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Etón Rover Emergency Radio
Cranking out power, light, and sound
Ralph Graves is one of Crutchfield's blog editors, and part of the company's social media team. He writes about home audio/video gear, specializing in Apple-related and wireless technologies. Ralph holds a master's degree in music composition, and his works have been released on various labels. He's served as product manager for an independent classical and world music label, produced several recordings, and worked extensively in public broadcasting. Since 1984 he's hosted a weekly classical music program on WTJU, and is also active as a blogger and podcaster.
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Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
True story: the very evening I brought the Etón Rover self-powered radio home to try out, a violent thunderstorm ripped through our area and cut off our power. That's just the kind of situation the Rover was made for, and was I glad to have it!
Form and function
Etón makes a whole line of emergency radios , and most have the same basic features as the Rover. What appealed to me most about this model was the overall form. The Rover is an AM/FM/Weather band radio with a three-LED flashlight, cell phone charger and hand-cranked generator.
Even though there's a lot of functionality, it looks and handles pretty much like a fat flashlight. Etón payed close attention to the form factor and design with the Rover.
The hand crank (more on that later) is made of aluminum, so it's sturdy without being heavy. The various plugs and connectors built into the case are protected with a water-resistant seal. The flashlight has a flat lens, which can double as a base if you want to set the Rover down somewhere and just use it as a radio.
Charging options
There are a couple of ways to charge the Rover. I could send current to it from my laptop via a USB-to-mini-USB cable, or use a wall plug with a USB port. I found this feature especially useful in our car, where we have a 12-volt converter with a USB port. Getting the Rover charged was not a problem.
Of course, I didn't have those options when I initially unpacked the Rover — that's when the power went out in our house. So I had to just unfold the attached crank and start, um, cranking. A red light came on to let me know the batteries were charging.
A brief aside: the dynamo whines as it rotates. The faster I cranked, the higher-pitched the sound. Our dog started barking at around 30 rpm. When I brought it to the office, my co-workers had an even lower tolerance for the sound! Personally, I found it comforting. As long as that dynamo was whining, those batteries were charging.
Power to spare
After about five or ten minutes of cranking, the Rover had sufficient charge to power the LED lights. They illuminated our dark family room quite effectively, and I was able to keep them lit with just occasional cranking sessions the rest of the evening.
When the power was restored, I plugged the Rover into my laptop and let it sit overnight. By the next morning, the batteries were fully charged, and from that point on, it only took a minute of two of cranking every so often to keep the batteries topped off.
The Rover has a full-sized USB port for cell phone charging. According to the manual, seven minutes of cranking the dynamo at 130 rpm will charge a cell phone enough to talk for five minutes. Well, your mileage may vary — ours did. Our newer phone (with its newer battery) held the charge better than our soon-to-be-retired model. And the test calls I made didn't last five minutes, so I can't speak as to the actual limit.
But still, this is an important emergency feature. Although we were without power, I didn't have to worry about our cell phones going dead and being totally cut off. As long as one of us could crank the Rover, we could contact the outside world.
Radio and weather bands
I really liked the radio's big analog tuning dial. It looked good, but it also had a practical function. A mechanically operated tuner (unlike a digital one) doesn't draw power — something that's at a premium if it all has to come from your arm. The Rover has an antenna that retracts into the body of the radio. With it fully extended, I picked up all the AM and FM stations I normally receive at our house.
The tuner also has all seven NOAA weather bands. This seemed like a good feature when I read about the product earlier in the day. But sitting in our dark house that evening as the rain beat against our windows, it was a godsend.
Usually when we get storms this severe, there are accompanying flash flood and even tornado warnings. By having access to the weather bands, I could listen to the warnings and weather updates. For our area, there was just a flood warning, so knowing that those howling winds wouldn't turn into something worse gave us some real peace of mind.
Overall impression
The Etón Rover self-powered radio is an amazingly versatile and handy device. Intuitively, I knew the hand-cranked dynamo, the weather bands, the LED lights, and the cell phone charger would be good for emergencies. But actually using the Rover during such an emergency was something entirely different. Since the model I used was a sample from Etón, I had to return it. But we'll soon be purchasing one of our own to have on hand — just in case.


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I love to post pictures of my Silhouette Cameo projects, Embroidery projects, Recipes and a variety of fun crafts & projects. Sometimes my girls help me and sometimes I go solo. Either way, everything I make & do is from the heart. This blog is my quick & easy way of sharing my ideas and fun projects I've made. If you would be so kind, please share your thoughts, I am always open to new & better ideas. Thank you, Kate.
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In the first study, J. Rosene and Whitman, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, evaluated the effects of creatine loading (20 grams/day for seven days) on thermal responses to cycling exercise at 75 percent of maximal oxygen uptake for 30 minutes. The researchers reported that creatine had no effect on body temperature, heart rate or blood pressure responses during exercise, or in changes in body weight or urine specific gravity (markers of dehydration).
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Caramelized Butternut Squash
Butternut squash is one of my favorite foods. It's so versatile and can be used is sweet or savory dishes. I have quite a few butternut squash recipes that I've already made, so I decided to make a Squash tag. Be sure to check it out.
Since I love butternut squash so much, I thought it would be appropriate to feature a week of butternut squash recipe. I'm going to kick off the week with a recipe that so simple and so delicious, it's almost silly to call it a recipe.
Most recipes for roasted squash result in a savory dish, but with the simple addition of some brown sugar to the mix, you can transform roasted squash into a sweet little side dish.
In a moment of full disclosure, I have to admit that when I made this one afternoon while working from home, I and then proceeded to eat the entire batch of roasted squash as my lunch. Then I made it the next night for dinner. Hubby agreed that it was delicious.
Caramelized Butternut Squash
Yield: 2
1 lb butternut squash
1.5 tbsp butter, melted
1 Tbsp brown sugar
salt and pepper
Heat oven to 400°F.
Peel squash and chop into large pieces.
Combine squash, butter, sugar, salt and pepper in a bowl. Toss.
Pour squash out onto a rimmed baking sheet.
Bake for about an hour or until browned.
Recipe from Food.com
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11 Responses to "Caramelized Butternut Squash"
I have been loving Butternut Squash more than ever this season, myself! Your pictures are lovely, and making me hungry!
I LOVE butternut squash… especially when roasted until slightly crisp on the outside. Your caramelized version looks great – I will need to add a touch of brown sugar and butter next time I make it.
YUM!!! I started my butternut squash kick this weekend- this looks amazing!
I have a butternut squash from my CSA that I'm dying to cut into. I have a question though, how does one peel a butternut squash?
Melissa – I like to use a Y-shaped vegetable peeler to peel the skin off. You could do it with a knife, but I would be worried about cutting myself.
Sounds like a fabulous way to prepare those squash. I'll have to remember this for if we have another bumper crop next year!
Hi Jen, nice seeing you again yesterday. I usually roast my butternut squash with brown sugar too but I can't believe I never thought of adding butter! I usually omit the salt and pepper because I like it very dessert-like, so I add cinnamon too 🙂
what a great blog!
here is so many inspirations,
have a nice time,
I love butternut squash too. It's definitely delicious with just a bit of brown sugar. Sometimes I go a bit overboard and roast it with a whole lot of butter, brown, sugar, and maple syrup.
This looks amazing! I love bn squash. I just made a fantastic soup, and now I want to carmelize it!
This is such a simple way to cook butternut squash and yet SO delicious! I'm loving your butternut squash blog posts!


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Though much left to prove, Freeman making his mark
ATLANTA -- When Freddie Freeman got off to a hot start last year, he spent a few weeks as the third hitter in the lineup. But it seems safe to say that the speed-challenged Freeman is now in a much more suitable spot as he assumes the enviable role of cleanup hitter for Atlanta's potent offense.
Freeman certainly has much more to prove as he goes through the early stages of this third full season at the Major League level, but the powerful 23-year-old first baseman already has gained the distinction of being the first Braves player since 1916 to drive in three runs in both of the regular season's first two games.
Freeman accounted for Atlanta's first runs of the season when he turned on a Cole Hamels fastball and sent it deep over the wall in right-center for a two-run homer in the first inning of Monday night's Opening Day win over the Phillies. During Wednesday night's win over Philadelphia, he showed his opposite-field power potential with a three-run double to left-center.
"I think he's just going to keep getting better and better with more Major League at-bats," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He's growing patient when he needs to be and trying to just get one RBI at time instead of going for the three-run homer. I see him getting better just because of that."
Hitting coach Greg Walker considers Freeman one of the most talented young hitters he has ever seen.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—The contenders to win Sunday's Daytona 500 were many, and they came and went.
Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth were all prerace favorites. Three of them (Harvick, Gordon and Kenseth) had won NASCAR's biggest before and the other two always have cars and the talent to win.
But one by one, for various reasons, they each fell by the wayside on Sunday.
Then there were new, more surprising contenders to emerge. Greg Biffle, who had finished second twice during Speedweeks. Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, who rumbled to the front with a beaten and battered car. Denny Hamlin, who was still in the mix despite losing his teammates (Kenseth and Busch) and drafting partners. And 54-year-old Mark Martin, who swooped into the picture almost in time to steal his first Daytona 500 trophy.
Even trailblazer Danica Patrick, who shocked and thrilled the Daytona crowd by starting on the pole and staying at the front, had a chance to win on the very last lap.
But there was one name, one driver that nearly everyone forgot about.
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A driver who just happened to be the most accomplished of them all.
How in the world could anyone at Daytona or any other track forget about five-time champion Jimmie Johnson?
But when it was all said and done, there was Johnson standing in victory lane for the 61st time in his career and hoisting the Daytona 500 trophy for the second time.
He may have flown under the radar for 10 days of Speedweeks, but he flew to the front when it counted most.
"In my mind, I didn't feel like I was under the radar," Johnson said. "I felt like we were working hard to put the best product on the track."
Johnson held off a late charge by Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the Daytona 500 and the first race with NASCAR's new Gen-6 Sprint Cup car.
Martin finished third followed by Keselowski, Ryan Newman, Biffle, Regan Smith and the surprising Patrick, who became the first woman to not only win the pole for a Sprint Cup race but also to lead a lap in the Daytona 500.
Patrick led five laps and was running third on the final lap before Earnhardt and Martin swept past her in the final turn, shuffling her back to eighth.
Harvick and Stewart were both taken out in an early crash while Kenseth and Busch both had engine problems and Gordon's overheating car wouldn't allow him make a late charge.
With 28 lead changes among 14 drivers, there were plenty of other contenders who found their way to the front, but in the end, none of them had anything for "Five-Time."
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Earnhardt, always a Daytona 500 contender and one of the best restrictor-plate drivers, and Martin, one of the sport's smartest racers, concocted a plan and made a late charge, but even they were no match for the fast and determined Johnson.
After wrecking in the preseason Sprint Unlimited on Feb. 16 and showing little throughout Speedweeks, Johnson was flying under the radar among Daytona 500 contenders.
But crew chief Chad Knaus, the man who led Johnson to his record five straight championships from 2006 through 2010, knew.
Knaus hinted to the media last month that he had a winning game plan at Daytona. Asked Sunday what it was, Knaus said:
"I think it was Jimmie Johnson, quite honestly. Jimmie did a great job today," Knaus said. "You know, we work really hard at Hendrick Motorsports to prepare for the superspeedway races. We put a great product out there.
"I'm telling you, I know we worked at least 35 days straight on the car that we raced in the Daytona 500. I know I put in personally one day of 38 hours straight."
Johnson and Knaus and their No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team may have been flying under the radar as far as fans and the media were concerned, getting far less attention than the top contenders, but they knew they had a winning combination.
"I had a good run in the Unlimited (opening weekend race) until we crashed. The Duel (qualifying races), I thought we were very competitive there," Johnson said. "It was a sign of things to come.
"I guess I was quiet in the overall spectrum of things from the media side. I think people in the garage, people knew we were sitting on a lot of speed and had a very good racecar."
Johnson ran in the lead pack most of the race, leading five laps early, but didn't really show his hand until late in the race when he used drafting help from Hamlin to sweep past Keselowski for the lead on Lap 186.
They swapped the lead four times over the next five laps until a caution flag for debris with seven laps remaining set up the thrilling finish.
Restarting in the outside lane with Biffle and Patrick on his tail, Johnson powered by Keselowski and sped away with the lead. He led the next five laps with Biffle and Patrick in a tight draft behind him, looking like he would cruise to victory with no serious challengers.
That held true until the final turn, when Earnhardt and Martin hooked up and blasted by Biffle and Patrick, shooting Earnhardt onto Johnson's bumper for one last-gasp shot at his teammate.
But even with drafting help from Martin, Earnhardt knew he was fighting a losing battle.
"Yeah, I mean, I got the same equipment Jimmie does, so we were up against a pretty steep climb trying to get by him, getting a run on him," Earnhardt said. "Mark and I did a good job at doing all we could from as far back as we were.
"I was surprised that the guys up front didn't put up a better plan ... put themselves in a better position. Everybody is out there trying to do what they need to do. We just happened to make a choice. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't."
Johnson's winning move, he said, came in the form of the fast car the team brought to Daytona and massaged throughout Speedweeks. That and the correct lane choice on the final restart proved to be the difference.
Once he got out front, Johnson knew he was in control.
"I feel like the speed our car had in it allowed me to really have control of the race there late," he said. "I felt like I was sitting on something all day and was just ready to have some fun when it counted, and I did."
Johnson won the 2006 Daytona 500, but with a bit of a twist. Knaus was suspended for the race after a technical violation and illegal parts that were found on his car during Speedweeks. He was at home while interim crew chief and engineer Darian Grubb led Johnson to the win.
Knaus admits that Sunday's victory was sweet.
"As you guys know, I eat, sleep and breathe 48," he said. "Any time that I'm taken away from that racecar, I'm pretty sad. ... To finally be able to come down here and win and be a part of this is definitely a huge dream come true."
Particularly with the luck Johnson and Knaus have had at Daytona in recent years. Since winning the 2006 race, Johnson had finished 27th or worse in the last six Daytona 500s, including 42nd after a Lap 2 crash last year.
Those struggles made this one all that much sweeter.
"(Restrictor-)plate racing, man, it's like playing the lottery. Everybody's got a ticket," Johnson said. "I've struck out a lot at these tracks, left with torn-up racecars.
"I didn't doubt our ability to win, I was just frustrated with circumstances and plate racing. This will buy me a smile for, I'm sure, the rest of the year."
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Frank Delicious wrote:I try to psyche people out on my card. I usually do this by getting nude around the 4th hole.
Blake_T wrote:Blake, since your videos were full speed and low frame rate it was very hard to tell what was happening at the end of any of your pounds since you would whip it back to starting position. What I was doing and what I was picturing was happening for you was basically the same as Dave D's discussion of "steely stop" where you go from open to neutral in the hammer pound but the weight of the disc pulls your wrist closed. Then it bounces quickly back to neutral since you/me/Dave D tried to do the "steely stop". Should I be trying to actively go past neutral to closed?
by focusing on specifics of the video you are doing exactly the opposite of what the drills are supposed to do. it's all about feel and not about trying to mimic specifics. the pacing of my videos is more important than the specifics.
Blake_T wrote:i don't see how you could do drills #1 and #3 with only letting the wrist get back to neutral. the entire natural tendency is to end with the disc below your hand... that is the miracle of gravity.
"The hammer pound is the throw" is working for forehand, but the problem is that my hammer pound is not yet working well.
"The hammer pound is the throw" is barely working for backhand. For backhand I think it is so similar to the pen toss that I am having trouble letting go of that.
It took a year of effort to get my distance past 275' so you can see what kind of a (slow learning) person you are dealing with. The videos are very helpful, but I had a very specific question (wrist actively closing vs. being forced closed due to "steely stop") that I wasn't able to answer and I tried to use them to answer it instead of posting the question. Please don't let that discourage you from further videos.
This may be an issue of my picturing the wrong thing. I just went out to my garage and hammered in a nail to make sure that I visualize that process correctly. When I hammer I lift the hammer up with my wrist roughly neutral. Then I let my wrist/hand drop a bit faster than gravity is making the hammer drop, which opens up my wrist on the way down (Or I could just start with an open wrist, but that doesn't seem to be how I do it). Then I snap my wrist from open to neutral which brings the hammer head down into the hammer with my wrist having very little change in height during this wrist snap. At no point in this process do I actively close my wrist, although it is incidentally closed just a bit when my hand recoils back up a bit while the hammer drives the nail in a bit.
When you are discussing where the disc releases, do you mean where the leading edge of the disc is when it comes out or where my hand is when it comes out? If it is your hand, then I am way off on forehand but I think I have it right for backhand. If it is the leading edge of the disc, then I have it right for forehand, but am going way to far out for backhand.
Blake_T wrote:Many helpful and insightful things.
The quick snap around of the disc at the bottom should feel VERY strong even though your arm is basically relaxed.
Blake_T wrote:Basically, this is an easy method to a 250'+ OAT-free sidearm ...
I feel like I am closer than yesterday, but still don't quite have it. There is definately a great difference in the feel between trying to close my wrist too early and trying to close it around the correct time.
Aren't I supposed to be gripping hard and closing my wrist at that point? Do you just mean that the rest of my arm is basically relaxed?
1. My stash of discs is made up mainly of Wizards, Sharks, and Sabres. I've also seen a lot of posts suggesting guys practice and learn how to get the most of their putters. Are any of these discs better/worse for practicing the FH hammer throw? Say should I try to get this down with a Wizard before moving up to a longer disc?
2. For the "250'+ OAT-free sidearm," would that be with a fairway driver or something similar? Are the distance drivers generally supposed to be used by guys getting over 250'?
3. I've got cr@ppy inconsistency with the lines I throw. Working on the FH, about a third of throws went straight, a third started left and continued turning that way, and a third climbed high to the right, stalled, and crashed (nose up, right?). At my best, I was getting a little over 200' with my Sabres. Any suggestions on the type of flight should I be looking for with this drill? Should I try to consistently try for one type of flight (e.g., anhyzer? flat? something else?) before learning to hit different lines?
Blake_T wrote:The quick snap around of the disc at the bottom should feel VERY strong even though your arm is basically relaxed. The quick snap around of the disc at the bottom should feel VERY strong even though your arm is basically relaxed.Aren't I supposed to be gripping hard and closing my wrist at that point? Do you just mean that the rest of my arm is basically relaxed?Blake_T wrote:check out youtube for drills on how to throw a jab in boxing. and work more with the fake grip. your grip has to tighten the closer you get to the rip but this should happen fairly naturally.
Frank Delicious wrote:I try to psyche people out on my card. I usually do this by getting nude around the 4th hole.
patdabunny wrote:I don't know if it's just me or my arm being tensed (it doesn't feel like it) but I can't get the "recoil" like you do in the vids, blake. Has that been a problem with others? Is it that I"m strongarming it?
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Chris Cross's Dead DonkeySituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
Chris Cross went to the Buymenot Barn to buy a donkey. He looked and looked until he finally found the one which he wanted costing $500. The stable owner, Scammin' Sam, however, was not ready to take Chris's word and demanded that Chris paid $100 in advance for the donkey. After thinking for a while, Chris agreed to do so.
When Chris went back the next day, he found that the donkey he liked was dead. He asked Scammin' Sam for his money back but was told that it had already been used.
A quick thinker, Chris made a deal with Sam. He said that he would keep the donkey but would not pay the $400 which was left in his payment. Sam readily agreed with this thinking that he was giving someone a dead donkey for $100- not a bad deal for him.
Inquisitive, Sam asked Chris what he was going to do with the dead donkey and was told that Chris was about to raffle it off for $5 per ticket. That made Sam extremely amused. He asked, "I thought that you were a dumb one when you gave me money for a dead donkey. Now you're telling me that you're going to raffle it off. I don't know of anybody who wouldn't complain getting a dead donkey as a prize!"
Chris, however, replied that this wouldn't be a problem for him. What was his plan?
AnswerChris raffled the donkey and 160 people bought tickets. Thus, he received $800 dollars from this. The only person who found out that the donkey was dead was the person who won. Chris gave that person $100 to keep this a secret. So, the person earned $95 if you subtract the ticket price, and Chris ended up earning $600.
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Football's Seastrunk named Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year
Each of the last two years, a Baylor Bear has been named the Big 12's Preseason Player of the Year for both men's and women's basketball. Now, Baylor football's getting in on the act.
Junior running back Lache Seastrunk was named Big 12 Conference Preseason Offensive Player of the Year by media covering the conference, the league announced Wednesday. The Temple, Texas, native was one of three Bears named to the preseason all-conference team, along with offensive lineman Cyril Richardson and linebacker Bryce Hager.
The last 12 months have now seen Baylor sweep Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year honors for football, men's basketball (Pierre Jackson) and women's basketball (Brittney Griner). Griner followed up the recognition by winning the honor at the end of the season, and Jackson probably should have, as well, after leading the Big 12 in both scoring and assists.
Will Seastrunk do the same? Most experts seem to agree that he's got a good chance. In addition to his Big 12 honor, Seastrunk (and Richardson, too) have been named preseason All-Americans by virtually every publication out there, including Athlon, Lindy's, Phil Steele and Sporting News.
Sic 'em, Lache and Baylor football!
[Baylor football season tickets are on sale now; single-game tickets will go on sale Aug. 7, along with tickets for Family Weekend and Homecoming events like After Dark and Pigskin Revue. Stay tuned for more details on those offerings.]


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Maximize your LinkedIn presence
Campus spokesperson for LinkedIn and Gen Y career and workplace expert Lindsey Pollak offers valuable advice for the powerful professional social networking site, LinkedIn.com. Learn how you can build a professional online presence, build and enhance your brand and connect in a meaningful way with other SU alumni and other "warm" contacts.
Through 2008, more individuals are using social networking sites than email, according to Pollack, author of Getting from College to Career. With more than 43 million users - nearly 40 percent outside the United States - LinkedIn.com is a fast-growing and powerful tool to connect job seekers and employers, as well as those individuals seeking to learn about a variety of career options. For a detailed guide to LinkedIn for students and grads, click here.
At a recent meeting of the Austin Career Development Network, speaker Doug Whatley,Executive Vice President of SP3 Group, and Austin human resources solutions firm, estimated that 80 percent of recruiters are using LinkedIn as their primarly resource for finding candidates.That means if you're searching for a job, you should be using LinkedIn! Even if you're only in the scouting stages, did you know that LinkedIn offers more than 160,000 company profiles?
In a recent webinar for career services professionals, Pollak provided valuable tips for students and alumni about LinkedIn:
Build and enhance your brand
When people Google you, it's important to have a profile that shows you in a good light. Because of the high traffic on LinkedIn, LinkedIn profiles tend to show up higher on search engine searches. Besides just creating a profile, here are other ways to build a visible "brand":
- Use the status update feature (just like in Facebook or Twitter) at least once per week. This action helps keep you on your contacts' radar.
- Claim your URL for your public profile, rather than keeping the random letters and numbers that's initially generated when you create a profile. This more memorable and streamlined URL that you choose can be added to email signature files, business cards and other correspondence to help direct individuals to your profesional profile.
- Complete the summary section with good keywords. Review the profiles of professionals you admire to get ideas. Use white space effectively to make the summary easier to read. Think about all your activities, including professional association involvement, articles you write, etc. as potential fodder for your profile.
- Be sure to complete your profile to 100 percent, including a photo, meaningful headline, keyword-rich summary and completed experience section. Join a few groups, claim your custom URL (see above), request recommendations from colleagues and keep your information updated.
- Answer discussion questions posed through groups you belong to on LinkedIn to help build credibility.
Build a professional presence online
Employers want to reach out to you on LinkedIn. Consider using a headline that states your career ambition or goal or area of study instead of just your actual title. This is particularly important if you are underemployed at the moment (e.g. Barista). In the summary, use keywords from internship, volunteer and leadership experiences as well as relevant work experiences.
Connect in a meaningful way with alumni and other "warm" contacts
On LinkedIn, every contacts is a "warm" contact, explained one career services director. Since you must ask for an introduction through an existing contact to a new one, you are not "cold" calling anyone. Be sure to join the Association of Southwestern University Alumni group as one of your choices. More than 500 SU grads are already part of this group. Because of SU's small size, many employers don't officially recruit at Southwestern. However, finding a networking connection to one of these companies can be a good lead toward employment there. In addition many of the non-profit and governmental employers that interest SU grads don't have the finances to operate large on-campus recruiting machines, so reaching out through individual contacts is a key way to approach the job search at these organizations.
Use LinkedIn to research companies and career paths
More than 160,000 companies offer profiles on LinkedIn. You can also look at individual's profiles to get ideas about their career paths.
LinkedIn etiquette
Finally, remember that LinkedIn is a purely professional social networking site, unlike Facebook and others. Be sure to use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation - no txt msg spk :) LOL! Always customize your connections requests with a personalized message, not just the standard, automatically created one. And to contribute to the integrity of the "personal referral" process that is the core of this technology, be sure that you are making every effort to make offline connections with your contacts as well. We can physically manage only so many contacts, so be sure yours is one that is meaningful to your link.
LinkedIn resources
Student Training Videos - Series of six 5-minute training videos exclusively for student users of LinkedIn.
How to Build a Great Student LinkedIn Profile - Downloadable handout
Top 5 Profile Tips - Downloadable handout
How to Network on LinkedIn - Downloadable handout
Q&A: LinkedIn Etiquette - Downloadable handout
Conduct Employer Research - Downloadable handout
Top 10 Online Job Hunting Tips (using LinkedIn) - Downloadable handout


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Reese's is running a clever 15-second commercial during NCAA Tournament games. The ad, linked here, features progressively filled out brackets of the candy "Sweet Sixteen" until chocolate and peanut butter advance to the finals, and then says you can choose both. Chocolate defeats nougat, coconut, and vanilla to reach the championship game, whereas peanut butter knocks off wafer, almonds, and raisins.
Unfortunately, the ad is ruined by that one, gross error — it shows raisins advancing to the Final Four. Raisins? Raisins?!?!
No self-respecting candy lover would ever choose a raisin-based concoction. The fact that you can't even think of a good raisin-oriented candy makes that point clear. So far as I can tell, in the history of mankind there have been only two candies that featured raisins: Chunky and Raisinets. Chunky, which was a thick little brick filled with raisins, nuts, and other debris, was one of the worst candies in history. Raisinets aren't quite so bad — but if you had your choice between Goobers and Raisinets when you went to see a movie, wouldn't you choose Goobers every time?
The fact that raisins made it to the Sweet 16 strongly suggests to me that the candy Sweet 16 was fixed. First, raisins had to beat cream, then raisins had to beat mint. There is no way raisins would win either of those matches unless the refs were in the pockets of the California raisin lobby. The Final Four match-up between peanut butter and raisins must have been the most one-sided game in the history of the candy Final Four.


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Dr. Barry K. Douglas is a New York plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, the largest and longest running private academic plastic surgery practice in North America. Dr. Douglas holds membership in some of the most respected medical organizations in the world and has published articles in some of the nation's top medical journals. In addition to his work as a clinical practitioner at LIPSG, Dr. Douglas is a renowned teacher and lecturer. Dr. Douglas also serves on the board of the Maurer Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Long Island, New York with the goal of bringing breast health education to the community.
Barry K. Douglas, MD, FACS joined Long Island Plastic Surgical Group in 1991, and specializes in a number of areas, including breast reconstruction, breast enhancement, facial rejuvenation, rhinoplasty, and more. His goal is to successfully blend the world of art and science to create results that look natural. Dr. Douglas is committed to the highest standard of patient safety and customizes procedures for each patient's unique needs and goals.
Long Island Plastic Surgical Group (LIPSG) was established in 1948 and maintains its reputation as one of the premier plastic surgery practices in the United States. The large group of plastic and reconstructive surgeons that work within LIPSG are skilled and experienced in advanced procedures designed to help patients renew their appearance with results that look natural. LIPSG doctors are committed to the safest treatment possible and quality patient care. The practice operates a fully equipped surgical facility that has been accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. LIPSG oversees nine Centers of Excellence within its practice, including Breast and Body Cosmetic Surgery; Non-invasive and Surgical Facial Rejuvenation; Post-Weight Loss Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery; Breast Reconstruction Surgery; Skin Care and Age Management; Burns and Complex Wound Management; Facial Reanimation and Peripheral Nerve Repair; Microsurgery and Hand Reconstruction; and Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery.
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text: Chicago Auto Show will continue to have largest displays in the world January 14, 2009 12:00 AM The Chicago Auto Show will continue to have the largest displays staged anywhere in the world. Show organizers have been asked numerous times if the public will see a smaller show this year, and the answer came from the show's general manager for the past 20 years, Jerry Cizek. "Not perceptibly. We have a few exhibitors that have contracted their spaces a bit, but that's to be expected - and they're still the biggest displays they stage anywhere in the world. "It's pretty hairy out there, as we all know, " continued Cizek. "Not only our biggest, expansive displays, but smaller and specialty manufacturers are affected too - all of whose mission has changed due to the cost of fuel and their prospective markets. Our pre-show meetings start just months after the previous show closes and we've seen exhibitors who are reacting to market and consumer forces on a highly accelerated schedule. Projects that might have been on the boards for five years from now have been boosted to top-of-mind status, and the action that goes along with it has many in a state of flux. "The public will see the fully dressed, extravagant, eye-popping Chicago Auto Show with appeal for every aspect of the family - as they've always seen and expect," said Cizek. "Remember that the second word of auto show is 'show' and this isn't our first time at the rodeo. We will still present not only the nation's biggest automotive exposition, but will do so as one of the best values for a family's entertainment dollar." The 101st staging of the Chicago Auto Show will begin with a two-day media preview, Feb. 11-12, then segue into its traditional black-tie event, First Look for Charity, the evening of Feb. 12, and its 10-day public run, Feb. 13-22, in the nation's biggest convention center, McCormick Place. The Chicago Automobile Trade Association's board of directors have chosen to keep the ticket costs for 2009 at $10 for adults; $5 for children 7-12; children 6 and under free when they accompany a paying parent; $5 for senior citizens age 62 and older. Back to News


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The rooms are of a medium size. All rooms and bathrooms have been refurbished in a contemporary style. Some bathrooms are small. Both rooms and bathrooms are in excellent condition. The spacious breakfast room is on the ground floor opposite the reception desk. This is a tall, traditional building. The facade has been repainted in pastel colours, some wrought iron balconies. The lobby is large and very airy with lots of natural light. As guests enter the building, the reception area is on the left. This is a good hotel that offers a good family service and atmosphere. ( 0310/ss )
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T-1000 in Sarah Connor Disguise and Iron Man Mark VI bust...
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MELKSHAM Town's trip to Gillingham Town in the Toolstation League Premier Division tonight has been postponed.
Darren Perrin's side were due to travel to Dorset this evening to take on the third-placed Gills but the clash, which is the only game in the division currently called off, has been postponed due to a water-logged pitch.
Melksham, who drew 0-0 with Willand Rovers at the Conigre last weekend, go to Ilfracombe Town this weekend.
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The Ugly Sweater Run
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Rummage up the ugliest sweaters you can find and celebrate the holidays by participating in the best 5-K of the year. Join thousands of runners and walkers from around the nation at a local Ugly Sweater Run near you! At the starting line be prepared for huge inflatables and awesome holiday music. Once you?re on the course you?ll find holiday themed stations at every mile. Ditch that Gatorade because you?ll be able to replenish those electrolytes at a good ol? fashioned hot chocolate station on the course. This Holiday 5-K has everything your five-year old self would want with a few perks of adulthood. So after the race, take a much-deserved break from the shopping frenzy and celebrate your run with some free Sam Adams Winter Lager and other holiday goodies. All you have to do is visit theuglysweaterrun.com to join in the fun. All kids 8 and under are free and no need to register them online. So bring the whole family?yes even the dog?and join us for some serious holiday enjoyment!
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Single-sided Deafness and Cochlear Implants
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
University of Zurich
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
University of Zurich
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 11, 2012
Last updated: July 4, 2017
Last verified: July 2017
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Detailed Description:
- As the left and right hemisphere are specialized for different auditory tasks, the proposed study aims at demonstrating different consequences of right or left-sided deafness for the affected individual.
- Furthermore, the question should be answered if auditory deficits and plastic changes can be partially reversed by cochlear implantation of the deaf ear.
- Multicenter, prospective, open, non-randomized clinical trial with 5 patients with right-sided and 5 patients with left-sided sensineural deafness.
- Pre-operative: Audiometry, Sound Localization Audiometry, PET, EEG/MEG
- Comparison of pre-operative investigations with 10 healthy subjects (age and gender matched control group)
- Cochlea implantation
- Follow-up Visits at 3, 6, 9 and 12 month post-operative: Audiometry, Sound Localization Audiometry, PET, EEG, Questionnaires
- Trial with medical device
|Sensorineural Hearing Loss (Disorder)
|Device: cochlear implant
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Hemispheric Dominance in Single-sided Postlingual Deafness and Changes / Plasticity Induced by Cochlear Implants
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: nonsyndromic hearing loss
MedlinePlus related topics: Cochlear Implants Hearing Disorders and DeafnessU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Zurich:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Audiometry [ Time Frame: up to12 months after invention ]Pure tone audiometry Speech audiometry Sound localization in both quiet and noise
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- PET scan [ Time Frame: 9 months after intervention ][15O] H2O Positron emission tomography (PET) is performed. The comparison of baseline PET scans and stimulated PET scans will demonstrate task related changes in brain activity
Other Outcome Measures:
- EEG [ Time Frame: 3, 6 and 12 months after intervention ]Resting state EEG and EEG with acoustic paradigm.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Cochlear Implant
Surgical Implantation of a Cochlear Implant
Device: cochlear implant
Surgical implantation of a cochlear implant device
Detailed Description:
Postlingual single-sided deafness (SSD) is a type of hearing impairment with normal hearing in one ear and severely impaired hearing in the other ear. The condition induces multiple changes of neural plasticity in central auditory pathways. One manifestation reflects an increased common activation of the contralateral and ipsilateral pathways after stimulation of the normal hearing ear which is correlated with an increased activity between the contralateral and ipsilateral hemispheres. As the left and right hemisphere are specialized for different auditory tasks, the proposed study aims at demonstrating different consequences of right or left-sided deafness for the affected individual. Furthermore, the question should be answered if auditory deficits and plastic changes can be partially reversed by cochlear implantation of the deaf ear. It is assumed that some changes induced by SSD can be detected only by reversal through a cochlear implant.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria: • Patients with acquired single sided sensorineural deafness due to cochlear damage.
- Age: 18-70 years old.
- Onset of SSD within 6 months to 10 years before Study inclusion.
- Normal hearing on the contralateral ear (Hearing thresholds 0.125-2 kHz 25 dB HL or better, 4-8 kHz 35 dB HL or better, 100% speech discrimination at 80 dB SPL).
- Regular middle ear function on the hearing ear.
- Regular structure of the cochlea and the cochlear nerve (as demonstrated by MRI, MRI scans are included in the basic assessment of SSD and are no study-specific investigations).
- Fluency in the German language.
- Subject is willing to comply with all study requirements.
- Impairment in daily life as a consequence of SSD (communication problems, annoyance by tinnitus perception).
- Subject is not participating in another ongoing research study related to the SSD.
- Subject does not have unrealistic expectations, regarding the outcome of the intervention.
- Subject has had a trial with conventional acoustic measures in SSD (CROSS, BAHA).
Exclusion criteria: • Uncertainty of correct diagnosis of SSD.
- Retrocochlear cause of SSD (Deafness due to lesions of the acoustic nerve or central auditory pathways).
- Active middle ear infections.
- Ossification of the cochlear that prevents electrode insertion.
- Tympanic membrane perforation.
- Psychiatric comorbidities such as depression or cognitive deficits.
- Severe coexisting illness with a medium survival of less than 5 years.
- Exposure to radiation with a cumulative effective dose of 5 mSV within the last 5 years (including the ongoing year).
- Increased risk profile for general anesthesia due to cardiovascular comorbidity.
- Metallic implants constituting an exclusion criterium for MEG procedures of the brain.
- Pregnancy (a pregnancy test will be performed in women in the reproductive age group before study enrolment and before postoperative PET scan) and lactation.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01749592
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01749592
|University Hospital Zurich, Division of Otorhinolaryngology ORL
|Zurich, ZH, Switzerland, 8091
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University of Zurich
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|Tobias Kleinjung, MD
|University Hospital Zurich, Division of Otorhinolaryngology ORL
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Keywords provided by University of Zurich:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|University of Zurich
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01749592 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 11, 2012
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|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
Keywords provided by University of Zurich:
hearing loss
cochlear implant
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Hearing Disorders
Ear Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Sensation Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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Jordan won't let offseason injury get in his way
VIERA, Fla. -- After working out at the Nationals' team complex on Tuesday morning, right-hander Taylor Jordan revealed that he'd broken his right ankle during the offseason, but that will not stop him from competing for the fifth spot in the rotation. In fact, he had a bullpen session on Tuesday.
"I feel pretty decent right now," said Jordan, who wants to add more muscle to his frame. "I was worried that I wasn't going to have enough time to get into the shape that I wanted to be."
Jordan broke the ankle in a freak accident while coming out of a swimming pool and was in a cast for a month.
"My foot came out from under when I took a step. I sat on it and broke it," he said. "This offseason was the worst one in my life. So it was very hard, considering I had to stay in shape. I had to watch my diet so I didn't lose too much [weight]. Right now, I'm actually a little skinnier than I want to be. I'm strong, but I want more muscle."
Manager Matt Williams said that the team plans to monitor Jordan closely this spring.
"He looks fine. We have to make sure that his ankle is 100 percent, because going into Spring Training, we want him to feel right," Williams said. "We certainly don't want the ankle affecting his arm. Right now, he feels good. We'll monitor him as he goes through the drills. If your ankle is sore, it can affect everything. We will monitor him closely."
Jordan's 2013 season came to an end on Aug. 16 after he'd pitched six solid innings against the Braves. On an innings limit after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2011, he pitched a combined 142 innings in the Major and Minor Leagues, won 10 games and had a 1.96 ERA.
"Everything went above and beyond what I was hoping for," Jordan said. "I wasn't expecting to make it to the big leagues last year. I was hoping to make an impact for a possibility to be there at the end of the year. I didn't expect to get there when I did."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the Time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After receiving overwhelming bi-partisan support in both the Missouri state House and Senate, Governor Jeremiah Nixon vetoed Senate Bill 506 and House Bill 1326. While the bills aided veterinarians, livestock producers, and increased hauling weight limits for manure, the biggest punch may be to the dairy industry - which is now missing out on the Missouri Dairy Revitalization Act contain in S.B. 506.
The Revitalization Act was touted by the Missouri Dairy Association as landmark legislation which would have reimbursed dairies for 70% of their federal premium payment. It would have also established an 80-scholarship Missouri Dairy Scholars program with $5,000 awards for students attending colleges or universities within the state with a commitment to work in the agriculture industry.
Senate Bill 506 passed 101-38 in the state house and 26-0 in the state senate.
Referenced in a MDA release was the reason Governor Nixon gave for the veto - a provision moving regulation of white-tailed deer from the state's Conservation Department to the Ag Department.
The state has 15 processing plants and imports 60% of their milk.
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The automotive industry lost a legend on January 3. Paul Zazarine was born May 28, 1952, and grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland. His introduction to the automobile came courtesy of his father, who instilled in him a passion for American performance cars. One of Zazarine's fondest memories of his father was when they would sit in front of the family home, naming every vehicle that drove past.
Through his youth, Zazarine's enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, cars expanded. Like many Baby Boomers who grew up in the late '50s and early '60s, he spent each September visiting each dealer's showroom, collecting armloads of brochures, then going home to pore over every picture and detail. As a car-crazed teenager, he memorized the engine specifications of muscle cars instead of algebraic algorithms.
While a number of performance cars passed through his hands, none had the impact of the Platinum '66 GTO he purchased in 1977.
"That car literally changed my life," he said. The GTO awakened in him a fascination with the history of the GTO and Pontiac. He began to research and learn as much as he could about the cars built during the now-defunct carmaker's greatest era.
His newfound passion eventually led him to write for Smoke Signals, the Pontiac Oakland Club International's official publication. His GTO column caught the attention of John Gunnell, editor of Old Cars Weekly, who suggested to Zazarine that he write an article for the magazine about the 1981 Pontiac convention in Springfield, Illinois. The article landed him on the magazine's front page and started him on a career in automotive journalism that would span more than a quarter century.
By the early '80s, Zazarine's freelance career was booming. One of the magazines he contributed to was Car Review, published by Dobbs Publishing Group in Lakeland, Florida. In the fall of 1985, Zazarine took over the editorship of Car Review and relocated to Florida. During his 13 years with Dobbs, he edited Musclecar Review, Corvette Fever, and Chevy Truck magazines. He also helped launch Mopar Muscle.
One of Zazarine's most satisfying roles was the one he played in the construction of the National Corvette Museum. "While I was editing Corvette Fever, I was fortunate to be a member of the board of directors of the Museum," he said. "We worked hard as a team under the direction of the late Dan Gale to raise the funds, design the facility and the exhibits, and oversee the construction." The grand opening on Labor Day 1994 drew more than 120,000 people and thousands of Corvettes.
Zazarine also wrote a shelf full of books over the years. His titles include Pontiac's Greatest Decade - 1959-1969: The Widetrack Era, How To Restore Your Musclecar, GTO Buyer's Guide, Camaro Exposed, Barracuda & Challenger, 1964-1967 GTO Color History, and GTO Restoration Guide, which won a Moto Award for the Best Automotive Technical Book of 1985. He also assisted Jim Wangers, the "Godfather of the GTO," in writing Glory Days, which won its own Moto in 1999. Wangers became owner and publisher of Pontiac Enthusiast magazine in 2000 and brought Zazarine aboard as editor. Zazarine went on to launch a series of "Enthusiast" titles for Amos Press, including Musclecar Enthusiast, Mustang Enthusiast, and Corvette Enthusiast.
Zazarine established his own freelance-writing business in 2003 and contributed to more than a dozen magazines, including VETTE, Super Chevy, Popular Hot Rodding, Camaro Performers, Musclecar Review, and Corvette. His other achievements include receiving the Dale Carnegie Graduate and Graduate Assistant Honor, Moto Awards in 1985 and 1986, and Charlie Awards in 1993 and 1994.
More recently, his '97 Corvette formed the basis of VETTE's popular "C5 on a Shoestring" series, which ran from 2006 through 2008.
Paul Zazarine left this life unexpectedly, but his undying passion for the American automobile will live on forever. He leaves behind his loving wife, Alexis Zazarine; daughter, Trina Zazarine-Smith; granddaughters, Gia, Bethany, and Cortney Smith; son, Chris Zazarine; half-brother, Robert Marcheso; pet greyhound and constant companion, Ty; and a host of friends.


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Camping in Texas can be a fun family outing, but it can also be an intimidating and daunting task for those who have never been. Thanks to the Texas Outdoor Family program, families have the chance to learn the basics of camping and enjoy the great outdoors.
The outdoor family program is hosting a number of camping workshops in state parks across Texas, including two in and around the Houston area. During these overnight workshops, participants learn the skills needed to survive outdoors, including how to set up and break down camp, how to start a fire, and outdoor cooking lessons.
In addition, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will provide all the camping equipment needed as well as lead a day's worth of activities catered to all ages. Activities are specific to each park location and include trail exploration, nature activities and various outdoor activities.
"These workshops are great for people to be able to experience a new activity with the family that they maybe have never done before or not done in a long time," said Rob Owen, the outdoor education coordinator for Houston area parks.
There are plenty of chances to take advantage of this unique opportunity in the Houston area. Huntsville State Park is hosting a workshop the weekend of March 20-21. In addition to the nature activities offered at every park, campers will get a chance to learn how to kayak and how to fish.
They also will be introduced to the sport of geocaching, a high-tech scavenger hunt in which campers use Global Positioning System devices to find hidden treasures.
Brazos Bend State Park will hold a weekend workshop on April 10-11. Campers will learn the basics of fishing and have a chance to go on an interpretive trail hike led by one of the experienced rangers.
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Also all TD's and Officials will be required to take the exam again...
To sum up...
Summary of Rules Changes
Definitions of the basket and its components have been added to the Glossary so that we no longer have to use the phrase "entrapment section ".
The definition of holing out has been tightened up a bit. A putt that sticks in the side of the tray, or hangs outside the tray from one of the nubs, no longer counts.
The hole has been completed once the disc has come to rest, not when the disc is removed.
The "unplayable lie" rule has been reformulated into an "optional rethrow" rule. It is now clear that penalty strokes are not added if the rethrow option is taken, so that double jeopardy is avoided.
The rules for a lie above ground have been changed to include a lie below ground (in a crevice or below a bridge, for example).
The relief rules have been simplified. You can't move anything unless it's in your stance. If something is both in your stance and between your lie and the hole, you can move it. You can always ask people to move themselves or their stuff if they are in your way.
The 5-meter relief rule has been extended to anywhere back along the line of play, and moved to the relief Section .
A director may designate a drop zone to be used for lost disc on a hole.
I like that the hangers and sticky putts no longer counts, but I foresee some issues of what if it's sticking through from the inside of the basket?


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Bhikkhu Bodhi Translation
Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Vesālī in Ambapālī's Grove. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus thus: "Bhikkhus!"[122]
"Venerable sir!" the bhikkhus replied. The Blessed One said this:
"Bhikkhus, this is the one-way path for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the passing away of pain and displeasure, for the achievement of the method, for the realization of Nibbāna, that is, the four establishments of mindfulness.[123] What four?
"Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu dwells contemplating the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world.[124] He dwells contemplating feelings in feelings, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world. He dwells contemplating mind in mind, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world. He dwells contemplating phenomena in phenomena, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world.
"This, bhikkhus, is the one-way path for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the passing away of pain and displeasure, for the achievement of the method, for the realization of Nibbāna, that is, the four establishments of mindfulness."
This is what the Blessed One said. Elated, those bhikkhus delighted in the Blessed One's statement.
[122] What follows is the uddesa (condensed statement) of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (DN 22; MN 10) without the niddesa (elaboration). Full-length commentaries on the text are at Sv III 741-61 and Ps II 244-66; the commentary in Spk is much abridged. The relevant passages, with excerpts from the subcommentary, are translated in Soma, The Way of Mindfulness, pp. 35-64.
The commentaries offer two derivations of satipaṭṭhāna: one from sati + upaṭṭhāna, "the establishment of mindfulness"; the other from sati + paṭṭhāna, "the foundation of mindfulness." The former emphasizes the act of setting up mindfulness, the latter the objects to which mindfulness is applied. While the commentaries lean towards the derivation from sati + paṭṭhāna, the former is certainly more original and is supported by the Skt smṛtyupasthāna. See too the common expressions, upaṭṭhitasati, "with mindfulness established" (e.g., at SN 54:13; V 331,10, etc.) and parimukhaṃ satiṃ upaṭṭhapetvā, "having established mindfulness in front of him" (e.g., at 54:1; V 311,13, etc.). Paṭis, by consistently glossing sati with upaṭṭhāna, also shows a preference for this derivation. For a brief explanation of the expression according to the commentarial method, see Vism 678-79 (Ppn 22:34).
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- 34. "Foundation" (paþþhána) is because of establishment (upaþþhána) by going down
into, by descending upon, such and such objects.[9] Mindfulness itself as foundation
(establishment) is "foundation of mindfulness." It is of four kinds because it occurs
with respect to the body feeling, consciousness, and mental objects (dhamma), taking,
them as foul, painful, impermanent, and non-self, and because it accomplishes the
function of abandoning perception of beauty pleasure, permanence, and self. [679],
That is why "four foundations of mindfulness" is said.
[9] The Paþisambhidá (Paþis I 177) derives satipaþþhána from sati (mindfulness) and
paþþhána (foundation, establishment). The commentaries prefer to derive it from sati
and upaþþhána (establishment, appearance, and also waiting upon: see M-a I 238). The
readings of the Ee and Ae eds. disagree here and that of the former has been followed
though the result is much the same.
[123] Ekāyano ayaṃ maggo is often translated "This is the only way" (Soma) or "This is the sole way" (Nyanaponika), implying that the Buddha's way of mindfulness is an exclusive path. The commentary to the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, however, gives five explanations of the phrase, of which only one suggests exclusivity (see Sv III 743-44; Ps I 229-30; translated in Soma, The Way of Mindfulness, pp. 36-39). Spk here mentions only the first: ekamaggo ayaṃ bhikkhave maggo, na dvedhāpathabhūto; "a single path, bhikkhus, is this path, not a forked path." Ekāyana magga occurs elsewhere in the Nikāyas only at MN I 74,14-15 foll., where it clearly means a path leading straight to its destination.
- Suppose there were a charcoal pit deeper than a man's height full of glowing coals without flame or smoke; and then a man scorched and exhausted by hot weather, weary, parched and thirsty, came by a path going in one way only and directed to that same charcoal pit.
I thus understand the metaphorical use of the phrase to be a way of indicating that satipaṭṭhāna leads straight to "the purification of beings," etc.; perhaps the way of mindfulness is being contrasted with other types of meditation that do not always lead straight to the goal. For a fuller discussion, see Gethin, The Buddhist Path to Awakening, pp. 59-66. The word should not be confused with ekayāna, "one vehicle," the central theme of the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra.
Spk explains the "method" (ñāya) as the Noble Eightfold Path. Thus, by developing the path of satipaṭṭhāna, which is mundane in the preliminary phase, one eventually achieves the supramundane path. On ñāya, see II, n. 122.
- Note 122 from Volume II:
- Spk: The method (ñāya) is both dependent origination and the stable knowledge after one has known the dependently arisen. As he says: "It is dependent origination that is called the method; the method is also the Noble Eightfold Path" (untraced). Wisdom here is repeatedly arisen insight-wisdom (aparāparaṃ uppannā vipassanāpaññā).
Spk-pṭ: Dependent origination is called "the method" because, with the application of the right means, it is what is known (ñāyati) as it actually is in the dependently arisen. But knowledge (ñāṇa) is called "the method" because it is by this that the latter is known.
Despite the commentators, ñāya has no relation to ñāṇa but is derived from ni + i.
[124] For a translation of the commentarial passage on this basic formula, see Soma, The Way of Mindfulness, pp. 51-64. An early word gloss is at Vibh 194-95. Gethin discusses the basic formula, Buddhist Path to Awakening, pp. 47-53.
A few key points: The repetitive phrase "contemplating the body in the body" (kāye kāyānupassī) serves "to determine the object (the body) by isolating it" from other things such as feeling, mind, etc., and to show that one contemplates only the body as such, not as permanent, pleasurable, a self, or beautiful. Similarly in regard to the other three establishments. "Ardent" (ātāpī) connotes energy, "clearly comprehending" (sampajāno) implies wisdom. "Covetousness and displeasure" (abhijjhā-domanassa) are code words for the first two hindrances, and thus their removal may be understood to imply some success in concentration. Thus altogether four of the five spiritual faculties (indriya) are indicated here, and while faith is not mentioned it is clearly a prerequisite for taking up the practice in the first place.
Spk glosses vineyya: tadaṅgavinayena vā vikkhambhanavinayena vā vinayitvā, "having removed: having removed by removal in a particular respect or by removal through suppression." "Removal in a particular respect" signifies temporary removal by deliberate restraint or by insight, "removal through suppression" temporary removal by the attainment of jhāna. The phrase need not be understood to mean that one must first abandon the hindrances before one starts to develop the four establishments of mindfulness. It would be sufficient to have temporarily suspended "covetousness and displeasure" through dedication to the practice itself.


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ROCHESTER -- Oakland's Anders Jensen has been selected to compete in the 2013 NCAA Men's Swimming Championships in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke.
Jensen returns to the NCAA Championships after competing in 2009 where he finished 12th in the 200 back and earned All-America honors. Jensen is a Summit League record three-time Swimmer of the Year and holds four individual league records in the 100 and 200 back and the 100 and 200 butterfly. He is also an 11-time individual league champion, tied for the most in Summit League history.
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MIAMI - A man is recovering in the hospital after being shot at the Calle Ocho Festival in Miami on Sunday.
Police say the victim, who is said to be in his 20s, was shot in the buttocks during an argument on the corner of Southwest 8th Street and 11th Avenue.
The man has non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, said police.
Miami police say they do not have a lead on the gunman at this time.
The incident marked an otherwise calm and fun-filled day at the festival. The Miami Fire Department said they received 32 calls from this year's festival.
Big crowds gathered to listen to music and taste food from around the world.
"Out here, they got every flavor," said Charles Farquharson. "Cuban, Colombian, Venezuelan, Jamaican, Haitian. Man, we love it."
Calle Ocho was a big block party this year. 8th Street was shutdown from NW 27th Avenue to SW 8th Avenue.
"Everyone is so different," said one tourist. "You don't run into the same thing."
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AN unsigned singer-songwriter proved to be a huge hit with fans of an American pop star.
Abby Inez lived her teenage dream by warming up the crowd at the LG Arena in Birmingham ahead of Katy Perry's concert as part of her Prismatic World Tour on Wednesday, May 14.
Last month, the 18-year-old former Worcester Sixth Form College student scored an unexpected hit on iTunes when her debut EP, Say What You Think, reached number seven on the singer-songwriter chart, sitting just behind Ed Sheeran's Lego House.
The 18-year-old of Primsland, Droitwich, said: "The arena was holding 14,000 people that night , so I had those all walking through. So at any one time I could have a couple of hundred people watching me to 2,000 people watching me.
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Tiger Woods has come through again. Not on the golf course, but in helping his Tiger Woods Foundation keep the professional golf tournament alive.
He hasn't won a major in five years, but this was a major victory.
Woods' tournament, the World Challenge, found a title sponsor in Northwestern Mutual for the December tournament at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group reported last week.
Last year, the tournament went without a title sponsor, and Woods had to pay some of the operating costs. It's been a challenge to attract a title sponsor for the 18-player field event, a problem many PGA and LPGA Tour events have, even though the event, which isn't official, routinely attracts some of the biggest names and has Official World Golf Ranking points.
"It's tremendous," Greg McLaughlin, the president and CEO of the Tiger Woods Foundation and tournament director, said in a phone interview. "It's really been a long process for us to secure them. We were so happy to have them.
"Northwestern Mutual had supporting sponsors helped us to put the event together. Tiger and Earl started this together, and it means a lot to Tiger. For us, it was a huge deal to make it happen."
The Northwestern Mutual Challenge is during an even tougher part of the schedule this season. The PGA Tour has extended its season and the tournament goes up against international events and player vacations.
Still, McLaughlin already has early verbal commitments for this year's event in Woods, defending champion Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy. That's two of the top five players in the world, with Woods ranked at No. 1 and McIlroy at No. 3.
"I would call it excellent," McLaughlin said, "to get those three guys this early. There's a few others out there that hopefully we'll get."
The tournament began in 1999 and has been sponsored by Chevron and Target among others. Woods has won the event five times.
The tournament is less than four months away from teeing off, and McLaughlin said players were curious if he'd landed a sponsor.
"Guys like it," McLaughlin said. "I walk down the driving range at a lot of events and I have guys like Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson asking, 'Hey, did you find a sponsor? How are things looking?' They like the event, not just because it's a big purse, but I think they like the event and it's got a good feel to it."
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Wedding bells are in the air for PGA Tour golfer Dustin Johnson and girlfriend Paulina Gretzky, the daughter of Wayne Gretzky, who were engaged over the weekend.
Johnson announced on Twitter: ``She said yes!'' with a picture of the stunning diamond.
The two began dating in January and have had a very public relationship, regularly posting photos of themselves on Instagram. Also, Paulina and dad Wayne were in Johnson's gallery for the Northern Trust Open in February.
Johnson and Wayne Gretzky have played golf together, making for a seemingly perfect match for the future in-laws.
Perhaps a wedding at Sherwood Country Club? The Gretzkys have a home there, and since Johnson and his fiancee love the spotlight, a place in Los Angeles would be a good spot.
Johnson also dated former LPGA star Natalie Gulbis.
Perhaps wedded bliss will be a good thing for Johnson, one of the longest hitters on tour, who has been in position to win majors but hasn't been able to finish strong and has made several rules mistakes.
Gary Player recently criticized Rory McIlroy and his jet-setting relationship with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. He figures McIlroy isn't practicing enough. Wonder what he'll say about this engagement. Stay tuned.
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Braintree Town manager Alan Devonshire says he will be recalling striker Jordan Cox from a loan spell at Aveley as the Iron prepare to face Luton Town at the Amlin Stadium tonight.
Following Braintree's 2-0 win against Grimsby Town last Tuesday, it will be another chance for the Iron to test themselves against a side chasing promotion from the Blue Square Bet Premier.
Devonshire will be without the services of Dan Walker, who has returned to his parent club Luton, after a month-long loan spell at the Amlin Stadium and has recalled Cox, who has been on loan at Ryman One North side Aveley after joining Braintree last summer.
The Iron boss said Cox would start on the bench, but had no fresh injury concerns ahead of the game.
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He said: "It's a big game in front of a big crowd and we'll have to make sure we do the same things we did against Grimsby.
"We have to play at the same high level as we did then, but it's going to be a test."