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The clinically widely used X-ray computed tomography examination has a low-grade radiation effect and recently has attracted much attention concerning the possible adverse effects of radiation on human body [ref. 1-5]. The radiation is harmful to human tissues and cells mainly because it can interact with water (which makes up to 80% of cells) to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), especially the formation of hydroxyl radicals. So far as we can reach, there is no report concerning the relation between X-ray computed tomography examination and the blood ROS level. Therefore, we wish to conduct this study to clarify if the cardiac computed tomography angiography (cardiac CTA) may induce a higher level of ROS in the peripheral blood.
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Welcome back to the Wrestling Top 5, year-end awards edition! What we are going to is take a topic, and all the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic, and the end, based on where all of these topics rank on people's list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a little like this…
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3. AJ Styles-
2. John Cena
1. Roman Reigns – Alright, lots of great talent had to left off this list. Remember, top five and all. Some will miss the cut; that's just the way it works sometimes. Sorry. As for my choices, let me break it down. Nakamura got my attention in Dallas, and I have been a fan since. Not knowing his prior work, it was eye opening. Seth Rollins may be struggling as a face character, but in the ring, he is just as entertaining as ever. Rest easy folks, AJ Styles will get his due in a later column. Relax, wait a little bit longer for other results. In the few matches John Cena has had, he STILL beings the electricity and attention no other star can bring. Booing or cheering, when he has a match, you know it. Winning or losing, there is some kind of story that goes along with it. Unfortunately, there was a gap in his full-time schedule, so he only got the second spot. Number one went to Roman Reign because like Cena, he has gained a reputation (fair or unfair) of being a lightning rod. No matter what happens in his promo, entrance, or match, people talk. There is always SOMETHING discussed about Reigns after a show. Oh, and in the middle of all that talk, he then goes out there and delivers the good each and every time. Raw, Smackdown or yes, winning the title in the main event of WrestleMania 32 in front of 100,000 fans. Don't blame him. Don't blame me. You should be blaming yourself…believe that
5. Prince Puma/Ricochet
4. Matthew Riddle
3. Zack Sabre Jr.
2. Chris Hero
1. Hiroshi Tanahashi – Sometimes we forget the importance of trickle-down wrestle-nomics in the annual rush to crown the next big thing, like a Matt Riddle, or cherish journeymen innovators like Chris Hero. The big match style still on display in the matches of Hiroshi Tanahashi anchor the entire national culture of pro-wrestling in Japan, maintain the global importance of NJPW, and in many ways has allowed the current booming indy scene in the US to flourish. People want to sop up this man's sweat with their babies at the end of his matches because he has transcended the terrestrial realm normally used to evaluate your favorite in-ring performers. And sure, 2016 wasn't Tanahashi's greatest year of exposure and accomplishments, but when he steps into the ring you are truly seeing one of the all-time most outstanding performers in history spin his craft and this is something we should never take for granted.
5. Katsuyori Shibata
4. AJ Styles
3. Io Shirai
2. Chris Hero
1. Tomohiro Ishii – There will be a ton of debate here, since in the ring it is all opinion and personal preference. There will be a couple of name that repeatedly appear on this list, and for good reason. Lost in the departures of Styles & Namakura and the rises of Naito and Omega was the fact that Tomohiro Ishii was a vital cog in the New Japan machine, one that was completely under appreciated by many. Ishii delivered all year, big singles matches, regular tags and multi-man tags; it didn't matter the match, Ishii was a bad ass and was there killing people for our pleasure. You can put his portfolio of matches against nearly anyone in 2016. New Japan needed Ishii as they transitioned from Styles & Namakura to Naito and Omega; he helped to keep things together during that big transition period but doesn't get the credit I feel he deserves.
5. Katsuyori Shibata
4. Sami Zayn
3. Tetsuya Naito
2. Tomohiro Ishii
1. AJ Styles – Honestly, this is easy. AJ Styles was the best at virtually everything this year. For a long time I've believed he was the best wrestler on the planet. He solidified that this year. Not only did Styles have incredible matches every month, he did it in a variety of styles against so many different kinds of wrestlers. Want a good old-fashioned brawl? Watch his match with Roman Reigns at Extreme Rules or the TLC match against Dean Ambrose. Want to see Styles mix it up on the mat? Check his Smackdown match with Chris Jericho. Can he do it in tags? Watch his Raw match with Jericho against New Day or the six-man tag at Battleground. AJ can also do the big fight feel better than most, which can be seen against John Cena or Shinsuke Nakamura this year. AJ Styles being called "Phenomenal" is more than just a nickname.
5. Cesaro
4. Chris Hero
3. Kazuchika Okada
2. Tomohiro Ishii
1. AJ Styles – Good lord, has AJ had himself on heck of year or what? Seeing as we're strictly talking in-ring performances here, when the bright lights of pay-per-view are on, AJ has been can't miss. Nakamura at the Dome, his terrific matches with Reigns, Cena, and Ambrose have been awesome. He's had his fair share of great matches on RAW with Sami Zayn and others before the brand split, and has been terrific on Smackdown as well since the split. Hell, the only real blemish on his record was his WrestleMania match with Chris Jericho (and that's only a blemish in comparison to the rest of his body of work this year). There have been a lot of great workers, and the fact that we can only acknowledge five really hurts, but nobody has been better in between those ropes in 2016 then AJ Styles.
5. Marty Scurll
4. Zack Sabre Jr.
3. AJ Styles
2. Will Ospreay
1. Chris Hero – Much like the "Wrestler of the Year" category I knew it would come down to one of my top two men for the last few months. This category can be left a lot to how a person takes the title. For me while Styles was outstanding as he rose through WWE and put on great match, after great match. Chris Hero outdid him on a world scale. It didn't matter if Hero was wrestling Ishii in Europe, Evil Uno in Canada, teaming with Tommy End in California, facing Jonathan Gresham in Rhode Island; the same was true every night that you saw Chris Hero and that was that he was very likely to be the match of the night and would tell a different story depending on who he faced. Versatility is a great tool.
5. Cesaro
4. Will Ospreay
3. AJ Styles
2. Ricochet/Prince Puma
1. Chris Hero – He's been the Beast of the Indies. The man rolls out of bed and puts on **** matches. The man traveled the globe, showing up somewhere new almost every weekend and dished out a clinic in how to work stiff. He can elbow and cravat his way to glory on any given night. He's the new version of the old school territory man. Chris Hero rolls into your promotion and brings instant legitimacy. I can testify that Hero caused me to buy a ticket this year.
5. Zack Sabre Jr
4. Chris Hero
3. Matt Riddle
2. Io Shirai
1. Will Ospreay – I strongly suspect that if I'd seen more from Shirai in 2016, she'd take the number one spot, but I've seen utter fucktons of Will Ospreay over the past 365 days and the overwhelming majority of it has been just terrific, so I think he's a worthy winner overall. Ospreay is to say the least a divisive talent but sometimes that's a sign of excellence in and of itself; it indicates an uncompromising wrestler, someone utterly committed to their style and possessing bags of self belief. All of those things have helped make Ospreay the most captivating high flyer in the world. He moves around the ring so gracefully, strings sequences together with astonishing fluidity, and is a master of deploying even his signature spots in new and exciting ways that drag you to the edge of your seat and keep you there. There are wrestlers who've got more substance, wrestlers who are more consistent, wrestlers with stronger fundamentals, but ultimately none of them excite me in the same way Ospreay does. None of them are as prone to pulling something utterly mind boggling out of thin air, and none of them had a better 2016 than the man who started the year as a cult sensation confined to the British indies, and ended it as one of the world's most talked about talents. His match with Ricochet in May achieved a level of ubiquity that even outstripped anything WWE did this year, and it became mandatory to have a strong, passionate opinion on it. I was in the camp that thought it was a glorious, revelatory bout, and I think it encapsulates perfectly why Ospreay deserves this award. He's an astonishing athlete who knows how to use his abilities to make flippy, crazy, joyful art, and he did it an awful lot in 2016. Also, he's been doing this for, um, four years. Yeah.
5. Katsuyori Shibata
4. Matt Riddle
3. Tomohiro Ishii
2. AJ Styles
1. Chris Hero – Chris Hero put together one of the best in ring years I have witnessed, putting together a tremendous collection of work, doing it in several different promotions and against a wide range of opponents, while working different styles.
T5. Ricochet/Prince Puma – 7 points
T5. Matt Riddle – 7 points
T5. Io Shirai – 7 points
4. Will Ospreay – 11 points
3. Tomohiro Ishii – 16 points
2. AJ Styles – 25 points
1. Chris Hero – 27 points
* The Biggest Disappointment of The Year: The WWE Cruiserweight Division – 28 points
* The Best Non-Wrestler: Dario Cueto – 45 points
* The Best Tag Team of The Year: The Revival – 45 points
* The Worst PPV/Major Show of The Year: WrestleMania 32 – 23 points
* The Best Female Wrestler of The Year: Charlotte – 44 points
* The Best PPV/Major Show of The Year: NXT Takeover: Dallas – 27 points
* The Best Promotion of The Year: NJPW – 33 points
* Most Outstanding Performer 2016: Chris Hero – 27 points
* The Best Match of The Year: TO BE DETERMINED (JANUARY 10)
* Most Overrated Performer 2016 : TO BE DETERMINED (JANUARY 11)
* Most Underrated Performer 2016 : TO BE DETERMINED (JANUARY 12)
* The Best Wrestler of The Year: TO BE DETERMINED (JANUARY 13)


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Bhagabangola II, Aug. 19: Atikul Islam has changed his address seven times since childhood and he knows his search for his eighth residence will start in a couple of years. The 35-year-old farmer lives in a small mud house in Nirmalchar, an island encircled by the Padma, on the India-Bangladesh border.
With the Padma frequently changing course, the 25-sq-km area has suddenly sprung up in the middle of the river. And lure of this fertile land has drawn more than 14,000 people ' displaced from their earlier homes, on both sides of the border ' to the new settlement.
We do not have any facilities here and our homes get washed away during floods every year. But still we are sticking to this place as the land is fertile. We will be here as long as the river permits, says Atikul, in a green lungi and white shirt.
Despite promises from the political masters, the villagers demand for electricity, a soil testing centre and a secondary school has remained unfulfilled. Relief teams do visit the area during floods, but administrative support is inadequate, say villagers.
We are not considered Indians, says Abul Khayeri, standing near BSFs last outpost in Nirmalchar, barely a kilometre from Bangladesh. It takes around one and a half hours to drive from Berhampore to Kharibona, from where one has to take a country boat and sail around an hour to reach Nirmalchar.
According to official estimates, only 4,000 out of the 14,000-plus population have electronic photo identity cards while the rest do not possess any documents to prove nationality.
The card is a passport to the world outside Nirmalchar. Only cardholders are permitted to enter the island and the outbound deposit the cards with BSF officials before leaving and collect on return.
Our movement is restricted. We are harassed if we cant show the cards and we carry them even when we go to plough our land, chorus Rafiqul Alam and Abdul Khaleque.
But, for the border guards, imposing these rules is a necessity in the porous border area, where infiltration from Bangladesh is rampant.
It is virtually impossible for us to distinguish between an Indian and a Bangladeshi without an identity card, says Sukhwinder Singh, the deputy commandant of the 51 battalion of the BSF, as he keeps an eye on the boats sailing on the Padma and touching the ghats at Kharibona and Shibnagar.
Boats are the only mode of communication between Nirmalchar and the mainland. The residents, who grow rice and jute, are completely dependent on agriculture.
But even farming is easier said than done because most patta holders of land are yet to get possession of plots. And confrontation over ownership of land in Nirmalchar with farmers beyond the border is frequent.
The borders are not clearly marked here. Since farmers in Bangladesh are strategically located, they take possession of land in connivance with the BDR (Bangladesh Rifles). Then, we try and involve the BSF to settle the disputes, but the recovery process is difficult, says Samsul Alam, vice-president, Akhriganj Panchayat Samiti, which is controlled by the Congress.
Alam vehemently refutes reports of infiltration and stresses that people in Nirmalchar are sons of the soil. He, however, fails to come up with a cogent reply to why so many people here dont have relevant documents. Mums the word on most others lips, too.
But on being pressed, some murmur that at times they go to Bangladesh and their friends and relatives also drop in.
We dont understand all these Indian or Bangladeshi citizenship issues. Our movement is linked to our necessity, sums up Atikul, sitting barely two km from the hazy zero line dividing two nations.


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Obstructive sleep-disordered breathing with a dominant cyclic alternating pattern–a recognizable polysomnographic variant with practical clinical implications.Thomas RJ, Terzano MG, Parrino L, Weiss JW.
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OBJECTIVES: To define the clinical and polysomnographic features of a distinct variant of obstructive sleep-disordered breathing that is remarkably mild during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. DESIGN: Observational study and evaluation of polysomnographic and clinical records. SETTING: American Academy of Sleep Medicine-accredited multidisciplinary sleep disorders center and laboratory. PATIENTS: 35 medication-free subjects with clinical and polysomnographic severe obstructive sleep-disordered breathing selected for dominance of 1 of 2 disordered breathing patterns. INTERVENTIONS: Positive airway pressure titration. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Nasal pressure was used to score respiratory events. Sleep was scored by both the standard criteria and cyclic alternating pattern (CAP), and the distribution of respiratory events was tabulated and analyzed. A distinct clinical and polysomnographic syndrome emerged, CAP-dominant sleep-disordered breathing, characterized by severe relatively short cycle obstructive events during non-REM sleep that were mild in REM sleep. Characteristics include lower body mass index, fewer apneas, and a lower hypoxic burden as reflected by frequency and severity of nocturnal oxygen saturation. During positive pressure titration, a remarkable respiratory instability emerged selectively during CAP, in contrast to stability during REM sleep. This partial treatment failure was associated with persistent clinical symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: This variant of sleep apnea may reflect a dominant component of respiratory instability and periodic breathing coupled with upper-airway obstruction. Its existence questions the conventional practice of calculating global respiratory indexes. Besides positive airway pressure, measures to treat periodic breathing may be required.PMID: 15124715 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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I will say, this recipe makes a whopping—GIANT—batch of salsa. But it is good on pretty much everything, so a huge batch may not be such a bad thing. Which means you basically need to put this into a meal plan. We ate this on chips, tacos, eggs and stuffed sweet potatoes! But mostly chips. And it was delicious.
We decided this is a good alternative to some of the other dips we've been making. Kyle is trying to go Paleo again. And although this isn't Paleo, it is much closer than the dairy-based dips we usually have (think fresh basil spread or love dip).
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Honestly it's been a while since I've made a food without cheese on it. #sorrynotsorry But now that I think about it, this salsa would be amaze-balls inside a tortilla with cheese baked into a taquito. Now you have another idea to make with your salsa!
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- 2 tablespoons lime juice
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Turning The Clocks Back In Canada, Last Sunday, it was time to turn back the clocks once again. At 6 p.m. on that fateful day, sitting at the kitchen table about to have supper, I realized that there was no way I would be walking the family dog that evening, given that it was already pitch black and freezing cold outside. For me, Sunday marked the beginning of another stretch of dull and dark winter afternoons and evenings. Yes, I've been missing daylight savings since day one; the extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning was a pathetic consolation prize.
I'm not familiar with the exact details of why how daylight savings helps us, but I do know that "saving" daylight by changing our clocks twice a year is done mainly for economic and lifestyle benefits. Daylight savings can't be called a boon to the economy, but apparently it does make the change worthwhile.
Lifestyle benefits however, that I can attest to. Although everyone groans and moans in the spring when we jump ahead an hour to make use of early morning sunlight, no one complains when during the summer, we have sunlight at our disposal in the great outdoors late into the evening.
Call me the typical teenager. While a few years ago, you would probably have found me dozing soundly around 10 p.m., I've now become accustomed to staying up until it's late at night. I still occasionally revert to my early bird habits and wake up at 4 or 5 a.m. to start a day that I envision will be particularly long. However, recently I find that I'm quicker and more efficient when working on certain tasks late at night – writing a column such as this one is something that I actually do with more ease at night than during the day. That's why I love daylight savings time.
The more sunlight in my life, the better quality my life is (unless that sunlight is scorching my skin at the beach, of course), as far as I'm concerned, and I can enjoy sunlight more during daylight savings time since it is still there when I return home from school or work during the warmer half of the year.
I wish we could keep the clocks set an hour ahead all year round. For me and for a great many other NBers, I imagine, there is nothing more spirit-crushing than arriving home from school/work at 5 p.m. to find that dusk has already settled into the sky quite comfortably. The trade-off for losing an hour of sunlight in the evening is an hour of sunlight in the morning, but to me that seems like a bad deal. I feel that most people don't really care much for the sun rays that peeping through their windows as they get ready for school or work. An hour of sunlight in the evening is much more useful. It allows us to go outside (maybe for some invigorating exercise!) without feeling as freezing cold as we would without it, and it brightens everyone's mood in the evening.
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Where is my carbon fiber spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is my carbon fiber spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, I'm waiting too. vin #5884 for me.
And yes, it is ridiculous - we should just get a refund and get the order cancelled at this point...
Refund? The spoiler was free 8 months ago. Just forget about it. It completely ruins the lines of the car in my opinion. It has zero functional value and looks like a tacky piece of plastic glued on to a $100K vehicle.
Obviously only my opinion.
It makes my $114k car look like a $115.5k car. They've been delivering cars for months with the spoiler--hard to believe the supplier can't deal with the backlog.
I've read where others have called their local service center who then had it installed within a few days. I suspect not everyone has been notified.
mdemetri | NOVEMBER 4, 2013: I have had my car into service twice in the last 8-10 weeks and no offer of a spoiler, despite my request.
I had my car delivered on 5-Jan-2013 with no spoiler. The service center order one and about 2 months later they got it in and installed it. At the time, few cars were being delivered with spoilers, so everyone was waiting. I would recommend that you have your service center make sure they have ordered it for you.
@Alex - sometime during the year, Tesla's policy changed and new cars get the spoiler, old cars wait. I would be willing to wait for a couple of months, but for me its been 8 months...
I got mine shortly after car was delivered. They don't make enough of them and first dibs go to production line. If you want yours call ownership or your service center.
I originally though it would look bad on my white car, but I like it now!! Doesn't make the car look rice or cheap at all. It takes them 5 minutes to install. It is a peel and stick.
I also am one of the rare people that felt the difference at high speeds.
Good luck!
Put 3 kg into the trunk to compensate for the lift reduction missing ;-)
Sorry, the truth is I understand and agree. This is no way to treat a customer. I had to wait for a control unit for the rear cam for 6 months with Audi, also unacceptable.
@eddiemoy I saw a few white cars with spoiler and I too think it looks good. It looks very nice on red cars too. You have to have the pano roof and possibly the grey rim to complete the look though.
Have both. :)
I think everyone who has waited months for their spoiler has been very patient and understanding. When my car was being delivered, I was told by my DS that it would not arrive with a spoiler and that would come as a due bill item. A few days later the local SC contacted me and said never mind, the car actually arrived with the spoiler attached from the factory.
Perhaps I should count myself as one of the lucky ones, but I think Tesla should offer a $1,500 credit to those who have not yet received their spoiler and who have been patiently waiting for months on end. First priority should go to those who already gave Tesla their money. By the way, I didn't think the spoiler would look good and originally left if off my build order, but then added it back at the last minute. It looks fantastic on my MC Red P85. Now any Model S without the spoiler looks incomplete to me.
You know, maybe someone should send a tweet to Elon asking why it takes 8 months to get a spoiler? How much do you want to bet that shortly thereafter, everyone will get their spoilers? Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do! :)
Some want a $1500 credit, but I think that price is an artificially high number to help the manufacturer catch up. Besides, the high margin on spoilers ordered recently helps the value of my stock.
If I paid $1500 for something (indirectly in this case, I suppose, since it was included in a package) to be included in my car, and 8 months later it still hadn't arrived, I think I'd be right to be upset about it.
I was one of the lucky ones, car delivered Feb 15th with spoiler. That was the original manufacturer, they have now switched the spoiler to a matte finish (mine is glossy). I thought once they switched they were able to catch up, guess I was wrong. Good luck.
hmm, mine was delivered with spoiler in Oct 2012! Count myself lucky, I suppose.
Maybe you'll get the very spoiler that would have gone on my P85 if I hadn't told TM to leave it off. Each to his own.


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|Organize for the week ahead with magazine holders and waterproof self-laminating ID labels that stand up to tough conditions (and even coffee spills).
|Long before you put down your bottomless glass of lemonade and wind down your summer, teachers have already been hard at work getting their classrooms and lesson plans ready for back to school. And when it comes to organization, you bet they can teach us a thing or two! Here are some ingenious teacher-inspired ideas that work in or out of the classroom.
Prepare for the week ahead
|Your workspace is valuable real estate, so whatever you add to it better be fun AND functional. Colorful magazine holders labeled with days of the week can help sort handouts and other paperwork for the week ahead. And, they'll definitely look better than piles of paper stacked on your desk. Create your own custom labels with free designs on Avery Design & Print.
|Keep sheets of preprinted planner stickers (such as these square labels) to mark reoccurring events in your planner.
Organize your schedule
|Call out meetings or parent-teacher conferences with eye-catching planner stickers. You'll know in a glance what's in store for you each week. It can help you prepare − or look forward to − upcoming events outside of the normal routine. (Did somebody say a night out without the kids?)
|Adhesive name badges that won't damage fabric are ideal for passing out on the first day of school or at open house.
Get to know each other
|The start of school can be a little emotional. Some kids will be excited, others will be anxious. To calm those first-day (or first-week) jitters, start with an ice breaker that keeps their minds occupied. As part of introducing themselves, ask them a simple question about their favorite hobby, sport or fictional character. It will get them to open up and help everyone learn about each other's uniqueness.
|Count on durable school supplies to stand up to frequent use and last all year round.
Make sure everyone's in the loop
|Kids won't miss a thing when they check the absent binder for assignments, permission slips or other paperwork passed out when they were gone. Organize by days of the week with dividers, and tuck paperwork inside sheet protectors.
|Craft bins organized by month using full-sheet labels make it easy to keep supplies together.
Pack your arts and crafts projects
|Instead of scrambling to get the necessary supplies for every project, plan ahead with monthly craft bins. When you're done, leftover supplies can be put away and saved for the following year. Clutter-free classroom? Yes, please!
|Create custom labels for your classroom, personal property and other items for quick and easy identification.
Save money by buying in bulk
|Make your teacher bucks stretch further by buying in bulk. Purchase economy-sized supplies, such as paints that can easily be divvied up into smaller quantities, or stock up and save on often-used items such as pencils, paper and glue. Create custom labels to identify your supplies and books, and add your name and classroom number to mark your property.
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To confront my colleague via text?(53 Posts)
I am a teacher and we have just broken up for the holidays. I have got promotion from September to be head of my faculty- am chuffed and can't wait to start and the majority of my colleagues have been incredibly supportive and pleased for me. However, I have one colleague who is very cold and reserved with me, rarely approaches me even about things that I am currently in charge of. She is ten years younger than me but excellent at her job, although it has been noted that she lacks empathy.
Anyway, today at the pub after school finished, we were discussing the current head of faculty, who is excellent and I see as a real role model. This colleague came our with 'yes, she (current head of faculty ) is amazing and to be honest, I can't see any other head of faculty measuring up to her.'
I was so upset. The thing is, I agree with her and have even said the same myself- but I really felt as though this was a pointed comment which was directed at me and was totally unnecessary.
So WIBU to text her about it? I was so stunned at the time I didn't say anything, but feel really sad that she obviously doesn't rate me or respect me as a leader. Should I text or leave it?
Glad to see that you've taken on board the advice to not text your colleague.
Confronting colleagues by text is never professional. If you still have problems with her behaviour next term, then bring it up face to face.
In leadership, you have to be thick-skinned and incredibly gracious. Never, ever rise. It's unethical for you to be relationally involved with colleagues in quite the same way as you used to be. For example, if you said something about this and then had to reprimand her next month, it would be very difficult to persuade her that you weren't picking on her. That's not fair on either of you. Call it tolerance, nonchalance, deliberately emotional stability - whatever it takes to ignore and continue being professional. It's lonely at the top and all that. Quite honestly, the fact that you are considering making an issue out of this - and by text - gives me great sympathy with your colleagues viewpoint.
Yoni I'm glad you decided against texting.
I agree with the posters who say she may not have meant it as a negative comment about you, just a positive comment about your predecessor
Sounds like you have big shoes to fill, but seriously don't stress too much, no one will expect you to be exactly like your predecessor, and I guarentee that you will have strengths that she didn't have.
I became a department head recently, and I read a boom that really helped: it's called 'the first ninety days' by Michael Watkins. It is really useful and encourages you tithing about your particular situation d how you can put plans in place to succeed in the critical first three months on the job.
Have a lovely summer, and congrats on the promotion!
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Rebuilding the Astros
The Houston Astros are far from the worst team in baseball this season, but their ability to seriously contend in the near future is largely based upon the rebuilding effort that was fully implemented the moment Jeff Luhnow took over. Luhnow inherited a team with a poor farm system — ranked #27 by Marc Hulet — that was high on right-handed pitching and nearly devoid of high-ceiling bats.
He also walked into a sub-par major league situation, with a strange mix of pricey veterans and underwhelming youngsters. There were bright spots in both the major and minor leagues, but Luhnow took the job knowing very well that the organization was more than a mere move or two away from turning things around.
Luckily, he brought with him a strong reputation for building from within. The Astros finally started the rebuilding process last season under Ed Wade by trading Michael Bourn and Hunter Pence, and entered this past offseason with long-term goals that took precedent over short-term — and short-lived — success.
The organization was interested in a solution, not a band-aid, and ownership seemed more than willing to experience losing seasons if management did everything in its power to essentially hit the reset button. With one-third of the season in the books, the Astros are getting closer to the point where decisions need to be made and actions taken with respect to several rostered players whose departures could aid and potentially expedite the rebuilding process.
At 23-31, the Astros are 7.5 games behind the Reds in the NL Central — their final year in the division and the NL itself — and aren't going to contend. They played well early on and have a run differential closer to that of a .500 team than a cellar-dweller, but their recent eight-game losing streak reinforced that the team shouldn't be seduced by short-term success. That they hovered around the .500 mark for so relatively long is a testament to the solid performances of several members of the new core.
However, it also serves as a reminder that, even with players like Jed Lowrie, Jose Altuve, Chris Johnson, J.D. Martinez, Bud Norris and J.A. Happ in place, the team is still its ways away from making a legitimate push. Fortunately, they have a number of players who could attract multiple suitors as the trade deadline inches closer. These veterans aren't the greatest trade chips in the world, as each makes a pretty penny, but getting something for them is better than nothing, even if the Astros have to eat some salary to extract greater returns.
Luhnow and his team have already shown themselves to be shrewd evaluators of talent by turning reliever Mark Melancon into starting shortstop Jed Lowrie. Now, they need to figure out what to do with Carlos Lee, Wandy Rodriguez, Brett Myers and Brandon Lyon. All four have talent and value, but make too much money to be considered slam-dunk trade chips.
Lee is hitting a decent .297/.348/.411, and is bound to hit for more power as the season progresses. He also makes $18.5 million this season in the final year of his wacky $100 million contract. He has limited positional flexibility and is really a designated hitter relegated to first base by necessity. However, his .335ish wOBA over the last three seasons more closely resembles a league average DH than anything noteworthy. If the Astros ate most of his remaining salary, some American League contender or quasi-contender could find a spot for him, even if he serves as a platoon-DH. But even after taking care of some or most of his salary, the Astros shouldn't expect to get much back for half of a season of a mediocre designated hitter.
Brett Myers was converted to closer before the season started in a move that figured to increase his trade appeal as the season wore on. He has performed well, with a 5.0 K/BB ratio, 1.86 ERA and 2.57 SIERA. The problem is that he makes $11 million this season and has a $10 million club option that vests based on games finished this season. An acquiring team wouldn't want to part ways with anything significant to acquire an overpriced closer they would have to use in a setup role to prevent the option from vesting.
Brandon Lyon makes $5.5 million this season and has also pitched well, with a 4.2 K/BB ratio, 2.53 ERA and 3.01 SIERA. His salary is a bit more manageable given that he can close without fear of an option vesting. With various contenders sustaining bullpen injuries, Lyon figures to be one of the more sought after players this summer.
Wandy Rodriguez has the talent of someone that should attract attention, but some National League teams are shying away from his salary, and American League teams are wary of his salary relative to how his skills would translate to the tougher league. Rodriguez makes $10 million this year, $13 million next year, and has a $13 million club option in 2014 that converts to a player option upon being traded. He is certainly talented, averaging around 3 WAR per year from 2008-11, but a significant market might not develop for a mid-30s pitcher owed $26 million over the next two years, who is coming off of a 1.5 WAR campaign. At this point, the Astros might as well just keep Rodriguez in the rotation and look to deal him next year.
Ed Wade took a lot of heat for signing veterans to long-term contracts because it limited roster flexibility and represented a poor use of finite resources. But the bigger downside to issuing these expensive contracts is that the players are even tougher to move as the deals wind down. It has been suggested that perhaps unloading Jose Altuve would better suit the Astros' rebuilding process but that only makes sense as a worst case scenario, as he has more value to the team as a contributor than a trade chip.
The Astros might not extract a king's ransom for Lee, Lyon or Myers, but if they eat almost all of their collective salaries, they could bring something back to the organization. Even if it's a platter of higher-risk prospects representing quantity over quality, the possibility of one or two of them panning out is of more benefit to the club than the relief efforts of Myers and Lyon and the .335 wOBA from Lee.
The Astros are at a point where something is better than nothing, and from a rebuilding standpoint they are currently getting nothing from that aforementioned trio. They might not come out on top in any deal involving these players, but it's tough to say they "lost" a trade if the end result is waving goodbye to a high-priced veteran and adding interesting prospects to the farm system.
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