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My son doesn't play with toys!
I am very excited to find this forum to talk on-line to other moms about my 4 year-old son's recent Asperger diagnosis. It drives me crazy that my son doesn't like to play with toys. I have 3 boys and many toys and he would rather wander around the house or run back-and-forth. I can just feel the stress hormones kick in when he starts to run and hum. He is mild and high-functioning so he stops immediately if anything more interesting goes on - just very little toy playing. He goes to play therapy and has improved in make believe play, he does enjoy playing pretend kitchen - but no action figures or ships or Little People castles. It is like pulling teeth when I work with him and we play Weebles or whatever.
Does anyone else have this issue and how do you deal with the stress? I guess I also wonder what this means about him in the future. How will this deficit look when he is older?
Both of my sons do not play with toys. One is ASD, and one is not. I think it depends on the kid.
If he likes to play pretend kitchen, can you get him one of those little kitchens? Maybe the'd use that. I wouldn't worry too much about not playing with toys. My son didn't play too much with toys either, he's getting better though. He still doesn't play with toys with other people but once in awhile I will find him in his room playing by himself.
It doesn't stress me out when the boys run around the house, but if I feel they need to burn off some energy I send them outside to run laps around the house. This has helped not only my son with aspergers but also his brother.
As a mother of a 12 year old daughter who did pretty much the same thing when she was four...If I could go back and re do a lot over ( we didn't find out till this past year she had aspbergers) I would not stress about that. Some things will improve when they are older...but don't stress about him not playing with toys. You are on the right track with everything, but don't let that bother you. He isn't going to do the same things as your other boys. I don't know about boys...As far as stress....find someone you can talk to that has a boy that has already gone thru what you are going thru. What does it mean? Days of laughter and crying and knowing that you will be dealing with this (with improvments) for a long time. It isn't a death sentence...you can help him to discover what he is good at, give him the tools to live a successful life and try to realize that you have one awesome kid on your hands. Honestly too...lots and lots of prayer. I don't know if this helps or not...but this is a good site for encouragement as well. I love it and get on here when I can and ask questions...:)
My son has a closet full of toys that are barely touched, some have never been touched. Legos are not big with him nor were the Little People sets. He loved his trains when he was younger, not much now. He loved puzzles and books for awhile, and when he got hooked on Scooby Doo, I bought him figures and a mystery machine. That he will play with, occasionally other figures. But he still plays with non-toys too, he will pick up leaves outside or a washcloth in the bath and make up some scenario with the leaves. It's good, it's pretend play.
Board games he likes. I think the rules are clear and it's easier for him to figure out what he's supposed to do.
I really don't buy him almost anything at this point, unless it's something that clearly fits in with an interest of his. Most of it sits here. This is pretty common I think.
Yeah, my son (age 6) has autism and doesn't play with toys often either. Right now he is in a stuffed animal phase and will dress it, carry it with him everywhere, and pretend play with it. His favorites are his stuffed Curious George and Woody. He also likes to play with all kinds of balls. There are times when he will play with other toys but it isn't an all the time thing. I just let my son play with whatever makes him happy at the moment.
dont have this issue h\johny loves his ytoys but also can be destructive with non toys and toys
I have had this same issue with my son, I am constantly diverting his attention attempting to find out what he likes. What I did was take him to the Toy store is ToysRus and let him wander the store while I followed him. he selected a remote car which he constantly played with when we got home and thereafter. I have now gotten him several one's because he wears them out. I elected to do this because he seemed to like the sounds they made......he now also likes ZUzu pets because they make a noisde too. It is a matter of exposing them to all that you able to discovering their likes or dislikes is difficult especially when my son doesn't talk. Then, aafter awile he started playing with the lego and built a garage for his cars. I was astounded by his ability to construct the garage all on his own.
My son (just turned 7) was never into toys until about a year ago. Until then, I had the exact same concerns as you. My husband and I have went to the extreme purchasing toys to see if they would spark his interest, and nothing ever quite did...well, except television, which brought on a whole other level of concern. Stephen has always been the kind of child who fixates and does not deviate from what he is fixated on at the time. So, Christmas last year, the Wii game Skylanders was released and OMG! That was it. And the thing is, he didn't want to "play" the game because he isn't really into gaming. He wanted the action figures. So, again, over the top, out of 32 figures, since Christmas, we have bought him 28 of them. But hey, he plays! Yay!
And now, he has a new fixation...wrestling! Because Stephen has always been an aggressive child, not hurtful, but just needs a lot of stimulus, he new what wrestling was before he ever saw it on television. Do not ask me how, because we do not watch wrestling (the power of advertising). So, also at Christmas, we also bought him a wrestling ring and a couple of wrestling figures. That's it, hands down, the most awesome thing we have ever done for him. He is more creative, imaginative, interested, focused, than he has ever been in his entire life...as long as he is playing with his wrestlers. He doesn't even want to watch television now (ahhhh!!!!).
What I am trying to say is that it will probably come with time. He will just have to find what excites him, and it will take off from there. Right now, he is probably like Stephen, just still taking everything around him in!
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For Lynne Coy-Ogan, one of the hardest parts of being an administrator is the shrinking pool of people she talks to about her job.
Coy-Ogan, principal of Vine Street School in Bangor, Maine, is ready to deal with the stress of low pay, long hours, and constant criticism. Those were things she encountered before moving into administration. But then, she had coworkers who could help, who were in similar situations. And they were next door or just down the hall.
She still struggles with the isolation, the collegial attrition that takes place when you move into a management position. "Since so much of the job involves confidentiality, there are few people whom principals can lean on for support and encouragement throughout the school day," Coy-Ogan says.
This feeling is a symptom of burnout, a growing problem for school-level and central office administrators. Ultimately, it's a problem for school boards, who must fill positions that become empty when a burnout victim leaves to start over -- in another district or another career.
Burnout is not the same as stress -- many of the best educators thrive on that, despite the potential health risks that stress presents. It's not necessarily overwork, either, although years of 55- to 75-hour work weeks would grind almost anyone down. And it's not something people are eager to discuss, despite evidence that burnout is on the rise.
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Today's best bets, by Chris Cook
The day after Royal Ascot, you can do one of three things: bask in theafterglow of your success, drum your fingers over the missed opportunities or howl with grief over the slain body of your betting bank. There isn't even one of those interesting French Classics to help us move on, though I notice Martin Dwyer has gone over to Dusseldorf for the German 1,000 Guineas. Being relatively poorly travelled, the only thing I know about Dusseldorf is that the cathedral is on the other side of the square from where Mary Ure thinks it is.
Anyway, if you're having a bet today, when the offering is from Pontefract, Hexham and Hereford, the odds are that you don't need much help coping with the absence of the quality racing we've enjoyed over the past five days.
The big race here, insofar as there is one, is the Listed Pontefract Castle Stakes, in which Distant Memories (4.10) should deliver at 9-4. The five-year-old won a Group Three at Windsor in August and has been keeping excellent company since, finishing two lengths behind Cirrus Des Aigles (a neck behind Goldikova recently) in the Prix Dollar and chasing home Await The Dawn at Chester.
This is a much more winnable opportunity and, although some of the other runners are solid enough, it is striking how few of them come from stables that have been among the winners in the past fortnight. The exception would be Hughie Morrison, who got a double at Ascot on Friday, but he runs Bramalea, who looks out of her depth and is surely in search of some black type (for which she need only scrape a place) ahead of her eventual move to the paddocks.
I like the 11-8 about Round Tom (2.20) in the opening novice hurdle at Hereford. Paul Nicholls is probably going to make a chaser out of this six-year-old some day but he finally got it together over hurdles with a very easy success last time. That was in a handicap but he is up to beating this lot. Polly Gundry has done well with Teenage Kicks but his two recent wins have come in soft contests.
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Christopher Hampton could be considered the king of adaptations, having brought the words of writers as varied as Graham Greene, Ian McEwan, and now Colette to the screen. He won an Oscar last time he wrote a screenplay for director Stephen Frears, 1988's Dangerous Liaisons, and now he's working with Frears again on Cheri.
At last weekend's press junket for the movie, we asked Hampton about his process of translating a book as sexy and specific as Colette's Cheri, which tells the story of an affair between an aging courtesan and her friend's young son in glamorous turn-of-the-century Paris. I'll bring you our roundtable talk with Hampton, but first he talked about a few of his upcoming projects, including a new screenplay of John Steinbeck's East of Eden for director Tom Hooper, and plans to bring last fall's New York stage version of The Seagull-- starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Carey Mulligan-- to the screen. Read about it all below.
Are you working while all this is going on? Are you actively involved in other projects?
I am. I just delivered a screenplay based on East of Eden. East of Eden is one of my absolute favorite films, however, it only deals with the last sixth of the novel. I mean, James Dean doesn't turn up until page 500 of the novel. The book is mostly about the parents, Raymond Massey and Jo Van Fleet in the film. It's completely different from the original film. So I just delivered that. I'm trying to do very quickly a Dogma type version of The Seagull, from our production. Our production that we did here last year, with Kristin Scott Thomas. Me and Ian Rickson the director and Kristin and I would like to find a house somewhere and shoot it next spring, very sparsely, and just preserve as many of those performances as we can. Because it was a phenomenal production.
You would have the whole cast back for that?
As many as we can get. I mean, Carey Mulligan is a big star now. Who knows? It would not really be changing anything much, but just compressing and overlaying with images, the play. An impression of the play. Much as Sidney Lumet did in the 60s.
What was the hardest aspect of your adaptation of Cheri and The Last of Cheri?
Well first, I should say it was surprising when I saw the credits and it said it was an adaptation of Cheri and The Last of Cheri, because it's actually an adaptation of Cheri with one sentence form The Last of Cheri. I don't know who did that, and I've asked Stephen and he doesn't know either. I had no idea [the adaptation] was going to be as difficult as it turned out to be. Because I hadn't realized that Colette is so deceptive. She writes in this completely sort of impressionist way, either in extreme close-up, where there will be literally a 20-page dialogue scene, or in extreme longshot, where she'll skim over something rather important in a couple of sentences. I was amazed to discover when I finished the first draft, it was longer than the novel. After that I had to cut it down quite drastically, in order to fill out all the nuances in the novel. I found myself with a script much, much longer than I'd expected.
Colette has a very distinct flavor to her writing. How do you approach translating that?
Well we just had endless conversations, Stephen and I, about how to get that quality. It went on all the way through the shooting. Every day I was working on the script, changing things, just touching it up, adding bits and taking bits out. It was all with the idea of trying to get the cinematic equivalent of that strange, individual style.
So you were constantly tuning the script? Or was there improvisation going on?
Not really. We didn't quite work like that. There's no rehearsal, for sort of geographical reasons as much as anything else. We read it, and we plunged straight in. it was much more a question of modifying scenes that had already been shot. You'd say, oh, we already sort of said that, we don't need to say that again. On the other hand, there's something, maybe omitting a scene that is there on the page that we could back, we have all these drafts around.
That's a more hands-on approach than most writers employ. Is that something you prefer?
That's really more Stephen. In his process, he insists on the writer being there all the time.
Is it an adjustment when you go back to working with him, as opposed to other directors?
I love working that way. In Atonement I worked very closely with Joe Wright right up until a few days before shooting, and then he sort of waved goodbye. I went on the set as a courtesy a couple of times, but you sort of lose touch with it. Because that was what he was comfortable doing. Stephen is not comfortable with that. The one film I worked with Stephen on, which was Mary Reilly, when I couldn't be on the set, he got pretty annoyed all the way through. I was shooting my own first film as a director, and I would totter home from a day of shooting to find faxes saying 'Can you please rewrite this scene? Now.'
Did you have any actors in mind as you were writing this?
No, not this time. I do sometimes, and it really doesn't matter if you get them or you don't them, because they've done their work, which is to provide you with inspiration. But in this case, no, I didn't really think of anybody until I'd done it. But pretty soon after I started talking to Stephen, he said Michelle, and it seemed like the obvious answer.
What are the challenges of writing something set in a period like the Belle Epoque?
If you have a period like in Cheri, you need a certain kind of voice, in which all sorts of period influences creep in. There might be Oscar Wilde or French writers of the period. What's liberating about working from French and not from English-- if you were writing an Oscar Wilde story, you have to use Oscar Wilde's dialogue. But if you're adapting a French story, you use your own language, whatever is suggested by the French.
How did you translate the erotic, earthy flavor of Colette's language?
That's a matter for the director and the actors. I tried to put it into the script as much as I could. But then you have to capitalize on the strengths of the people you're working with. And Michelle is not that sort of substantial, earthy figure.
And Lea is kind of motherly.
Yes. So you think, well, you ought to get that, so you compensate, moving another way. What Michelle's great at is showing the wisdom behind the exterior. She looks as if she's not taking things seriously, but you always say that she is.
When you decided to adapt Cheri, did you ever hear any talk about Colette biopics? Her life is so fascinating.
I wanted to do a biopic, that's how it started. I worked with an American producer called Lester Persky, who was negotiating an option on Judith Thurman's book about Colette, a film about Colette in her 20s. Then various things happened-- Lester got ill suddenly and died. And at the same time the French announced an enormous miniseries about Colette on television. Talking about that with a French producer, it was that conversation out of which arose the idea of doing Cheri.
Would that still happen do you think?
I don't know. She was a fascinating woman. That relationship with her terrible husband, who published all her books and pretended he'd written them. And then her life in the music hall as a striptease artist, it's pretty interesting.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Talk about a high dive. From 26 miles up, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner broke several world records and became the first person ever to break the sound barrier via free fall.
At first glance, it appears as though Felix is on the edge of outer space itself. In fact, he's so high up, you can see the curvature of the Earth with nothing but black space above him. But there are many misconceptions about how high he really was and if indeed he was on the edge of space and time.
I thought I'd shed some light on some interesting facts about the stratosphere and why his jump was indeed so risky.
Baumgartner plummeted from 120,000 feet. Of the four layers of the atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere), he was in the lower portion of the Stratosphere; the second layer of the four layers of Earth's atmosphere. In fact, there was still another 60 miles of atmosphere above Felix at the time he jumped.
At 26 miles up, the air pressure was a staggering 7 millibars. Average surface pressure is 1013 millibars. That means there is very little air at that height. Weather Authorities John Gaughan says, ''at that altitude, without a space suit, Baumgartner's blood would have boiled.'' To put it in perspective, Baumgarnter was 19 miles higher in the sky than airplanes fly which is 37,000 feet or 7 miles up.
At this altitude, a person without a suit on would begin to expand or blow up like a balloon. While the balloon reference is a bit of an exaggeration, the same sort of expansion would occur with the human body. At the Earth's surface, there is 15 pounds of air pressing against us at any one time. It's what keeps our skin firm and our bodies 'compressed.' Without the weight of the air, our bodies would expand.
The demarcation of a particular layer of the atmosphere is determined by its temperature. In the Stratosphere (where temperatures get warmer with height), Baumgartner recorded a temperature of -4 degrees Celsius; or about 25 degrees Fahrenheit -- downright warm compared to what the temperature was below him -- yes, below him. Just a few miles below him, the temperatures hover in the -80 degree Fahrenheit range. These temperatures are often recorded with infrared satellites during hurricane season.
The deep convection or thunderstorms that meteorologists point out on tv is measured via temperature. The colder the cloud tops (-80 degrees), the stronger the storm. But that's another conversation for another day. As Baumgartner free fell, the temperatures would have dropped from his down right ''balmy'' temperature of 25 degrees above zero (F) to an unbelievable -80 degrees (F) with a slow rise in temperature the rest of the way to the surface. The only way to survive that plunge is to have a space suit on.
Few places on the surface of the Earth have ever seen such extreme temperatures. To relate to this, the temperatures in Minnesota a few years ago were in the -30 degree range. Folks went outside and threw boiling water into the air and the boiling water evaporated before ever hitting the ground. Now picture temperatures 50 degrees colder than that!
Finally, Felix became the first person ever to exceed the sound barrier without some sort of vehicle (car, plane or boat). Estimates are that the dare-devil reached a top speed of 834 mph. That's faster than granny grabbing the waffle off the plate in that one Eggo Waffle commercial emblazoned in my memory from childhood.
Some of you may have been taught that terminal velocity (max speed of a mass free falling) is 120 mph. According to John Gaughan, that's only in the first 1,000 feet up from the surface thanks in part to the density of air governing the speed. But the higher you go, the thinner the air which means less resistance and much higher speeds.
So as Baumgartner rocketed to Earth, his speed naturally decreased from 834 mph to a crawling 150 mph before he pulled the rip cord at around 5,000 feet.
So bottom line here, the feat that Felix Baumgartner accomplished is a quintessential example of human ingenuity. While it is often said, ''the sky is the limit,'' Felix may have indeed reached that point. I wonder if it's possible to jump from a spacecraft? Or the moon? Or Mars?
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was also active on Twitter, even after Monday's deadly blasts!.Numerous news sources have confirmed that Tsarnaev's Twitter account appears to be @J_tsar.
"I'm a stress free kind of guy," @J_tsar tweeted on Wednesday, just past midnight. Later, he also tweeted, "God hates dead people? LOL Those people are cooked."


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help on installation error on Bayanihan Linux 4
PCI: Linking AER extended capability on 0000:00:0b.0
PCI: Linking AER extended capability on 0000:00:0c.0
PCI: Linking AER extended capability on
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pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has i
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rivafb_setup START
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> L
ink [ACP3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
nvidiafb: Device ID: 10de0393
nvidiafb: CRTC0 analog not found
nvidiafb: CRTC1 analog not found
nvidiafb: EDID found
from BUS1
Ive checked the BIOS settings but still got the same message.
My newer PC specs:
Epox M4F-J motherboard (nforce4 4X chipset)
Athlon XP 3200+ AM2 processor
PCI-e video card
15" LG 505G monitor.
i tried it on my older rig and got no problem.
my older rig's specs:
MSI motherboard(VIA chipset)
Sempron socket A processor
AGP video card
17" trigem monitor
I have tried cheatcodes like
linux skipddc
linux noacpi
linux noprobe
linux nofb
linux text (text-based installation)
linux nohotplug
But the same error appears every time I try to install it. i think this happens after the irq something on the screen during installations.
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Probably a hardware issue of some kind but I have no idea what.
Maybe you can try disabling ACPI in your BIOS. You could also try disabling any hardware you don't really need for completing the install, then enable it afterwards.
Just some ideas to throw your way.
Good luck with it.oz
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to get it installed and then work on the issue if it turns out to be an X issue, you could always install it via text mode (if it supports it).
Otherwise I agree with Ozar, try disabling ACPI in your bios.


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Gitanjali adds sparkle to the royal brides
Zarine Khan said, "I am sure that these exciting ranges by brands Envi, True Platinum and Nizam will be well received by the fashion conscious brides." She looked stunning in an Archana Kochhar velvet saree highlighted with a rustic mirror work border, and an exquisite earring set from Nizam that had emeralds with classic uncut polki diamonds.
The collections will be launched at a fashion show being presented by Archana Kochhar on September 28, 2013 at the grand finale of the India Wedding Lounge at Mauritius. The IWL event is a first-of-its-kind Indian wedding exhibition-cum-fashion event to be held in Mauritius. Archana Kochhar's new wedding collection is titled Chokhi. It is inspired by the regal aura of Rajasthan.
Envi offers an exquisite collection of high-end jewellery studded with emeralds in vivid shades of green. The collection is ideal for women who like to flaunt their style. The Nizam collection is a tribute to the queen. Capturing the legacy of royalty in jewels, the 22K jadau jewellery with uncut diamond and precious stones blends well with all kinds of wedding attire.
True Platinum is the epitome of rarity and purity. It is designed to be exclusive with the sparkling diamonds add a glitter to the versatile metal. Archana Kochhar said, "My latest collection has a regal and glamourous feel, and the jewellery from Gitanjali's brands seems to blend perfectly with my designs."
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Dear Readers: You love us, you really love us! Mere moments after publishing my July 12 column (in which a couple of Know Nothings had their say on the failed Senate amnesty bill), ustedes bombarded the Mexican with letters expressing your disgust toward those pendejos. Space prohibits printing them all, so let's give the only word not to a gabacho or wab, but a limey.
Dear Mexican: Not really spicy enough for your column, but I just had to write after reading those revolting Septic (you'll have to look up Cockney rhyming slang for that one) responses you posted. I came to the U.S. in 1982 as an eighteen-year-old immigrant from England. Despite the generally common language of the "natives," my sense of Robinson Crusoe-ness was largely alleviated by the Mexicans I worked with and came to befriend. I watched the only football available on TV at the time on Telemundo; in an odd way, it made me feel at home, and I have maintained a mild soft spot for the Mexican league since then.
Sharing much in common, despite our language differences, has often struck me. I can think of few other nations that have such frequently shite-underachieving national football teams whose fans continue to adore them beyond all common sense than do the English and the Mexicans. We and they are self-deprecating, think that excessive drinking is an unapologetic prerequisite for a pleasant evening, and will have a punch-up and fall over laughing afterward. Thoughtful, argumentative, loyal and kind: I've always thought this. That's how I have come to know Mexicans.
Till England slaughters Mexico 5-0 in their next meeting, Mexican!
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Dear Mexican: Why is Sinaloa considered the dope capital of Mexico? Every time I tell someone where my family is from, they immediately say Sinaloa is the dope capital.
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Dear Wab: Isn't it interesting how stereotypes persist long after they're no longer true (are you listening, New York Yankees)? Take the case of Sinaloa, a Pacific coastal state notorious for its narcocultura (drug culture). In Sinaloa, a shrine dedicated to Jesús Malverde — the unofficial saint of drug dealers — draws thousands of pilgrims each year, even though the Catholic Church considers his cult heresy. Here, too, is the birthplace of Chalino Sanchez, the singer who combined accordions with lyrics glorifying the drug trade to revolutionize the gangsta-rap-gone-polka genre called the narcocorrido. Sinaloa's plentiful poppy fields (some historians date them to the 1800s, when Chinese immigrants grew the flowers for their opium dens) spawned some of Mexico's most brutal kingpins — Alvaro Carrillo Fuentes, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and the Arellano Félix family are just the most infamous. Add a trigger-happy regional personality that's feared and respected across Mexico, and I'm surprised people don't run in holy fear from you. But Sinaloa's heyday has passed: Most of the state's capos got offed in the last decade, and the Gulf Coast cartels now command Mexico's headlines and drug routes. And, no, the Mexican won't crack jokes on this subject. He enjoys being alive, gracias very mucho.


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Harrison Clay Cadwallader was born Dec 7, 1841 in Maryland and died Oct 14, 1904 in Baltimore. He was the son of Abel Cadwallader and Mary Ann Gill of Horsham, Pa.
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We are maintaining our Neutral recommendation on ICICI Bank Limited (IBN - Free Report) . Though we are concerned about ICICI's highly competitive operating environment and below-average credit quality, we anticipate continued synergies from the company's increased dependence on domestic loans, an almost stable funding base and market leadership in the insurance business.
ICICI Bank's fiscal first quarter 2012 (ended June 30, 2011) profit came in at INR13.32 billion (US$298 million), up 29.8% from INR10.26 billion (US$230 million) in the year-ago quarter.
Improved results were primarily driven by higher net interest and fee incomes, and a substantial decline in loan loss provisions. However, higher operating expenses and lower other non-interest income were the headwinds. Asset quality continued to show signs of betterment and capital ratios remained strong during the quarter.
Though ICICI still has wide international loan coverage, domestic loans represent the major portion of its overall loans. As a result, the company is now more secure with respect to loans and will be less affected by international dejection. Furthermore, it has been marketing retail deposits on a large scale, chiefly to reduce its cost of funds and create a stable funding base. This makes the company well positioned to deal with a more challenging rate environment in the upcoming quarters.
ICICI Bank has succeeded in leveraging its technology to augment contribution of fee income to its bottom line, a priority for the company. Fee income growth has picked up in the recent quarters. Also, an improvement in asset mix and an enhanced pricing power are expected to support margins in the upcoming quarters.
On the flip side, ICICI Bank operates in the highly competitive banking industry. The company primarily competes with other private banks in India, such as HDFC Bank, UTI Bank, IDBI Bank and IndusInd Bank. It also competes with foreign banks that have a notable presence in India, such as HSBC Holdings plc and Standard Chartered PLC .
Increasing operating expenses are expected to drag the company's bottom line in the upcoming quarters. Operating expenses increased 24% year over year during the first quarter of 2012. We expect increasing branch network to keep operating expenses high in the near term. Also, the expected rise in inflation will keep operating costs high.
Currently, ICICI Bank retains a Zacks #4 Rank, which translates into a short-term Sell rating.


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LG Hausys was selected as the surface brand of choice for the newly constructed Sky Lobby Bar located in the W Hotel in the heart of New York City. The bar offers a contemporary look featuring white leather seating squares and hanging lamps, and now serves as a popular destination for locals and hotel guests. The bar even features an outdoor seating area for guests to enjoy.
"The W Hotel desired a curved 3-D look for their bar and you cannot accomplish that with traditional soft surface materials. Fortunately, through the use of LG Hausys' HI-MACS product, the hotel achieved the stunning look they were after," said Jon Olson, communications manager at Sterling Surfaces, who served as the project installer.
The bar construction took one month to complete and included knocking down the walls of the conventional lobby design to create an open concept space. The project contractor selected LG Hausys HI-MACS Black Spectrum as the main colour for the bar tops due to its monolithic look.
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Fine dining is out, family dining is in. Horseradish mashed potatoes are out, expensive steaks are in. Iceberg-lettuce salads are out, soups are in. Most food fads fly, then flounder like a hooked trout. So who would would have thought that more than a dozen years after the eat-it-raw craze first surfaced here, sushi would be not only still afloat, but going swimmingly?
Even in landlocked Denver, sushi bars continue to thrive, buoyed by fresh fish flown in from all coasts and a clientele more outwardly health-conscious than diners in other cities. The neighborhood sushi bar is becoming as ubiquitous as the neighborhood Chinese and Italian spots, and strip-mall spaces that once housed by-the-slice pizza joints and watering holes sporting Bud signs are now adorned with the familiar "Sushi Bar" in Tokyo-typeface neon.
You never know where a sushi restaurant is going to land. Sushi Boat, for example, found a snug harbor in a small stretch of street alongside the Marriott off Hampden Avenue near I-25. This odd location is but one indication of how the year-old Sushi Boat tries to be a little less mainstream Denver dining and a little more like sushi bars in Japan than those already here. (In Japan, sushi bars sometimes bob up in the middle of a sea of residences.)
Your second clue that Sushi Boat goes in a different direction is the greeting you get as you enter the place, which can be a bit disconcerting for the uninitiated. When we opened the front door, we were treated to a group "Irrashai," an informal "Welcome" common in casual Japanese sushi bars. Since this was yelled at us the second we stepped inside--without so much as a chance to make eye contact with the employees--and in less-than-unison voice, the greeting sounded more like an admonishment that we'd left the door open. "Shut it," we thought everyone was telling us, and we quickly turned to find that the door was closed. It wasn't until the next customers came in that we figured it out.
The next oddity we encountered was the sushi bar itself, a typical U-shaped counter with a twist: a waterway lined with sushi boats that flowed in front of diners before floating off into the kitchen, only to circle around again. The setup, very popular in Japan, was reminiscent of carnival games where plastic fish with numbers on their wet bums could be angled for with a magnet and exchanged for the corresponding cheap prize. The stakes were a little higher at Sushi Boat, since the idea was that each vessel would hold a sushi selection to which we could help ourselves. Except that this restaurant doesn't put the sushi on the boats until the sushi bar is almost full, so when we stopped by early one evening, we had to order from the regular raw-fish roster and stare, mesmerized, as empty boats passed by.
The kids in the place, however, soon put the empty boats to good use. One family had brought small stuffed animals with them. After putting her little gorilla on a boat, a girl watched as it floated five chairs down to her brother, who snatched it up as they became hysterical with laughter.
The sushi chefs, probably apprentices, weren't all that much older than some of the clientele. Their demeanor was so different from the formal stiffness adopted by older, more experienced chefs that at first we found the change quite pleasant. Friendly, cheerful youth took our order and quickly sliced it up, while chattering in the playful tones of high-school teasing. It didn't matter that they were speaking in Japanese; "You think she's cute" with a nudge and a wink as a waitress walks by is understandable in any language.
So were the stellar qualities of the sushi they handed over: The fish was fresh, well-carved and assembled against nicely molded rice. In fact, for the quality of the sushi, the prices (each included two pieces) were among the best in town. We were delighted with the yellowtail ($2.50), the octopus ($2.50), the red snapper ($2.50), the sea bass ($2.50) and the sweet egg omelette called tamago ($2). But good as they were, they were blown out of the water by the superb mackerel ($2). The rolls weren't as consistently impressive, however. While we enjoyed a succulent salmon roll ($3) and the simply constructed soft-shell-crab-centered spider roll ($5.95), the salmon-skin roll ($3) was awful, with tasteless shreds of overcooked, chewy-skinned salmon outweighed by slivers of cucumber.
The food coming from the kitchen was also uneven. The miso soup ($1) had a sort of chicken-soupy healthy quality, so condensed and full of mellowed saltiness was the liquid, and the clear fish soup ($1) boasted surprisingly concentrated seafood flavor. But the shrimp-and-vegetable tempura ($4.95) --two shrimp and one mushroom, a chunk of carrot, a slice of zucchini, and a slip of onion--came cloaked in a batter that was bland and greasy, and it was accompanied by a watery sauce with just a hint of ginger. The soft-shell crab ($5.95) was encased in the same batter and served with the same disappointing sauce and a second dish filled with a too-sweet teriyaki sauce that still tasted of cornstarch.
None of these flaws was fatal. But Sushi Boat started sinking in our estimation when one of the sushi dudes began wiping his runny nose with his hand between orders. By this time, the antics of the three young chefs had gone beyond amusing and were approaching obnoxious. They were laughing and obviously making fun of each other and the diners, plainly conscious they had an audience and making the most of it.
The snot-nosed sushi chef asked us if we wanted more, and we broke the land-speed record for saying, "No, thanks." We felt safer finishing off the meal with a slice of respectable cheesecake topped with mandarin oranges ($2.50), then went home to take a few zinc lozenges just in case.
Fortunately, the chefs behind the bar at the ten-month-old Sushi Terrace, located at the far end of a plaza anchored by a King Soopers, were from the old school, comfortingly quiet and subdued, and seemingly healthy. They worked in a beautiful dining room full of the elegant touches and graceful lines that mark Japanese decor, a design laid out by part-owner Catherine Peavy. The other owners are Robert and Hsiaoling (Charlene to the regulars) Thai; he serves as manager and she waits tables and makes friends with the customers by being absolutely charming.
The sushi itself was lackluster. Although the fish was fresh and properly carved, every piece--mackerel, tuna, yellowtail and octopus (99 cents each during Sushi Terrace's nightly 5 to 8 p.m. "happy hour")--scored low on the flavor scale. And the rice under each piece kept falling apart. I noticed that one of the sushi chefs had very wet hands--the chefs often dampen their fingers so they won't stick to the rice as it's molded--and this could have caused the rice to lose some of its adhesive qualities.
Although the sushi itself was bland, Sushi Terrace's rolls were excellent, artfully arranged and attractively presented. The soft-shell crab ($5.60) arrived in two towers, each crowned with a claw and enhanced with a spicy mayonnaise that made the roll taste appealingly like a sandwich. The salmon-skin roll ($3.80) was another good catch: crispy, salty fragments of skin clung to substantial chunks of soft salmon dressed up with horseradish sprouts and a teriyaki-like sauce.
And things just kept getting better. An order of yellowtail collar ($7.95) brought a hefty hunk of the fish salted on the outside and cooked until the inside fell apart with the touch of a chopstick. It was so utterly rich that it needed a good dousing from the lemon wedges that came on the side to counteract the oiliness. Also delectable was the soft-shell crab ($5.95), with wavy crests of batter reminiscent of fish-and-chips and a softly spicy, ginger-heavy dipping sauce. The calamari tempura ($5.95) benefitted from similar treatment: Under their coating, the planks of squid were tender and tasty, as were the pieces of zucchini, mushrooms and sweet potato; the dish was strewn with onions and carrots that had been shredded into long, thin strips that made for some nice munching.
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But with a name like Sushi Terrace, this place needs to improve its drab sushi before it will be on firm restaurant ground. And Sushi Boat? It's not going to stay afloat long if the young chefs don't grow--and dry--up; the kitchen needs to even out as well.
Otherwise, with sushi joints popping up on almost every corner, we've got other fish to fry.
Sushi Boat, 3460 South Locust Street, 757-3181. Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-10 p.m. Monday-Friday; 5-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
Sushi Terrace, 8162 South Holly Street, Littleton, 779-7931. Hours: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Friday; 5-9 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.


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Have you ever heard frogs and crickets, when you were hiking a halfpipe?" Bjorn Lienes said to me.
When we arrived at 11:00 Saturday the first pipe session was already in full swing. Wait a second, what the hell is going on here? We're in Wisconsin, its the fifth of June, its 91àƒ,à'º Ferrenhieght, and about 85% relative humidity. We're going snowboarding? Since once again the airline lost my luggage, so I had to hustle getting a set-up going-the pipe was looking good, and I wanted to get some runs in before they shut it down to re-cut.
Borrowing the set-up was easy with all the demo tents set up at the bottom off the hill. After I ran up the 300 feet to the pipe I realized how hot is was, I was drenched in sweat before I made it there. My excitement was enough to power me to the top of the pipe, and the general stoke of everyone riding was enough to keep me going till the pro contest.
A fresh pipe was cut for the pro contest-despite all the salting efforts, the heat and humidity was making the snow slow, so four hits were the average. Bjorn and Erik Lienes, Chad Otterstrom, Joe Curtes, David Aubry all entered the event along with a bunch of ripping locals. Joe Curtes ended up winning, and another super fun session followed.
All during the day local bands had played and there was a street course that some local skaters were killing. There was a BBQ going and the lodge was also open to feed you or quench that special thirst.
They repeated everything on Sunday, but unfortunately Shem and I had to split Saturday night. Don and Sue McKay, and all their staff deserve a big high five for making this all go down.
When we had boarded a red-eye flight out of Los Angles we sort of had an idea of what we were in for, Shem had been to this event a few years prior, and that shoot of Guch backside lipsiding the bed is forever etched in my brain. The event surpassed any expectations we may have had, it was the must fun I've ever had shredding in the summer. You can bet your bottom dollar we will continue to go every summer.


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PHILIPSBURG – A bomb threat was written on the bathroom wall and found Tuesday at the Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School, reported the state police at Philipsburg.
Bomb dogs responded to the scene from the Pennsylvania State Police and the Penn State police to search the school. The auditorium, state police, was searched first.
Once cleared, students and faculty were evacuated to the auditorium. The school was subsequently searched with negative results, and students and faculty were dismissed from the auditorium.


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I guess its simply called 'change management',,, the process is started to adopt the change, or to incorporate it,, where as bureaucratic and post bureaucratic organizations failed in a turbulent environment because they wanted their internal environment to remain constant (same, as it was before), and they resisted the change. the process of managing change or incorporating the
turbulent environment is known as change management, where organization adopt changes to its processes, structure, even sometime into their statements. by some organizations change is considered as a constructive force rather then a destructive one.
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Chicago police on Monday outlined a new crime-fighting initiative.
Officers who are regularly making arrests and writing tickets will be able to get more time on the street and overtime pay, according to a memo released by the Fraternal Order of Police.
The move comes after a particularly violent weekend in Chicago, with at least eight dead and more than 40 injured in shootings throughout the city and a string of wilding incidents in the downtown area.
The "Violence Reduction Overtime Initiative" begins Thursday, and officers will be able to work Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays on their regularly-scheduled days off and scheduled furlough days.
But in order to be considered for the program and get the time-and-a-half pay, officers need to meet certain goals in terms of the number of tickets written and arrests made.
"We're going to make sure that our deployment is accurate so that we can prevent these things from happening." police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Monday morning.
Officers chosen for the violence reduction plan will report to the police station at 61st and Racine on the city's south side. That's not far from where Fr. Michael Pfleger on Monday night joined community members in another show of solidarity and a call to end the code of silence on the streets.


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9 Neb. Businesses Cited for Selling Alcohol to Minors
Grand Island- Several Nebraska liquor distributors were cited for selling alcohol to minors.
The Nebraska State Patrol, in conjunction with the Hall County Sheriff's Office and the Grand Island Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition conducted compliance checks at 63 alcohol retail outlets in Hall and Howard Counties. The businesses checked included convenience, liquor, and grocery stores as well as restaurants and bars.
During the compliance checks conducted on Friday a total of nine businesses were found to be non-compliant after selling alcohol to minors.
Five of the businesses were in Hall County and the remaining four were in Howard County.
Compliance checks are conducted to help communities determine the extent of the problem of alcohol sales as a source of youth access to alcohol. Local law enforcement conducts compliance checks to ensure that businesses are in compliance with the state's youth alcohol laws.
The Nebraska Office of Highway Safety provided $1,650 in grant funds to assist with the enforcement effort.


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Beds Police could face further budget cuts because of a mooted move by the Home Secretary, it was claimed this week.
Olly Martins, Labour candidate for the role of Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner which will be elected next month, made his claim after Home Secretary Theresa May indicated that the new commissioner's ability to raise the precept on the council tax will be capped.
Mrs May suggested the precept, which is the amount raised through the council tax to fund the police, will only be allowed to rise by a maximum of two per cent. As this is lower than the rate of inflation, Mr Martins claims that this would still mean the police have less to spend in real terms.
Mr Martins said: "We are already losing a total of 185 police officers, 78 PCSOs and 30 patrol cars as a result of the Tory-led government's cuts.
"Now, for all their talk of localism and giving people a say by electing police commissioners, they are restricting the new commissioner's ability to respond to local needs and priorities."
Currently police forces across the country are overseen by police authorities, made up of a mixture of councillors and government-appointed members.
They will be replaced by commissioners, whose role will include appointing chief constables and setting out five-year police and crime plans.
But they will only be able to raise the cap on spending will be through local referendums, which Mr Martin claims in a "non-starter".
He said: "There is already concern about how many voters will turn out on November 15 so the idea of holding a further vote is a non-starter.
"The cost of holding a referendum is also prohibitive so in reality the government are capping what the commissioner can raise and inflicting another cut on our police budget.
"Bedfordshire raises a smaller proportion of its budget through the council tax than most other constabularies and now it is clear that the new commissioner will be unable to change this even if there was public support for doing so. This government is clearly intent on dismantling our public services, including the police."


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Commit Nick Ciuffo, C, Lexington HS, 1 (21), Rays
Commit Travis Demeritte, 3B, Winder-Barrow (Ga.) HS, 1 (30), Rangers, SIGNED, June 10
Commit Cory Thompson, RHP, Mauldin HS, 5 (165), Reds, SIGNED, June 10
*Tyler Webb, LHP, 10 (314), Yankees
*LB Dantzler, 1B, 14 (415), Blue Jays
*Adam Westmoreland, LHP, 26 (772), Marlins
Commit Wil Crowe, RHP, Pigeon Forge (Tenn.) HS, 31 (921), Indians
Brison Celek, 1B, 31 (925), Blue Jays
Commit Matt Vogel, RHP, Patchogue-Medford (N.Y.) HS, 36 (1080), Diamondbacks
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South Carolina is gaining another player, one the Gamecocks thought they had lost.
Rising fifth-year senior Brison Celek, five days after he confirmed to The (Charleston) Post and Courier that he was going to accept his draft position and bypass his final year of eligibility, confirmed to GamecockCentral.com on Wednesday that he may be changing his mind. The State first reported on Wednesday that Celek may have changed his mind, and Celek said that while nothing is definite, he was leaning toward coming back to school.
"I have to talk to coach (Chad) Holbrook first, and the other coaches," Celek said, but when asked if he had a reversal of thought, answered, "Yep."
A source close to the program said that when Celek agreed to a verbal contract and departed for Toronto's minor-league camp, an issue arose when he took a physical. While there is nothing long-term factoring into Celek's health or career, the Blue Jays rescinded his signing bonus. Since Celek never signed a contract, he still retains his amateur eligibility.
Asked about the physical, Celek responded that he wasn't at liberty to talk about that yet. There may be a definite answer on Wednesday evening.
Celek was drafted in the 31st round and since he was going to be a senior in 2014, with no leverage, and he wasn't guaranteed of playing every day at designated hitter, his primary position, it made sense for him to leave. He was quoted in the Post and Courier that he felt it was time to go.
But then the physical issue arose, and helped change his mind. Close to obtaining his degree in management and marketing, Celek could return in 2014.
Celek hit .307 in 30 games with 24 starts, finally hitting his first career home run in a win at Tennessee. He drove in 18 runs as he was a mainstay at DH throughout the second half of the season, but ceded his spot to LB Dantzler in the NCAA Regionals and Super Regionals as Kyle Martin took over at first base.
If Celek returns, he would be the only player remaining from the team's 2010 national championship season, although he only played in nine games that year, including starting the season-opener at DH. He would be one of three players returning from the 2011 season (Patrick Harrington, Forrest Koumas) after Drake Thomason elected earlier this week to give up baseball and be a walk-on wide receiver for the Gamecocks' football team. Celek redshirted that season.
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Barry Schwartz on March 20, 2009 at 8:47 am
The Live Search blog posted a comprehensive guide on how to determine if your site is penalized in Live Search and if so, what actions you can take to remedy the issue. I'll highlight some of the key points in this excellent blog post.
- Microsoft said, "most webmasters who get penalized know why it happened."
- First confirm your site is penalized by validating your site at Live Search Webmaster Tools and then clicking on the Summary tool and then the Site status section. Blocked "Yes" means you are penalized.
- Figure out what you did wrong by using the various tools to see your crawl issues, malware issues, link issue or something else.
- Microsoft then explains various reasons why a "good guy" can be penalized.
- Once you fix the issue then go to this form and fill it out, plus select the "Content Inclusion Request" option and submit. I do wonder why the form is not also built into Webmaster Tools.
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'Neknominate' Drinking Game Killing Young People [VIDEO]
Neknominate. If you're wondering what it is, don't feel alone. It's a new social media game that's gone viral. However, in the process it's claiming lives worldwide.
Neknominate started as just a drinking game where someone would drink a lot, then challenge someone via social media to do the same if not more. The game has grown from drinking to excess, to doing embarrassing and dangerous stunts, some of which are killing young people.
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Ref: Dr. Kokil Mathur (Abdominal Pain Answer A17802)
Hi Dr. Kokil,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Lately, I only feel the pain (lower left abdomen & both side of my lower back(below the waist close to the middle)) when I bend forward. My waist at the back seems okay these few days. Just need a peaceful mind;
1. Do you think it'll resolve by it self? If yes, how long do you think it'll take? I really miss my Yoga class which I've stopped for almost 6 months (sigh...)
2. Can I wait & see whether it'll resolve by itself or should I visit my doctor.
Any other advice is highly appreciated.
Once again, thank you so much for your help!
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Hi, and thanks for your medical question on eHealth forum!
Please consult a doctor. You need to rule out nerve impingement as pain comes on bending forward. It is unlikely it will resolve on its own as it has been going on for 3 months. It can also be any other possibilities such as kidney stone or ovarian cysts. Take care!
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The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve was closed last week after a couple of hikers encountered a mountain lion.
Sightings of and encounters with mountain lions in Southern California have dramatically increased in the last few years. What was once a very rare occurrence is now fairly commonplace. When a human encounters a mountain lion, it generally means the mountain lion will be hunted down and killed.
California Department of Fish and Game records show that 51 mountain lions were killed in the 1970s. In the 1990s, there were 952 killed. In just the last four years, according to the Orange County Register, encounters and encroachments have resulted in 474 mountain lions being killed.
To go along with these encounters, deaths caused by the big cats have increased significantly. The first mountain lion killing of a human in California since 1900 was in 1994. We have had at least one killing just about every year since then. Livestock loss to mountain lions in California has more than tripled during the last few years, too.
In 1990, voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 117 to "Save the Mountain Lion." Although lions were not threatened or endangered, a group of animal lovers got a bill passed that designated the animal a "specially protected mammal." This made hunting cougars illegal and removed them from the jurisdiction of the Department of Fish and Game.
When hunting was allowed, Fish and Game charged big fees for the taking of a very limited number of cougars. They knew and monitored the number of the predatory animals and allowed a limited number of killings to keep their population in check. After the passage of Prop. 117, though, there was no funding from Fish and Game, nor were there any license fees from hunters. The state had no money to keep track of them and the absence of hunting resulted in a population boom for cougars.
The population of mountain lions has increased dramatically during the last few years, and is now between 4,000 and 6,000, according to the department.
This, as we are more frequently being convinced, is too many of them. The mountain lion problem is a direct result of the saving of them in 1990. Saving them because a bunch of people thought that hunters were mean and it was a cruel sport and they wanted to stop that. Well they did.
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Amid glowing reviews, plans are already under way for Ottawa to submit a bid to host the next Ontario Summer Games in 2008.
Pat Reid, one of the Games organizers, confirmed the mayor's office is already drafting a letter of intent to bid for the 2008 Games to submit to city council.
"That's just how pleased everybody is with the outcome," said Reid yesterday as the Games wrapped up at 30 venues across the region.
"We exceeded our ticket revenue, the weather co-operated and our 800-plus volunteers did a spectacular job."
Jim Bradley, the CEO of the Sport Alliance of Ontario, who has attended Games since 1974, raved about what he saw in the capital.
"That talk at the opening ceremonies was if these Games would be the best ever and I think these rise to that level for sure," he said. "They were fabulous. I hit most of the venues and talked to athletes, venue managers and coaches and everybody agreed these Games were tremendously organized."
Bradley said he was happy to hear Ottawa was already laying the groundwork to bid for the Games in 2008.
"We would certainly welcome that bid," he said. "There will be a number of bids and it is a bid process, but Ottawa did such a great job this augurs well for the future."
Reid said getting permission to have the opening ceremonies scheduled so all athletes could attend (they conflicted with some competitions in the past) and creating an athletes' village in the residences at Carleton University were two of the things that set these Games apart.
"We went to (previous) Games where there were 30 kids sleeping on cots in a classroom. It was like a giant dorm and a couple of kids talking or laughing would disrupt the whole group," said Reid.
Reid was particularly happy with the work put in by volunteers Marco Manconi, the director of the athletes' village, and Leo Tardioli, the president of iFathom, which handled all the Games IT needs.
"Everybody is exhausted but incredibly pleased we were able to put on an event that 3,000 kids really enjoyed," he said. "Those kids are pumped now to take the next step and compete for their province and try to get to the Canada Games."


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