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Question No. 1
Which company has the best marketing and educational materials to assist you in calming nervous clients in the current market environment?
American Funds
We're bored with American Funds' success, as is almost everyone else. We say "almost" everyone because their shareholders sure aren't. This is the first of only two appearances in this year's survey (last year, as well as the year before, it was three). Is this a worrisome trend? We seriously doubt it. Readers once again called attention to the clear, easy-to-understand marketing and educational material that clients have little trouble grasping.
"American Funds is very proactive with education for both the advisors they work with and the retail consumer. Surprisingly, I get a lot of snail mail form them rather than e-mails. This is nice because it comes in color and it's something I can share with my clients. It's just a great company."
-- Reader James Michaud, Michaud Financial Services, Fall River, Mass.
Positions change, but the players stay the same. Always seems to be American Funds followed by Franklin/Templeton (or vice-versa). The house that Sir John built continues to roll, even without his leadership. The launch of the Templeton Income Fund in 2005 was meant to address boomer longevity and income issues, and our readers took notice. "When we launched the fund, we knew that people were living longer and that the 50- to 70-year-old segment of the market was the fastest growing segment," portfolio manager Lisa Myers told us at the time. Known for their overseas success, a focus on boomers has only added to the company's momentum.
Question No. 2
From a service and support standpoint, which financial services company makes you feel as if they are a true partner in your business as opposed to trying to sell you a product?
Once again, we're not at all surprised to see Prudential make this year's cut. The company's Retirement Red Zone marketing and education campaign, in particular, gets kudos for explaining the relationship between emotions and investment decision-making. The concept of behavioral economics can get complicated, and it's a source of constant frustration for advisors who are seeking to ensure a successful environment for their clients. If you're looking for assistance with your "stay the course" message, Prudential can help. The Retirement Red Zone micro-site is a perennial mention with readers, and can be found at www.retirementredzone.com.
"The company's Retirement Red Zone education campaign is something I use with my clients to explain the steps needed to prepare for retirement. It shows them what's just over the horizon, and that's a good point at which to begin the necessary retirment discussions."
-- Anonymous
Principal Financial
With Wall Street mainstays dropping like flies, Principal has benefited from its 130 years in business, to the tune of $304 billion in assets under management. Granted, AIG taught us bigger isn't necessarily better ... but c'mon. The company manages assets for 11 of the top 25 largest pension funds in the United States and is the 38th largest institutional asset manager in the world. Their "Plan Ahead. Get Ahead." retirement educational material was singled out for being particularly well structured for use with clients.
Question No. 3
Which company currently offers the most cost-effective and comprehensive long term care insurance?
John Hancock
Every time they appear, we can't help but give props to Manulife for its acquisition of John Hancock in 2004, something that continues to pay dividends. Along with Genworth, John Hancock was one of the first companies to enter the LTCI business, starting out in 1987. The company has paid more than $2 billion in claims and touts more than a million long term care policyholders--a number, as we've previously mentioned, that is sure to exponentially rise as baby boomers age.
"John Hancock has great long term care insurance products. They were the last to have a rate increase (although they did have one) on new policies. This tells me their underwriting is solid and they feel comfortable with their reserves. The products are priced well and right for many of my clients."
-- Anonymous
The company's simple claims-paying process once again made it a hit, as did its longevity in the business. The sudden exit a few years back of many of its competitors certainly helped. But it was Genworth's pricing of the product (a constant objection voiced by advisors that argue in favor of self-funding) that was heard in the results once again this year. The company's dedication to LTCI education (as well as an explanation of the odds of actually using the product) is helping advisors convince their baby boomer clients of its rapidly increasing need.
Question No. 4
Which mutual fund family is effectively incorporating the needs of boomer retirees and pre-retirees into its product design?
American Funds
As we said ... the players stay the same. But again, who wouldn't want to be in the enviable position of boring people with success? Forget a focus on the hot new thing; not a whole lot of hot money (thankfully) running in and out. American Funds' methodology continues to be staid and predictable, as are their returns. For boomers who want steady, solid growth, American Funds is it.
"Their products are built for baby boomers and they really make an emotional connection within their marketing material, whether it's an American flag or an oak tree; things baby boomers identify with. I've been doing this for 18 years, and early on I got sucked into products that were the hot, new thing that ended up with unpleasant surprises. There are no surprises with American Funds. They're plain vanilla, and they work."
-- Reader Mark Lamkin, president, Lamkin Wealth Management, Louisville, Ky.
Franklin Templeton
Franklin Resources rocked the investment world in 1992 when it acquired Templeton Galbraith & Hansberger, and the landscape hasn't looked the same since. We marked the passing of Sir John earlier last year. But few know the history of the Franklin side, a company founded in 1947 and named for the founding father by Rupert H. Johnson, Sr. Johnson's heirs continue to run the firm, which may be the reason for its solid stewardship. Considering they've placed well in a number of categories in our annual survey over the years, we expect continued success from the San Mateo-based company.
Question No. 5
Which exchange-traded funds are generating the most interest?
Barclays iSHARES
The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds increased by $398.6 billion, or 4 percent, to $10.4 trillion in the latest ICI compilation. The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were $639.9 billion for the same period. So, even with the worst global financial meltdown in human history, ETFs didn't make a whole lot of headway against their mutual fund counterpart. And maybe they shouldn't, since there's plenty of room for both in the retirement portfolio. Regardless, Barclays, the big daddy in the space, continues to roll. With products that track just about everything -- and we do mean anything -- $2 trillion in assets and clients in 54 countries, it's easy to see why.
"We use iShares because of their diversification and the types of ETFs that they offer. They seem to be very efficient and service oriented. They're big in the ETF space, but they aren't arrogant about it. They're just great to work with."
-- Reader Ray Miller, president, Certified Planners Inc., San Ramon, Calif.
Powershares comes on strong, and this is the second consecutive showing for the company in our Readers' Choice Awards. Powershares claims the inception of the first actively traded exchange-traded fund meant to compete more directly with actively traded mutual funds. But even prior to the company's development and release of the product, the company was a hit with our readers. The potential of actively traded ETFs is still under debate, but once again we refer you to the convincing case made by Bruce Bond, Powershares president and CEO, in his piece entitled, "Why the world should embrace active ETFs." It can be found in the June 2008 issue of Boomer Market Advisor or online at www.boomermarketadvisor.com.
It's nice to see elder-statesman John Bogle still doing so well, and still voicing his opinion to anyone who'll listen. At the Morningstar advisor conference earlier this year, he had no qualms about taking the company he founded to task for what he saw as inferior (and irresponsible) products offered to the public. But our readers disagree, and Vanguard ETFs once again placed well in our annual poll.
Question No. 6
Which living benefit best addresses the income and longevity issues your clients face?
Prudential Annuities
Much like American Funds, we're beginning to get bored with Prudential Annuities' success. Here they are again, dominating our living benefit category. In a field crowded with living benefits, second generation living benefits, hybrids, hybrids of hybrids and Lord knows what else, Prudential's products clearly stand out. It might have been the LTCI/nursing home reference in the latest product design that did the trick. If history is any indication, we'll just go ahead and reserve some space for them again next year.
"They're just a very strong company; they've been around and The Rock imagery really resonates with everything that's going on. They're very well known and very well respected. And they're a very diversified company that isn't overextended in one particular area. Not too many other companies can say that at the moment."
-- Reader Stewart Weitz, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Creative Benefit Plans, Dresher, Penn.
Jackson's a la carte living benefits menu continues to be a hit with readers. According to Morningstar Annuity Research Center, the East Lansing-based company had the fastest growing variable annuity assets in the industry from 2000 to 2008. With all that's happened in the space, it might not be something to necessarily brag about, unless you're on solid financial footing. With $75 billion in total assets, Jackson appears to be just that. Be sure to see Greg Salisbury, the company's executive vice-president, as he discusses the continuing issue of retirement income at our retirement income symposium, "The New Retirement Mentality" in Chicago, October 19th and 20th.
Question No. 7
Which separately managed account platform best suits your clients' needs?
Third time's a charm for the Denver-based separately managed account provider. We (somewhat condescendingly) referred to Curian as an upstart in the SMA space in each of the company's previous two wins. No longer, and its Custom Style Portfolios once again resonated with readers. We'll see if the company's recently released Custom Wealth Platform, a unified managed household solution (gotta love these industry terms) makes any headway for next year's survey.
"Curian's a totally Web-based operation, so it's nice not having to deal with the paperwork. I love the technology. Their third party money management is top notch. Their lower minimums give smaller accounts access to a level of professional money management that they would otherwise not have."
-- Joseph A. Grutto, executive consultant, JAG Consulting Company, Satellite Beach, Fla.
Genworth Financial
Like Manulife's acquisition of John Hancock, we continue to give Genworth Financial props for its acquisition of Assetmark. The integration of the SMA into Genworth's suite of offerings had some nervous but so far, according to readers, it's worked well. The educational initiatives undertaken by Genworth to educate advisors in the SMA space received special kudos. All-in-all a solid platform meeting the needs of advisors--and more importantly, their clients.
Question No. 8
What technology platform is the most effective at helping you increase revenue and decrease costs?
Sage Software's ACT!
After taking a year off, ACT! takes the top technology spot. Truth be told, we're a little surprised readers didn't choose something a bit more specific to the financial services industry, but it is what it is. And let's face it, the inherent flexibility in the ACT! product is the main reason for its popularity. Boomers demand customization in the financial products they buy, as do boomer advisors in the technology they adapt. ACT!'s ability to customize to almost any industry fuels its stellar success, and our readers have made it the advisor CRM of record in this year's survey.
"I have ACT! for Financial Professionals. It's more than just managing client contacts. I actually have a complete client profile at my fingertips, which is critical in client meetings. I can customize the system to my needs; for instance, I have an estate planning tab, and an LTCI tab, and an investment tab, etc. It's also great to have the mail-merge function with my own database."
-- Anonymous
Net Exchange Pro
Whether it's their separately managed account platforms or their cutting-edge technology, Pershing is another perennial favorite with readers. Their dedication to technology in order to cut costs and increase efficiency among the advisors they work with (directly or indirectly) stood out once again this year. NetExchange Pro offers an online brokerage platform to access account information, place trades, and get quotes, news, and research. More than 85,000 financial professionals are using the product to grow their businesses.


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What is Lean Thinking?
Lean Thinking Origins
The ideas behind what is now termed lean thinking can be linked to several sources, including great industrialists like Henry Ford and management thinkers such as W. Edwards Deming. Of particular note are the ideas originally developed in Toyota's post Second World War manufacturing operations - known as the Toyota Production System – under the guidance of its chief engineer, Taiichi Ohno. These spread through its supply base in the 1970's, and its distribution and sales operations in the 1980's.
The term 'lean' was popularised in the seminal book 'The Machine that Changed the World' (Womack, Jones and Roos, 1990), which clearly illustrated - for the first time - the significant performance gap between the Japanese and western automotive industries. It described the key elements accounting for this superior performance as lean production - 'lean' because Japanese business methods used less of everything - human effort, capital investment, facilities, inventories and time - in manufacturing, product development, parts supply and customer relations.
The Key Lean Thinking Principles
In 'Lean Thinking' (Womack and Jones, 1996) five lean principles were put forward as a framework to be used by an organisation to implement lean thinking. A key initial premise is to recognise that only a small fraction of the total time and effort when producing a product or delivering a service actually adds value for the end customer. It is therefore critical to clearly define value for a specific product or service from the end customer's perspective, so that all the non value activities - or waste - can be targeted for removal step by step.
Womack and Jones' five principles are:
- Specify what creates value from the customers perspective
- Identify all steps across the whole value stream
- Make those actions that create value flow
- Only make what is pulled by the customer just-in-time
- Strive for perfection by continually removing successive layers of waste
LERC research has suggested that, typically, for most manufacturing production operations only 5% of activities actually add value, 35% are necessary non-value adding activities and 60% add no value at all. Eliminating the non value adding activities (or waste) is thus the greatest potential source of improvement in corporate performance and customer service.
Few products or services are provided by one organisation alone, so that waste removal has to be pursued throughout the whole 'value stream' - the entire set of activities across all the entities involved in jointly delivering the product or service. New relationships are required to eliminate inter-firm waste and to effectively manage the value stream as a whole. Instead of managing the workload through successive departments, processes are reorganised so that the product or design flows through all the value adding steps without interruption, using the toolbox of lean techniques to successively remove the obstacles to flow. Activities across each firm are synchronised by pulling the product or design from upstream steps, just when required, in time to meet the demand from the end customer.
Removing wasted time and effort represents the biggest opportunity for performance improvement and enabling a greater focus on creating value. Creating flow and pull starts with radically reorganising individual process steps, but the gains become truly significant as all the steps link together. As this happens, more and more layers of waste become visible and the process continues towards the theoretical end point of perfection, where every asset and every action adds value for the end customer. In this way, lean thinking represents a path of sustained performance improvement - and not a one off programme.
The Lean Enterprise - Lean Thinking
As lean thinking contends the organisation must view itself as just one part of an extended supply chain, it follows that it needs to think strategically beyond its own boundaries. It also contends that because value streams flow across several departments and functions within an organisation, it needs to be organised around its key value streams. Stretching beyond the firm, some form of collective agreement or organisation is needed to manage the whole value stream for a product family, setting common improvement targets, rules for sharing the gains and effort and for designing waste out of future product generations. This collective group of organisations is called 'the lean enterprise'.
Applying Lean Thinking in Different Sectors
Lean Thinking principles can be applied to any organisation in any sector. Although lean's origins are largely from an automotive manufacturing environment, the principles and techniques are being transferred to many sectors, often with little adaptation. Sectors such as distribution, retailing, construction, healthcare, financial services, defence and public administration have all begun to implement lean ideas in recent years.
Implementing Lean Thinking - The Tools and Techniques
Many tools and techniques are available to support the lean philosophy and to enable organisations to apply the ideas and implement change. These emanate from several schools of thought (such as the quality movement) and many emerged from the Toyota Production System, while others have since been developed by research organisations such as LERC. Consequently, there now exists an extensive toolkit to help the lean practitioner. Examples include 5S (five terms beginning with the letter 'S' utilised to create a workplace suited for visual control and lean production), Kaizen (a process function to plan and support concentrated bursts of breakthrough activities), Value Stream Mapping, and Policy Deployment (a visual management tool that allows management to select the most important objectives and to translate these into specific projects that are deployed down to the implementation level).
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Amendola says he's ready to get started
New Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola says he is making plans to connect with quarterback Tom Brady during the offseason.
"I've talked with Tom a couple times," Amendola told ESPN. "I'm ready to get working with him."
Amendola will effectively replace Wes Welker, who departed via free agency for Denver, as a slot receiver for New England.
"We're a month away from getting started," Amendola said. "It's definitely a new chapter in my life ad one I'm excited about."
He said it was bittersweet to leave St. Louis.
"Leading into free agency my plan was to stay a St. Louis Ram," he said. "We had a lot of talks. At the end of the day it seemed to be a better opportunity elsewhere for both parties. I understand it's a business."
But it sounds like he is ready to turn the page and meet up with Brady in the next few weeks to start working on that always important quarterback-receiver relationship.
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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 343914, 9 pages
Fructation In Vivo: Detrimental and Protective Effects of Fructose
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vassyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 57 Shevchenko Street, Ivano-Frankivsk 76025, Ukraine
Received 29 April 2013; Accepted 20 June 2013
Academic Editor: Francieli Moro Stefanello
Copyright © 2013 H. M. Semchyshyn. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
There is compelling evidence that long-term intake of excessive fructose can have deleterious side effects in different experimental models. However, the role of fructose in vivo remains controversial, since acute temporary application of fructose is found to protect yeast as well as animal tissues against exogenous oxidative stress. This review suggests the involvement of reactive carbonyl and oxygen species in both the cytotoxic and defensive effects of fructose. Potential mechanisms of the generation of reactive species by fructose in the nonenzymatic reactions, their implication in the detrimental and protective effects of fructose are discussed.


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A Manual of Khshnoom
The Zoroastrian Occult Knowledge
Supplement No. 26
Various Types of "Druji" Hives of Invisible Microbes
For the preservation of Khoreh, personal magnetism or aura, a Zoroastrian has to protect himself from all kinds of "Druji", hives of invisible microbes. In our daily domestic life myriads of invisible harmful microbes are created during bath, partaking of meals, attending Nature's calls etc. Similarly, highly injurious microbes are created by "Druji-e-Hikhra", excreta of cut hair and nails, spit, urine, blood, pus etc; which also impair Khoreh, personal emanation by coming in friction by contact with "vayuupara- kairya", atmosphere. These microbes and evil "Khastar" electric force thereof, constantly produce in Nature insanitary effects (invisibly but explainable scientifically) by the head kept uncovered and by cut hair and nails thrown carelessly about (in the house).
Moreover, powerful insanitary toxins from such microbes and dangerous "Khastar" (magnetic currents) are generated during "Druji-e-Buji", menstruation, seminal discharges and during unnatural seminal discharges (by self-abuse) and very damaging influence is created on the spiritual as well as physical well-being by such Druji. Similarly harmful effects are created by 21 different types of Druji of which four are mentioned in Khordad Yt. 2, viz., "Daruji-e-Hashi", Daruji-e-Ghashi", "Darujie- Peshish" and "Daruji-e-Saeni" which are produced from the human lust etc. Again very powerful but harmful electric forces (Khastars) are produced from extremely subtle envelopment of myriads of microbes produced by clouds of evil thoughts, words and actions.
In order to neutralize harmful effects of all these, numerous respective Baj-rites-based on Nature's laws - for the protection of Khoreh have been enjoined in the Zoroastrian religion.
During the processes of alimentation at meals and when attending Nature's calls, and on other occasions, serious deterioration in our Khoreh is also wrought by invisible microbes naturally generated. Thus, for instance, the vibrations produced by the pronouncement of Avesta formulae of "Meal Baj" help digestion, while in the case of Nature's call, the Baj formulae said in whispering tone, protects our Khoreh and general well being by neutralizing the microbes and enveloping the material body like invisible citadel. The blood of the physical body must be kept unpolluted and of finer grade.
It will thus be understood that in Zoroastrian religion, "Druji", hives of invisible microbes created through numerous causes are neutralized by the observance of respective rites, accompanied with Avesta Baj formulae (said in whispering tone) connected with each. The rigorous observance of these rites makes a person holy for the sake of holiness (Ashim Ashai). In Gatha (Ysn. 46, 10), the holy Prophet promises to lead those across the Chinvat Bridge i.e. to Salvation, who are holy for the sake of holiness (Ashim Ashai), by the practice of such rites. (Condensed from pp. 44-47 "Ilm-i- Khshnum Series No.1" published by the Master).


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It was a phone interview. Submitted resume over Google recruit site. As a new graduate I was given an email with some links to study on the scale of the coming interview and a bunch of papers about GFS, bigtable and such stuff.. HR reached out to me in two weeks via email after the resume was sent. She was helpful and responsive. During the phone interview, the interviewer got straight forward to coding without asking anything about the resume. Overall it was a positive experience.
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The Morgan County Council will move forward with a request to annex into the Utah Transit Authority's service area, but not because all council members want the service or approve of raising taxes. Instead, council members want the public to weigh in on the matter officially by visiting the ballot box. It appears the citizenry are interested in us moving forward, Councilman Lyle Nelson said. I know there are dissenting votes, and very loud opinions about additional taxes. I understand that. But we seem to have a number of people in the community saying we ought to go forward. Nelson said that while one May meeting exploring UTA's proposal was not well attended, a second meeting that was advertised in the newspaper had more attendees and gathered mostly positive input. However, input from those two meetings wasn't enough, Councilman Robert Kilmer said. We did not get a large enough sampling. People are not showing up to meetings. We don't have a good reading of what the public wants, Kilmer said. We need to let the voters make the decision. Councilmen Logan Wilde and Ned Mecham, both of whom voted against putting the measure on the ballot, said they had received many calls from constituents opposed to UTA services. Kilmer agreed, but added that the same people who voiced opposition to UTA also supported raising taxes to maintain roads. Voters would be considering a quarter to half of one cent tax increase, which would not apply to food or gas. Consumers already pay such taxes when shopping in Weber and Davis counties. This would mean that for every $4 spent, one cent in new taxes would be collected. If voters approve a half of one cent tax increase, half of that could go to fixing and maintain roads in the county, Nelson said. We could have that go for roads, which to me is a big boon for this county, Nelson said. The roads are in atrocious shape. If this is going to help us get more money to work on roads, I have a hard time passing it up, said Councilman Austin Turner. Some council members said fixing county roads could be a selling point for voters, but others said they are not going to get on the vote-selling bandwagon. I am not a fan of selling things. I am a fan of giving all the information we can on all sides and letting people decide. I can support sending something to the taxpayers to make a decision on without supporting the tax increase myself, Kilmer said. I am not saying this is the direction we should go. But I do not think the council should be making decisions without voter approval. I am looking for what the majority of the county wants. I want them to come to the ballot to make a decision. Let the public go out and do the campaigning. We (the council) are a nonbiased party to sit back and wait for what the county (voters) want us to do. They do the battle and we sit and wait for the outcome. However, the council should be aware of public perception of the council's move to put it on the ballot, said Jann Farris, Morgan County attorney. If you put it on the ballot, you are endorsing a tax increase for Morgan, Farris said. You are saying it is worth this tax. What I saw with the school district (attempt to pass a levy) is they went out to sell it so vigorously, that the people opposed it that vigorously, Councilwoman Tina Kelley said. Nelson said he wishes to support the measure in an effort to support the aged, veteran and handicapped population in the county. This is a third of the population in rough numbers, Nelson said. That is huge. I don't think we ought to ignore those people. They are looking for options to get the services they need. We need to be aware of that segment of the county population. UTA will now conduct a formal investigation and hold two more open house meetings, during which a quorum of their board must be present. Only after voters approve of the move could Morgan County officially sign an agreement with UTA. Wilde said that UTA has a perception problem with the public that is hard to overcome and that if the services are needed, he would rather the county conduct the service themselves. If at the end of the year a person governed by UTA in this office gets a bonus, we don't have a say in that, Wilde said. But it will reflect back on this council. We will be called on the carpet on that. I am not sure entering into UTA is the best decision. I don't see it fitting into the county. I feel it is a hard sale to go through UTA. Mecham noted that 22 counties in the state don't have UTA, and many of those counties have a larger population than Morgan. Kelley said that before exploring possibilities with UTA, the council agreed that they did not want to go into the business of maintaining a fleet of public transportation vehicles.
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Back in the Saddle
Back to the grind. Actually, I've been back to the grind for weeks but haven't been blogging due to time constraints. 2007 ended with a fender bender followed by my eldest daughter going to the hospital in East Podunk New Hampshire with 105 F fever and pneumonia. She's much better and the folks were nice enough if not exactly happy to be there on Christmas Day. Then 2008 started with my dog being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. She had to be euthenized immediately because a tumor had completely blocked her esphagus preventing her from ever eating again. That really sucked since my wife had never lost an animal before. Bad day. Then my youngest daughter went in for major surgery three days later. It was planned but she wasn't drinking enough on her own after surgery so she had to stay in the hospital for an extry day (3 total). Thank God it was at Johns Hopkins, agruably the best hospital in the world. A far cry from the places we spent nightmare days in China. Then I get my first speeding ticket in YEARS. Not exactly a slap on the face, more of a flick on the ear.


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Employees who lose their jobs often file for bankruptcy when they find themselves in financial trouble. Sometimes, they represent themselves in bankruptcy court and may not understand that they must list any potential litigation claim as an asset. They don't know that a big jury award would be money available to satisfy their creditors.
Until recently, federal courts have dismissed even obviously valid employment discrimination lawsuits when employees failed to disclose such claims in their bankruptcy paperwork. That was a huge windfall for employers. That may no longer be true, if this recent case is any indication.
Recent case: Kathleen sued her employer for sex discrimination, alleging that it limited her to part-time hours solely because she is a woman. Around the same time, she also filed for bankruptcy when she wasn't able to pay her bills. She never mentioned the discrimination claim in her bankruptcy filing.
Then she hired an attorney. He discovered she hadn't told the bankruptcy court about her discrimination claim and asked the bankruptcy court to reopen the case so she could list it. The court agreed to do so.
Kathleen's employer then asked the judge handling the discrimination case to dismiss it because she hadn't mentioned the claim in her original bankruptcy paperwork. The court denied the request and said it wouldn't be fair for the employer to benefit from her innocent mistake. (Quin v. Department of Education, No. 10-16000, 9th Cir., 2013)


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If ever there was a case for moving from paper vehicle titles to an electronic system, advocates might point to a recent occurrence in Michigan.
Michigan fraudsters make the case; South Carolina credit union sees the value. A look ahead to next week's print edition.
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I am one of those coaches that doesn't pay attention to points because it makes me nervous, and these girls already make me nervous enough. —Judge Memorial girls' tennis coach Loni Wilcox
SALT LAKE CITY — Judge Memorial girls' tennis coach Loni Wilcox avoids looking at the points board early in the 3A state tournament.
Don't tell her, but her team is currently tied for the lead after wrapping up the first two rounds on Friday at Liberty Park.
Judge earned seven points on the first day of play and has all three singles players set to return to the courts today.
"I am one of those coaches that doesn't pay attention to points because it makes me nervous, and these girls already make me nervous enough," Wilcox said after watching her first singles player, Whitney Weisberg, rally to win a second-round match in three sets with a score of 4-6,6-0, 6-3.
Weisberg, a sophomore, was the second singles champion last season before being promoted to first singles this year. Her opponent in that match was Cydnee Wilkinson of Dixie, a senior who finish second in first singles a year ago.
"That was probably the hardest match she has had to play the whole season – including region," Wilcox said of Weisberg. "So, when she lost the first set, I told her, 'this is your hardest match, you've got to get out there and hit and play like you usually do.'"
On the other side of the first singles bracket is defending champion Lacey Hancock, a sophomore out of Pine View. She slid through the first two rounds without losing a set and will meet Lily Wetterlin from Wasatch this morning.
Park City is the other team with seven points and it has both doubles teams returning to play on Saturday. First doubles pair Katie Hardman and Lauren Weed defeated a duo from Ogden and Cedar City for a chance to meet Marissa Christensen and Paige Beckstrom from Spanish Fork, and McKenna Tychsen and Natalie Frost defeated Ogden and Spanish Fork to play Caitlin Keenan and Maia Sepulveda of Juan Diego.
Deseret Hills, Dixie and Wasatch finished the day with six points apiece and have one, two, and two competitors left, respectively.
Although the North Sanpete Hawks exited the tournament without a point, head coach Jeff Eriksen left his team with a message all competitors should keep in mind.
"I told them that I've been (coaching) for 15 or 16 years and when I look back on it I can't remember losses and wins, and I can't remember even points, but I remember the relationships and the friends," he said. "Life is not over after a teenager girl looses a tennis match, but sometimes they feel like that. It's not about wins and losses all the time, and the friendships are what they're going to remember down the road."
When the 3A players return to the courts today, they won't be alone like they have been traditionally. This season, 3A joins 4A and 5A at Liberty Park, and all three classifications will crown their own five champions on the same day at the same venue.
"We usually have had 3A at a different site but, with the support of the coaches and of Utah Tennis, we had a chance to bring the tournaments together," said UHSAA assistant director Becky Anderson.
"This is a great opportunity for us to promote the sport of tennis," she continued. "With all three classifications in the same place, Liberty Park is going to be tennis central. It makes it nice for the players to get to watch other teams, and it makes it convenient for the media and college coaches, who may not have been able to make it to two sites before."
To manage the logistics, Anderson designated five courts on the north end of the complex to 3A, five courts in the middle to 4A, and five courts on the southern end to 5A. All matches will start at 9 a.m. beginning with first singles and working through to second doubles.
"Just think about this," Anderson said, "you can walk the length of the Liberty Park tennis courts and watch 15 different champions being crowned."
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Team Scores
1. Judge Memorial 7; 1. Park City 7; 3. Desert Hills 6; 3. Dixie 6; 3. Wasatch 6; 6. Grantsville 5; 6. Pine View 5; 6. Snow Canyon 5; 6. Spanish Fork 5; 10. Juan Diego 4; 11. Cedar City 1; 11. Hurricane 1; 11. Morgan 1; 11. Ogden 1.
Individual Scores
First Round
First Singles
Lily Wetterlin, Wasatch, def. Abbey Anjewierden, Ogden, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3; Madz Eames, Desert Hills, def. Josi Braithwaite, Spanish Fork, 6-3, 6-0; Lacey Hancock, Pine View, def. Ashlee Earl, Morgan, 6-0, 6-0; Solveig Karlsen, Park City, def. Hannah Frazier, Stansbury, 6-1, 6-1; Cydnee Wilkinson, Dixie, def. Lacie Watson, Delta, 6-0, 6-0; Whiney Weisberg, Judge Memorial, def. Courtney Comstock, Bear River, 6-0, 6-0; Tayler Orgill, Grantsville, def. Barbara Gillespie, Union, 6-2, 6-0; Frannie Eklund, Snow Canyon, def. Mikaela Angerhofer, North Sanpete, 6-0, 6-0.
Second Singles
Rachel Wetterlin, Wasatch, def. Annet Unda, Ogden, 6-1, 7-5; Shellbe Watson, Dixie, def. Natalie Blaylock, Spanish Fork, 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-3; Bergen Nelson, Snow Canyon, def. Sydney Squires, Stansbury, 6-0, 6-3; Dani Lecher, Park City, def. Rachel Windley, Ben Lomond, 6-2, 6-0; Jordyn McGinnis, Desert Hills, def. Kalee McCollaum, Delta, 6-2, 6-1; Emily Murnin, Judge Memorial, def. Kenya Rhodes, Bear River, 6-0, 6-0; Courtney James, Grantsville, def. Megan Kundra, Juan Diego, 6-1, 6-1; Emily Wilson, Hurricane, def. Ana Bentley, North Sanpete, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Third Singles
Caroline Davis, Park City, def. Abby Nordgren, Stansbury, 6-7 (9-7), 7-5, 6-0; Ali Damon, Spanish Fork, def. Shaylynn Riddle, Pine View, 6-1, 6-3; Emily Till, Snow Canyon, def. Alayna Gunn, Morgan, 6-0, 6-0; Sophie Lorentzen, Ogden, def. Dani Poirier, Wasatch, 6-4, 6-3; Kenedi Cooper, Dixie, def. Jandy Johnson, Delta, 6-4, 6-2; Katie Iwasaki, Judge Memorial, def. Darcy Pali, Bear River, 6-0, 6-1; Jennifer Christensen, Grantsville, def. Miki Baird, Juan Diego, 6-1, 6-3; Megan Knudsen, Desert Hills, def. Naytie Nielson, North Sanpete, 6-3, 6-1.
First Doubles
Renee Fagg & Joanna Remund, Wasatch, def. Ashlyn Peterson & Morgan Castagno, Grantsville, 6-3, 6-2; Marissa Christensen & Paige Beckstrom, Spanish Fork, def. Madison Farish & Andi Behunin, Hurricane, 6-0, 6-0. Lindsey Olsen & Kirstan Stewert, Cedar City, def. Riley Westarp & Kaitlyn George, Bear River, 6-1, 6-2. Katie Hardman & Lauren Weed, Park City, def. Allie Hyde & Sabrina Wood, Ogden, 6-7 (7-3), 6-2, 6-3; Paige Harris & Taylor Cooney, Desert Hills, def. Brenna Menlove & McKenzie Lybbert, Payson, 6-3, 6-1; Grace Claudius & Casandra Granhoej, Juan Diego, def. Maleena Miller & Emily Clawson, Ben Lomond, 6-0, 6-1; Morgan Schmid & Sarah Rowlin, Morgan, def. Lizzie Loughridge & Gabby Paul, Judge Memorial, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Stephanie Snow & Bailey Callahan, Pine View, def. Lindee Christensen & Abby Christensen, North Sanpete, 6-4, 6-3.
Second Doubles
McKenne Tychsen & Natalie Frost, Park City, def. Maile Madsen & Kylee Lund, Ogden, 6-3, 6-1; Tessa Christensen & Shea Booth, Spanish Fork, def. Lauren Parker & Jessica Langston, Hurricane, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5; Brianna Rucci & Hanna Erekson, Pine View, def. Brooke Nielsen & Rachel Darby, Ben Lomond, 6-2, 7-5; Caitlin Keenan & Maia Sepulveda, Juan Diego, def. Jessica Hunsaker & Cherokie Limb, Bear River, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Maddi Black & Amanda Cottle, Desert Hills, def. Megan Snow & Olivia Fordiani, Payson, 6-1, 6-3; Julie Steinmann & Heather Evans, Wasatch, def. Olivia Anderson & Hailey Hopkin, Morgan, 6-1, 6-1; Julia Corbett & Claudia Start, Judge Memorial, def. Madi Linares & Whitney Castagno, Grantsville, 6-3, 6-4; Xela Armstrong & Savannah Ream, Dixie, def. Shelby Ivory & Angela Lewis, North Sanpete, 6-3, 6-2.
Second Round
First Singles
Lily Wetterlin, Wasatch, def. Madz Eames, Desert Hills, 6-4, 6-4; Lacey Hancock, Pine, def. Solveig Karlsen, Park City, 6-0, 6-0; Whitney Weisberg, Judge Memorial, def. Cydnee Wilkinson, Dixie, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3; Tayler Orgill, Grantsville, def. Frannie Eklund, Snow Canyon, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Second Singles
Shellbe Watson, Dixie, def. Rachel Wetterlin, Wasatch, 6-3, 6-3; Bergen Nelson, Snow Canyon, def. Dani Lecher, Park City, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5; Emily Murnin, Judge Memorial, def. Jordyn McGinnis, Desert Hills, 6-0, 6-1; Courtney James, Grantsville, def. Emily Wilson, Hurricane, 7-5, 6-0.
Third Singles
Ali Damon, Spanish Fork, def. Caroline Davis, Park City, 6-0, 6-2; Emily Till, Snow Canyon, def. Sophie Lorentzen, Ogden, 6-3, 6-3; Katie Iwasaki, Judge Memorial, def. Kenedi Cooper, Dixie, 6-2, 6-0; Megan Knudsen, Desert Hills, def. Jennifer Christensen, Grantsville, 6-4, 6-4.
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Marissa Christensen & Paige Beckstrom, Spanish Fork, def. Renee Fagg & Joanna Remund, Wasatch, 6-4, 7-5; Katie Hardman & Lauren Weed, Park City, def. Lindsey Olsen & Kirstan Stewert, Cedar City, 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Grace Claudius & Casandra Granhoej, Juan Diego, def. Paige Harris & Taylor Cooney, Desert Hills, 6-0, 6-2; Stephanie Snow & Bailey Callahan, Pine View, def. Morgan Schmid & Sarah Rowlin, Morgan, 6-4, 6-2.
Second Doubles
McKenne Tychsen & Natalie Frost, Park City, def. Tessa Christensen & Shea Booth, Spanish Fork, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3); Caitlin Keenan & Maia Sepulveda, Juan Diego, def. Brianna Rucci & Hanna Erekson, Pine View, 6-3, 6-4; Julie Steinmann & Heather Evans, Wasatch, def. Maddi Black & Amanda Cottle, Desert Hills, 6-2, 6-2; Xela Armstrong & Savannah Ream, Dixie, def. Julia Corbett & Claudia Start, Judge Memorial, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.


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The Old Vic New Voices programme gives some tips on how to get into directing
One of the most frustrating things about trying to forge a career in theatre is the fact there is no 'milkround' to give you the opportunities to make your career work; friends in other industries can do applications en masse, knowing that the law of averages must get them a few interviews and, sooner or later, a job. In theatre, however, it is sometimes not the law of averages but the law of luck that prevails. However hard you work, and however good you are, the industry and those that run it can from the outside often appear capricious. In the face of this it is essential to remain optimistic and, crucially, proactive. Keep on going out to events seeing theatre and take advantage of networking opportunities to forge new relationships with like minded people.
Finding out about a new scheme, opportunity or resource always elicits the same response - why didn't I know about this before? The theatre industry, for all its manic marketing when it has a show to sell, is woefully bad at letting people know how to enter its doors.
Which is why Old Vic New Voices has brought together this document, covering as many of the opportunities, workshops, seminars, groups, forums, training courses and showcases as we could find. Just two restrictions limited our search: we have only included information about Greater London, and have excluded full time training courses for all disciplines, as we felt these are well enough known and marketed - on the other hand we have included some workshops and short term courses that offer a more targeted refresher or session on a particular area or subject.
This is intended to be a work in progress, and we are always interested to hear more about opportunities that we may have missed, or that spring up later. We know this may not be an exhaustive list, but it will hopefully prove useful in being a springboard, either as a starting point for further research or in providing the information to allow practitioners to go out and start forming productive relationships, and allowing them to be proactive about their careers.
As one of our associate member actors said, "getting theatre off the ground is difficult at the best of times but when you are young and unknown it is even harder to get support."
The opportunity to hone your skills as a director is not one to be passed up; workshops and other forms of further training may be expensive, but they can offer invaluable insights into the craft of directing as well as being an opportunity to pick other people's brains and make new relationships with theatre professionals.
The Genesis Project at The Young Vic is an initiative that covers almost all of the needs of young directors setting out on their careers. The Directors' Network offers its members the chance to take part in workshops and training sessions, receive free or subsidised tickets to Young Vic shows and make use of the theatre's stage space for readings. The Project also offers support to selected directors during their rehearsal process, employs assistant directors for each of their main stage productions, and facilitates collaborations between young directors and designers.
Living Productions theatre company runs courses for directors covering areas of technique and method, and the work and theory of specific practitioners. Previous courses have centred around the role of the director in the devising process, the work of Stanislavski and the methods and exercises used by the course tutors in their own work.
RADA runs 'How to Rehearse', a two-week intensive course for six selected directors. The focus of the course is shaping rehearsals and how to work with actors to discover the meaning and structure of a play.
StoneCrabs run a young directors' programme of practical work and tutorials aimed towards development and exploration of the art of directing, through a variety of theatrical modes and traditions. The course includes one-on-one career counselling and mentoring with a professional director.
Operating Theatre Company run yearly or twice yearly directing courses with a variety of formats, ranging from intensive weeks focussing on individual aspects of direction, to development and support courses spanning four or five months. They also run new writing events and stage debut productions of plays.
Zeitgeist Theatre is a company producing scratch performances of political, immediately topical theatre in fringe venues around London. A selected writer and director choose an issue to explore; the writer then has one month to create a short play to be taken on by the director. Directors, writers and actors with proven experience and/or training should send a CV, covering letter, two email addresses for references and a short note on availability to:
The Factory UK is a collaborative company running sessions for actors, writers and directors, in which weekly rehearsals are an open forum for discussion and experimentation, usually leading up to a final performance with a rotating cast. For more information contact:
Many theatres offer either assistant director attachments or residencies for a specified period of time, usually allowing the candidate to pursue their own projects alongside assisting on productions at the theatre.
The National Theatre Studio young directors' programme takes place annually, and runs for three weeks in March. The programme takes on approximately 14 emerging directors each year, who are invited to the Studio to participate in workshops, masterclasses and seminars with a range of theatre practitioners.
Also on offer are Director Weeks, in which six young directors who are proving themselves in London fringe venues, regional theatres, or studio spaces are given a week in the NT Studio. Finally, the Studio aims to have at least two directors resident at the Studio under bursary schemes, to cast readings, and to feed into the programme of work: one for a whole year and one for six months.
Anyone interested in being considered should be in touch when they have work to see, enclosing details of the show and a CV. This information should be sent to: Natasha Bucknor, Studio Manager, at National Theatre Studio, Kennington Park, 2nd Floor, Chester House, 1-3 Brixton Road, London SW9 6DE.
The Donmar and the Finborough both offer resident Assistant Director bursary schemes lasting one year, allowing a young director to work alongside the principal director on all of the in house productions.
The King's Head Theatre in Islington offers six-month Assistant Director placements. Although unpaid, they give their candidates the chance to collaborate on shows at the theatre as an assistant and in some cases direct their own show. For more information contact:
There are a few awards open to directors, whether they take the form of sources of funding or a space in which to stage a production.
The Jerwood Award is awarded in association with the Young Vic to two young professional directors, allowing them to make work for the smallest of the Young Vic's spaces, The Clare. Since its creation in 2001 the Jerwood Award at the Young Vic has supported 18 directors at various stages of their career.
The JMK Theatre Award is presented each year to a director under 30, and funds the costs of a London production, including theatre space for a three or four week run, as well as resources and professional support.
Support and Industry Representation is offered by The Directors' Guild of Great Britain, which represents both theatre and film directors and works to provide training and employment initiatives for them.
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Mucha Man wrote:headhonchoII wrote:Yep I have a lot of respect for Tzu Chi as far as charity work goes, their hospitals are world class, go to the one in Xindian, it's like a five star hotel and they always have tonnes of volunteers available if you need any help.
Tzu Chi is one of the reasons Taiwan is the most progressive society in Asia. The type of Buddhism Master Chenyan advocates is called Renjian Fojiao, this worldly Buddhism, and is all about bringing the Dharma to daily life: in other words, taking the Buddha's teachings of compassion for all humanity and applying them to the real world.
Chengyan's story is fascinating. She came from an very wealthy Taichung family but ran away from home at 24 and wandered Taiwan with another nun, living in caves and studying Buddhism as a lay nun until Yinshun, the master from Foguangshan took her in as his last student.
Will write more when I have time. Great great story. She basically is the Buddhist counterpart of people like Wang Yung-ching.
Would love to hear more about her story. As i posted, she impressed me when my friend needed help!!!


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Knife thug serving 20 years is Dorrian murder suspect
An evil thug who was caged for 20 years for a savage knife attack that left his victim blind is a key suspect in the murder of Bangor woman Lisa Dorrian.
Sunday Life can reveal that Adam Smyth - jailed last Friday for attempting to kill Co Down man Marc Keller - was one of the last people to see Lisa alive.
Along with his drug-dealing brother Mark, Smyth (19) was quizzed by cops about the killing, but later released without charge.
Mark Smyth spoke exclusively to Sunday Life in 2006 and admitted driving Lisa (25) to a party, but denied any involvement in her killing.
Her heartbroken sister, Joanne, declined to comment on Adam Smyth's alleged role in Lisa's murder.
But speaking after Smyth was sentenced to prison, Marc Keller told how he believes his attacker was "capable" of murdering the Bangor woman.
Said Marc: "People have to realise that Smyth is a evil person who thrives on violence. It's no surprise to me that he has been linked to the murder of an innocent girl.
"I know only too well what he is capable of. He is full of hate and I can just see him attacking a girl for no reason.
"This man is scum and I'm just so relieved he's off the streets.
"Although he's going to jail for a very long time, I doubt he will ever show remorse for what he did to me and countless other people out there.
"He may not have been charged over Lisa Dorrian, but at least he is going to jail for a very long time and he won't be able to attack any other innocent person.
"God knows how many other innocent people he has attacked over the years. He has a brutal capacity for violence and I don't know how he's going to cope with prison.
"If he was involved in Lisa Dorrian's murder, then why doesn't he just do the right thing for once in his life and tell police what he knows because he won't be going anywhere for a very long time."
The knife-victim also welcomed the sentence given to his attacker.
Added Marc: "I couldn't be happier with the sentence. The judge told Smyth he would rue the day he did what he did and I'm delighted.
"It still doesn't seem to have sunk in with him what he did to me that night - he just doesn't seem to care.
"The sentence is the best Christmas present I have ever had. I'm determined to get on with things now so for me it's New Year, new life."
It's also understood Smyth could face fresh charges after he threatened a police officer minutes after he was sentenced to prison.
As he was being led from the dock of Belfast Crown Court, Smyth yelled to the officer: "I will see you some time soon and you won't be alive."
Marc, along with his brother, Anthony, and a pal, were enjoying a night out in Belfast in November 2005, when they were subjected to the brutal assault.
The Killyleagh man, who has had to re-learn how to walk, was stabbed in the heart and leg while his younger brother suffered a stab wound and had his teeth kicked in.
Smyth's accomplices, Alan Stewart and Philip Irwin, were also sent to prison for 14 and 12 years respectively for their roles in the barbaric assault.
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The Force is Strong; Addax are Luke and Leia
KSAL Staff - September 9, 2015 3:18 pm
The Force is with Rolling Hills Zoo. According to the zoo, their addax twins will be named Luke and Leia for the male and female twin respectively.
Voting for the pair of names took place over the Labor Day weekend by Rolling Hills visitors. Zoo officials believe that it was close, given the recent media attention to the Star Wars movies.
The name pairs, which were developed by Zoo staff, received the following votes:
- Luke and Leia 331
- Daisy and Duke 270
- Pebbles and Bam-Bam 251
- Bonnie and Clyde 211
- Agayu and Yemaja 152
The birth of addax twins is a rare occurrence and to date there have been less than three or four recorded births with only one of the twins in each pair surviving beyond their first year. That their mother, Aamira, who is a very attentive and protective mother, is successfully raising both twins naturally makes this birth even more rare and significant.
While the Zoo continues to check the birth records for addax, this may be the only instance of a mother addax successfully raising both twins without human assistance.
The addax is also known as the white antelope or the "screwhorn" antelope and is native to the Sahara desert. The addax is a critically endangered species of antelope.
The addax at the Rolling Hills Zoo are members of an organized nation-wide effort to preserve the species that is administered by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. This program is one of over 30 such programs in which the animals at the Zoo participate in annually.


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After producing Ryan Adams's grammy nominated self titled album and Jenny Lewis's "The Voyager", Mike spent the last year (summer 2014-summer 2015) touring the world, playing guitar for the Shining.
"Stairway To Paradise" is Mike's latest release.(available here at the store) Stairway is a 7″ vinyl record with 4 songs produced and recorded by Ryan Adams at Pax Am studios in Los Angeles.
Pocket Mike Viola History:
A prolific Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, producer and recording artist, Mike Viola first came into the national spotlight as founder and frontman of the Candy Butchers. After 3 albums with Sony, Mike became known for not only creating music for award-winning films ("Get Him To The Greek," "Walk Hard," "That Thing You Do!"), but also writing and producing for other artists (Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Andrew McMahon, Matt Nathanson, New Politics, Fall Out Boy, Brett Dennen, Mandy Moore, Rachael Yamagata, Tim Christensen, Gin Wigmore, Jill Sobule, Dan Wilson).


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New Pools Latest Bid to Clean Up Polluted Yarkon
A new ecological system to improve water quality in the Yarkon River will be inaugurated Wednesday.
A new ecological system of purification pools to improve water quality in the Yarkon River is to be inaugurated Wednesday, the Yarkon River Authority announced.
The agency also said it may approve boating in a section of the waterway further upstream following what it says is improvement in the quality of the water, which the new system will improve further.
Officials from the Yarkon River Authority, which is chaired by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, yesterday presented the recent improvements in the Yarkon.
"The Yarkon has come back to life," Huldai said, explaining that special facilities now stop polluted water and urban waste from flowing into the Yarkon.
The pools are the second measure over the past year to clean up the river, after improvements in the waste treatment plant operated by the cities of Kfar Sava and Ramat Hasharon, which now channels purified wastewater into the Yarkon.
Starting tomorrow, purified waste will be channeled into the pools before it enters the Yarkon. In these pools, already in the testing stage, various kinds of plants flourish that foster the growth of bacteria that break down pollution.
"This system can also handle pollutants like remnants of pharmaceuticals and can also purify waste in case of a breakdown at the purification plant in Rishon Letzion," Water Authority Director General David Pergament said.
The authority said their testing shows improvement in the water quality, revealed among other criteria by the fact that tilapia have begun to move upstream into one of the Yarkon tributaries, the Kaneh Stream, where pollution had once been too high for fish to survive.
The improvement means the authority will permit boating not only near the Yarkon's outlet to the Mediterranean but also in the area of Seven Mills in Yarkon Park in the west and in the area of the Ramat Gan Stadium in the east. According to Huldai, funding has been earmarked for the next phase of rehabilitating the river - construction of a facility to collect purified wastewater from the stream and channel it to irrigate farmland.
"Today farmers are drawing water right from the stream for irrigation, which reduces the amount of water flowing through it. Their right to the water will be maintained, but they will not take it before it has flowed all they way through the stream."
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Mansion of the late nineteenth century with beautiful park, swimming pool and garden walkways. Historical villa Maison Umbra . 18 km from the centre of Perugia. For shared use: property (fenced). Private: swimming pool (12 x 6 m, depth 140 cm, 15.05.-30.09.). Outdoor shower, barbecue. In the house: restaurant, WiFi (all included), heating to be paid on the spot (01.10.-01.05.). Parking on the premises. Supermarket 10 km, bar 50 m, railway station 10 km. Nearby attractions: Perugia, Todi, Orvieto. Well-known lakes can easily be reached: Trasimeno. Please note: the owner lives on the same property. Main road close by. A small restaurant is located in the basement (accessible from the garden). It is made from the cellars of the Villa, which preserves the niches and original walls decorated with elegance. Please note that the restaurant is also open to outside guests and the access is in common from the property park.
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12-room semi-detached house 300 m2 on 3 levels. Spacious and bright, comfortable and tasteful furnishings: large entrance hall. Dining room. Lounge with TV. Kitchen (5 hot plates, oven, dishwasher, freezer). Sep. WC. Upper floor: 1 room with 1 bed, 1 double bed, shower/bidet/WC and TV. 1 double bedroom with shower/bidet/WC and TV. 2 rooms, each room with 1 french bed (140 cm), shower/bidet/WC. 1 double bedroom with shower/bidet/WC and TV. Exit to the balcony. 1 room with 2 beds, 1 double bed, shower/bidet/WC and TV. Exit to the terrace. 2nd upper floor: gallery with TV. 2 double bedrooms with sloping ceilings. Bath/bidet/WC. Balcony, terrace, garden. Sitting area. Facilities: washing machine. Internet (WiFi, free).
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Comment #1 Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:01 AM
This is just brilliant Karen! Great graphics, great imagination, the two main ingredients of a top class blind. Thanks!
Comment #2 Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:10 AM
A very unique looking skin it looks good thanks for sharing
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well you deffinatley know how to pat the psychotic in me......i lurve it!!!!
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everything already said and i can also only agree -great work
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Karen, the reason I love your skins is that you get an Idea, no matter how insane and stick with it....What then actually comes out in the other end is ALWAYS a skin beyond comparison. I´m impressed with your skinningabillities aswell as your artistique. -You do the math
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Fantastic, thank you
Wondering where I might find the wallpaper you used and again thank you
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This is BRILLIANT, Karen!! What an amazing skin! This is what I call true talent to say the least!!
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I LOVE that animated start button. Wonderful blind. Thank you
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Ask any parent who has ever sent a child off to summer camp: Do flashlights ever come home? The answer is no! (You probably guessed that.) The thing is, kids love to share items like flashlights; when one kid doesn't have one, everyone wants to be the one who shares his or hers. And inevitably, the one that gets shared is the one that doesn't come home. Unless, that is, it has the child's name or organization on it. And that is why you want your children to have personalized flashlights.
Of course, parents aren't likely to order a bunch of custom flashlights for their own family. But if you are a scout leader, a church group leader or even a teacher, your parents are bound to love you for ordering imprinted flashlights for the whole group. Even if you choose to have the school name, church name or troop number printed on it, the mission of making sure the flashlight stays with its original owner can be accomplished because simply because it is personalized at all. Another child isn't likely to bring home a flashlight that has the name of an organization he doesn't belong to on it. That is why promotional flashlights are better than any other flashlights!
And there's even more good news: Personalized flashlights aren't just for kids. Lots of businesses order them for their employees, especially those companies that operate in the outdoors. Here are some examples of industries that would do well to order custom flashlights for the safety of their field staff:
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 15 (UPI) -- Two electronic payloads for use on MQ-1C Grey Eagle unmanned aerial systems have been delivered to the U.S. Army by Raytheon.
The devices are part of a contract awarded last year by the U.S. Navy's NAVSEA-Crane division and will support the Army's Networked Electronic Warfare, Remotely Operated system.
NERO, which builds on the Army's Communications Electronic Attack with Surveillance and Reconnaissance program, migrates the same pod system and advanced capability to the Gray Eagle, which has greater mission time than the manned C-12-based CEASAR system.
"NERO provides critical jamming capabilities to warfighters in counter-insurgency environments," said Glen Bassett, director of Advanced Communications and Countermeasures for Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business.
"We leveraged our combat-proven success from the manned CEASAR program to deliver this key tactical electronic attack capability onto an unmanned application."
Raytheon said CEASAR and NERO counter both military and commercial communication systems and can be adapted to counter next-generation of enemy communications threats.


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Articles from RotoWire's fantasy archives that mention Ben McLemore's name.
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Will midnight toll for Cinderella? Not if Florida Golf Coast's Sherwood Brown has anything to say about it.
March 20, 2013
NCAA Tournament Preview: How to Fill Out Your Brackets
Picking a 12-5 upset is a must, and Allen Crabbe and the Cal Bears look primed to knock off fifth-seeded UNLV.
March 19, 2013
NCAA Tournament Preview: Player Rankings
Deshaun Thomas has plenty to smile about these days as he leads Ohio State into the Big Dance with nearly 20 points per game. Does that make him the top fantasy player in the tourney?
March 18, 2013
NCAA Championship Preview: South Region
Freshman Ben McLemore is the breakout star for the No. 1 seed Jayhawks, who hope to make it Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk in the South Region.
March 12, 2013
Freshman Haze: Looking Toward the Tourney
Anthony Bennett is one of the most highly regarded freshmen in the country, but his season has been on a downward trend since Mountain West play began.
March 4, 2013
Top 100 Rankings: March Update
Isaiah Canaan has improved his scoring average to 21.6 points per game for Murray State. Is that enough to crack the Top 10 of our latest rankings?
February 25, 2013
Freshman Haze: Countdown to No. 1
Kanas' Ben McLemore could be the top pick in this year's NBA Draft, but does that make him the top frehsman in the nation?
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Freshman Haze: Frosh for Your Fantasy Radar
A big man who can pass? Yes, please. Freshman Kyle Anderson should see plenty of minutes for UCLA.
October 26, 2012
Top 100 Rankings: Zeller's on Top
Cody Zeller leads the fantasy Top 100 entering the 2012-13 season.
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Top Guards: 2012-13 Season Rankings
Murray State won't surprise anyone this season, but Isaiah Canaan still has the tools to light up the scoreboard.


text: No August nightmares for Warriors: Vatuvei Fri 22 Aug, 2014, 10:59am Steven Ross, North Queensland Correspondent, NRL.com Tweet Email Print Veteran winger Manu Vatuvei says it's not panic stations at the Warriors despite the side losing three of their past five games. Credit: Robb Cox Copyright: NRL Photos The signs look ominous, but the Warriors have denied any suggestion that they are set for yet another late-season collapse.Across their 19-year history the New Zealanders have rarely put their best foot forward at the business end of the season, and over the past five years have won more games than they have lost in the last month of the competition only twice.Since season 2009 they have managed to win only 45 per cent of their four games heading into the finals, and as a result have made the top eight on only two occasions during that period.This year they again find themselves in an uphill battle to play post-season footy, and head into Sunday's clash against the Roosters off the back of two dour performances against the cellar-dwelling Sharks and 14th-placed Knights.Now in his tenth season with the club, winger Manu Vatuvei has experienced plenty of August nightmares but said it wouldn't be happening this time around."I think we are confident with where we are at the moment," Vatuvei told NRL.com. "If we were sitting in 12th spot or something and had to win a few games then I think I would be worried, but we are sitting comfortable at the moment."There have been a few little hiccups, with the Sharks we didn't play a great game but still got the points, and last week we needed it and lost it."We just have to make sure we get back to how we were three weeks ago."I see a bit of a change in the boys' attitude and how they react to pressure [compared to this time in previous years]."It is just little manipulations in our game and once we fix it we will be sweet."After recovering from a torrid start to the year on and off the field, the Warriors lost only two games between Round 8 and 18, but have gone down in three of their past five.In his first year as an NRL coach Andrew McFadden could be forgiven for feeling the pressure right now, but he wasn't showing any signs of it midweek."We are disappointed with performances but we still know we have enough strike and talent in this team to do something, we just have to go back to what works for us," he said."There is no mystery here… there are some little attitude adjustments and mind-set things we need to work on, but I know that we can turn it around very fast."We have worked really hard on a lot of the technical aspects of the game and maybe we have dropped off on the areas we are good at, which is that effort and intent."It only takes just to acknowledge it to turn it around and the boys are going to be really determined this week."The mental side of the game is something you have got to train, it is in our development stage but I feel like we have made some real ground there." Front-rower Ben Matulino, who this weekend will become the first NYC graduate to play 150 NRL games, saw Sunday's meeting with the fourth-placed Roosters at Mount Smart Stadium as make or break for his team's season. "It is pretty much semi-final football for us, if we lose we find ourselves down and out of the eight; we have to win," he said."We want to win every game so that coming into the last game we are not relying on other teams to win to keep us in the eight, for us it is just about winning to keep control of that." Tweet Email Print Send to a friend: Your Name: Your Email: Friend's Name: Friend's Email: Close Submit loading image needs to go here


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Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
This study has been terminated.
(PI leaving institution)
Duke University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: January 3, 2013
Last Update Posted: July 2, 2015
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Duke University
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- Study Results
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- How to Read a Study Record
Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcome of incisional negative pressure wound therapy in preventing surgical site infections and wound complications (dehiscence) in high-risk patients undergoing complex spinal surgery.
|Spinal Deformity
|Device: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|The Efficacy of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in the Postoperative Management of Complex Spinal Surgeries: A Randomized Outcomes Study.
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Wounds and InjuriesU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Duke University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of Participants With Post-operative Infection (NPWT) [ Time Frame: 3 months ]The patient will be assessed for signs/symptoms of infection within the 3 month post-operative period.
|Study Start Date:
|December 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: No Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Device
This control group will not receive the negative pressure wound therapy device. Post operative dressings will be per the surgeon's standard routine.
Experimental: NPWT Arm Therapy
This group will receive NPWT as opposed to the standard incisional dressing following complex spinal surgery.
|Device: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT)
Detailed Description:
This randomized, controlled study will compare the outcomes of NPWT versus the outcomes of not using NPWT in post-operative wound management following a complex spinal surgery. The allocation of patients (no NPWT device versus applying an NPWT device) will be determined by computer-generated randomization. The following data will be collected to determine impact on the outcome of wound management (i.e., infection and wound dehiscence): age, gender, body mass index (BMI), dorsal fat, estimated blood loss during the surgical procedure, length of surgery, length of hospital stay, highest peri-operative glucose, medical comorbidities, and history of infection.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- >/= 18 years of age
- >/= 3 level instrumented thoracic, lumbar, or thoracolumbar spinal fusion
Exclusion Criteria:
- < 18 years of age
- < 3 level instrumented thoracic, lumbar, or thoracolumbar spinal fusion
- Spinal infection at time of surgery
- History of immunosuppression or chronic systemic infection
- Pregnancy
- Inability to provide informed consent
Contacts and Locations
Information from the National Library of Medicine
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01759381
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01759381
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|Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
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Duke University
|Principal Investigator:
|Carlos A Bagley, M.D.
|Duke University
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|Responsible Party:
|Duke University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01759381 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|December 7, 2012
|First Posted:
|January 3, 2013
|Results First Submitted:
|June 25, 2015
|Results First Posted:
|July 2, 2015
|Last Update Posted:
|July 2, 2015
|Last Verified:
|June 2015
Keywords provided by Duke University:
Spinal Deformity
Complex Spinal Surgery
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Post-Operative Infection
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Congenital Abnormalities


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Dehlinger Estate Bottled Unfiltered Chardonnay
Wine Details
Wine Description
(2012 Vintage) Our Chardonnay is grown from the California heritage Wente Clone, which produces small clusters and berries and has a notable minerality with an almost oily viscosity. We ferment and age the Chardonnay in French oak barrels with full malolactic fermentation. We planted our Chardonnay vines between 1975 and 1988 on a variety of exposures in Goldridge series soils. Careful leafing allows dappled light to reach the clusters and we thin to balance the crop load.
Expert Reviews
Wine Spectator(2012 Vintage) Rating: 92/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 03/25/2015
Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines(2005 Vintage) Elements of ripe apples and green are overlain in the nose by a blanket of rich oak, and the promise of substance is met by the wine's ample flavors. Fairly ripe, a tad ragged and showing a bit of last-minute heat, the wine has the fruit to ensure a few years of age, and aging is recommended as there is still knitting and softening to be done here.


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You missed one, and that's me. I'm a waiter, so I call Valentine's day "money day." basically anyone who benefits from all the rampant spending loves this holiday for all the wrong reasons.
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A former Lincoln County commissioner was sentenced to 21 months in prison followed by two years of supervised released.
For the first time, Thomas Ramey Jr. spoke to 13 News after he left the courtroom.
He said, "I will say this, for what I did, which was not a part of the conspiracy, simply lying to the federal investigators in regards to the applications being altered, I am very sorry for that. I love Lincoln County. Lincoln County is a wonderful place. Lincoln County will prosper. Lincoln County will grow and Lincoln County will be a better place in the future for people to raise a family and for people to move. I wish people them all the best."
Ramey will also face a $1,000 fine.
The judge in the case told Ramey that his sentence would be a message to Lincoln County to prevent another incident like this from happening again.
United States Attorney Booth Goodwin said voter fraud will not be tolerated in the state.
"You cannot steal elections in Southern West Virginia and if you try, you will go to jail," he said.
The scandal upset many Lincoln County residents who felt cheated and personally violated that those in power were trying to skirt the system.
Secretary of State Natalie Tennant said the fight for free and fair elections will continue.
"For me, there never is rest, there never is rest. I will remain vigilant and our office has remained vigilant in any process of the election; if someone is trying to manipulate it, if someone is simply not following the correct process," she said.
Ramey will now join his other two sidekicks, former Lincoln County Sheriff Jerry Bowman and former County Clerk Donald Whitten, who have already been sentenced to prison for their involvement.
According to court documents, "The candidates agreed that they would, together and individually, visit voters and seek to persuade them to vote absentee in the election. The candidates further agreed that they would complete absentee ballot applications for voters.
"Specifically, the candidates agreed to mark each application to indicate that the voter was unable to vote in person either because of travel or employment, regardless of whether those reasons were true."
Ramey also tried to re-alter the illegally filed absentee ballot applications when he learned that other people were becoming suspicious, according to court documents.
In court, Ramey said he did not know he was breaking the law at first. He said he only lied after he realized how deep he had become entangled in the mess.
Despite his sentence, Ramey will be allowed to run for a political office in 10 years if he chooses to do so.
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After escaping a CIA team sent to capture him in Bangkok, Stone finds himself on a brand new mission. One of his buddies who saved his life in the Vietnam war has been captured in Cambodia and needs to be rescued. Mark Stone, again joined by his fellow mercenaries Terrance Loughlin and "Hog" Wiley, goes in search of his friend, but ultimately is captured.
Tension mounts as his team works to find and free him. While a huge US Strike on the camp is imminent, Stone is subjected to various torture techniques and abused, resulting in him fighting for his very life.
This action-packed follow up to the first volume in the series M.I.A. Hunter is a must-listen for Stone fans and readers of men's adventure/war fiction.
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Crepe Myrtle 'White Chocolate'
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8-10 ft. (2.4-3 m)
4-6 ft. (1.2-1.8 m)
6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 �C (0 �F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 �C (5 �F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 �C (10 �F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 �C (15 �F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 �C (20 �F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 �C (25 �F)
Sun Exposure:
Full Sun
Bloom Color:
White/Near White
Bloom Time:
Mid Summer
Late Summer/Early Fall
Grown for foliage
Good Fall Color
Other details:
Soil pH requirements:
5.1 to 5.5 (strongly acidic)
5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
Patent Information:
Propagation Methods:
From softwood cuttings
From semi-hardwood cuttings
From hardwood cuttings
From seed; sow indoors before last frost
From seed; germinate in a damp paper towel
By air layering
Seed Collecting:
N/A: plant does not set seed, flowers are sterile, or plants will not come true from seed
Foliage Color:
Bloom Characteristics:
Water Requirements:
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Where to Grow:
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Chelsea, Alabama
San Leandro, California
Colbert, Georgia
Cordele, Georgia
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Gardeners' Notes:
On Sep 21, 2006, jamie68 from Vancouver, WA (Zone 8b) wrote:
A newer Crepe Myrtle, and one I really like!! The foliage is a wonderful, glossy, wine/maroon color when new, and is a gorgeous backdrop for the pure white flowers! It isn't a very large growing variety - 8-10ft - and stays nice and shapely with little to no pruning....just a very nice Myrtle