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Mizzou RBs look SEC-ready; the rest of the offense, not quite yet
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri's veteran tailbacks could be just the leaders the Tigers need to carry an offense looking to fill quite a few big shoes.
The Tigers' 1,000-yard rusher, Henry Josey, is gone after an inspiring senior season, but junior Russell Hansbrough and senior Marcus Murphy clearly aren't lacking in ability or experience. Both running backs rushed for more than 600 yards and combined for 13 touchdowns during Mizzou's improbable 2013 campaign.
"We have to come out every day and prove we can just stay healthy," said Murphy, who added a receiving touchdown to go along with his nine scores on the ground. "We have to stay fresh on our feet. One guy may get tired, we have to have the other guy be able to step up and come in and don't lose a step."
Coach Gary Pinkel knows that could be especially true in the Tigers' Aug. 30 home opener against South Dakota State, which is scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff. Thursday morning's hot scrimmage provided a preview of sorts, and it's safe to say the running backs held up well.
Hansbrough's 55-yard touchdown run was the highlight of the day, though it might have happened because the second-string defense was momentarily stunned to see quarterback Maty Mauk actually under center. Few defenders even had a chance to make the tackle thanks to the work of the offensive line, which Murphy said has been dominant throughout fall camp.
Expect Hansbrough to become the primary option in the running game and eclipse last year's total of 114 carries, which came with a respectable average of six yards per carry but only four touchdowns. Murphy said the junior looks ready to become the Tigers' fourth different No. 1 option in the last five years.
"He's improved a lot since last year, his run reads and even his leadership," Murphy said. "The experience helped him a lot, so he can carry the load. And with the other backs helping him out and me playing receiver and running back, I think we'll be good with the rotation."
Coaches want to get the ball to Murphy in space any way they can, and the elusive preseason first-team All-American punt returner has shown he can line up out wide on either side of the ball or in the backfield. Mauk said sophomore Morgan Steward should also add some valuable depth when he returns from a hip injury, and freshman Ish Witter turned some heads when he broke free for a 31-yard run late in Thursday's scrimmage.
Pinkel spoke mostly in generalities during a brief postgame interview, which included high praise for a talented freshman class. He said they're beginning to understand the importance of consistent effort in order to improve as a team every day.
"We did a lot of good things," Pinkel said. "But we don't want to just be good; we want to be better than good."
Inconsistency again plagued the passing game, where Hansbrough was also involved in the lowlight of the scrimmage. He was the target of an errant backward dump-off by Mauk, which was scooped up by linebacker Eric Beisel for a touchdown and led Pinkel to rightly ask, "What the hell was that?"
Some miscommunications and bad breaks by receivers resulted in several throws that might not have even landed on the same screen as their intended targets had the scrimmage been televised. But Mauk insisted he's not worried about his low completion percentage — he had solid production last year despite connecting on just 51 percent of 133 passes — and said the offense will remain balanced.
"We're going to go out there, there's going to be different things that we've got to do," Mauk said. "If I've got to run, I've got to throw, if we're going to run the ball with the backs, whatever we've got to do we're going to do it."
It's quite possible all of that will work against the Jackrabbits of SDSU, an offensive-minded FCS team that ranked 58th in the country with 382.1 yards per game in 2013. But for the SEC opener at South Carolina or even a tricky road test at Toledo, Mizzou's running game appears to be closest to game-ready.
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1. Introduction
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is situated in central Europe and has a population of more than 38 million inhabitants. Administratively, the country is divided into 16 provinces. Poland is ethnically and religiously homogenous (Poles: 98 percent, Roman Catholics: 96 percent). Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
The Polish media landscape is a product of the country's socio-political and economic transition after the fall of communism in 1989. Important post-communist media developments include: privatisation of the press sector, the transformation of state radio and television into public broadcasting organisations, licensing of private broadcasters, influx of foreign capital into the Polish media market and European integration of audiovisual media policies.
2. Traditional Media
Following the fall of communism, the Polish audiovisual media sector grew rapidly. These developments led to the establishment of a public and private duopoly.
2.1 Print Media
Poland has more than 5,000 press titles including national and regional dailies, weeklies, monthly magazines, and the specialised press. None of the Polish dailies publish on Sunday or in the afternoon. Instead, Polish dailies offer weekend editions, which tend to have significantly higher circulation than weekday editions.
In a 2009 survey on press readership, 80 percent of Poles said they read the written press. About 43 percent declared reading dailies and 32 percent said they read opinion weeklies. Thirty-two percent said they read monthly women's magazines. Specialised press was regularly read by 29 percent of the respondents (Macroscope OMD/OMG Metrics).
In the first half of 2009, the circulation of the two largest national dailies reached over 638,000 copies for Fakt, and 497,000 for Gazeta Wyborcza. Other large dailies include Super Express, Dziennik and Rzeczpospolita. Smaller and more specialised national dailies include Przegląd Sportowy, which focuses on sport, and two business newspapers, Gazeta Prawna and Puls Biznesu (ZDKP).
Gazeta Wyborcza, launched in 1989, is owned by Agora S.A. It was the top quality national daily for over a decade until Fakt, considered a moderate tabloid owned by Axel Springer, recently took the lead. In the first half of 2009, readership for Fakt reached 14.79 percent of the market. At Gazeta Wyborcza readership reached14.35 percent.
One of the recent trends in the Polish press market is an increase in the popularity of the free national press; Metro ranked as the third-most popular national daily in 2009 (PBC).
The fall of communism, which tended toward a centralised press, and the new administrative division of the country contributed to the emergence of many regional daily titles. Circulations of the regional dailies range from approximately 20,000 to 100,000 copies. The top regional newspapers are Dziennik Zachodni, Gazeta Pomorska and Głos Wielkopolski (ZDKP).
The Polish magazine sector can be divided into segments according to audience and topics. There is an increased specialisation in the sector, yet the dominance of women and opinion magazines continuous. Among opinion weeklies the leaders are Polityka and Wprost with circulations of over 200 thousand (ZDKP).
Sales of national and regional dailies have been gradually declining. The first half of 2009 showed a 7 per cent decrease for national dailies and 14 percent decrease for regional dailies comparing to previous year (Wirtualne Media). Over the same period, the share of advertising revenues of the Polish printed press market decreased 19.6 percent (25 percent for daily press). The total Polish media advertising revenue is expected to reach 1.58bn euro in 2009 (CRMC).
Foreign owners, many of them German, dominate approximately 80 percent of the Polish press market. These include: H. Bauer (operating in Poland as Wydawnictwo Bauer LTD.), Verlagsgruppe Passau (Polskapresse); Axel Springer (Axel Springer Polska LTD.); Norwegian Orkla Press (Presspublica). The only big domestic competitor is Agora S.A, with an 18.3 percent share of total press market.
2.2 Radio
Eighty percent of all Poles listen to radio; more than half say they listen to the radio for more than three hours per day (Radio Track). Apart from the public radio broadcaster, there are 255 licensed commercial or private radio broadcasters in Poland (KRRiT).
The Polish public radio broadcaster – Polskie Radio (PR) S.A. – is owned by the state Treasury. It operates five national radio stations: Program 1 is of a general nature, Program 2 is devoted to high culture, Program 3 is known for its news services, Polskie Radio EURO targets young listeners and Radio Parlament broadcasts parliamentary sessions. PR S.A. also runs 17 regional radio stations and Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy, which targets Poles abroad. A 2009 survey showed Program 1 and Program 2 to be the most popular public radio stations, with 12 percent and 6.3 percent of total radio audience share (Radio Track).
On the national level, the commercial radio stations, Radio RMF FM (owned by Bauer Media Invest) and Radio Zet (owned by Eurozet LTD) have the highest radio audience shares: 25.8 and 16.6 percent, respectively. The Catholic station Radio Maryja, with an audience share of 2.2 percent, is the third-most popular national private radio broadcaster in Poland (Radio Track). Other regional private radio stations include: Radio Wawa and Radio TOK FM. Regional and local commercial radio stations in Poland operate as networks, monopolised by the biggest media groups including Broker FM, Eurozet, ZPR. and Agora. Independent broadcasters, such as universities and local governments run some of the local radio stations.
In 2008, Polish radio's advertising revenue came to approximately half a billion euro, which accounted for 10 percent of total media advertising revenue (Radio Track). In the first half of 2009, the Polish radio market noted a 7.5 percent decrease in its advertising revenues (CRMC).
2.3 Television
A 2009 survey revealed that the average Pole watches television for three hours and 42 minutes per day (TNS OBOP). Apart from the public TV broadcaster, there are 213 licensed commercial television broadcasters in Poland, including seven terrestrial, 56 satellite and 150 cable broadcasters (KRRiT).
The Polish public TV broadcaster – Telewizja Polska (TVP) S.A., owned by the state Treasury – continues to dominate the market more than any other European public broadcaster. The combined audience share of its channels accounts for more than half the total TV audience share. TVP S.A. operates three terrestrial channels: TVP1 and TVP2 air nationwide and TVP Info broadcasts regionally. In 2009 the audience shares of TVP 1 and TVP 2 were 22.8 and 15.9 percent respectively. TVP Info, which shares its programmes with a network of 16 regional centres, reached 4.2 percent (TNS OBOP). The public broadcaster also runs four channels available via satellite, cable and digital platforms: TVP Polonia, designed to broadcast PBS to Poles abroad; TVP Kultura and TVP Historia, dedicated to cultural and historical programming; as well as the first commercially-based TVP channel, TVP Sport. In 2008, TVP HD, the first TVP high-definition television channel, was launched
The main players in the national commercial TV market are Polsat, with a 2009 audience share of 14.8 percent, and the multi-regional TVN, with 13.7 percent (TNS OBOP). Telewizja Polsat S.A., controlled by the Polish businessman Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, owns Polsat. TVN is owned by ITI Holdings S.A., whose main shareholders are two Poles: Jan Wejchert and Mariusz Walter. Both Polsat and TVN run thematic channels in addition to their main channels. Other private terrestrial TV channels in Poland include two Roman Catholic channels, TV Trwam and TV Puls, as well as local channels. The audience share of each of these channels does not exceed 3 percent.
Poland is the third-biggest cable television market in Europe, with approximately 4.5m subscribers in 2009. Big operators with significant foreign capital dominate the market: UPC, Vectra, Multimedia Polska, Aster City Cable, TOYA, INEA, etc. The combined market share of these players is more than 60 percent. Most of these operators offer radio and TV broadcasting, Internet and telephony services (PIKE).
In the first half of 2009 the advertising revenue in the Polish TV market decreased 8.2 percent over the previous year. The total Polish media advertising revenue is expected to reach 1.58bn euro in 2009 (CRMC).
2.4 Cinema
Since 2006 the number of films produced in Poland has been steadily increasing, reaching approximately 40 productions a year (PISF).
There are more than 100 private film production companies in Poland, most of them smaller and medium enterprises. The exceptions are the largest studios, Akson Studio and Opus Film. Public film studios such as SF Zebra, SF Tor and SF Perspektywa undertake a significant part of film production. Legally, these state-owned entities should be by now either liquidated or commercialised. But to date there is no clear government strategy related to their future status. TVP S.A. and commercial broadcasters Polsat and TVN are also active in film production (MK).
The Polish film distribution market is dominated by foreign studios such as UIP, Forum Film (Buena Vista International), Imperial CinePix (20th Century Fox) and Warner Bros. The few existing national competitors include Interfilm and Gutek Film (PISF).
There are approximately 700 cinemas in Poland, including 67 cinema multiplexes. In 2008 cinema attendance came to 31.3mn (PISF).
Poland is renowned for such directors as Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski and Agnieszka Holland. The country is also the home of cinematographers such as Janusz Kaminski and Slawomir Idziak.
2.5 Telecommunications
In 2008 the number of households using broadband Internet services in Poland increased 12 percent over the previous year to 4.7m. Mobile Internet access services noted a 45 percent increase, to 1.06m subscribers. The number of dial-up Internet users decreased to 378,000. Thirteen telecommunications operators dominate the broadband Internet market in Poland, including fixed telephony, mobile telephony and cable television operators. The leader is Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) S.A., the national Polish telecommunications provider. It has a 44.6 percent market share of users (UKE).
In terms of fixed telephony, TP S.A. has the largest share of the market with 76.9 percent of subscribers in 2008 — despite an increase in use of alternative operators. Among the alternative operators, Netia S.A. had the highest share of 3.5 percent (UKE).
In 2008 mobile telephony in Poland had about 43 million users, which accounted for a penetration level of 97.5 percent. Fifteen providers operate in the domestic mobile market (UKE).
2.6 Sources
- Newspapers
- Publishers
- Press Surveys
- Radio
- Radio Network Groups
- Cable Television Operators
- Cinema
- Telecommunications
- Audience Surveys
3. New Media
3.1 Online
At the end of 2008 the number of Polish Internet users reached 15.8m, which accounts for 44 percent of the population over seven years old. The number of Internet users grew 63 percent during the four-year period between 2004 and 2008 (Gemius).
All the mainstream media outlets in Poland have developed their online portals. Approximately 75 percent of Polish Internet users say they watch TV online. About 67 percent listen to radio and 64 percent read the daily press. The most popular among the mainstream outlets are: TVN, Radio RMF FM and Gazeta Wyborcza (Gemius). The popularity of news websites available exclusively on the Internet has been growing. The most visited of these are Onet, Wirtualna Polska and Interia (PBI).
3.2 Digital media
At the end of 2008 there were 4.7m subscribers to the five digital satellite platform operators in Poland. Cyfrowy Polsat, with 2.7m subscribers, is the biggest digital satellite platform in central eastern Europe. It ranks as No.5 in all of Europe. It is owned by Cyfrowy Polsat S.A., whose main shareholder is Zygmunt Solorz-Żak. Cyfra+, with 1.38m subscribers, is owned by Canal+ Cyfrowy. Its shareholders are Canal+ Group (49 percent of shares), Polcom Invest S.A. and Chello Media Investment. N and TnK platforms, owned by ITI Holdings S.A., had half a million and 92 thousand subscribers respectively. Platforma Orange, with 112,000 subscribers in 2009, is owned by TP S.A. (Wirtualne Media). In September, 2009, a sixth digital platform, Platforma Cyfrowa TVP, owned by TVP S.A., was launched.
In 2005 the Polish government adopted a strategy for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, via regional multiplexes. This will last until the complete analogue switchoff planned for July, 2013. The launch of digital broadcasting is planned for the end of September, 2009. Available frequencies will be allotted to applicant multiplex operators in a tender organised by the Office for Electronic Communication (UKE). The National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) will grant licences to TV channels to broadcast within the multiplexes.
3.3 Sources
- Mainstream Media Online
- Online News Portals
- Satellite Platforms
Internet Surveys
- Gemius Online Research Agency (Gemius)
- Polskie Badania Internetu (PBI) - Polish Internet Survey
- Wirtualne Media Marketing Research
4. Media organisations
4.1 News agencies
The major news agency in Poland is the Polish Press Agency (PAP) owned by the state Treasury.
The Catholic Information Agency (KAI), set up by the Polish Episcopate, specialises in gathering information for the Catholic press. Other press agencies include the Radio Information Agency (IAR) and the Sport Information Agency (ASInfo). Smaller, private information and photograph services also exist.
4.2 Trade unions
There are 10 professional journalism organisations in Poland, making for a fragmented environment. The two biggest ones, which have long been in conflict with each other, are the Polish Journalists Association (SDP) and the Journalists' Association of the Republic of Poland (SDRP). They operate their regional offices in major Polish cities.
The major publishers' organisations are: the Polish Chamber of Press Publishers (IWP), which represents the interests of 120 publishers and over 460 titles; and the Association of the Local Press Publishers (SGL), which unites 58 publishers of 73 regional and local titles.
In the audiovisual sector, the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA) unites 100 production companies, both public and private, and represents major Polish TV broadcasters. The Convent of Radio Stations of the National Industrial Chamber of Electronics and Telecommunications (KIGEIT – KSR) represents the commercial interests of 29 private radio stations. The Polish Chamber of Electronic Communications (PIKE) unites 130 companies from broadband electronic communications sector.
The key professional cinema organisation is the Association of Polish Filmmakers (SFP)
4.3 Other media outlets
4.4 Sources
News Agencies
- Catholic Information Agency (KAI)
- Polish Press Agency (PAP)
- Radio Information Agency (IAR)
- Sport Information Agency (ASInfo)
Trade unions
- Association of Polish Filmmakers (SFP)
- Association of the Local Press Publishers (SGL)
- Journalists' Association of the Republic of Poland (SDRP)
- National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA)
- National Industrial Chamber of Electronics and Telecommunications (KIGEIT)
- Polish Chamber of Electronic Communications (PIKE)
- Polish Chamber of Press Publishers (IWP)
- Polish Journalists Association (SDP)
5. National media policies
5.1 Media legislation
The Polish constitution guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits both preventive censorship and licensing requirements for the press. It also proclaims that the main task of the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) is to safeguard the freedom of speech, the right to information and the public interest in radio and TV.
The 1984 Polish Press Law, which was subsequently amended, applies to dailies, periodicals, press agencies, radio and television. The law obliges protection of journalistic sources (except for cases involving national security and murder), requires the press to publish corrections of untrue or inaccurate information and mandates publication of official statements of the government administration.
The 1992 Broadcasting Act, which was also subsequently amended, regulates the whole broadcasting sector in Poland. This act determines: mode of appointment, responsibilities and competences of the KRRiT, general tasks of broadcasters, status of public broadcaster, licensing of commercial broadcasters, retransmission of programme services on cable and satellite networks, and programming obligations.
The act was amended in 2004 in order to comply with EU audiovisual policy requirements and the Television Without Frontiers (TWF) Directive. Hence, licences may be granted to foreign persons and residents of the EU. Licences for companies with foreign shareholders from countries outside the EU may be granted if the foreign capital does not exceed a 49 percent share of the company.
The only provision of the act that deals with the issue of limiting media concentration is a vague reference to the ban on broadcasters achieving a dominant position. The debate on the issue of media concentration was abandoned after the 2003 Rywingate corruption scandal over a bribe offered in exchange for an amendment that would have enabled the biggest Polish press company, Agora, to enter the television market.
The Polish telecommunications market is legislated by the 2004 Telecommunications Act, which specifies conditions for regulating telecommunications markets, universal service provision and the protection of services users.
Polish cinematography is legislated by the 2005 Act on Cinematography. It sets rules for supporting and protecting Polish filmmaking.
5.2 Accountability systems
The Polish Chamber of Press Publishers (IWP) along with the two biggest professional journalism organisations, formulated their own codes of professional ethics and established a system of interior courts. The Press Freedom Monitoring Centre reports cases in which media freedom has been violated in Poland.
Additionally, public broadcasters formulated their own codes of ethics. The Commissions of Ethics observing these codes have no sanctioning powers, but act as advisory bodies to the TVP and PR boards of management.
In 1995 Polish media owners and professionals adopted the Media Charter and established the Conference of Media, which in turn appoints the Council of Media Ethics. The Council is an advisory body; it adjudicates on issues involving the Charter.
5.3 Regulatory authority
The Polish broadcasting market is regulated by the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT). Required tasks of the KRRiT include: determining legal conditions of broadcasting activity; issuing and withdrawing broadcast licenses; supervising activities of broadcasters; appointing supervisory councils for public radio and TV. KRRiT also regulates the content of public and commercial broadcasting related to protection of minors, harmful content, advertising restrictions, etc. Pursuant to the 2005 amendment of the 1992 Broadcasting Act, the number of members of KRRiT was reduced from nine to five; two of these were to be appointed by the Sejm (the lower house of the Polish Parliament), one by the Senate and two by the president.
The Office for Electronic Communication (UKE) regulates the Polish telecommunications market. Its main tasks include: regulation and supervision of telecommunications services' markets; intervening in matters related to the market functioning and the settlement of disputes between telecommunications undertakings; co-operation with domestic and international telecommunications organisations; co-operation with the president of the Office for Competition and Consumers Protection (UOKiK) in matters related to users' rights, and with the KRRiT.
The Polish Film Institute (PISF) was established pursuant to the Act on Cinematography. Its main tasks include promoting Polish film internationally and subsidising enterprises in film production and distribution.
5.4 Sources
- Media legislation
- Accountability Systems
- Regulatory Authorities
6. Media resources
6.1 Learning and support
Most Polish public universities offer journalism programmes, including the most renowned universities: the University of Warsaw, University of Wrocław, Adam Miciewicz University and Jagiellonian University. There are also private journalism schools and courses.
6.2 Prime sources for detailed information
The Press Circulation Audit Union (ZKDP) collects and analyses data on press circulation in Poland. The Press Research Centre of the Jagiellonian University (OBP UJ) also publishes regular reports on press market developments. The National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) and Office for Electronic Communication (UKE) regularly publish legislative acts, regulations and reports related to their respective areas of competence in broadcasting and telecommunications markets.
6.3 Sources
- Media and Journalism studies
7. Conclusions
7.1 Development trends
A great deal of controversy over KRRiT's politicization has surrounded the Council member appointments from the beginning of its operation. The KRRiT's extensive competences — especially direct nominations of Supervisory Councils of public radio and TV — allow the governing forces significant influence over audiovisual media. Recent criticisms revolved around the 2005 reform of KRRiT's mode of appointment alleged a politically motivated step by the then governing PiS party to dominate the Council. A subsequent 2008 legislative attempt by the newly elected PO party government to revise the system again was defeated by the president's (belonging to the PiS) veto; the opposition parties supported his veto. Consequently, the longterm debate over merit-based — rather than politically-driven reform — of regulatory authority in Poland still needs to be legally addressed.
The existing legal provisions relating to the status and mode of financing of public radio and TV have become obsolete and need to be updated to better account for the current market situation. Despite the government's renewed 2008 commitment to reform the Polish public broadcasting system, to date the discussions are chaotic and tainted by political rivalries.
Broadcasting legislation also needs to be updated in order to reflect ongoing technological and market changes. Although Poland has already adopted a provisional strategy for the digital switchover, issues of compression standards, must-carry programming, licensing and state financial involvement are not legally resolved. Legislation is also lacking when it comes to regulating ownership concentration. Legislative works on the issue were to a huge extent discontinued after the Rywingate scandal.
The renewed debate over audiovisual media legislation has been also motivated by the need to comply with the EU's 2007 Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the deadline for member states compliance was end of 2009. The AVMSD amends the TWF Directive and takes into account convergence of technologies, platforms and services, the arrival of new delivery modes, changes of viewer habits and new advertising methods. To fully cover the broadness and flexibility of the AVSMD, the existing Polish legal frameworks need to be radically amended. So far Poland has completed the public consultation phase of transposing the AVSMD; however the amended drafts still need to undergo parliamentary legislative procedures.
7.2 References
- Legislation
Audience reports
- PBC, Polish Readership Survey Reports, Research Data for July-December 2009
- PBI, Polish Internet Survey Reports
- PIKE, Cable Service Operators, Data from 2009
- Radio Track.pl by MillwardBrown SMG/KRC, Research Data for July-September 2009
- TNS OBOP Telemetria, Television Viewership Surveys
- ZDKP (2009), Press Circulation Audit Reports
Reports by Regulatory Authorities
- KRRiT (2008), Raport z konsultacji publicznych dotyczących implementacji Dyrektywy 2007/65/EC (PDF) - Report on public consultations on implementation of Audiovisual Media Services Directive
- KRRiT (2006), Raport Otwarcia: Rynek Radiowo-Telewizyjny w Polsce (PDF) - Report on Radio and Television Market in Poland
- UKE (2008a), Regulatory Strategy 2008-2010 (PDF)
- UKE (2008b), Report on Telecommunications Market 2008 (PDF)
- Godzic W. (2009), Sytuacja polskich mediów audiowizualnych w latach 1989 – 2008 - Raport opracowany na zlecenie Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego [Report on Polish Audiovisual Media 1989-2008 prepared on behalf of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage]
- Miczka, T. (2009), Raport o Stanie Polskiej Kinematografii, Raport opracowany na zlecenie Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego [Report on Polish Cinematography prepared on behalf of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage]
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So for the past couple days I've had ridiculous heartburn. So much so that what's coming up into my throat feels like a large ball of bad that I have to swallow back down. It's so bad the pain is radiating across my upper back and shoulders. Tums is afraid of it and not working at all... Now, I've always had heartburn but this is worse than ever before.
***? (ETA: haha, apparently whiskey tango foxtrot is a "bad" word) Anyone have anything similar? My mother-in-law tells me the pain part is unusual, but after living with Crohn's for 6 years, I've ceased being amazed.
PS: Is it weird to send a graduation announcement to my GI doc?
Laurenne, 23 Student @ University of California, Davis.
Dx'd w/ IBS and CD in 2002
On Humira, Strattera, Zoloft, (Multivitamin, Flax Oil, and Omega complex when I remember.)
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Posted 5/9/2008 4:58 AM (GMT -7)
Hi I would call your doctor and let your doctor now about
the problem.
Hi, I am teddybearweiser, I am a male.
I was diagnosed with crohns disease when i was admitted to the hospital
in 1992, in Jan of 1993 I was back in the hospital for surgery for my crohns. I had part of my right colon resectioned with ilecolonstomy.
My GI doctor has me on Asacol, Dicyclomine,Imuran,Celebrex and Remicade. B-12 injection once a month.
Also diagnosed with Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Posted 5/9/2008 5:25 AM (GMT -7)
I do get this sometimes,but Tums does help,and drinking something like coke helps,because it helps me burp
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Posted 5/9/2008 5:27 AM (GMT -7)
First, CONGRATS on your graduation!!!
And no, I don't think it would be weird to send an announcement to your GI doc if you like him/her and want to share your momentous occasion!!!
your heartburn, I can only speak for myself. I have had heartburn on and off since I was 7 years old. (Back then they really did some weird things for it, too!) about
15+- years ago I discovered digestive enzymes and they make *all the difference* for me. I take Ultra-Zyme by Nature's Plus, but there are others on the market. (I'm not as impressed with Q-Zyme by Garden of Life) The nice thing is you can take several after each meal if necessary. I usually do fine with 2, but have taken more on occasion.
Of course, I realize there could be something going on with your CD, so as teddybearweiser said, I would let your doc know about
it. In the mean time, I can't think taking this would hurt in any way, and it just might help! Our GI knows that my son takes them and is fine with it.
Congratulations again!
Mother to 16 year old boy diagnosed in June, 2007.
Currently taking Asacol, omega 3s, digestive enzymes, probiotics, iron, vit. C, calcium w/D3 and a good multivitamin.
Started The Maker's Diet in early September. Gradually learning/using more SCD recipes, too! (cooking challenged)
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Sorry you are experiencing such painful heartburn. I experienced the same thing, and it turned out to be acid reflux. I was put on losec and later nexium. This helped me tremendously, I have never looked back. I hope you find relief soon.
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Posted 5/9/2008 6:48 AM (GMT -7)
Yes I too take something for acid reflux. I have been taking Prilosec (or other types of these meds) for about
5 years now. Really, really helps. I would get in touch with your doc and discuss this problem.
Been living with Crohn's Disease for 32 years. Currently on Asacol, Prilosec 60 mg, Estrace, Prinivil, Diltiazem, Percoset prn for pain and Calcium. Resections in 2002 and 2005. Recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and doing tests to see if I have Inflammatory Arthritis or AS.
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Posted 5/9/2008 9:33 AM (GMT -7)
Are you taking calcium pills? I noticed that taking those gives me absolutely horrible heartburn that is very difficult to stop, even when I'm already on prilosec or prevacid and try using maalox and so on to calm things down. Supposedly taking stuff that has calcium citrate for the calcium source is supposed to not do that, I just bought some yesterday and so far it seems much better.
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Posted 5/9/2008 9:52 AM (GMT -7)
I have to take a PPI every morning and an H2 every night to control my GERD. Currently I am on protonix in the morning and zantac at night. I have used up the effectiveness of prilosec, nexium, and prevacid already. *sigh*.
I have an emergency fix for you but you have to promise not to use it ALL the time because it isn't healthy for other reasons (like its effect on blood pressure). But I use this after vomiting to put out the burn. Mix some baking soda with water, stir well, and take a few sips and swallow until the burn goes away. My dad will drink a while glass. But like I said, not always the best choice.
I also find the liquid Mylanta is more helpful than tums for the really bad stuff. I am sorry you are going through this. You will probably need a short course of a PPI like over the counter prilosec to get it under control. Are you on steroids? They can cause GERD. How about
anti-depressants? Prozac is notorious for causing gastric upset. Ah I see you are on Zoloft. My friend had to stop taking that because of the naseau it gave her. Obviously talk to your doctor before you quit it but that might be your problem.
26 Year old married female law student. Diagnosed w/ CD 3 years ago, IBS for over 10 years before that, which was probably the CD. I am sort of lactose intollerant too but can handle anything cultured and do well w/ lactose pills and lactaid. For crohns I am currently on Pentasa 4 pills/4x day and hysociamine prn. I also have bad acid reflux and have been on PPI's since age 13. I have been through prilosec, prevacid, and nexium. Currently I am on Protonix in the morning and Zantac at night. I alos take a birth control pill to allow some fun in my life.
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Posted 5/9/2008 3:52 PM (GMT -7)
Thanks for the replies everyone. It seems to be better today- though the radiating pain is still there. If it's still happening by Monday I'll make a GI appt. I was just a little taken aback by how bad the reflux was this.
I've definitely had it before, but this time it was really severe and I can't remember doing anything to trigger it.
Laurenne, 23 Student @ University of California, Davis.
Dx'd w/ IBS and CD in 2002
On Humira, Strattera, Zoloft, (Multivitamin, Flax Oil, and Omega complex when I remember.)
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Posted 5/9/2008 4:18 PM (GMT -7)
Hi I had it that bad with the pred. and pain threw the back and sometimes really bad threw the chest. I took Periot for it so talk to your Dr. about
it. Now after getting off pred.I don't have it thank goodness it was pretty bad . I had to elevate my bed as well and keep a spitting pail near the bed for night. I also have switched from black tea to perked coffee with milk but not sure if that is what is helping. Hope you get some relief soon. lol gail
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Posted 5/10/2008 9:18 PM (GMT -7)
The last time I had such bad pain in my chest and back was when my GI discovered that my CD had developped in my esophagus.
Please don't let this go on too long. It's likely acid reflux, and there are so many good meds for that now...but do see your doctor asap. BTW , is there any chance you could have a blockage or partial obstruction.?Best of luck , keep us posted. ok.
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Crohn's D for last35 yrs..severe esophagitis, migraines,strictures,urethral stricture,depression,probable MS.,RLS, arthritis
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Bloodthirster Rush
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Pros / Cons
- Strong late game
- 700 range (rocket launcher)
- Strong wave clear
- Tower shredder (minigun)
- High AD ratios
- On par with Vayne at dueling (minigun attack speed)
- % HP AoE Global ult helps proc your passive
- Crowd Control/Self-peel
- Vulnerable to assassins
- No escape skills
- May need a team to protect her against certain enemy compositions
This guide is still under construction!
However, you will find some useful information and experience of a Platinum player, especially under the notes for the items.
Doran's Blades
Jinx's minigun attack speed provides her access to an insane amount of lifesteal from Doran's Blade. Don't be afraid to stack two or three of these for better lane performance (any more is overkill, unless you're Genja).
Furthermore, with two Doran's Blades, you can skip buying Vampiric Scepter and go straight to Infinity Edge and Phantom Dancer. You will have enough lifesteal in your minigun form, unlike other AD carries that lack attack speed.
Infinity Edge rush vs Bloodthirster rush.
Both are viable strategies. (BT rush is more popular.)
An Infinity Edge rush allows for a stronger midgame to lategame transition -- you will remain a priority threat in this period, especially if behind in gold, dealing up to an extra 500 damage in a teamfight. Additionally, you will not need to waste time stacking The Bloodthirster in case an important teamfight is coming.
The sacrifice, however, is a 30% reduction in HP gained from autoattacking (with a stacked BT). Trinity Force and The Bloodthirster are great items if you wish to duel an enemy carry due to the increase in HP (or lifesteal, in the case of Bloodthirster).
Here is a graph showing how your DPS changes over time:Note: This chart assumes a base attack speed of 0.625 and 130% bonus minigun steroid. Also, it is assumed Stattik Shiv procs every 10 autoattacks and deals damage to only a single target (25-30dps).
Do you see that little point after 9000 gold? Shortly thereafter, you will be getting a defensive item so it's actually a longer period than you might think. The difference between IE and Bloodthirster is ~50, but it does add up -- you might be able to kill a tank one second faster with the IE path than if you went BT.
Why not Statikk Shiv?
Statikk Shiv is a good purchase for bursty/duelling AD carries (such as Quinn) or for AD carries lacking wave clear. Jinx is neither of these. Jinx's Rocket Launcher already provides waveclear, and going for burst lowers your overall DPS. Phantom Dancer's passive is also quite useful on an AD carry with very little mobility in the first place.
If you look at the chart above, you will also see a big difference in mid to lategame DPS. Stattik Shiv especially ruins Jinx's rocket form ability which works better with crit and AS.
Is Runaan's Hurricane viable?
Sort of, yes. In terms of single target dps, non-Runaan's Hurricane builds do 25% more dps. However, a Runaan's Jinx will deal 50% more damage if she manages to attack three targets at once.
The problem with Runaan's Hurricane is the current league of bruisers/assassins meta -- Jinx will find it difficult to kill the Vi 1v1 if she opts for Runaan's. Additionally, lowers your kite potential, lacks crit, and lowers your rocket launcher's AoE damage if the Runaan bolts do not land on enemy champions (seondary bolts do not prioritize champions).
Defensive items
Buy defensive if you are in danger of dying. (Assassin, Bruiser, AP Burster meta.) Building a Bloodthirster for "more damage" is meaningless if you are dead.
If you feel like you are not going to be focused down, build BT first.
Guardian Angel: Anti-assassin/reset item.
Quicksilver Sash: Not as strong on Jinx, but viable against Warwick/etc.
Banshee's Veil: Good MR, strong anti-CC.
Randuin's Omen: Anti-bruiser/anti-AD dps. GA is still preferable against AD assassins, unless it's an all-AD comp.
Trinity Force: Not recommended unless you are 100% certain you are unkillable.
Note that HP is the strongest stat on AD carries for long term survivability. A combination of Armor and MR is inferior to flat HP, particularly on low health pool carries. Therefore, if you aren't in danger of getting instagibbed, building a Banshee's Veil or Randuin's Omen is best.
Ranked Play
- Positioning is key to Jinx!
- NEVER get caught out.
- Be wary of your allies retreating without you. Most frontlines are faster than Jinx and they may leave you behind to get CC'd if you are not alert.
- Sieging turrets (even with rockets) is hard without an escape, but you can kill undefended turrets insanely fast with minigun.
If you're at a lower level of play (Bronze or Silver), it's unlikely your teammates will peel for you properly. Don't rely on them. Don't complain about lack of peel. Instead, work on your own positioning and become adept at kiting bruisers (see Doublelift's Vayne as an example of masterful kiting). Complaining about lack of peel will get you nowhere, but improving your own gameplay will.
Lane matchups
Supports with CC are absolutely vital with Jinx. Supports such as Nidalee and Soraka provide very little peel/protection in the aggressive all-in bot lane meta as well as in teamfights against bruisers/assassins.
Leona Most synergistic support with Jinx. She provides peel, AoE CC, and a strong tankline for an escape-less hypercarry like Jinx. Additionally, Jinx+Leona can chain CC: Leona R/Q/passive procs, Jinx E/W/R will kill almost any carry if caught out post 6.
Thresh Good CC/Peel for Jinx.
Annie Strong laning phase, good bursty poke, great snowball potential. Chained ults do immense damage, especially if fed.
Nami Very strong peeling support. There's a reason koreans love her so much in their hypercarry lanes.
Lulu Another hypercarry-friendly support.
Sona If played well, can keep Jinx alive early levels, and provides CC at level 6. Not a bad support in non-hyperaggressive lane matchups (i.e. Janna Draven).
Taric Underrated and underplayed, but a decent support.
Alistar Very few can play him correctly, even in the higher tiers. -_- Requires early dominance or becomes useless in laning phase. Good ally to have in teamfights as he can knock the enemy bruisers away.
Enemy matchups
Burst counters squishy DPS (Jinx) best.
Draven Well, it is the League of Draven, after all!
Lucian Triforce makes him a great duelist against nearly every other AD carry (except Vayne). Great poke. Insane burst. Can avoid CC with his dash.
Graves Passive makes him very tanky so it is hard to poke him down. Has incredible burst and will blow you up if you are caught unaware.
Leona A great ally, but a formidable opponent!
Thresh Jinx has a hard time escaping such CC with her low movement speed and lack of escapes.
Annie Yet again, immense damage!


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My first place in Manhattan was a dingy East Village apartment with a black light installed in the living room. The previous tenants, a warren of goth chicks, had painted the walls blue, the ceiling a metallic silver. Nothing worked. The pilot light on the stove was constantly blipping out. The bathroom door had fallen off its hinges, so you had to drag it in front of the frame for privacy, like Christ returning to his tomb. The floor was filthy.
I arrived there straight out of college in 1996 with my two best friends, Scott and Brenn. At the time, living in the East Village felt like moving to Calcutta. Our college campus was set on 350 acres of rolling hills and creeks, the plants tagged with Latin names, the grass cut religiously. I had never lived with Scott or Brenn, but I wasn't worried. Even slobs looked reputable when surrounded by all that fieldstone and Quaker gardening.
Our new home encouraged louche living. During the day, it was quiet and dim, and for the first few weeks, I'd come home from my job at a Midtown publisher to find Brenn lounging on a ratty easy chair we had dragged up from the street, reading a book and sipping tea. Brenn worked when he wanted to, temping at odd jobs, then quitted abruptly. He also spoke with a British accent, which he had picked up while studying abroad in Scotland.
Scott was all business — at least that was his pose. Each day he commuted two hours to Stamford, Connecticut, where he told executives how to cut costs for a company that made millionaires of its recent hires. The job had an immediate impact on his wardrobe. Each morning he buttoned up one of his shiny blue shirts, slipped on $400 loafers and clacked out to the subway. The slam of our front door was my alarm clock.
I didn't know it then, but these were the closest years of our lives. Around eight o'clock each night, Scott would come home and make highballs. Afterward, we tromped upstairs to the roof and smoked Nat Sherman cigarettes and talked about our new life. It seemed bizarre that the oil refinery of lights around us was New York. Even stranger that it was the backdrop for our various ambitions, which were so vague they hovered around us like a perpetual aura of expectation.
To escape the magnitude of these dreams we had to party. After wiping the melted tar from our lace-ups, we headed downstairs to a bar or went out dancing until 4 a.m. Brenn didn't smoke, but rather sat in the corner with a notebook, which always managed to flush the crazies from the crowd. "What are you writing?" some slightly wounded looking woman would ask, and that would be the last we'd see of him for a few hours.
We pleasure-mongered out of sheer joy sometimes, but what kept it going was fearfulness. My girlfriend had returned to Pennsylvania for her final year of school, and I missed her desperately. Visiting made it worse. So I just stayed in New York and went out. Brenn did the same, only his girlfriend was living in Scotland, or some such place, which meant that Scott and I often left the apartment as he burrowed deeper and deeper into the kind of conversation that only happens on international calls between separated lovers.
Scott was the only one of us who had a present girlfriend, a fabulous and volatile writer who lived in Woody Allen's former apartment. When K. wasn't around, which was often, Scott would marshal us out into the streets to drink down the city. He taught me to inhale while I was smoking, took me to dance clubs that are now closed. When I read Bright Lights, Big City, I recognized myself, minus the cocaine.
Oddly, it wasn't McInerney's classic which resonated with us first but James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. I had come across an old Atlas Books edition of it in a basement bookshop on St. Mark's, and promptly fell into the novel as if it were a manhole someone hadn't covered over. It was a compellingly dramatic story. A young American named David moves to Paris following World War II. After his girlfriend leaves on vacation, he meets an old man, who introduces him to an Italian bartender named Giovanni. The two men trip into a sudden, furtive affair, returning to Giovanni's room in the wee hours of the night. "I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea," David says, a sentiment I could relate to, "time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and days had no meaning."
One of the strange things about the book is that it's told in the first person, and the narrator is both white and in denial about being gay — two things James Baldwin was most definitely not. In a way, this border-crossing permitted me to make my own. I translated what was clearly a gay experience into my own language — something I had done before. Not long before I read Jean Cocteau's The White Book, and found myself identifying with the spirit of the book — not of wanting men, but of feeling monstrous or freakish in my desires. Of trying to funnel them inward, pulverize them into something useful.
But of course that doesn't happen in Giovanni's Room. Over the course of the novel, as David's affair deepens with Giovanni, he realizes he has become something else without admitting it — and he becomes incredibly guilty, especially since his girlfriend will be returning to Paris. His internal welter spills over into the action when Giovanni murders a wealthy man who attempts to extort sex out of him for a job. It goes further downhill from there. "People are full of surprises," a man tells David at the beginning of the book, hinting at what is about to happen. "Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden."
Like David with Paris, I had moved to New York to find a part of myself I knew existed, but couldn't quite locate yet. Every East Village bar felt like a new weigh station in this search.
I gave the book to my roommates, who both read it closely and twice, and for that whole first year, we name-checked Giovanni's Room. If we were sitting around the apartment, doing nothing, Scott would say come on, let's get out of giovanni's room and do something. A couple of hours later, sitting on a ratty couch at bar after yet another uneventful night, Brenn would lean over and say let's go back to Giovanni's Room. It was basically how every night ended. Since we all had girlfriends, we went out alone and came back together, returning to our dumpy apartment like it was our secret lair, staying up late and talking — as if this were the main event, not the nervous hours in clubs or bars before. Neither of them were gay, but we were close enough to each other — and close enough to that age that dating a woman is like breaking up with your friend — that we could relate. In fact, we were so entangled that what we were was hard to name. Scott's girlfriend was making passes at Brenn's; when times were tough I occasionally slept in Scott's bed, which set K. off. All of our girlfriends raised an eyebrow at this behavior. All of them dumped us.
Brenn's was the first relationship to go, in a slow crumbling that I watched from afar like a mountain slide in awful silence. Then I got The Phone Call. Unlike him I burst out sobbing childishly. It was horrible. Brenn responded by dragging me out of the apartment and walking me around the city as if the sights and sounds of Tompkins Square could actually improve my mood. Mimicking the final scene of Giovanni's Room on one of these walks, I took out a note my girlfriend had once written to me. I had discovered it tacked to my wallet as a plane I was on prepared for take off. "What do I do with this?" I asked him melodramatically. "Hold on to it," he said, and then walked me all the way over to the West Side piers, where crack fiends were fighting over their sleeping spots.
When Scott's relationship came apart, we were suddenly all free and single — the condition we had unknowingly hoped for. But when the moment arrived none of us were thrilled with the freedoms. The city seemed more dangerous and chaotic. Flirting with women at bars, we found ourselves much more inexperienced than we had imagined. We missed familiarity. Our jobs began to feel like jobs, not novelties designed to fuel our nightlife.
We eventually left that apartment, and in a move more symbolic than I realized at the time, my ex-girlfriend and two of her friends squatted there for the final month of our lease. They cleaned it up, let the air in. Meanwhile, Scott had found us a new place. It was just a few blocks south, and it was enormous: a 2,000-square-foot loft with a giant open kitchen. When we moved in, the apartment looked like a bowling alley. Brenn immediately took off to Vancouver for the summer. Scott's sister moved in and made us four. Within a few days, my ex-girlfriend was coming by nightly to cook dinner. The apartment began to smell like a home, not a cave. Women were around all the time. The lights outside glowed. The World Trade Center rose up like a colossus right outside the window. Only now do I realize how long ago it feels.
Whenever I read essayists addressing Giovanni's Room now, I worry that I somehow straighted a gay novel — gutted its heart and placed myself there instead. I suppose there are two things inside a book — what it means to the teller, and what it becomes during the reading. In this case, my own reading was overshadowed by New York in 1996. Something about the high drama, the purple prose, the sense of a city opening up its lurid riches, and the intensity of the relationships swallowed me. I tried to read the novel again recently and didn't get very far. It felt overblown and silly. I closed it before I could ruin the memory. As with my friendships, much of its power was left behind in that tiny little apartment on Allen Street, ten years ago.
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You can either open it through Winzip or also by the command jar xf xxx.jar at your command prompt.
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"Excuse me; I just want to take another cookie…" The slim, almost gaunt man reached over my shoulder to grab a frosted chocolate cookie. "These are delicious," he said. "I am eating my fourth," he added, as he popped it into his mouth.
We were at a spring neighborhood social gathering, and the cookie eater was someone new on the block. "Are you a runner?" I asked, thinking that someone this thin who ate so many cookies must either be a devoted exerciser, or host to an intestinal tape worm.
"Oh, yes. I do marathons and train all year," he replied. "My running group meets at 6 am every morning all year round, unless of course, there is a blizzard or too much ice to run safely. "
My neighbors listening to this conversation nodded in understanding, and moved away from the tray of pastries. None of us trained for anything, and our gym workouts were at most two hours long…but usually much shorter. No cookies for us. Sure, we exercised as a way to keep healthy, but we also saw it as a defense against creeping weight gain. Indulging in pastries or any other highly caloric food would have undermined the effects of sweating on the treadmill or exercise bike.
"Maybe I should run a marathon," a friend whispered looking wistfully at the cookies.
Exercise, aka physical activity, is marketed vigorously to motivate people to move more and sit less. Weight loss, or the prevention of weight gain, is its most attractive feature. Yet the benefits of exercise extend to better sleep, better mood, better cognition, and even longer life. Earlier generations did not need to be told about the importance of exercise. So many people needed to engage in hard physical labor to make a living that resting, not exercising, was an activity much to be desired. Descriptions of food served to farm laborers during harvest time featured copious quantities of meat, potatoes, bread, and pies for both lunch and dinner. And it is unlikely there was much obesity, despite these menus, among the men and women who labored literally, from sunrise to sunset.
Exercise is regarded as optional by many not engaged in hard physical labor to make a living. Most people have yet to be convinced of its importance (or benefit) despite vigorous marketing attempts. The problem is that messages about the virtues of exercise tend to be disregarded by all except those already hitting the gym. Those who don't exercise say they know they should, but also admit they won't. Knowing the benefits doesn't translate into doing.
Years ago we asked volunteers who were being screened for obesity study whether they would exercise if it did not have any effect on weight loss. The unanimous answer was no. Better sleep, even increased longevity was irrelevant… A diet equaled exercise: no diet-no workout.
Studies have been done to see if people would switch to lower calorie foods if told how many minutes of exercise it would take to burn off the calories in a particular food item. If it took 90 minutes running on a treadmill to work off calories in Food A, and only 30 minutes in Food B, then the researchers assume people would choose Food B. But the information didn't seem to affect food choices; perhaps the volunteers just didn't care because they weren't going to exercise anyway.
Is it time to change the marketing approach from, 'exercise is good for you' to an incentive model of, 'here is something good '(if you exercise)? What if people are told that if they exercise they can eat foods (in controlled amounts, of course) they have been told to avoid? What if my neighbors who wanted to eat those chocolate frosted cookies were told that it is alright to eat a cookie or two at night, if they exercise a little harder or longer at the gym, or walk several miles? What if exercise was not seen as another form of deprivation to be endured, along with the caloric deprivation of a diet, but rather a means to a culinary treat?
Many years ago when a Boston runner, Billy Rogers, won the Boston marathon, he was asked how much he ate while training. His daily calorie intake was upwards of 5,000 and included foods that tend to be on the forbidden treat list. Many said they were tempted to start running just to eat the way he did.
Giving people treats to motivate behavior is something we do with children (and often with adults) to get them to go to meetings or volunteer. Charity walks to raise money offer food along the route, and announcing that refreshments will be served probably gets people to attend a lecture or meeting who otherwise might stay home. So instead of telling someone that eating an ice cream cone will necessitate working on a treadmill for an hour to burn off the calories? The individual is told that if he or she exercises vigorously for an hour, they can indulge in a treat without admonishment?
What we keep forgetting is the importance of exercise on more than weight loss, or even preventing weight gain. Physical activity is essential for all aspects of our health. It is not necessary to hang a cookie over a treadmill to keep ourselves walking longer. But if we could link exercise to something we desire, it need not be limited to food, then maybe we will be willing to get up off the couch.


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Chalong Villa Resort and Spa
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Chalong Villa Resort and Spa
About the Hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Chalong Villa Resort and Spa in Chalong (Chalong), you'll be minutes from HomePro Village and close to Chalong Temple. This hotel is within close proximity of Chalong Pier and Big Buddha.
Make yourself at home in one of the 20 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Rooms have private balconies. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include safes and ceiling fans.
Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities
Enjoy the recreation opportunities such as an outdoor pool or make use of other amenities including tour/ticket assistance.
While enjoying a refreshing dip in the hotel pool, you can order your favorite drink at the poolside bar.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk and laundry facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request).
Hotel Facilities
- Number of floors - 1
- Laundry facilities
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 20
- Number of restaurants - 1
- Outdoor pool
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Poolside bar
Room Facilities
- Ceiling fan
- Refrigerator
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Air conditioning
- In-room safe
- Cable TV service
- Private bathroom
- Balcony
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Antonovich Commemorates Technology Week
At the Business Technology Center in Altadena, Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich awarded the High Technology Leader award to Dan Sarnoff, president of DSKR Productions LLC, Tim Sarnoff, president of Technicolor Digital Productions and Tom Sarnoff, president of Sarnoff Entertainment Corporation.
Tom Sarnoff was former executive vice president of NBC and was Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Tom's father David initiated NBC and young Tom's voice was the first ever heard on television eighty years ago.
Tim Sarnoff is president of Technicolor Digital Productions and oversees the planning and production of world-class visual effects for motion pictures, broadcast and computer animation projects including Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and the Academy-Award winning Spider-Man™ 2 as well as nominations on eight additional films.
At the forefront of the internet, Dan Sarnoff is the CEO of Gamebay.com, a company represents the bulk of the transactional data base systems and progressive jackpot games which have become the core of the Native American gaming industry. He is also President of TV Games, Inc., a subsidiary of multimedia games engaged in developing TV game shows.
The Business Technology Center, a project of the Community Development Commission of Los Angeles County was initiated by Supervisor Antonovich in 1998 and remains the largest technology incubator in California. The BTC helps to develop high technology firms by providing office space, business management assistance, technical assistance, and the coordination of available financial resources.
LA Tech Week Lauds Technology Leaders
By Rebecca Mikkelsen
Los Angeles County's Technology Week celebrates the role technology plays in our community's business community, and honors the innovative entrepreneurs, dedicated scientists and engineers, supportive investors and mentors who make it happen. The highlight of LA Tech Week's tenth anniversary of was the Signature Symposium, held at the Business Technology Center in Altadena on October 20. Eight panels of experts provided insights and tips on financing, legal issues, marketing for start-ups and what's next in technologies for entertainment, medical devices, clean energy. Frequent breaks provided opportunities for introductions and networking.
Available Funding for Technology Start-Ups
What do Qualcomm, Aplina, Medtronic, Viasat, Inc., Symantec and iROBOT have in common? In their early phases, all companies received funds from the federal government's Small Business Innovation Research ("SBIR") program. As a speaker on the "Lean Start-up, Strategic Partnerships and Stronger Sales" panel, Dr. Bob Conger, Executive Vice President of Microcosm, Inc., touched on the features of the SBIR. Here are a few highlights:
This federal program was created to support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds in small American businesses, in order to build a stronger national economy.
The Small Business Administration coordinates the program, awarding a portion of the some research budgets of federal agencies to small businesses. They define "small business" as a for-profit business with fewer than 500 employees, owned by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States.
Phase I of SBIR grants and contracts are made to startups, of "up to $150,000 for approximately six months' support [for] exploration of the technical merit or feasibility of an idea or technology." Phase II awards grants of "up to $1,000,000, for as many as two years," in order to facilitate expansion of Phase I results. Research and development work is performed and the developer evaluates the potential for commercialization. Phase II grants are awarded exclusively to Phase I award winners.
The Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) uses a similar approach to expand public/private sector partnerships between small businesses and nonprofit U.S. research institutions.
For more information please visit: www.sbir.gov.


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Annapolis, MD (PressExposure) April 17, 2008 -- Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of open source network and systems management software, today announced that OpSource, a SaaS delivery company, has deployed Zenoss for Service Providers. OpSource replaced its incumbent IT management solution with Zenoss for its cost advantages, ease of use and the quality of its services team.
OpSource provides the operational infrastructure and application services that enable companies to offer Web applications on-demand and software as a service. Faced with the mandate to drive greater efficiencies into its business through more effective automation, OpSource recognized that its current IT management solution lacked the comprehensive functionality it required. Therefore, the company evaluated alternative IT management products from BMC and Zenoss. After a thorough analysis, the company selected Zenoss.
âOur legacy IT management solution wasnât designed specifically to support service providers interested in going deep into IT Process Automation,â said Ryan Henley, Director, Operational Process and Systems at OpSource. âIt could not integrate with other applications via standards-based API's and would not provide access to the stored monitoring data. Zenoss was more powerful out of the box, much less expensive and the personalized service weâve received from the company has been fantastic. We are seeing integration benefits whose effects will be felt both internally and externally with our customers.â
With Zenoss, OpSource now has a centralized real-time view of all customer environments, allowing them to quickly detect, isolate and resolve potential issues before customers experience performance degradation or downtime. Zenoss also integrates seamlessly with complementary systems via standards-based APIs, provides auto discovery for quickly detecting and cataloging new devices, and manages change controls at a very fine level of granularity.
OpSource is currently using Zenoss to monitor and manage customer servers, networks, databases and applications within its UK and California datacenters. By late summer 2008, Zenoss will also be deployed in OpSourceâs Virginia datacenter, bringing the grand total of servers monitored to over 1,700, and networks in the several hundreds.
âService providers have long been frustrated with their IT management options,â said Bill Karpovich, Co-Founder and CEO of Zenoss. âThe traditional solutions are either too expensive, too rigid, too complex or too limited. With a new approach weâre able to provide a solution that finally addresses all of the needs of this growing market. The result has been a groundswell of interest from service providers around the world who are delivering a variety of cloud-based services.â
Organizations interested in learning more about Zenoss for Service Providers and/or getting a free trial of the product should visit http://www.zenoss.com/product/service-providers.


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SERVE Undergraduate Research Stipends
Stipend recipients will be reimbursed up to $500 for travel and registration expenses to the conference outlined in their application. Applications, including a faculty sponsor statement of support, are to be sent to Dr. Margaret Brown, CSFD Suite 306.
SERVE Undergrad Vocational Exploration Stipend Application
SERVE Student Research Stipend Recipient Stories
SERVE Undergraduate Internship Stipends
These competitive $1000 SERVE stipends are administered by the Center for Career and Calling. You can learn more about the program and the application process on the CCC internship website.
SERVE Student Internship Stipends Recipient Stories
*Both scholarships require a 1-2 page student reflective paper on the experience which will be posted on the SERVE website. We love to add pictures too so please be sure to send along one or two with your paper.


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Home Roadbike hotels Hotel Teutschhaus - Roadbike hotel in Kurtinig / Weinstraße (BZ), South Tyrol, Italy
Bike & More
Roadbike and Sports
A wide variety of additional sports activities are offered right at the hotel, e.g. climbing, mountain tours, Nordic walking etc.
Special deals for bike clubs and associations
The hotel offers special deals for large groups of bikers (bike clubs, associations, training groups) Seminar room including data projector, screen, video/TV etc. for presentations and analysis ...
Dolomites, South Tyrolean specialities and plenty of Italian charm - catchwords that inspire. The Hotel Teutschhaus offers all that.
The Hotel Teutschhaus is not only situated on the South Tyrol wine route but also has its own vineyard and produces its own house wine. The best place to sample this is in the historic wine cellar. Once a week there is a guided tour telling you all about the different varieties and how they are grown.
The tours take you to Bolzano and Merano, along the South Tyrolean Wine Route and into the Dolomites. Depending on your condition on a particular day, you simply choose a tour that suits you best.
Did you know that the hotel is also a member of MoHo – Motorcycle hotels? Perfect for your next motorbike vacation!
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I am Roberto Mich, the tour guide at the hotel. I have been a passionate cyclist for a long time and have won many competitions in various categories over the years, including ten racing cycling championship titles on national and regional levels and I have been Italian uphill time trial champion twice. I have also taken part in the famous "Sella Ronda", the "Marathona dles Dolomites", several times, and have won that race four times and managed the route in less than 2 hours eight times. I look forward to take you out on tours.


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Recently a relative of mine has been hospitalized. He lives in a state far away from me and I was speaking with the other family members about what was going on at the hospital. It was very opaque and confusing to them.
Therefore, I wanted to write a blog on how hospitals work for patients and family members.
Outpatient and Inpatient Services
Hospitals today provide both outpatient and inpatient services. Outpatient services mean that you are not 'admitted' and you typically go home the same day that you visited the hospital.
Examples of Outpatient Services include:
- Imaging (CT scans, MRIs, X-rays, etc.)
- Lab (blood draws, called 'phlebotomy' in medical terms)
- Procedures (colonoscopies, upper GI endoscopies, etc.)
- Other Testing (cardiac stress tests, echocardiograms, etc.)
- Surgery (carpal tunnel release, ovarian cyst removal, etc.)
- Infusion of some chemotherapy for cancer
Inpatient services mean you have been admitted to the hospital and you will stay overnight, several nights or even weeks to months. Generally, inpatient services can be broken down into two categories: Surgical and Non-Surgical.
Examples of Inpatient Surgery include:
- Total knee or hip replacement
- Spine surgery
- Tumor removal
- Emergency surgery (appendectomy for appendicitis, trauma from motor vehicle accident)
Examples of Non-Surgical Inpatient Services include:
- Heart attack (the medical term of which is a myocardial infarction or MI for short)
- Stroke
- Pneumonia
- Severe skin infection requiring IV antibiotics
- Emphysema exacerbation (the medical term of which is COPD)
- Stomach or intestinal bleeding
- Administration of some chemotherapy for cancer
- Psychiatric admission for extreme psychosis or depression
Of course, the list could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Additional, there is a situation 'between' being an Outpatient and an Inpatient and that is called Observation (sometimes called a 23-Hour Stay).
To you, the patient, it seems like an Inpatient Stay because you invariably 'stay' overnight at the hospital. However, observation is a status used by the hospital for billing purposes — it is a requirement of Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance companies. More details about observation stays is beyond the scope of this blog, but suffice it to say that billing for once-over-night-stays often get messed up. So if you only stay at the hospital one night, be prepared to have to deal with billing problems in the future.
There are 4 ways to be admitted for an Inpatient or Observation Stay:
- Scheduled Admit: typically done for scheduled surgery. Of note, scheduled surgery is referred to as Elective Surgery. Now, you could have a tumor that 'has to be removed,' so YOU might not think it is 'elective.' However, what is 'elective' is the date and time of the surgery. Accordingly, the opposite of elective surgery is Emergency Surgery (i.e. one cannot 'elect' when to have the surgery, you have to have it right away e.g. appendectomy for appendicitis).
- Emergency Admit: probably THE most common route of admission is via the emergency department (abbreviated ED; hospitals don't like to call it an 'emergency room' anymore, it is now considered a 'department'). Typically, you will go to the ED with some type of symptom (e.g. pain, difficulty breathing, bleeding, etc.)., the emergency physician determines that your condition cannot be addressed just in the ED so he or she admits you 'to the floor' (which means into the hospital).
- Direct Admit: you could have gone to a doctor's office appointment and the doctor finds you to be so ill that he or she can call the hospital and have you directly admitted to the hospital. Additionally, you could talk to your doctor over the phone and based on the phone conversation the doctor decides that you need to go directly to the hospital. An example of this last scenario is most frequently not an 'illness,' but rather a direct admit for labor & delivery (i.e. having a baby)
- Transfer: you could be at a hospital or you could be at one of these 'free-standing' urgent care centers or 'ERs' and you could be transferred to another hospital. Typically the reason for this is that the 'accepting' hospital has some capability that the other facility doesn't (e.g. cath lab to place a stent for a heart attack).
To learn some quick tips that you should take during the hospital discharge process, check out a previous post on the topic here.
For the sake of this blog not getting too long, I will stop there.
As healthcare consumers, it is important to know how a hospital works, just as it is important to understand how going to a stadium to watch a sporting event or going to a school works. Also, if you have a friend or family member that is ill, it is important for you to understand how a hospital works so that you can understand what is going on too.
As employee benefits professionals, it is important for you to understand the actual 'process' of how a hospital functions, because these functions are what generate healthcare claims and costs. To write the checks for healthcare and not understand how your money is being spent is to not understand the 'supply-chain' for employee benefits. Understanding that supply-chain better is to manage that supply-chain better.
To learn more about how Compass works to activate employees in their own health and promote healthcare consumerism visit compassphs.com


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DAILYKENN.com -- Controversy over a Marxist white guilty video shown to high school students in Virginia came to a head last week when parents had the audacity to stand up the government thugs running their local schools.
The video — created by African-American Policy Forum — depicts a fantasy race in which white contestants are given unfair advantages. The creators were utilized fantasy because their Marxist perspective is divergent with reality.
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You see folks? This is what happens when you stop blaming the Joo, and you get the f**k off your favorite bitch corner and start taking action! This is what happens when parents start parenting again! What? You're gonna brainwash our kids with your filth and lies? We don't think so. How would you like an empty school with no kids to "teach" and no pay check to cash? Take back LOCAL CONTROL dammit!
Stop screaming white genocide. Stop chasing Woody Allen all day long. Get off your ass and get involved. Are you a tax payer? Are you a parent? Network with other parents, hit the school board, go to PTA meetings, get on the teachers, get on the administrators, get on the members of your town council. These people work for YOU!
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An animated film designed as a lesson in "racial discourse" for students at a Virginia high school will not be shown after it made students uncomfortable and drew criticism from parents who called it "white guilt." The video was shown at Glen Allen High School in Henrico during two assemblies for Black History Month and depicts several runners on a track, with black runners facing insurmountable obstacles while white runners are unimpeded.
Officials said in a statement Tuesday that the video, "The Unequal Opportunity Race," was a presentation involving "American history and racial discourse." They added, "A segment of the video was one component of a thoughtful discussion in which all viewpoints were encouraged. As always, we are welcoming of feedback from students and their families, and we address concerns directly as they come forward."
Henrico County Superintendent Patrick C. Kinlaw acknowledged Wednesday that the video may not have been the best way to deliver a lesson in "racial discourse." "While we as educators do not object to difficult and constructive conversations about American history and racial discourse past and present, we understand why many people feel this video in particular was not the best way to deliver such an important lesson," Kinlsaw said in the statement.
Don Blake, whose daughter attended the assembly where the video was shown, said Wednesday that someone should be held accountable for the way the video was presented. "They are sitting there watching a video that is dividing them up from a racial standpoint. It's a white guilt video," Blake told WWBT.
Luke Harris, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, which created the video, told The Washington Post that the video was produced for "elementary and secondary schools or in college studies courses." "We found that the video has a huge impact on the people that we're showing it to," said Harris, who is also an associate professor of political science at Vassar College. "Most of us know very little about the social history of the United States and its contemporary impact. It was designed as a tool to throw light on American history."
Administrators across the district have been instructed not to use the video, said school board chairwoman Michelle Ogburn in a statement. She apologized to those who were offended. "In addition, steps are being taken to prevent the use of racially divisive materials in the future," Ogburn said. The video comes four months after a student mistakenly played a song over the public address system before a football game that was a racist parody of the "DuckTales" theme song. SOURCE
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'I have nothing more to say about this situation' - Wenger refuses to discuss Mourinho
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has no interest in reopening a war of words with Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho ahead of Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash at Stamford Bridge.
The rival coaches squared up in the dugout last season during the Blues' 2-0 win and then following Arsenal's victory in the 2015 FA Community Shield at Wembley there was no handshake between the pair.
However, despite the intense media focus on the pair's simmering rivalry, which has included Mourinho once branding the long-serving Arsenal manager a "specialist in failure", Wenger would rather his side's performance on the pitch make the headlines.
He said: "No special relationship (between any manager) is my worry, all I worry about is our performance tomorrow.
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"I respect everybody in the job and focus on what I love and that is football. All the rest honestly does not concern me much.
"Realistically people come to watch football and all the rest is a little bit secondary. What is important is the quality of what we will see tomorrow morning at 12.45 and you want people to focus on that."
Asked if he would shake Mourinho's hand and if he regretted their touchline bust-up, Wenger replied: "I don't want to talk about that. I have nothing more to say about this situation."
Wenger was asked if he felt Chelsea were in decline. He replied: "I don't know, I leave that to the specialists. I take care of my team and my own problems."