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What's my hair type here's another pic.
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this is my hair on an uncommonly tamed day. i had to tie it back all day to get it to be this calm, and condition it while drenching wet. i kind of like it like that. but, normally, i have super frizzy hair that i like for the first 5 hours of the day, then it gets big and pouffy. can't seem to stop it from doing that. strange combination of rough super dry loose curls with high porosity and barb wire like thickness. C'est la vie.


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Start a tradition. Movie Monday, or Tuesday through Friday. Whether you want sports, movies, or just the basics, Time Warner Cable TV is the place to go. There are more channels, Pay-Per-View and On Demand choices with Time Warner Cable North Carolina than you'll know what to do with. TWC TV™ even allows you to watch TV on your computer, phone or tablet, as well as manage and schedule your DVR.
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Baseball Therapy
If One Win is Worth $5 Million...
Lately, there's been a lot of writing among baseball analysts and thinkers about how teams might leverage small investments to their benefit. You know the ones. They all start with "Well, if a win is worth five million dollars, then spending fifty thousand on this has to net just one hundredth of a win to be worth it." (I've written a few of them myself.) Then they continue with an exasperated tone, wondering why teams don't seem to do much of this sort of thinking. (Or do they?)
The reason can be summed up in four short words: "It's not that simple." It never is.
It's such a tempting argument to make, because changing one strikeout to a walk is worth something like half a run, and if you can do that a grand total of once each year for each guy in the lineup, the net benefit is half a win. And signing up everyone on the team for the Coffee of the Month club costs only $19.95 a month. All it takes to justify that expense is a quick explanation of how the coffee will give everyone on the team a little extra focus, and that once in a while, it will allow them to be sharp enough to avoid swinging at ball four on a 3-2 pitch.
It's entirely possible that some of the ideas that have been floated out there really would be cheap ways to make teams better, and substantially enough that they would be worth the cost. But a simple model of anything often ends up being overly simple. As a vehicle for illustration, allow me to review one of the most harebrained proposals of all, which has the added benefit of being one of my own. I wrote about it a few months ago, suggesting that teams should, instead of providing starvation wages (sometimes literally) in the form of per diem to minor leaguers, they should instead invest (i.e., spend a lot more money) on providing full catered meals to their players at all levels of the minors, both at home and on the road. I call it the "Food for Kids" program.
Let's examine "Food for Kids" with a more critical eye, examining of the issues that have to be overcome after we've had the crazy, yet brilliant idea.
That's a lot of money…
I once had a conversation with my brother, who has a master's degree in finance and put things in a different light. He pointed out that the business model of a baseball team (and a sports franchise in general) is awful. The large majority of your input costs (player salaries) are set in advance and are "hard" costs. You can release a player if he doesn't perform, but you still owe him his salary until the end of the contract.
On the other hand, a good chunk of your operating income is based on ticket sales, which is variable income. You can estimate how many people will buy tickets, but when you commit to the payroll, those people haven't shown up yet. And maybe they won't. Worse, the thing that fans most seem to respond to is a winning team, and we know that there's lot of luck in baseball. Go on a streak of bad luck, and suddenly, the fans stop showing up. Not only that, but the dollars that you're chasing are discretionary dollars. The nice thing about running a grocery store is that even when times are bad, people still need to eat. They'll cut back on taking themselves out to the ballgame instead. There aren't big fat piles of extra cash sitting around front offices. The profit margin could disappear too quickly for that.
Could money be re-purposed from the MLB payroll into my "Food for Kids" program? Sure. But before you make such a big investment, there are some other factors to consider.
The Second Move Advantage
Let's first note that the effects of the "Food for Kids" program are a mystery, because no one has yet tried it. We don't know exactly what would happen. It might make everyone in the system amazing. It might make them all fat. It might have some small, but meaningful effects that are big enough to make the program a success but not enough to shout about it from the housetops. Right now, I could make a reasonable case to expect modest, although meaningful results, but it's a risk. A risk that costs a lot of money.
Now, let's say that some other team tried it. It wouldn't take much effort to figure out that they were doing it. (Every time we play one of their affiliates, a big catering truck shows up.) Plus, people talk. And if they're getting good results, then we can simply copy them next year. They took the risk to find out if it works and since no good deed goes un-punished, they don't get to reap the benefits from it for more than a couple of years or so. This is the difference between getting an absolute vs. getting a relative advantage. "Food for Kids" might make everyone in the system a better baseball player, but if everyone else can get that advantage once they know about it, then the team that started it returns to being no better off. Most arguments starting with "If a win is worth $5 million…" focus on the absolute advantage to be gained. To win in baseball you have to be better than (i.e., have a relative advantage over) the other teams.
If the program fails, then the other team is out the money, and everyone else gets to find out that it doesn't work—for free.
So, everyone is stuck. It doesn't make sense to be the first person to risk a lot of money on something that might not work unless you believe that in that short window where it's just your little secret, you can reap benefits that make it worth it. Then there's the fact that if it works, you know that other teams will copy it and will negate your advantage, but you still need to spend that million per year, just to keep up with the Doug Joneses. For a low-budget team, you're down a million dollars on a payroll of 80 million while other teams are down a million on 200. Maybe it's best not to start that arms race. For big-budget teams, why help the low-budget guys identify a cheap source of improving team-controlled talent, the kind of resource that they'll need to compete with you, when you can just out-spend them?
Someone has to run that program
If a team were to actually implement my "Food for Kids" program and commit a million dollars to it, ownership would want to make sure that someone was watching that money. Plus, someone has to be in charge of making sure that the catering truck makes it to the park in Albuquerque. That won't be the farm director. He's got other things to do. So, you might hire a director of culinary logistics with the skillset to know about catering, negotiations with food service companies, and sports nutrition. But that comes with a cost in salary, benefits, and overhead. It might be worth it, but there's always the tendency to see costs like that as top line expenses rather than investments.
For some other programs ("teach everyone the knuckleball!"), it might make sense for the farm director to oversee such a program, because it directly relates to what he's doing anyway. However, it's one thing to say that and another to sit down and write a program manual about the gory details of how it's going to work, then implement the program. Going from crazy idea to actual practice means building an entire structure within a culture to support that idea, and that's harder than you might think, whether we're talking about baseball or real life. Front office personnel aren't generally selected on their ability to design and implement systemic interventions. Some guys probably have that in their back pocket and maybe teams should pay more attention to that sort of thing, but it's not usually in the job description.
I expected it to be… bigger
Past that, there's another problem. About the best research framework you're going to get in this case is a simple pre/post design. This is the amount of development that we saw last year before the program went into effect. This is what kind of improvement we saw this year with the new program. Was the improvement due to better nutrition? Was it random variance? Was it the new hitting instructor who makes all the hitters recite the Gettysburg Address as they walk to the plate? A baseball team is not the place to run nice, neat randomized controlled studies. Even a really good researcher is going to have to say "Yeah, I can't be totally sure…" when evaluating these programs.
Then there's the matter of effect size. Most of these proposals are framed as, "Well, all you need is a really small movement in strikeout rates and the program pays for itself." Here's the problem. I suggested that if each regular hitter replaced one strikeout with one walk, it would be worth half a win. The problem is that over 600 PA, one extra walk would represent a tick upward of 0.16 percent. Yes, walk rates are quick to stabilize, but that doesn't mean that they are free from noise. Maybe the player's true talent level really did improve, but answering that question with that small a change is going to require a really big data set (for maximum power) that might not be available. If you don't have that, you'll need bigger effect size. Things have to be going so well that it's just plainly obvious that it's working. "That could just be randomness" is such a damning critique because it's true.
Maybe the "Food for Kids" program really would make a positive, if small, difference. But it's going to be hard to show that it's working and it might be a few million dollars spent on a big bust. Yes, teams do spend millions of dollars on ideas that don't work (they're called failed draft picks). But then front office folks are in the business of knowing about baseball. If they can mess up on something like a draft pick in their ostensible area of expertise, how much less willing will they be to take a risk on something that isn't in their domain of expertise?
What kind of idea would work?
Maybe part of the critique is that with all of these obstacles in place, teams are missing out on some killer ideas. But for now, let's focus on what ideas will have a better chance of making it as things stand right now.
The idea doesn't have to meet all of these criteria, but it had better meet a few of them. So, before you come up with a grand idea and are tempted to start a sentence with "Well, if a win costs $5 million…" be prepared to talk about some of the other issues that might pop up along the way to making it a reality.
Russell A. Carleton is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @pizzacutter4
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Russell, really nice article...thanks! First-mover disadvantages, even if the teams don't think along those lines, are huge.
Sep 23, 2013 07:02 AM
The food program is for minor leaguers obviously... the major leaguers get lotsa dough and can eat anywhere. A gain in wins in the minors is nothing -- winning isn't why the minors exists. It is in each individual player's best interest to eat property and get enough exercise to burn off all those Big Macs. I suspect some nutrition counselling is already provided... and fitness is encouraged. Each player stands to reap a rather significant financial return by following a good nutrition / fitness program.
Sep 23, 2013 07:31 AM
There is nutrition counseling provided, but the reality is that players get per diem (and not much of it) and have to eat wherever the bus stops. The original idea behind "Food for Kids" is that it's hard to learn things (which is what the minors are about) on a poor diet. The effects of the program wouldn't be felt for a few years at the MLB level.
Sep 23, 2013 08:29 AM
I work for a company who talks a lot about being a "close second" to the market for the very reasons you describe here Russell.
Sep 23, 2013 08:50 AM
Nathan Aderhold
Absolutely love the "Food for Kids" idea. Somehow missed it the first time around.
Sep 23, 2013 11:02 AM
In the abstract, your point about cost, risk and likely gain in the standings is a good one.
Sep 23, 2013 14:58 PM
I'm no expert on all minor league stadiums, but here in Colorado Springs, at the Sky Sox Stadium, okay, Security Service Field, has an in-house catering operation. I don't know whether they use it to feed players, but it seems like at some venues, the caterer is already in house.
Sep 23, 2013 15:08 PM
Russell, if I am reading you correctly, the best way to get your team to start a "Food for Kids" type of program is to convince them that it is already working wonders for their division rivals.
Sep 23, 2013 17:23 PM
In other words, a win for them will take $5 million out of our pockets.
Sep 23, 2013 17:24 PM
That's a low-risk approach. You only copy things that have been shown to work, but in the process, never expose yourself to the benefit that you might either gain an advantage or the downside of spending money on a failed idea. I can imagine that when it comes to "non-baseball" interventions, front office people correctly identify that they don't know enough to be right more than they are wrong, so they pursue a low-risk strategy.
Sep 23, 2013 19:24 PM
It seems interesting that it is easy for outside organizations to determine the program is producing wins, but difficult internally. I would think, at the outset, it would be much harder for outside organizations to separate regular improvement from noise.
Sep 24, 2013 06:46 AM
Do you think it would be sufficient to show a component-level difference that is easier to measure than "learning"?
Sep 24, 2013 09:52 AM
Absolutely, if I were in charge of an evaluation of such a program, I'd check on a few of these things. The problem is that you still have to make the second level case that all of those effects lead to wins at the MLB level. It's not an impossible case to make, but you still have to draw the line. Obviously, it's a lot easier to convince an owner/team president/GM that that it's a worthwhile program if you can say "Well, they are doing more of the things that we know lead to growth and development (watching more video, staying healthy)"
Sep 24, 2013 13:09 PM
there are also unmeasurable side-effects, like when Petey Prospect takes to Twitter to bitch about his steamed vegetables This causes Sergio Superprospect, who was a year behind at the same HS, to take a harder line in his bonus negotiations.
Sep 24, 2013 14:21 PM
Jack Sprat
For a low-budget team, you're down a million dollars on a payroll of 80 million while other teams are down a million on 200. Maybe it's best not to start that arms race. For big-budget teams, why help the low-budget guys identify a cheap source of improving team-controlled talent, the kind of resource that they'll need to compete with you, when you can just out-spend them?
Sep 24, 2013 21:41 PM
Funny enough, when I wrote that, my first thought was similar. They are two very disjointed thoughts. The thing is that even though there is an inherent contradiction, both statements are actually true.
Sep 25, 2013 08:58 AM
I would add 2 more items to the "pitchbook" for implementing an idea:
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PAUL Sculthorpe has been recognised for his rugby league career and charity work with an MBE in the New Year Honours list.
The former Saints skipper enjoyed a glittering career in the sport, twice winning the Man of Steel award.
Earlier this year the 35-year-old partnered cancer battler Steve Prescott on an epic Paris to London endurance challenge.
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National Library Week - Thursday
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
from Coraline by Neil Gaiman
National Library Week - Wednesday
"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install,
A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
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National Library Week - Tuesday
"Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, its ending is always bad—because you don't want the book to end."
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National Library Week 2014
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LEGO Design Contest 2014
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Registration is required and begins on Monday, April 7. You may register online, in person at either Olathe library, or by calling (913) 971-6874. There will be a limited number of contest slots available so register early!
The public is invited to come see all the entries during our Public Viewing between 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. and vote for the Best in Show award. Everyone is also welcome to stay for the Awards Ceremony at 4:00 p.m. Here is a quick rundown of the day's schedule:
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magnagei wrote:Malcolm wrote:
The Dzogchen approach to developing compassion is not to cultivate compassion through mindfulness and so on, observing how one feels, etc. The Dzogchen approach is based on discovering one's real nature. Once that is discovered, it is impossible not to have compassion for all sentient beings who are ignorant of their real nature -- that is "essencelove".
I've been wondering about this alot lately. It seems to me many masters talk about the importance of devotion to the guru and compassion for sentient beings even in Dzogchen. This confuses me because what you stated seems very similar to things I have heard ChNN say, who I am a student of. While I certainly believe that ChNN is realized, I also have to believe that many of these other masters are as well and wonder why they say these things in a Dzogchen context. Am I confusing the deliberate attempt to force more compassion and devotion upon oneself with the naturally arising compassion and devotion that will arise by recognizing ones own nature?
In other words, should we not dwell on ideas like devotion and compassion and just continue in this way?
Depends, you may not be "forcing" but you maybe consciously exerting or "generating" rather than having a genuine experience of spontaneously arisen compassion in yourself, which is what your nature does/provides, this naturally spontaneous compassion goes hand in hand with the purity of the nature. Recognition of ones nature can't be "built" with a formula of things to do. One cannot "gain a profound understanding" of Great Perfection teachings or ones real nature by building anything, while doing all the "building" one can still miss it, even through "Mahayana Practices" which are beneficial for those that do them, still, experiencing ones own nature does not solely depend on them, especially when it comes to Dzogchen, it would be a ka-zillion times better to just make the concerted effort to get the Direct Introduction to ones nature from a qualified Dzogchen master like CHNN, and by eventually being in that state, let that be one's "foundation" for everything else "Dzogchen".


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Where On Earth Am I?Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
I am standing on the earth's mantle.
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Post-surgery update below…read on!
For the past year or so, I've been turning the volume up. Not metaphorically. On the television, the car stereo, the iPod dock–everything needed to go up an extra notch (or two, or three, or ten) in order to be heard. I didn't even notice I was doing it.
Then one day a few months ago, Dave came downstairs. The girls had gone to bed and I was watching a show in the TV room.
"Honey, can you turn that down? It's waaaay too loud." He had heard the television all the way upstairs.
I clicked the volume control down a few notches. It had been at 30; Dave usually watches around 12 or 14. But the trouble was, once I turned it down, I couldn't hear it. The action scenes were loud enough but I could barely make out the dialogue. "Huh," I thought, "Guess I'm getting older." I chalked it up to years in the noisy restaurant industry and blasting my car stereo as a teenager. A few more weeks passed.
But then I noticed myself becoming that annoying person–the person who has a hearing problem but refuses to acknowledge it. The person who says "huh?" or "what was that?" to everything you ask them, or simply nods and smiles in mock understanding like a foreign tourist. I was losing my hearing.
After a few more television incidents and gentle pleas from my wonderful husband, I went to get my hearing checked by my family doctor. The simple, old-school headphone test revealed moderate to severe hearing loss. I was devastated, standing there with a referral to the audiologist in my hand.
In the audiologist's office I was put into a booth with some crazy earbud probe-y things (probably their official name) and given a series of tones. Then the same series of tones with white noise behind them. Then strapped with pressurizing headphones behind my ears (on the hard part, between your ears and your hairline) and given the same sets of tones.
The doctor's conclusion, according to my test results, was that I have a disease called Otosclerosis. The stapes–one of the tiny bones in your middle ear–becomes overrun with tiny calcium deposits, which make it static and unable to conduct the vibrations of sound. The good news, she said, is that it's completely reversible with a simple surgery.
It was good that I went in when I did, because in the last few months–weeks, even–it's gotten exponentially worse. I have trouble following conversations. The volume on my iPhone turned all the way up barely makes conversations audible. Even with the baby monitor on my nightstand, sometimes I don't hear Charlie when she wakes up in the morning. I've gotten really good at reading lips out of necessity.
I met with the surgeon, discussed my options, and booked the procedure. This Thursday I go in for the surgery in my right ear. They'll remove the bone and replace it with a prosthetic. Chances are high that after a few weeks I'll regain hearing in that ear, and if all goes well, I can have the other ear done in a few months. I'm hopeful that I'll no longer live in this muffled world.
It's depressing, frustrating, and isolating to live with the volume turned down. Now I understand why many elderly people simply tune out, or become exasperated with the world around them. When you can't hear it's like you're not really there. And you really want to be there–to be a part of everything that's going on around you–but you can't. I never thought at 30 years old I'd be going through this, but I feel incredibly lucky that there's a solution and I won't have to live with it for the rest of my life.
I'll update this post after the procedure and let you know how it turns out. I've never thought I would be so excited to check myself into the hospital. Wish me luck, and hopefully next time I see you, I'll be able to hear every word that you're saying. I really, truly can't wait for that day.
Update: day after surgery
I'm home now, snuggled up with my puppy and my laptop, thankfully dosed on pain meds and something for nausea.
Yesterday went something like this: wake up (starving–not allowed to eat or drink before anesthesia), check into hospital, wait (starving). Wait some more, seriously contemplate attacking the guy across the waiting room eating an apple and stealing it. Count the number of coffee shops within walking distance that would make me a lovely americano. Wait some more.
A gruff male nurse leads us into a curtained-off area with a reclining chair. Takes blood pressure (it's really low and I begin to freak out), asks a series of questions I've already answered a million times, slaps me with a wristband, all the while speaking in mumbling tones, unaware that I'm here for surgery to repair hearing loss. He becomes frustrated when I ask him to repeat himself. Dave and I stare at each other with knowing irritation. Gruff nurse instructs me to change into a series of enormous gowns and robes and socks. Thankfully he leaves me to it and draws the curtain. Dave and I laugh and take pictures of the awful 80's print that I'm swimming in.
An hour goes by before we see anyone else. Dave jokingly offers me his finger to chew on. It smells like the girls' shampoo from their baths the night before and suddenly I miss them terribly. Then everything happens at once: another male nurse comes by, nicer this time, and speaks normally. I still have to read his lips but at least he's looking in my direction. Same series of questions again, but he jokes about it and it makes me less tense. He leads us downstairs to Pre-Op where a nice older nurse named Penny hooks me up to an IV and tells me about her grandkids. We tell her about our kids. I start to relax.
The anesthesiologist comes by and explains the drugs: he'll start with an oxygen mask, then once I'm asleep, a tube will be inserted down my throat to continue the flow of gas and also help me breathe. I sign the release. The surgeon comes by and initials the ear he'll be operating on. One of the OR nurses comes by and introduces himself; he has on a Spiderman cap and I relax some more. He jokes with me and we get along. I'm suddenly struck by how rare a specimen a truly great nurse must be–you have to be expert at the science side of things, but also wonderful with people. I'm a fairly brave gal, not easily jarred, and here I am freaking out about a day surgery. Somehow Penny and Spiderman ease all my fears.
Spiderman carries my IV down the hall toward the OR. I kiss Dave goodbye and he tells me I'm going to do great. The OR looks exactly like you'd imagine if you've ever seen a hospital show–bed in the middle, various stainless steel carts full of instruments, nurses "scrubbing in", oh, and the giant laser that they're going to shoot into my ear to sever the problematic bone. My heart starts to race. Luckily they don't let me take in this scene long–Spiderman and the anesthesiologist get me right down on the bed and he injects something into my IV "to help me relax." And boy, do I relax. Immediately. The world goes hazy, and he puts an oxygen mask over my face.
"Can I see the bone? Afterward?" I mumble through the mask. Am I making sense? Did I really just say that? I tried to.
"No," everyone shakes their heads. "There won't be anything left." Did they say that? An image of the laser incinerating the bone flashes through my head.
"Oh," I say, or try to say, and then the world goes black.
I wake up in Post-Op on a stretcher. A nurse is over me. "Hi, Jenny. How are you feeling?" I'm woozy, and my throat feels like a cotton ball.
"Water?" I ask. She obliges, and comes back with the best tasting glass of ice water I've ever had.
"Do you have anyone here with you?"
"My husband. Call my husband." They were supposed to call him when I was out of surgery–he walked over to work during the procedure and was going to walk back when he got the call. No one called him. She gets the number from the computer and phones him.
"He's on his way. Are you in much pain?"
"No, not right now." She helps me from the stretcher to the reclining chair and covers me in blankets. My body feels like it's in a wetsuit–each movement is weighted. But after the transition I become keenly aware of a throbbing in my ear that soon spreads to my whole head and down to my neck. I need something for the pain, like now. And I'm not a wimp. I've been through childbirth twice, for christ sakes. But the nurse is gone, and there's no call button that I can see. I can't yell, lest the throbbing increase. I can't wave–my arms are lead. I wish Dave were here. I close my eyes and will him to come.
A nice nurse comes by with juice and crackers. When she sees I can't open the plastic wrappers by myself she tears them open for me and sets them on a paper plate. I ask her about pain meds, but it's not her job, she says–she'll send over the other nurse. Time ticks by very slowly. Still no nurse with pain meds, still no Dave. And then (10 minutes later? An hour? I have no concept of time) he comes breezing in, sweaty from running up the hills to the hospital with his laptop bag, and I've never been so glad to see him. As soon as he shows up so does the other nurse, who sends him to the pharmacy for my prescriptions, and gets me a pill in the meantime. With nearly nothing in my stomach it kicks in fast.
Discharge is the only thing in this hospital that happens quickly. As soon as Dave has my prescriptions and I can walk without dizziness, they send us on our way. A nurse wheels me out to the entrance while Dave fetches the car. While I'm waiting, the most miraculous thing happens–a semi-truck drives by, vibrating the street as it bounces along. I feel the vibration in my right ear–the ear that was just operated on. Suddenly I realize I haven't felt vibration in that ear for so long that I begin to weep. I never thought I would be so glad to hear a goddamn semi-truck.
I won't know if the surgery truly worked for some time–there's a packing in my ear that won't be removed for a week. After that, they say it will take up to three months for hearing to improve. But as much as yesterday sucked, I'd do it all over again just for the hope of having my hearing back. If it turns out it does work, I will do the surgery all over again in my left ear.
For the next few days, I'll be happily on the couch with this guy, who won't leave my side.
I've got some final editing to do on my book, and I'm happy to have some down time to do it. Thank you all for your well wishes and kind words. It means more to me than you know! I hope I'll have some good news to share with you soon. xoxo
The story (unfortunately) continues. Read on:
the pain diary (ear saga part deux)


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Ages: 9th-12th graders
Location: UVa-Davenport Field-Charlottesville, VA
Saturday, September 28, 2013 to Sunday, September 29, 2013
Camp Cost: $275.00
Open to rising 9th-12th-graders in high school, our Fall Exposure Camps will offer great in-game instruction and exposure to the UVA coaching staff and other college coaches in attendance.
The camp will include in-game instruction and a 2 game minimum for each player. All camp activities will take place at the newly renovated Davenport Field - one of the finest baseball facilities in the country.
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WHAT'S SHAKING? ... Palo Alto's Architectural Review Board was delving into the details of a proposed two-story building at Stanford Research Park at 10:20 a.m. on Thursday when a voice from a City Hall speaker shook the board members out of their routine. The voice was part of a statewide drill, the "Great California ShakeOut," a statewide exercise in disaster preparedness. The Federal Emergency Management Administration called the drill the largest in the nation's history, with an estimated 8.5 million Californians participating. The voice instructed listeners on what to do in case of an earthquake: namely, drop, find a cover and hold on to something. The suggestion puzzled board member Judith Wasserman, who couldn't find anything firm to hold on to behind the Council Chambers podium. "There's nothing out there but cables to hold on to," Wasserman observed. "We're going to lose the entire city government!" Neither the board nor the applicants dropped or panicked. Instead, unflappable as ever, they waited out the drill and proceeded with their discussion of signage and parking designs.
PRAISE FOR PATTY ... Palo Alto resident Patty Fisher will be honored by nonprofit Momentum for Mental Health, which offers services in Palo Alto, at the Shining Stars Rising Above Stigma Benefit Nov. 17 at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel. Fisher, currently a director at The Health Trust, worked for decades as a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. "She serves as a role model to all in our community who strive to eliminate mental health stigma and improve the effectiveness and accessibility of mental health resources and services," Momentum CEO Paul Taylor said in a press release. The event's keynote speaker will be Jessie Close, sister of actress Glenn, and information is available at www.momentumformentalhealth.org.
NAME THAT TUNE ... Palo Alto's new labor agreement with the firefighters union felt like music to the ears of the City Council, which approved the contract Monday night. Councilman Larry Klein evoked the Beatles song "Long and Winding Road" to describe the 16-month period of negotiations. Councilwoman Karen Holman, paraphrasing the country star "Mac" Davis, said she wished another song could be as accurate: "Happiness is a Difficult Labor Agreement in My Rear View Mirror." Unfortunately, she said, the economy remains tough, and the city's effort to get concessions from its labor unions remains an "ever-evolving situation."


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A federal judge was expected to make Oregon the latest state to allow gay marriage Monday after state officials refused to defend its constitutional ban in court.
Gay couples were poised to tie the knot immediately, but a national group opposed to same-sex marriage asked an appeals court to block them.
Officials in Oregon's largest county, Multnomah, say they'll begin issuing marriage licenses immediately if U.S. District Judge Michael McShane's decision allows it.
McShane hasn't signaled how he'll rule, but both sides in the case have asked that the voter-approved ban be found unconstitutional.
The judge last week denied a request by the National Organization for Marriage to defend the law on behalf of its Oregon members. On Monday morning, the group appealed that denial to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking an emergency stay of the decision.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia allow gay marriage. Federal or state judges in Idaho, Oklahoma, Virginia, Michigan, Texas, Utah and Arkansas recently have found state same-sex marriage bans to be unconstitutional. Judges also have ordered Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
But opposition remains stiff in many places. Critics point out that most states still do not allow gay marriage and that in most that do, it was the work of courts or legislatures, not the people.
Four gay and lesbian couples brought the Oregon cases, arguing the state's marriage laws unconstitutionally discriminate against them and exclude them from a fundamental right to marriage.
In refusing to defend the ban, Democratic Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said there were no legal arguments that could support it in light of decisions last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. She sided with the couples, asking the judge to overturn the ban.
Gay rights groups previously said they've collected enough signatures to force a statewide vote on gay marriage in November. But they said they would discard the signatures and drop their campaign if the court rules in their favor by May 23.
The Supreme Court last year struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage. It determined the law improperly deprived gay couples of due process.
Oregon law has long prohibited gay marriage, and voters added the ban to the state constitution in 2004. The decision, approved by 57 percent of voters, came months after Multnomah County briefly issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
About 3,000 gay couples were allowed to marry before a judge halted the practice. The Oregon Supreme Court later invalidated the marriages.


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CHICO — A video intended to be a family keepsake of a dad's homecoming from civilian work in Afghanistan turned into an international hit when the images went viral.
Joshua Carr, a 2005 Chico High School graduate now living in Missouri, said he was surprised when people started contacting him this week to say they saw the video.
Invites have also arrived from local to national television shows, and an edited version of the homecoming has already appeared on "Good Morning America," as the "Play of the Day."
In September, Carr returned to California after working for four months in Afghanistan.
His wife, Chloe (Atkin) Carr, a 2007 Chico High graduate, had been staying with Carr's parents, Pete and Julie Carr in Chico.
His return coincided with his daughter Bridget's third birthday, and he planned a surprise.
His wife went to Sears to grab a box for a half-sized refrigerator. She wrapped it and tied it with red ribbon, and cut off the bottom.
Siblings, cousins and parents joined the family for the party, and Joshua was hidden under the box on the front porch.
The video shows Bridget slowly unwrapping the box, ribbon first. After about two minutes, her daddy pops out. The delight on both their faces is what you would expect.
The video, taken by Julie, who teaches in Corning, was posted on the family's Facebook account, and later on YouTube for friends who don't have Facebook, Carr explained.
The video takes about 31 2 minutes, but the "Good Morning America" clip is just a short snippet.
"We posted it (back in September) and forgot about it," Carr said.
"Somebody came across it on reddit.com and the views jumped from 100 to 400,000 on Monday."
At last count, he said the number of views has jumped to 1.5 million
Pete Carr, Joshua's dad and the city manager of Orland, called this newspaper when he saw that everyone else was talking about his son.
Television shows including the "Steve Harvey Show," based in Chicago, and Ellen DeGeneres have contacted Joshua asking if his family will appear. Other stations have asked for information.
Joshua Carr said the experience has been "interesting." Most people give good comments, but some have been creepy.
After a million hits on YouTube, the family received a notice that they could earn money if commercials were attached to the video. But they decided not to go that route.
The popularity speaks of America's interest in homecoming stories, Carr said, and he sees it as an opportunity to talk about the realities of coming home after working in an area experiencing conflict.
Carr is not a soldier. He's a civilian who worked for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. His latest job was four months, and he was in Afghanistan once before.
Whether a person is a civilian or soldier, coming home is just the beginning.
People often watch videos such as his and think that's the "finish line."
However, there are many adjustments that take place, with stress and triggers.
"Those situations are Catch 22. There's no right way to handle it," he said.
"If everything goes well for (the spouse at home) during deployment, the husband comes back thinking 'you don't need me.'
"If everything is falling apart, he feels guilty he left the family hanging. You almost can't win."
Military bases are rolling out "family readiness" groups for help with reintegration, he said. Yet, these are new.
The family was hesitant at first to try the surprise. "We were all very nervous ... worried (Bridget) would react in a negative way," Pete Carr said.
But her reaction is obvious delight in the video.
"She continues to talk about it now, and brings up 'when daddy came out of the box'," Pete Carr said.
The homecoming has had traction in an online newspapers in London, television stations in Colorado, South Carolina and Australia, Pete Carr said.
"If you Google it, it's everywhere."
Contact reporter Heather Hacking at 896-7758, email@example.com, or on Twitter @HeatherHacking.


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Beer is awesome. Besides being deliciously inebriating, beer offers a wide range of crafting potential! The caps can be collected and turned into jewelry. The bottles can be recycled into vases, lamps and even glasses for drinking beer. The cardboard from the case even has infinite possibilities. Even the labels can be reused, say, to line the inside of a suit, as Jack Van Stone has done in the shot above that was taken at the Laguinitas Beer Circus.
Jack's art and other creative beer-related works are the focus of The Beer Show, a new group exhibit opening this weekend at The Jimmie Gallery in Berkeley. It's a curated celebration of art and crafts made from, and inspired by beer.
Art Made From Beer


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Establishing a New or Reactivating an Organization
The Office of Student Activities is responsible for all recognized student organizations. The purpose and activities of any student organization must not be in violation of university, regent, local, state, and/or federal laws and must not disrupt the university or its academic process. If you have any questions or need assistance please contact the Office of Student Activities, Thompson Student Center, Room 103, 254-968-9256. We're here to help!
Steps to Becoming a Recognized Student Organization
- File A Constitution - All recognized student organizations must have a copy of their constitution on file with the Office of Student Activities. If the organization is affiliated with a national organization, the national constitution must also be submitted. If you need assistance in writing a constitution, we will be happy to help. The Director of Student Activities will review the constitution and will consult with the organization's representative regarding any necessary changes prior to final approval. Any time a constitution is changed an updated version must be filed with the office of student activities. Organizations should review their constitution every 5 years.
- File an Update Form - An Update Form must be completed and returned to the Office of Student Activities at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters. This form contains information on officers, addresses, meeting times, etc. There is also a discrimination and hazing statement that must be signed by the organizational president and advisor. Any changes in this information throughout the year must be submitted to the Office of Student Activities as soon as possible.
- Select a Faculty/Staff Advisor - All recognized student organizations must have a faculty or staff advisor who is a full time employee at Tarleton State University. Organizations may have more than one advisor but at least one must be employed by the university. If an advisor resigns or is removed, privileges of the student organization will be suspended until a new advisor is named.
- File for a Tax ID Number - All recognized student organizations must have a tax number on file. The Office of Student Activities can assist in filing the proper paperwork.
- Attend Risk Management Training - All recognized student organizations are required to attend risk management training annually. Contact the Office of Student Activities for training details.
- File a Risk Management Policy - All recognized student organizations are required to have a copy of their risk management policy on file with the Office of Student Activities. A risk management template is available to assist organizations in developing the policy. Any time a risk management policy is changed an updated version must be filed with the Office of Student Activities. Organizations should review their constitution every 5 years.
A Sample Organizational Constitution
of the
(Name of Organization)
Article I
The name of the organization.
Article II
The purpose of the organization.
Article III
Include requirements for membership, absence policies, and policies for removing members.
Article IV
Include office name, terms of office, duties of officers and policies for removing officers. Every organization must have a risk management officer or assign those duties to an office.
Article V
Include how often meetings are held and how special meetings are called. (Do not list specific times or places.)
Article VI
List all committees and the duties of each.
Article VII
List provisions for making amendments to the constitution.
Signatures and Date
There should be a signature and date line for the Organizational President, Organizational Advisor, and Director of Student Activities.
Hazing Policy
The Texas Legislature enacted a law prohibiting hazing by a person(s) against a students(s) at an educational institution. The law also prohibits the knowing, intentional or reckless failure to report hazing to university authorities. Failure to comply with the specific provisions of the law will result in criminal penalties and fines. A copy of the law, in its entirety, is available from the Office of Student Life or from the Office of Student Activities.
"Hazing" means any intentional, or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at an educational institution. "Hazing" includes, but is not limited to, any type of physical brutality or physical activity, that subjects the student to unreasonable risk or harm or that adversely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the student. (i.e. sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, calisthenics); activity involving consumption of a food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug, or other substance which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or which adversely affect the mental or physical health or safety of the student; activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation, or that adversely affects the mental health or dignity of the student.The aforementioned activities are exemplary of specific hazing offenses only. Any type of activity which falls within the general definition of hazing is prohibited under the hazing law. Consent of the individual subjected to the hazing is not a defense to prosecution of an offense under the hazing law. Organizations which are covered under this law include a fraternity, sorority, association, corporation, order, society, chorus, cooperative, corps, club or service, social, or similar group, whose members are primarily students at an educational institution. A "student" includes an individual accepted for admission at an educational institution or an individual who is on vacation from an educational institution and intends to attend that institution during any of its regular sessions after that period of scheduled vacation.Specific criminal penalties which may be imposed against an individual or organization guilty of an offense under the hazing law include the imposition of fines ranging from $5,000-$10,000 and/or confinement in the county jail for a period of time ranging from 90 days-two years. The specific penalty imposed for a hazing offense depends on the seriousness of the offense and whether or not bodily injury or death to an individual resulted from the hazing incident.
Brief Summary
A person commits an offense under the hazing law if that person:
- Engages in hazing;
- Solicits, encourages, directs, aids or attempts to aid another person in engaging in hazing
- Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly permits hazing to occur; or has firsthand knowledge of the planning of a specific hazing incident involving a student in an educational institution or firsthand knowledge that a specific hazing incident has occurred, and knowingly fails to report said knowledge in writing to the Office of Student Life or other appropriate officials of the institution.


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Treatment of Necrotizing Vasculitides for Patients Older Than 65 Years (CORTAGE)
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|Vasculitis Wegener's Granulomatosis Microscopic Polyangiitis Churg-Strauss Syndrome Polyarteritis Nodosa
|Drug: prednisone, methylprednisolone,cyclophosphamides Drug: Cyclophosphamide, Azathioprine,prednisone,methylprednisolone Drug: Mycophenolate mofetil,methotrexate
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Treatment of Necrotizing Vasculitides for Patients Older Than 65 Years Comparison of Two Strategies Combining Steroids With or Without Immunosuppressants
- Number of side effects (morbidity) [ Time Frame: at 3 years ]
- Survival [ Time Frame: at 3 years ]
- Efficacy of treatment (remission rate) [ Time Frame: during the 3 years ]
- Relapse rate [ Time Frame: at 3 years ]
- Cumulative dose exposure to OCS and AZA [ Time Frame: at 3 years ]
- Cumulative BVAS (AUC), VDI, HAQ-DI, SF-36 values [ Time Frame: at 3 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
conventional treatment
Drug: prednisone, methylprednisolone,cyclophosphamides
treatment conventionalDrug: Mycophenolate mofetil,methotrexate
in the treatment conventional and in the reduction dose
Experimental: B
reduction dose
Drug: Cyclophosphamide, Azathioprine,prednisone,methylprednisolone
reduction doseDrug: Mycophenolate mofetil,methotrexate
in the treatment conventional and in the reduction dose
Detailed Description:
Systemic necrotizing vasculitides are severe diseases associated with a high mortality rate in elderly.
Although corticosteroids and immunosuppressants are effective, they can induce some side-effects, especially in this latter patients.
Preliminary data indicate that systemic necrotizing vasculitides (SNV) occurring in patients over 65 years have a poorer outcome than in younger patients (mortality rate of 76 % vs. 69 % at 5 years, respectively) and that 68,4 % of the elderly experience treatment side-effects.
In this trial, patients will be randomly assigned to receive either low doses of corticosteroids systematically in combination with immunosuppressants (CYC then azathioprine) or usual regimen with corticosteroids combined with immunosuppressants only if factor(s) of poor prognosis is present (this latter regimen relying on previously published therapeutic guidelines).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|65 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Newly diagnosed WG, MPA, PAN without HBV infection, or CSS
- Patients can be still be enrolled within 1 month after starting corticosteroids if prescribed according to protocol.
- within or after the 65th of anniversary
- Age ≥ 65 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any cytotoxic drug within previous year
- Co-existence of another systemic autoimmune disease, e.g., SLE, RA
- Virus-associated vasculitides
- HIV positivity
- Malignancy (usually excluded unless approved by the trial coordinator)
- Age < 65 years
- Inability to give informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00307671
|Hôpital Cochin
|Paris, France, 75679
|Principal Investigator:
|Loïc Guillevin, MD,PhD
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00307671 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 27, 2006
|Last Updated:
|September 9, 2011
Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
Systemic necrotizing vasculitides
corticosteroids; azathioprine; mycophenolate mofetil;
Elderly patients
Randomized controlled trial
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Polyarteritis Nodosa
Systemic Vasculitis
Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
Microscopic Polyangiitis
Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis
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Where: Riverside venues are the Ab Brown Sports Complex, 3700 Placentia Lane; Reid Park, 701 Orange St.; and Wheelock Stadium, Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Ave.
When: June 29-July 6
Information: http://apps.ayso.org/ng
Key events
Opening ceremonies: July 1, 5-8 p.m.
Soccerfest: July 2, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
National Games pool play: July 3-5, starting at 8 a.m. each day, lasting until 6:30 p.m. July 3-4 and until noon on July 5
Quarterfinals: July 5, 2-6:30 p.m.
Semifinals and finals: July 6, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Awards ceremonies: July 6, following the final games
Note: Opening ceremonies are at Wheelock Stadium; games will be played at the Ab Brown Sports Complex and at the adjacent Reid Park.
When this whole thing started, the sport was for those kids with the funny last names, or foreign-sounding first names.
Baseball, basketball, football, even track and field were the fields of glory in the United States in the 1960s, but the more the newcomers to America took root, so did their sports.
They might have even talked a little different, sounding like they were from the casting of Hogan's Heroes or Mary Poppins. And what do you mean you can't use your hands?
But in Torrance in 1964, nine soccer teams were formed for 135 kids.
Fifty years later, hundreds of kids from teams across the United States and even from Trinidad and Tobago crammed into the StubHub Center for Tuesday's opening ceremonies for the AYSO National Games.
That means in Torrance, the birthplace of the American Youth Soccer Organization, and in Riverside, hundreds of teams will compete in different age divisions for boys and girls.
So on a day when the U.S. national team played a milestone match in the round of 16 at the World Cup in Brazil, it might have been pretty easy for some in the crowd to observe that it hasn't been a bad 50 years of influence for an organization
For certain, Torrance has always been the groundbreaker and the top representative of the city, Mayor Frank Scotto, read a proclamation from the city council.
But he was there not only as the local dignitary, but as part of the celebration. Scott has coached and refereed for AYSO for more than 35 years, and he was reminded of that after the ceremony when a kid in a soccer uniform came up to greet him.
"He came up to me and said I used to coach his mom back when she was 16 years old," Scotto said. "Those are the kinds of things that really mean a lot to me, knowing you've passed on generation to generation. These kids are having a great time playing a sport that is truly a team sport."
One of the first players in that league in 1964 was an 11-year-old immigrant from West Germany. He might have been known as Siegfried at home, but now he's Sigi Schmid, the current coach of the Seattle Sounders and the winningest coach in Major League Soccer.
Schmid was an inaugural inductee to the AYSO Hall of Fame in 1996, along with Brian Davies, Paul Harris, Bill Hughes, Norm Jackson, George "Scotty" Kay, Hans Stierle and Bill Wolstencroft.
It wouldn't be long before alumni players like Paul Caligiuri, Carin Jennings, Eric Wynalda, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett were joining them in the Hall of Fame.
Even that recently, it would have been difficult to believe that all these teams would be marching into a packed stadium to start a week of a national all-star event.
AYSO, of course, is a volunteer-driven sport, which Scotto discovered the first time he made an inquiry.
His son had come home from kindergarten one day with a note pinned to him asking if he would want to play soccer.
"So on a Friday night I called up and they said, 'Well, he can play if you coach.' I said, 'I don't know anything about coaching,' " Scotto said.
That was in 1978, when he never dreamed he would see what he did Tuesday.
"In these stands here today, I firmly believe that one or some of these kids could possibly be playing in a game in the World Cup like we saw today," Scotto said. "In the United States, soccer is still in its infancy compared to the other sports that we have. We have a long way to go to become the world class we want to be.
"But we're going in the right direction and I personally believe if we continue to support it like we are, generation after generation playing the sport, someday people wil be fearful of the United States in the World Cup."


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What is this medicine?RIMEXOLONE (ri MEX oh lone) is a corticosteroid. It is used to treat swelling, redness, and inflammation in the eye following eye surgery. It is also used to treat inflammation in the eye caused by a condition called uveitis.
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Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
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The North Platte Community College Softball team (2-13) dropped two games against South Mountain Community College on Friday. The Knights lost the opening game 4-10 while the second game was a tightly contested 6-7 loss in eight innings.
In the opening game Delaney Furnish took the 4-10 loss for the Knights on the mound giving up nine hits and one walk. Defensively the Knights gave up eight unearned runs and had seven errors. Offensively Kimberley Silva led the Knights as she went 3-4 with three singles and three RBIs.
Furnish and Kaitlin Borm also contributed hits as Furnish went 2-3 with two singles and Borm went 1-1 with an RBI single. The Knights left nine on base.
In the night cap, the Knights fell 6-7 in eight innings. Morgan Keyzer took the loss as she gave up ten hits and one walk. The Knights defense had three errors and gave up three unearned runs.
Lydia Lusk went 2-3 with a double and two sacrifice flies for the Knights. Hannah Allgood went 3-4 for the game. Tiffany Brasby and Siarra Velasquez both had doubles. The Knights left ten runners in scoring position.
We played one of our best games of the year (in the second game), said head coach Janelle Higgins. We finally played a full game. We still had our one inning of mental lapse going into the extra inning as the heat got to us (95°). It was good to see us finally play the level of ball we can play. We got better every game and we will carry that into games this week back at home.
The Knights head home after completing their ten day road trip as school resumes at North Platte Community College on Monday after Spring Break. The Knights wont be home long as they head to McCook on Tuesday March 19 to take on the McCook Community College Lady Indians in a double header at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The Knights then turn around and head to Scottsbluff on Wednesday March 20 to take on the Western Nebraska Community College Lady Cougars in a double header at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
The Knights return home on Friday March 22 to take on the Otero Junior College Lady Rattlers at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Dowhower Complex.
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BLACK Country youngsters can enjoy a summer full of exciting activities by becoming an Animal Champion for the RSPCA.
The free scheme, launched by the animal welfare charity, will give children and their parents fun and interactive things to do during the school holidays.
Activities include inviting friends over for an animal themed sleepover, doing some animal detective work around the home, planting a butterfly garden and designing artwork for one of the RSPCA's vans.
Any child aged between six and 12 can become an Animal Champion and those who sign up will receive a toolkit containing stickers and posters.
Children who complete all five activities, including one small fundraising challenge, before the end of the school holidays will receive a certificate and award from the RSPCA.
To register, visit www.rspca.org.uk/animalchampion.


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UCF commit Shaquem Griffin is aiming to fill some pretty big shoes.
The prospect from St. Petersburg (Fla.) Lakewood has his eyes set on taking over for Kemal Ishmael at the free safety position.
"I'm actually going to have the same number as Kemal, No. 18," Griffin said. "That's the goal. I want to be the starter."
Ishamel, the 2012 Conference USA Player of the Year, grabbed the starting position when he was a true freshman in 2009. Griffin thinks he can do it too.
"We talked a lot this weekend about the defense and how everything is going to work," Griffin said. "I think I have a good chance of being on the field. I want to be a starter and help lead this team. The coaches told me that even though I'll be a freshman, they don't want me to play like a freshman. Play like an upperclassman. That will give me the opportunity to be on the field."
Griffin was among a group of prior commitments taking their official visits this past weekend. He was joined by his twin brother and cornerback Shaquill Griffin, linebacker Deondre Barnett, linebacker Jake Berman, defensive end Blake Keller, athlete Mario Mathis and running back Micah Reed.
"I had a great time in Orlando chilling with the players, going around and seeing how everything works," Griffin said. "It was a great experience."
The Griffins arrived on Friday at around 3 p.m.
"We played a game and then went out to eat," Griffin said. "We talked to coaches and went out with the players. We hung out. Same thing next day. We just went around the school and went through the process. The next thing we know we're back with the players just chilling. It was like family."
Griffin said getting to know his future teammates was the best part about the trip.
"It wasn't just one host, it was like the whole team was together chilling," Griffin said. "It was T.P. (Terrance Plummer), Drico Johnson, Pete DiNovo, a lot of us. I got along great with the players. They just let us know how it's going to be. They were being real with us. It was a very memorable weekend."
The Griffins are already good friends with DiNovo, who played quarterback up the road at East Lake. He enrolled in January.
"Pete was just saying how great it is," Griffin said. "Everything is going well for him. He said we're going to have a great time there."
The group talked about what they can do to help take UCF to the next level.
"We all have the same goals," Griffin said. "They went to a bowl game this year and had fun at the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl. The next phase is to do even better. Win championships and bigger bowl games."
Shaquem and his brother met with head coach George O'Leary before departing on Sunday.
"We're pretty much solid," Griffin said. "We leave on Wednesday for the International Bowl in Texas. We'll have our signing day out there. We're very excited about it. I'm sure it's going to be a good experience."
The 2013 International Bowl features the U.S. Under-19 National Team against a team of the best football players from around the world. The game will be played in Austin, Tex., on Tuesday, Feb. 5.


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Welcome to the Tipton County Indiana Cub Scouts
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Cub Scouting means "doing." Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys doing things. Activities are used to achieve the aims of Scouting - citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness. Many of the activities happen right in the den and pack. The most important are the weekly den meetings and the monthly pack meetings.
Cub Scouting has nine purposes:


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John DoverAffiliation:
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Artist's BiographyWith over 26 years of experience as a trumpet performer, John Dover is a composer, educator, and clinician, as well as a trained vocalist. He has performed everything from Bach to Basie, Elvis to Haydn, and his compositions have been interpreted by groups such as TNSF and the Steve Hall Quintet. John has created and performed on promotional and demonstration videos for the trumpet, and he has produced and starred in his own web series, \"Road to the Studio.\"
John\'s educational background in Jazz Studies and Trumpet Performance at the University of North Texas and the University of Colorado at Boulder curated an appreciation for multiple genres, making him as much at home in chamber orchestras and quintets as in rock bands and slow jams. His group and solo performances have been in high demand not only in his current home of the Pacific Northwest, but also throughout the US, Mexico, and as far South as Sao Palo Brazil.
John also seeks to influence tomorrow's generation by reaching out to the communities where he performs. Through private teaching and workshops, John encourages students to develop their personal practice \"workouts,\" and to adopt his philosophy that only through disciplined, daily practice, study, application, and a constant strive for excellence can one truly realize their best possible sound and technique.


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20 Years of Fairfax Connector
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Sept. 29, 2005
Fairfax Connector Celebrates 20 Years
Twenty years ago, on Sept. 29, 1985, Fairfax Connector sent 33 buses rolling along 10 bus routes in Fairfax County. Today, service has expanded to serve close to 8.5 million riders per year with 170 buses along 57 routes.
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Fairfax Connector is planning a series of special events and tributes throughout the year commemorating the millions of miles traveled, the millions of passengers carried and the dedicated drivers and staff who get Fairfax Connector buses on the streets every day. As events are announced, information will be available on the Fairfax Connector Web site at www.fairfaxconnector.com and the Fairfax Connector Information Center at 703-339-7200, TTY 703-339-1608.
For more information about bus routes and schedules, call the Fairfax Connector Information Center at 703-339-7200, TTY 703-339-1608, or visit www.fairfaxconnector.com. There are also four Fairfax Connector Stores: Tysons-West*Park Transit Station; Reston East at Wiehle Park & Ride; Herndon-Monroe Park & Ride; and Springfield Mall.
For more information about Fairfax Connector's 20th anniversary, contact Beth Francis at 703-324-1153, TTY 703-324-1102.


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Dear sirs/madams
I need to find the original scripture in sanskrit (Pali) this sutras
"Majjhima Nikaya - Sabbasava Sutta - All the Fermentations"
This paragraph
The Blessed One said, "Monks, the ending of the fermentations is for one who knows and sees, I tell you, not for one who does not know and does not see. For one who knows what and sees what? Appropriate attention and inappropriate attention. When a monk attends inappropriately, unarisen fermentations arise, and arisen fermentations increase. When a monk attends appropriately, unarisen fermentations do not arise, and arisen fermentations are abandoned. There are fermentations to be abandoned by seeing, those to be abandoned by restraining, those to be abandoned by using, those to be abandoned by tolerating, those to be abandoned by avoiding, those to be abandoned by destroying, and those to be abandoned by developing. (English translation by Bhikkhu Thanissaro)
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