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A bridge replacement project will close a thoroughfare for several months just northwest of Lexington, a N.C. Department of Transportation official said.
A bridge replacement project will close a thoroughfare for several months just northwest of Lexington, a N.C. Department of Transportation official said.
DOT crews plan to replace a bridge on U.S. Highway 64 West that runs over Interstate 85 Business Loop near Lexington Barbecue. The bridge will be closed from March until early November, said Dale Swicegood, a DOT engineer for Davidson County.
DOT awarded a bid for the project to D.H. Griffin Construction Company LLC of Raleigh last fall for about $5.9 million.
The new bridge will sit slightly northward of the existing structure and will subsequently straighten the existing crossing, Swicegood said.
The contractor started removing trees and clearing land two weeks ago to start building a field for the new bridge, Swicegood said.
Crews will make some improvements to the ramp leading to I-85 Business Loop South next week. Those improvements will force crews to shut down the ramp from about 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. for several days.
While the southbound on-ramp is closed, drivers intending to travel southbound on I-85 Business Loop will be detoured across the bridge to the West Center Street Extension interchange. They will turn left onto West Center Street Extension, then left again onto Service Road that runs by Lexington Barbecue, where they will be able to access the highway, said Jeremy Guy, assistant DOT engineer for Davidson County.
The bridge will be closed within several days of the finished improvements to the southbound on-ramp, Guy said. While the bridge is closed, a signed detour will take drivers heading east on U.S. 64 onto I-85 Business Loop South, which will eventually take them to an exit for Salisbury Road. Drivers can use the exit to loop around and head northbound, where they will eventually find an exit for U.S. 64 East, Guy said.
Drivers heading west on U.S. 64 can turn right onto West Center Street Extension before reaching the bridge, then left onto Service Road. Drivers can access I-85 Business Loop South by Service Road, then exit off onto Mocksville Road, which turns into U.S. 64.
Crews will have to close both directions of I-85 Business Loop at night for about two days, when the new bridge is actually being set, Swicegood said.
"The whole thing is supposed to be complete by Nov. 8," Swicegood said. "It will probably be open a little prior to that, if everything stays on schedule."
The replacement project is part of the DOT's Bridge Program, which uses both federal and state funds. This particular replacement project is federally funded, according to DOT records.
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One of my favorite parts of teaching US History is when I get to the 1990s. I tell the kids of what life was like in the dark ages before the personal computer boomed. My first personal computer was purchased through the school where I still teach. Out of every paycheck for a year, the school would take out a little money to pay for the computer. I think it was around $1100. I do, however, remember the storage space…2.1 GB. Not much by today's standards – I have flash drives that dwarf that now. But in 1996, 2.1 GB of memory was plenty as long you had a large supply of floppy disks. I sit and think about those days, but it was only sixteen years ago. CD-ROMs were still new but not rewritable. Telephones had been wireless in the home for less than five years. Brick cellphones were somewhat common, dial up internet was the norm, Sega Genesis and Nintendo controlled the gaming industry, and DVDs and texting were still far, far away. Still, to have a computer in your home was a gigantic change in how people lived. As much as television changed the familial structure of American life in the 1950s, the computer would do so in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The story of how the personal computer started begins during World War II. The above picture shows the Colossus Mark I the British developed to crack German codes. Part of Project Ultra, the computer ran on vacuum tubes. Colossus Mark I contained 1500 while Colossus Mark II had 2400. But as far as computing power goes, today's PC have much more. After the war in 1946, the US jumped ahead in the computing industry with ENIAC to be used in the intelligence field.
In the 1950s, things did develop slowly for the computer industry. Main frames filled entire rooms to catalog and store data. Insurance companies and banks were the main entities using the devices. For venture capitalists, television held more of an alluring investment opportunity. Computers were still 20 years away from a major breakthrough.
The 1960s saw the best and brightest minds in computer technology gravitate initially toward the space industry. In fact, today's home computers have more functionality, storage, and processing power than the computers on Apollo XI-XVI. But in 1968, the first major computer related corporation of today was born. Intel, founded in 1968, started in Mountain View, California. One of their first products released in the early 70s changed everything about computing. The microprocessor, the 8080, made computing faster and smaller. Intel thought the chip would be good for only traffic lights and calculators. What the chip did was to shrink functions and storage into minute bits of information. Intel really did not know what to do with it.
In the 1970s, the computer industry was still mainly used by large corporations. Soon, though, the microprocessor did find its way into cash registers and calculators as well as cars and other everyday items. What did change in the 1970s was that people were making their own computers. Some made them from kits like the Altair 8800 by Ed Roberts. Two people who were making their own computers in their garage were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. And it was in garages like theirs that the personal computers that we use today began developing.
In the late 1970s, the boom in home computing took root in central California. Also inspired by Xerox's Alto upright design, Jobs and Wozniak's Apple corporation was a part of a wide release of home computers in 1977. The Commodore PET, the TRS-80 by Radio Shack and the Apple II all debuted. Most early computers were cost prohibitive. When the average salary for Americans in the late 1970s was around 12-14,000/year, the cost of $2,000-3,000 was a large investment. In the late 70s and early 80s, other companies got in on the business including IBM. In 1981, Time Magazine named the PC the Machine of the Year.
In the early 80s, the Commodore 64 and NEC PC-98 dominated the market share. Still, these early home companies could not do much. Storage was limited and most information had to be stored on large floppy disks. What was needed was a computer with programs and storage. Apple launched the Macintosh to world wide acclaim in 1984 but its sales were slow. What made the Macintosh different was the mouse or graphic interface.
IBM began to dominate the field in the 1980s. Wozniak left Apple, and Steve Jobs remained but his power and influence waned in the wake of Macinstosh's slow sales. The personal computers of the 1980s were not really designed for home use, but rather for business. As the 80s began to close, all through out corporate America, computers were commonplace to store information in small places, and software to help run businesses was the primary software designed.
The 1990s saw what seemed like a revolution explode. The revolution, in fact, was the cost of computers going down, usability, and the world wide web browser interface. Bill Gates had envisioned in the 1970s that more money could be made in not making the computers, but in making what ran the computer and what ran on the computers. In 1995, all of his dreams came to fruition with the release of Windows 95. The operating system was based on selecting a program to run. The program popped up a Window, hence the name. But Windows 95 did not happen overnight. As an operating system, it evolved from Windows 3.1 and other earlier versions of Windows. Microsoft, the company of Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Balmer, also produced software to run on the operating system. Windows came to dominate the marketplace. Somewhat of a monopoly, as it lacked serious competition, the company became the poster corporation for the computer boom. It represented all that was good, and all that was bad about the industry.With the release of the '95 system combined with other software, people began buying computers for the home in large numbers. Windows 95 did not revolutionize computing but it was the tipping point in a slow revolution of bringing computing to the home.
The late 90s saw the home computing industry go from boom to bust as start up company after start up failed. From search engines to browsers to manufacturers, millionaires were made and bankrupted in a short period based on speculation. Companies like Gateway, Lycos, Alta-Vista, Compaq, and GeoCities came, ballooned and burst. Some died, but some do remain in a small capacity. When the technology market settled in the early 2000s, Dell had somehow pulled through as did Apple. Just as memory and storage evolved from vacuum tubes to microprocessors, so too have the computers. Everything is getting smaller. Desktop computers gave way to netbooks, laptops, PDAs, tablets, and now phones have the Internet. When will it end?
What the computer has done in the home is nothing short of drastic. It has changed how we communicate and access information. More information is now spread by email and texting than by regular mail. The handwritten note is a dying relic. A card in the mailbox does not happen as often as it used to, and social networks have created a world on interconnectedness. Family life has more to do with what it posted on facebook as much as what is on TV and in real life. The personal computer has changed how we read, how we access information. The PC has practically killed the publishing and newspaper industry as we knew them in addition to regular mail. Games now come in a little box and a round thing with a hole in it that you load onto the computer. Or you can just go online and play. Soon, I imagine very soon, the TV will basically be one giant computer and act as a television, phone, Internet, and computer, all in one. One day in the near future, we will look back at the 1980s, and even the 2010s, and laugh at our awkwardness as those who bought cars made fun of those who rode horses 100 years ago. We will be mocked for the lack of speed with which we computed. Bill Gates envisioned the following future in the mid 1990s. He wasn't far off.
Well, the PC will continue to evolve. In fact, you'll think of it simply as a flat screen that will range from a wallet size device to a notebook, to a desktop, to a wall. And besides the size of the screen, the only other characteristic will be whether it is wired to an optic fiber or operating over a wireless connection. And those computers will be everywhere. You can find other people who have things that are in common. You can post messages. You can watch shows. The flexibility that this will provide is really quite incredible. And already there is the mania in discussing this so called "Information Highway" which is the idea of connecting up these devices not only in business, but in home, and making sure that video feeds work very well across these new networks. So we've only come a small way. We haven't changed the way that markets are organized. We haven't changed the way people educate themselves, or socialize, or express their political opinions, in nearly the way that we will over the next ten years. And so the software is going to have to lead the way and provide the kind of ease of use, security, and richness that those applications demand.
While some of us still marvel at the speed of it all, it was not long when information took days to travel and now it is pretty much instantaneous. We become angered when it doesn't work, or the broadband can't download as fast as we want. Most Americans have no inkling of how it all works, but it is quite wonderful what it can do. As Louis CK says, "Give it a second." I tend to forget the dark ages before the PC. Some days, I still like to ride the horse, lest I forget a simpler life.


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Logic Puzzle
Jared Lee Loughner's philosophy professor reflects on the shooting in Arizona.
The videos posted by Jared Lee Loughner on YouTube at first appear to be a jumble of disjointed thoughts. He claims to be a "conscience dreamer" concerned with "English grammar structure" and "mind control" who wants to see the United States return to the gold standard. Yet Loughner expressed these wild ideas in an organized form: the logical syllogism.
A syllogism is a form of argument in which a conclusion is inferred from a set of premises. "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Socrates is mortal," goes the famous Greek inference. In one video, Loughner offers syllogisms of his own, including: "If A.D.E. is endless in year, then the years in A.D.E. don't cease. A.D.E. is endless in year. Therefore, the years in A.D.E. don't cease."
"Yeah, that's him," says Kent Slinker, when I read him some of Loughner's syllogisms over the phone. "That kind of nonsensical, disconnected thinking." Slinker, an adjunct philosophy professor at Pima Community College, taught Loughner in Introduction to Logic during the spring semester of 2010. Slinker's impression of Loughner was that of "someone whose brains were scrambled."
Loughner was a model student when it came to attendance—he always showed up on time to the twice-a-week class, at least before he dropped out toward the end of the semester. But in other respects, he was a mess. He didn't perform well on tests. He would ask questions that didn't make any sense. "His thoughts were unrelated to anything in our world," says Slinker. One time, he handed in an assignment with geometric doodles instead of answers. Slinker also remembers that Loughner would have "exaggerated 'Aha!' moments just completely not connected to anything in class." He was mentally checked-out. "He always was looking away, not out the window, but like someone watching a scene play out in his mind."
Starting about halfway through the semester, Slinker says, he tried repeatedly to talk to Loughner one-on-one. "I wrote [on his test] saying, Please talk to me after class so we can discuss your performance and explore alternative assignments," says Slinker. But at the end of class, Loughner would cast his eyes down and run out the door.
Eventually, Slinker and the chair of the philosophy department, David Bishop, who taught Loughner in a different philosophy class at the same time, discussed ways to get help for Loughner. But for the school to give a student special treatment, the student has to "self-identify" as having problems, says Slinker: "If we could get him to go to a testing center, then we could help him." But they were never able to engage him enough to raise the subject.
In retrospect, there were no conventional warning signs, says Slinker: "I never sensed violence from him." Asked whether Loughner ever brought up politics, Slinker says "never." The class didn't talk about current affairs. That said, Slinker did point students to political ads for examples of logical fallacies.
Slinker heard about the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday while reading the Arizona Daily Star online. The news was especially shocking, considering that Slinker had also taught Spencer Giffords, Gabrielle's father, in a philosophy class in the summer of 2009.
Slinker hit it off with the elder Giffords, who had handed the family tire company over to his daughter, so much so that Giffords invited Slinker to his 75th birthday party, where Slinker briefly met Gabrielle. "She was full of energy, full of life, always with a smile, very sincere," Slinker remembers. As for Giffords Sr., says Slinker, "It was like, this is my long-lost friend and we've been separated by so many years." Giffords gave Slinker a picture of his daughter with her husband and President Obama.
The odd thing about Loughner's syllogisms is that they're not far off from examples Slinker might use in class. "When you teach logic, you draw a distinction between truth and inference," says Slinker. To illustrate that, a teacher might say, "If chickens could fly upside down, then George W. Bush would be president in 2098." The statement isn't true. It just serves as a premise from which to draw conclusions. The purpose, says Slinker, is "to show it's the form of the argument rather than the content that's the expression of validity." But that only works when talking in the abstract. In real-world logic, premises matter. "If the premises aren't true," says Slinker, "all bets are off."


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The National Rifle Association is using a Justice Department memo it obtained to argue in ads that the Obama administration thinks its gun control plans won't work unless the government seizes firearms and requires national gun registration — ideas the White House has not proposed and does not support.
WASHINGTON | The National Rifle Association is using a Justice Department memo it obtained to argue in ads that the Obama administration thinks its gun control plans won't work unless the government seizes firearms and requires national gun registration — ideas the White House has not proposed and does not support.
The NRA's assertion and its obtaining of the memo in the first place underscore the no-holds-barred battle under way as Washington's fight over gun restrictions heats up.
The memo, under the name of one of the Justice Department's leading crime researchers, critiques the effectiveness of gun control proposals, including some of President Barack Obama's. A Justice Department official called the memo an unfinished review of gun violence research and said it does not represent administration policy.
The memo says requiring background checks for more gun purchases could help, but also could lead to more illicit weapons sales. It says banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines produced in the future but exempting those already owned by the public, as Obama has proposed, would have limited impact because people now own so many of those items.
It also says that even total elimination of assault weapons would have little overall effect on gun killings because assault weapons account for a limited proportion of those crimes.
The nine-page document says the success of universal background checks would depend in part on "requiring gun registration," and says gun buybacks would not be effective "unless massive and coupled with a ban."
The administration has not proposed gun registration, buybacks or banning all firearms.
Justice Department and White House officials declined to provide much information about the memo or answer questions about it on the record.
The memo has the look of a preliminary document and calls itself "a cursory summary" and assessment of gun curb initiatives. The administration has not release it officially.
But the NRA has posted the memo on one of its websites and cites it in advertising aimed at whipping up opposition to Obama's efforts to contain gun violence. The ad says the paper shows that the administration "believes that a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation" and thinks universal background checks "won't work without requiring national gun registration" — ideas the president has not proposed or expressed support for.
"Still think President Obama's proposals sound reasonable?" Chris W. Cox, the NRA's chief Washington lobbyist, says in the ad.
Last month, White House spokesman Jay Carney said none of Obama's proposals "would take away a gun from a single law-abiding American." Other administration officials have said their plans would not result in gun seizures or a national gun registry.
A Justice Department official who would only discuss the issue on condition of anonymity said the NRA ad misrepresents Obama's gun proposals and that the administration has never backed a gun registry or gun confiscation.
While the memo's analysis of gun curb proposals presents no new findings, it is unusual for a federal agency document to surface that raises questions about a president's plans during debate on a high-profile issue such as restricting firearms.
Obama wants to ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines exceeding 10 rounds that are produced in the future. He wants universal background checks for nearly all gun purchases. Today, checks are only mandatory on sales by federally licensed gun dealers, not transactions at gun shows or other private sales.


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VANCOUVER, BC – Sometimes in soccer, you don't know whether to cheer or cringe.
For Vancouver Whitecaps FC, there was certainly that feeling this weekend in a 2-2 draw with Chivas USA.
Under normal circumstances, coming down from two goals to claim a draw is cause for celebration, but given the timing and the context – Vancouver are in the midst of a tight Western Conference playoff race and Chivas USA are the conference's worst side – many in the camp expressed a difficulty at knowing how to interpret the result.
For those watching rookie winger Erik Hurtado this season, that confusion might similarly be there. Blessed with speed and strength many players would envy, the player has looked so promising at times has struggled at others.
Hurtado and Heinemann combine for 'Caps equalizer
The player's 34-minute substitute appearance this weekend was perhaps reflective of his season as a whole. First, he missed a glorious stoppage time chance that would have leveled the match, but moments later he coolly headed across goal to set Tommy Heinemann up for what would ultimately turn out to be the game-tying goal.
"He did a couple of great things and a couple of things he could have done better," head coach Martin Rennie said after a training session at the University of British Columbia on Tuesday. "But one of those things resulted in us scoring a goal, so that was a very positive thing.
"At the same time, he had a couple of other chances and he had opportunities to play other passes and things like that, and that's just the fact he's a young player."
Rennie compared Hurtado's performance over the weekend to that of his fellow rookie Kekuta Manneh. Both players displayed moments of rookie naivete but ended up each playing a part on Heinemann's goal, as it was Manneh who found Hurtado with a cross before the Oregon native headed across goal for the assist.
But a few moments of pulling out the hair will pay dividends in time, according to the club's coach.
"We're trying to get young players in the lineup because we think that those guys will be key players for us for years to come," Rennie said. "But it does mean sometimes they'll make mistakes and sometimes they'll cost us goals and we just have to help them learn quickly."
As for the player himself, he's commented at times earlier this season that the transition to the professional ranks from college play hasn't gone as smoothly as he had hoped, and hopes perhaps finishing his next big chance in league play leads to something more.
"I really think that first goal I get is going to open the floodgates," Hurtado said. "I'm going to start scoring after that. But right now I just have to do what the team needs. If that's coming off the bench, if that's getting assists, if that's scoring goals, that's what it is. I'm just here to help the team out."
With right-sided winger Russell Teibert set to link up the with the Canadian national team, an attacking spot is vacant for this weekend's match against FC Dallas, and Hurtado hopes to benefit.
"We've got a few people who can come in and play," Rennie said of that right-sided spot. "Erik came in for [Teibert] on the weekend and did a very good job. Created chances and also defended well, so we're in a good position to have a few choices there."
Martin MacMahon covers Vancouver Whitecaps FC for MLSsoccer.com.


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Baked parrot fish
Ingredients for 4 people: 4 parrot fish of 400 g 1 chopped tomato 1 small courgette cut into julienne strips 5 cloves of garlic ½ dl of olive oil A few sprigs of coriander Black pepper salt
Clean and halve the parrot fish, without removing the scales. Place the parrot fish in an oven dish, drizzle with half the oil and a little salt. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200º C for 10 minutes. Crush the garlic in the mortar, with the coriander and the pepper. Gently fry the tomato, courgette and the crushed seasoning in the remaining oil. Spread the sauce on the fish. Bake the fish in the oven for a further 15 minutes and serve.
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I know some in our profession love to debate about whether or not spinal curvatures change as a result of our chiropractic adjustment, but I have a question that hits a little more close to the belt than that: Are chiropractors capable of change? I am not speaking of physical change or spinal remodeling; I am speaking of change in the fundamental way we do business as chiropractors. In other words, can we change our revenue model?
Simple economics tell you that if the price of your service is decreasing, the frequency of which it is consumed is decreasing and the cost to deliver that service is increasing, then you have an impending disaster in the works. Thus, our revenue model must change or we will soon face near-total extinction of our profits.
A Viable Solution – and Where It Often Goes Wrong
Although the concept of change is simple, the actual mechanics of what we must do becomes a bit more complicated when we take into account that: (a) We've always done it this way. (b) Most people don't like change. (c) The future of health care is uncertain. In light of these challenges, there is still one viable solution: We must re-engineer our businesses to focus more on strategy and less on tactics.
Unfortunately, the biggest obstacle to this solution is the fact that most chiropractors go about this completely backward. Here's what I mean: Too many of our businesses are driven by opportunity-seeking tactics. We hear about the latest rage in chiropractic (decompression, laser, nasal irrigation – whatever) and we hop right on the bandwagon and hope to ride the profit wave. But there are two fundamental flaws to this approach:
- This causes our practice to be driven by our sales, not our strategy. So, when the inevitable happens and things don't quite work as we hoped, we are off to the next opportunity, dragging our practice (and our staff) 180 degrees in a different direction in its pursuit. Even if our tactics do work temporarily, we don't know how to manage sustained growth because there is no real strategy at the core. We end up just slapping on one tactical patch after another until our practice is a rag-tag mess of a business whose revenues ride like a roller-coaster.
- To survive, a tactical-driven business must stay ahead of the curve. Success is possible for tactical businesses, but you must be an early adopter. If you happen to be one of the first chiropractors to introduce a new technique, try a new marketing scheme or have some sort of new gadget, and can figure out how to promote it, things will be good. Unfortunately, this creates chiropractors who are constantly on the prowl for the "next big thing" because, by design, you must be the early bird to get that worm. And since obviously not everything new works so well, the tactical DC will inevitably drop some good ideas in favor of some newer, but less effective ones.
Even worse, this cycle must continue. The practice must constantly strive to find the newest angle because it lacks a fundamental strategy and therefore, has no cohesive approach to anything and instead gambles its success on whatever novel idea the "wave" of opportunity brings.
Perhaps worst of all, the tactical DC is generally not a good colleague to have next door. They are hyper-competitive by nature because their business rests on tactics – and tactics generally lose their effectiveness over time or with overutilization (because eventually they are no longer shiny new objects).
What We Must Do in 2013 and Beyond
So, we must re-engineer our businesses towards strategy to succeed in 2013 and beyond. Our revenue model must change. Put another way, the "old school" style of chiropractic ain't going to work much longer. This will be true (and already is in some aspects) in every sense of our business. Marketing will change, reimbursement will change and the delivery of our care will change. And to adapt to that change, we don't need more tactics, but better strategy.
Our strategy will need to address fundamental business problems mentioned above – e.g., declining reimbursements, decreasing utilization, increasing overhead. Then, our strategic response to those challenges should include tactics that address those obstacles; not the other way around.
Think Strategy First
Here's why strategy must come first: Let's say we find a new Internet marketing tool (a tactic) designed to attract new patients, and we put it to use. Now, truth be told, we don't quite know if new patients are the answer to our problem, but since our tactic is so new and attractive, we put it to use anyway. (Sound familiar?)
The tactic apparently works well and new patients come in the door. But we notice there are a few things wrong with these new patients. The possible problems could be many:
You attract a bunch of bargain-hunting cash patients, but you are trying to increase your high-end decompression cases. Patients go away eventually because they found the "wrong" chiropractor.
You attract many patients who have ABC insurance and you're not even on ABC insurance plan, which means your patients have to pay a higher co-pay. They go away eventually because they found the "wrong" chiropractor.
You attract many new patients and are unable to handle the growth. Your older patients who have been around awhile begin to leave; the newer ones stay, but they are less profitable, more work and don't heed your recommendations as well as the older patients who left.
Where did your new tactic get you? In all three cases, absolutely nowhere; possibly, you are even worse off than you started. This is why strategy must come first. Without a strategic plan, you don't have the ability to recognize what is a good opportunity and what you should pass up. Instead, you constantly run around, putting out one fire after another in hopes that someday, you will get ahead (but you get a sinking feeling that day will never come).
What Is the Strategic Plan You Need?
Honestly, I don't know what type of strategy will work best – for you. For some chiropractors, your strategic plan may include the need to enhance what you are doing currently to take your practice to the "next level." This may include tactics such as adding significant additional revenue streams (by significant, I mean ones that can generate add least five digits. Quite frankly, most offices don't sell enough pain-relieving gels, back supports and the like to call this income significant) to help their clinics grow; some will need these streams to survive.
For others, you need to re-evaluate what you are offering currently and re-engineer your business. Your actions may include taking a focused, systematic approach to making sure that you are being paid for the good that you do. For some, that may be as simple as actually billing for the services that are rendered instead of giving them away free. Others may need to discover that you have reimbursable services you are currently performing, but not being paid for.
Finally, some of you may discover your practice is so completely lacking any strategy of any sort, that you may just need (or want) to blow things up and start again. You will need to reinvent yourself and your practice in order to survive. Then you will be better positioned for future growth and profits.
One Size Doesn't Fit All, But…
As you can see, with the strategic approach one size definitely doesn't fit all. Inherently, most of you can see through the shallowness of such claims anyway. The good news is that you only need one size – yours! In other words, the approach that works best will be a combination of your style, your experience, your goals and your systems formed into a cohesive strategy that allows you to uniquely bring your service to the marketplace.
Once you've avoided the typical tactical shotgun approach to chiropractic and mastered the strategic approach to business instead, you'll drastically reduce competition, inherently create excitement and demand around your passions, and inevitably feel that you are doing much more of what you were put on this planet to do – and profit from it personally, financially and professionally.
For a complimentary copy of "24 Strategic Questions" to ask yourself to help assess your practice needs, e-mail the author at , letting him know you read this article in Dynamic Chiropractic.
Dr. Tom Necela maintains a private practice in Washington state. He is also the founder of The Strategic Chiropractor, a consulting firm for chiropractors. Dr. Necela can be contacted with questions or comments via his Web site, www.strategicdc.com.


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Shoulder Dystocia
Dystocia is a term used to describe the difficult delivery of a baby. In shoulder dystocia, the baby's head can be delivered, but the shoulders cannot pass through the birth canal. The shoulders are too wide to fit and become lodged behind the mother's pubic bone or the opening of the birth canal.
Typically, babies born with shoulder dystocia do not suffer long-term complications. If complications do occur, they are usually because the baby has become stuck too long in the birth canal.
Complications include:
For the baby:
- Lack of oxygen
- Broken arm or collarbone
- Arm nerve damage
- Paralysis
For the mother:
- Tearing or bruising of the cervix, rectum, or vagina
- Bruising to the bladder
- Hemorrhaging
|Shoulder Dystocia
|The baby's shoulder is lodged behind the mother's pubic bone.
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There are a variety of reasons why a baby's shoulders may become lodged during delivery. The most common reasons include:
- Delivering large babies with unusually high birth weights. This is is most often caused by diabetes or mothers who are overweight.
- Mother's pelvic opening being too small to allow the baby's shoulders to fit
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Shoulder dystocia cannot be diagnosed until it occurs during delivery. It can sometimes be predicted by determining the weight and size of the fetus and the structure of the mother's pelvis. This information can help determine whether a vaginal delivery is safe for the mother and baby. An ultrasound may be done prior to labor to determine if the baby is too large to fit safely through the birth canal during delivery.
After shoulder dystocia is diagnosed, the doctor will go through a series of maneuvers to attempt to dislodge the baby's shoulder and allow for a vaginal delivery. Options include:
- Manipulated vaginal delivery—There are a variety of maneuvers that the doctor can do to help the mother deliver the baby vaginally.
- Cesarean section (C-section)—If the maneuvers do not work, the baby will need to be delivered via an emergency C-section. For babies who are at risk of shoulder dystocia because of their large size, a C-section may be scheduled.
Shoulder dystocia cannot be prevented. Babies who are at risk of shoulder dystocia because of large size can be evaluated prior to delivery with regular prenatal care and ultrasound testing. Women with diabetes or who are very overweight should have the size of their babies estimated. Women with pregnancies complicated by a large fetus are at risk for shoulder dystocia and should be counseled about the option of delivery by C-section.
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
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Naperville trader stitches up a side business using mom's talent
Brian Pawl of Naperville is a trader of municipal bonds, working full-time in the financial world. But on the side, he co-owns and operates a custom quilting company called Quilted Memories.
After all, his partner is his mother, Diane Pawl of Elk Grove Village.
"It's been a good experience," Brian Pawl said. "My mom has never owned a business before, but we knew this was a good thing because we all saw what she was capable of doing with quilts."
The young entrepreneur is working on the finances and operations of the online business, while Diane focuses on making custom-designed quilts made from T-shirts or other material that has special meaning to customers. The website launched last August.
Brian recalls a quilt she did for him using his old Elk Grove High School basketball, baseball and football T-shirts. She also made other school-related quilts for other people. Another one is hanging in the lobby of the Susan G. Komen Chicago Center.
It wasn't until Diane did a quilt for Brian's fiance, using the woman's tennis T-shirts from Augustana College, that the future in-laws encouraged the business.
"She's also working on another quilt that includes drawings from a woman's daughter when she was in elementary school," Brian said.
Quarter century of glamour
Kimberly Cavish and Tabitha Anderson owners of the new Kysse Hair and Face Studio in Geneva have about 25 years of experience in the industry. Over that time, they have worked consistently behind the salon chair but also have been actively involved by working onstage, in competitions, and behind the scenes at major fashion events in the Chicago region.
Milestone at Mortenson
Greg Werner, vice-president and general manager, said Mortenson Construction's office in Elk Grove Village has not had a single job-related illness or injury in more than two years and more than 300,000 worker hours. This injury-free record is six times longer than the industry average, which is one OSHA recordable incident for every 50,000 hours, according to 2010 Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Promotions at state chamber
Batavia resident Doug Whitley, president and CEO of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, has promoted Todd Maisch and Candace Gerritsen on his staff. Maisch will be executive vice president, responsible for government affairs and policy councils. He'll also oversee the Business Services Division and the Membership and Marketing Department, along with other roles. Gerritsen will be chief operating officer, responsible for the finance and operations of the chamber along with personnel, facilities, contracts, information technology, financial reporting, legal issues, website management and assistance for the board of directors.
Barrington resident Anne Pramaggiore, ComEd president and CEO, is expected to be on hand Wednesday for the grand opening of the company's new training and education facility in Rockford.
John W. Vires has been named chief investment officer of Trust Company of Illinois in Downers Grove. He's a partner of TCI and the Wheaton city treasurer. He assumed CIO duties from TCI founder and Managing Director Douglas G. Eyles. ... James Richter, a CPA, is the new accounting services manager at Weltman Bernfield LLC in Buffalo Grove. ... Anne Hazen, who most recently worked for Real Living Properties, has joined Centuray 21 Kreuser & Seiler in Libertyville. ... Scott Duenser has been named partner and Shannon Bachara, both CPAs, has been promoted to principal. at Klein Hall & Associates in Aurora.
Jack Siegmeier, a 30-year member of the Antioch-based State Bank of the Lakes board of directors, has retired and was feted at a dinner party at The Club at Strawberry Creek in Kenosha, Wis. Siegmeier, known by many in the Antioch area-as the previous owner of Four Squires Clothing store in Antioch, will enjoy his retirement with his wife, Sandi, at their home in Michigan.
Joe Rathman, general manager of Jet's Pizza of Arlington Heights, said that on Jan. 26, the store will give away free slices of its signature deep dish pizza (one per person) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also, the first 50 people will receive a free Jet's Pizza T-shirt. ... Ron and Karen Hanik own A + Pet Massage and Swimming in Wood Dale. While Ron does both pet and human massage, his wife Karen is embarking on a new career as a model.
Robert Iger, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Co. will be the keynoter at the Executives' Club's luncheon on April 18 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel in Schaumburg. ... Michael F. Molnar, director of Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, and chief manufacturing officer of the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce, will be the keynote speaker on Oct. 30 at the Rosemont Convention Center in Rosemont.
Joan Walker, executive vice president of corporate relations at Northbrook-based Allstate Corp., will retire after seven years. Since joining Allstate in 2005, Walker has been a member of the company's senior leadership team and served as Allstate's chief communication officer and as interim chief marketing officer. ... Curtis L. Stowers is the new planner at Sebold Capital Management, a wealth management firm in Naperville. Stowers responsibilities include fostering client relationships, developing and implementing client plans, and providing support to ensure our clients' success. ... Greg Schlafer will join ConAgra Foods Inc., which has operations in Naperville, on Feb. 25 as president of its Lamb Weston frozen potato business.
Arlington Heights resident Christopher M. Franz, a CPA, became a partner in Legacy Professionals LLP. ... Patrick McGee of Joliet has been named field supervisor/color specialist at Des Plaines Office Equipment and will be operating from the company's Elk Grove Village location.
Anthony "T.J." Pollack, the director of aquatics at KeyLime Cove in Gurnee, has earned the Department-Division Head Employee of the Year by the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association's state "Stars of the Industry" awards. ... David Weissner was named Midwest Market Business Leader for Mercer's Retirement business. Based in Chicago, Weissner takes over from Louis Gagnon, who had been serving in an interim capacity and will return as global and U.S. head of retirement sales.
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Ever since she was a young child, Christina Meyer knew she would grow up to work in the medical field.
Exactly where she fit wasn't always so apparent.
"I changed my mind several times," she said.
When she landed early acceptance in a physician assistant program in Savannah, GA, she knew she was in the right place.
Meyer grew up in Kearney, graduating from high school in 2000. She met her husband Zach, originally from Curtis, while the two were students at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Zach was a Marine and when he received an assignment at Camp Pendleton in southern California, Meyer put her undergraduate degree on hold to follow him.
After moving with the military a few times, Meyer found herself in Georgia, where she earned early acceptance into the South University physician assistant program, graduating in 2008 with a bachelor of science degree.
"I wanted to finish schooling before we settled down and started a family," Meyer said.
Their daughter Madison is 8 months old and Meyer is five months into her first PA position.
"Family medicine gives me a broad range of patients," Meyer said. "I like building relationships with patients and I appreciate being part of their care."
There is a limited number of duties a physician assistant cannot perform, including surgery.
"Basically, I see my own patients, make my own diagnosis and write my own prescriptions," she said. "I just have to have an over-riding physician."
Meyer works with Dr. Craig Bartruff at Gothenburg Medical Arts. She sees patients
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Japan, the world's biggest consumer of beef products, may be close to lifting that nation's year-long ban on imported cattle from the United States.
Last month, according to Associated Press reports, a Japanese government panel of advisors recommended that Japan open limited trade with U.S., and specifically grade A40 beef. That grade derives from cattle aged between 12 and 17 months.
It has been more than one year since a cow, born in Canada, was detected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known as mad cow's disease, in Washington State – spurring the Japanese blockade, along, temporarily, with other nations. About three months ago, Japan seemed receptive to a pledge by USDA officials to more vigorously inspect for the disease.
But, it's no guarantee that Japan's legislators will accept the recommendation: Critics' worries about importing contaminated beef remain vocal – especially following a Japanese man whose recent, long-suffering death was determined to be caused from eating tainted beef in England in 1989.
Since BSE was initially found in Japan in 2001, 15 animals have been found to have the disease. But, no human cases of the disease caused from eating meat in Japan have been recorded, and Japanese officials partially attribute it to efforts to screen every slaughtered cow slated for the nation's food supply.
The possibility that Japan may lift its ban could not come fast enough for the U.S. beef industry, which has been shut out of what was an annual $1.7 billion in beef sales to Japan prior to the ban. Last week, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association raised the political stakes, publicly suggesting that, unless Japan reopened beef trade, the U.S. government should pursue imposing its own economic sanctions against Japan.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, members of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to review the guidelines recently established by U.S. officials for importing Canadian cattle.
Last month, the USDA delayed adoption of a recently devised set of regulations for regions that minimize the risk of introducing BSE into the United States, and placed Canada in the "minimal-risk category" because of that country's risk-mitigation measures.
"According to the World Organization for Animal Health guidelines, a country may be considered a BSE minimal risk country if it has less than two cases per million cattle over 24 months of age during each of the previous four consecutive year," said Ron De Haven, administrator, U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services. "Considering Canada has roughly 5.5 million cattle over 24 months of age, under OIE (Office International des Epizooties) guidelines, they could detect up to 11 cases of BSE in this population and still be considered a minimal risk country, as long as their risk mitigation measures and other preventative measures were effective."
USDA Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has requested that U.S. officials, however, expedite consideration of part of the plan (originally scheduled to go into effect beginning March 7) that permits imports of animals 30 months and older for slaughter, in addition to beef from over 30-month animals as the "next step" in trade with Canada.
"We remain very confident that the combination of the rules' requirements, in addition to the animal and public health measurements that Canada has in place to prevent the spread of BSE, along with the extensive U.S. regulatory food-safety and animal-health systems, provide the protection to U.S. consumers and livestock," Johanns said.
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CONCORD, NH (WMUR/CNN) – When a New Hampshire waitress overheard two of her customers saying they were furloughed soldiers, she decided to help out.
It was a typical Wednesday afternoon shift for Sarah Hoidahl at the Ruby Tuesday in Concord, NH when two service members came in for lunch and sat in her section.
"They were looking through the menu and trying to decide what to get, and she had mentioned something about the furlough and said 'we're not getting paid,' and I thought, oh jeez," said Hoidahl.
Hoidahl, a single mother of a 15-month-old boy says she knows how difficult it can be to make ends meet.
"Just thinking to myself 'that must be really difficult just because the income stops, it doesn't mean the bills do,'" said Hoidahl.
She decided to pick up their tab, and added a note on the back of their check expressing her gratitude for their service.
"I was just thinking to myself and I thought, you know what, I'm going to buy their food today," said Hoidahl. "It's good karma – do something nice for someone else."
She says the reaction she got from the National Guard members was more than she expected.
"I came out, and they were out front waiting for me and just, instantly, came up to me and said 'Sarah' and they hugged me," Hoidahl said. "Their reaction was, worth everything – I thought I didn't do this huge thing – I just bought you lunch but thank you!"
News of the kind gesture quickly spread online. The New Hampshire National Guard posted a picture of Sarah and a copy of her note on their Facebook page. Hoidahl says the response she's received was overwhelming.
"I think the most moving thing I saw on Facebook was people saying there should be more people like me in the world," Hoidahl said. "That really got to me."
Hoidahl says she has friends who have served in the military and her boyfriend is a Marine. She admires what they do for us, and says this was the least she could do for them.
"I mean, they protect this country and the protect citizens like me, so, a nice thing to do," said Hoidahl.
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In Decision Time, Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20+ years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Read the scenario, head to the forum and post what choice you would have made. Then see how things actually turned out.
The second Mike Miller stopped the truck, a distant gobble rang out. We were in business.
"He's in the wide open," Miller said. "We're gonna have to crawl to get into position."
So we did. Miller led the way across the Missouri countryside, while friend Roger Hook and I followed closely behind.
After 200 yards, we were at a fence line about 80 steps of the hard-gobbling turkey. However, there was nothing but a CRP field between us and the gobbler.
"We'll have to try him here," Miller said.
Miller, Hook and I started calling, but the bird wouldn't budge. Then we poured the coals to our yelping. The bird stayed put.
Finally, we shut up for 20 minutes. Still, the bird held fast, gobbling all the while.
Searching desperately for solutions, I spied a small knoll along the fence line to our left. If we could bridge the gap, we might be in better position to work the turkey. However, the bird would only have to take a few steps forward to bust us in the open field.
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Daughter proves an asset at Brown stop in ManchesterBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 22. 2014 8:35PM
MANCHESTER - Scott Brown's latest venture toward a potential return to the U.S. Senate took him to one of New Hampshire's most frequent campaign stops, where he was happy to be overshadowed briefly by his daughter.
Ayla Brown is a singer who already has a following in New Hampshire, something her father is trying to build after announcing last week the formation of an exploratory committee and meet-and-greet tour through the Granite State.
That tour included breakfast Saturday at the Red Arrow Diner, where an employee had told a reporter last week she was more interested finding out what's new with Ayla's career than with that of her father - the man elected in 2010 to succeed the late Ted Kennedy representing Massachusetts in the Senate.
Elaine Boule's lighthearted remark led to one of the more unusual political stops at the old diner on Lowell Street, where photos of politicians and celebrities line the walls. Brown, his wife, Gail Huff, and Ayla sat at the counter for some breakfast, introductions and a few laughs on Saturday.
"It's your fault, Elaine," Scott Brown joked through a crowd of photographers and a few reporters in the narrow confines near the entrance.
Boule still remembers Ayla from when she was a teenager competing on "American Idol" in 2006, reaching the final group of 16. She has come a long way since, making her Grand Ol' Opry debut last May."I was honored," Ayla said. "It was really fun meeting her and knowing that she was a fan of my music and of me back on the show."
Ayla gave Boule a copy of her latest CD and posed for photos. Scott Brown, who chatted with a few diners, shook some hands and also posed for cellphone pictures, gave Boule a copy of his book, a biography titled "Against All Odds."
"She brought me her CD and he brought me a book and said, 'Read the book and maybe that will help sway you a little bit,'" Boule said.
Boule said she planned to read it, then would consider her views on the upcoming Senate race.
Meanwhile, the Browns headed off for another scheduled stop Saturday. A year ago, he said, he wouldn't have really considered another run for the Senate so soon after his loss to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election.
"I've stepped back and had an opportunity to really see what's going on and how dysfunctional Washington is and how they're not doing the people's business. They're just ramming stuff through and they're not talking and they're completely disregarding everyday people's concerns," he said.
"Everything that's happening is just crushing the middle class and crushing businesses. You need to get involved; stop complaining and get involved. That's what Gail told me."
Brown's only official involvement is the formation of the committee, which was welcomed by New Hampshire Republicans hoping he would run and possibly unseat Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in November.
He has yet to declare whether he'll enter the race, and he would need to get through the GOP primary. Brown recently moved from Massachusetts to his former vacation home in Rye, establishing residency in New Hampshire.
On Saturday, Brown said he was happy to have one of his daughters along as the family recalled her time in the spotlight eight years ago, when Ayla was wowing viewers nationwide and her father was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.
Boule also remembered 2006 and remains disappointed with the "Idol'' outcome.
"She should have won," Boule said.


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Hunting for hops along the state's new craft beer trail, travelers can discover not just unique drinks, but food, fun and creative use of local agriculture.
This week the state is officially rolling out its craft brew trail and passports adventurous people can use to discover the many and varied breweries in the state.
On the passport there are 60 breweries as well as several others recommended but not part of the beer trail. In Central Massachusetts, beer lovers can visit the Wormtown Brewery in Worcester, Rapscallion Brewery and Taproom in Sturbridge, Wachusett Brewery in Westminster, the Gardner Ale House in Gardner, Kretschmann Brewing Co. in Webster and three breweries in Framingham, Framingham Beer Works, Jack's Abby Brewing and John Harvard's Brew House. Not on the brewery trail, but recommended by the state, is Spencer Trappist Ales in Spencer.
There are also many other breweries on the trail, in five other regions.
The craft brew trail is not just a list of breweries, but a challenge. If you complete one region and have your passport stamped, you get a "Drink Local" T-shirt. The state is planning events in all the regions today, including at Wormtown Brewery, 455 Park Ave., Worcester. Wormtown will host an event to roll out the craft beer trail from 3 to 5 p.m. at its brewery and Peppercorns Restaurant, which is adjacent to the brewery and features Wormtown beer.
Greg Watson, state commissioner of the state Department of Agricultural Resources, said the state is always looking for uses for its agricultural products. In 2009 discussion began about what products could be used in the state's then relatively small but growing brewing community. The state, along with the Vermont Department of Agricultural Resources, sought grants from the federal government to look at the potential for growing and using products for beer making.
The result has been a growing number of breweries using Massachusetts-grown products.
Ben Roesch, brewer and partner in Wormtown Brewery, said the company uses at least one locally grown product in every beer it makes. The company buys hops from Northfield, malt from Valley Malt in Hadley, honey from Sutton and blueberries from Mendon.
Wormtown is in transition. Although the party for the craft beer trail rollout will be at its location, by the end of the summer they hope to be in a new brewery on Shrewsbury Street near Volturno Restaurant. The current location is so small the person at the end of the line of the bottling process has to stand outside. The new brewery will provide many times the capacity, a tasting room and retail store.
"The cooler alone is the same square feet as our current brewery," said David Fields, Mr. Roesch's business partner.
Mr. Roesch said the brewery does not offer food, preferring to focus on beer. They sell their beer throughout Worcester County.
Each brewery offers a different product and business model. Wormtown sells bottled and canned beer and hopes to expand on that. The Gardner Ale House is a brew pub, one of the few in Central Massachusetts. It offers a full restaurant menu and nine or 10 of its own beers on tap, with many visiting beers, often from other craft breweries.
Rick Walton and Dave Richardson, the Ale House brewer, were home brewers together when they decided to open the business.
Sitting at a table on the Ale House's newly opened back porch, Mr. Walton said when visitors on the craft beer trail find their way to Gardner, he wants them to discover an oasis.
"For miles around there is nothing like it," he said.
Mr. Walton said he wants people to see the business as "the third place" — not work, not home, but a third place they can go to and feel comfortable.
"Part of what makes it a good destination for the beer trail is you can come here, have a meal and hear music four out of seven days," added Mr. Richardson.
The porch is the latest addition to the business, where new beers are regularly rolled out, some based on European recipes.
Mr. Walton said a plan for the near future is to put a sampling room in the basement of the building with the brewery and all for expansion of brewery tours and tasting by visitors.
The Wachusett Brewery is the largest brewery in Central Massachusetts. Created 20 years ago by three WPI graduates, Ned LaFortune, Peter Quinn and Kevin Buckler, it is now owned by Mr LaFortune alone.
Wayne Ronn, who manages the brewery's store, said Wachusett beer is now sold throughout New England, and locally people can stop in and buy from the store, take a brewery tour or try samples in the sample room. There is also a function room people can rent for family or business events.
Mr. Ronn said the brewery is marking its anniversary with a 20th Anniversary Brewfest from 1 to 7 p.m. June 14, with live music, beer and many giveaways.
The sampling room regularly has about a dozen Wachusett beers on tap. Among the most popular brands are Wachusett Blueberry, Green Monsta Ale, which has been helped along by the success of the Red Sox, and Nut Brown Ale. The newest brews include Revered Red, made in conjunction with radio station WAAF, and Strawberry White, which Mr. Ronn said is rapidly gaining popularity. Also the brewery is making Wachusett Light IPA, billed as the world's first light IPA.
Mr. Ronn said all he hopes from visitors is that they have a chance to sample Wachusett beers, and if they like them, buy some from local businesses.
"It's a nice experience here sampling the beer," he said.
Another model is Rapscallion Brewery and Taproom on Arnold Street in Sturbridge. The brewery is at Hyland Orchards. It is in the location formerly used first by Hyland Brewing Co. and later Pioneer Brewing. The business brews its own beer, including honey ale, and sells it out of its taproom. They do not sell food except through a food truck some evenings during the summer. But customers often bring their own food and sit at tables made by a member of the brewery's mug club out of large pine trees felled by the 2011 tornado.
The business is owned by two brothers, Cedric and Peter Daniel. Although it is called Rapscallion, its corporate name is Concord Brewing Co., a business the brothers used to operate in Concord.
Cedric Daniel said the history of the business goes back to two of the oldest craft breweries in the state. When Hyland Brewing Co. opened in the mid-1990s, there were only 15 breweries in the state. One of the others was Concord Brewing Co.
Mr. Daniel said Rapscallion tries to keep a community focus, working with local businesses and offering their beer in draft only and distributed in Massachusetts only. They also try to use local products when they can in their beer making. They also have a deal where the leftover mash from brewing operations goes to a local dairy farm.
Craft brew trail passports can be found at all participating breweries as well as through the state Department of Agricultural Resources.
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Americans end Finnish jinx to meet Russia in semi-finals
BERNE – Buoyed by three goals in the second period, the United States skated to a tight 3-2 win over Finland to advance to the semi-finals for the first time since 2004. They'll play Russia on May 8 at 16:15 local time.The last time the Americans beat Finland at an IIHF event was at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake, a skein of eight games (seven wins and a tie for Finland). During that time the teams have met in the quarterfinals in 2008, 2007, and 2004, the Finns winning each time.
"We're excited we won the game," American goalie Robert Esche said. "Finland was a great team the whole tournament. I think this was the best game I played so far," he admitted, referring to the 49 shots he faced which earned him player of the game honours.
Tonight, the Americans were the faster team and moved the puck more effectively and with greater confidence.
"I dont think we played our game," admitted Jarkko Ruutu. "I think we were a little nervous. They got a couple of quick goals in the second period, and we couldn't really answer."
Although the first period was scoreless, it was not without drama and excitement. Both sides had excellent scoring chances, notably Mikko Lehtonen and Colin Wilson. In the case of Finnish Lehtonen, the defenceman ripped a shot off the crossbar from the point on a power play.
In Wilson's case, he took a great pass to the back side of the net and almost stuffed the puck in, but Pekka Rinne made a fine pad save. Robert Esche, who hasn't been the top goalie in the tournament by any means, nonetheless had an excellent period and looked ready for a big game.
The Finns had the only three power plays of the period and outshot the Americans 20-7. The last of those man advantage situations carried over to the second period, and that is how the Finns opened the scoring. Antti Miettinen tried to stuff the puck in the stick side of Esche's goal, and although the goalie made the save, the puck popped free to the other side where Niko Kapanen calmly smacked it in to send the pro-Finnish crowd into a frenzy.
That frenzy subsided midway through the period on a United States five-on-three when Dustin Brown finished off a great three-way passing play with Ryan Suter and Ron Hainsey to tie the score. His one-timer beat Rinne who couldn't get from post to post quickly enough.
Less than three minutes later, the Finns were caught deep in the American end and the U.S. broke out on a four-on-one. T.J. Oshie finished the rush in similar fashion to Brown, one-timing a pass to Rinne's stick side to make it 2-1 U.S.
If the Finns weren't in enough of a state of shock, the third American goal was truly a stunner. The Americans came up ice on a routine three-on-three, but a pass hit a Finnish defenceman in front and ended up on the stick of Suter, who had the open side of the net. Rinne had no chance.
"Our transition was good, and our second and third goals were the result of us beating them up ice," Brown noted.
The Finns got a much needed shot of confidence off a harmless-looking rush of their own late in the period. Immonen took a simple wrist shot that Esche couldn't handle and Hannes Hyvönen banged home the rebound at 17:50 to get to within a goal before the second intermission.
The third period was tense, but it was the Finns who looked nervous while the Americans skated with confidence, refusing to lay back and sit on the lead.
"Esche was great for us in the third period," Brown said. "He made some big saves for us in the third period." Indeed, Esche robbed Niklas Hagman with a great glove grab midway through the period that had the Finn looking to the rafters in disbelief.
"It's going to be exciting to play against the Russians," Esche said. "They're an unbelievable team and you just hope you can stay in there as long as possible. I like our coaching staff. It's the best we've ever had, top to bottom."


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Sweeping majorities of California voters backed a proposed federal ban on the sale of assault weapons. They also backed state proposals to prohibit the possession of large-capacity magazines, background checks for the purchase of ammunition and a requirement that all gun owners be registered, licensed and insured, according to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
The findings often cut across demographic and political lines: Nine of ten gun owners and slightly more among non-owners favored background checks for all gun purchases. Eighty-seven percent of conservatives shared that position, along with 96% of liberals.
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The Department for Transport announced Tuesday that Houston, Texas-based, Bristow Group has won a 1.6 billion pound ($2.4 billion) contract to operate the service, which for 70 years has been run by Royal Navy and Royal Air Force squadrons.
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The MSCI Emerging Markets Index slipped 1 percent to 1,006.88 at 5 p.m. in Hong Kong, its fifth day of declines. The gauge has dropped 2.7 percent this week. The MSCI BRIC Index retreated 10 percent from its Feb. 1 high, heading for the threshold that some investors identify as a correction. Six people have died from a new strain of bird flu in China. North Korea said yesterday it passed a law authorizing "counter- actions" against U.S. aggression including a nuclear strike. Data today may show U.S. payrolls growth slowed after weekly jobless claims rose. "Global funds are skeptical in investing in the emerging markets amid the political and health concerns," Aneesh Srivastava, chief investment officer at IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. in Mumbai, said in a phone interview today. "Markets will start factoring in the fundamentals once the current headwinds disappear." Kospi Drops The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index of mainland companies listed in Hong Kong tumbled 3.1 percent, the steepest loss since July 23. South Korea's Kospi index fell 1.6 percent, capping the biggest weekly loss since May. Russia's Micex Index dropped 0.2 percent, its third day of declines. Trading volumes for India's S&P BSE Sensex were 32 percent lower than the 30-day average for this time of the day, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Volumes were 27 percent lower in the Jakarta Composite Index. Emerging funds drew inflows of $0.54 billion in the week ended April 3 compared with total outflows of $3.6 billion in the last three weeks, Morgan Stanley said in a report today. All the 10 industry groups in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index dropped, led by a gauge of consumer discretionary companies. The broader index has lost 4.6 percent this year, compared with a 6.6 percent gain in the MSCI World Index of developed-country stocks. The developing-nations measure trades at 10.2 times estimated 12-month earnings, compared with the MSCI World's multiple of 13.3, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Thai Slump Thailand's SET Index tumbled 2.6 percent, the lowest level since March 22. Heavy selling by foreign investors yesterday surprised the market, Sukit Udomsirikul, head of research at Maybank Kim Eng in Bangkok, said by e-mail. The won dropped 0.7 percent to a seventh-month low as the risk of conflict with North Korea spurred capital outflows. "Geopolitical risk from the North Korean threat is likely to weigh on the South Korean won for an extended period of time," said Suh Dae Il, an analyst at KDB Daewoo Securities Co. in Seoul. China Southern, the country's biggest domestic carrier, tumbled the most since Jan. 16, 2012. Air China Ltd. sank 9.8 percent and China Eastern Airlines Corp. lost 8.3 percent. 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David enjoys teaching students from all different backgrounds and levels of proficiency. Whether you are just starting out or a virtuoso shredder in the making, he is happy to teach you! Over all, he is fairly laid back, as long as you practice. He usually combines work with reading off of the treble clef (what he likens to "eating your vegetables." You may not want to do it, but it will make you a healthier musician!) with learning more popular songs (or songs the student says they would like to learn) through tablature and chord charts, depending on the style of the song.
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I teach all brass instruments (trumpet, horn, euphonium, baritone, trombone, and tuba), and trumpet is my specialty. I can also teach beginning to intermediate piano and guitar lessons. In addition, I have extensive experience teaching ear training, music theory, and composition. I am fluent in all styles--Classical, jazz, pop, funk, etc.
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I teach classical violin using the Strictly Strings Music Book and Essential Elements 2000 with improvisational violin and creative composition, as well as some Suzuki methods. I also teach rock violin. Students may bring their own pieces.
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As a songwriter with 6 Billboard charting singles, I have the experience t help you develop, refine and polish your songs, from whatever stage of completion they, to the point that they are production and performance ready. If you've got poetry that you are trying to put to music, I can show you how! If you've got chord changes and no lead melody or lyric line, I can help you find a multitude of creative possibilities.
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My passion for music began when I was seven years old. It all started for me with composition and improvisation. I love to create my own original music and I have since the very beginning of my musical journey. To this day, composition and improvisation are some of my favorite things to do and favorite things to teach. My love of creating original music inspired me to write an educational book on the topic and develop my own unique method for approaching these topics.
My teaching philosophy includes an integrated method of intellectual and creative development. It is truly unfortunate that so often music theory is presented as a mere collection of naming systems and rules. To me, understanding music with the mind is a key ingredient to becoming an effective and inspired artist. In music lessons, I teach not just how to talk about music but the fascinating complexity of how music operates - the fundamental principles that illuminate the translation of sound into thoughts and ...
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Ryan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production. He was accepted in 2013 with a scholarship and finished the four-year program only two and half years later. He has studied with great teachers such as the amazing composer and concert pianist Jeffrey Chappell. He has also studied guitar performance on the side and experiments with different instruments whenever he can. In recent years, Ryan has focused on teaching workshops, classes for small groups, private lessons, and on creating his new book The Theory and Creation of Music.
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Ryan T.
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Proficient songwriter with 20 years of experience. I specialize in rock, pop, folk, and singer/songwriter styles. I keep songwriting fun, yet challenginng. I tailor the lessons to my students interests and goals. I'll teach chord progressions, work on lyrics/melodies, and develop ideas to full songs. Let's rock out and have fun!
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