bowl add the chia seeds and water. Let it sit for 2 minutes.
4. Add the chia mixture to the flour mixture and mix well. Best to use your hands.
5. Pour batter onto a baking dish lined with parchment paper and spread evenly.
6. Bake for 15 minutes. Let it cool for 1 hour, and then cut into 12 squares.
Cashew Cream
1. Soak the cashews for 2 hours prior to blending.
2. Add the cashews, water, maple syrup, banana and cocoa powder to a blender and blend until creamy.
3. Add the desired amount of cashew cream to flatbread squares. A great option is to add berries and/or granola.
Sandra Sampson is a mom and nutritionist who loves everything green and especially shoes. She is the co-founder of LearnEatGrow, an organization dedicated to educating children, teens and parents on the power of whole foods and the positive impact that healthy food choices can have. Her advice to parents is to Learn at your own pace, Eat whole foods for their delicious taste and Grow a little joy everyday.


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As I was poking around in Technorati as I sometimes do, I noticed something from a blog called Channelab. Upon investigating, I noticed that my post "Minefield in the Toy Department" had been taken, partially reproduced, and then posted with a "submitted by Kamron Gilbert".
I have never heard of these guys, they have never asked me for permission to partially reproduce my posts, and when I tried to ask them to take it down immediately, I couldn't. There was no contact e-mail and the comment box didn't work.
If you have a blog, and especially if your blog has said anything about toys, watch out for these guys.
As I poked around through their site, I noticed I wasn't the only blogger.
Musings of a Southern Girl at Heart
The Thinking Mother
The Compass Blog
Cribs and Rantings
Icky People.com
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Missy and Clint
Cathy Eats Her Words
Karen's Rant Page
Owl's Court
All have posts that they have written on the Channelab site-all partially reproduced, submitted by a third party, and then at the bottom is a link to the original content.
Is there anything we can do? Does anyone know how to stop these people? I don't want my content on Channelab's site-and certainly NOT without my permission or attribution. I actually went through many of their posts, looking for anyone I recognized, but it looks like a fairly new set up so I didn't see any.
Edited to take out the link to them because as one reader pointed out, I was helping them.
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One of the main surprise packets from the 2012 installment of the Harvest Festival was without doubt the debut Australian appearances by Philadelphian rock outfit The War On Drugs. Their textured, expansive take on classic rock'n'roll blew away existing fans and newcomers alike during their high-octane festival slots, and demand for their more intimate sideshows was intense with their Melbourne appearance selling out completely. This time around Australian music lovers are prepared for their arrival, which is just as well because The War On Drugs have just unveiled details of two Melbourne and Sydney sideshows in conjunction with their already-announced appearances at the impending Falls and Southbound Festivals!
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Pro football's all-time leader for touchdown passes is Andy Kelly of the Arena League's Utah Blaze, who has thrown 768 -- versus 420 for NFL leader Dan Marino. So far no reader has been able to meet TMQ's challenge of figuring out how many total touchdowns Kelly has thrown in high school, college and the pros. Hey Andy Kelly -- you yourself know the answer, let me know! Surely, Andy, you have Google News set for your own name and must know I am pretty much the only sports columnist who is lauding you, so e-mail me your full career total at email@example.com. Meanwhile Ian Hutchinson supposes, "Since the Arena League field is only 50 yards long, Kelly's total should be divided by two. That gives him 384 touchdown passes, short of Marino's mark. Then compare career passing yards: 61,361 yards for Marino, 39,948 yards for Kelly."
Mark Sangin of Chicago notes that of the 25 Pro Bowl cheerleaders this past February, two -- Amy Day of Kansas City and Trina Mills of the Seattle Sea-Gals -- had also been Tuesday Morning Quarterback Cheerleaders of the Week. How did he determine this? By looking up every 2005 Cheerleader of the Week. Mark -- you were using your time wisely. Jeff Urban of Boston wonders why fans get to vote on the Pro Bowl players, but not on the Pro Bowl cheerleaders. Surely this would lend spice to fantasy leagues! Meanwhile Michael of Los Angeles notes, "Every time I read your column, it seems my wife walks by at the point with the photo of the cheerleader." Where, he asks, is the Tuesday Morning Quarterback boss button? Stephen Kinnell of Columbus, Ohio says he doesn't like the cheesecake pictures and requests "a Crème Brûlée instead perhaps?" Christine Karnisky of Rochester, N.Y. reports, "In an effort to increase productivity we can no longer view ESPN.com at the office. Each week my husband takes the time to cut and paste TMQ in its entirety into an e-mail so I don't miss a word. This is also helpful as reading TMQ from an e-mail isn't as obvious as reading it from the website." Tuesday Morning Quarterback converted into e-mails? No wonder the Internet has been slow lately.
Yesterday's column noted that when Brett Favre left the Packers-Bears game a moment before it ended, he was not slammed in the sports press, as Randy Moss was once slammed for leaving a loss a moment early. Rabbi Dan Plotkin of St. Louis writes, "Moss left the game when the Vikes still had a slight chance to win. Favre left when the score was 26-0 with no opportunity to get the ball back, a vast difference especially since there is no rule (that I know of) requiring players to stay out and shake hands."
I've been asking ESPN to create some sort of e-mail sign-up to alert readers when the column posts. Apparently I am weeks behind in understanding tech trends -- you can already do this using the ESPN RSS utility. A reader notes in haiku:
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The collegiate cupcake teams are angry, fear their wrath! Tuesday Morning Quarterback continues to predict there will be a monster upset this season in which a lesser team hired to come get clobbered instead defeats a football-factory host. Troy at Nebraska on Sept. 23, perhaps? Meanwhile Alysia Kravitz Loshbaugh of New Orleans notes that Air Force, paid $850,000 to travel to Knoxville and get clobbered by the University of Tennessee, instead came within a two-point try of victory. Tony Bender of Missouri City, Texas notes Illinois State came within a deuce of upsetting factory school Kansas State. Scot of Portland, Ore. notes that the I-AA Portland State Vikings upset I-A New Mexico. And Gbenga Ajilore of Toledo, Ohio notes that although Bowling Green has a better football tradition than everyone's favorite cupcake of the moment, the University of Buffalo, the reason these teams met last weekend is that they are in the same conference, the MAC East.
Many Irish faithful objected to my item suggesting Notre Dame running a fake punt when leading Penn State 27-3 was poor sportsmanship. Heidi Freni of San Jose, Calif. noted that during the opening weekend of college football, Texas and USC played cupcakes, while Notre Dame faced a strong team in Georgia Tech. This meant Charlie Weis needed a big margin of victory in his second outing to impress pollsters. Josh Zickefoose of Findlay, Ohio explains that Weis did not call the fake punt; it was called on the field: "Some coaches install 'automatics,' audibles that are automatic in response to a defensive formation. When Notre Dame lined up to punt, Penn State overloaded the outsides of the Irish formation, leaving the middle open. When a team lines up like this, a player on the punt team, probably the up-back, calls the automatic. The long snapper makes the adjustment, snapping to the up-back, who goes straight up the middle through the opening. Charlie Weis cannot be faulted for Penn State leaving a gaping hole in their D-line!"
Over the winter I got a lot of mail defending academics Cade Massey and Richard Thaler, whose National Bureau of Economic Research paper contends the NFL draft system actually penalizes losing teams by giving them high picks. High draft picks don't perform notably better than low ones, Massey and Thaler contend, but cost so much more to sign that high draft picks backfire in salary cap terms. My objection to this thesis is -- then how come no one in the NFL trades high draft picks even-up for low ones? Economics assumes most people and organizations are "rational actors." In this case, that means NFL general managers would trade high picks for low picks if they perceived this to be in their interests. It cannot be that low draft picks are actually worth more than high picks, yet not a single one of 32 NFL teams has realized this. Massey and Thaler don't address public relations, and any business executive will tell you public relations is a tangible good with monetary value. High draft picks make the fans of losing teams excited about the future and willing to buy tickets for the upcoming season; this public relations consideration is missing from the Massey-Thaler paper. Some readers compared the Massey-Thaler thesis to breakthrough statistical analyses like those described in the fun book "Moneyball." But it's not the same. Initially, only Oakland had the moneyball concept; but then everyone began to use it. (In business terms, moneyball was initially intellectual property, then was commoditized.) Massey-Thaler's thinking is the reverse -- everyone already knows the core ideas, and no one uses them!
Anyway here is Josh Zacharias of New York: "What Thaler/Massey have done is illuminate a possible reason why general managers of the NFL initially appear to be rational actors, but are not. Granted, you might be right about the value of the media/fan outrage counteracting some of this, but if a GM believes Thaler/Massey's implication to be correct, it is up to that GM to change fan perspective so that trading down in a round would not draw outrage. Or to educate fans that trading your high pick for several later picks might be the best way to build a winning team. I would argue that Bill Belichick is so well regarded in New England right now that if he had a top 10 pick and traded it straight up for a lower pick in the first round using Thaler/Massey as his explanation, he would probably not be lambasted. Certainly if he traded a top 10 pick for several lower picks, fans might approve. While economics does assume most people are rational, it also finds many instances of inefficient real-world behavior -- and this paper is a fine example of that."
Kevin Lehde of Raleigh, N.C., a high school football official, notes the new National Federation of High Schools rulebook bans the "fumblerooski," in which a team deliberately places the ball on the ground, hoping the defense will lose track of where the ball is. The reason? Because this trick play often tricks the officials, leading to an inadvertent whistle -- though coaches planning to call a trick play may describe the play to officials before the game. Lehde notes, "This means we now have a rule that was instituted as a direct result of the perceived incompetence of the officials calling the game! 'Our officials can't enforce the rules correctly, so let's alter the rules to reduce officiating mistakes,' says the rules committee. Who do they think we are, U.S.-Mexico border guards?"
Finally, yesterday TMQ asked why the Minnesota Vikings' Web site was selling a youth version of the Koren Robinson jersey -- in addition to no longer being with the Vikings, Robinson is hardly what you'd call a role model. Minna Hong of St. Paul, Minn. notes that as of Tuesday evening, the Robinson youth jersey link took you to a "product unavailable" message.
In addition to writing Tuesday Morning Quarterback, Gregg Easterbrook is the author of "The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse," and other books. He is also a contributing editor for The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Monthly, and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. Sound off to Page 2 here.


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I have so many things I would like to say, but I dont begin to know where to start so Im just going to let my heart guide my words. I am so proud of you for posting this! It takes a lot of courage to step outside of grief and tell it like it is...from your heart. Society has made a complete joke of the grief process and that makes it even more difficult for people to navigate through it in a healthy way. I lost my partner, my grandmother and my father in the span of 14 months. As if that wasnt enough, I lost "friends" because they felt I should just pick myself up, wipe the dirt off and walk on like it was no big deal. "Such is life" is what I heard a lot of. The only way its that easy is if your heart wasnt all that invested in the people lost. It took a number of sessions with a therapist for me to accept that if I tried to do it the way others said I should, it would only hurt me and Morgan more as all I would be doing was pushing the pain down and building up pressure. Guess what happens then? An explosion of bottled up grief and a bigger problem to deal with down the road. The grief process is just that...a process. Not only that, its an individual process that NO ONE has the right to tell anyone else how to navigate. It starts as a moment to moment process that increases to hour to hour, day to day, week to week and so on. Some days you have to go back to moment to moment and that is ok. This is YOUR process, no one elses. You do what you have to do get through it and keep the people close that allow you that freedom. The others can ride off on their high horse and sit in judgement elsewhere. Right now its hard to fathom peoples "insensitivity", but I promise you will get to a place where you will be able to let it roll off your back knowing that it really is just a lack of experience/education on their part. Are their people out there dealing with worse things? Of course and there will always be someone who has it "worse". That certainly doesnt mean that your situation is any less difficult or painful. Its simply DIFFERENT.
One step at a time and one foot in front of the other my friend. This is no different than what we were taught growing up and what we will teach our kids about taking our time and doing things "right" the first time. Im here ANY time you need someone to remind you of this.
Much love!
- Jessica AlonsoApril 5, 2011 at 11:41 AM
I have known you my whole life. You have had things in your life that I couldn't begin to imagine getting through. You are an icredibly strong person. You and I may not be as close as we always were, because of... jobs, kids, and distance, but you are always my cousin and I love you just as much as I always have. You are so much of an inspiration to me and you always have been. You may only be 9 months older than me but I have and will always look up to you. "You only lost your grandfather" comment is very upsetting, people don't realize just how close people are to certain loved ones, maybe because they were not a big part of their lives. But as for you and I we lost a huge part of our lives and that piece will always be missing. For me... please ask for help, as I don't have that option and there are days I really just feel like giving up, but as you know when you have two beautiful little faces looking at you waiting to meet the day full of play, no matter how badly you just want to roll over sleep away all the bad stuff you must face the day with them. (that's me anyway, I am still trying to cope with my lose, I haven't completly figured it out yet) Back to my point, you are an inspiration and I am always saying to myself and David I don't know how she does it. As forunant as you are that Bevin is not worse off, in no way does this mean that this isn't unforunant for her. All illnesses are equally devastating and take time to cope and adjust. Those people who have ill things to say, just remember God will deal with them. Don't strees yourself with anger or resentment, God knows what they do and he will deal with them, promise. I love you and wish we were closer. I would really love if you all could come out here, so we can take the kids to sea world, legoland, SD Zoo and so many other great places, it would be a great way to give you two and the kids a break from it all. June 19th we are having J's Bday Party then June 21st "SEAWORLD!!!" He is so excited. David is taking off the days maybe you guys can come down. Love you and continue to do what you do, You've got this!! Take time for you and mourn, otherwise it pops up iver things like ensure ;) It has surely happend to me.
Love you all
- ShandellApril 5, 2011 at 7:01 PM
I am sorry, Nic. It's not fair. I have been going through Grief Counseling at my church because of losing my uncle. I know what you mean. "It was an uncle...get over it already." But it has been difficult for me to get through. Each person handles grief differently and you have no idea what each person is going through. Don't let it get you down, girlie. You are a strong, beautiful person. Don't let others get down. It isn't worth it. Because when something happens in their lives and they struggle, you will understand what they are going through. And hopefully they will regret the things they said. It all comes full circle. Love you, girlie!!!ReplyDelete
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I was diagnosed w/JRA @ 2 and my husband had it as well as a child. We pray our 20 month old son doesn't get it.