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I do believe that I can review the entire PGA Tour's 2012 season in two paragraphs or less. Starting at the beginning, Phil Mickelson had a nice win at Pebble Beach in February, Tiger Woods put on a patented late-round charge at the Honda Classic and yet still finished second to steely-nerved Rory McIlroy. Bubba Watson snap-hooked a gap wedge to win the Masters. Tiger Woods dunked a lob wedge to win the Memorial. Webb Simpson bumped a pitching wedge close on the final hole to capture the U.S. Open at San Francisco's Olympic Club.
Ernie Els turned back the clock and won the British Open for his fourth career major. Rory McIlory ran away with the PGA Championship and followed it up with two Fed Ex Cup victories. However, he didn't win the $10 million bonus. Finally, the Euros made the comeback of the ages in winning the Ryder Cup as the American squad snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
However, the word "finally" in that last sentence is premature at best. Yes, the four majors are in the record books, the Ryder Cup is back in Europe, and Brandt Snedeker has $10 million in Fed Ex Cup bucks. Still, the show must go on, and with that in mind, the PGA Tour returns to Northern California this weekend for the playing of the Frys.com Open at the swanky Corde Valle Golf Club outside San Jose. The Frys has a $5 million purse and a winner's share of $900,000. Bryce Molder is back to defend his title. One year ago, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els were in the field, using the Frys as a warm-up to the Presidents Cup Matches.
While Tiger Woods is not in the field this time around, British Open champ Ernie Els will be at Corde Valle. In fact, his pairing over the past two days included former British Open winner Ben Curtis alongside Masters' winner Trevor Immelman. Other entries in the Frys include three-time major champion Vijay Singh, past major winners Angel Cabrera, John Daly, Davis Love III, Todd Hamilton and Justin Leonard as well as established professionals such as Camilo Villegas, Rocco Mediate, Jerry Kelly, Stuart Appleby and Aaron Baddeley.
Along with last week's Las Vegas Justin Timberlake tourney and up-and-coming events at Sea Island, Georgia and Disney World in Orlando, the Frys is a part of a four-tournament package called the Fall Series. You probably won't see Tiger or Phil at any of these Fall Finish events, nor will you get to see Bubba or Webb tee it up. Their season is basically over.
The Fall Series is the final, final chapter of 2012 golf on the PGA Tour. It is the last chance for journeymen to win a circuit event, and more importantly, it is the last chance for golfers on the bubble to advance within the top 125 money winners, guaranteeing exempt status on tour for 2013. Last week, the Fall Series tourney in Las Vegas was very good to Ryan Moore.
Yet after this year, the Fall Series will be no more. The tournaments will basically remain in their same location on the calendar, but they will no longer be mere afterthoughts to the big names of the PGA Tour. Starting in October 2013, all events on the PGA Tour will have equal status as far as garnering Fed Ex Cup points. Similar to the calendar of the European PGA Tour, the 2014 season will commence in the autumn of 2013, running from October to the following September. The tournaments that are currently part of the Fall Series will be the leadoff events on a revised PGA Tour schedule.
The former Fall Series events will be the season openers, to be followed by two big-money Asian tournaments, the CIMB Classic in Malaysia and the HSBC Championship, a World Golf Championship event in China with a $7 million payout. The PGA Tour will then flow into the new year on the West Coast, continue through the major season, and finalize the season with the Fed Ex Cup playoffs in September.
The other change will come about with the elimination of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, better known as Q School. First held in 1965 at the PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, it featured a graduating class of medalist John Schlee, Jim Colbert and future Cypress Point professional Jim Langley. Q School will be no more after 47 years.
Starting in 2012, the top 125 golfers will be exempt into the next season. The other 50 or so spots on tour will come from the minor league Web.com Tour. There will be a qualifying series of tournaments for former college stars and journeyman professionals, but success in that venture will only get you onto the Web.com Tour. You can no longer jump from the driving range in Dothan to the Hawaiian Open.
The golfing-rich days of Q School with past medalists such as Ben Crewnshaw (1973), Fuzzy Zoeller (1974), Jerry Pate (1975) and Ed Fiori (1977) will never again be re-created nor will all those Q School horror stories about the final-hole triple-bogeys ever be told again. Golf has always been about the rise of the unknown, be it Moe Norman, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Lee Trevino or John Daly. They were qualifiers who found the winner's circle. That chapter of golf is history. The all-exempt tour has taken care of that. A part of golf's colorful side history will forever be a distant memory.
The Raiders are on the road this Sunday at Atlanta and the Niners host the defending Super Bowl-champion New York Giants. Stanford is at Notre Dame, Cal is at Washington State, and for those of us at the Record-Bee who follow U.C. Davis football, the Aggies are on the road in Pocatella against Idaho State. Baseball's playoffs have had exciting five-game series and are now fully involved in the League Finals.
In the midst of all of this, the PGA is at Corde Valle Golf Club in the South Bay this weekend. In the big picture of golf, it doesn't carry the weight of a Masters green jacket or a British Open claret jug. Yet, for all those gifted pros who are still fighting for a spot among golf's top 125, it is a crucial time of the year, far more important to their career than any U.S. Open or PGA Championship. It's the Fall Series and it's their final, final opportunity to be a part of the 2013 PGA Tour.


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The brunette trend is still sweeping through Hollywood, and formerly blonde bombshell Carmen Electra is the newest convert. At a Mohegan Sun party over the weekend, Electra debuted her dark espresso locks, which are a radical departure from the light caramel color we are used to seeing her in. (Her reps confirm that it's just for fun, not a role.) We have always loved her as a blonde, but the dark hair does set off her baby blues. Tell us: what do you think of Carmen Electra's new look? Love it or hate it?
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Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
Sometimes, though, something truly revolutionary cuts through the clutter and fundamentally changes the game. And with that in mind, Wired is looking back over 12 decades to highlight the 12 most innovative people, places and things of their day. From the first transatlantic radio transmissions to cellphones, from vacuum tubes to microprocessors, we'll run down the most important advancements in technology, science, sports and more.
This week's installment takes us into the future, when cars drive themselves, we find out we're not alone and healthcare finally works.
We don't expect you to agree with all of our picks, or even some of them. That's fine. Tell us what you think we've missed and we'll publish your list later.
The Discovery of Earth's Twin (Science)
It's somewhere out there. The perfect planet. A world the same size, shape, distance, and composition as our own: Earth's twin. Astronomers don't know exactly when they'll find it but chances are very good that it'll be in the coming years. And it's even more likely that they won't just find one world like this, but instead hundreds.
NASA currently has the Kepler space telescope in orbit around the sun. Its mission is to discover strange new worlds and, even more importantly, determine the percentage of stars in our galaxy that could potentially host life. That is, the number of stars that have planets with the conditions that we know are conducive to developing organisms. This means they are about the same size as Earth and orbit at the right distance to have liquid water on their surface. Scientists don't think that these are the only circumstances under which life arises, simply the only ones that we have an example where they do.
Hopefully, sometime before the end of the decade either Kepler or some other planet-hunting telescope will peer out and spot a solar system around a sun-like star that looks like our own. Orbiting within it in a period of around 300 days will be a tiny, rocky planet that looks very familiar. It will still be a very long time before we can determine whether or not such a world has life. But at least we'll be able to gaze up and know that, out in the universe, there is some place like home.
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Autonomous Cars (Transportation)
The transportation universe in the next decade won't look much different from today, save for some innovative vehicle designs, more reliance on alternative powertrains, automation on the roads and in the skies, and the continued commoditization of getting travelers from point A to B.
Widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles won't take place until deep into the 2020s, but pulling disparate active safety systems together will create something close to a car that drives itself – if just at low speeds. The aerospace industry will likely be much the same, relying even more on autopilot systems for even short distance flights. And while high-speed rail and mass public transport has been promised for the better part of a century, without the infrastructure, political backing and – most importantly – cash to make it work, we'll continue to rely on dedicated passenger vehicles to get us around ... for now.
Image: U.S. DOT
Wearable Technology (Gadgets)
The future is wearable.
As processors and components grow ever smaller, and cheaper, we'll put our gadgets on our wrists, at our fingertips and right before our very eyes. Our watches, our eyeglasses and even our clothes will be embedded with enough sensors and processors to make even the slimmest smartphone seem clunky and inconvenient.
Google is embracing the trend with its prototype Google Glass project, a pair of glasses that provides hands-free and augmented reality access to what today we access on a smartphone or tablet. Just a tap at your temple, and you can snap a picture. What was that funny video you saw on YouTube? Pull it up and watch it in front of your retinas. Ask for directions aloud, and the path is laid virtually in front of you.
A variety of companies including Nike and Jawbone are taking a wrist-worn approach to mobile computing, using accelerometers, gyroscopes and other chips (along with a sizeable amount of waterproofing) to track your daily activities and sync with mobile devices. These guys are only going to get smarter and more capable over the coming years, taking on more functions like voice-control and call handling, so that smartphone becomes less and less important to your mobile communication and data needs. Even Apple is rumored to get in on the trend with a Bluetooth watch.
Once purely the object of sci-fi fantasies, this stuff is being developed today, and we could start having usable versions of this technology as the decade progresses.
Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Growing the Visual Funnel
Over the next decade, we're looking forward to a few nascent camera technologies becoming realized. A few of them, such as eye-controlled focus and shutter (like the Iris camera above), will erode the hardware interface of taking photos down to its minimum components – just focus on what you want to photograph with your own eye, and blink.
Others will allow us to see our reality in more detail than ever before, and we're not just talking about super-high resolution. Ever faster image-capture techniques will allow us to dissect light in upward of one-trillionth-of-a-second increments, leading to unknown discoveries.
New breakthroughs in quantum physics will allow us to take images from around corners. A technology that, if the past is any precedent, will likely trickle down from military applications to your smartphone faster than anyone is comfortable with. That comfort level will be nuked by satellites' ability to identify and track you as soon as you step out of your house. Almost every cool advancement in camera technology has disturbing implications for privacy and surveillance.
On the plus side, expect your mobile camera to explode with features while shrinking in size – think Lytro-style with hi-res, 3-D capabilities.
A camera is essentially a funnel of visual information onto a recording medium, and eventually that funnel will expand exponentially. The limit it approaches is not a version of our own human vision, but a different kind of seeing entirely. Its event horizon will likely merge with those of other technology fields, resulting in, if not the Singularity, a dramatic change in how we perceive reality.
But lets not get ahead of ourselves. A 3-D video camera on a smartphone would be pretty cool.Photo: Mimi Zou, Iris
Wide-Area Surveillance (War)
Drones revolutionized warfare in the 2000s, with cameras that could spy on a few city blocks at a time. Now imagine what drones will do in the 2010s when they get sensors that can keep watch over an the area the size of a small city.
The Pentagon calls it wide-area surveillance, and a sensor called Argus (seen above) or "Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System" is a notable example. Its 92 5-megapixel cameras can monitor up to 10 times more ground — at double the resolution — than conventional sensors used by the military's Predator-style drones. Its name is also eerily appropriate, referencing the mythical ancient Greek giant Argus Panoptes with his 100 all-seeing eyes.
In addition, there's another system called "Vigilant Stare," which is being marketed by developer Sierra Nevada Corporation for domestic use. The Department of Homeland Security has also tested out a 200-megapixel camera system called the "Kestrel" along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The problem is handling all the data. For one, the systems produce ridiculous amounts of it. The cameras on Argus can pull in 6 petabytes of data per day, or 6 quadrillion bytes. It's the equivalent of nearly 80 years of high-definition video, which the Pentagon simply does not have enough people to sort through. Another Pentagon camera project with the nightmarish name "Gorgon Stare" ran into problems after it began pulling in more data than there was available bandwidth, creating lots of latency.
This might partly be solved with algorithms that can automate some of the spying, or a kind of visual-intelligence system that lets the computer figure out what's important, and what's not. But the military better hurry, because its cameras are only getting more advanced, and its data is only growing even larger.
Image: Darpa
DesignARs (Design)
In the latter part of the 20th century, and the first part of the 21st, technology and the internet have helped proliferate new design tools. Much of what used to be designed in the real world — via drafting sheets and handmade prototypes — has moved online. It's both an advantage and a disadvantage. It's faster and cheaper to create in virtual 3-D space, but it's not always possible to tell exactly how something will interact in the real world.
3-D printing has compensated for this problem a bit, offering an easy way to create models, but in the coming decades, augmented reality will further offset it. Design tools will increasingly use feature augmented reality overlays, placing your creation in its intended environment and making it fit with its surroundings.
It's not enough to show a picture. Augmented-reality tools will be able to incorporate the design elements of existing items, via cached data from the files used to create those items in the first place. For example, if you want to make a case for a phone, software will lay your design over an existing phone, evaluate what it is, and access cached information from that phone's design. The result: a hybridization of physical and digital design.
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Everything Converges Into Your Pocket
Videogame development, and the business around it, is moving so quickly that it's impossible to pin down what the big stories of the next decade will be. But right now, the story is convergence devices; whether it's an iPhone or an Android tablet or who knows what, a device in your pocket or by your nightstand is rapidly becoming able to replace dozens of different things you used to have to own, and for many people that includes a portable gaming system. As tablets get more powerful, the likelihood that alternative devices like this will obviate the need for dedicated game consoles becomes greater and greater. And the open nature of these platforms lets indie developers play in the same pool as the big boys, leading to an explosion of creative new content. Game creators might be freaking out about whether they'll survive in the great unknown, but for players, this decade will be the best one ever.
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired
Internet Memes (Entertainment)
As the 2010s get under way, internet memes are taking over the mainstream. From Mitt Romney gaffing about "binders full of women" to President Barack Obama goofing with McKayla Maroney, cultural riffs and ideas are spreading at a rapid-fire pace never before possible.
It's only going to accelerate, for better and for worse. It's one thing for viral videos to jump from YouTube to Hollywood (think Gangnam Style: The Movie), but it's more ominous when internet memes jump from Twitter and Facebook to setting the agenda for actual news coverage. We now have the tools to take sound bite journalism to the next level. Will the next president hire a Minister of Memes? We might get to the point where we long for the innocence of LOLcats.
Image: via Know Your Meme
Kim Dotcom (Security)
On Jan. 19, 2012, Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was 'among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States."
Seven individuals — including Megaupload founder Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom — connected to the Hong Kong-based site were indicted on a variety of charges, including criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
As the future approaches, we anticipate that Dotcom goes on to become a billionaire with the founding of his new Mega file-sharing service. He beats the rap on U.S. criminal copyright infringement charges because the authorities were never able to extradite him from New Zealand, where he was arrested.
He later goes on to become one of New Zealand's highest-ranking politicians, but is removed from office after it was discovered he was watching porn 24/7 on government computers.
Oscar Pistorius and Prosthetic Athletics (Sports)
The runners awaiting the handoff at this summer's 4x400-meter Olympic relay semifinal much the same — long and lean and exquisitely sculpted bodies. They looked like the classic runners of yore. All except for Oscar Pistorius. Standing there atop his carbon fiber prosthetic blades, Pistorius looked like the future.
Pistorius was the first double amputee to compete in the Olympic Games, and though he wasn't the first, or even second or third, disabled athlete to compete in the Games, he arguably was the most noteworthy. His results — a semifinal appearance in the 400 meters and an eighth-place finish with South Africa's 4x400 relay team — were a footnote to the larger story of whether his prosthetic legs gave him an unfair advantage over other runners. One side claimed his springy Flex-Foot Cheetahs and lighter legs made him able to reposition his limbs faster, while the other side countered that Pistorius was held back by the prostheses' less efficient means of returning energy with each stride.
But Pistorius' Olympic appearance proved one thing: We're nearing the time where prostheses can precisely mimic biologic function, and we'll have to figure out what that means for athletic competition. For now, we have the Olympic Games and the Paralympics — which had their own share of standout performances — but we may soon see the day when "disabled" athletes compete alongside their able-bodied colleagues.
"Fifty years from now, we may not have [the Olympics and Paralympics]," Andy Miah, a chair in Ethics and Emerging Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland, told us during the Games. "We may have only one set of performances that people compete in, that reveal how capable they are at using their bodies in combination with technology. When I tune into the Olympics 50 years from now, I not only expect to see different kinds of sports [than we have today], but you never know — I may even be competing there."
Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
The Pluto Switch
This past February, a mystery computing device appeared at a warehouse on the edge of Iowa. Clearly, it was a network switch — a device that moves information between computers — but it was unlike any network switch available on the open market. Even the ports where you plug in the cables were different.
As it turns out, the device belonged to Google — or at least, that's the word from two men who laid their hands on the thing. The device is still shrouded in a fair amounts of mystery, but it's a symbol for the way the computing world is changing. In building the world's largest online empire, Google found it could no longer rely on traditional computing hardware from the likes of Cisco, HP, Dell, and IBM, and it starting building its own stuff, including servers and networking switches.
These devices were designed to save power and cost, but they also aimed to significantly simplify data-center hardware. In the Google world, the complexity is moved into the software.
In the coming years, we'll see the rest of the computing world more in this same direction. In fact, it's already moving in that same direction. The age of the all-powerful, super-expensive hardware device is over, and we're moving into an age where software is king. In the future, the entire web will run more like Google.
Images: networking-forum.com
Healthcare Is Technology's Next Big Fix – At Least It Better Be (Business)
For a lot of good (and bad) reasons, healthcare has been an industry that hasn't benefited much from Moore's Law, and all the goodness that technology brings. With the healthcare industry showing signs of straining to the point of breaking, millions more people coming into the system under President Obama's healthcare reform, and regulations that require it, healthcare's resistance to technology (the kind that is more computer science than biological science) is finally yielding.
Everything from the quantified-self movement and all those health-monitoring gizmos we'll be wearing, to chatting with doctors on our iPads and cheap genetic screening, will become commonplace in the decade to come. And it will happen thanks to a wave of entrepreneurs who see the problems that technology can fix in a $2.6 trillion industry, and the opportunities this mess presents. The propeller heads at McKinsey estimate that in the U.S. alone there is a $300 billion productivity opportunity in health care if we find ways to improve quality and lower costs. And that's just the U.S.
We're not talking about curing cancer, though that would be fantastic. It's the simple blocking and tackling that technology does so well, amassing data, looking for patterns and coming up with better answers to better health.
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David Keplinger, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Literature Department and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, has released his new book of poems, The Most Natural Thing.
"[These poems were] a matter of experimenting in form, as a way to discover new subjects," says Keplinger, who considers that one of the most important parts of writing poetry.
The process of discovery, or treading into parts of the self, is ultimately represented metaphorically in the book of poems through the themes of anatomy and translation. The collection grapples with the idea of how the human body has individual functioning parts that all work jointly together.
In the following poem, the jaw is the point in which the meditation rises:
The Jaw
You must hit to the jaw, my father says. I know his hands ache in their taping, and mine do, too. As a young man in a bar in Barcelona he was hit from behind with a bottle and fell into his attacker's arms, who cut him in the face. We must hit to the jaw, he says, and when it's my turn the bag is still swaying. He's seventy three years old. He holds his hands in protection, up high. He's filled with these crazy expressions: Hit to the jaw. Keep up your guard. Punch hard, once. Don't think you have forever.
"I see each poem as a window into the self," says Keplinger.
The poems are structured as prose, into paragraphs, inextricably linked to create a narrative, a way of sharing thoughts, memories, and even dreams.
"The form is helping me to revive parts of myself, to go imaginatively where I have never gone, or to places in memory I've forgotten," Keplinger says.
In this way, he says, poetry is a means by which we can explore ourselves and our relationships with others and the outside world. And by doing so, he explains, "You are going to this place where you are less likely to go. You discover things that are deeper, that are coming from a more dangerous place, a more vulnerable place in you."
Much of the material ties into his older works and has no set theme. The poems are a compilation based upon experience, and so these poems, Keplinger says, "can take years to finish, even if at the end they are the size of a paragraph."
For Keplinger, the meaning of every word comes into play. "The reader brings meaning to the work through the ways in which words converse with other words."
The Most Natural Thing will be published March 12 by New Issues Press. Keplinger is the author of three other works: The Rose Inside (Truman State), winner of the 1999 T. S. Elliot Prize; The Clearing (New Issues Press); and The Prayers of Others (New Issues Press).


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JUST IN: The Green Light with FGR fan John Light
9:58am Monday 13th January 2014
By John Light
9:58am Monday 13th January 2014
By John Light
FRUSTRATION and hope! Football fans are used to both states of mind, but not often at the same time, as is the current case at Forest Green.
Frustration first. The team is better than its league position shows. Matches are being dominated but not won. The last two televised matches against Hereford are classic examples.
Yet again Rovers have fallen victim of the curse of the cameras failing to do themselves justice when on television. Twenty one shots for Rovers and four for Hereford show the extent of home team domination, yet there is just one point to show for all our efforts.
Fair play to Hereford who certainly know how to defend, but they should have left The New Lawn empty handed.
Frustration also because of injuries. I like Racine as a centre- half but how often is he fit?
The previous manager thought him the most promising of all our central defenders but his frequent absences are denying him the chance to prove it.
Yet again the match against Grimsby will be played with another makeshift back four on Tuesday.
The situation is of course compounded by another red card and subsequent suspension. Dale Bennett may have been unlucky but foul and abusive language is, as it should be, a sending off offence.
Dale has a defence in this instance because it is a law that is inconsistently applied. Nevertheless our card count is far too high and the resultant suspensions have weakened the team.
Would it not be a worthwhile idea to invite a senior referee to explain to the players what is expected on the field? Some are obviously naive. Hereford defended strongly and robustly but conceded seven free kicks. Rovers gave away 17. These are stark figures. You cannot blame referees for that imbalance.
When I first spoke to the manager he hoped this column would always be positive, and there are so many reasons for being exactly that.
The first can be summed up in two words, Reece Styche. We all know what Reece can do. Yes, he plays on the edge, but an edge is exactly what he gives us.
Running at defences with spirit and vigour he gives our team a threat that has so often been lacking. It is important to manage his fitness but perhaps now is the time for him to start games.
Danny Wright unstinting in his efforts this season, deserves a rest and of course is a ready-made replacement if Reece tires.
Thank goodness the rumours of Reece leaving seem groundless. He joined the press at a recent away game and his knowledge, love of the game and loyalty to Forest Green were so clearly obvious.
I mentioned hope earlier on and I am looking forward to a delicious moment on Tuesday evening when the newly repaired drum (Richard – not Chris Chandler – is the man to thank) is banged in celebration of Reece scoring the winning goal.
Another real reason for hope is the use being made of the transfer window. Lee Hughes would have been the subject of many offers but chose Rovers.
That is an example of an experienced and streetwise player realising the potential here. I thought when Barnes Homer signed it was an expensive and unnecessary signing. Nothing subsequently happened that made me change my mind. He has made a move that is good for all concerned and I wish him well. We shall soon I expect be reading about others on their way.
Saul Williams, moving to Paulton came after the Somerset club had failed in a move for Lee Smith of Cirencester. Since leaving Forest Green Lee has been nomadic, playing for Nuneaton, Worcester, Cinderford and Gloucester.
Now 30 years- old, Lee is playing the best football of his career. He has scored over 20 goals and with the ball played to his feet he is a constant danger.
Steve Davies, also formerly of this parish plays alongside him in the Centurions attack, where on Saturday Jody Bevan scored his 250th goal. Congratulations to a genuine football man.
There is still hope of a late play-off push, but each game makes that look more unlikely.
There is real hope however that Ady uses the rest of the season to sort out the wheat from the chaff and by May we will see a Rovers' team emerging that will give us genuine hope for next season. The frustration of being the season's under achievers can be well and truly banished.
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Value of Urodynamics Prior to Stress Incontinence Surgery 2 (VUSIS 2)
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To test the value of preoperatively performed urodynamics with regard to outcome of surgery for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and to examine whether not performing urodynamics preoperatively is more cost effective than performing urodynamics preoperatively using the non-inferiority assumption.
|Stress Urinary Incontinence
|Procedure: midureteral sling Other: surgical therapy or conservative
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
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|a Multicentered Randomised Controlled Trial to Test the Cost Effectiveness of Urodynamics in Women With Symptoms of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Whom Surgical Treatment is Considered
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Non inferiority of the improvement of the urinary distress inventory one year after treatment. [ Time Frame: one year ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Cure of incontinence as measured with voiding diary. Complications of surgery for stress urinary incontinence, in particular re-operations and overactive bladder symptoms. Quality of life as measured by RAND-36, Euroqol and IIQ. [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
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|January 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Active Comparator: surgical therapy
Procedure: midureteral sling
midureteral sling
|Active Comparator: individual management
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midureteral sling or conservative; medication, physiotherapy
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|Child, Adult, Senior
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Symptoms of stress urinary incontinence and/or mixed urinary incontinence, predominantly stress incontinence
- Signs of stress urinary incontinence on physical examination or voiding-diary
- Patient is a candidate for surgical treatment (as based on history and physical examination)
- Patient has attended at least 3 months of physiotherapy
- Patient accepts randomisation
- Patient is capable to fill out bladder diary's, pad tests and questionnaires
- Patient understands the Dutch written and spoken language
- ASA 1 or 2
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous incontinence surgery
- Mixed urinary incontinence, urge component is predominant
- Prolapse >= 1cm beyond the hymen on Valsalva in supine position
- Postvoid urinary residual > 150ml
- Present urinary tract infection
- The need for additional pelvic surgery (prolapse and/or hysterectomy)
- Patient is or wants to become pregnant
- Prior pelvic radiotherapy
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
van Leijsen SA, Kluivers KB, Mol BW, Hout Ji, Milani AL, Roovers JP, Boon Jd, van der Vaart CH, Langen PH, Hartog FE, Dietz V, Tiersma ES, Hovius MC, Bongers MY, Spaans W, Heesakkers JP, Vierhout ME; Dutch Urogynecology Consortium. Value of urodynamics before stress urinary incontinence surgery: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2013 May;121(5):999-1008. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31828c68e3.
van Leijsen SA, Kluivers KB, Mol BW, Broekhuis SR, Milani FL, van der Vaart CH, Roovers JP, Bongers MY, den Boon J, Spaans WA, de Leeuw JW, Dietz V, Kleinjan JH, Brölmann HA, Roos EJ, Schaafstra J, Heesakkers JP, Vierhout ME. Protocol for the value of urodynamics prior to stress incontinence surgery (VUSIS) study: a multicenter randomized controlled trial to assess the cost effectiveness of urodynamics in women with symptoms of stress urinary incontinence in whom surgical treatment is considered. BMC Womens Health. 2009 Jul 21;9:22. doi: 10.1186/1472-6874-9-22.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00814749 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 24, 2008
|Last Updated:
|December 24, 2008
Keywords provided by Radboud University:
stress urinary incontinence
randomized clinical trial
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Urinary Incontinence
Urinary Incontinence, Stress
Urination Disorders
Urologic Diseases
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Urological Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Behavioral Symptoms
Elimination Disorders
Mental Disorders
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Van Alexander, former media and communications consultant at the Michael Jackson Company, and longtime colleague of Raymone K. Bain and Davis, Bain & Associates, Inc., passed away on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, from complications stemming from a recently diagnosed immune disorder.
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When Michael Jackson founded the Michael Jackson Company in 2006, Mr. Alexander became a media and communications consultant in the company and traveled extensively with Mr. Jackson.
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To cope with rising tuition, American families depend on both federal and private student loans. Outstanding student loan debt has reached more than $1 trillion; private student loans account for more than $150 billion of that debt, according to the CFPB's annual student loan report.
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The Vikings cross-country team steamrolled its competition at the Sparks Railroader Invitational last weekend.
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As a result Ministry of Information of People's Republic of Bangladesh has been announced the Community Radio Install, Broadcast and Operation 2008 for the first time in Bangladesh.The Ministry of information has also formulated three committees i.e National Regulatory Committee, Technical sub committee and Central Monitoring Committee to look after the smooth operation of community radio in Bangladesh.
By the way the technical sub-committee formed in accordance with the community radio policy 2008, sent a list of 124 Government and non-government organizations after sorting out of 180 applications to the National Regulatory Committee headed by Information Secretary. This committee selected 116 organizations eligible for license on Tuesday 15th July, 2008. Notably, 400 organizations drew application forms from the Ministry but only 180 submitted their applications for license. Having insufficient documents, papers and qualifications for the license, applications of those organizations have been ineligible of the consideration for license.
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Thanks... was just about to post this for those folks that kept suggesting that Peyton wouldn't take any less... come on now guys... now that is out of the way lets get to spending ...
P.S. This doesn't mean go out and overpay Addai...
Why so SERIOUS
I love that he made this public. I have heard for a while now (from all the Peyton haters) that he doesn't care about winning and he just wants the money.
I just hope the Colts use the money wisely.
I think this deal would have been done if Peyton took a a 18 million dollar contract.
I figured that would be the case folks will say otherwise like PFT can't change that I guess.
But now what?
I mean if its not the $$$ what's the hold up?
Anyone who thinks this deal is what's keeping the Colts from joining the FA frenzy doesn't know this team at all they don't go for the Nnamdi's of the world that much is obvious.
Exactly... Peyton will probably wait until everyone else is signed and then work out a deal... not really worried all that much... Colts are going to only target their players so it really doesn't matter much as long as we get them signed the FO will be happy..
Really I hope we get the ROOKIES signed they need to be in camp right now more than anyone, especially when some are supposed to be starting this year... and at the tackle positions... hummm that might end up being a stretch for this year...
Why so SERIOUS
The FA pool is drying up and for sure this deal not being done has limited our ability to sign guys.
And you really thought this team was going after Eric Weddle?
I knew he wasn't going to come here. If anything I could see Eric's agent putting names out there so the Chargers would pay him more.
Even if Manning takes less they won't spend that much on FA I don't get why others think otherwise.


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Michael Nugent was recently appointed executive director at Life Care Center of Littleton, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility.
"We have an exceptionally qualified staff here," said Nugent, "and the building itself is beautiful."
Nugent comes to Life Care Center of Littleton from San Diego, Calif., where he served as executive director at a skilled nursing facility. Prior to that appointment, he was executive director at a skilled nursing facility in Hot Springs, Mont.
More than 20 million pet owners across the country will dress up their pets this Halloween, according to a report released by the National Retail Federation. With more than $350 million forecast to be spent on pet costumes in 2015, there will be no shortage of dressed-up pets hitting social media and online photo contests, including Deer Creek Animal Hospital in South Jeffco.
If the thought of sweaters, scarves and pumpkins makes your heart beat a little faster, some awesome autumn activities await on Saturday in Littleton.
The Hudson Gardens Festifall and the Littleton Museum's Harvest Festival both take place on Saturday. The annual celebrations of fall will offer attendees plenty of reasons to get into the spirit of the season, along with a chance to help a worthy cause.
The Foothills Park and Rec District will host its first-ever job fair on Saturday for potential employees looking for seasonal or part-time work later this year.
Foothills has openings for seasonal and part-time employees in aquatics, golf course and parks maintenance, children's programs, and front-desk staffing, said Wenonah Macdonald, the district's human resources administrator.
In 1887, Colorado was among the first five states to officially recognize the contributions of laborers by creating a holiday to honor them.
The Columbine Courier has highlighted four residents whose daily work keeps South Jefferson County in motion, though their diverse careers represent only a tiny slice of all the jobs in our coverage area.
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David Kacprowicz gets a lot of questions about his job when people hear what he does for a living.
The Littleton Museum offered a free course for children in the 1860s cabin on Saturday, where they learned how butter was made in the olden days.
They also learned how the pioneers kept butter fresh without refrigeration and were able to taste the results of their efforts.
Joshua Arne, a member of Boy Scout Troop 640 in Littleton, earned his Eagle Scout rank on Oct. 24.
To attain the rank of Eagle Scout, Joshua earned 22 merit badges and served his troop in a variety of leadership roles. He completed a community service project, building two raised flower beds at Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue. He is a member of the Order of the Arrow in Scouts and the Denver Zoo Boy Scouts Explorer program.
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The year was 1943, when a gallon of gas cost 15 cents, "Casablanca" won the Oscar for best picture, the Marine Corps opened its ranks to women — and Irene Downey of Littleton was among the first to enlist.
Downey was 22 years old that year and living in Illinois.
Donald Rosier, chairman of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners was one of 23 leaders in county government from across the United States who participated in a national leadership institute developed by the National Association of Counties and the Cambridge Leadership Associates.
The four-day institute, held June 3-7 in Washington, D.C., challenged participants to consider innovative approaches to address key issues facing their home county and residents.
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mikenz66 wrote:Alobha wrote:That may be right for a less-formal training of the Brahma Viharas, where it depends much on the situation what is most skillful to develop. However, it stands in contrast with the non-random order given like in the Sankhitta Sutta (and a few other Suttas) and the Visuddhi Magga.
See also this recent discussion of the Sanghahitta Sutta:
Thanks Mike. I don't look into the study section very often, but this was very helpful indeed! It's interesting that there are clearly different sequential approaches to awakening and of course those depended on the context / the person who asked the Buddha for advice. Neither of them are "wrong", since they all work and lead to the same result, but different people benefit from different advice on how to best proceed. I think that's important to keep in mind.
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Study finds pregnancy nausea drug won't harm fetus
There's reassuring news for pregnant women miserable with morning sickness: A very large study in Denmark finds no evidence that using a popular anti-nausea drug will harm their babies.
One in 10 pregnant women has nausea and vomiting bad enough to need medicine but many forgo it out of fear of side effects. No drugs are currently approved for morning sickness in the U.S. although doctors are free to prescribe whatever they believe is best.
Zofran has been the top choice. Yet women and doctors have been leery of it because a small study previously suggested it might raise the risk of a birth defect -- cleft palate.
Dr. Iffath Hoskins, a high-risk pregnancy specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center and a spokeswoman for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says the new study found no evidence of major birth-related problems, so women should not be afraid to use Zofran if they need it.
Results of the study appear in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann appears poised to turn away a strong Sixth District charge from DFL challenger Jim Graves' and win their Sixth District battle, narrowly notching a fourth term in Congress.
Minnesota news organizations began reporting Bachmann's 51 percent to 49 percent margin of victory shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday. Unofficial results reported shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday and posted on the Minnesota Secretary of State's website showed Bachmann with a narrower lead. Bachmann had received 176,284 votes (50.40 percent) to Graves' 172,553 votes (49.33 percent) with 274 out of 280 precincts reporting.
Graves, an independently wealthy businessman and hotel developer from St. Cloud who cast himself as a pro-business candidate, directly challenged Bachmann's conservative grip on the Sixth District. Throughout a long election night, the margin between the two candidates remained razor-thin as election returns trickled in from throughout the district.
The tight race surprised Chase Kroll, Bachmann's campaign manager, but he remained confident Bachmann would emerge victorious. "I did not think it was going to be this late, but I still think we are going to win," he said. Kroll predicted that unreported results in Sherburne County and Wright County would push Bachmann to an early morning victory. "We are still looking at the vast majority of Sherburne County," Kroll said shortly before 1 a.m. "Sherburne County will create a very wide margin for Michele. Kroll didn't think the possibility of a recount was likely. "I don't think it's going to happen," he said. Additionally, Kroll said Bachmann would not speak with reporters until later Wednesday or after the Associated Press officially called the Sixth District race.
Campaign Manager Adam Graves said Wednesday morning shortly before 5 a.m. the Graves campaign would issue a later statement but wasn't willing to concede the race.


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Utilities must pick a business model!
Utilities should seize the day and determine their own business model, which could dictate how they engage with customers and consumers—there's a distinction—as well as influencing their technology roadmap.
That statement isn't particularly groundbreaking, but two trends over the past two years underscore the urgency around taking the initiative in these matters, according to an executive who performs global, power-related consumer surveys.
Every year Accenture performs a global survey to better understand energy consumers, country by country. You can explore the minutiae around the global consultancy's findings—including North America—in the document, "Actionable Insights for the New Energy Consumer."
And you can consult the write-ups we've done on Accenture's global surveys in the past three years:
- "Accenture On Utilities and Customers" (2012)
- "What Does Today's Electricity Customer Want?" (2011)
- "Consumer Behavior and Electricity Usage" (2010)
Today, let's consider those two recent trends I mentioned, and a few related concepts. I spoke yesterday on the topic with Greg Guthridge, Accenture's global managing director of retail and business services for utilities, who oversees consumer-related research in the power industry.
First, the trend toward the use of social media and self-service options has grown markedly since the first Accenture global survey on consumers and energy two years ago. Second, the number of consumers who will default to their utility for discussions of energy-related matters is falling; increasingly, consumers will speak with anyone who offers value around energy management.
In fact, Guthridge said, set aside "the Googles" for a moment and consider that telcos, cable companies and home security firms are offering home energy management services.
The trends in social media and self service and away from the utility as a trusted source underscore the urgency for utilities to determine their best business model going forward, Guthridge told me.
Accenture has developed four basic business models that utilities are likely to follow, ranging from simple commodity provider to a specialized energy service company with bundled products and services. Those business models reflect whether a utility has the scale and sophistication to "go it alone" or whether it's better off partnering with third parties for value-added services. The failure to determine one's own fate may well pave the way for the dreaded "disintermediation," which simply means that someone else has your customer's attention and, possibly, money.
Placing power utilities into the context of other verticals illuminates hidden value that awaits discovery and exploitation, Guthridge said. In the utility realm, for instance, about 30 percent of customers use social media and self-service options, while 70 percent are agent-assisted. Those proportions are reversed for most other verticals.
"This is a huge opportunity to reinvent your customer interaction strategy, save money and improve satisfaction," Guthridge said. "There's a lot of value locked up there."
On the topic of social media, it's worth noting that electricity consumers have been known to post outage notifications on Facebook, assuming that the utility is listening to that channel. It's important that utilities use social media not only as a means of communication and a type of self service but also to monitor consumer concerns and perceptions of the utility.
Guthridge had begun our conversation with a frank assessment of power utility rhetoric and reality around "customers" and "consumers" - the distinction I mentioned earlier.
"Most North American utilities don't know their customers," Guthridge said. "Most say they are `customer-oriented,' but the reality is that they only have a relationship with the bill payer."
That's an echo of the "one size fits all" approach that is hobbling utilities' efforts to engage consumers, provide them with choices and, possibly, earn their loyalty.
"There's a gaping hole between connecting with the bill payer and the `influencers' on home energy use," Guthridge said.
While a home's bread winner may be the "bill payer," other members of the household may be the "influencer," a role that could be played by teenagers, women or elderly parents, based on who is paying attention to related issues or is exposed to educational opportunities or sales pitches from third parties.
Guthridge also found that utilities need to work on "maximizing consumer willingness to pay." This reflects that consumers generally rank paying their electricity bill rather low, well after their cell phone and cable bills. Among the factors leading to low regard for paying promptly: awareness that service disconnection faces certain legal hurdles and that utilities typically offer flexibility around paying on time.
"Price signals are effective in getting consumers' attention," Guthridge pointed out. "But you need to add value. You need to bundle price with other value adds."
Food for thought and, possibly, immediate action.
Phil Carson
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I searched reentrant in this idea exchange and didn't see anything on it so here goes. I would like some sort of indicator showing that a VI is reentrant. Right now, as far as I know, you have to go into the properties and check. It would be nice if there could be either something on the icon, or a small label that would show if the VI was reentrant. Or maybe a slight "halo" around the VI, something to that effect. Any other ideas on how to do this are welcome.
I thought the exact thing as smercurio_fc. It would be nice to know if a VI was re-entrant at at glance, but it would also be nice to know if a subVI was Subroutine priority, if the Preferred Execution System was UI or Same As Caller, if the VI is Modal or Normal.... All of a sudden at a glance our subVI's are going to have all types of jewelry indicating their special types.
Basically, I like the idea, but I dislike decorating the subVI on the BD even more.
On the other hand, seeing these fundamental types of settings shown in the Context Help (that you didn't have to manually enter into the description) would be welcome... if someone makes an Idea I'd vote for it.
I think the idea is different enough to warrant a new idea. It would encompass more that just reentrantcy (e.g., Execution System, Priority...) Plus, there may be two parties: one who want a halo on the SubVI, and one who wants to see richer information about a VI in the Context Help (I'm in the second party). This is a good example of where a good idea sparks good discussion, and a truly useful and popular yet seemingly easy to implement feature (read "low-hanging fruit") pops out.
Context help is a good idea. Several other things can be automagically shown in the context help.
It would be like the help for property nodes, which show what the exact possibilites are (available in runtime, etc.)
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TPWD Unveils 2010 Texas Land and Water Plan
Regional Watershed Forums Created For Ongoing Input, Implementation
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has completed a major revision of its Land and Water Resources Conservation and Recreation Plan, which is now available to the public. The year-long process created 12 regional forums based on river watersheds to promote dialogue and joint planning with outside stakeholders and field staff.
"We wanted a plan that all our employees and many supporters could easily understand and embrace to make it real and useful for on-the-ground conservation and recreation, and we got it," said Scott Boruff, TPWD deputy executive director for operations, who led the team planning effort.
"Hundreds of employees and stakeholder groups worked long hours to make the 2010 Land and Water Plan a true living document that will guide our operational activities and tie to our budget. The creation of regional forums will make sure we regularly check in with our far-flung field employees and local stakeholders to stay nimble and on track."
Instead of drafting a revised plan at the Austin headquarters and sending it out for field and stakeholder input, the department created the regional forums and asked them to take the 2005 plan and start from scratch to completely revise it as needed.
The result is a simpler document with four main goals instead of eight. The 2005 plan was 138 pages in .pdf form, and had 76 pages of background before getting to the goals. The 2010 plan is 68 pages, with fewer words and more photos and graphics to immediately engage readers. Each page pulls out examples of measurable action items, such as "On an annual basis, 39 million fingerlings will be stocked in Texas waters, 24 million in Texas bays and 15 million in rivers, lakes and reservoirs."
The four new goals represent four key concepts: conservation, recreation, education and business. In full, the goals read:
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- Increase access to and participation in the outdoors
- Educate, inform and engage Texas citizens in support of conservation and recreation
- Employ efficient, sustainable and sound business practices
The plan complements TPWD's legislatively-directed strategic plan called the Natural Agenda, which ties department activities and budgeting to legislative oversight and appropriations.
It also meshes with other TPWD plans such as the Texas Wildlife Action Plan. Created in 2005, this plan was required for Texas to continue receiving millions of dollars in federal funding. The wildlife action plan provides a proactive blueprint to "keep common species common" and avoid additional endangered species, focusing conservation actions on priority species and ecological regions. The wildlife action plan will be updated in 2010.
This spring, the 12 Conservation and Recreation Forums across the state will meet again to discuss how to implement the Land and Water Plan in their watersheds and consider any changing conditions or developing issues. A list of representatives for each forum is on the TPWD Web site, where anyone can also access the plan in .pdf form.
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According to the two owners it's a natural win-win situation. Denny says that "the fact that we're seasonal opposites makes for a wonderful relationship. Sharing this facility has turned out to be a great business deal." Lutz added, "we work together beautifully, we're each responsible for the utilities and rent during our season and split other expenses like carpet cleaning and maintenance. Besides that," said Lutz, "I don't need to be here in the summer. That's when I catch up on all the jobs I didn't get done during the winter because I was here six days a week."
During the past week, Lutz has been methodically storing skis, boots, helmets and clothing in the loft at the rear of the store, while Denny's staff has been bringing in outdoor kitchens, grills, patio furniture, pool covers and solar blankets from its main store at 8301 Lima Road in advance of the official changing of the guard March 31.
In the winter, Tredway maintains a rack of pool chemicals and filters, which Lutz gladly sells. "However," he says, "I always point out to Tredway customers that I don't know a whole lot about chemicals, so if I get a question I can't answer I give them John's phone number. And during the spring and summer months, some skis, boots and clothing are on display at the rear of the store. If John's people have questions about anything they call me and I'll come in or set up a time to meet them at the store. We sell for each other, record the sales and settle up later. It just works!"
The Ski Pole, which has been in operation for 38 years at several locations throughout town, was approached by then-Tredway owner, John Tredway about sharing the store in the Village at Coventry. "We operated similar to the way we are now for years until he built a big new store on Lima Road and decided there was not enough business there to continue the arrangement. That was before the southwest was built up like it is today.
"John Denny, who was a Tredway employee back then and now owns the company, remembered how we shared the store in Coventry. He came to me and offered to rekindle the original arrangement. We've been sharing here in Covington Plaza for the past three years, and it's working better than ever."
"I felt Tredway needed a presence in southwest Fort Wayne," said Denny. "Sharing with the Ski Pole was successful before and I knew it would still be workable. It's a great fit and one we plan to continue for many years."
Though one can find gas stations and fast-food restaurants in the same buildings today, when it comes to facility sharing, Tredway and the Ski Pole were way ahead of their time. "Our seasonal situations make for a unique combination," says Denny. "I think it would be difficult to find two other businesses that could make such an arrangement work."


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I'm organising hackathon (http://namecollision.pl) and I think this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24461 enclosure with event and sponsor logos would be awesome prize. My friend from Warsaw Hackerspace can laser cut it for me.
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FILM buffs were pleasantly surprised yesterday when they were handed a free ice cream with their cinema ticket to help raise funds for Prospect Hospice.
Empire Cinemas at Greenbridge Retail Park run the Free Cones event every year for a chosen charity, and this time the scoop went to the 160 Appeal, aiming to raise £160,000 for the Wroughton-based hospice.
Donations were made in return for a helping of Ben and Jerry's, and face painting, games and raffles were on hand to entertain the half-term crowd.
Amy Francombe, community fundraiser for Prospect Hospice, helped with the collection on the day. "It has been fantastic, and there are so many people and kids coming through," she said.
"The influx of people coming in and out of the screenings has helped keep things nice and fluid, and there is a steady stream of them passing us."
She added: "We were very grateful to be contacted by the cinema, and we know this is usually a very successful annual event. They raised about £500 last year and they are pushing for even more this time around.
"It has been lovely to see the kids getting all excited with the games and the free ice creams. Most people have made a donation, which we really appreciate.
"We want to be able to work very well with businesses like Empire. They are trying to raise their profile and get involved with the community, and this is a fantastic way of doing that because it is something a little bit different. It is a win-win for us."
Most cinemagoers were slightly taken aback when they realised there was a free supply of ice cream.
Jasmine Fourniss, 18, said "We really weren't expecting to walk in and find all this, it's great. We were just coming in for a film, so to get a free ice cream as well is great."
The Empire licks back – pictured, left to right, Mel Dicker, Andrew Fisher, manager, and Amy Francombe
Harry Austen, 16, whose mother works for Prospect, has fundraised for them in the past.
"I abseiled down the Jury's Inn hotel in August of last year," he said.
"My mum suggested it, and I thought it would be quite exciting so I set up a donation page and ended up raising about £200. I think what they are doing here is great."
Andrew Fisher, manager at Empire Cinemas, said: "We set out early to raise as much as we could and make it as fun as possible," he said.
"It really got into a good swing."