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The Jets 2.1 are 9-2 since the fateful day between games against Columbus and Phoenix. Major problems on the team remain. Thorburn is playing up the lineup. The defence has limited depth and Mark Stuart is playing over his head. The goalie is putting up wins for the first time in his career, but career back-up and draft-bust Al Montoya continues to post the better individual numbers. Setoguchi is still awkward on the left wing and Dustin Byfuglien is half the forward that he is a defender.
In spite of confusing lines and sub-optimal team utilization, the Jets are genuinely, truly a much better hockey club than they were this time last month. Tighter formations in the breakout were obvious by game 3, and have now been referenced by the players publicly. High forward support in defensive transition has made for neutral zone pressure, let the defence close their gaps, and cut down on the 5-alarm 3-on-2's and 2-on-1's. A forecheck pressure point that doesn't require two forwards below the goal line has tightened the spacing of the 5-man unit and suddenly players who looked like problems playing on their tiny island are looking capable as part of a team effort.
I've been meaning to write an 'I told you so' article this week (at no one in particular, I'm just vain). This team came close to blowing up the whole project. The Atlanta 5 (despite there being 12 players who played NHL games for the Thrashers who also played them for the Jets this year) was targeted in the media. Dustin Byfuglien, arguably the best single player on the squad and a unique talent, was considered a liability by a segment of the fan base and was listed as 'addition by subtraction.' That all feels like a bad dream now. Like a 2 year training camp of poor positioning, bad coaching, and perfunctory roster moves.
The Jets return to Washington as a different squad. A year ago, the Capitals turned the Jets' season on its ear in a 10-1 pair of losses in March. The Caps went from zero to hero and took the division; the Jets slowly sank from the Southeast Champion to four points behind the Islanders for the final playoff spot. It's been a lot of lumps since then for these Jets, but they're back in the hunt and can't seem to avoid wins.
Jets Forwards
- Ladd – Little – Frolik
- Thorburn – Scheifele – Wheeler
- Setoguchi – Jokinen – Byfuglien
- Tangradi – Wright – Peluso
These are the lines of a coach who believes in the impact of confidence in creating wins. The team clearly has some confidence, but these are not ideal lines. Evander Kane makes a world of difference as the team's best corsi forward against the second toughs, not to mention his scoring and physical skills. Despite scoring the game winner in Carolina, Thorburn is a painful replacement. Only the injured and ineffective Matt Halischuk spends more time watching pucks get directed at this goaltender while on the ice.
But that's okay, because Setoguchi still can't manage the left boards and Byfuglien is a boogey-man who can't get out from under the bed on most plays. He's more threatening as an idea than effective as a forward. Still, Maurice has been creative with him, and he continues to drive offence on the powerplay from the backend, and even roam the offensive zone as the creative and dangerous player he is. More support has meant fewer plays where he just circles the net to buy time. And he's certainly engaging whenever he can.
Frolik – a staple of the third line under Noel – is showing he's a premier forward in the NHL. Tough minutes and the guy doesn't make a mistake. He has the puck on a string, never gives up the inside lane defensively, and is always on the right side of the puck. An incredible forward and one of the central reasons the team is winning. As an added bonus, the pressure off Wheeler has led to 13 points in 11 games under Maurice.
Jets Defence
- Enstrom – Bogosian
- Stuart – Trouba
- Pardy – Ellerby
- Pavelec
- Montoya
The GM made a committment to Pavelec that, in many ways, could be the hill he dies on. The team is loyal, yes, and they're improved of late, sure. But Jets fans know the pattern – heat up at deadline time when other teams are putting things in neutral and recovering from injury, only to hit a tough schedule on the back 40 and miss out on the second season.
If Chevy does his usual – sticks with his UFAs, doesn't buy at the deadline and just crosses his fingers – it's possible this goalie is the difference between a playoff birth and another wasted season for the third year in a row. Does the GM last a 4th year with that attitude? How about a 5th?
We've all made mistakes at work, and we all know you sometimes just have to admit it and move on. (I'll admit I've never made a $20M mistake, though.) Right now, Cheveldayoff is asking Paul Maurice to cover for him. But an .863 sv % in December gave way to an .894 in January. Things aren't exactly turning around, and his season total of .902 still represents his worst season with Winnipeg (but not his worst season ever… let that sink in) and puts him 37th among regular netminders.
Capitals Forwards
- Erat – Backstrom – Ovechkin
- Johansson – Wellman – Brouwer
- Chimera – Fehr – Ward
- Laich – Beagle – Wilson
Holy hell is this a mess. These are the lines from DailyFaceoff.com, but it's hard to imagine things are in such a dire state.
It must be deadline time, since Martin Erat is being showcased. But former second line stalwart Brooks Laich has 9 points in 42 games and is bleeding shots against. Along with hopeful rookie senstation Tom Wilson, the team is boasting a tremendously over-hyped bottom-6. And to go with it, ex-Jet Eric Fehr is out of position and Wild castaway Casey Wellman is where Mike Ribeiro was a year ago. Of course, the missing element is Mikhail Grabovski, but his absence is almost as devastating as Evander Kane's to the Jets.
So… this Ovechkin character is good, you say? How good does he have to be to get the team out of a three way tie for 11th in the East?
Capitals Defence
- Alzer – Carlson
- Orlov – Carrick
- Brouillette – Wey
- Holtby
- Neuvirth
There has been a lot of talk about the Capitals' goaltenders falling apart and being the problem area on the team. Well, the Caps have played 6 (and it will be 7 tonight if Brouillette gets his first NHL game) defenders this season with fewer than 100 NHL games of experience. You're forgiven for not knowing Brouillette or Wey (who played his first and only pro game on December 7th, 2013). Heck, you'd be forgiven for not knowing Connor Carrick or Dimitry Orlov. The Mike Green injury is just one piece to a puzzle that includes all sorts of fill-ins, nobodies, and rookies.
Sum It Up
This matchup has some elements from last March. It feels like the Jets are starting to take control while the Capitals are flapping in the wind, eager to give up two points. But the game against Carolina was not good, even by Maurice's estimation, and it will be up to the Jets to respond with more structure and support.
The Jets have the chance for a cathartic win on their way out of the basement.


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Deference at Oral Argument
I'm reading Jeff Shesol's new book on FDR's Court-packing plan, and I learned something that I didn't know. Through at least the 1930s, there was a tradition at the Court that when the Attorney General argued a case he would not be interrupted with questions from the bench. I wonder how this practice got started and when it ended. It's amusing to think about that now — Eric Holder would get, what, 30 seconds of silence at most.

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Buying timely stocks is the key to profitability. I know the momentum crowd agrees with me. Everything they do is about locking in short term gains to maximize portfolio returns over time. But I can hear some mumbling from the value investors out there.
They believe the key to success is buying stocks that are undervalued. And they will profit when other investors awake from their slumber to discover the error of their ways. Granted value investing can offer some big gains. But too often it takes a long time to realize those gains, which ends up sapping the final returns in the portfolio.
Guess what? I am a value investor too. But a reformed value investor that has learned that I can combine value investing with timeliness to maximize returns. To help reform the rest of you, let me prove to you why timeliness is so important.
Meet Two Investors: Moe and Larry
No investing lesson is complete without the inclusion of the 3 Stooges. So let's imagine that Moe and Larry are both looking to buy stocks. They go into the market at the same time but purchase different companies. Moe ends up with a 20% gain while Larry sees a 10% rise.
Who did better?
The gains on the surface would have one believe that Moe clearly beat Larry. Yet there is one vital piece of information missing . . . how long did they own their stocks? Let's add that in now.
Moe made a 20% gain in 1 year=20% annualized return.
Larry made a 10% gain in 3 months=44% annualized return thanks to the power of compounded returns.
In this new light, Larry clearly kicked Moe's investing behind because Larry got his return in a much shorter period of time. Larry wasn't waiting around for the stock to make its move. And thus for the first time ever Larry Fine has been called a winner.
1) Break Old Habits: Too many value investors fall into the trap of buying stocks right after a big earnings miss. They believe the steep fall in price is an overreaction and the stock will bounce back soon. However, studies clearly show that these stocks are consistent underperformers often lagging the market for several months. So the first step towards doing things right, is to stop doing them wrong.
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This is my first build please be kind.
This build is focused on dominating top with your high hp, regen and speed, The more hp you have the better. Not only is it good for tanks but it is good for your W since it's active scales with health. The speed quints is to compensate for the lack of boots for a while and to catch up to those super quick champs or the ones with slow. With this build i have not lost a single normal game. I dont know how this build will work in ranked but feel free to let me know in the comments if you happen to try it in ranked.
I picked these runes for tankyness and a little bit of damage.
Quints are for catching up to those annoying champions with slow and very fast movement.
Glyphs and seals complement your W and your tankyness.
and Marks are for a little bit of damage and A.speed that you might need.
Pros / Cons
Passive and E makes volibear hard to gank.
Quick M.speed and A.speed.
Warmogs and Atma's make your health and damage awesome.
Nice AoE and CC.
If you can get alot of CS you are basically unstoppable.
Combined with Sona ult or Viktor's stun your ult does alot of damage.
OP at the moment.
Low health and damage early game
If you get ignited your passive is significantly weaker makeing you more easy to kill.
You might get yelled at by the enemy team for being OP.
No good escape ability but again thats what the speed quints are for.
Hard to farm at first but gets better later on.
End summary.
I think volibear is a very strong champion and i predict a nerf in the very near future.
With lucky games you dont even need ganks from your jungle but like i said only if its a Lucky game.


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The worst thing you can do, the Rev. Robert V. Lee III says, is to ignore your dreams.
"You're just not being the person you were created to be," said Lee, an Episcopal priest and founder of FreshMinistries, the Jacksonville non-profit organization that for the past decade has become a key player in the city's urban revitalization efforts.
Lee said FreshMinistries resulted from his dream to find creative, "out of the box" ways to tackle social problems such as poverty.
With the right mix of brains, heartfelt effort and private and public financing, Lee said, he believes any challenge can be overcome. And that's how he said a small ministry that started out as a way for providing storm relief and leading pilgrimage trips grew to be a leader in urban renewal and more recently won a five-year, $10 million federal grant to fight AIDS in Africa.
"If we can dream it and the spirit is in it, it really can be done," Lee said. "It's creedal for us to believe that."
In the decade since he took FreshMinistries full-time, the organization has had a hand in an array of area projects designed to do everything from provide affordable housing and create savings accounts for the poor to provide tutors to church after-school programs -- like the one at Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ.
"They're helping us accomplish the goals we have set for the kids in our community and at our center," said Moses Criswell, pastor of the Franklin Street church.
In an interview in the restored Laura Street house the ministry calls home, Lee reflected on the vision and events that in 10 years have brought it local and national attention.
"This whole thing has been an interesting ride," Lee said.
An innovative approach
For Lee, the ride began when he left the business world and entered divinity school at Yale in 1985.
Lee, now 53, said it started to occur to him that many ministries and churches were going about their outreach wrong. They were either too inwardly focused, too preoccupied with raising money or limited by their funding and vision.
"Sometimes we're really inefficient in our outreach," Lee said.
After graduation and becoming rector at the Church of Our Saviour in Mandarin, Lee incorporated FreshMinistries in 1989. Among its first acts was providing relief to victims of Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew.
Nick Kouvatsos of Griffis Custom Corners works on a house Wednesday at 1148 Walnut St. as part of a revitalization project of Operation New Hope, a FreshMinistries partner. DAVE CONE/The Times-Union
After going full time in 1994, the ministry focused on organizing overseas pilgrimage trips that double as mission projects.
"I thought, why don't we design something to get the people there and get the glass out from between" the pilgrims and the communities they are visiting, Lee said.
Worldwide Pilgrimage Ministries features clergy leading groups across the world to see and worship at sacred sites.
"Listening to his dream for FreshMinistries, I found myself captivated by it and wanting to be involved in it," said the Rev. Gus Weltsek, former dean of the Episcopal St. John's Cathedral downtown.
After retiring, Weltsek did get involved by leading Worldwide Pilgrimage Ministries trips.
"For the pilgrim, to walk where Jesus and the saints traveled, to experience their lives, their passion and their faith and letting their imaginations contemplate the holy site -- it's just a time to be reconnected with God," Weltsek said.
"And after the expenses are paid," Weltsek said, "the majority of the money remains in the community we visited and used to support individual ministries."
Closer to home
With the pilgrimage ministry up and running and financially viable, Lee said he turned his attention to Jacksonville, where he wanted to fight poverty by merging the mission goals of area churches, the aspirations of local non-profits, the urgency of impoverished residents and government and private money.
One of its first efforts was with Operation New Hope, an existing non-profit organization that restores homes and provides job- and life-skill training to the homeless and others in need. FreshMinistries lent its expertise to the agency and launched as a fully independent organization in 2003 but still teams with it to improve housing on the Northside.
FreshMinistries celebration
FreshMinistries celebrates the completion of its historic Klutho Apartment Building restoration with a grand opening at 11:30 a.m. today at 1830 N. Main St. For more information about the Klutho, which is part of the ministry's Main Street Economic Development Initiative, or about other FreshMinistries projects, call (904) 355-0000 or go to Jacksonville.com, keyword: freshministries.
The Beaver Street Enterprise Center, a business incubator launched last year by FreshMinistries and the city, is designed to help small and minority-owned businesses get on their feet and thrive in the city's urban areas. The incubator has 16 tenants and is estimated to have helped create 500 jobs.
Pete Jackson, chief community officer for the city and a FreshMinistries board member, said the incubator and other efforts attempt to address the root causes of social problems.
"They're talking about systemic change," Jackson said. "That's a little different than most community-based organizations."
Into Africa
FreshMinistries' track record of making a dent in systemic problems like poverty and its successful administration of government grants got the feds' attention recently and resulted in the agency receiving a five-year, $10 million grant to conduct AIDS education in Africa.
The federal grant was part of $100 million the U.S. Agency for International Development awarded in September to 11 agencies for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus prevention.
To fight the African AIDS pandemic, Lee said, FreshMinistries will attempt to change the core beliefs and behaviors that allow the disease to thrive in Africa. Lee said FreshMinistries will do that by partnering with existing churches in Africa and by getting the pastors onboard first.
"Let's teach the clergy to do more than just bury the dead," Lee said.
Eradicating AIDS by changing beliefs may seem like an impossible dream to some, Lee said, but attitudes about AIDS in Africa can be changed just as attitudes about poverty are changing in Jacksonville.
"If you join people at the heart, then their heads will come together," he said.
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Trans Fats
Trans fats are man-made fats that are created during the hydrogenation process. They are unnatural and very toxic to your body. Some of the effects they have on the body are, cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, immune system dysfunction, low-birth-weight babies, birth defects, decreased visual acuity, sterility, and problems with bones and tendons.[i]
What are trans fats, and where do they come from?
Trans fats are a new player on the scene of modern foods. They are abundant in packaged and processed foods. The process of creating trans fats is called hydrogenation. This is the process of turning polyunsaturated fats, normally liquid at room temperature, to fats that are solid at room temperature. The cheapest, most available oils, like soy, corn, cottonseed, or canola, are mixed with tiny metal particles, usually nickel oxide, then subjected to hydrogen gas in a high-pressure, high temperature reactor. Then, emulsifiers and starches are added for a better consistency, and the mixture is steam cleaned to remove the odor. It is then bleached to remove the gray color, and dyes and strong flavors are added to make it resemble butter.i The process alters the molecular structure from the naturally occurring form called cis, into the unnatural form called trans. Meaning, a hydrogen atom is moved across to the other side of the carbon chain at the point of the double bond creating a more packable, plastic fat.ii
Why you should care.
The consumption of trans fats in the diet can cause damage to the cell membranes and alter function of the phospholipid-dependant enzymes contained in these membranes. This alters the membrane permeability impairing the active transport enzymes for sodium, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. These cells are then subject to attack by free-radicals, causing all sorts of health problems.iii
immune system dysfunction
low-birth-weight babies
birth defects
decreased visual acuity
problems with bones and tendons, to name a few.[ii]
These fats also block the utilization of essential fatty acids, (omega-3's etc…) causing effects such as sexual dysfunction, increased blood cholesterol and paralysis of the immune system.i
As the body unwittingly incorporates these fats into the cell membranes, they severely reduce the cellular integrity, so the lungs, digestive tract, and all internal cells wind up admitting allergens, undigested foods, and other foreign particles. Also the saturated fat sources that the trans fats come in causes you to eat six times as much as you normally would, presumably because the body needs essential fatty acids that it is not getting from the trans fats.vi
The safe amount of trans fat is ZERO grams per day
-One study suggests that trans fat is linked to a 93% rise in the risk of cardiovascular disease, and that replacement of 2% of trans fat consumed with mono-unsaturated fats, could reduce the risk of heart disease by 53%.iii
– In another study researchers analyzed data from 84,000 women who were followed for 14 years, and found that higher intake of trans fats was associated with a significant increase in the risk of diabetes.iv
– This same analysis revealed that for every 2% increase in the amount of trans fats increases the person's risk of heart disease by 93%.
– It has been estimated that trans fats are responsible for 30,000 deaths annually in the U.S.v
[i] Enig, M. and Fallon, S. The Skinny on Fats, http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/skinny.html.
ii Enig, M. and Fallon, S. The Oiling of America, http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/oiling.html
iii Lam, M. Types of Fats,http://www.drlam.com/A3R_brief_in_doc_format/2002-No3-Fatandcholesterol.cfm#TypesofFat
[ii] Enig, M. and Fallon, S. The Skinny on Fats, http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/skinny.html.
viTreelight Health, The Role of TFAs (trans fatty acids & other degenerated fatty acids) in Disease and the Possible Effects of Fasting. http://www.treelight.com/health/TFAsandfasting.html.
iv The Johns Hopkins Medical Letter: Health After 50, March 2002, http://www.hopkinsafter50.com/html/silos/heart/haartocel_saturated.php.
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Hi everyone,
Today was my first trip on the water for 2012, and first trip on the creek with my new Allen gear, and dispite low numbers the trip was epic! I started the day off a bit later then I hoped but with temps around 30 I wasnt goign fast. I got on the creek and started making my rounds at the usual spots. I got a small surprise at the bottom of a rapid when I draged in a small brown trout, which are stocked in very low numbers in this creek. I did get this catch on video which Ill add later. Fishing was very slow for awhile after that untill I caught a small bow, normal stocker fish. I was on the way toward a trail connection when I decided to fish the outflow of the next rapid, and WOW am I glad i did! I had a small nibble followed by a strong run.( First time this has happend to me) I was in shock for moment trying to get my line sorted and on the reel. After a surprisingly short fight I landed a rare for the creek big bow. I was kinda surprised after the adrenalin slowed down on how short the fight was, but the fish had some wounds and a funny looking eye so my guess it was just weak. either way a great start to 2012. This was also the test run on my gopro hd for use on the creek and with good results will be seen once I get the video posted. heres the pics!!!
I have no pics of the brown trout, itll be in the video.
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UPI 2.0 Could Be Great for Consumers, but Bad for Many Fintech Companies
With the help of the Facebook Messenger Integration, the users will get a permanent side panel on your browser, even if they don't have Facebook.com open in any of the tabs or window. With the help of this side bar, the users will be able to update their Facebook status, communicate via chats, check notifications and even tag photos/videos.
The Social API of Mozilla Firefox 17 can support other social networking sites as well but so far only Facebook is making most of the same.
The other significant addition in Firefox 17 is the blocking of Click-to-play plugin.
Plugins that are blocked with the click-to-play flag will not load by default, but can be easily activated by users. This gives us a more user-friendly way to warn about plugins that should be updated, that give users better control over their browsing experience.
In this new update, Mozilla has added more than 20 promised performance improvements and has given a face lift to its bar experience, which now has larger icons. However, now Mozilla Firefox is no longer supporting Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). One can check out the complete list of improvements here.
Mozilla has also been going bullish on its plans for smartphones. There have been reports, that the company is mulling to launch its first Firefox OS smartphone with ZTE. Several telecom operators including Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, and Telecom Italia have already pledged their support to the operating system. The first Firefox OS-powered devices are expected to launch commercially in Brazil in early 2013 through Telefonica's commercial brand, Vivo.
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The Samsung Behold II may have launched for T-Mobile in November 2009, but that doesn't keep it from being a device that you should take a serious look at if you're on another carrier. Cincinnati Bell Wireless adopted this phone (with it seeing a retail and web launch last Friday) as a part of their continued support for Android and they've made enough changes to warrant taking a second look at the device.
For now, enjoy this unboxing video as I show you guys what comes packaged with the unbranded Behold II as well as a quick first look at the software (hint: TouchWiz just might not be a factor with this one). Our full review of Cincinnati Bell's version of the Samsung Behold II is on its way.
[note]: I incorrectly stated that Swype was not included in this version of the Behold II. It is, in fact, included as an alternate keyboard.


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A rich-tasting old Italian heirloom.
A best-seller year after year-reliable and tasty.
Compact 2-3' light-green plants.
Harvesting the 3-4" central head stimulates production of numerous smaller side shoots.
Quality and long harvest period make it a great broccoli for home gardens. Freezes well.
BOTANICAL NAME: Brassica oleracea var. italica
Start seeds in flats. Transplant seedlings 15" apart into well-prepared soil. Make sure there is good fertility, and the soil is not too acid. Transplant deeper than in the flat, up to the first leaves, and firm in very well. Matures in 8-9 weeks. Start in early spring for an early summer crop, and in late summer for fall. Cut heads when 3-4" in diameter, with dark-green coloring of unopened flower heads. Harvest side-shoots regularly to encourage continued production.
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MEN are notorious for burying their heads in the sand about their health and it seems this is especially true when it comes to things going on 'down there' potentially relating to the prostate, the gland which sits underneath men's bladders, surrounds the urethra and produces semen.
A RECENT survey by herbal brand A.Vogel revealed one in five UK men would turn a blind eye to prostate problems.
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Revery Of Rosamond In Her Bower - Poem by Annie Adams Fields
THERE came strange days of idlesse, when she said:
'I will recall my rose-days overblown,
The glad, bright sweetness, now forever flown,
That make a queen still queen though she were dead.
'One was at evening, when I heard a voice
Singing of love, of victory, of death,
And all were one; the same delicious breath
Sang victory, love, and death, nor made a choice,
'And now I dwell within a mystic world
Where his voice follows me from dawn to night;
High in my bower imprisoned I watch the light
That ever seems in wings of music furled.
'And when I try to tell what else may be
Of joy for me in memory, still I hear
The singer, nor for love nor death appear
Nor victory, his choice; he sang of three.
'O singer, still thou singest to my heart!
And love and death are now to me as one
Great song forever; surely thou hast won
Indeed a victory, for they cannot part!'
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I can spot them in my North Berkeley neighborhood a mile away: Clumps of mostly middle-aged and conservatively-dressed tourists circling around youngish, mostly female, clipboard-toting tour guides and nibbling on tasty treats in front of popular foodie shops and iconic cafes and restaurants. Like flocks of hungry pigeons around bags of bird seed.
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These gourmet tasting tours, led by what one tour company calls "epicurean concierges," are sprouting up all over America and the impact on the broader culture — national and international — is mushrooming. Witness the virtual takeover of CNN by Anthony Bourdain and his far-flung gourmet adventures in the recent series "Parts Unknown." Bourdain did not invent American gastro-tourism, but he's exporting it to every corner of the planet.
Globally, the zest for food-centric tourism is, at least marginally, all to the good for underdeveloped Asian, African and Latin American countries and Europe's struggling southern tier economies hungry for tourist dollars and euros.
Locally, the phenomenon is coming to a neighborhood near you. In fact, it's already here. Just about every major American city I've checked offers gourmet walking or bus tours now, combining tastes of neighborhood specialties with narratives about local history and architecture.
In my neck of the woods, the San Francisco Bay Area, a company called Viator leads tasting tours of Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown and North Beach for $69 a ticket. Another tour company, Edible Excursions, has $75 apiece tours of Japantown and The Mission in San Francisco, and the trendy Temescal corridor in Oakland. But it was the $75 tasting tour in my own Berkeley hood, dubbed now the Gourmet Ghetto, that I could not resist.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
The online itinerary for my tour offered taste treats at some of the last surviving ghetto establishments that helped launch the California cuisine revolution and its foundational mantra "fresh, local, seasonal" in the 1960s and '70s — including a coffee tasting at the original Peet's Coffee & Tea shop and a cheese sampler at the worker-owned Cheese Board.
Although iconic Chez Panisse, the ghetto's and California cuisine's mother ship, does not participate in the ghetto's tours, other veteran and newbie establishments do, including Poulet (roast chicken bites), Saul's Deli (mini pastrami sandwiches), the Cheese Board's Pizza Collective (pizza slices) and the recently opened Local Butcher Shop (charcuterie tastes). Gone but not forgotten in the ghetto's historical narrative are Victoria Wise's legendary Pig-by-the-Tail Charcuterie and Alice Medrich's celebrated Cocolat.
The Gourmet Ghetto's 800-pound historical elephant
If the obvious draw of these tours is food tasting, it seems to me that the narrative behind the food — in this case, the stories of the ghetto's offbeat community and its radical "simple food" philosophy — is the true content of the tours. Or should be. I wondered whether my guide would agree?
Yes and no. Her facts were certainly accurate and the stories reasonably nuanced, as nuanced as one might expect from someone who wasn't even born when the ghetto's identity was being shaped. But there was an 800-pound historical elephant in the ghetto, something our guide didn't know or didn't think important to comment on — the fact that the very name "Gourmet Ghetto," now the city-endorsed designation for our neighborhood, started out as a joke.
The term was coined in the 1970s as a snarky put-down by one of the first clerks at the Cheese Board, the comedian and San Francisco Mime Troupe member Darryl Henriques. Henriques would welcome his cheese-craving customers to the "gourmet ghetto" and rant about the counter-revolutionary explosion of trendy shops that followed the success of Chez Panisse and were "ruining" the neighborhood.
The dark irony of attaching "gourmet" to "ghetto" was not lost on the Cheese Board's Jewish and left-leaning customers back in the day. Like so many terms associated with revolutions and their leaders in culture and art — lefties and hippies, impressionists and cubists — they often begin as the mocking labels of hostile critics, only to be adopted over time by the mainstream culture. Witness the rise of "foodie" as a replacement for the now overly-quaint "gourmet."
Getting the stories straight
After my edible excursion I began to notice more and more ghetto tour groups. And I would shamelessly eavesdrop. One guide I overheard in front of the Cheese Board referred to the mission of this mom-and-pop shop when it opened in 1967 as "offering local artisan cheeses."
Really? There were no local artisan cheeses when the Cheese Board opened. Laura Chenel was perhaps the first true local artisan cheesemaker in Northern California, starting her eponymous Sonoma goat cheese company in 1979.
Recently I caught another tour guide explaining to her group perched outside Saul's Deli that the co-owner, Peter Levitt, had collaborated with Gourmet Ghetto-spawned Acme Bakery to offer an Old World Jewish rye bread because commercial rye (the ubiquitous New York rye with a cornmeal crust and caraway seeds) had "absolutely no rye flour in it."
Scandal! Sacre bleu! Oy vey! Rye bread without rye flour.
Well, not really. When I mentioned the comment to Levitt that afternoon, his jaw dropped. "That's just not true. I've never said that." He proceeded to give me the learned lowdown on commercial rye bread, its low rye flour content and its link to a style of authentic rye bread from Eastern Europe that catered to the "refined" tastes of the rich and to certain preferred culinary applications — a lighter, whiter rye bread with a reduced ratio of rye flour to white flour that I, for one, still prefer, especially with pastrami and corned beef.
The correct narrative here, in our new Michael Pollan-ated world of whole grain consciousness, is that it's not the quantity of rye flour in various styles of rye bread that counts, but the quality of that rye flour, where it's grown and how it's milled and baked. After that, its chacun à son goût.
Hot out of the oven
Who would have thought that young Berkeley lefties, hippies and proto-foodies like myself would create an American food revolution and live long enough to see how the historical narratives would be served forth, sometimes butchered, often manipulated or merely ignored, on popular gourmet tours?
Maybe I should lead my own tours of the Gourmet Ghetto to help keep the narratives honest. I'll promote my tours by driving around the ghetto in a repurposed Oscar Mayer Wienermobile with a public-address system blaring: "Fresh local history. Get it while it's hot."
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EDMONTON — It's been a long time coming for Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Matt Nichols, who finally made it back onto the gridiron after almost a year recovering from a torn ACL.
Add that injury to a dislocated ankle during the 2012 Eastern Semi-Final and you could excuse Nichols for being a bit rusty. However, it didn't take long for him to shake it all off and find his form once again.
After Mike Reilly started the game under centre, Nichols had to wait a bit longer to take his first snap, as fellow pivot Jonathan Crompton was next in line on head coach Chris Jones' depth chart.
"I had no clue until game time. I know obviously right now Mike (Reilly) is the starter here, as a backup you have no idea when you'll be thrown into the game," Nichols told the media.
Once he did hit the field, Nichols showed that the long wait didn't phase him one bit. He went on to pass for 107 yards on 9 of 12 passing and rushed for four yards.
"It was just good to get into the game and, like you said, make it through a game without getting injured or hurt," said Nichols with a smile.
As happy as Nichols was following the game, Jones didn't sugar coat his QB's performance.
"One drive he played pretty well, the other he didn't play so well. Again we need to find some more consistency there," said Jones.
Considering Nichols hasn't played much in the past year, he can be forgiven for being a little inconsistent. Nonetheless, it's clear that he's headed in the right direction.
"Overall it felt good for me to be back into a game situation. It felt really slow for me, last pre-season the game felt like it was slowing down for me and it felt like college again," said Nichols.
This bodes well for Nichols, if he can continue to stay healthy. He will have another opportunity to showcase his skills on Friday, when the Eskimos take on Saskatchewan to wrap up their pre-season schedule.
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WESTERVILLE, OH — IEHA is pleased to announce the development and upcoming launch (Fall 2013) of the official Integrated Cleaning and Measurement™ (ICM) website to be located at www.IntegratedCleaningandMeasurement.org (not live).
The ICM site will house IEHA's ICM Research Center to explain and showcase diverse testing methods embraced by ICM for better benchmarking including:
• Hand-held microscopes
• Gloss meters
• Color measurements
• Gravimetric scales (weighing soils removed or retained)
• Particle counters
• Airborne dust mass measurements
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• Enzyme measurements
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• RODAC measurements
• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM ) Images
• Other measurements
"Given the importance of tracking progressive cleaning and environmental metrics in today's indoor spaces, IEHA is pleased to develop the new ICM site for the professional cleaning community," said Beth Risinger, CEO and Executive Director of IEHA. "We will also be producing an 'Ask IEHA about ICM' feature to enable industry education by IEHA members proficient at using scientific measurement to improve indoor environments, and in tandem will be promoting the concept of Truth in Cleaning to assist the facilities community."
IEHA will offer online education and e-learning at modest cost to IEHA members to promote the ongoing, effective use of ICM.
IEHA will also continue offering the ICM Booklet at: http://www.ieha.org/showcatproducts.php?cid=1
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IEHA is a 3,200-plus professional member organization for persons who direct cleaning, maintenance, housekeeping, groundskeeping, safety and/or indoor environmental programs in commercial, industrial or institutional facilities. The organization was founded in New York City in 1930, and is now located in Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of the State's capitol, Columbus. IEHA provides its members with an array of professional development, educational, certification and career opportunities. For more information, visit www.ieha.org.


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Carrie Ross-Stone and her partner, Elisia — whose cross-country bike ride was documented in the 2005 film Lesbian Grandmothers From Mars: One Couple's Journey for Marriage Equality — have run Rainbow Law for two decades now. Rainbow Law offers info on LGBTQ legal protections and estate planning, and, in the last four years, free advance directives (living wills and medical and durable powers of attorney) to anyone who requests them.
It's no surprise, then, to see that Ross-Stone, a West Virginia attorney, partnered with Widener University School of Law professor John G. Culhane to write Same-Sex Legal Kit for Dummies (Wiley, $34.99), a compilation of legal information every LGBT person, whether single or partnered, needs to know. The book comes with a CD containing sample forms for such documents as tenant agreements, living wills, co-parenting agreements, and medical powers of attorney. The disc also has state-by-state lists of marriage recognition laws, adoption and surrogacy laws, and more.


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There have been several recent letters to Crosstalk regarding a lack of interest in engineering as a career (see June 19, page 28).
There have been several recent letters to Crosstalk regarding a lack of interest in engineering as a career (see June 19, page 28). Many of the really good engineers I have known got their first taste of electronics by building their first crystal set or regenerative short-wave receiver. The thrill of hearing those voices and visualizing scenes from faraway places, and the "kudos" from adults, ignited an excitement about creating things new that has never been quenched.
Kids nowadays aren't interested in crystal sets or short-wave receivers, or even home-built door chimes, amplifiers or Tesla coils. Today there is the Internet, cell phones with cameras and weird ring tones, digital TV with graphic presentation, and handheld videogames. And even though most of today's technology is well out of the range of the average youngster, tinkerer or hobbyist, this is not where the problem lies. The real culprit is this: There is little in technology or education today to spark the imagination and train the mind to visualize and imagine. Oh for the days of radio drama!
In today's media culture, I do not know what can be done to spark the imagination and the drive to create. However, I encourage all young engineers to make an effort to understand a little bit of the fascinating history of electronics. When you think that most design work was done with only rudimentary test equipment, the design of television is nothing short of ingenious. I suggest that they seek out an antique-radio club in their area. An antique car might be out of the price range of most of us, but anybody can own a working antique radio, feel the excitement of separating weak signals from atmospheric noise and bask in the interest his or her radio generates at the office. This kind of excitement is contagious.
There are still a few of us old-timers around--experimenters, tinkerers and engineers for life, who still can take soldering iron in hand and build something (from the seat of our pants, and not from a book or calculations) that in some regard works better than anything you can buy. And some of us still believe that real radios glow in the dark.
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Being in my mid-40s, I was at the crossroads of witnessing both the old-guard inventors (ham operators and tinkerers, mostly) as well as pure hobbyists (readers of Radio-Electronics, customers of surplus houses, etc.). The common tie that binds is that there are outlets for those inclined to tinker and discover by crafting. Granted, there are not as many opportunities as when we were actually a manufacturing nation and had much of the discards of an industrious nation to spark our imaginations and curiosity. It seemed robotics was destined to be a replacement, but it is too complex for a novice to get his arms around.
Maybe what we need to do is be more of an example to those coming up. I wish I had more of the people like me around when I was a wide-eyed kid.
Jon Kalfus, PE
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ID Systems Inc.
Hackensack, N.J.
Kids aren't the only ones being discouraged [from engineering]--it affects professionals, design and prototyping too. Having spent most of the past 15 years or so in management, I became disconnected from hands-on prototyping and watched the shrinking of componentry from the sidelines. Now I'm back to solo consulting and see with a shock that through-hole components of humanly handle-able size are becoming more and more scarce. My design decisions must now be determined in part by packaging options. There's no way I'm going to solder a 100-pin QFP part to a board or adapter, and wire-wrappable sockets don't exist for most of the new miniaturized packages. How the heck is anyone supposed to prototype anything? I learned electronics by building things and, yes, I worry about the next generation of engineers.
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And by "get along", Mooney et al. mean "do things the way we think they should be done."
If you're wondering what I'm babbling about this time, you're not hanging in the same blogging circle that I am. Lemme explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
Mooney and Kirshenbaum came out with a book,
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future, wherein they bemoan the inadequacies of the science community to communicate effectively with the populace and lay the blame on the feet of the "New Atheists" for being too mean, i.e. telling the truth about scientific fact when it contradicts religious dogma.
I haven't read the book and I'm probably not going to. This isn't a book review. The book was drawn to my attention because of their direct attacks within it upon PZ Myers and his blog Pharyngula, a very popular pro-science, pro-atheism blog. PZ is known for being quite outspoken about the need to fight back against the growing incursion of religion into the science classroom and the government. He reviewed the book, per Mooney and Kirshenbaum's request. The review was unfavorable, due primarily to the authors direct personal attacks and general lack of any sort of decent evidence to back up their claims.
So what this all boils down to is that there is a perceived schism in the atheistic community. On one side are the mean, disrespectful and damaging-to-the-cause loudmouth atheists, such as PZ and Richard Dawkins. At least, according to Mooney et al. On the other side are the mealy-mouthed accommodationists who think PZ and his ilk need to STFU and that the absolute worst thing for our cause is to piss off the Xians. At least, according to PZ.
Greg Laden and Lousy Canuck do a much better job covering the argument than I can. Tangled Up In Blue Guy weighs in as well.
So here's my summary, now that I've babbled for a bit. By now you can probably tell which side of the discussion I'm going to come down on.
There has been an upsurge in the number of people willing to speak out on behalf of the godless; people striving to move atheists from the marginalized into the mainstream. People who are tired of being told that they are somehow less than moral, less than human, less than patriotic, because they see through the veil of mysticism that religion has draped over the collective eyes of a large part of the world.
Quite a few of those engaged on the side of godlessness are scientists. They have a large stake in the discussion since one of the primary forces of anti-science come from the sphere of religion. One only has to look at the reports of Xian extremists trying to force their way into boards of education and other public office in the hopes of imposing their theocracy upon the rest of us.
PZ was a big part of my "coming out". I was never an active theist, more like an apathetic atheist. I just hadn't felt the need to analyze or clarify my positions. Reading blogs like Pharyngula and seeing the kind of damage that the right-wingers were doing crystallized my thoughts and made me realize the importance of speaking out on behalf of the godless. I am an outspoken, sarcastic, snarky, obnoxious person, so PZ's approach resonated with me. However, I realize that not everyone is like me (FSM help us if they were!). Not everyone will respond to such direct prodding. That's where the accomodationists come in. Our movement needs the soft-speakers to hold the hands of those that aren't quite ready to toss aside their entire world view in one fell swoop. There is absolutely no reason why they can't be gradually brought into the light (to steal a phrase from the other side).
All that being said, Mooney et al are idiots. Rather than realise that there are multiple paths to reach the same goal (the goal being, not an eradication of religion, but rather the reduction of its prominence in society, especially government, and especially its interference with science), these fuckwits decide that anyone not following what they see as the correct path is not only wrong but is teh enemy, destroying their noble efforts to improve the world through bowing down and stepping aside for the religious fuckwits and not taking them head on.


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Just to add a little cute to your Friday – watch the First Family's dog Bo (AKA 'The First Dog') inspect the White House Christmas decorations.
The video released today by the White House depicts the First Dog – a Portuguese water dog – wandering the newly decorated hall of the White House admiring all the holiday adornments. At one point in the video Bo comes face to face with a stuffed animal likeness of himself amongst the tinsel and garlands.
According to the White House official YouTube channel, over 90,000 people will view the decorations this year and the 2012 White House Holiday celebrations will also include special tributes to troops, veterans and military families. Detail at wh.gov/holidays.
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My results are in- Doc says I'm "normal." Why am I still exhausted then???
I just got back from my follow-up visit with the endocrinologist. I waited more than a month to see her and ended up taking another day from my classroom and hiring a substitute teacher for my students. I know as much now as I did a month ago- a YEAR ago for that matter. I don't know where to turn next.
She said everything was "Normal" and could offer no advice or explanation for why I sleep 12+ hours a day, am still exhausted, have no libido, and no desire to do anything I used to consider fun.
She said that my morning Testosterone level of 334 was "normal" and that it "varies according to the time of day. She also called my afternoon Testosterone level of 225 "within acceptable range." VERY reluctantly, she prescribed t-gel but ONLY at my absolute insistence. She warned that it could cause side-effects relating to sleep apnea and prostate cancer.
She says that my TSH, LH, and FSH are all "normal." I am not "hypo" according to her. (My mother IS hypothyroid and has taken meds for it for the last 30 years.)
I am SO FRUSTRATED and so sad right now. I feel that I have gone back to square one again and I don't know where to turn for help. I've been seeking help with the exhaustion and sleeping since last January. I want to cry.
I will list my blood results once more- perhaps someone can offer advice. I am just lost:
Testosterone [on 11-10-09] (morning) 334 (Ref. Range 240 - 830)
Testosterone [on 11-3-09] (afternoon) 225 (Ref. Range 240 - 830)
Testosterone (TFB) [on 11-3-09] 306 (Ref. Range 240 - 830)
Testosterone, Free 58.1 (Ref. Range 46.0- 224.0)
Testosterone, Bioavailable 122.1 (Ref. Range 110.0- 575.0)
Sex Hormone Binding 19 (Ref. Range 9- 45)
Intact PTH 46.6 (Ref. Range 14.0- 72.0)
Calcium 9.4 (Ref. Range 8.6- 10.3)
Phosphorus 2.7 (Ref. Range 2.8- 4.6)
FSH 3.7 (Ref. Range 1.4 - 18.1)
LH 3.6 (Ref. Range 1.5- 9.3)
Cortisol 16 (Ref. Range 3- 16)
IGF-I Serum (Insulin Growth Factor) 131 (Ref. Range 86- 220)
Prolactin 7.2 (Ref. Range 2.1- 17.7)
Growth Hormone <0.1 (Ref. Range < OR = 10.0)
ACTH Plasma 19 (Ref. Range 7- 50)
Thyroperoxidase AB <1 (Ref. Range 0- 8)
Albumin 4.6 (Ref. Range 3.6- 5.1)
TSH, Sensitive [on 10-28-09] 1.55 (Ref. Range 0.3 - 5.0)
TSH, Sensitive [on 12-30-08] 2.33 (Ref. Range 0.3 - 5.0)
TSH, Sensitive [on 5-7-08] 1.93 (Ref. Range 0.3 - 5.0)
T4, Free 0.9 (Ref. Range 0.9- 1.8)
T3, Free 2.8 (Ref. Range 2.3- 4.2)
Ferritin 67 (Ref. Range 27- 300)
If anyone has ANY advice I will gladly take it. I don't know where to turn now except the sofa once more
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The moment a Doberman was attacked by a mountain lion in a family's back garden in California was caught on CCTV.
A brutal fight between the big cat and family pet showed the cougar creeping towards the tied-up dog.
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The mountain lion is then seen locking its jaws into the Doberman's neck as blood spills onto the floor.
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According to some reports, the Doberman survived but was left with 60 stitches.
Last year, a brave cat was filmed standing its ground as a huge mountain lion pawed at it on a back door window pane.
The mountain lion/house cat face-off was caught on camera by US comedian Tom Mabe while he was staying at a friend's house in Boulder, Colorado.
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Wall Street showed low volatile trades, remaining in a flat on Thursday. The traders are cautious ahead of the NFP.
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NEWCASTLE United and Sunderland were linked with a new defender today, while Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea also made the transfer headlines.
The Sunday newspapers wre in full flow today with rumours of signings.
In particular, The Sunday Miror claimed both Newcastle and Sunderland are after Hull City's Curtis Davies.
The paper said Newcastle have joined the chase to sign Hull's captain. The centre-back, 29, is in demand, with Sunderland and Everton also both ready to pay £8m to prise him away from Hull.
Other transfer stories today were:
Manchester United are back on the trail of their former midfielder Paul Pogba - now valued at around £60m by Italian champions Juventus. Pogba, 21, was a United target when David Moyes was in charge, and talks were at an advanced stage at the time the former manager was sacked. Sunday Express
Didier Drogba is set to return to Chelsea this summer. The 36-year-old striker is currently with Turkish club Galatasaray, but Blues manager Jose Mourinho has never disguised his desire to re-sign a player who left Stamford Bridge after the Champions League final in 2012. Sunday Mirror
Southampton will hold another round of talks next week with Ronald Koeman, 51, as the Dutchman emerges as the favourite to replace Mauricio Pochettino, 42, as manager. Mail on Sunday
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With health care costs skyrocketing, many states have begun to experiment to find methods of reducing costs. With the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid to people 133 percent above the poverty line, it is important for states to devise methods to increase the efficiency of their Medicaid programs, say researchers with the Mercatus Center.
One of the primary factors for rising health costs can be attributed to the increasing frequency of emergency room visits for nonemergency treatment. To combat this, West Virginia redesigned its Medicaid system to create incentives for people to live healthier lifestyles:
- In 2007, Medicaid recipients were moved from traditional Medicaid to the new Mountain Health Choices (MHC) program.
- In it, recipients were given a choice between a "basic" or an "enhanced" Medicaid plan.
- The basic plan restricted the number of prescriptions per month, and didn't cover mental health services or chemical dependency treatments.
- On the other hand, the enhanced plan offered more free services.
- Enrollees in the enhanced plan had to complete a health improvement plan with their primary care physician and sign an agreement to not use the emergency room for nonemergency care as well as engage in better health behavior.
The goal of the program was to increase incentives for people to live healthier lifestyles to reduce costly health expenditures later in a person's life.
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- Children and adults who experienced a benefit reduction on the basic plan have higher rates of emergency room visits.
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- The effects are largely driven by adults, who experienced a 7 percent increase in the probability of an emergency room visit and about a 10 percent increase in the probability of both nonemergency and primary care treatable visits.
- The researchers also find evidence that placing the average member in the basic plan increases primary care treatable emergency room visits and the opposite holds for the enhanced plan.
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- Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis)
- Indiana Governor
Stop Forcing Right to Work Legislation & Work With Democrats!
Hoosiers don't favor 'Right to Work' legislation, and we don't want Republicans pushing Democrats into a walkout or having to boycott this legislative session and getting nothing done because of Republicans refusing to work with them by railroading this unpopular legislation. Hoosiers want Republicans to recognize that they have not been elected with a Super Majority and that they haven't the power to take control of the House Chamber in the General Assembly without the Democrats present to work with them.
Compromise is the basis for our democratic system of government, and we Hoosiers expect that Republicans begin taking on our business in The House Chamber with that basis in mind. We also expect that the Repubicans, including those in the House, Senate, and most importantly the one sitting in our Governor's Office start listening to Hoosiers' voices when we say we want to be heard!
Republicans are right about one thing in their recent attack ads, though. Democrats are representing some pretty special interests in the House. They are representing Hoosier and American interests. They are representing middle class, blue collar, the working man's, and your values. If you have an interest in Indiana's economy, they're representing you! I consider those interests to be pretty special. So I will agree with Republicans there, but otherwise they are quite misguided.
In the end, if Democrats and Hoosiers alike are steamrolled over to pass this legislation by Republicans, I would imagine that a large number of Republican State Representatives and Senators will find out whether they will retain their own "Right to Work" as measured by the popular vote.
Hoosiers don't want Indiana to be the 23rd 'Right to Work' state. We don't want lower wages, lesser safety standards on the job, or any of the other negative impacts that studies have shown will come with the passage of this punitive legislation. We want our General Assembly to work together to enact sensible legislation that will actually bring more jobs to Indiana without decreasing wages, safety standards, or taking away our rights to collectively baragain. We want to remain a leader in economic development, and we can do it without 'Right ot Work'!
UPDATE AS OF 1/6/12: The petition is now being sent to Governor Daniels and both full Houses of The Indiana General Assembly.
ATTENTION HOOSIERS! Find out who your Elected Legislators are and contact them regarding this legislation. Use the web address below to find out who they are and how you can contact them. It is important for them to know that you support Hoosier labor and are against 'Right to Work' regardless of how they currently intend to vote so that all Hoosiers' voices are heard on this issue!
- Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis)
- Indiana State House
- Indiana State Senate
- Indiana Governor
Hoosiers are sick of the Republican State Representatives trying to force legislation through the House of The State Assembly when the Democrats are not in agreement. You are required to have a quorum precisely so that you cannot take over the chamber and conduct the people's business as if you held a super majority when you have not been given such power by the people.
You have claimed that, "Democracy is about participating, not going on strike." Well, you do have a point. However, democracy is about compromise as well. Until the people elect a super majority of Republicans to represent them in The House, you do not have the authority to railroad your legislation by the Democrats making up the minority. The people have elected you to do their work, and now we expect that you do your job with respect to the minority party and stop acting as if you have been given the power to do more that your Constitutionally or legally empowered.
Now, we the people demand that you discontinue trying to force Right to Work legislation through the House Chamber without the support and consent of The Democrats who must be present and consenting to provide for a proper Quorum which you are required to have to pass legislation.
We call upon you to work with Minority Leader Pat Bauer now and his caucus now and to do works which will lead our state forward and out of the economic recession which has left many Hoosiers in need of well paying jobs.
We also call upon the entire Indiana General Assembly to stop forcing Right to Work legislation upon Hoosiers who do not want their quality of life, their level of compensation, or their standards of safety at work to suffer under this unpopular and unneeded legislation.
We want this battle with Hoosier workers to be ended once and for all, and we want you to craft legislation that will actually improve our economy and our quality of life in Indiana. This is the reason you have been elected to serve us in Indianapolis, and we will not have you serve us further if you do not follow our instruction. You are OUR voice, and OUR voices will be heard whether through you by your passing of popular legislation or through our voices come next election when you find yourselves unemployed.
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Making online marketing work
Small businesses have a lot to gain from online marketing. However, they rarely have the luxury of a dedicated marketing department with time and resources to commit to it.
When time is short there is a temptation to take advantage of last-minute offers and one-off deals for marketing, and too often on an ad hoc basis. This may seem like a low-cost way of doing things, but the results are often unimpressive, usually because the cheap deal means poor reach, or a lack of relevance.
Firstly question what you want to achieve: Do you want to increase the amount of visitors to your website? Do you want to sell products online? Do you want to gain subscriptions to your service? Do you want to generate enquiries that you can follow up in person?
Your customers are very likely to be online, so the trick is to go where they already are. The first challenge is to commit plenty of time and effort simply browsing the web. Put yourself in the your customers' shoes, think about how they might use the web, what sites they visit, what they want to achieve online and consider how you can get involved, right alongside them.
The more time that is put into research, the easier it will be to identify to whom, when and where you want to market your business. Also be prepared to bookmark plenty of sites in your browser.
When it comes to promoting your business online, there are a number of options available. Here are the main contenders:
Display advertising
Banners, skyscrapers, buttons, MPUs: sounds like jargon, but these simply describe different sizes and positions of adverts on a website, which can also be used differently depending on your creative approach. Prices are generally quoted as 'cost per mille' (CPM) - the cost for showing your ad 1,000 times on a site. Expect to see prices range between £5-£50 CPM depending on how general or targeted a website's audience is
Email bulletins
Emails sent directly to potential customers often carry advertising in the form of URL links and images. Costs are quoted per bulletin and vary depending on the size and relevance of the audience, and often the position of the ad in the bulletin
With the rise of more rich and interactive online media, and the increasing number of people on email, amusing or innovative games and videos are readily circulated between friends, family and colleagues: hence the term 'viral'
If you have your own website you'll want to make sure that you're found among thousands of other competing sites. The craft of structuring your website and its content to be easily found by search engines is known as search engine optimisation (SEO). If you're happy to spend a little money to encourage visitors, then pay per click might be the way to go - especially if you have a niche, high-value product or service
Agency v DIY?
The decision to develop your own advertising and SEO campaign depends entirely on your own skills. There are experts out there, and it may well be quicker and easier for you to achieve better results if you outsource to a dedicated web agency. As always, before choosing a supplier, make sure you've done your homework and always try to get recommendations
Any business needs to watch the pennies when investing in marketing, especially in the current economic climate. So it pays to take advantage of any cost-free opportunities to raise the profile of your business online. Three simple steps that you can take right now are:
Get listed
A useful marketing technique, especially when the target market is in your local area, is to get listed on business directories such as FreeIndex.co.uk and UKSmallBusinessDirectory.co.uk
Find a forum
Online forums are welcoming and friendly places. Some will help you research firsthand what your potential customers might be looking for, and others offer a wealth of advice and guidance from the real experts who have been there and done it. Visit www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk, for example, and have a browse. Participate in discussions, offer your expertise and you'll quickly become recognised for what you do and how you do it. Recommendations can come very quickly if you get this right
Get a blog
A blog is a very easy way to let the world know what you're up to. Think of it as a business diary, so set some time aside to jot down the experiences you've had running your business, dealing with customers and even include some personal information about your activities outside of work. It all helps to build up a picture of you and your business, giving it a personality, which has strong potential to attract new customers. Take a look at blog.co.uk or Wordpress
One key benefit of any online marketing is a level of transparency that is missing from offline methods. The five Rs is a process that I use to explain the steps in designing, managing and measuring an online advertising campaign, and how it can help you to relate marketing spend with new business revenue, giving a clear indication of return on investment.
This is the dominant measure of traditional advertising media - much like ABC circulation figures, for example, in print media. In the online world, reach is now most usefully measured by the number of unique visitors (per month) to a given website
It is almost impossible to confirm what kind of person has seen an ad in print or even if it has been seen it at all. Online, however, the tools are there for advertisers to record this vital information and, with the right supplier, you can even target your advertising message to key audience demographics
Big brands spend huge amounts advertising above-the-line in the mass media. The constant presence of powerful consumer brands across multiple media platforms ensures a high level of recall when a prospect sees the products for real. Online is no different: it's important to have your brand recognised above-the-line before attempting deep and targeted below-the-line activity. Repetition breeds reputation
An audience of good reach and relevance, and a concerted campaign to build recognition of your brand, products or services, provides the necessary build-up to encourage direct responses to your campaign offers. Generally the more niche and relevant the audience, the more targeted your messaging can be
The level of transparency and measurability offered by online media means that responses can be mapped to actual sales, and right back through the campaign to your initial marketing spend. This gives you a real measure of return on investment, with no guesswork.
Compared to traditional media, new skills and techniques need to be acquired for successful online advertising. However, the basics of clear communication and calls to action remain the same.
Online, it's sometimes difficult to envisage what the audience is, especially if you're used to dealing face-to-face or over the phone. However, you should feel free to open up a discussion with online media owners to establish exactly how they can help you to satisfy your five Rs. If the media owner is reluctant to share advice and detail on their audience with you, it's time to walk away.
If you decide to get into social networking, blogging and forums, be prepared to make a significant time commitment to being present and above all, make sure that you are regularly available to respond to discussions and opportunities. Things move fast online, and it's not something that you can step away from for too long without losing pace.
Darren Falkingham is head of marketing at Sift Media. For more information visit www.siftmedia.co.uk
Post Date: August 26th, 2008