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Karen Gallagher necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 149 diseños de 59 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a pragmatic & dynamic business woman who has the ability to take ideas from inception and build them into living breathing propositions. I think BIG PICTURE but have a strong belief that no idea is worthwhile if the implementation lets it down.
I work mostly for entertainment companies like TV networks and sporting leagues developing or refining commercial propositions & managing communication projects. I'm employed by companies who want to 'get it done'.
Projects vary by company but might include; running idea workshops, feasibility studies, training, setting up information infrastructure , research, communication audits, communication strategy, sales strategy, sales document design and content and B2B support collateral development - like brochures, AV pieces and even event management.
I choose to do this because its all about people, communication and achieving outcomes. I get a real kick when everything hums together.
The personality is; dynamic, approachable, people orientated, inclusive, proactive, determined, forthright
Targeting CEO's, Marketing and Sales Directors, and business owners who require outsourced marketing and communication management.
They are corporate achievement orientated and want to see results. They don't have time for fluff but do want different thinking than what they have internally.
A logo that will be used on business cards, stationery. The colors within the logo and the font will also become the basis for a powerpoint template.
If I had to describe in words what I'm looking for its people & process all humming together.
I'd prefer it to take a more abstract approach than literal. I've uploaded a pic of the logo I most like in the ready mades, but I want one I can own myself.
I'd prefer if the logo is next to, or above KGCOMMS rather than have KGCOMMS incorporated into the logo. But, feel free to convince me otherwise through your response.
I'm open to upper or lower case.
I'm not much of a fan of black.
I want the logo to be approachable and 'rounded' rather than too corporate and sharp.
Multiple color inclusion is fine, as it will help me design into my powerpoint documents, but I don't want the color to end up making me look like a production house, or a children's art store.
Other possible directions might be bees & ants (really strong on communication with one queen at the centre) but once again, I'd prefer abstraction vs someone wondering if I'm a bee keeper.
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29 December 2010
Year End 2010
Don't get me wrong. Personal stock-taking, genealogy-wise or otherwise, is not a bad idea, especially for aging family historians (making it public is another matter). TIME is the biggest element we wrestle with. Time management (Better Time Management) and concentration become paramount. Therefore, fellow aging boomers, I recommend striking everything unproductive out of your daytimer. Everything distracting and interruptive. Forget the movies you wanted to see, forget the friendly lunches, don't answer the telephone, ignore your kids, hide the tax return forms, and stay off Facebook. See if that helps.
There's a perverse fly in the ointment, of course. If anyone under say 50 is reading this, you need to know that Getting Old is a full-time job in itself. Your head overflows with life's accumulation of information and sometimes wisdom. Your mental filing cabinet efficiently retrieves useless trivia and not the information you want right now. Senior people, your very own friends (if you have any left), get struck by impairments without warning. So you've unwittingly shouldered an unwelcome parallel goal—to retain command of brain and limbs—while continuing to research and write the family history projects.
And so the ideally blank daytimer starts to fill again. Annoyingly. With self-protective measures. Be judicious about making medical appointments because at this stage of your life it's clear your (younger) doctor has less than a 50% grasp of Getting Old. He will refer you to the optometrist, the hearing aid people, the physiotherapist, the neurologist, the chiropodist, the gastroenterologist, the hematologist, the dermatologist, or perhaps yoga classes. Naturally, this is well aside from your dentist who these days is apparently only good for repairing old fillings. The dental industry burgeons with specialists: the surgeon for extractions, the root canal guy, the periodontist, the orthodontist (hopefully we're past that point), the bridgework technicians, and so on. Breathtaking.
Being judicious means recognizing what's important and what's not. When to call for external help or not. A sympathetic computer consultant (the 24-hour kind) should be the only person on your speed dial. Cut back on time-wasting items at every opportunity. Stop sleeping is one suggestion. Catching the flu or a cold should not prevent logging on every day. You aren't going to get prescription medication for it so why waste time with the doctor. Corns on your feet, stiff joints, cataracts, bursitis, sciatica: we have to suck it up, as they say. It takes too long to commute to the gym but you can exercise at home along with a TV celebrity.
Eating meals—if you still do that—at your computer saves time. Popcorn has some nutritional value; to avoid grease on your keyboard, just dip your whole face in the bowl. I learned that from my children. Double expressos in the morning are a lifesaver if you were working all night. Pamper the hand that controls your mouse and the arm that controls the hand. They too enjoy small flexibility exercises every so often.
As for your brain, the occasional reality check is useful. You want to ensure your cognitive skills are more or less intact beyond the realm of intense genealogical proof arguments. Some of us like to indulge in crosswords or sudoku but why not just save more time by answering a pre-printed self-compiled quiz like:
Where are the car keys?
What is my social security number?
Name ten items in my fridge.
What day and time did I last water the plants?
Who was the person who told me that obsessive-compulsive disorder is being struck from the DSM-V?
What is my password for PayPal?
Can I raise both arms? No, wait. That was the Have You Had A Stroke quiz.
(Then congratulate yourself on keeping up with the wellness business).
I have done my altruistic part, temporarily (... oh yes, there could be more) to sustain and stave. By now you understand being in such fine shape I have not Made A List. My resolution is simply Get On With It. Happy New Year!
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- CallieK said...
That was a lovely summation. Although I have yet to crack the 50 year mark ( I have a few years yet) I am already preparing for these kind of things. I even broke my right wrist in Sept so had a practice run at what it will be like to try to operate a computer with my main hand immobilized. Good news is I was able to adapt quite well- bad news is I now have to have an MIR (my first!) to see if I damaged the tendon somehow and I suspect I may have been a little aggressive in continuing to use that hand while it was supposed to be healing. Or maybe I just don't heal as quickly these days, who knows. As far as my mental faculties go, I was born absent minded so I probably won't notice much when those go.
Thanks for the laugh!
- Thursday, 30 December, 2010
- BDM said...
Thank you for adding ambidexterity as a very useful skill. Probably best for us to practice it *before* breaking something. May you have a well-healed wrist soon even if you forget to go for the MRI. Love your last sentence. Wish I'd written it.
- Thursday, 30 December, 2010
Wonderful Brenda! I burst out laughing at the face in the bowl.
- Thursday, 30 December, 2010
- Diana Ritchie said...
This is wonderful ~ and all of us "age-enhanced" people are loving it.
I think I especially enjoy the part about not going to the doctor for things they aren't going to help you with anyway...If I hear one more person in my office talking about the time they waited to get an appointment, the time they spent at the appointment and the outcome - go home, take some OTC cold remedy and rest. Well I could have told them THAT - and I promise I would have only charged half as much :-)
- Thursday, 30 December, 2010
- Charley "Apple" Grabowski said...
Love it! Hope you have a very productive (and doctor free) New Year.
- Friday, 31 December, 2010
- BDM said...
Diana, it's good not to feel alone, LOL. Happy New Year to my small band of followers whom I appreciate so much! Some of you don't have your blog addresses on the "followers" pages so I can't add comments on your blogs ... :-{
Let's all work at being and staying healthy!
- Friday, 31 December, 2010

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Beautiful colors, but I balk at paying a small fortune for nail polish. I think it should remain an affordable splurge for all!
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Very nice colors but there's definitely cheaper ones that challenge the expensive brands!
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These are pretty colors.
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All very pretty colors
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None of the colors were very good dupes of each other, but I definitely saw some new nail polishes I want now!
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"A jack of all trades is the master of none" is a well-known idiom used to convey the idea that efforts to acquire skills in a wide range of applications can only come at the cost of overall mediocrity. When it comes to flagship console car games like Sony's PlayStation 3 exclusive Gran Turismo 6, this is definitely the case. While it is very, very good in any number of areas, I cannot help but walk away with the nagging feeling that they have missed a tremendous opportunity.
You will surely have read other reviews focused on GT 6 by now, so anything I have to say about the overall quality of the tracks, cars, and handling will resonate. They are, in a word, class-leading.
My personal interest is in the tracks - even the most accurately modeled car is nothing more than a decoration for your garage without a good track to run it on. And when it comes to tracks, I prefer those that have long, interesting histories, combined with the unique design traits from an era prior to the Hermann Tilke School of Cookie Cutter Track Design. You will never see another new track with legendary turns like Eau Rouge at Spa, the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca, or The Esses leading to the invigorating Dipper in the downhill portion at Bathurst. And, as insult added to injury, even classic tracks like Monza have been pillaged by emasculating chicanes inserted in front of venerable turns like Curva Grande. These legendary tracks, along with many others, are not only merely present in GT 6, but are also are quite presentable.
Next on my list is handling. This is another make or break area in a racing game, and GT 6 easily reaches the level of "better than average" on the console-racing scale. The first, and probably the most important, test of handling is whether or not the driver can adjust the car's line through the turn by manipulating the weight shift that occurs when the accelerator is pressed or released. Basically the way it's supposed to work is that the driver makes a single motion with the steering wheel to enter the turn and, assuming a constant radius turn, make corrections with the throttle. I found this to work in GT 6, but only after graduating away from the entry-level, low-power FWD cars. After that, it's all gravy. Overall, the handling in GT 6 is forgiving enough to allow for quite a bit of latitude in throwing the car around, but it will eventually punish the truly negligent with a spin. While it isn't at the very pinnacle of the reality scale, it gets pretty close to the top of the fun scale.
With those tracks and handling out of the way, you're pretty much left talking about cars, and on that topic you're really only talking about the aesthetics and the sound. The cars in GT 6 are, for the most part, beautiful. Plentiful too, but we will get to the issue of quantity soon. There is no damage model to speak of, so the cars start the race looking good, and they end the race looking good. I can't say that I was nearly as enamored with the sound, but it did its job. All I really need from the sound is to be able to sense the revs of the engine and the traction of the tires. After that, I don't pay much attention.
These are the things that GT 6 does well. With all of that going for it, you must be wondering, why does it feel like it's missing something? Well, it comes down to the game play. When Sony states that GT 6 is "the world's most popular and comprehensive racing simulator," I expect more. Sony is probably using the word "comprehensive" in the meaning of a 1,200+ list of included cars and a large stable of 30+ tracks to drive them on. The problem is the limited ways that they can be used in single player mode. The reality is this: a lot people that want high quality online racing are going to find it in something like iRacing. The people that are looking for offline racing want the same level of configuration in the single player game that they have in the multiplayer. It is here that GT 6 frustrates me in more than a few ways.
There are two major ways of playing single player: career and arcade. Career forces you into the model of having to earn/unlock cars, something I adamantly refuse to do after springing for a $60 game. Arcade mode offers the player a bit more latitude in configuring races, but it is also hampered by a number of glaring omissions. You do get to select the track to race on, the number of laps in the race, and the weather conditions to race in, and that is all to the good. You can select a car out of twenty 'rentals' (far short of the so-called 1,200+, many of which are simply subtly different body styles of the same car which calls the widely advertised 1,200+ number into question) rather than the full contingent of included cars. Still, the twenty rentals offer a broad range of capabilities, so it's better than nothing.
The real problems start after that. There are no practice or qualifying sessions, so you start at the end of the pack. Always. At least with the ability to set race lengths up to 99 laps, you don't encourage the "just knock that guy off the track" or "just cut the corners" mode of racing that you get in the career races, but you still have a pack of slower cars to deal with. Which is another problem: instead of populating the race with equally capable cars, the game plops in a widely varying mix of marques. By the time you get past the clunkers, the cars close to yours in capability have jumped so far out into the lead that you have no reasonable hope of catching them. Better get busy cutting corners! Which, sadly, you can do with impunity. As previously mentioned, there also isn't a whole lot of damage modeling to deal with. Brush that wall or use that other car as a rolling guardrail all you want - there's no damage penalty to be paid. These are not incentives to taking the time to improve your race craft.
These are all things that seem quite attainable, particularly in the sixth iteration of the game. Many of these things are available for setting up mulitplayer games; it is hard to understand why they could not also be enable for setting up fun, competitive single player races. Additionally, I have always been resentful of the requirement to unlock cars. I remain unclear as to what the reasoning behind that is, unless it is to be able to guarantee that even very low end cars that the typical player would skip right past get some screen time. It could be as simple as providing a guarantee to the manufacturers that their cars won't be ignored. Either way, those hours spent in virtual cars that I would never even consider test driving in real life (the Honda Fit, for example) feel wasted.
With the PS3 being pretty much over the horizon and no backwards compatibility provided for in the PS4, there probably isn't much point in making anything more than incremental improvements in this venerable game. In other words, this is more than likely the best that it will ever get. Make no mistake: for the majority of the intended audience, by which I mean casual racers that are fine with quantity over quality, Gran Turismo 6 is perfectly adequate. It has what it takes to excel in that market, but it's a shame that Sony never took the leap beyond mere adequacy to provide a platform that more sophisticated players could truly enjoy.
If you're keeping your PS3 and are looking for a good, casual racing game, you could do a lot worse that GT 6. If, on the other hand, you are moving to a PS4 and/or are looking for a good hardcore racing simulation, give this one a pass.
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I've been fascinated with video games and computers for as long as I can remember. It was always a treat to get dragged to the mall with my parents because I'd get to play for a few minutes on the Atari 2600. I partially blame Asteroids, the crack cocaine of arcade games, for my low GPA in college which eventually led me to temporarily ditch academics and join the USAF to "see the world." The rest of the blame goes to my passion for all things aviation, and the opportunity to work on work on the truly awesome SR-71 Blackbird sealed the deal.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 that I bought in 1977 when they first came out. At that time you had to order them through a Radio Shack store - Tandy didn't think they'd sell enough to justify stocking them in the retail stores. My favorite game then was the SubLogic Flight Simulator, which was the great Grandaddy of the Microsoft flight sims.
While I was in the military, I bought a Commodore 64. From there I moved on up through the PC line, always buying just enough machine to support the latest version of the flight sims. I never really paid much attention to consoles until the Dreamcast came out. I now have an Xbox for my console games, and a 1ghz Celeron with a GeForce4 for graphics. Being married and having a very expensive toy (my airplane) means I don't get to spend a lot of money on the lastest/greatest PC and console hardware.
My interests these days are primarily auto racing and flying sims on the PC. I'm too old and slow to do well at the FPS twitchers or fighting games, but I do enjoy online Rainbow 6 or the like now and then, although I had to give up Americas Army due to my complete inability to discern friend from foe. I have the Xbox mostly to play games with my daughter and for the sports games.
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Grief - A Path to WholenessBy Frank Ostaseski, Martha de Barros | Mar 26, 2011
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In what had become the most expensive and one of the most negative state campaigns of 2007, Democrat Chap Petersen unseated incumbent Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis (R-34) by approximately 10 percentage points.
Petersen secured 55 percent of the 46,284 votes cast and Devolites Davis received 44.7 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results Wednesday morning.
Residents turned out in larger numbers to participate in the 34th District Senate race — where about $1.5 million was spent by each candidate — than they traditionally do in an off-year election. About 39.44 percent of the 117,434 voters showed up to vote.
"Voter turn out feels above average. … Our goal was to have more turn out than this district had in 2003. More turn out is better for us," said Petersen around noon on the day of the election. The victorious candidate had been up greeting voters at the polls since they opened at 6 a.m.
Devolites Davis conceded earlier than other Republican incumbents in Fairfax County.
Of Fairfax's three hotly contested Senate contests, Devolites Davis was the Republican incumbent who lost by the largest margin. Her seat was one of the four picked up by Democrats statewide that led to Republicans losing control of the Senate this election.
"I have really … been honored to represent my district in the State Senate," said Devolites Davis. "We worked very hard in the election, but it looks like this is just not the year for Republicans."
The 34th District has turned increasingly Democratic in recent years. Former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) won none of the precincts in her State Senate seat in his 2006 campaign, according to Jim Hyland, head of the Fairfax County Republican Committee.
DURING the campaign, Petersen said a vote for him is a vote for new leadership in Richmond, where the Republicans have controlled the legislature since 1999.
"We need new leadership in the General Assembly," he said.
The Democrat is well-known for his exhaustive voter and community outreach. The candidate knocked on thousands of doors in his district in order to meet residents personally during the campaign. He often would write notes by hand to those he had talked to, a personal touch that is rare even in local politics.
"As a delegate, he was very good at communicating. He would regularly send updates when he was in Richmond about why he was voting the way he was. He would talk to anybody who asked," said Patrick Le Flauch, who was working the polls for Petersen in the City of Fairfax.
The hotly contested race between Devolites Davis and Petersen was one of the most high-profile and most expensive General Assembly races in 2007. Both the incumbent and the challenger were formidable candidates that had cash-rich financial backers.
Devolites Davis, who served three terms in the House of Delegates before running for Senate in 2003, has lived in Vienna for two decades. Her husband, U.S. Rep. Tom Davis (R-11), has served as a congressmen since 1994 and was previously chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
Petersen, who also served in the House of Delegates, ran for lieutenant governor in the 2006 Democratic primary. His family has lived in the City of Fairfax for several generations and he served on City Council before joining the General Assembly in 2002.
THOUGH from different sides of the aisle, the two candidates ran as moderates and occasionally broke rank with traditional party views on social issues like gun control. Petersen, the Democrat, had also criticized Devolites Davis, the Republican, for raising taxes on Fairfax County residents.
Devolites Davis is in favor of restricting gun rights and prohibiting them from places such as libraries and schools. Petersen, who favors uniform state laws regarding gun control, had been endorsed by the National Rifle Association and the Virginia Citizens Defense League.
Petersen had hit Devolites Davis for supporting the General Assembly's transportation package, which passed last spring. He would not have supported the package because it includes several taxes that will only impact Northern Virginia residents and did not incorporate a statewide tax, like a gas tax, that would also apply to people who live out-of-state but travel through the commonwealth.
Devolites Davis had said that a statewide tax, such as a gas or sale tax, would not have been accepted by conservative Republicans in the House of Delegates.
Even as an incumbent, Devolites Davis had a financial advantage over her peers, according to fellow Republican Sen. Jay O'Brien (37), who lost his race to Democrat George Barker.
Her husband, Davis, is former chairman of the Republican National Committee and has financial resources that most State Senate candidates do not have access to, said O'Brien. In this election cycle, the congressman, who recently decided not to run for U.S. Senate, has contributed over $400,000 to his wife's campaign.
Devolites Davis had to raise a lot of money because she knew she was going to be a top target for the Democrats and Democratic leaders like Gov. Tim Kaine and former Gov. Mark Warner.
"We are not going to let the governor or anyone else buy this race. ... I am going to defend my wife," said Davis on the day before the election.
Though Devolites Davis was prepared to spend upward of $700,000, the cost of the campaign really started to rise when the governor decided to give Petersen funds to match in Devolites Davis' campaign contributions dollar for dollar, said Hyland.
Petersen's largest donor was the Democratic Party of Virginia, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. The Democrat received a significant boost from the party, approximately $160,000, during the final two weeks of the campaigns to help him buy network television advertising. Devolites Davis had already been running commercials on network channels.


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In a little under an hour, three members of the House Republican caucus will announce a new legislative effort to undo the HHS contraception mandate's infringement on freedom of religious practice, and prevent the next incursion as well. The Catholic Association sent out a press release hailing the introduction of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HCCRA), which should face little opposition … at least in the House (via Frank Weathers):
House Representatives Diane Black (R-TN), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), and John Fleming, M.D. (R-LA) will hold a press conference tomorrow, Tuesday, March 5th at 10am EST in Rayburn House Office Building Room B-318 regarding the introduction of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HCCRA) that would protect Americans' First Amendment rights and would stop the Obama Administration's assault on religious freedom. HCCRA offers reprieve from ongoing violations of our First Amendment, including full exemption from the Obama Administration's Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate and conscience protection for individuals and health care entities that refuse to provide, pay for, or refer patients to abortion providers because of their deeply-held, reasoned beliefs.
Under the health care coverage mandate issued on August 3, 2011, widely known as the HHS mandate, organizations and their managers are now facing potentially ruinous financial penalties for exercising their First Amendment rights, as protected by law. Hobby Lobby, a family business that was denied injunctive relief from the mandate and faces fines of up to $1.3 million dollars a day, unless its owners agree to fund potentially abortion-inducing drugs. If Hobby Lobby is forced to close its doors, some 25,000 jobs nationwide may disappear. The Obama Administration's HHS mandate exemption only includes houses of worship and does not account for the thousands of religious and non-religious affiliated employers that find it a moral hazard to cover sterilization, contraception and potentially abortion-inducing drugs on their employer-based health insurance. Ultimately, the so-called "accommodation" does not protect anyone's religious rights, because all companies and organizations will still be forced to provide insurance coverage that includes services which conflict with their religious convictions. The HCCRA would address this violation of our First Amendment rights by providing a full exemption for all those whose religious beliefs run counter to the Administration's HHS mandate.
It's not just about the HHS mandate on contraception, either. The HCCRA would block efforts to force health-care providers with religious principles in opposition to abortion to participate in or facilitate such activities, too:
The HCCRA also protects institutions and individuals from forced or coerced participation in abortion. In recent years there have been several examples of nurses being told they must participate in abortions. There have also been efforts to require Catholic Hospitals to do abortions, and a Catholic social service provider was denied a grant to assist victims of human trafficking on the basis of their pro-life convictions. The HCCRA codifies and clarifies the appropriations provision known as the Hyde‐Weldon conscience clause. This is accomplished by adding the protections for health care entities that refuse to provide, pay for, or refer for abortion to the section of the Public Health Service Act known as the Coats Amendment. It also adds the option of judicial recourse for victims whose rights have been violated under the HCCRA, Coats, or the conscience clauses known as the Church amendments.
The true offense in the HHS mandate is the presumption that the government can define the free exercise of religion, which is expressly protected in the First Amendment. The Obama administration thinks it can define religious exercise as only limited to worship activities within a church, temple, mosque, synagogue, meeting hall, etc. Even its most recent "accommodation" on the mandate makes that assumption by granting certain "exemptions" to the mandate for non-profit groups affiliated with religious organizations. It doesn't recognize an individual right to express one's faith or the First Amendment bar on infringing on individual exercise of religion, which is why the USCCB categorically rejected that latest condescension from the White House.
The HCCRA doesn't quite dismantle that arrogance, but it will do the next-best thing, which is to prevent the White House from being able to impose it on others. However, that's only going to happen if the Senate passes the HCCRA and Barack Obama signs it. That's unlikely, especially in stand-alone form, although it might have a slightly better chance as an amendment on some legislation that Democrats really want. The most effective method would be to attach it to the continuing resolution, but John Boehner has already said that the House will produce a "clean" bill for the CR, so that path is out.
We'll see if the trio can find a good vehicle for a bill that deserves to win on its own merits, and whose inability to do so says much more about its opponents than it does about the bill itself.


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petdocreid necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
American Veterinary Clinic
We are a full service small animal (dogs and cats mainly) veterinary facility located in the middle east - offering complete medical and surgical facilities, dog/cat boarding, dog/cat grooming, international pet relocation services, and pet merchandise. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service, excellent patient care, treating people's pets as though they were our own, and putting pets first! Our facility is upscale and professional.
Our clients come from all over the world - our client relationships often being via email when we arrange to import our client's pets. Once in the country we are able to provide all aspects of veterinary care they require.
Because our facility is locating in the middle east (Abu Dhabi) we cater to a wide variety of clients - though our primary target audience is western expats who have moved here with their pets and are looking for a good veterinary facility. We plan to distribute our brochure to travel companies, international movers/relocators, schools, embassies, etc...
Info required: logo / name / contact info / a prominent list of our services / pet relocation services / space for maps to clinic and kennels
Color scheme - something bright and fresh - no pastels please!
Please no cartoons/nothing cheesy or cute. Please design something that is professional and upscale but friendly! We need spaces in the brochure for maps (to be designed later). Please see attachment.
I'm not a designer so please feel free to depart from my brochure suggestions and create something better - provided the pertinent information is present! If you think there's too much info to include - just let me know!
We need a newsletter that we can email to our clients! The newsletter would need to include our logo, company name, tagline - and hopefully act as a template that we could change monthly to provide our clients with new information on different topics.
Please find attached:
1. Brochure info. Change/edit as required!
2. photo of a dog that might appear on our website (will appear with our tagline "Where pets come first!" in the left hand portion of the photo). If it fits in the brochure/newsletter great - if not, that's fine.
3. photo of the exterior of the clinic
4. our stationery/business card design
5. our logo
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Former Prosecutor Claims O.J. Simpson Defense Team Tampered With Infamous Glove
Guys, the '90s are back. First Joey Buttafuoco decides to write a tell-all two decades after the fact. And now, 17 years since the O.J. Simpson trial, former prosecutor Christopher Darden is ready to blow the lid off this whole thing.
Better late than never, right?
Darden is now alleging that Simpson's defense attorney Johnnie Cochran tampered with the glove he later made his client try on. The glove Simpson was accused of wearing when he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman didn't fit because Cochran made sure it didn't.
I think Johnnie tore the lining. There were some additional tears in the lining so that O.J.'s fingers couldn't go all the way up into the glove.
Johnnie Cochran, who is dead, had no comment.
Darden says he was told by a bailiff that the defense team had the glove during the lunch hour. If true, that's a pretty serious oversight.
Which is why it's probably a lie, according to member of the defense team Alan Dershowitz. He called it a "total fabrication," saying the defense never has private access to evidence.
Having made the greatest legal blunder of the 20th Century, [Darden is] trying to blame it on the dead man.
At least Darden pointed the finger at Cochran and not at equally deceased defense attorney Robert Kardashian, who already gets enough blame for inadvertently inflicting his family on us.
Either way, these shocking new allegations will certainly change minds about O.J. Simpson's guilt. Or they might if he hadn't already basically confessed to the murders.
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After a week of hype on social media Bruno Mars released his first single in four years, "24K Magic," late Thursday night.
The song is the first single from Mars' third studio album — also titled 24K Magic — set to drop on Nov. 18. Mars and Cameron Duddy also co-directed "24K Magic's" music video, filmed at the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"You can call it my first single," the 30-year-old musician said, "but I call it the invitation to the party."
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"24K Magic" was written and produced by Shampoo Press & Curl, with additional production by The Stereotypes.
Mars teased his new music Thursday in a series of Tweets. "Ugghh..About that single tonight. Been a rough week, exhausted. Also, gotta pick a friend up from the airport early tmrw[sic]. Rain check???" he wrote.
"Not only am I droppin the single tonight, imma show y'all the album cover too!! BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!!!" another tweet read.
The singer's sophomore album, Unorthodox Jukebox, was released in 2012. It won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album and spawned five hit singles: "Locked Out of Heaven," "When I Was Your Man," "Treasure," "Gorilla" and "Young Girls."
Mars' debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, was released in 2010 and has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. It too featured five hit singles: "Just the Way You Are," "Grenade," "The Lazy Song," "Marry You" and "Count On Me."
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Jets boost playoff hopes with win over Sabres
WINNIPEG — Aaron Gagnon scored the winner and his first NHL goal Tuesday night to help the Winnipeg Jets lock up a key 4-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
Gagnon was playing in just his third game since he was called up from the AHL's St. John's IceCaps. Kyle Wellwood, Andrew Ladd and Blake Wheeler had Winnipeg's other goals.
Kevin Porter had the only goal for the Sabres (16-18-6) and spoiled what could have been Ondrej Pavelec's first shutout of the season in the third. His shot glanced off Wheeler. Pavelec finished with 29 saves.
It was the second win in a row for the Jets (20-19-2) during a six-game homestand they pretty well need to sweep to have a decent chance of making the playoffs.
Wellwood scored first for the Jets, a wrist shot from the slot off a pass from Evander Kane just under five minutes into the second that beat Ryan Miller.
It was rinse and repeat as Gagnon fired a slap shot from the same spot on a pass from Dustin Byfuglien.
Just before the period ended, Bryan Little and Ladd got a jump on a race to the Sabres' net and Ladd fired one past a prone Miller.
Wheeler finished things off with an empty-netter just before the end of the third.
The Jets dominated early. The first period looked like a Winnipeg power play until the last few minutes.
It took almost seven minutes for the Sabres to put a shot on the board.
Both teams struck out on their real power-play opportunities — two for the Sabres and one for the Jets.
But both defenceman Tobias Enstrom and Little headed to the Winnipeg dressing room during the first. Little took a puck fired by a teammate but it wasn't clear what happened to Enstrom.
Little returned but Enstrom did not.
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Look where my yield quilt ended up today! On the blog of design dot org. What an honor! Jessica Patterson states:
Heather Jones created this Yield Quilt after being inspired by a parking lot yield sign, proving the "inspiration is everywhere" adage. She made the quilt as a part of Project Modern: Challenge 1, and the solid colors and simple shapes make a modern art object.
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May 19, 2007
P Cyg (2014+37A) is the prototype of massive stars with high mass outflow; it is characterized by blue-shifted emission lines along with red-shifted absorption lines. Surprisingly, we've never created a Variable Star of the Season article for this neat star - I'll have to make sure that happens soon.
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November 7, 2008
May 17, 2011: Ernst Pollmann, an active spectroscopist in Germany and leader of Active Spectroscopy in Astronomy, has requested the assistance of AAVSO photoelectric photometry (PEP) observers in a campaign to observe the S Doradus variable P Cygni through the 2011 observing season.
PEP data are needed for correlation with spectra of P Cyg obtained by Ernst and other spectroscopists as they study this very interesting star.
New: Preliminary results, 2010 November 4
The 2010 report by E. Pollman and T. Bauer is available from this link. For the 2009 report, see this link.
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This summer I bought a very good book on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and a workbook by Sean Covey. Later, I discovered that at our school, Russell McDowell Intermediate, our principal, Mrs. Heather Aldrich, had already started a Leadership Program. She has the 7 Habits of Healthy Leadership posters covering a wall which proclaims to: Be Proactive; Begin with the end in mind; Put first things first; Think Win-Win; Seek first to understand, then to be understood; Synergize; and Sharpen the saw. She and some of her staff attended a national conference on Leadership. I expressed interest in attending some of the trainings to share information with other parents and our students. This Leadership Model Program received national recognition for its emphasis on developing leadership in young children. Principal Aldrich says, "It is grounded in the belief that building cooperative relationships and nurturing responsibility, kindness and good judgment is the basis for creating a successful community of learners. By developing the WHOLE child – socially, emotionally, academically and ethically – the program fosters a climate of principle-centered and personal leadership."
I have also blogged about a "whole child" focus and I was impressed to learn that this was already part of the philosophy here. The school's website, explains that quarterly, students identify and set their own personal academic goals. "Using organizational tools, data collection, and data analysis practices, children track their progress and growth over the course of the school year. Students also learn social etiquette and develop communication and presentation skills through student-led conferences where students share their data notebooks with parents and loved ones."
I am the new Parent Teacher Association (PTA) president there and I suggested that some of the youth attend our PTA board meetings, take a few notes, and present them during the morning news to the school. Our principal loved this idea! I also suggested having students to help with family meals that we will have periodically at school to get parents together while giving them a break from cooking. The students can list nutritional content of the meal and share it at the dinner. We can briefly share other helpful information at that time as well. "As part of a collaboration with the PTA, community members and families are given the opportunity to use book studies and leadership nights to learn about and apply these principles," states Mrs. Aldrich. We are also starting a school garden which will encourage lesson planning that interlace this new venture with curriculum. Students can help and we already have some volunteers who responded to our committee sign up!
Our superintendent, Dr. Susan E. Compton is also very supportive. She encourages others to "Join our administrators, staff, parents, students and the entire community in our efforts to continue 'Celebrating Success and A Legacy of Excellence' in this great school system. Education works best when it is a partnership between students, teachers, families and our community!"
I am also blessed to serve as the Northeast Kentucky PTA president and we are planning a Youth Advocacy and Leadership Event, our NEKY YALE! We will include intermediate and middle students to attend part of it, while high school students will attend the day of interactive workshops. We look forward to the volunteers and community partners that will help!
I am also proud that Kentucky was one of the first states to adopt the Common Core Standards and we will include a segment about what this means for parents and teachers at our Parent and Teacher Summit. If the teachers at our new school teach with nearly the quality as our former teacher, Ms. Dana Brown at Russell Primary, then I know we will accomplish great things together!
I serve on some committees with the Kentucky Department of Education Commissioner, Dr. Terry Holliday, and one of our projects was TELL Kentucky: Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning. More than 80% of Kentucky teachers voiced how they perceived their work conditions and how they could be better supported in their constant goal to provide quality education to all students. We are also developing a rubric to aid in appropriately assessing and increasing the effectiveness of teachers using multiple measures.
I am so excited about this school year and we are eager to work with good leaders who recognize the value in further nurturing its staff as well as developing leadership traits in our youth early! Through our school's Leadership Program and our support as parents and a community, we can also contribute to the character of our students. Character building is very important in our youth and should be exemplified by the teachers and parents. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically – Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."
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Game Developers Conference Online 2012 is upon us! This Austin event brings together the best and brightest professionals in online, social and cloud gaming – and we're excited to be a part of it. Our team will be there and speaking at two sessions you won't want to miss!
Changing the Game – Tuesday, October 9 at 2:00 p.m. CDT
From Stage3D development on the desktop with Flash Player, to cross-platform mobile development with Adobe AIR, Adobe is shaping Flash to be the console of the web. Join our own Sr. Product Manager Thibault Imbert to get an inside look at technologies, such as Stage3D (for GPU acceleration) and Project Monocle, and hear about their role in some of the latest gaming titles (e.g., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) created. Register for this session here.
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I intended to post an entry a week ago but while I was drafting our electricity went off because of Hurricane Sandy.We're living in dark for 6 days but luckily our home and life has been back to normal now..Our weather at Northeast is super cold now.Drinking herbal silken soup during this cold season give us the feel of warmth and comfort.This time I boiled this herbal soup with some leftover caterpillar fungus for Mishu and me.
Caterpillar Fungi or Cordyceps sinensis, it's also known in Tibetan as yartsa gunbu or yatsa gunbu, and in Chinese as dong chong xia cao 冬虫夏草; literally "winter worm, summer grass"by Chinese consumers.The nutty-tasting fungus is highly valued for its purported medicinal benefits, for instance, as a treatment for cancer and aging and as a libido booster.This fungi is not cheap at all.The prize per ounce can go as high as gold!!. For more information ,read here!!
1/2 silkie chicken cut into 2 parts,cleaned
20 dried longan
4 oz solomonseal rhizome(yu zhu)
6 large dried scallop
4 oz goji berry or wolfberry or Lycium barbarum(gǒuqǐ)
3-4 pieces Chinese yam(wai san)
4-5 slices American Ginseng or Panax Ginseng(xi yang shen)
8 Cordyceps sinensis(caterpillar fungus)
6 pieces Radix Angelicae Sinensis(dong quai)
5-6 cups water or depend on your double boiler size
salt to taste
1:Prepare all the herbs in a small bowl,wash few times with until water run clear.Prepare large stock pot with 1/4 water at medium heat.
2:Place clean silkie chicken in the ceramic double boiler together with all the herbs and water,close the top with lid.
3:When water rolling boil,reduce heat to low and simmer the soup for 2 hours.Add in salt to taste.
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Amir Johnson sat out of last night's Raptors game with an injury, but he didn't want to let the NBA's stodgy dress code prevent him from supporting his team. So he busted out this very chic jersey vest thingy.
That thing is way too form-fitting to be a normal jersey that Johnson just threw over his dress shirt, which means that he had this baby custom made. Your move, Russell Westbrook.


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About: Lew Powell
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- Lew Powell, a former journalist with the Charlotte Observer, is a guest contributor to the North Carolina Miscellany blog. Author of works such as The Ultimate North Carolina Quiz Book and On This Day in North Carolina, Lew was described in a recent newspaper article as "Mr. Miscellany."


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Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on hacked Yahoo!, Dropbox and Battle.net accounts, and how this can start a chain reaction. Companies seem to begin recognizing the threat, and are starting to protect their customers with today's cutting edge security: two-factor authentication.
A word on two-factor authentication. In Europe, banks and financial institutions have been doing this for decades. Clients needed to enter an extra piece of information from a trusted media in addition to their account credentials in order to authorize a transaction such as transferring money out of their account. For many years, bank used printed lists of numbered passcodes serving as Transaction Authentication Numbers (TAN). When attempting to transfer money out of your bank account, you would be asked to enter a passcode number X. If you did not come up with the right code, the transfer would not execute. There are alternatives to printed TAN's such as single-use passwords sent via a text message to a trusted mobile number or interactive TANs generated with a trusted crypto token or a software app installed onto a trusted phone.
Online services such as Microsoft or Google implement two-factor authentication in a different manner, asking their customers to come up with a second piece of an ID when attempting to access their services from a new device. This is supposed to prevent anyone stealing your login and password information from gaining access to your account from devices other than your own, verified PC, phone or tablet.
The purpose of two-factor authentication is to prevent parties gaining unauthorized access to your account credentials from taking any real advantage. Passwords are way too easy to compromise. Social engineering, keyloggers, trojans, password re-use and other factors contribute to the number of accounts compromised every month. An extra step in the authorization process involving a trusted device makes hackers lives extremely tough.
At this very moment, two-step authentication is being implemented by major online service companies. Facebook, Google and Microsoft already have it. Twitter is 'rolling out two-factor authentication too.
A recent story about a journalist's Google, Twitter and Apple accounts compromised and abused seems to have Apple started on pushing its own implementation of two-factor authentication.
Apple's way of doing things is… different. Let's look at their implementation of two-factor authentication.


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The Abigail platform bed, covered in an attractive linen-look fabric, features design details including individual nail-head accent. The bed kit includes a screw-in slat roll, bolt-on rails for added stability (not hooks), center support on slats and wood feet. The beds headboard can also be sold separately. Foundation base required.
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Git Log
A "commit" is a change recorded in your local repository. Type "git log," and you might have to press your space bar to scroll and type "q" at the end to quit displaying the file:
Figure 4: Output from git log.
Git's log shows that the potayto project has 3 commits so far, from the oldest on the bottom to the most recent on top. You see the big hexadecimal numbers preceded by the word "commit"? Those are the SHA-1 codes I referred to earlier. Git also uses these SHA-1 codes to identify commits. They're big and scary, but you can just copy and paste them. Also, you need to type only enough letters and numbers for it to be uniquely identified (five is usually enough).
Let's see how my first commit started. To see the details of the first commit, type:
git show bfaa. Figure 5 shows the results.
Figure 5: Contents of commit.
At the bottom of Figure 5, you can see that I initially checked-in my Scala application as something that merely printed out "Tomayto tomahto," "Potayto potahto!" You can see that near the bottom. The
main() method of the Potayto is executed, and there are those two print lines.
Earlier in Figure 5, you can see the addition of the .
gitignore I provided. I'm making Git ignore my Eclipse-specific dot-something files (for example, Eclipse's .
project) and also the target directory, where my source code is compiled to. Git's
show command is showing the changes in this file, not the entire files. The
+'s before each line mean the lines were added. In this case, they were added because the file was previously nonexistent. That's why you see the
/dev/null there.
Now type
git show 963e to get the output in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Commit message.
Here you see my informative commit message about what changed. These commit messages should be concise but comprehensive, so you're able to find the change when you need it.
After that, you see that I did exactly what the message says. I changed the order of the lyrics. You see two lines beginning with "
-", preceding the lines removed; and two lines beginning with "
+", preceding the lines added. You get the idea.
The .gitignore File, and Git Status
View the .gitignore file, which was dumped in Figure 5.
This is a manually created file in which I tell Git what to ignore. If you don't want files tracked, you add them here. I use the Eclipse IDE to write my code, and it creates hidden project files, which Git will see and want to add in to the project. Why should you be confined to using not only the same software as me to mess with my code, but also the same settings? Some teams might want to conform to the same development environments and checking-in the project files might be a time saver, but these days, there are tools that let you easily generate such project files for popular IDEs. Therefore, I have Git ignore all the Eclipse-specific files, which all happen to start with a "."
There's also a "target" folder in .
gitignore. I've configured Eclipse to put my compiled code into that folder. We don't want Git tracking the files generated upon compilation. Let developers grabbing your source code compile it themselves after they make their modifications. You're going to want to create one for your own projects. This .
gitignore file gets checked-in along with your project, so people who modify your code don't accidentally check-in their generated code as well. Other developers might be using IntelliJ IDE, which writes .
idea folders and .
ipr and .
iws files, so they would add those to the .
gitignore file.
Getting the Status
Now, let's try this. Type
git status.
Figure 7: Status showing no new artifacts to commit.
It shows that there is nothing new to commit to your local repository. You also see in Figure 7 that you're on the main branch of your project, "
master." Being "on a branch" means your commits are appended to that branch. Now create a text file named "deleteme.txt" using whatever editor you want in that potayto folder and type
git status again:
Figure 8: Status with artifacts to commit.
Use that same text editor to add "deleteme.txt" as the last line of .
gitignore and check this out (Figure 9).
Figure 9: Status with no changes to commit.
Other than its special treatment by Git, .
gitignore is a file just like any other file in your repository, so if you want the new information saved, you have to commit the change just like you would commit a change to your code.
Staging Changes
One of Git's best features is that it offers a staging process. You can stage the modified files that you want to commit. Other version control systems await your one command before your files are changed in the repository — generally the remote repository for the entire team. When you commit files in Git, files are held in a staging area. You will later commit all the files from the staging area to the larger repository.
So, let's say you wanted to make a change involving files
A and
B. You changed file
A. You then remembered something unrelated to do with file
Z and you modified that. Then you went back to your initial change, modifying file B
. Git allows you to add files
A and
B to staging, while leaving file
Z "unstaged." Then you can push only the staged files to your repository. But you don't! You realize you need to make a change to file
C as well. You "add" it. Now files
B, and
C are staged, and
Z is still unstaged. You commit the staged changes only.
Read that last paragraph repeatedly if you didn't follow it fully. It's important. See how Git lets you prepare your commit beforehand? With a version control system such as Subversion, you'd have to remember to make your change to file
Z later, and your "commit history" would show that you changed files
A and
B, then, in another entry, that you changed file
C later.
We won't be as intricate. Let's just stage our one file for now. Look at Figure 9. Git gives you instructions for what you can do while in the repository's current state. Git is not known for having intuitive commands, but it is known for helping you out. "
git checkout -- .gitignore" to undo your change? It's strange, but at least it tells you exactly what to do.
To promote .gitignore to "staged" status, type
git add .gitignore.
Figure 10: Promoting to staged status.
The important thing to note here is that now your file change is listed under "Changes to be committed" and Git is spoon-feeding you what you need to type if you want to undo this staging. Don't type this:
git reset HEAD .gitignore.
You should strive to understand what's going on (check out the Pro Git book I linked to for those details), but in this situation, you simply are given means to an end when you might need it (in case you change your mind about what to stage).
By the way, it's often more convenient to just type "
git add <folder name>" to add all modifications of files in a folder (and subfolders of that folder). It is also very common to type the shortcut "
git add ." to stage all the modified files in your repository. This is fine as long as you're certain that you're not accidentally adding a file such as
Z that you don't want to be grouped into this change in your commit history.
It's also useful to know how to stage the deletion of a file. Use
git rm <file> for that.


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A dentist suffered burns yesterday when a liquid fuel being poured into a lamp in his downtown office ignited in a flash fire.
Deputy Chief Geoffrey Gardell said the fire occurred when an assistant was attempting to fill the lamp, used to soften dentures, with an alcohol-based fuel. He said the dentist suffered second-degree burns to his face and the assistant suffered minor burns.
The dentist, identified as Stanley Levenson, was taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus in Worcester. The assistant refused treatment, Deputy Chief Gardell said.
"They were refilling the lamp and didn't take the proper precautions" while doing so, the deputy chief said.
The fire was out in a flash, Deputy Chief Gardell said, and caused minimal damage to the office, at 9 Linden St. He said there was no structural damage to the building and the damage was confined to melting of a light fixture.
"It's very short and very hot," Deputy Gardell said of the flash fire.
The fire was reported at 3:43 p.m. Employees of the office were outside on the sidewalk when firefighters arrived.


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With more than 3,000 exhibitors at CES 2013, there are bound to be some gadgets that make you say, "Huh?!" We're talking about a potty iPad dock for junior, dancing robots and and a gizmo called The Butt Show. Seriously. Here are our picks for the weirdest, wildest and wackiest gadgets of CES 2013.
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It's cute when you dress up your kids as animals, but downright creepy when you make a 3D photo of them and insert it into a plush toy.
Breo iDream3S Eye and Head Massager
This guy wouldn't be so relaxed if he knew how silly this contraption made him look.
Hello Kitty Popcorn Maker and Toaster
Who better to guide you through your culinary adventures?
TOSY mRobo Ultra Bass
Comes with dance moves and choreography from Derek Hough, three-time champion of "Dancing with the Stars." No, really.
TOSY DiscoRobo
This little guy dances to the beat of your favorite music. SuperStar DiscoRobo (not pictured) comes with a high-quality MP3 player and a whopping 2GB of storage!
The sign on the dog says it all.
Deranged Panda Bluetooth Speaker
We're not sure if this panda is drunk, leering or both.
The Butt Show
This device (on the left) shakes your booty as you walk up and down. Old guy taking photos of your rear end not included.
Party Animal Dancing Pet Speaker
These fun furry friends are on sale at Walgreens for as low as $19.95. Get yours today!
Mr. Marinator
Stew on this for a while.
They say the majority of iPads are used in the bathroom. Why not get them started early with a potty dock?


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As I begin to explore my options for offering coaching online to swimmers who are friends and family, with the intention of offering the service down the road to clients, I am rediscovering the most invasive issue for swimmers - life.
I have long had that problem myself. I either have to work my 'real' job, coach or take care of the humans and canines in my household before I can consider training myself. What makes it easier or more difficult to fit training when we all have to live life?
Time management.
One of my swimmers lives in Chicago. She is young, not in a committed relationship, and very energetic. She loves to swim and was totally self motivated to get going with a focused program. Our goal was the Big Shoulders 5K in September - and we had 13 weeks to train her for it.
After three weeks, she had a busy weekend and broke her stride. We could not connect for our Sunday phone call and subsequently she did not swim Monday morning. Understandable. She made it up that night.
The following week it was work overload. Then poor timing on our Sunday phone call. Then work again. She began to make herself feel guilty for 'bagging out' all the time. I was constantly assuring her that she had priorities and swimming was last to come into her schedule - so it became first out of her schedule. This was a mistake on my part. I was so busy making sure she didn't have any negative feelings associated with her swimming that I did nothing to address her main problem - time management.
As coaches; as US Masters coaches, how much pressure do we put on our swimmers to stick with the plan? Can we help our athletes, regardless of ability or commitment level, be better time managers and should that be part of our expertise?
I believe we can and should. Offering your swimmers advice on time management is beneficial to both the individual and your program. I am not on any one philosophical bandwagon, but there is so much information out there (on the web and in print) that it is relatively easy to learn and understand time management strategies that fit your coaching style, program and group of athletes.
As I incorporate these and other concerns into my online coaching philosophy, I will post them here. Time management certainly isn't the most critical issue I have, but today its the most relevant.
This is my first post here and my first blog. My background other than coaching USA and High School Swimming is as a software developer and business owner. Hope you enjoy.


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Underdog Bernie Sanders inched closer to narrowing front-runner Hillary Clinton's sizable delegate lead after winning Wyoming's Democratic caucus Saturday night.
The win marks the Vermont senator's eighth victory in the past nine contests. And looming on the horizon is the state of New York and its 247 pledged delegates.
Presidential hopefuls from both parties have been campaigning heavily in the state, and leaving a trail of faux pas along the way as they try to woo New York voters.
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But Clinton isn't worried, the self-proclaimed "bona fide" New Yorker addressed her campaign woes on "Saturday Night Live's" cold open.
Kate McKinnon reprised her role as the Democratic front-runner to claim that her recent string of losses "humanizes her."
"Who can remember how many states I've lost in a row? Is it two? Is it three? Come to think of it might have been seven, and that's fantastic!" McKinnon's Clinton exclaims. "I'm now the underdog. I'm this election's Rudy, and I like that." [[238904721, C]]
The sketch also mocked Clinton's apparent pandering to New Yorkers as McKinnon donned a Yankees hat, ate a New York hot dog, munched on street vendor peanuts, and then flipped the hat around to reveal her love for the "New York Meets."
McKinnon's Clinton declared the New York City subway is "the best way to get around," touching on the former secretary of state's failed attempts earlier this week to glide through a turnstile (like a "real" New Yorker would), taking at least five swipes before getting through.
"The subway. I love to ride. I'm comfortable riding it," said McKinnon's Clinton before swiping half a dozen times to no avail. McKinnon tries climbing over the turnstile and eventually concedes. "I'll just take a cab."
Staying with politics, Reverend Al Sharpton stopped by to provide insight on the presidential election as a statistical analyst named Charles Richards to cast member Kenan Thompson's "younger" and fuller Sharpton on MSNBC's "Politics Nation." [[375181611, C]]
Sharpton's character Richards created an algorithm that calculates the Black Approval Rating Scale of candidates.
Hillary Clinton received a glowing, 7.2 "because her husband is Bill Clinton, "a man very much "beloved in the African American community."
"Oh absolutely, Bill Clinton could walk into the BET Awards after-party, sit at Rihanna's table, and order up a bowl of mac-and-cheese, and everybody would say 'Yeah that seems right.'"
As for Republicans, the numbers were not so favorable. Ted Cruz is sitting at a 2.1 with black voters and Donald Trump is laying lower with a minus 1,048, "But that could go down," the real Sharpton said.
Weekend Update also took some political jabs at the presidential race. Michael Che rolled his eyes at Republican and Democratic candidates who takes rides on the subway as an artificial way to relate to constituents.
"We don't ride the subway because we like to, but because we have to," Che said.
Russell Crowe made his hosting debut on Saturday and took a jab at comedy, mocking his own singing in the movie "Les Miserables" and joking that he wanted to call "A Beautiful Mind," "The Nutty Professor."
The Oscar winner played a hologram of Henry VIII in an interactive museum exhibit. Crowe's hologram answered questions by museum visitors in the sketch, while threatening female passersby to "bear me a son, or I'll have your head." [[375181661, C]]
Henry VII had several children by his wives and mistresses, and to date, the total number is still up for debate. [[375173551, C]]
Country singer Margo Price also made her "SNL" debut as the muscial guest. [[375181781, C]]


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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31 — Patient race, gender and insurance status influence decisions about who will go on to receive liver transplants, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study. Available online and published in the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation, the study indicates that women, blacks and patients with Medicare who are in end-stage liver disease are less likely to be referred and evaluated for liver transplantation.
"There currently is no comprehensive oversight of liver disease patients as they go through evaluation, referral and are put on a waitlist for transplantation," said Cindy L. Bryce, Ph.D., study lead author and associate professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh. "We know what happens once patients are selected for transplantation since they are closely monitored, but what happens prior to this point is fairly invisible. Ours is the first major study to look at whether everyone with liver-related conditions has a fair shot of being considered for transplantation, and points out that many patients are being excluded from this process."
The study, which followed 144,507 patients hospitalized in Pennsylvania with liver-related conditions, sought to determine whether any potential barriers exist at the referral and listing steps in the transplantation process. Dr. Bryce and colleagues found that 4,361 of these patients underwent transplant evaluation. Of these, 3,071 were waitlisted and 1,537 went on to transplantation. Patients were significantly less likely to undergo evaluation, waitlisting and eventual transplantation if they were women, black or covered by Medicare.
Disparities were especially apparent in the early stages of the process when evaluation and listing occurs — 61 percent of men were evaluated for transplantation compared to 39 percent of women; 73.8 percent of whites were evaluated compared to 8.6 percent of blacks; and 62 percent of patients with commercial insurance were evaluated compared to 4.7 percent with Medicare only.
"While our study was not designed to identify causes for these disparities, current practices for identifying and referring liver disease patients for transplantation should be made more transparent," said Dr. Bryce. "Although we face a worsening gap in the supply and demand for organs for liver transplantation, race, gender and insurance status should not be factors that preclude patients from being evaluated for transplantation."
Co-authors of the study include Derek Angus, M.D., Robert Arnold, M.D., Chung-Chou Ho Chang, M.D., Max Farrell, B.S., and Mark S. Roberts, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Cosme Manzarbeitia, M.D., and Ignazio Marino, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University.
The study was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.


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First off, big thanks to Diane Trap for covering for me last week when I was traveling. Secondly, I HATE THE NEW FORMAT OF THE SHOW THIS YEAR.
So last week, we didn't vote, but this week we do, but next week is the actual finale, even though last week they called this week's show the finale? STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND, Nigel.
I absolutely love Cat's red dress tonight. So classic, so pretty, and so shiny. Judges tonight are Nigel, Mary, and Rob Marshall (director of Chicago).
Eliana and Cyrus have a paso doble. And Jason Gilkinson has decided to switch the roles, with Eliana as the matador and Cyrus as the cape. And it's all set to Daft Punk,with Cyrus wearing a skirt over his pants, so we already know it's gonna be unusual. Y'all look, I love Cyrus's personality as much as the next fan, but Eliana clearly outdanced him there. It was slowed down far too much and lacked some of the in-hold moves I like to see in ballroom.
Nigel heaps praise on Eliana, but points out that Cyrus's technique still needs some work. Mary comments that she could've done without the cartwheel and one of the leaps (so, basically, the things put in specifically to play to Cyrus's strengths) and then comments that Eliana was "on fire." Rob praises Eliana's ability to tell the story.
There's a cute moment when Cat asks Cyrus to give her his best "Blue Steel" and he charmingly obliges.
Tiffany has a routine with Season 4's William Wingfield in a Sonya Tayeh routine. I don't remember Wil having these braids during his season and they look really good on him. I like this Moloko song they're dancing to, "Time Is Now."
Mary calls Tiffany a "fabulous" dancer and calls her with Will "a perfect partnership." Nigel praises tiffany as more than the "girl next door" and adds she's a fabulous dancer.
I'm so excited that with Chehon and Eliana being paired up we're getting an honest to goodness ballet routine. In this case it's choreographed by Marat Daukayev and is set to music from the Nutcracker suite. Also, we get Chehon in ballet tights, so that's a plus. Well, that went about as well as you'd expect with one dancer who attended the Joffrey and another who was at the Royal Ballet School.
Rob says that routine is what "separates the men from the boys." Nigel praises how good Eliana is and then throws out a lot of French ballet talk to back up his point. He also praises how easy Chehon made the lifts look. Mary's near tears with how special the dance was.
Cyrus and Tiffany have a lyrical hip hop choreographed by Tessandra Chavez, who I think is new to the show. I still remain bored by "lyrical" hip hop. I wish we could have swapped out half the lyrical hip hop routines this season for some sort of ballroom, particularly more tangos and quicksteps.
Nigel congratulates Cyrus and Tiffany on never being in the bottom per America's votes and then calls them both "incredible." Mary says they "killed it." Rob says both of them have "abandon", something he loves in dancers.
And now it's a group dance for all four finalists, choreographed by Tyce D'Orio. Eliana's en pointe and Tiffany's in heels, so I like it already. It starts out with the traditional classical "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" but it's a remix that occasionally allows Cyrus to get weird. Overall, I give it a "meh."
In her clip package, Eliana makes some of the cutest goofy faces. Her favorite routine may have been partnering with Alex Wong. Her solo is done in toe shoes and doesn't feel that different from what he saw her do last week.
Stacey Tookey is choreographing for Allison Holker and Chehon to a song from "Once." During rehearsal, Stacey gets the giggles over just how good Chehon is. Gorgeous routine and it ends with a kiss, which makes the audience go wild. I have to admit, I watched it twice immediately and got chillbumps both times. The way they used their arms to communicate the emotion of the dance... just breathtaking. Cat points out he did a one-handed lift. So now I'll go watch it a third time to look for that. The things I subject myself to for you, loyal readers. Ah, there it is - he puts her up with both arms and then pulls one arm away to hold her with, yes, just one hand. Day-um.
Mary screams long and loud, she liked it so much. Oh, Mary, I don't think you're allowed to quote Martin Luther King, Jr. to describe a dancer, no matter how good it was. Rob says he gets now why Stacey was so ecstatic in rehearsals. Nigel spends too much time talking about Allison - she's not the contestant! When he starts talking about Chehon, he praises him for showing his emotional range. They show Chehon's parents in the audience and they're so European, it's adorable - all funky glasses and eff you hair.
Ray Leeper is "taking burlesque to Broadway" with a pole involved in their routine to "When You're Good to Mama" from Chicago (Rob Marshall synergy!). Side by side like this, it's no question to me that Eliana is the better dancer. Also, she's the only one that does any actual pole work - the most Tiffany ever does is hold on to it.
Rob says he's trying to imagine Queen Latifah doing that (She had that role/song in the movie version, even though they danced to the 1996 Broadway revival version.) The judges are unanimous in their praise, easily glossing over how Eliana was miles better than Tiffany.
Cyrus has a solo which looks like every other solo he's done. I generally find the solos so uninteresting, because these terrific dancers aren't usually terrific choreographers. And the solos are so short, it's difficult to develop any kind of character or story, so it's just about the tricks.
Tiffany talks about how her lack of exposure in the early shows made her think she wasn't going to make the top 20 and then how dancing with her lookalike Audrey was a hindrance. She's impressed that she's made it as far as she has. And not to say she isn't a good dancer, but I share her surprise. Tiffany does her solo. See above re: solos.
Now Chehon and Cyrus dance together in a routine choreographed by Sonya Tayeh. Where's Travis Wall been all this show? Sonya gets us, the audience, because she has both Chehon and Cyrus dancing shirtless. Although, can't say I'm super in love with the dubstep music.
Nigel is giving Cyrus the "you've improved so much" speech. And then tells Chehon that he's improved as a person and that he's Nigel's favorite dancer. And then there's a weird gratuitous mention of and cut to Jennifer Beals in the audience.
They give the dancers a much needed breather to feature b-boy guest Jean Sok who is missing his left leg below the knee and dances with a pair of crutches. He discards first one crutch and then the other, so he's standing only on his one leg by the end of the routine. It is really impressive and makes me wish I'd seen more of the Paralympics.
Chehon's journey includes him being goofy with a banana, which I wish we'd seen before. It also has a head duck near the end of his interview that is just the cutest thing ever. His solo is very, very good and uses all those tricks to just begin to develop a mood for the piece.
Ah! There's Travis - choreographing for Alex Wong and Eliana. Wait, did Travis steal Mandy Moore's iPod? This Harry Nilsson "Without You" is straight out of her playbook. Although she probably would've used the Celine Dion cover. I actually find the song distracting from some fine dancing from these two.
It was Nigel's favorite routine of the night. Hmmm. Can't say the same for me. I'd give it to Chehon and Allison for that contemporary routine. OH WOW. Nigel now says Eliana is his favorite dancer of all time on the show. Mary gushes over Alex and is glad to see him after his injuries in his own competitive seasons. Mary praises Eliana's passion and extensions.
Chehon and Tiffany are doing a rumba choreographed by Dmitry Chaplin. Rumba is my least favorite of the ballroom dances - as it's usually so slow and boring. I do like this cover of "Love Me Tender," though, by Norah Jones and Adam Levy. Also, both dancers are wearing shoes. So you know that makes me happy. Wait, was that another kiss? Is Chehon kissing EVERYbody tonight? Where do I get in line?
Mary compliments Dmitry on his choreography. Mary says this is the ballroom dance that should have suited Chehon the most, even though she doesn't feel like she saw the chemistry. Rob felt like he did see a connection between the two dancers. Nigel points out that this dance was actually sexier than the pole dance earlier. Nigel jokes that when they finally afford a shirt for Chehon they couldn't afford the buttons? Mary replies that it was, after all, Dmitry who choreographed it. Cut to Dmitry in the audience, who immediately rips open his shirt down to the navel. Love it.
And now, Twitch and Cyrus do the first ever "animation" routine on the show. Christopher Scott is choreographing. Cyrus is grinning ear to ear in rehearsals; he's so happy about the routine. Oh, cool! The routine starts with them behind glass frames, as if they've been lab specimens. And then they KICK OUT THE GLASS all over stage. HOT. And, yes, Cyrus is slightly better at the animation, but my eyes are always, always drawn to Twitch as he's one of my favorite ever contestants on the show.
The crowd goes apenuts and the judges are all standing at their table. Ok, during the rehearsal it listed Twitch as 6'0". So how tall is Cat in heels, seriously? Because she's STILL taller than him. Rob loved it. Mary loved it. Nigel praises Twitch for picking up the animation. Why does Nigel admit that he's not going to vote for Cyrus? All that's going to do is make America pick up the phone for Cyrus even more. It didn't need to be said. Way to piss on Cyrus's triumphant moment, Nige.
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Tune in next Tuesday to find out who wins. I'm hoping it's Eliana for the women and Chehon for the men, but I'm guessing it's going to be Eliana and Cyrus.