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yeah, why doesn't the ----------- without the words work?
I could do it. I just thought some people would confuse it with the signature line.
I think the spaces in the ----- makes it significantly different without taking up a ton of space or being annoying. Just my thought tho
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I'll try it; I don't care. Maybe it won't cause problems.
It looks great now
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After dealing with the feature for a while I like it even less than when I voted in Anthem's pole (and I didn't like it then).
Is there a benefit I'm missing?
All I see happening is it makes things confusing sometimes (especially if you reply without quoting) and it is joining totally unrelated thoughts/replies into one post.
Also, if you don't come back to a thread immediately but instead come back in a few hours or more you might miss some further thoughts someone has added because they got gobbled up by the combiner monster and you think you've read so and so's post already (when in fact you only read it prior to the combine monster working on it as they replied to another post or two). ...so you only read what comes after so and so.
So, again... what is the benefit?
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Isn't it obvious? There's no mystery here, it was added to clean things up when people post 2, 3 times in a row.
I could see the benefit if it only combined posts, and used a separator, in posts without quoted replies (where a person probably should've just edited their post and added to it in the first place rather than making a new post immediately in the same thread).
But mostly... I didn't know anything was broke until you fixed it...
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
If people are posting one thought after another and they posts should all be combined, the solution is to pressure them to do so. I honestly haven't seen that hardly at all here.
This space for rent.
OK, I was on PD without being logged on, and I have a theory about the situation:
I can only think of one reason why multiple uncombined replies are so annoying to some: the fact that these hideously tacky, long and cluttered signatures are repeated three times after someone writes three back-to-back posts.
I have sigs turned off, and I'm willing to bet that some of those complaining about the combine feature also have sigs turned off.
Back-to-back replies contain valuable information in the post count and time of each thought.
Corrupting valuable information (like the time that something was posted) just to limit the repititions in signatures and other brick-a-brack doesn't make sense to me, but then again, my theory could be wrong.
FWIW, I was just going to make a thread in the feedback forum saying the same thing LA did.
I have sigs turned off, but IMO I do think some peoples sigs are getting a little out of control.
For what it's worth I don't like the feature either. I don't see a problem with people making several posts in a row.
Hmmm . . . unless they are just doing it to increase post count. If that's a problem I would suggest doing away with post counts. Instead do like some other boards do and give them a title under there name, which could be based on post count or length of time as a member, or both.
Lets see.
Charter member (First week or month)
Veteran 1 Year
Veteran 2 years
Rookie (Less than a year)
Star of Stars
Super Star
All Star
etc. etc. etc.
We did away with post counts a year ago. You can only see them when you do a member search.
I thought we also had set it up so that sigs only appeared once per thread. I guess not (I've had them turned off for years so that I can load pages on my blackberry).
I'm not really a fan of this feature, either, but I can see the need to clean things up a little.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
That would be nice.Originally Posted by Will Galen
It would also do away with custom titles.
Multiple reply back-to-back.
I will admit I did see some problems with no subtance posts, but I really thought that getting rid of post counts was kind of darastic and I think this is as well. But Im just one person, and honetly while it is annoying I can still live with it.
You may be right; I've never tested it.
I might be out of my league, but if you put in titles that people can easily see (opposed to the way we have the post counts buried now), won't that be just as likely to lead to people inflating their post counts in an attempt to get to higher "member levels"?
No, you are not out of your league, that is a valid point.Originally Posted by btowncolt
Just my .02, but I think like everything this place goes in cycles. You are going to have the occasional person who will aim at post counts but the beauty of the "ignore" feature can then be seen.
Of course the hope would be that said person would quickly grow up and not care about post counts, ince quality > quantity.
Auto-combine is off for now. But if the world ends, I'm not cleaning it up!
can i be a starter??
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Mom-of-three Kelly Ripa is hosting her popular talk show from Hawaii this week. And the 41-year-old TV star was seen hitting the beach in Oahu with her husband Mark Consuelos and their sons Michael, 14, and Joaquin, 9, after Monday's show (February 20). Kelly and Mark's 10-year-old daughter Lola was not spotted with the group.
Dressed in a gorgeous green sarong, Kelly appeared happy and relaxed as she soaked in the sun with her favorite guys.
The funnylady has been spotted enjoying the sand and surf on and off set over the past week. "This is heaven on earth," the blonde beauty recently tweeted from the Aloha state.
How does she keep that svelte figure? "I work out every day," Kelly recently revealed. "It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time. I'm usually done with work around 11 A.M., so I have time before I pick the kids up from school."

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Construction workers, plumbers, gardeners - or any hard working man with a tool belt - plays a part in many gay male fantasies. In this steamy collection, we take a ride to the top of a high-rise under construction for a precarious steel-beam encounter; go down in the belly of a dark steamy mine; hang out with some hunky, sweaty landscapers; and slip into the construction manager's office for a quickie.
Wherever we go, you'll find sexy, loving men who are turned on by more than their buddies' tools. In this world, the hats are not the only thing that's hard.
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I'm a hetero female, but I love M/M/ erotica. But none of these several stories worked for me. It's hard for me to put my finger on it. But I think it was that it detailed more (i.e his abs, his pits, his sweat, his lips, etc.) than it gave action. The action was rushed through with a grunt. All the words were used to describe things not explicit to the act. And it does nothing for me descriptions of pits and body smells. But to each its own. So this might work you. It this type of writing is for you, then have at it.
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Lettuce prices remain high, but growers in desert production regions anticipate modest production increases in the second week of February that could ease them.
For romaine hearts out of California's Imperial and Coachella valleys, a dozen three-count packages shipped mostly for $35.95 to $37.50 on Feb. 6, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Year-ago prices were about $9 to $11. In Yuma, Ariz., current costs are $37.95 to $39.55.
Film-lined, 24-count cartons of iceberg out of Yuma range from $15 to just under $17; out of Imperial, $16 to $18. Year-ago f.o.b.s in Imperial were about $6.
"The markets have been exceptionally high for an extremely long time," said Mark McBride, salesman at Salinas, Calif.-based Coastline Produce, on Feb. 6. "When that happens and just a bit more lettuce comes on the marketplace, it can cause a dramatic change on the f.o.b. Plus, we've had time for retails to jump up and that has a negative effect on demand."
"But we're not out of the woods," McBride said. "Yields are still being negatively impacted by blister and peel. We had at least five straight weeks of ice and it definitely beats up the crop."
Coastline Produce, whose lettuce is grown in the Imperial Valley, has seen volumes down 25% to 30% since Jan. 1.
The Nunes Co. grows lettuce in Yuma.
"For ourselves, we're going to continue to have just moderate, steady supplies for the next couple weeks," said Doug Classen, sales manager at Nunes, on Feb. 6. "But the industry as a whole appears to have a little bit more and the market is coming off."
Classen credits improving weather in Arizona for lifting overall supply.
It's too early to tell, he said, whether the transitions that begin in March to California's Huron and Salinas districts will be gap-free.
McBride sees uncertainty ahead.
"Although we've seen a little bit of an increase in supply, (Coastline) is scheduled to have a pretty light week and it's still going to be a roller coaster ride through to the end of the desert deal for the majority of volume."
Lengthy cold periods are bound to have had an effect on germination and growth in California's Westside and Salinas Valley regions, McBride said.
"Even though those plants may not have been out of the ground, or just out of the ground, it's going to affect them," he said.


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Until proven otherwise, Jeff is a better rebounder, a better defender, and has a much higher bball IQ.
If I were coaching Josh, I'd be doing everything I can to work on the Bball IQ. If that picks up, the other two will partially take care of themselves combined with his athleticism.


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Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. --Don Fanucci, from The Godfather: Part II
I am a firm believer that an investor can pick up investment ideas and strategies from many aspects of life. Movies, especially, are a source of inspiration. Take The Godfather Part II. It contains numerous solid insights. One of the most obvious is that it's good to be the don. As young Vito Corleone learned from Don Fanucci, getting a piece of the action on the backs of every business in the neighborhood can provide a nice living. Sure, Don Fanucci met an inglorious end at the hands of Robert De Niro's character, but only after decades of making a lucrative living off all the business activity around him.
Finding these "toll takers" among equities can be a rewarding investment strategy. Here are two firms that are well-positioned to use this type of business model to reward shareholders for years to come.
Four reasons credit-card processor Visa (V) is a solid, long-term growth play at $157 a share:
- The consummate financial-transaction troll is priced at 18.5x forward earnings, which is reasonable given that this global giant takes no credit risk and is benefitting from the continuing migration from cash and checks to credit and debit cards worldwide.
- The company has beaten earnings estimates for five straight quarters and consensus earnings estimates for both 2013 and 2014 have risen over the last two months.
- In a slow-growth world, Visa has more than doubled revenues since 2007. Analysts expect better than 10% sales increases for both 2013 and 2014.
- The stock is selling in the bottom third of its valuation range based on price-to-earnings, price-to-cash-flow and price-to-book ratios.
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. It is paid a fee to carry these products, so it has little commodity price exposure. I would be hard pressed to be more passionate for the shares than Jim Cramer was the other day, but I will give it a go.
Four reasons EPD is a solid addition to an income portfolio at $55 a share:
- The company has beaten earnings estimates for the last six quarters and consensus earnings estimates for both 2013 and 2014 have ticked up over the last month.
- EPD yields 4.8% and has doubled distribution payouts over the last decade. It is a primary beneficiary of the continuing expansion of domestic oil and gas production.
- Revenue growth is projected to come in at more than 13% in 2013 and the stock has a low beta of 0.71.
- EPD has a strong balance sheet, diverse cash flows and strategically placed assets. It should be a core part of any energy master limited partnership income portfolio


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Sharon Portenier says there's never a down time on her family's farm near Harvard.
"It's a 365-day-a-year job and just because it snows and the roads are blocked and you can't get to work or you can't get to school - our animals still have to be taken care of," she says.
Portenier is one of a dozen Nebraska farm and ranch women who have banded together to tell their stories. The volunteers of CommonGround say they take time from their chores to share the facts about Nebraska ag and reach out to consumers through interviews, seminars, health fairs, and social media.
"To me CommonGround is an important attempt to make people aware of where their food is actually coming from, other than the grocery store," says Portenier.
Leslie Boswell, a farmer in the Shickley area, says she was tired of the way ag is sometimes portrayed in the media.
"When CommonGround was formed I jumped at the chance to get in on this because it's a way for me to work on my convictions that we need to connect with consumers," says Boswell.
Boswell says some of those disconnected consumers are local, which can be surprising when you consider that one in three Nebraska jobs are tied to ag. But more people are also one, two, or more generations removed from the family farm.
"We're not the same farms we were 60 years ago," says Boswell. "There is an incredible amount of science and technology that has come into play in farming, both with the equipment we use and the crops we raise."
"We are eating the exact same thing [consumers] are eating and putting on the table for their families," says Portenier. "We're not afraid of the food and they shouldn't be afraid of it either."
While CommonGround reaches out in a bigger way, Boswell and Portenier say if you can strike up a conversation with someone you have the opportunity to share your story too.


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UKIAH, CA? -- The Pain Management Center at Ukiah Valley Rural Health Center is pleased to welcome Rachel Chavez, Physician Assistant.
Joining the Pain Management Center team was an easy decision for Chavez.
"Dr. Young is progressive in treating pain and believes in a holistic approach which includes a mind, body, spirit philosophy," shared Chavez.
Helping residents in Mendocino and surrounding counties who deal with pain is one reason why Chavez chose to practice at the Pain Management Center. "For me it's really like coming home," shared Chavez. "I was born in Ukiah and grew up in Mendocino County, so I really have a passion to help the people of this community."
Chavez chose to work in the field of pain management because she saw a gap between primary care and helping those suffering from chronic pain.
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Dan and Marsha Zeller of Anoka and Tom and Diane LaHoud of Andover announce the engagement of their children Jessic Rae Zeller & Andrew William LaHoud.
The couple became engaged in February and will be married at Rush Creek Golf Club in Maple Grove on October 10, 2014.
Andrew, a graduate of St.Cloud State University, is a math teacher/varsity boys golf coach at St. Francis High School. Jessica, a graduate of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, is an internal audit manager/CPA for UnitedHealth Group.
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DUBUQUE—Down by eight at the half, the Central College men's basketball team ramped up its offense in the second half, winning Saturday in the final minutes against Loras College, 77-75.
"The first half started off slow for us," said coach Craig Douma. "But we had a great second half. At halftime, I challenged them to come together as a team. We shared the ball. We played some unselfish basketball."
Starting the second half, the Dutch (9-6 overall, 2-3 Iowa Conference) slowly whittled away the Duhawk's (5-11 overall, 0-5 conference) lead, tying the game with 14:39 left in regulation. With the score tied at 69 and just 4:09 remaining, a Dutch 3-pointer and three free throws pushed Central to the narrow win.
Shooting 48.6 percent in the first half, Central outpaced Loras during the second, draining 56 percent from the field and 71.4 percent from 3-point range. Central sank 17 of 18 free throws during the game.
Five Dutch players scored in the double digits. Forward Matt Greenfield (sophomore, Huxley, Ballard HS) had 16 points and four rebounds. Guard Nick Marinkovich (senior, Clarendon Hills, Ill., Hinsdale Central HS) scored 15 points and added four rebounds. Guard Branden Stubbs (junior, Pleasant Hill, Des Moines Christian HS) had 11 points and contributed a career-high 11 assists.
"It's really hard to mention just one player because we had some big plays across the board," Douma said. "Nick had a big second half offensively, scoring ten points that half."
Guards Kevin Kaerwer (junior, El Paso, Texas, John L. Chapin HS) and KJ Cool (senior, Chillicothe, Mo., Newtown Harris R-3 HS) each had 10 points.
"Kevin had a couple of great plays for the team," said Douma. "As a team, we made some crucial 3-pointers and shot really well during the second."
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text: Judge blasts Hobet, DEP for selenium stonewalling By Ken Ward Jr. June 14, 2010 Story Share Read the rulingCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal judge ruled Monday that Patriot Coal continues to violate water-quality limits on selenium, and scheduled a hearing for early August to consider steps to stop the company's delays in cleaning up the illegal pollution.U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers criticized Patriot Coal's Hobet Mining subsidiary and the state Department of Environmental Protection for continuing to try to put off deadlines for complying with selenium limits at the company's sprawling Hobet 21 mountaintop-removal complex along the Boone-Lincoln county line."Hobet's track record of non-compliance and the WVDEP's history of acquiescing to deadline extensions and other modifications to ease permit requirements suggest compliance is not likely without intervention on the part of this court," Chambers wrote in a 55-page opinion.Chambers did not immediately issue an injunction, instead scheduling a hearing for Aug. 9 to consider the scope of a court order. The judge had already set a hearing that same date to consider a request from environmental groups to hold another Patriot operation in contempt of court for continuing its selenium violations.Chambers ruled on the latest in a number of legal actions brought by the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment and the Sierra Club over violations by the coal industry of West Virginia's legal limits on selenium runoff from strip mines.Selenium, a naturally occurring element found in many rocks and soils, is an antioxidant needed in very small amounts for good health. In slightly larger amounts, though, selenium can be toxic. Very small amounts have been found to cause reproductive problems in aquatic life.In 2003, a broad federal government study of mountaintop-removal mining found repeated violations of water-quality limits on selenium. Biologist A. Dennis Lemly, one of the nation's foremost experts on selenium, has said that pollution from the Hobet operation has left the Mud River ecosystem "on the brink of a major toxic event." Coal lobbyists have been trying unsuccessfully to weaken the state's requirements, but have persuaded DEP and state lawmakers repeatedly to delay compliance deadlines. The Obama administration's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce a tougher selenium standard.In the Hobet 21 situation, state regulators initially approved new permits for the operation two years ago without any selenium limits. After citizen groups rushed into court, the company and DEP agreed to add such limits.But since that August 2008 deal, citizen groups say, Hobet has continued to violate its selenium limits. DEP officials and the company sought more time to comply by adding the permit at issue to a state court settlement that would have set a compliance deadline of July 1, 2012.DEP was not a party to the lawsuit in federal court, and Hobet lawyers tried to use the company's deal with the state as a defense against the citizen lawsuit. But Chambers said there is "a realistic prospect of non-compliance" because "there is no indication that the WVDEP intends to required Hobet to comply" with the state court settlement agreement.Patriot Coal officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and DEP officials had not yet seen the ruling late Monday afternoon.Aaron Isherwood, staff attorney for the Sierra Club, said he group was "very pleased" with the judge's decision."It's high time that the coal industry cleaned up its act and stopped dumping dangerous levels of selenium into West Virginia waterways," Isherwood said. "Anyone who likes to fish should be very concerned about how the coal industry is polluting rivers with this toxic pollutant, as it is known to cause reproductive failures and deformities in fish and other aquatic species." Reach Ken Ward Jr. at email@example.com or 304-348-1702. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 DHHR: WV medical marijuana law will need $2 million in upfront costs 2 Correctional officers need raises, lawmakers told 3 Putnam board suspends former Poca principal charged with DUI 4 Gazette editorial: Is it time for health care for all yet? 5 Charleston council moves up user fee increase to $3 by January MSHA shakes up disaster team after learning of 'methane outbursts' Previous Story Teams find a crack, floor damage in Upper Big Branch Next Story


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The odds of avoiding a "fiscal cliff" by the end of the year are quickly diminishing, and rural Americans would likely be among the biggest losers affected by the predicament. American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) economist Matt Erickson points out the possible ramifications nearing for rural Americans and consumers.
"From agriculture's perspective, three things that we need to look at: the estate tax policy, capital gains tax policy and farm bill or agricultural program spending in terms of being affected by this fiscal cliff," Erickson said in an interview on AFBF's Newsline.
The automatic spending cuts will take place at the beginning of the year if Congress doesn't act soon and would take away $1.2 trillion from federal programs over the next nine years. Many farm programs are on the list, affecting more than just farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers.
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---+!! Porting Rockbox to New Platforms %TOC% These steps below are of course a rough guide and just a few suggestions. The actual procedure will depend a lot on your own experience and skill, and what challenges the hardware you work with offers. Also, if you go for a target that is similar to an already supported device you may very well be able to take shortcuts. ---++ Is this really how all new devices have been ported? Yes. Nearly every device that Rockbox now runs on has gone through this process in some form or another. Someone has arrived at the Rockbox website, seen that Rockbox doesn't run on their favourite player, and has done *all* this work to change that. No currently supported device has received a Rockbox port just because it was asked for. ---++ Am I up to the task? Face it, if you want Rockbox ported, be prepared to do most of the ground work yourself. *You will need skills in electronics and embedded programming in C and assembler*. It is not feasible to work on a port without significant skill in embedded software development. If you do not have these skills, you can still gather information and documentation that would be helpful to subsequent developers, but the port will not be able to progress beyond that stage. ---++ Has anything already been done? Check the [[http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus][Target Status]] wiki page to see what, if anything, has already been done. ---++ Who will help you? First, *don't ask Rockbox developers when they are going to port Rockbox to your platform*. Ports are made by people who want to port, they are not done on request. Then, assume that only actual owners of the target devices will be involved and interested enough to actually contribute to the down-to-metal porting. Nobody can port Rockbox to a device he/she doesn't have. (Though you could make someone an owner by giving him a device - this has proven fruitful at least [[http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,13462.msg218591.html#msg218591 once]].) Porting Rockbox can be everything from hard work to extremely hard and time consuming work. Try to gather as many interested friends and fans as possible so that the whole burden isn't put on one single human. The Rockbox developers can and will try to help out with development, advice, hints and other general things, but only as much as they can and if they have the time. ---++ Is it upgradable? Can you upgrade the firmware at all? Is the firmware loaded from disk/flash? If not, there's a risk that the device simply isn't possible to upgrade. This will increase the difficulty level by orders of magnitudes to get Rockbox running on the unit. ---++ Take it apart However trivial this may sound, this is step 1 and it may require various degrees of violence. ---++ Scan the PCBs Preferably with a flatbed scanner. Digital cameras just never are good enough. They often can't produce the same resolution and you often get problems with reflections from the flash. ---++ Publish the scans in the Wiki Setup a dedicated port page in the Rockbox wiki where you gather all the facts and pictures. ---++ Identify the components Using your scans, contact your electronic savvy friends and use search engines to track down what every chip on the PCB is. Of course, as soon as you know what they are you should start gather datasheets and other docs for the chips and related info. ---++ Figure out how to recover from a bad flash Its nearly impossible for anyone to get everything right on the first try. You'll need to figure out a way to recover the player so that you don't brick it every time you make a mistake. On some DAPs this can be as simple as a bootloader USB mode. On others, recovering has required developing complicated software. On (luckily few) DAPs no method has been ever found and a single error can be fatal. ---++ Figure out how to do a Firmware Upgrade On most players we track down how the upgrade procedure and fileformat is made, and then we produce a "fake" update image when we flash the bootloader to the unit. On some models flashing isn't even required but the loading of the firmware is done from disk (Archos and iPod style). Unfortunately, many DAPs have a hash check or require firmware to be encrypted with a certain algorithm. Try disassembling the retail firmware to see if its encrypted, and if not try editing a string to see if theres a hash check. ---++ If needed, trace the connections with a multimeter and draw schematics This may require that you remove circuits from the board, which may or may not be possible without totally destroying your unit. We recommend considering doing this on an already broken unit. On some targets, this step has been skipped in favor of disassembling the retail firmware. ---++ If needed, connect a BDM/JTAG emulator If your hardware/CPU have the ability to connect a hardware emulator, be it BMD or JTAG, it certainly increases the chances of you understanding the existing firmware and being able to testrun your own first attempts easier. ---++ Reverse Engineering Depending on your success to get schematics, docs and hardware emulator, the need for actual reverse engineering of existing firmware will vary. ---++ Start developing a boot loader This of course requires at least some basic working drivers for LCD, buttons and storage. ---++ Create a new build target See PortingHowTo for details
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Do you recognise this man?
British Transport Police (BTP) detectives need to speak to him in connection with a sexual assault on a train travelling between Prittlewell and Southend Victoria station in the early hours of Friday, July25.
Detective Constable Paul Cudby said: "The victim, a 23-year-old woman, boarded the 12.50am service from Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria.
She fell asleep but was awoken by a man sexually assaulting her.
Both the victim and her attacker left the train at Southend Victoria station, and the man left the scene.
Following an appeal for information in the Southend area, officers are now looking further afield for information.
DC Cudby added: "We now believe the man boarded a train from Shenfield to Prittlewell before getting onto the train with the woman.
"We are also looking into the possibility he may have made his way to Shenfield from east London.
"We have analysed onboard CCTV footage of the incident and are keen to speak to the man in the pictures.
"I am confident he has key information on this assault.
"This was an extremely frightening experience for the victim and we need to find the person responsible for this assault as soon as possible."
Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40, or text 61016, quoting reference ESUB/B12 of 25/07/2014. Information can also be passed anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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Who wouldn't want loyal customers? Surely they should cost less to serve, they'd be willing to pay more than other customers, and they'd actively market your company by word of mouth, right? Maybe not. Careful study of the relationship between customer loyalty and profits plumbed from 16,000 customers in four companies' databases tells a different story. The authors found no evidence to support any of these claims. What they did find was that the link between customers and profitability was more complicated because customers fall into four groups, not two. Simply put: Not all loyal customers are profitable, and not all profitable customers are loyal. Traditional tools for segmenting customers do a poor job of identifying that latter group, causing companies to chase expensively after initially profitable customers who hold little promise of future profits. The authors suggest an alternative approach, based on well-established "event-history modeling" techniques, that more accurately predicts future buying probabilities. Armed with such a tool, marketers can correctly identify which customers belong in which category and market accordingly. The challenge in managing customers who are profitable but disloyal--the "butterflies"--is to milk them for as much as you can while they're buying from you. A softly-softly approach is more appropriate for the profitable customers who are likely to stay loyal--your "true friends." As for highly loyal but not very profitable customers--the "barnacles"--you need to find out whether they have the potential to spend more than they currently do. And, of course, for the "strangers"--those who generate no loyalty and no profits--the answer is simple: Identify early and don't invest anything.
To recognize that loyal customers are not always proftable, and to tailor loyalty strategies to customers based on their profitability and loyalty profiles.
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The Problematic Future of Research Data Management: Challenges, Opportunities and Emerging Patterns Identified by the DataRes Project
This paper describes findings and projections from a project that has examined emerging policies and practices in the United States regarding the long-term institutional management of research data. The DataRes project at the University of North Texas (UNT) studied institutional transitions taking place during 2011-2012 in response to new mandates from U.S. governmental funding agencies requiring research data management plans to be submitted with grant proposals. Additional synergistic findings from another UNT project, termed iCAMP, will also be reported briefly.
This paper will build on these data analysis activities to discuss conclusions and prospects for likely developments within coming years based on the trends surfaced in this work. Several of these conclusions and prospects are surprising, representing both opportunities and troubling challenges, for not only the library profession but the academic research community as a whole.
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LANDOVER, Md.—Redskins players and fans were alarmed midway through the fourth quarter Sunday as Robert Griffin III writhed on the field with a knee injury.
Griffin, who was wearing a knee brace all game, walked off the field under his own power, but the Redskins quickly announced he would not return against the Seattle Seahawks. Kirk Cousins took over at quarterback. Griffin's departure raised more questions about the severity of his earlier right knee injury, and whether he should have ever been allowed to play.
The Seahawks went on to win the NFC wild-card playoff game, 24-14.
— Game info: Recap | Box score
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews told USA Today Sports that he never cleared Griffin to return to action after Grifin originally injured his knee on Dec. 9. Andrews was on the team's sideline that day, but said he never spoke to Griffin.
"He (Griffin) never even let us look at him," Andrews was quoted as saying. "He came off the field, walked through the sidelines, circled back through the players, and took off back to the field. It wasn't our opinion. We didn't even get to touch him or talk to him. Scared the hell out of me."
Andrews' comments directly contradicted what coach Mike Shanahan told reporters on Dec. 10. Shanahan said he got the OK from Andrews for Griffin to return.
— Photos: Best of the NFL Playoffs
"He's the one that gives me that information," Shanahan said. "It's way over my head."
Andrews said he eventually prevented Griffin from returning to the Dec. 9 game.
"I'm the one that shut him down that day, finally," Andrews said. "I've been a nervous wreck letting him come back as quick as he has."
Andrews' concern proved to be justified. Griffin limped badly much of Sunday's game, and when he reached down to try to catch a low snap in the fourth quarter, his knee twisted grotesquely. Griffin collapsed to the turf in pain.
The season has ended for the Redskins and Griffin. But the concern and the controversy surrounding his injury have not.
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How can i change pitbull to show full numbers. Currently it's showing 21k instead 21.000. I want a full number instead of a short. Cant find how to configure that.
I downloaded Pitbull just to figure this out. Not sure how you missed it but just select in the "Code" dropdown menu "Health:Absolute" in your health tag and "Power:Absolute" in your power tag.


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PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Camille Scott-Ford had no health-care insurance — and no way to pay for medical care — until she went to the new Catholic Charities Free Health Care Center in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa., last March.
Scott-Ford, a divorced mother of two who lost her family's medical insurance four years ago when her ex-husband left the military, fits the profile of many Americans who lack insurance.
She works as a nanny, and consequently, isn't eligible for Medicaid. But she can't afford to buy medical insurance on her limited income.
"I make an income, but you're making choices between: Do I eat, do I pay my rent, or do I have health care?" said Scott-Ford, who has multiple sclerosis. "Unfortunately, the thing that tends to go is the health care."
Helping ease the plight of the uninsured is a key goal of virtually everyone involved in the ongoing debate over how to reform America's health-care system, including Dr. Nancy Nielsen, president of the American Medical Association (AMA). Nielsen, who is Catholic, has said she intends to make helping the uninsured the key goal of her term as AMA president.
"Forty-six million Americans are uninsured," Nielsen told the Register in an e-mail interview. "That's not just a statistic — it's a tragedy."
A 2004 study by the Kaiser Institute quantifies the inequities that millions of uninsured Americans experience in terms of getting medical care. Although U.S. law mandates that no individual can be denied necessary medical treatment because they can't afford to pay for it, the uninsured nevertheless receive far fewer medical services on average than other Americans.
The Kaiser Institute study found that per capita medical spending for uninsured persons in 2004 was $1,629 — almost 50% less than the $2,975 spent annually for persons with insurance.
And, the study reported, compared to those with health insurance, the uninsured "receive less preventive care, are diagnosed at more advanced disease states, and once diagnosed, tend to receive less therapeutic care and have higher mortality rates."
At the same time, according to an analysis released in August by the National Center for Policy Analysis, the magnitude of the uninsured problem is often overstated.
The analysis noted that the number of uninsured actually decreased in 2007, from 47 million to 45.7 million. Of those, 18 million lived in households with annual incomes above $50,000 and could likely afford health insurance, the study said. And up to 14 million more uninsured adults and children qualified for government programs in 2004 but had not enrolled.
But even if the National Center for Policy Analysis assessment is accurate, there are still a huge number of people — more than 13 million Americans — who can't afford medical insurance, but earn too much to qualify for government programs.
Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, said that as well as unjustly depriving people of vital medical services, the current insurance system doesn't make sense economically.
That's because uninsured people commonly skip visits to doctors' offices, since they are expected to pay out-of-pocket for treatments they receive there.
Instead, they wait until their medical problems are so severe that they must seek help at hospitals.
"They still get sick, and they show up at the least-efficient and most-expensive venue for care — often too late to be as effective as it could be, or sometimes just too late period," Sister Carol said in an interview with the Register in July. "What we're talking about is: No. 1, make the system efficient," she said. "Don't make people wait until they're so sick they've got to show up at an emergency room."
While there is broad consensus that something must be done to help the uninsured, there is less agreement about the best way to deal with the problem.
Some Catholic groups agree with those who believe the best approach is to extend insurance coverage through the expansion of government-driven initiatives.
Catholic Charities USA — whose local affiliates often deal with individuals facing hardships as a result of a lack of health insurance — advocates several measures to assist the uninsured.
These include preserving Medicaid and ensuring health coverage for all eligible children through the State Children's Health Insurance Program, restoration of benefits to legal immigrants, expanding mental-health coverage for the poor and the vulnerable, and easing documentation requirements for eligible populations.
The American Medical Association takes a different approach. It advocates increased subsidies for lower-income Americans through vouchers or tax subsidies directed to health-insurance payments.
The AMA also advocates providing vouchers or subsidies available to higher-income people so they can purchase insurance on the open market, thereby shifting the system away from the current dominance of employer-based private health-care insurance plans.
"If enough people have enough purchasing power — and enough say over how that purchasing power is used — insurers will be compelled to offer better, more affordable coverage options," the AMA states on its VoiceForTheUninsured.org website.
In its 2004 document "Health Care in America: A Catholic Proposal for Renewal," the Catholic Medical Association supported a similar approach of making refundable tax credits to purchase medical services or health coverage available to everyone who files a tax return.
Lower-income working Americans who lack insurance would use the tax credit to help pay for coverage. And like the AMA, the Catholic Medical Association supports free choice in the insurance market.
Doing so would facilitate the creation of new forms of health plans that, according to one study, could provide coverage for up to 8.5 million workers and their dependents who are currently uninsured.
While the debate over health-care reform continues, Pittsburgh's Catholic Charities is already helping the uninsured at its health-care center. Located in the organization's administrative building, the center opened in November 2007.
The free center is staffed by a team of volunteer professional staff that includes doctors, dentists, nurses, dental assistants and dental hygienists. By the time it ends its first year of operation, the center expects to have served more than 4,000 patients.
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh visited the center on March 18, when the 1,000th patient, Camille Scott-Ford, was treated. "This is a wonderful beginning, yet we must ensure that many more people are able obtain the health and dental services they desperately need, but cannot afford," Bishop Zubik said in a press statement about his visit.
Scott–Ford is delighted with the quality of the care she has received since she came to the center that day.
And she's especially grateful, as a non-Catholic, to be allowed to participate in the Catholic Charities' initiative. Said Scott-Ford, "I think it's phenomenal."
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TROY - St. Peter's Health Partners today announced a comprehensive, 13-year master facility plan for Samaritan Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital. The plan includes a $150 million, three-phase development project.
When completed in 2025, Samaritan Hospital will focus on inpatient care while St. Mary's will focus on outpatient and ambulatory services, said Jim Reed, president and CEO of St. Peter's Health Partners. He noted that St. Mary's would continue to offer inpatient services for at least the next decade.
Major highlights of the project include the construction of a new five-story inpatient facility with an expanded emergency department, enhancements to cancer services, and a 500-space parking garage.
"It represents one of the largest private-sector investments in Troy and Rensselaer County history," said Reed.
The announcement comes a little over one year after the formation of St. Peter's Health Partners. Officials with the group, also comprising St. Peter's Hospital and Albany Memorial, said the impetus of the facility master plan were studies of demographics and past service data which showed Troy could not sustain two full-service community hospitals.
Of the 342 beds available at the hospitals, 234 are used daily. By 2025, the facilities would be operating 237 beds and the majority of medical and surgical rooms would be private rooms, instead of 24 percent of rooms being private now.
Phase 1 will involve the investment of $67 million from 2012 to 2017. Until then, hospital officials are still working with local partners to finalize their plans and fundraise. The certificate of need for the construction is set to be submitted in 2013 with bids going out in 2014.
Reed said the hospitals hoped to "bend the curve" on health service costs to slow the rise in costs to patients.
As for employees at the two sites, Norman Dascher Jr, CEO of the two hospitals, said St. Mary's and Samaritan are already sharing staff. Reed added that there would "not so much be a loss of jobs but jobs will be redesigned" to decrease redundancy. He noted that there will remain a need for clinical care givers and the hospitals are filling jobs as needed. There are 11,700 employees at all of St. Peter's Health Partners' facilities.


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Is that why teams were stepping all over each other to sign him.The problem here is that James is not past his sell-by date.
A 36 year old with a spinal injury doesn't get better with age.
He is one play away from another injury.
He should honestly retire.
Great player for awhile but his career is over.
Yeah Felt, he was pretty great for awhile.
6 years is awhile in my book
7 + years is a long time...LOL
Anyway, aren't ALL players one play away from an injury? I think the whole team could attest to that last year. Even Ben was kept as clean as he had in his career and still got injured. It happens.
Ive had 2 different back surgeries, I'm always 1 wrong turn or twist from reinjuring the area.
Football players that need to twist,turn and bend their bodies repetitively while pushing and pulling hundreds of pounds with a back problem are worse off in my opinion.


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After infiltrating so many industries, what will tablets take on next? The Drug Enforcement Agency has an idea: fighting crime.
The DEA is currently testing Dell's Latitude 10 tablet, and could eventually roll out 6,000 of the devices to its employees. According to Mark Shafernich, the agency's CTO, the program could not only save the government millions in IT expenses but also help agents snare crooks.
"[The DEA doesn't do] IT for IT's sake," he said in an interview. "Our users -- guys with guns, special agents -- are out there, on the street, doing surveillance." Tech expenses that don't support this goal, in other words, need not apply.
[ New ultrabooks with instant-on capability and all-day battery life are moving in on laptops and tablets. Read Ultrabooks Game Just Changed. ]
The Latitude tablets might make the cut, though, because they could help the agency realize its decade-long goal of reducing the number of computers it maintains. Because DEA agents generally split their time between the field and the office, the agency must pay to service two devices -- a desktop and some kind of mobile device -- for each of these employees.
Laptops might also have been a path to device consolidation, but tablets possess several advantages. The Latitudes are not only lighter and more mobile but also cheaper than the majority of comparably secure laptops, for example. They also possess vivid 10-inch screens that are ideal for viewing surveillance photos and other intelligence documents.
"We don't have the money to do anything right now, with sequestration, but we're doing this," Shafernich said. "It's worth making this investment."
A full tablet deployment might amount to $5 million in annual IT savings just by downsizing the number of devices the agency has to manage, said Shafernich. And that sum, although already substantial, could be just the tip of the iceberg.
As agents begin to view more electronic documents on their devices, paper and printer costs could be dramatically reduced, he said. This would make agents more productive by allowing them to spend more time tracking suspects.
"My guys spend one week out of every month coming back into the office to fill out paperwork. They've got a 25% downtime when they're not surveilling bad guys," Shafernich lamented. "We want [our agents] on the street, making cases."
With the Latitudes, he foresees that more paperwork can be done in the field, meaning agents can spend less time sitting at a desk and more time pursuing leads. Because the tablets can dock into a keyboard to double as an ad-hoc laptop, "Guys can type at three in the morning while watching a dark apartment waiting for someone to come out." He cited other productivity-boosting mobile applications, such as looking at license plate readers from a car or anywhere else the agent might need to be.
If agents can improve their efficiency, the DEA won't need to put more of them on the street, Shafernich pointed out, adding, "Think how big the labor savings could be."
Shafernich said that agents initially expressed interest in the iPad but were put off by the fact that it doesn't even support mouse input, making it impractical as a laptop replacement, whereas the Latitudes boast a range of keyboards and secure peripherals. "The iPad has a sexy user interface. But this is a virtual desktop, so that sexiness goes away," Shafernich noted.
Most agents work in Windows 7 via VDI, so the merits of Windows 8, the Latitude's native OS, was not why the DEA picked the tablet. Shafernich said mobile apps and touch are "fun outside of work" but that the Latitudes appeal because of their pragmatic qualities, such as easy integration into the agency's existing security and networking infrastructure.
Time will tell whether tablets make field agents more efficient, but the DEA's interest nonetheless speaks to the many roles tablets are assuming in the workplace. Though in some ways they remain less powerful and ergonomically pleasing than a laptop or desktop, the devices have grown too functional to ignore, especially given the advantages of mobility and their low prices.
The DEA's trial deployment avoids the issue of Windows 8's learning curve, but Microsoft's controversial OS is nonetheless poised to push the tablet appeal further than its competitors. It remains the only tablet operating system that can run x86 applications, and given that Microsoft Office will soon come preinstalled on smaller tablets, Microsoft seems intent on pushing this advantage. Windows 8.1, which will be released later this month as a public preview, is expected to improve the OS's user friendliness, and if it succeeds, Windows 8's combination of mobility and legacy compatibility could make it a BYOD force.
The success of Microsoft's OS aside, the tablet's worthiness as an enterprise-class tool becomes more apparent with each passing month. PCs will remain the primary device for many employees, but it's clear that tablets' usefulness is only increasing, and they will be workplace fixtures for the foreseeable future.


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The bulls look at the today's action and say breadth was pretty good, there was dip buying, a number of stocks were strong on earnings and the market logged more than 300 new highs.
The bears look at the same action and say stocks were mixed, quite a few stocks faded during the day and the market didn't close very well.
Both sides make valid points -- which is exactly what you'd expect in a market that is showing signs of topping. There are enough positives to keep the bulls pushing for more gains, but there are emerging negatives that are causing conservative investors to tighten up and lock in gains.
I feel ambivalent about the action. The major indices show signs of rolling over, but I'm impressed with the action I'm seeing in individual stocks. I keep warning that we shouldn't be anticipatory, but I wonder if I'm being overly critical of action that really isn't that bad.
What bothers me more than anything are the weak closes, and we now have two in a row after not having one all year. That is forcing me to be more cautious.
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Thursday night I told the family to forget the pumpkin pie, it is time to shop Black Friday deals. While most of my family gave me weird looks, some of them piled into the car in the name of research.
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That's Lance's move right there.
Hibbert with the low dribble drive...
There you go Dece he dunked
That was weird, Hibbs
But I'll take the dunk!
I'm pretty sure he said it twice.
Best Pacer to attend Xavier University, David West or James Posey?
lol @ hibbert wow
Impossible Is Nothing
Roy cannot back down sofalosha or whatever his name is
Roy committed a charge against himself there.
Great move, West.
I guess leaning into a player is a foul this game.
Kevin Martin has made it to December without an injury!
So why did they shy away from alley oop plays plays for Green?
Add another to the tally.
What was close to a 3-point play, netted us 0 points
It's tough to tell if Westbrook made the right play not passing to the wide open Thabeet there.
So frustrating to see so many free throws missed.Arghhhh!Great start nonetheless and we are suffocating them on defense.
Like our start. DWest is on a mission!
My 'out of state fan' game reports over the years
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Go UNDER the pick DJ.
Vogel should employ the Beat-a-Thabeet strategy.
Our new defensive strategy: Hack-a-Sheem.
And DJ just lost us the lead. Again
In the second quarter, we should attempt to average multiple passes per possession.


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Strictly Come Dancing Live
Strictly Come Dancing returns for the 2013 live tour, featuring a brand new line-up of top celebrities and their dance partners from the smash hit BBC1 show.
Craig Revel Horwood, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli are back as the tour's formidable judges. They will be on hand to give their expert feedback and all important scores to the celebrities and their dance partners.
The celebrities who will perform on the tour are Team GB Olympian Louis Smith, dancing sensation and TV actress Lisa Riley, Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer, much loved TV presenter Fern Britton, former England cricket captain and legend Michael Vaughan, West End star Denise Van Outen and former England Cricketer Phil Tufnell.
Strictly fans can watch their favourite dancing couples competing live for the votes and all important feedback of the TV judges and vote themselves via their mobile phone. Arena audiences will be able to experience Strictly's glitz, glamour and breath-taking choreography, courtesy of judge Craig Revel Horwood, who is directing the arena tour for the third year running.
This event takes place at Arena Birmingham, which has achieved Bronze Status for disabled access from Attitude Is Everything.
Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour
The arena tour of the hit BBC1 show. As with the TV version, the show will pit celebrity dancers and their partners against the judges. Audiences at each venue will then be able to vote live from their seats via text message.
'Pure Strictly magic, and as good as it gets' (Mail on Sunday)
'Faultlessly slick live' (Then Daily Telegraph)
'Dazzling, colourful and tuneful and full of big-hearted dancing' (Sunday Express)
'Tonight's show was a sell-out... The Strictly phenomenon is extraordinary' (Daily Mail)
'No one leaves without a smile on their face. Fabulous' (Daily Express).
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Venue: Arena Birmingham
Disabled Access: Bronze Status
Website: arenabham.co.uk
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Disabled Bookings: 0800 640 5001
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→ St Pauls 13 min walk
→ New Street 15 min walk
→ Snow Hill 15 min walk
→ Jewellery Quarter 12 min walk
→ Five Ways 13 min walk
→ Snow Hill 14 min walk


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Varsity Applique Pillow Cover
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This all American–style pillow is packed with personality. Add a varsity-style appliqué, double-stitched with contrasting thread colors.
- 18" square
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- Features navy piping around the border.
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- Machine wash.
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My survey of children's literature uncovered absolutely no great books covering the truth about good nutrition! Age 4 to 10 is a critical age for education on good lifestyle choices to begin.
My children's fiction book, The Adventures of Junk Food Dude, has delightful illustrations by Lori Sume. A child gets far more from the story than a solid grounding in what foods to eat, and what foods to avoid, to be happy, healthy, and active.
These are the other messages taught within in the story geared to a young audience:
- Eating raw fruits and vegetables, greens, legumes and whole grains, nuts and seeds is fun, delicious, and nourishing.
- The consequences for choosing good foods and bad foods are far more than sugar spikes and crashes. They include positive or negative mood, healthy or unhealthy weight, how attractive you look, and whether you are able to participate fully in fun activities.
- You don't have to be unpopular because you make excellent dietary choices.
- It's never too late to start changing our choices, and finding better consequences.
- You can reach out to others and teach them, too, including your own family. Others will follow your example and be blessed by it!
A fun quiz at the end has readers sorting Green Smoothie Guy's nutritious foods from Junk Food Dude's junk foods.
And illustrated recipes at the end allow any child to enjoy choosing and making better snacks.
I wrote this book so anyone who cares about a child can give a gift that is three things: entertaining, uplifting, and educational.
Junk Food Dude's Yummy Healthy Recipes
In The Adventures of Junk Food Dude, Connor sheds his nickname and learns to be healthy and green!
In so doing, he inspires his family and friends. You can do that, too! Even if you're very small.
That's the beautiful thing about recipes made with fruits and veggies. Most require no cooking!
Get help from a responsible adult with the stove or oven, and using a knife safely.
You can whip up beautiful, delicious things in the kitchen that feed your body what it needs, to help you be your very best self. And your family and friends will be amazed and gobble up your creations!
Colorful, mostly raw healthy foods bring out the very best you! And they are fun to prepare.
Every recipe has a full-color photo on the facing page! You can make salads, smoothies, main dishes, treats, and much more!


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Reusable Ultra-DrainSeals® stop spills from going down the drain
Both sides securely seal to any surface both indoors and outdoors
Ultra-DrainSeals® are a great addition to your emergency response plan, spill kit or stormwater management program. Made from a non-absorbing, polyurethane material with reinforcing mesh for maximum durability and tear resistance. Unique construction allows the pad to cling to any surface; and unlike some alternative seals, both sides will quickly seal drains - there is no specified top or bottom. Ultra-DrainSeals® are reusable and clean quickly and easily with soap and water. USA made.NOTE: For round drains, choose a size thats at least 3" larger than your drain diameter.