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On the project that I am currently working, they are using Internet Explorer (IE) 8 because they say "It is the only browser where we can flush the user's browser's cache and prevent them from stealing content. IE8 is the safest way to go..."
I am blown away by these comments?! :eek:
Then again, I don't really know about the cache part.
Would someone please educate me on this topic?
They are blinded by their own foolishness. That doesn't stop anyone from stealing content, Regardless if you can flush the cache or not.
Can you help me understand the cache flushing thing?
I have no clue what they are referring to, and I don't see why Internet Explorer would have some advantage over any other browser?! :-/
I honestly don't know what "cache flushing" they are referring too...other then what is in the preferences.
The way they explained it, by using IE8, the application can force the User's Browser's Cache to be flushed...
I don't know how in the world the server could force a user's browser to do anything, but who knows?!
My guess is that if can it's a flaw in the browser. In any case as mentioned it won't prevent theft only make it a little less easy.
And I fail to see how what browser they are using has anything to do with others. Well, unless their goal is to prevent themselves from stealing their own content :fangel:
I'll have to ask for more information tomorrow.
They make it sound like since the application is written in .Net that it can send a message to IE8 and delete all Users' Browsers' Cache from the server.
I guess they worry that if users store the webpages in their browser's cache that that is a security risk.
I can sorta see that, but I don't see how the server has the ability to flush the cache on a user's machine?!
Would this question be better suited in another forum? :-/
Whether they can do it or not, it's an abuse of the end user to force behavior on them.
Anyhow, they can't force users to use IE8, which is the important thing ... so it seems like a pretty silly argument anyway. The fact that they themselves are using IE8 is completely irrelevant. :lol:
Yes they can force users to use IE8.
This is for an intranet system...
The business dictates who gets on the system and what they use for all intents and purposes.
So they are afraid of content being stolen from within their own organization? Jeesh ...
Ralph, you're being obtuse on this topic...
Yes, there is a large concern about information leaking out or being compromised.
I spoke with a developer today and this is what he told me with some degree of certainty...
Apparently the .Net app has a way to send messages to IE8 telling it "Do not cache any photographs".
He was unsure if the app can physically flush any pictures that may already be in cache.
And he was unsure what can and cannot be done with other browsers.
I have heard of the ability to do this before with IE.
I thought there was a way to tell all browsers "Do not cache the web page or any photos", but I'm not sure how easily the user can over-ride that. (My guess, is that such an approach probably isn't very secure or fool-proof?!)
Because the project I am working on is a "Test Bank" which contains images that can contain testing content, they are very very concerned about controlling information.
I can see it being a problem if a user's browser cached a whole bunch of images and then they fell into the wrong hands.
Not being an architect, I'm not sure what the way to address this problem is?! :-/
[b]The best thing I can point to is, "How do banks that offer online-banking address this issue?"
For instance, if you look at images of cancelled checks or possibly bank statements, what would your bank do to make sure there there isn't a bread-crumb trail left behind for anyone accessing your computer or browser's cache?[/b]
(This is one of many reason I do NOT bank online!!!)
I wonder if someone like Paul O' knows about this?
Too bad DeathShadow isn't around here anymore...
You can tell a browser not to cache pages. E.g.
But when someone views a page, the images and other content are still downloaded (that's the only way a page and its assets can be viewed) so there's nothing to stop someone saving all the images manually. There's really no way to prevent content falling into the wrong hands, short of not putting it online in the first place.
No, just realistic.
What a load of baloney :headbang: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I want to take an image from the Internet, I don't need it to be cached by the browser at all. I just right click the image and then select save-as and voila :). Disabling right click with js is about as useful as an ash tray on a motor bike because I would just turn js off.
Another quick way to take an image is to click the screen dump key on the keyboard, which copies the screen contents to the clipboard, and then dump it in Photshop (or whatever) and then I can crop and do what I like with it.
Also, think about it for a minute. What's stopping anyone taking a photo of the screen as a last resort and then edit and enhance the photo of the screen in Photoshop.
Once anything appears on a user's screen, it is effectively gone if the user wnats it and there is absolutely nothing whatsoever anyone can do to stop the screen contents from being taken.
If you don't want it to maybe "fall into the wrong hands", then don't freakin' publish it in the first place
If someone tried to tell me they can stop me from copying anything that appears on the screen infront of me, I would just laugh at them and tell them they have no idea what they are talking about. And it would make no difference what browser and version I am using.


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David Sedaris turns 55 on Monday. The openly gay author first came to attention with his 1992 broadcast of his SantaLand Diaries on NPR. He's written iconic bestsellers such as 1997's Naked and 2000's Me Talk Pretty One Day, but received major criticism for an article in The Guardian this past summer about exotic Chinese food and culture that was deemed insensitive.
The sun conjoining Pluto in Capricorn heightens awareness of authority and bureaucratic structures that hem us in, as well as the revolutionary urge to smash them. Impulsive acts of rebellion are disastrous. Revolutions need careful planning.
CAPRICORN Dec 21-Jan 19
While your intuitions about money are on the mark it helps to double-check the facts. Avoid dithering and second-guessing yourself. Being rigorous is good; beating yourself up isn't.
AQUARIUS Jan 20-Feb 18
There is such a thing as being too nice when you can't hide bitchy undertones. There are no secrets. Whatever you say will slip out. Talk about celebrities instead of gossiping.
PISCES Feb 19-Mar 19
Your intuition and advice are worth more than you realize. If you listened to yourself, you'd be better off! Blurting out a secret proves to your advantage if it's your secret and nobody else's.
ARIES Mar 20-Apr 19
Sudden outbursts reveal hidden depths and secret strengths. Open up to your insightful friends. Working too hard can upset the apple cart. Pace yourself to be effective with your colleagues.
TAURUS Apr 20-May 20
Sassy, daring boldness is atypical for Taureans, but work whatever energy you have to get ahead. You reveal more of yourself than you had intended, but that should work in your favor, too.
GEMINI May 21-Jun 20
Any simmering domestic problems are sure to boil over. To head off resentments, open up to your partner first about personal fears and anxieties and see how that feeds the other issues.
CANCER Jun 21-Jul 22
Holidays put stress on relationships. This decade is especially tough for that, and the next few years will be worse. Talk about your shared commitment and learn from rough spots.
LEO Jul 23-Aug 22
Being nice with people can be a challenge, but honing your teamwork skills makes it worthwhile. The real trick is to balance that with creative impulses that require your individual initiative.
VIRGO Aug 23-Sep 22
Working at enjoyment misses the point. Working toward an accomplishment can slide into obsession. If something is supposed to be fun isn't any more, step back and think about it.
LIBRA Sep 23-Oct 22
When the going gets tough, the tough get creative. A spat shows serious problems unsuspected, but the solution is within reach. It's not easy, but small sacrifices on both sides fix it.
SCORPIO Oct 23-Nov 21
Your revolutionary ideas are on the right track, but discuss them with an expert who shares your ideals. If your partner feels neglected swallow your pride, apologize, and deal with it.
SAGITTARIUS Nov 22-Dec 20
What would your perfect job look like? You will have the opportunity to improve your work situation. For now, nurture the ideal.
Jack Fertig can be reached at 415-864-8302 or Starjack.com
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition December 23, 2011.

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Many people know about large courier companies like Fedex and DHL, and many people in Singapore also know about local courier companies like PCA Masters (http://www.pcamasters.com/courier-delivery-singapore/), Roadmasters and Regent. However, few people know what actually happens behind the scenes of these logistics and courier firms.
Let us seek to understand more about this actually complex industry otherwise known as the logistics and courier industry.
The international freight and logistics industry is much more complex to be described in terms of words, so the above video should help to explain a large part of how companies like Fedex and UPS works.
For the purpose of this blog and article, I shall be talking about courier deliveries within Singapore.
First and foremost, the moment you order something from a courier company like PCA Masters or Roadmaster, you're definitely talking to either a sales representative from their company or an administrative staff (corporate side).
Now, after confirming the order(s) with you, they would immediately find out which courier is the closest to the pick up point in Singapore which you have specified. This is especially true for the case if it is an urgent delivery. They need the courier to reach the pick up point on time and promptly. Additionally, the courier company would need to make sure that the particular courier they are calling / contacting is able to deliver it on time too. This is because each courier would definitely have more than one delivery per day, and so they would need to deliver a lot of other goods and documents. Hence, not all of them who are near the pick up point are able to perform that said delivery.
After getting the courier, what essentially happens is that the person would pick up the document or parcel from the sender and keep it in his or her vehicle (either a motorcycle, van or car). Now, the courier will need to plan out his or her trip around Singapore to reach the designated delivery point. He or she would need to figure out which is the shortest and most efficient route to keep to his or her delivery timings. Top courier companies like PCA Masters are very strict with the standards of their deliverymen, and so if they are not on time, they would be fired easily. Hence, the personnel would also feel a sense of stress and pressure to perform for you.
After reaching the designated point of delivery, the assigned courier would then complete the order and would also let the recipient sign a consignment note (which would also be signed earlier on by the sender) as proof of receipt. This will then be communicated back to the courier services company who will then inform you (their client).
It may feel very convenient from the customer's point of view, but in reality, it can be more complicated than it looks. However, in short, I would say that working with a smaller or local courier company is better because their processes are much simpler to follow for the normal consumer. You would not need to lug yourself through endless paper work just to get something delivered in Singapore. It will save you lots of time and efforts.


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One of the fans injured when car parts flew into the grandstands at Daytona International Speedway Saturday tweeted a photo of himself Thursday and revealed that he was hit in the chest by a flying tire.
Becket McGinn, one of two fans still hospitalized at Halifax Health, has updated his Twitter profile to say, "Business Student. Big Sports fanatic. Yes I survived a NASCAR tire to the chest."
McGinn tweeted Thursday: "So hard to sleep with all this rib damage. Just glad the tire didn't kill me."
McGinn later tweeted that he has four broken ribs and that his 14-year-old brothers has a collapsed lung.
"I'm recovering at a relatively quick pace," he tweeted. "My 14 year old brother is worse. … It hurt to laugh with 4 broken ribs but I do feel fortunate that I and my 14 year old brother are alive."
McGinn said in a tweet to Sporting News reporter Bob Pockrass that he was knocked to the ground during the incident and that a fan nearby took off his shirt to stop his bleeding.
In a tweet to McGinn, another fan tweeted a photo of McGinn being helped by fans.
Fan hit by a tire @ #daytona - another fan rips his shirt off to help tend to his injured leg. #nascar #goodpeople twitter.com/whatsajosh/sta…— Josh on KHQ (@whatsajosh) February 23, 2013
Fan hit by a tire @ #daytona - another fan rips his shirt off to help tend to his injured leg. #nascar #goodpeople twitter.com/whatsajosh/sta…
Three more fans injured in the crash Saturday were released from Halifax Health Thursday morning, leaving two fans still hospitalized from the more than 30 who were injured from flying debris.
Hospital spokesman Byron Cogdell said both patients who remain hospitalized are stable.
Fans were hit by debris after the car of Kyle Larson got airborne during the final lap of the Nationwide Series race. Larson's car was ripped apart by the catch fence, with pieces of the car, a wheel and suspension pieces flying into the crowd.
McGinn, one of the fans who remain hospitalized, tweeted a photo earlier this morning of him and Nationwide Series driver Scott Lagasse, who visited the hospital earlier this week. He also tweeted a photo of him and Tony Stewart, who visited the hospital Sunday.
No drivers were injured in the accident.


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Dear Members,
This Friday Yawares-Theatre proudly presents this thriller movie DEAD CALM !!!
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What do you get when you mix in an amazing Australian director, a rising Australian actress, a prominent New Zealander actor, and a villainous American actor? The result is "Dead Calm," an intense thriller that will leave you adrift in suspense for 90 minutes.
The story, which revolves around an Australian couple taking a vacation to recover from the death of their young child in an automobile accident, might sound like the perfect movie to relax to on any evening, however it isn't. While sailing Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the South Pacific, the young couple played by Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill pick up a castaway played by Billy Zane who is the sole survivor of a sinking ship.
After hearing his story Neill's character decides to go to the ship and check it out firsthand. That was his big mistake. Soon Zane hijacks the yacht and Kidman, leaving Neill to sink in the ship he fled. The sinister motives for Zane's departure from the ship are later discovered as the movie progresses, however it is Kidman's and Zane's chemistry and performance that make this movie one of the best suspense thrillers I have ever seen.
As usual, Zane, is the ideal villain. I wouldn't be surprised if it was this film that led to Hollywood's decision to cast him as a villain in almost every film he has done since "Dead Calm". He was brilliant in "Titanic". However, his performance as the deranged castaway in this film mixes his ability to use his intense sex appeal with his professionalism to the fullest extent.


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Is there anyone here who has access to any real info about what the team is working on in practice this week? With no games until Wednesday there's an opportunity for two days of very important activity - second in importance only to the stretch from Jan 2 to Jan 11 - and I'd really like to know what's going on.
Speculation is OK, but it'd be nice to have some actual info, and I know we've got some folks with connections.


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Forrest Coots
Forrest grew up in the mountains and is the product of a life spent in the outdoors. Born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, he and his family moved to Mount Shasta when he was three. With a ski resort fifteen minutes from his home and parents that worked at the resort, it was natural that Forrest took to skiing at an early age. Forrest's early focus in skiing was geared towards ski racing. During high school, Forrest won two high school state championships and was the 1998 USSA J1 Jr. Olympic Champion in the Slalom.
While on a college spring break road trip, Forrest was introduced to backcountry skiing. This experience opened his eyes and changed the way he would look at the mountains forever. His new outlook on the sport induced a passion for big mountain riding. Recently, Forrest has taken a step back from full time competitive big mountain skiing. Instead he is learning to dance down the mountain effortlessly, exploring the soul of free ride skiing. Like a painter, looking at a white canvas, Forrest looks at the mountains as if they are his personal white canvas. Portraying his viewpoint of what it is to be a pro skier, Forrest believes that it's more about the journey then the overall outcome. "The places and people met along the way make up the story," says Forrest. His search for snow has taken him to all corners of the earth; from the snowcaked deciduous trees of north Island of Japan to the windswept peaks of Patagonia. Forrest is ceaselessly looking for new peaks to ski and climb with an eye for the perfect line down the mountain. While still a hard-charging and committed free skier, Forrest is continually pushing his own limits to achieve his longterm goal of skiing that perfect line. He explores his home slopes of Northern California and Utah. In addition, he annually plumbs the steeps of the Swiss Alps and has gone as far as the Chilean Patagonia in this quest for the perfect line. For him, the journey is more important than the destination—a concept exemplified by his desire to climb before the descent and epitomized by his worldwide wanderings during both winter and summer.
Forrest still does some competing, representing the "classic" style at many of the freeskiing comps. He ranks high with strong and fast skiing skills, rather than aimless hucking. Last winter, Forrest found himself in the cottonwood canyons of the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. It seemed that his bags were always packed and he was always in TSA airport security check.
When summer returns to the Northern Hemisphere, Forrest doesn't put the skis away for the season. Instead, he digs in the quiver and swaps the big mountain sticks for his mountaineering skis. He returns to California to work as a US Forest Service Climber Ranger on the Cascade Volcano, Mt. Shasta. Throughout the spring and summer, Forrest climbs and skis, while educating the 6000 climbers that annually attempt Shasta about the "leave no trace" program. On a daily basis, Forrest informs the climbers of the climbing routes and conditions, safety, and search and rescue operations.
Once the snow melts off the faces of Shasta and the skis and climbing boots have been put away for the season, Forrest is off working as a firefighter on a Forest Service helicopter crew. He flights the blazes that reek havoc on the west during the late summer and early fall. When the fall rains come, Forrest is free to head south on surf missions across the boarder in the wilds of the Baja Peninsula. Soon after, Forrest travels back to Utah as the first snows of winter come. This first snow brings a new winter full of goals and projects. Next season, Forrest will find himself based again in Utah, back shooting photos, filming The constant search for new peaks to climb and ski, melds big mountain skiing and mountaineering into the ultimate way of life, and thus propels Forrest farther into the realm of professional big mountain skiing.
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I came across this today. Boy, am I glad the genius that graded that draft isn't running our franchise!
NO. 10: PACERS SELECT: PAUL GEORGE, SF, FRESNO STATE GRADE Analysis: Larry Bird admitted the club's biggest need was a point guard. With another shooter now onboard, that weakness is even more glaring. F


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Marshall to get second start in Triple-A rehab stint
CINCINNATI -- It wasn't enough that lefty Sean Marshall threw his scoreless inning in a rehab assignment game for Triple-A Louisville on Monday night. Marshall had to feel good Tuesday as well.
"I feel great," Marshall said Tuesday afternoon. "My arm bounced back good and I'm ready to pitch tomorrow."
Marshall, who has been on the 15-day disabled list since April 10 (retroactive to April 8) because of tendinitis in his left shoulder, will make another appearance on Wednesday when the Bats host Gwinnett.
"I will be in the mix with the relievers tomorrow. Instead of starting a game, I will come in in relief like I usually would do," Marshall said.
When Marshall started for Louisville at Indianapolis on Monday, he threw 12 pitches -- including eight strikes -- in his lone inning.
"It felt like my starting pitcher days. I got to throw in the first inning," Marshall said. "It's been a while since I've done that. I treated it like a relief appearance. I was warming up at about 6:57 [p.m.] and while the other pitcher was throwing in the top of the inning, I pretty much went from the bullpen to the mound.
"Everything felt good. I took it like it was a real game. I threw all of my pitches -- curveballs, sliders and fastballs. Everything felt good coming out of my hand."
What happens after Wednesday remains unknown. Marshall became eligible for activation on Tuesday.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: We are celebrating 4 years since the launch of DallasFoodNerd! DFN is a community project of a few (30+ now!) DFW-based nerds who happen to like food, probably a little too much! Do you have a restaurant that you would like to have featured? Reach out to the DFN founders @Elysa or @RoryEllis or email email@example.com.


text: MEI plans to seamlessly transition retail customers to accept the soon-to-be-released U.S. $10 bill in kiosks, self-checkouts and other self-serve retail systems. The new $10 bills, set to be released in early 2006, incorporate state-of-the-art security features to combat counterfeiting. MEI will offer customers severaloptions to upgrade their bill acceptors. Most products can be easily


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Bacardi Breaks with Tradition To Keep the Company and the Family Together
"When I announced sitting right in this room that, in consultation with members of the board and other shareholders, I was ready to make a proposal for my successor," Cutillas recalls in the boardroom of the company's Mies van der Rohe-designed Bermuda headquarters, "and when I said that that person was Chip, not only the people that were here, but members of the family, their first reaction was shock."
Cutillas, 64, had decided that the best person to lead Bacardi into the future was George B. "Chip" Reid. The shock to the Bacardi family came not because they thought Reid, 48, was unqualified, but because this would be the first time that the company was to be headed by someone other than a member of the Bacardi family.
Traditionally, Cutillas says, "the leader of the business has always been a family member. This is the first time that we depart from the tradition, or custom, of 134 years and it is a sign of the times."
It's also a sign of recognition by the Bacardi clan that after many battles trying to reconcile family and business interests, the two are best kept separate, to a point. The extended Bacardi family, descendants of Don Facundo Bacardi y Maso, the inventor of rum as we know it today, still owns more than 95 percent of the shares in the privately held company.
"It took two days for the people [the family] to call me to analyze the situation and to agree wholeheartedly that this was an excellent decision," Cutillas says of the delayed reaction to his January announcement recommending Reid. In March, the board unanimously approved the recommendation. In April, Reid became the new executive vice president of Bacardi Ltd.; he will take over for Cutillas next March. Cutillas will retain his chairmanship of the board, but after 42 years of working seven days a week, he says he will take more time for fishing and traveling with his wife.
George Reid ("My friends call me Jorge," he jokes) is a corporate finance lawyer, trained at Yale and Harvard, who, while working full-time at the Washington law firm of Covington and Burling, also spent seven years as deputy general counsel to the Republican National Committee under President Ronald Reagan. Reid first came into contact with Bacardi while representing Hiram Walker, the Canadian spirits firm, in its investment in Bacardi in 1977. While a partner at Covington and Burling, Reid advised Bacardi on how to consolidate the five companies in its empire into a single holding company, essentially designing the company's current structure. By extension, Cutillas says, Reid also helped bring together an increasingly contentious family that argued about the direction of any one of the five companies and of the Bacardi empire as a whole.
"I think that the family is very pragmatic," Reid says, sitting next to Cutillas and smoking a Macanudo Prince Philip. "It took a look at the changed world, the enterprises, one enterprise now, which has demands now, increasingly sophisticated financial demands. They simply determined that I was the right person for the company circumstances today and were, I think, sophisticated and pragmatic enough to put the best interests of the business ahead of perhaps an emotional desire to continue a tradition, even if that particular tradition wasn't the best for the business today."
If anything has defined the success of Bacardi, it is the company's agility in moving with the times, and the times that define the rum business today present a challenge. In 1995, Bacardi rum--Bacardi Light, Dark, 151, Black Reserve and Anejo--represented the number one selling distilled spirits brand in the United States, as calculated by Impact Databank. Impact International's list of the Top 100 Premium Spirit Brands Worldwide also ranked Bacardi rum as number one in the world. (Impact and Impact International are alcoholic beverage industry trade journals owned by M. Shanken Communications, parent company of Cigar Aficionado.) Last year, Bacardi sold 6,155,000 nine-liter cases of rum in the United States and a total of 19.2 million worldwide. Yet these figures represent a 1.5 percent drop in U.S. sales from 1994, and a 5.5 percent dip worldwide.
In 1992, as part of a strategy to navigate market realities, the five companies--Bacardi International in Bermuda, Bacardi Imports in Miami, Bacardi Corp. in Puerto Rico, Bacardi & Company Ltd. in the Bahamas and Bacardi Mexico--were brought under central command. Many associates and industry experts had advised Cutillas against even trying to reunite the companies, which had originally been set up with tax burdens in mind, because of the difficulty in sorting out the tax laws of the various countries involved. Cutillas thought it could and should be done. Reid designed the plan and executed it without incurring tax liabilities.
"We could not afford to continue as five separate entities, each sort of doing their own little thing," Cutillas says. "What we did, in a nutshell, was to create this Bacardi Ltd. holding company in Bermuda, and then Bacardi Ltd. acquired shares from the shareholders of the five independent companies in exchange for shares [in the new company]. So, in the end, we ended up with the same group of owners owning shares of a holding company which in turn owned the five independent companies, but now the central sort of guidance, direction, is from the top."
The five reconstituted regional companies--Bacardi-Martini of North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, and Bacardi International--are controlled by the board. Board meetings could be considered the modern-day equivalent of the original Bacardi family sitting around the dinner table in Santiago de Cuba discussing the business of the original Compania Ron Bacardi, S.A. Family members, the shareholders, hold 15 of the 17 board seats, and 40 of them work in what longtime employees like to call the Bacardi corporate family.
There are now between 300 and 400 shareholders, according to Cutillas. They are hard to track, because the shares are owned by different trusts and individuals throughout the world. How many shares each family shareholder holds is a result of the original formula Don Facundo used in passing the company on to his children. His three sons and his only daughter each received 25 percent of the company. The Bacardis, now into their seventh generation, hold a pro-rated percentage of shares in the new company based on the percentage of shares they held in the five independent companies. Cutillas, a direct descendant of Don Facundo's eldest son, Emilio Bacardi Moreau, is reluctant to place a value on the shares, or the company.
"Well, there is no real value, I mean, no sort of value that we like to say, 'This company is worth so much,' because the shares don't have a value as far as the marketplace is concerned," Cutillas says earnestly.
"We don't calculate its value," Reid chimes in. "It's not traded. One of the nicest things about being a private company is you don't have to worry about the day-to-day vagaries of the stock market. Bacardi actually has no reason to, and therefore doesn't, come up with any value on the shares," Reid says, adding with a laugh, "We like to say it's very valuable."
The New York Times recently reported that Bacardi holdings are worth $2.2 billion. That figure is certainly too low. "Our revenue last year was $2.5 billion," says Cutillas, smiling and puffing on a custom La Gloria Cubana corona with a cigar band carrying the Bacardi bat logo. The Bacardi trademark has been designated by London's Financial World magazine as one of the world's 10 most valuable; it is the only one from a spirits company among that list, which includes McDonald's, Marlboro, Kodak and Coca-Cola. The Bacardi rum trademark--principally identified by the bat and wave devices prominent in the company's ads and on its labels--and the more than three dozen other trademarks now owned by the company have what Cutillas calls a "high value," but one that is difficult to calculate because the company is not for sale.
"It's the statistics that really sort of describe our value," says Reid. "Bacardi rum is the number one selling brand of distilled spirits in the world, not just of rum, but all distilled spirits. About 20 million [cases]. Way higher than number two. Martini and Rossi [which Bacardi acquired for $1.8 billion in 1992] is the second most prolific brand, heavily in Europe. So we have two great brands. We are the largest privately owned spirits company, fifth overall, but the four that are larger [Guinness-United Distillers, Seagrams, IDV and Allied-Domecq] are part of mammoth public companies. So, we are big enough to compete vigorously," Reid says, beginning to smile, "but nimble enough to be able to respond very quickly to targets of opportunity." The message is clear: Bacardi is looking to grow.
Bacardi now produces rum under the same formula in seven countries and sells its wide range of products in 170. In many respects, world events have precipitated the company's growth to this point. The original Compania Ron Bacardi, S.A., was founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 by Don Facundo Bacardi y Maso. Seeking opportunities in the New World, Don Facundo, as he is reverently known, left Catalonia, Spain, for Cuba in 1839 with two of his brothers. In Santiago, Don Facundo became a wine merchant and also sold the rum of a local producer. That, and being in Cuba, close to all that sugar cane, made experimenting with making rum a natural step.
Molasses, a by-product of refining sugar, would be diluted with water and fermented with yeast. The alcohol was then distilled.Don Facundo tested every step of the rum-making process, but it was his addition of filtering the rum through charcoal to remove impurities that proved revolutionary. By applying the methods of winemaking, such as aging in oak barrels and blending, Don Facundo came up with a light rum that was unlike any distilled spirit the world had previously tasted.
The modern version of this process can be seen while taking the tour at Bacardi's distillery in Puerto Rico, established in 1936 to avoid tariffs on rum shipped to the United States. The land on which the distillery stands is an old mangrove swamp across San Juan Bay from the El Morro Fort. The view from the terrace makes it appear that the fort on one side and the distillery on the other are protecting San Juan from invaders.
After determining that his newly invented sipping rum might prove profitable, Don Facundo and his three sons bought the small distillery in Santiago for 3,500 pesos from the man whose rum they had previously sold. To commemorate the founding, the family planted a small coconut palm, El Coco, in front of the distillery. There, legend has it, Don Facundo found a family of fruit bats living in the rafters. Don Facundo's wife, Amalia Lucia Victoria Moreau, suggested the bats, a Cuban symbol of good luck, would make an easily identified trademark in an era when many people could not read. So the bats stayed in the rafters and went on the Bacardi label.
The new rum went on to win international awards and in 1888, two years after Don Facundo's death, Bacardi was appointed purveyor to Spain's royal house. That relationship took an auspicious marketing turn when, four years later, the court's doctors used Bacardi rum to cure the future king, Alfonso XIII, of the grippe. Bacardi began to advertise that it produced "the rum that saved His Majesty's life." As Peter Foster writes in Family Spirits, his compelling history of the Bacardi family and company, the Bacardis, as proud sons of Catalonia, opposed the rule of the Spanish Bourbons, yet still adopted the slogan, "Bacardi...El Rey de los Rones: El Ron de los Reyes." ("Bacardi...The King of Rums: The Rum of Kings.")
Future potentially ruinous world events, even as they roiled the Bacardis as patriotic Cubans, provided the Bacardi company with similar marketing opportunities. In 1895, the revered Cuban poet and revolutionary José Martí landed a boat just east of Santiago, beginning what Americans have come to know as the Spanish-American War, and what Cubans regarded as a war of independence. Martí was soon killed in battle. Manuel Jorge Cutillas' great-grandfather, Emilio Bacardi Moreau, who had taken the reins of the company, was a disciple of Martí and took great risks during the fight for independence, resulting in his living in exile with his family, first on the isle of Chafarinas and then in Jamaica. The impact of his absence and of an economy wrecked by war nearly devastated the Bacardi company.
The Americans were brought into the war in 1898 by the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana's harbor and the jingoistic journalism of William Randolph Hearst. The disparate legends created by the war included the charge up San Juan Hill by Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and the invention of two rum drinks: the daiquiri and the rum-and-Coke.
The daiquiri is named for a Cuban copper-mining town east of Santiago where American troops had landed during the war. The story goes that in 1898 an American mining engineer, Jennings Cox, was hot and thirsty. To remedy the two conditions, Cox is reputed (in the Bacardi corporate literature) to have "devised a marvelous new cocktail based on BACARDI Rum and lime juice." Of course, rum mixed with lime had been around for about a century before that, starting with British sailors--limeys--who came up with the mix. Reportedly, Cox's innovation was to pour the rum and lime over ice. The story was commemorated in a 1963 Bacardi ad that shows a rugged American miner holding a tall daiquiri under which appear the words, "The original daiquiri was made with Bacardi (The best still are!)" Notably, in those early Cuba embargo days, Cuba is not mentioned anywhere in the ad.
The rum-and-Coke, according to cocktail lore and a 1966 Bacardi ad extolling the virtues of the libation, rose from another serendipitous collaboration between Cubans and Americans. The ad ran in Life magazine in 1966, and features three men, two of whom are in U.S. military uniforms. They are sitting around a table with a Coke bottle (in a style that didn't exist at the turn of the century) and one of the soldiers is pouring from a bottle of Bacardi. "So that's how 'Rum & Coke' was invented!" reads the caption. Filling out the page is an affidavit telling what is purportedly the true story of the invention.
"FAUSTO RODRIGUEZ, being duly sworn," the document read, "deposes and says: In 1899 I was employed as a messenger in the office of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. I became friendly with a Mr. [the name is blacked out], who worked in the office of the Chief Signal Officer. One afternoon, in August, 1900, I went with him to the [name blacked out] Bar, and he drank Bacardi rum and Coca-Cola. I just drank Coca-Cola, being only 14 years old. On that occasion, there was a group of soldiers at the bar, and one of them asked Mr. [name blacked out] what he was drinking. He told them it was Bacardi and Coca-Cola and suggested they try it, which they did. The soldiers liked it. They ordered another round and toasted Mr. [name blacked out] as the inventor of a great drink. The drink has remained popular to the present time."
The affidavit is notarized: "Sworn to before me this 24th day of October, 1965."
The coincidence is that this ad, which also fails to mention Cuba, appeared just after Coca-Cola launched its 1965 "Things go better with Coke" campaign and after Bacardi had made a deal with Coke to advertise jointly. The truly remarkable coincidence is that Fausto Rodriguez, irrespective of whether he worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, did once work for Bacardi's New York office as head of publicity. So well known was Rodriguez in the industry that he was tagged "Mr. Bacardi." Regardless of what really happened in the old American Bar on Havana's Calle Neptune, the many different versions of the tale, reported in Family Spirits, always end with the bartender serving the drink to U.S. servicemen and toasting, "Por Cuba libre!", giving the drink its true name, the Cuba Libre.
Just as the Spanish-American War had hurt the Bacardi company and family, so did the Volstead Act, though to a lesser degree. Passed in 1920 by the U.S. Congress and overriding President Woodrow Wilson's veto, the measure made Prohibition the law. Four years earlier, Bacardi had set up a bottling plant in Manhattan. As Foster reports, "When the Eighteenth Amendment appeared on the horizon, the company found itself in danger of being left holding 60,000 cases of rum. Enrique Schueg [who had become the head of Bacardi, having entered the family through his marriage to Don Facundo's daughter, Amilia Bacardi Moreau] came up with an ingenious way of disposing of this stock. He sold 60,000 shares in the company, then wound the company up and distributed its assets--one case of rum per share--to grateful and thirsty shareholders."
While hurt by Prohibition, Bacardi had an advantage over the more popular Scotch whiskies of the day, because the company was based in Cuba, 90 miles from U.S. shores. Cuba became a watering hole for many vacationers and gave fame to bars like Sloppy Joe's and El Floridita. The daiquiri was king.
Among the popular tourist attractions in Santiago was the Museo Emilio Bacardi Moreau, which was inaugurated in 1928; curiously, it had little on display to indicate any relationship to rum. The man after whom the museum was named had died in 1922, but he had contributed so much to the city of Santiago, of which he was once mayor, and to Cuba, whose war of independence he had actively supported and in whose senate he later served, that he and the Bacardi family in general were considered Santiago's "first citizens."
Today, the museum has been preserved by the Castro government, most likely because of its testaments to Cuba's earlier revolutionary history and its heros, and its pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial heritage. The museum is also a tribute to Emilio Bacardi Moreau as a man of letters and the arts, a novelist who also wrote about Cuba's history. His best-known work is the posthumously published 10-volume Cronicas de Santiago de Cuba (Chronicles of Santiago de Cuba).
For those in the United States who want to get a sense of the accomplishments of Don Emilio--which include taking the first Egyptian mummies to Cuba--and of other Bacardis throughout history, the place to go is the company's building in Miami, itself noteworthy for its architecture. On the ground floor, in what used to house an art gallery, is the Bacardi museum en el exilio. Jose "Tito" Argamasilla Bacardi, a great-grandson of Don Emilio, led the way in putting together the exhibit, which holds the only photograph of Don Facundo Bacardi y Maso known to exist. The display is a labor of love and the work of family and friends who were asked to look for relics of the family's and company's history. There is even a collection of vintage Cuban cigar bands, including a Romeo y Julieta that cross-promotes Bacardi.
The museum in Miami also exhibits the company's old ads, including one that commemorates a 1936 decision by the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court that a Bacardi cocktail (Bacardi Light, lime juice, sugar and grenadine) wasn't a Bacardi cocktail unless it was made with Bacardi rum. Bacardi lawyers had called dozens of bartenders to testify in the case, bringing them in from all over the world. They supported the company's argument, Foster writes, "by stating that no self-respecting barman would serve anything else in a Bacardi cocktail."
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The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics was formed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in October 1989 in response to more than a decade of highly visible scandals in college sports. The Commission's initial goal was to recommend a reform agenda that emphasized academic values in an arena where commercialization of college sports often overshadowed the underlying goals of higher education. Since 1989, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has worked to ensure that intercollegiate athletics programs operate within the educational mission of their colleges and universities.
As a result of the Commission's efforts, significant strides have been made to reconnect college sports with the educational mission of American colleges and universities. Among the Commission's recommendations adopted by the NCAA are:
- Stronger academic standards for athletes leading to improved graduation rates.
- Standards that require teams to be on track to graduate at least 50 percent of their players to be eligible for postseason competition.
- Presidential control and leadership over NCAA decisions and athletics conferences achieved through governance changes.
- Multiyear scholarships for athletes.
- Increased campus engagement and accountability through institutional self-assessment programs, such as the past NCAA certification process and the current NCAA Institutional Performance Program.
However, much work remains to be done. In its 2010 report, the Commission called for strengthened accountability through three primary areas: 1) requiring greater financial transparency, including better measures to compare athletics spending to academic spending; 2) rewarding practices that make academic values a priority in athletics programs; 3) treating college athletes as students first and foremost—not as professionals. The report has been influential in shaping the debate about the treatment of college athletes; whether the financial incentives are appropriately aligned with educational values; and, trends in athletic and academic spending.
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics is continuing its work to address these current challenges and to promote more transparency to ensure academic and financial integrity in college sports.


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Pitchers take early BP, with focus on bunting
MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins pitchers took early batting practice for the first time this year before Monday's game against the White Sox in preparation for their upcoming Interleague games in Atlanta and Milwaukee.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said the most important part was working on bunting, as he's not expecting much offense from his pitchers. The Twins play in Atlanta from May 20-22 and in Milwaukee from May 27-28.
"In those bunt situations, get the bat on the ball and deaden it a little bit and get it in fair territory," Gardenhire said. "And as far as hitting goes, just do the best they can. They don't do it very often. Some of the National League guys have a little more savvy about hitting than our other guys and we have a few guys from National League ballparks."
As Gardenhire pointed out, the Twins added three pitchers this year who previously only pitched in the NL in Kevin Correia, Vance Worley and Mike Pelfrey.
But all three have struggled at the plate, as Correia is a career .116 hitter (32-for-276), Pelfrey is a career .098 hitter (26-for-264) and Worley is a career .153 hitter (13-for-85). But based on the first day of drills, Gardenhire was impressed most by Correia, who has 41 career sacrifice bunts.
"Looks to me right out of the chute that it's Correia," Gardenhire said. "He's a good bunter and has the stats to prove it. He definitely handled the bat really nice out there. But that's just the initial thing. But Pelfrey knows what he's doing and Worley looks like he can swing it."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Redskins vs. Eagles preview: Robert Griffin III ready for long-awaited return
WASHINGTON (AP) - On Monday night, Robert Griffin III will perform his usual pregame rituals. He'll listen to the Michael Jackson song "Thriller." He'll take a stroll on the turf, from end zone to end zone.
"I am not very superstitious," Griffin said. "But I do walk around the field one time before every game to kind of mark my territory, saying, 'Within these lines, you control what happens.'"
The last time he played, much of that control slipped away. He reinjured his right knee twice and became a diminished version of his record-breaking self. He stayed in the game until the knee gave out for good in the Washington Redskins' home playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks in early January.
It was the end of the season, but the story of the knee was just beginning. Shouldn't coach Mike Shanahan have removed Griffin from the game earlier? Shouldn't Dr. James Andrews, standing on the sideline working for the Redskins, have intervened? Or shouldn't Griffin have swallowed his competitive pride and taken himself out?
A few days later, Andrews reconstructed two ligaments in Griffin's right knee. Eight months later to the day, Griffin will start in prime time in Week 1 of the regular season against the Philadelphia Eagles. He made his rehab into a very public mission, returning quicker than standard medical science would suggest, and audaciously calling out his coach more than once over mistakes made in the Seattle game, as well as the practice schedule at training camp.
Along the way, Griffin also married his longtime girlfriend, but he never lost focus on the knee, even seeking out an amateur football team - Les Dauphins de Nice - to get in a workout while traveling in the south of France on his honeymoon. He so dominated the offseason headlines that the Seattle loss seems ages ago, and the anticipation of his return to the field is such that he admits it could be even more emotional than his NFL debut a year ago.
"That's going to be tough," he said. "I don't know if there'll be tears. If there are, they'll be tears of joy. It's just been a long journey. It's been an adventure; it's been fun. You don't necessarily want to go on the journey that I had to go on this offseason, but you try to enjoy it along the way and hit those milestones. And to come out of that tunnel with the team Monday night's going to be a great moment."
The stadium will be familiar; the turf won't. The poor Redskins sod became a story in itself during and after the playoff game, and the team has put in new grass that hopefully will hold up better. Still, it's hard not to look at the 5-yard line at the north end of the stadium and visualize the site of Griffin's knee buckling the wrong way.
So many feelings. Little wonder last year's NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year says he'll rely on his teammates to keep him steady.
"They'll be there to help me manage my emotions," he said. "I've told them I'm going to need them for that."
Griffin proved last year to be a spotlight player, rising to the occasion in high-profile games as he led the Redskins to their first division title in 13 years. Playing in the first Monday night game is such an event, the phoenix rising from the ashes before a packed stadium that won't stop chanting "R-G-3!"
If he puts on another show, if the knee holds up, if he leads the Redskins to victory, the drama of the last eight months will start to fade quickly. When the history is written, says Redskins veteran backup Rex Grossman, the games themselves are all that really matters.
"Week 1, nobody remembers anything that happened before that," Grossman said. "They remember the playoff game and Week 1, and whatever happens in between, nobody cares."


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- Quick Take
- Travelzoo reported its Q2 2013 earnings on July 18, reporting revenues grew 5% y-o-y as vacation packagers and cruisers opened their wallets more
- Operating margins continued to decline as expenses rose on account of sales force expansion, marketing and product development
- We feel that audience engagement strategies across mobile, social media and e-mail will boost revenue in the future
- We also estimate the average revenue per deal and take rate for local deals will decline in the long run due to heightened competition
- Profit margin will remain low in the short term due to increase in investments, but we expect it to improve in the long term
Continuing the growth momentum gained in the previous two quarters, Travelzoo (NASDAQ:TZOO) posted 5% annual growth in its Q2 2013 revenues ($41.3 million). This was backed by higher spending by vacation packagers and cruisers and continued growth in Getaway voucher sales for hotels, both in North America and Europe. While growth in North America was offset by a reduced number of local deals vouchers sold per deal, European revenues were impacted by a decline in search revenue driven by lower marketing spend.
Though the continued investment in its sales force expansion, marketing and product development led to decline in Travelzoo's current operating income, we believe the above measures are important to drive future growth in its business. With focus on strengthening the hotel business and mobile and social integration, Travelzoo is in a good position to leverage future growth in the online travel industry.
- Travelzoo's Management Promises To Turn Things Around In The Backdrop Of Yet Another Disappointing Quarter
- Travelzoo's Q2 2017 Earnings Preview
- Travelzoo's Disappointing Performance Pushes It To Improve Its Platform And Enhance Member Experiences
- What To Watch For In Travelzoo's Q1 2017 Earnings?
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- Key Takeaways From Travelzoo's Q4 2016 Earnings
See our full analysis of Travelzoo
Focus on Audience Engagement Through Product Development To Boost Revenue
Given the nature of its products, the company has seen an increase in the audience accessing its services through mobile devices. Travelzoo registered a significant increase in mobile traffic, which grew to 40% (of the total traffic) in Q2 2013, from 25% in the same quarter last year. Additionally, downloads for its mobile iPhone and Android apps experienced about 100% growth y-o-y, reaching 2 million. The company also saw a record number of visits on social media with approximately 1.5 million combined Facebook fans and Twitter followers at the end of the quarter.
Seeing the current trends in mobile and social media hold, Travelzoo has decided to shift its mode of communication with subscribers from e-mail only to a balanced approach across mobile, social media and e-mail in order to lift consumer engagement levels. It plans to achieve this by focusing on product development that will simplify ease of use and create better visual presentations. This was the primary motive behind the decision to launch its new hotel booking platform as it will allow users to quickly and easily book hotels within Travelzoo's websites and mobile products. The company also remains committed to driving audience growth and engagement across the social platform to build its global brand.
Historically, audience growth has been a key driver of revenue growth for Travelzoo. While the company's planned audience engagement strategies will require investments in marketing, sales force expansion and product development, limiting short term growth, we feel this will help drive revenue upwards as users get to access Travelzoo's products via different channels.
The following table summarizes our forecast for Travelzoo's revenue:
Local Deals Business Slowly Losing Its Sheen To Competition
Travelzoo added 0.5 million subscribers in Q2 2013 and experienced a greater number of returning subscribers buying local and getaway deals than any previous quarter. However, the positive impact of the same was offset by decline in average vouchers sold per deal and lower take rate. The company's approach to extended period deals and selective lowering of high quality deals to differentiate itself from competitors lead to the decline in deal take rates.
With increasing Internet penetration, the rise of social commerce and the expanding online travel market the deals business holds long-term growth potential. However, the low entry barrier pitches Travelzoo against a large number of existing competitors as well as potential new entrants in the market. Owing to further increase in competition, we expect the company's average revenue per deal and take rate to decline in the future. The impact could be magnified if competition intensifies more than expected, spilling over the effects to the company's top line.
Higher Operating Expenses To Drive Future Growth
The continued investments in sales force expansion, search marketing, and product development primarily related to the hotel booking platform led to a decline in operating margin from 26% in Q2 2012 to 19% in Q2 2013. However, the company made efforts to balance such investments by limiting subscriber marketing spend.
The company expects to incur about $1.2 million this quarter on development of the hotel booking platform, which represents incremental investment of $300,000 over Q2 2013. It also estimates higher operating expenses in the quarter due to continued ramp-up of headcount, increased marketing, and legal and professional fees that were not incurred as anticipated in Q2 2013.
Although such investments restrict growth in the short term, we believe these will drive long term growth for Travelzoo, by expanding subscriber base and attracting a greater number of publishers to its website. As Travelzoo plans to focus on growth and improved productivity, we estimate margins to stabilize in the long run.
We are in the process of updating our price estimate of $23 for Travelzoo.


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Bobcats' ailing Brezec to miss season's first two weeks
The Charlotte Observer
November 01, 2006
I've got to take care of my body. It was a long summer -- Japan and Singapore and lots of tournaments. Exhausted and dehydrated, Charlotte Bobcats center Primoz Brezec will miss at least the first two weeks of the regular season to recover his health.
The Bobcats announced that decision this morning, and will likely start power forward Sean May in Brezec's place tonight in the season-opener against the Indiana Pacers. That effectively makes Emeka Okafor the Bobcats' starting center.
Brezec was worn down and sick much of the preseason, following a tiring summer playing for the Slovenian national team in the world championships. Brezec told the Observer this morning that he's through with year-round basketball.
'I'm done with the national team in the summertime,' Brezec said. 'I've got to take care of my body. It was a long summer -- Japan and Singapore and lots of tournaments.'
Brezec came down sick while in Wilmington for Bobcats training camp. During the illness he lost 15 pounds and still suffers from dehydration. He attempted to get back in shape too fast, he said, and all the extra work -- including nighttime running sessions -- worsened his condition.
'I knew it was a long summer, but this is tough,' Brezec said of having to miss the outset of the season. 'All this time I was just trying to get back in shapeA...My doctors told me not to do it. The best thing to do right now is rest everything so I can get back.'
Bobcats coach-general manager Bernie Bickerstaff has often said Brezec has an outsized sense of obligation; that it's his nature to work too hard in the off-season when rest -- both physical and mental -- would be more beneficial.
'Here's a guy who really works,' Bickerstaff said. 'It could be to his detriment sometimes.'
Bickerstaff called May the probable starter tonight. Whether May continues as a starter beyond tonight is 'contingent on effort and performance,' Bickerstaff said.
May had a fine preseason offensively but has struggled some with defensive assignments. He'd be matched tonight against either Al Harrington or Jermaine O'Neal for the Pacers.
Bickerstaff said he wouldn't consider moving rookie Adam Morrison into the starting lineup, as a replacement for Brezec, since the two are of such different size. Brezec is a 7-1 center, while Morrison, the third overall pick, is a 6-8 guard-forward.
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Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge Competitions April 1 at Tech
March 28, 2007—
Teams of young engineers from Michigan and Ohio will be building bridges and displaying concrete canoes at Michigan Tech this weekend.
The university is hosting the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2007 North Central Conference, which features two collegiate design contests: the Steel Bridge Construction Competition and the Concrete Canoe Competition. The events are free and open to the public.
Both will be held the morning of Sunday, April 1, at the Gates Tennis Center.
Students from eight colleges and universities will begin building 20-foot steel bridges at 9 a.m. "It's a speed event," explains civil engineering graduate student T. J. Bates, the conference organizer. "Teams have to rapidly assemble pieces about four feet long."
The bridges will span taped off "water" that will be off-limits to the contestants. Once the bridges are built, they will be moved to a loading area at the Gates Tennis Center, where each will be weighed down with over two tons of steel to test their strength. The event will continue through the afternoon, ending officially at 6 p.m. The top two teams will advance to the national competition later this year.
The concrete canoe teams will display their lighter-than-water projects from 8 a.m. to noon and then move to Room 135 of Fisher Hall to give five-minute presentations on their design and construction techniques from 1 to 5 p.m. "Then they will be grilled by the judges to see if they really know what they are talking about or if they are just repeating what their advisors said," said Bates, a concrete canoe veteran.
Traditionally, the Concrete Canoe Competition ends with teams putting their boats in the water, but the Portage Waterway is usually frozen over in March, so the races will be held in Saginaw next week. Depending on the results, one or two teams may advance to the nationals in June.
At Michigan Tech, students do not get credit for their work on the steel bridge or concrete canoe events. "But you learn an immeasurable amount just by being in the clubs and participating," Bates said.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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Question submitted on Feb 6, 2013.
QuestionMy grandsons Father was murdered and after applying for SSI for him we found out his father had done time but had never worked in his life. Are there any funding out there that my daughter can apply for to help her support her son. She is a fulltime senior in college and works parttime. Thank you.
Your daughter should go to the Financial Aid office at her school to see what type of aid is available to her. There are many sources of aid - federal, state, school, and private. She should go to her County Social Services or it can be called the County Human Services Agency to see what type of aid is available for her and her son. She should go to the local Social Security office to see if there is any available Survivor or Widow benefits. Have you checked to see if he had any life insurance, annuities, retirement accounts, or any assets? Did she check his home for any clues on any available assets? Your daughter should also go to the Probate Court to see if there is any estate to claim. She can also check with the State Treasurer to see if there are any unclaimed assets.
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Q & A — September 2004
By Capt. Ken Kreisler
Freshwater Worries
| Problems with an aluminum
water tank, keeping Sunbrella canvas clean and
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I'd like to
install a water filter on my boat that will remove the bad taste from
my aluminum tank. What are my options, and what do you recommend?
D.N., via e-mail
Another problem is that standing water in the tank naturally develops an unpleasant odor and taste. You can remove much of the taste and odor by adding bleach to the tank, but use no more than a capful or two, and completely flush the tank with fresh water after letting it sit for a few minutes. (Make sure to fill your tanks with a hose made for potable water. It should be white, not green, and the package should state that it is designed to carry drinking water.) If you put too much bleach in or let the mixture sit too long, the bleach can form aluminum oxide on the inside of the tank. Once it is clean, you may want to think about draining your water tank when it's not in use.
An in-line filter will also help, but keep in mind that while it may remove sediment, dirt, odor, and some chemicals, it won't remove germs and bacteria. The only way to do that is with either a water treatment system that includes an ultraviolet sterilizer or a reverse-osmosis watermaker that contains one.
As far as how to go about picking an in-line filter, West Marine offers a helpful chart in its catalog that explains the different kinds of filters and the types of impurities that each filter removes. The free catalog is available online at www.mastercatalog04.westmarine.com/intro2.asp.
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This article originally appeared in the August 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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EIGHT arrests have been made after major violence broke out between Clarets and Sheffield Wednesday fans at a Burnley social club.
Around 40 people are bel-ieved to have been involved in the flare-up, at Burnley Miners Club, in Plumbe Str- eet, after the two clubs met just over a fortnight ago.
The Lancashire Teleg-raph understands that the trouble erupted between two groups in separate rooms at the venue.
One outside window was smashed, and other damage was caused to furniture.
Police have dismissed early reports that an away supp-orter was stabbed.
But investigations are still continuing in East Lanc-ashire and South Yorksh-ire, as a police chief cond- emned the melee.
Those arrested on susp-icion of violent disorder include men aged 52, 37, 18, and 17, from Burnley, a 38-year-old Padiham man, a 49-year-old Nelson man, a 21-year-old man from Colne, and a 54-year-old Rochdale man.
Investigating officers were set to conduct searches at their homes yesterday, as the eight were being inter-viewed.
Chief Superintendent Chris Bithell, of Burnley Police, said: "The level of violence shown by those involved in this disorder was mindless and obscene, and these arr-ests show that we are deter- mined not to tolerate thugg- ish behaviour of this kind linked to football.
"We will continue to work hard with both the club, and members of the public, to identify all of those involved in this disgraceful disorder, and my message to those people is to expect a knock on the door from the police in the near fut-ure."


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AVONCROFT suffered a five-wicket defeat title-chasing Stourport in the Worcestershire County League Division Three on Saturday.
The hosts won the toss and opted to bat first but they were restricted by some fine bowling from Matt Delo (4-49) and skipper Craig Siwicki (3-49) to a well below par 199.
Matt Hare (42) and Ben Warwick (35) top-scored with the bat got Croft.
In reply, Stourport looked to finish the game as quickly as possible with opener Spencer Colley hitting a quickfire 21.
Fifty-nine runs from Ryan Delo and 53 from Chris Parry took Stourport to the brink of victory and they ran out winners in just the 23rd over when they reached 203-5.
David James bagged two wickets and there was one each for Daniel Elliott, Will Sach and Warwick.
Croft are sixth in the table and go to Alvechurch and Hopwood in Saturday (1pm start).
Meanwhile, Chaddesley Corbett got the better of Netherton by seven wickets.
After winning the toss, Corbett elected to bowl and dismissed Netherton for 162 in the 49th over.
Muhammad Saddiq (7-57), Shahead Zia (2-11) and Tahi Khan (1-40) took the wickets.
Rajib Lodh then smashed 85, while Joe Lawton (23no) and Chris Mole (15no) helped steer them to 164-3 in the 34th over.
Victory means Chaddesley are fourth in the table. They go to Ross on Wye in the league on Saturday (1pm start).


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[Official Gazette Israelite community in Katowice]
Each issue of the newspaper contains between four and 10 pages; the larger ones were usually issued on the eve of major holidays. In general, each issue starts with an announcement of the time of synagogue services, specifying the exact time for the reading of the Torah and the Rabbi's sermon. Often, warnings appear about proper decorum in the synagogue. Many years later, the Katowice natives now living in Israel still recall the exceptional order and the G-D fearing atmosphere that prevailed in the synagogue.
Almost every issue of the newspaper contained a sermon or article by one of the community Rabbis.
The vibrancy of community life is reflected in the newspaper and it is clear that the community had access to lectures and articles whose high quality made them appropriate for inclusion in any scientific journal dealing with Jewish life. For example, articles by Rabbi Kalman Chameides: About Judaism - Slander; To Live Means to Act; and Work in Judaism. By Rabbi Mordechai Vogelmann: Is the Birthday Celebration a Jewish Custom?; Isaac and Avimelech; and The Leader. Articles of this caliber may be found in almost every issue of the newspaper.
The newspaper also reported the social life of the community. The social, sport and youth, and economic organizations published their announcements and activity reports, and together this represented a very diverse and rich activity. In addition to the official reports, one can also learn about the exciting Community life from the commercial advertisements. These reflect a very vigorous business life of enterprising people who changed this mining town into a large vibrant city despite the fact that Jews constituted only 10% of the city's population.
It should not come as a surprise that in most cases the newspaper did not reflect events that were occurring in the world at large, even if these events had a Katowice connection. Thus, for example, there is no mention of the well known Zionist Revisionist Council meeting during which the party split. On the other hand, other important events that occurred during that time, e.g., the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany, are reflected in the newspaper. This may have been because many of these Jews came to Katowice itself and the community received them with open arms and an open heart. Many of the events and announcements that were published appear to have a direct impact on the destiny of Polish Jews in Germany.
Likewise, many of the incidents that found an expression in the newspaper were connected with anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism raised its ugly head in Poland during the second half of the 30's; there was an increasing number of assaults on Jews and of slander against them in the Polish press.
Even in those days there were quite a few Katowice Jews who left the community by converting. The names of such individuals are enumerated In many issues. It is not difficult to guess their ultimate fate in the coming days.
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David Nowakowsky (1848-1921) and his music were almost wiped off the face of the earth, and even his tombstone was destroyed. Thousands of his manuscripts were smuggled out of Russia to his granddaughter Sofie in Germany after the Bolsheviks seized Odessa's Brody Synagogue in 1922. In 1937, Sofie hid the music on a farm in occupied France before fleeing with her family to Switzerland.
Cantor Ronald Graner gives a talk on "Music of a Forgotten Master – Searching for David Nowakowsky," focusing on the music, how it survived, the people involved in its rescue and their family trees. Presented by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto. Temple Sinai, 210 Wilson Ave. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m. www.jgstoronto.ca
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Chai Tea and Movie: Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents Hello I Must Be Going, a 2012 American-made comedy by director Todd Louiso that opened the last Sundance Film Festival. The Minskys are nearly finished remodelling their "empty nest" when their newly separated daughter, Amy, returns home and, after a period of self-pity, falls for the handsome son of her father's potential business partner.
With Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner and Christopher Abbott. Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge St. at Sheppard. $15. Sunday, Jan. 27. Tea at 4 p.m., movie at 5 p.m. 416-324-9121, www.tjff.com
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Jewish Playwriting Festival: The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company presents the return of In the Beginning: A Jewish Playwriting Festival. The festival is designed as an opportunity for emerging theatrical voices that offer fresh perspectives on Jewish history, heritage and experience. Sponsored by the RBC Foundation, it offers Canadian playwrights the chance to workshop scripts with professional actors and directors culminating in a staged public reading.
Submissions are invited and should include the script, a synopsis of the play and the playwright's resume. Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, Attn: Avery Saltzman, 121 Parkway Forest Dr., Suite 107, Toronto M2J 5H4. The festival takes place at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Studio Theatre, from June 17 to 20, 2013.
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• Soundstreams presents "The Three Faces of Jerusalem," a pluralistic afternoon of music and poetry with various performers of Jewish, Islamic and Christian fare. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. Sunday, Jan. 27, 3 p.m. $65 to $20. 416-408-0208, www.soundstreams.ca
• Film critic Kevin Courrier continues his series on "Woody Allen Past and Present" with a segment on "The Contemporary Comic Voice," featuring a discussion with clips of What's Up Tiger Lily?, Bananas, Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin), Jaws (Steven Spielberg), She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Annie Hall and Lovesick (Marshall Brickman). $12 drop-in, students $6. Miles Nadal JCC, Monday, Jan. 28, 7 to 9 p.m. 416-924-6211, ext. 606.
• Singer Ilana Waldston performs songs from her jazz and cabaret repertoire with piano and bass accompaniment. Musideum, 401 Richmond St. W., Monday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m. $20. 416-599-7323, www.jazznlaughs.com.
• Dolly Beil gives a PowerPoint presentation on her recent book, Growing Up Jewish In China, to inaugurate an exhibition of about 50 photographs. Robarts Library, 130 St. George St. Jan. 30, 2 p.m.
• Michael Mandel presents an illustrated talk on "Jewish Toronto as Reflected in the Yiddish Press, 1935 to 1953." Active Seniors & Boomers, Miles Nadal JCC, Thursday, Jan. 31, 1:30 p.m. 416-924-6211, ext. 155.
• Songwriting workshop with Kobi Hass helps students find their voice, sharpen their craft, and create memorable songs. Miles Nadal JCC, Thursdays from Jan. 31 to April 5, 7 to 9 p.m. $200. Registration, 416-924-6211, ext. 0.
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At the Galleries
• The Wonderment of Life, a new collection of 15 whimsical paintings by Minsk-born contemporary mixed-media artist Julia Hacker, is on view at the Wychwood Barns Gallery, 76 Wychwood Ave., Feb. 1 to 3. For times please visit www.artjuliahacker.com or call 647-999-5130.
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I'm just wondering if there is anyone else in a similar situation. Our baby is eight months old, and so far we've never had a situation where he wasn't with my wife and/or me. He is often in a different room from us, and occasionally he has been in the yard with another family member while we've been inside, but we haven't yet had him farther away than that. This wasn't something that we planned, but we just haven't needed to leave him yet and we prefer to have him near us.
Anyone else?
My little newborns are always with me, maybe I left my second child with my husband while I went to the store, but that is it. After a few months, I feel more comfortable having baby alone time with daddy. I think my mom babysat my first for a few hours so we could go out for an anniversary dinner, but usually the baby is always with me. Especially with having two otherkids now, I wouldn't leave them all with a babysitter (only my mom, dad, or sister) anyway. Itis partially because we have no need to,but mostly because we don't want to.
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My older son was left with a friend for the first time at 2 1/2 and my younger one is 3 1/2 and has never been without dh or I. I'm sure if we had had family around they would have been left with them a bit, but our families are on the other coast and we don't really have the money for extra child care. Plus, I haven't ever really had the hankering to be away from them. There have been times, like for dentist appointments, that I wish it were easy to just call up our regular person and drop him (or them) off for a couple of hours. But when you don't have a regular person it seems easier to just make sure one of us can cover for the other.
Until recently I never felt like I needed any sort of date night thing. I don't exactly feel like I need it now, but for the last couple of months, I've been studying after the kids go to bed for a test that's still three weeks away. It has been fairly grueling and I haven't had almost any time with dh alone. Before studying, I was fine with us hanging out for the couple of hours after the kids went to sleep.
My older one did great when he started school, never cried or worried about us leaving. But my little one is more worried about where I am, like if he doesn't see me right away he gets a little freaked. And I tried a couple of times to leave him in the Y play area, which he thought looked like great fun, but he didn't want to be there without me. So, I'm a little worried about leaving him for preschool in september if we manage to come up with the money for it. His teacher would be a close friend of mine who he really likes, so my fingers are crossed...
eta: I am the only one I know IRL who doesn't use babysitters or other childcare almost ever, but I think I may also be one of the oldest of the moms I know. (I'm 42.) Dh and I had a long stretch of freedom before we had kids and I think we're both just more interested in being with the kids than going out and doing other stuff. A lot of my younger friends, I think, kind of have to work that stuff into their lives with their kids. My mom was 19 when I was born and had no money, so I wasn't with babysitters a whole lot when she wasn't working, but I was at all the parties with her and slept many nights under barroom tables with the children of her friends, which I actually remember as a great thing! So, while my friends look at me like I'm deprived for never getting out, I don't think that's quite right. I'm just at a different place.
Jayne, sewing up a storm mama to ds1 9/03, ds2 2/09, and 2 sweet furbabies.
this is a good question. i'm going to be a stay-at-home mom, and wanting to do everything I can to avoid leaving the baby with anyone but my husband. i'm not anticipating a great response from my in-laws about this, so i'm curious to see how others have handled the situation as well.
I have rarely left my kids (in my free time) with others at all. I think a big part of it is that I work so feel I am away from them enough. Also I am not drawn to moms night out activities or being with my friends without my girls. This makes me a bit unusual in my local community but that is fine with me!
DS is only 5 months, but he's never been left with anyone other than DH. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
People are mostly free to watch him at the house as long as I'm there. Like rubidoux we don't live near family so we don't often have that option, but we don't leave DS with them when they do visit. Recently my mom was trying to convince me to leave DS with her for the day while we attended a sporting event. She said that's what grandparents are for, but I was like yeah, no thanks. Instead we got him a hat, some sunglasses and a jersey so he's ready to go with us. We tend to do things that are kid friendly so there's no real need to leave him.
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Of course I left my baby with people other than my husband. If I did not, I would still be working for $10 an hour.
I come from culture where it is normal for grandparents to care for kids and we believe that children learn many thing from grandparents.
When my mom died, I used a nanny.
the only people i've left my baby/child with is my MIL, my sister, and my mom. All after the age of 6 months. He's 5 now and still hasn't been 'babysat' by someone other then those 3. There are very few people i feel comfortable leaving my child with (not 100% with MIL actually, but the few times we were in town). Now that he's older he's actually asked to play with friends without me or daddy around. He wants to be baby-sat. LOL I have no problem with it NOW, he's old enough to be verbal and talk to the care-provider and to me afterwards.
We'd only use a few handful of friends that he already knows and I'm comfortable leaving him with.
DH and I like to do things as a family and we enjoy hanging out with ALL of us. I don't see anything wrong with that.
It's just me, DBF, and DBF's dad that watch DS. One extreme case was when I needed a ride to get to school on time; DBF forgot to take the carseat out of the car when he went to work. DBF got his best friend to come over and watch him for a little bit until his grandpa came back to take over. I don't trust his best friend but he took along his gf and their toddler son to play with ds so it was alright.
When DS was a newborn, DBF's older sister was living with us at the time and had no job. She offered to watch him sometimes when I needed rest (She was kind of like a post partum doula lol) With school and a newborn, it was difficult on me. So, I let her watch and play with him for a couple of hours while I slept. Without her, I would have gone insane. Now, she has a baby of her own to take care of and is living somewhere else.
One person I wouldn't trust with DS is DBF's niece. She is 15 y/o and clearly doesn't like toddlers. She loves babies though. lol.
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Well, I've been on leave from work to take care of the baby, so... I don't have any reason to leave him. He's 6 months.
He'll have to stay with a nanny when I go back to work when he's 10 months.
I didn't leave DD1 with anyone but DH until she was over 2- and only very rarely even then with my mom.
In retrospect, I had PPD and severe anxiety. I also had one very easy going baby and didn't work!
Now both kids stay with grandparents and trusted friends regularly.
We both worked FT when my son was young, but split our shifts so that 99% of the childcare was done by us. That said, we did do occasional date nights happily, with either my in-laws watching him or my friend. We started to use a few hours here and there of friend babysitting to supplement our split shifts within the first year, and right before he turned 1 we took our first overnight trip alone. None of this ever affected our nursing or attachment.
Since he's been a toddler/preschooler, I'm more than happy with date nights, an overnight at the in-laws, or even a quick weekend get-away. Different things work for different families-- but for us, he's always been so flexible and he's excited to spend the night at his grandparents. They spoil him and take him out all day and tire him out and stay up late having dance parties and watching Sound of Music. He also started 6 hours a week of preschool at age 2.5, which has added so much joy to his life. Every day since the school year has ended, he says wistfully "I miss my teachers and friends!"
With our new baby coming, I'll be able to stay home from work until about 4.5 months, then after that we'll need to find a few hours a week of childcare to supplement our tag team schedule, since my partner's job has gotten more demanding since our first was a baby.
I love spending time with my family, but I do also enjoy having a bit of one on one adult time with my partner. It always refreshes our relationship. We are planning a belated honeymoon at some point and I want to wait until this baby is older so that I can actually go somewhere and just focus on us and not all night nursing fests. :-)
Wanted to offer a different opinion here.
It took until around the 12 month mark before I had to leave my boys with someone else, and only because Mat Leave was ending and I needed to head back to work. DS1 is 3 and Ds2 is 16 months, and they have only been cared for by my sister, who is their nanny while I am at work.Now that I am back to work f/t, I am only away from them while I am working, DH and I don't take date nights, and I don't take 'me time' outside of the house. Working keeps me away from them much more than I'd like, so I have no desire to be away from them anymore than that. MIL jokes that I hog them, but I just love spending time with them!
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I rarely did with my first, but I did much more with my second. I've found out that I am a much nicer mom and wife when I have a date night or just some random time a lone every few weeks. Since having my first I I have a really close friend that I trust completely and both kids will stay with her sometimes (DD2 since she was a month or so old) for things like shortish date nights or dental appointments. The older they are, the longer I feel ok leaving them. Same with my mom and MIL when they visit or we head to see them. They also stay at the gym daycare from 6 weeks on b/c I don't really consider that leaving them since I'm in the building.
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I left DD with grandma for a couple of hours at a time, for a handful of times, when she was a newborn (doctor's appointments, a quick errand, etc), but I was breastfeeding and tried to avoid missing a feeding. Now at 6 months, she is developing stranger anxiety and won't go to grandma for more than a minute, so that's come to a stop until she's over it! I'm not pushing the issue - I'd rather her be with me or her Daddy anyway, and I feel too protective over the baby stage. When she's older and more independent, I look forward to occasional babysitting by grandparents and possibly very close friends, but only if DD enjoys it. I don't think it's strange at all to have an 8-month-old that's always with you, but I do think at some point, many kids are enriched by time with people other than parents.
Incidentally at our wedding, DH and I had a very small, formal venue, and we made the difficult decision not to invite kids (mostly because we know too many and there wasn't room!). I was so surprised how many friends/family had never left their kids before - I'm talking school-age children and older. Now that I have a baby, I have a whole new perspective and would be planning a big old family picnic!
We don't leave any of our kids with others very often at all. My two older girls are 5 and 8, they have spent the night with grandparents and cousins a handful of times, and have had one sleepover at their best friends' (sisters) house. I just prefer keeping my kids close by, I guess. The baby hasn't ever been away from me, and won't be for longer than maybe an hour or so until I'm done BFing her :)
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I can't yet. I've been thinking about it, kind of working myself up up to it. I'll leave her with her Papa for a few hours... he's even taken her to the store, twice now. But I can't leave her with anyone else. She's 9 months.
And on 09/23/2011, we were three; husband, daughter, and me!
That would be us.
We don't have family nearby so grandparent time is not an issue.
I have a 6yr old and a 3yr old who have never been babysat.
Me. My husband can barely watch him! He's such a mamas boy. I would be lying if I didn't include the 3 times I've left my son with my mom (whom I trusted completely as he was a newborn, but now that he's a soon-to-be-toddler I'm iffy on her ways ... (another post:) and I probably won't be leaving him with her any time soon or with anyone for that matter. I would be open to hiring a mothers helper who would go with me places to help me :D ... but yeah. I don't leave him!
I never left dd1 at all when she was a baby. I was a SAHM and I didn't even leave her with my husband so I could go out to the grocery store after she was asleep. I never, ever, left her. Looking back on it, it wasn't a healthy dynamic at all. I struggled very hard with the "balance" B of attachment parenting!
Now I have another daughter, and I have a new routine of going to the gym every week day. So I've been leaving her in gym daycare (it's the same lady every day, so she knows her and is really bonded with her) since she was 8 weeks old (and dd1 goes to daycare there too). Honestly, I love getting a little break from her every day. I love running while listening to my ipod, and then taking a shower all alone. Now that I get a daily break to do some self-care, I'm in a much healthier place, mentally, than I was when dd1 was a baby. We don't have any family nearby so this is the only way I can get time away from the kids.
Now, they are big kids - 11, 9, 7, and 5 - a I'll gladly let anyone who can handle them take them (please!) .
My kids are all in summer camp, and my oldest has spent several weeks in another state with her cousins and aunt and uncle this summer.
They're still very much attached little people, fwiw.
It definitely gets easier to be away from them as they get older. In fact, you might beg willing people to take them! at some point. That's okay; it's normal.
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It's reassuring to read all these other replies from people who are in the same boat! I have always been hesitant to leave my little ones with anyone besides my DH. We are real homebodies so aren't big on date nights. Even at church I prefer to hang out in the lobby or nursing room with my baby (9 mos) than have him go to the childrens ministry. When I worked in the past I did leave them but it was with a dedicated babysitter who came to our home, and not until they were at least 6 months old. This time around I am not working and am really happy to just be with my baby. If we had grandparents who lived close I would definitely leave the kids with them, but we don't, we'd have to hire a babysitter. I probably won't be interested in that for at least another 6 months...we'll see!
I was really reluctant originally to leave my daughter with anybody except my husband and she was only with one of us up until 4 months or so, then with my mom a couple of times and even that was nervewracking. We've gotten more mellow as she's gotten older though. (she is now 1.) The "vetting" part of finding a babysitter is what worries me. She has only been watched by people we know quite well or who are highly recommended--grandparents, the church childcare has her for 1/2 hour-1 hour at a time most weeks, and we did leave her with my sister's fiance's parents once, who we don't know well but are recommended through him. I would more readily leave her with family friends than with a childcare provider I didn't have an existing relationship with.
I'm lucky, my adult step daughter (22 years) lives with us and DD ADORES her, so leaving her with step daughter is pretty easy. She has lots of babycare experience too.
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