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This is one of my favorite scenes in the great old documentary by D.A. Pennebaker. Bob Dylan is ranting — for the cameras? — and the TIME reporter looks like he walked into the room with his pencil in his hand, trying to understand but not knowing just what he will say when he gets home.
Does the film invite us to laugh at the reporter's cluelessness? I don't think it's that simple. Presumably, we're identifying with Dylan, the central character in the film we've chosen to watch, but gradually, and certainly by this point, we've been given cues to detach ourselves from our pop star hero. Do we think Dylan is being a jerk, mistreating the reporter? The reporter, whose bland doughiness makes a funny contrast to Dylan's intensity, might look as though he doesn't know what is happening here, but I got to thinking that the gears in that head were turning, and he was judging and gathering material. Who was that guy?
His name is Horace Freeland Judson, and he's no dummy. He worked for TIME for 7 years, but he is also — I'm relying on Wikipedia — a historian of molecular biology and a expert on the "deliberate manipulation of scientific data." He's been on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, and he's won a MacArthur Fellowship. As for the film:
[H]e was subjected to what he believes to be a contrived tirade of abuse from Dylan. During Judson's interview, Dylan launched into a verbal attack on Time magazine, and Judson himself. The film's producer Pennebaker does not believe the tirade was planned, but notes that Dylan backed off, not wanting to come across as being too cruel. However, Judson believes the confrontation was contrived to make the sequence more entertaining. "That evening," says Judson, "I went to the concert. My opinion then and now was that the music was unpleasant, the lyrics inflated, and Dylan, a self-indulgent whining show off."Here's a 2007 interview — in TIME Magazine, of all places — with Pennebaker:
Much of the film is devoted to Dylan tangling with the press. Why do you think he played so hard-to-get with reporters?A whole system of media that people had been thrashing for a long time... Ha ha. So much for my "early rejection of mainstream media"! People have been bitching about journalists forever, haven't they? And it's not as though Bob Dylan would have been kinder to bloggers if they'd been around and managed to infiltrate his entourage.
The poor souls, they were sent out to interview him and they didn't know much about him. He turned it into a circus. He was enjoying himself. But I never felt that he was being particularly mean in those interviews.
There's a scene, though, in which Dylan directs a lengthy recrimination of the media at TIME magazine correspondent Horace Judson. I have to be honest: I would have hated to be in Judson's shoes.
I have the story [Judson] wrote. He wrote a very good piece on Dylan. I thought Dylan was kind of nice in the end. He made jokes out of it. When I show the film, especially to kids, they want to see that as someone thrashing TIME. But it isn't that. He's thrashing a whole system of media that people had been thrashing for a long time. I never thought of it as mean-spirited.
I'm following the TIME Magazine convention of writing "TIME" in all caps, which I haven't done in the past. I'm just for the first time noticing that's what TIME Magazine expects from me. Not that I need TIME Magazine, just that I'm noticing. And I'm wondering: Is in an acronym for something? "The [something with an "i"] Magazine Ever"?
UPDATE, May 10, 2011: The NYT obituary for Horace Freeland Judson.


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VictoriousPursuits necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
VRS by Victoria
I am an artist and sculptor who became a jeweler and a business person.
I consider my taste to be half way between artist / designer and business person. I intend to use my skills and background as a selling point and a market positioning strategy.
I consider myself elegant, but not in an old world kind of way. I like to change styles., but know that it is important to have a clear identity when you are dealing with a marketplace.
I want my brand to reflect me, my interests, and intentions. I am interested in the expression of form in my jewelry, not about the sparkle of a gemstone. The commercial jewelry market tends to ignore form and focus on gemstones, unlike my target market.
Our customers are interested in the unique item, as it reflects their personal style. Many of our pieces are bold, hence they do not speak to traditional femininity, but rather a stronger and bolder modern woman.
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The socially active woman with a busy schedule of family and community commitments whose elegant personal appearance is a high priority.
Jewelry engages the senses, anchors the intellect, and often gives a woman what she wants.
"Designer" has become subjective. Look carefully at all attachments; Consider that if you do not fit some of the customer description (whether or not you actually buy jewelry), you will be unlikely to be able to convey the image that I need. Please choose this project only if it suits and excites you. At a later date I will be posting a contest for the website.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Swan Thing or Another
I played rugby in college; that's me in the picture. We were a damn good team -- East Coast Champions a few times, played in tournaments in the Bahamas over Spring Break (yes, we did play.) The only time I got hurt was when I returned to Amherst during my freshman year in med school. It was a rugby weekend, and the opposing team was short one man, so I played for them, against my former team. Bad karma, I guess: in a desperation tackle, I collared a guy and my grip was stronger than the flexor digitorum profundis tendon on my right ring finger. After the game, when I tried to make a fist, the finger wouldn't flex. Bummer. Especially for a future surgeon. So I had it operated on.
Stupidly, rather than seeking out a hand surgeon (there were a couple there of great renown, including one with a fabulous name: Kingsbury Heiple. During one of our orthopedic exams, one of the students had written on the blackboard "Kingsbury Heiple is not a flavor of ice-cream.") I went to the student health service, who referred me to their default surgeon. And, rather than having the decency to send me on, he did the operation himself. Why not? He'd never fixed one before, and wanted to give it a shot. In my career, taking on an operation about which I couldn't honestly feel I was as skilled as anyone was something I never ever did. Back then, the concept didn't compute, and I never thought to ask the man if he knew what he was doing. He did, I found out later, ask ol' King how to go about it.
My important recollections about the peri-operative time are these: in the recovery room I must have moaned, because a nurse stabbed me in the thigh with some demerol. My thigh hurt much longer than my hand. I had one more shot of demerol the next day. It felt so good I told myself "never again!" I was casted to above the elbow, and had to take a pathology final that way: having trouble operating my microscope I asked if anyone would "come over and twist my knobs." I passed. The tendon was held in place via a wire looped through it, the finger-bone, and my nail. Removing it later hurt like hell. Probably would have been worse, had the surgeon not accidentally cut the medial digital nerve, making half my finger numb.
Which brings me to the climax: the surgeon had been so excited by the operation and the mechanism of injury that he told me he planned to publish an article about it. After the several weeks it took to get my finger mobile again, we ran into each other in the hospital and he had a look. No article ensued.
The finger, in repose.
The scar, following the course of the digital nerve.
A classic swan-neck deformity. Undesirable.
The tip is permanently bent, too. It moves, but not all the way up. Once in a while when grasping an instrument with thumb and ring finger through the holes, I have to try twice to let go of the damn thing. Not a big deal. They say you should find the good in the bad: for a long time the side-numbness of the finger bugged me bigly. I'd find myself constantly rubbing it, for some perverse reason drawn to (if that's what it was) the weirdness. When I touched that part of my finger to something else, it sort of creeped me out. A year or so later it occurred to me that I was no longer noticing. My brain had bought the feeling as normal and no longer brought it to my attention.
Which gave me a perfect demonstration to patients on whom I was planning axillary node dissection (most often for breast cancer): there's a possibility of a numb spot on the upper inner arm. It could bug you for a while, I'd tell them, but eventually you'll stop noticing. And then I'd show them my ridiculous finger, proving I knew of what I spoke.
8 comments:
- jmb said...
Good photos and story for Dr Charles' Eschara site, except you wouldn't be anonymous, because we all saw it here first.
- ditzydoctor said...
my friend has boutonnieres on all his fingers from suffering abuse as a kid - he had the door slammed shut on his fingers millions of times!
but at least you're a walking example, and really, that's the best way to put your patients at ease =D
schwab-neck deformity (!)
- Lisa said...
Three years aftert he mastectomy, and my body fools itself into thinking there is still feeling there. That is a very weird sensation
- Guy With a Knife said...
Getting a swan-neck after FDP repair is a bit unusual. I'd more expect tendon adhesions leaving you with a flexion contracture. I'm not quite sure how your surgeon achieved that. Of course knocking out your ulnar digital nerve is a sweet trick. (at least it looks like the ulnar side) He had the good thought to do it to your non-opposition side!
Ah, hand surgery . . . queen of the disciplines . . .
- Annie said...
You think you're frustrated??!!?? I had something to contribute regarding this post that now escapes me. I'm sure that it was eminently succinct and insightful.....if only I could pluck it from the nether regions of my brain. Alas, I fear it is lost forever.......On a much brighter note, I'm reading and thoroughly enjoying your book and have all but made it required reading for my nursing students!
Dr. Schwab, you did well to go on and do the wonderful work you did with a finger that wouldn't cooperate with you ... however, I'm not surprised!
Thanks for sharing this!
Hi, sorry to hear about your injury, especially as I have just received the same injury by doing a handstand! I have a splint on mine but am off to the hospital tomorrow to meet the "hand doctor" i know they want to avoid surgery, and having read your story so do I ! Being a girl, it's not a pretty sight! will let your know, cheers, Heather


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SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar told state securities regulators Tuesday that he objects to predispute mandatory arbitration as it denies investors the right to choose between arbitration and the traditional judicial process "at the very beginning of their relationship with their brokers and advisors."
"Investors also should have the unencumbered right to seek redress in all available forums," noted Aguilar (left) in his prepared remarks at the North American Securities Administrators Association's annual public policy conference in Washington. The session was closed to reporters.
"Almost all customer agreements with brokerage firms include an arbitration clause requiring customers to arbitrate their claims in an arbitration forum, and they're now popping up in the investment advisory industry," he said.
By adding such provisions, "brokerage and advisory firms are essentially requiring their clients to give up their legal rights before the client even knows about the nature of a dispute, and before the client has had the opportunity to consider whether giving up those rights would be in their interest." Aguilar said the inclusion of such rules in contracts with brokers and advisors "diminishes investor protection."
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Similarly, Aguilar said, in fiscal year 2012, the SEC brought 134 broker-dealer cases. This is about 18% of all enforcement cases, and accounted for the second largest category of enforcement cases during that fiscal year. Out of these 134 broker-dealer enforcement cases, roughly 95 cases, or 71%, involved allegations of fraud under the Exchange Act.
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The colorations of the three pieces made it seem as if a genie-in-a-bottle stagehand had encircled San Francisco Ballet's Program 5 in a mood ring.
A brushfire of a work, Symphonic Dances, Edward Liang's first commission for the company to Sergei Rachmaninov's work by the same name, ignites with fiery bandeau-georgettes (the women) and shorts and tanks in the same color (the men). Two parallel lines reach from downstage to up, as male and female dancers angle into a copse-like snow break, from which they roll out as partners into expansive duets. Vito Mazzeo and Yuan Yuan Tan arrive in the same costumes, but cream-nude hue'd, and initiate a centripetal pas de deux, circling each other, arc-like. Then they meld into one another, much of the work shown in profile. She winds around him in arabesque and they keep spooling into poses until they can tie arms and legs that meet in infinity into a gyroscopic Gordian Knot. Mazzeo holds Tan aloft as if she were a figurehead, and indeed, if anyone represents the banner of this company held high, it is Tan. Lifts swing across the diagonals of their bodies from top to bottom, and back again, until Tan's languid body has encircled Mazzeo's extensive legs.
Frances Chung is as resilient as bundled cable. Davit Karapetyan partners her with genteel correctness. They are a brilliant match, swimming over and under each other like sea creatures, as the corps de ballet floods in, and indeed under Jack Mehler's lighting, individual faces are lost to bodies that leap like flames; you can almost hear the hiss of the aquatic couple's exit, as if extinguished by the conflagration.
As Tiit Helimets' partner, Sofiane Sylve is a wildflower coquette whisking from positions to elisions with a lightness that enchants. She is perhaps the most versatile of the dancers in her rank in the specific way that she can take on any technical or dramatic challenge, whether it requires tensile strength or fleet lightness.
Speaking of lightness, Vitor Luiz and Maria Kochetkova float in like two halves of an eggshell, as if they were jigsaw pieces chosen out of hundreds to fit together perfectly. When she jumps into his waiting arms full-face, it is as if she lightly snaps into a die that has been cut with precision to receive her. The choice of who partners whom in this piece is brilliant.
The return of smudgy charcoal abstract panels reminds us that Helgi Tomassen's The Fifth Season captures in its name and feel the many discordant weather systems that blow in and out of San Francisco in a single day. Arms in slate blue camisoles with a light pass of rhinestones alternate with legs in grey tights. The limbs are attached to the bodies of Frances Chung and Davit Karapetyan in the opening piece of the program. Their work becomes larger, more elevated and more generous with each extension, a kind of moving enigma defying the discord of the Karl Jenkins score. Outstanding is the confident and zestful corps de ballet work by the willowy and vigilant Madison Keesler, the sprightly Sasha de Sola, spunky Koto Ishihara, and limpid Alexandra McCullagh, all partnered gallantly by Diego Cruz, Francisco Mungamba, Benjamin Stewart and Matthew Stewart. In the "Waltz" movement, Tiit Helimets and Sarah Van Patten make luscious and vulnerable every count of their swift interlude. Ruben Martin Cintas is masterful in his squiring of the glittering Vanessa Zahorian as they add heat and intensity to the accompaniment of the smudgy music for strings. The en l'air ronds de jambs are a cut above, as are the feline high stepping passés in parallel that move the dancers offstage. "Romance," featuring Chung and Karapetyan offers aerated-to-languorous lifts, exalted stretches, and fast bourées, folded into repose-like caesuras. The nuanced lighting by Michael Mazzola enhances the dramatic quality of the pas de trois Chung dances with Helimets, Martin Cintas and Karapetyan; she is her regal in her space. Martin Cintas and Zahorian whip through taut tango steps, and Sarah Van Patten navigates the panels as Helimets shadows her. He nearly inhales her just before pressing her up into a slow lift over his lowered, stretched back. Van Patten also reigns from a place of surmise for a moment, and then out comes a loopy reproach from that slightly vertiginous corps to close the piece by bringing us out of our trance state!
The evening ends with the crowd-pleasing dyads and doodads of Jerome Robbins' Glass Pieces to music by Philip Glass. The grid backdrop plays host to dancers without borders in activewear crossing the stage like "civilians," that is to say, not turned out, and not "held." Once the audience lets in the contradiction of diagonal strides going against the grain of the horizontal/vertical grid, dancers who have been crossing without interference suddenly randomly surprise us with quick fake-outs that throw a monkey wrench into the works.
"Rubric" has three couples dancing duets of stylized poses, slo-mo lifts aborted by pauses, and steps that move in plaintive syncopation to match each note of the score. At a certain point, I see dead people—like Tchaikovsky and Balanchine—and my mind conjures up the latter's Theme and Variations, and the challenge of embroidering a ballet around a simple theme composed of just a few notes, and while that doesn't prevent me appreciating the distinctive partnering of Yuan Yuan Tan by Damian Smith in "Façades," it does invite comparisons, and by the "Aknaten (excerpt)" I feel like I'm the civilian who has unwittingly bumped into a "Back to the Future" flash dance moment.
I walk to my car with the Glass Pieces dyad hopping up and down in my brain, and then just for the fun of it, I switch to the two-note Theme and Variations theme. See it and try it!
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Flappy Bird creator to take wildly popular mobile game down
I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.
— Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 8, 2014
Get your Flappy Bird fix now, the game's going away in less than 20 hours.
Flappy Bird, ranked No. 1 in free apps in both the iTunes store and Google Play, will be taken down, according to a tweet from its creator Dong Nguyen.
The incredibly difficult, yet addicting game is incredibly simple in its premise. Tap the screen to get the bird to fly higher. Have the bird touch anything — like pipes or the ground — and you lose.
The game was released spring of last year.
It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.
— Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 8, 2014
I also don't sell 'Flappy Bird', please don't ask.
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Lindsey Vonn on the Olympics
Lindsey Vonn is the first to admit she's supercompetitive, whether she's bowling with her husband, Thomas Vonn, or racing down a ski slope. "I like to win," she says, and clearly that attitude is working for her. At 26, Lindsey is at the top of her sport. Her life is a whirlwind: She's on the road 49 weeks a year for training and competitions. She walks the red carpet at movie premieres, and she appeared on Law & Order, her favorite show. Through it all, Thomas, a former pro skier, is by her side. "I keep in touch with the rest of my family through Skype or Facebook," Lindsey says. "They are my biggest motivators." Lindsey credits family with keeping her grounded during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Pundits touted her as America's great hope to win five medals. Naysayers thought she might choke. Then there was the reported rivalry between Lindsey and teammate Julia Mancuso — and Lindsey's severe shin injury. Yet she triumphed to win gold in the downhill and bronze in the super-G. Lindsey recently gave us the scoop on the year's wild ride.
How did you handle the media circus at the Olympics?
I'd heard the Michael Phelps-like expectations, so I just shut myself off from all the hype. I didn't watch TV; I didn't look at magazines or newspapers. I had to pretend it wasn't the Olympics but just another race in Vancouver. Otherwise I would have psyched myself out.
Is there really a rivalry between you and Julia Mancuso?
When I'm in the starting gate, I want to win. I'm not saying that I want to beat one particular person; I just want to win. With women the media tends to blow things out of proportion and make it personal, when we're really just competing.
What was it like to get a gold medal?
Winning the downhill — my favorite event — will always stand out for me for the rest of my life. Finally accomplishing something you've been dreaming about since you were a little kid is just beyond words.
On Working with Her Pro-Skier Husband
You've won an Olympic gold and your husband hasn't. Does that bother him?
No! We're each other's biggest cheerleaders. He supports me 100 percent. We're opposites that attract; every cliche you can think of is true when it comes to us. I'm the emotional, spontaneous one who listens to my heart, and he's logical and focuses on the details.
Is it true that Thomas gives you fashion advice?
I ask his opinion about everything. On the mountain, I ask, "Am I doing this correctly? Was that run good?" I'll also ask him, "Do you like this dress for the red-carpet event? Do you like my hair?" He's always right. Even if there's something I think is supertrendy and cute, he'll say, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." He's a pretty good stylist.
Do the two of you work out together?
Thomas doesn't want to work out with me ever. We're too competitive. If we're side by side on the treadmill, I'll be checking his speed. I can't help myself. He's like, "What are you doing?" I say, "I'm going faster than you!"
Lindsey Vonn's Workout and Fitness Tips
Is there any sport you're not good at?
I'm pretty bad at surfing. Things in water tend not to go so well for me. I sink like a rock. I think it's because of my big butt.
What would people be surprised to know about you?
I'm really clumsy. I stumble a lot, stub my toe, drop my phone. My husband jokes that I'm safer on the slopes than I am off!
You wear makeup when you ski. Is that part of your routine?
I feel more confident when I wear it, and I think that comes across in my skiing. If you look good, you feel good.
What's workout heaven to you?
I love anything on a stability ball. It's more like play to me, because I can be creative and come up with different ways to exercise. I love working out my core, because I'm not only getting stronger but looking better, too.
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What are your go-to healthy foods?
I love salmon, fruits, and nuts. But I'm originally from Minnesota, so deep down I'm still a steak-and-potatoes kind of girl — even though I don't eat potatoes these days. I also stay away from processed carbs as much as possible because they're hard for the body to digest. But I do let myself cheat once a week. The hardest things for me to resist are sweets, like banana bread and French toast. I love to bake. In last winter's Olympics, I baked about 21 loaves of banana bread to keep myself relaxed.
What do you do to have fun?
I hang out with friends. I like getting a cup of coffee and going to the movies and being mellow and relaxed. I also play Kinect, a dance game on the Xbox 360. I dance around and have a great time, but I probably look like a dork.
How long do you think you'll keep skiing?
In 2015 the world championships will be in my hometown of Vail, Colorado. So I'm going to try to do well for the crowd. Maybe after that I'll retire and have four kids. I want to be a stay-at-home mom who bakes cookies and is there for her children.
When are you happiest?
When I'm with my family, preferably while skiing. I love being out on the mountain and feeling the wind against my face mixed with the adrenaline of going fast. At that moment it doesn't matter what else is going on in my life. All the chaos stops.
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Brumalia. It's a Roman festival. A celebration of winter. The festival, they say, involved drinking and merriment. And who better than Patrick Wolf to bring this to light for the rest of us. He who lives in an England of his own. An England of eternal optimism and celebration. An England where we sing our own updated versions of 'Jerusalem' and forget the dour torment of murmuring it at half-speed throughout our school assemblies. An England where the onset of winter is, apparently, something to celebrate, beyond the lure of drunken sledging and a few days off work to watch piss-poor TV at Christmas.
Brumalia is an extension of Patrick Wolf's recent album, Lupercalia, and centres around the live favourite 'Together' and Wolf's increasingly evident confidence as a songwriter. He's gone from indie darling to Radio 2 playlister in an apparently seamless transformation. Fittingly, though, the songs here are harsher here, colder. The beats on the opening track 'Bitten' are like a pick-axe on ice, whilst 'Nemoralia' features drums like a wind-chill and Patrick howls into the dark machinations of the track like his name-sake quadrupeds.
'Together' stands out as the lead track and has been thoroughly resplendent in his recent live performances; bolshier and more confident than when he toured prior to the album's release. Its Germanic influence is unavoidable, even without the lyrical content; it's the love-song's equivalent of draping on a fur coat as protection from a stark winter in Berlin; doused in the city's cold romance.
It holds Brumalia together thematically; a collection of chilling drumbeats, lyrics about driving into the winter sun ('This Time of Year'); the strings and horn section buoying the tracks with that unfettered optimism that seems so characteristic of Patrick Wolf circa right now. But standing in the glorious sunlight of its predecessor, Lupercalia, Brumalia casts a meagre shadow. The reverent interpretation of 'Jerusalem' sits uneasily between the up-beat of 'This Time of the Year' and the jagged beats of 'Nemoralia'. Lyrically, of course, Wolf has an undeniable kinship with their author, William Blake. Musically though, it's something of anomaly; indulging Wolf in his desire to release the closest thing such an ambitious artist will ever get to a Christmas album.
Individually, the songs here are accomplished and pleasant, though lacking the instant warm appeal of the Lupercalia tracks. As a mini-album, though, they make for an unsteady journey and end up feeling a little like a case of concept over content.
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SS4T necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 202 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
We are a Information Technology Services business that provide E2E IT services and solutions for small and medium size business. Our focus is on Customer Relationship Mgmt, SupplyChain Mgmt, Human Capital Management and Finance and Accounting. It is our mission to provide the solutions and associated technical services to support our global customers. Services comprise test services, usability and visual design, information development and software development (J2EE and .NET).
The target audience is small/medium businesses that require assistance with Information Technology . Our customers will be located globally and need to easily connect with our mission and focus. The logo needs to be crisp and uniquely identifiable across a global audience. CTOs, Development Managers , IT managers and business leaders will be the primary contacts for our business.
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6. "Try" to incorporate the name into the logo (Smarter Services for Technology). The name should be distinct in its display.
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Established in 1999, Commercial Recycling programs have helped hundreds of Plano businesses conserve resources. As Plano nears commercial build-out, increased utilization of waste diversion programs for new and existing businesses is a pivotal part of program success.
With the commitment of local businesses, Commercial Recycling has increased the city's diversion rate from 5% in 1999 to over 40%. The commercial sector accounts for over 70% of Plano's solid waste material, and progress is achieved through four main programs:
- Construction and Demolition Recycling - This program offers project superintendents and site managers an incentive for recycling construction debris such as concrete, wood and metal on new construction, alteration, remodeling and demolition projects. In fiscal year ending 2016, this program helped divert over 84,000 tons from local landfills and resulted in sizable cost savings in debris disposal for program participants.
- Organic Recycling - focused on capturing organic materials, ranging from food scraps, meats, fish, bones, produce and floral from restaurants, grocery stores and corporate cafeterias, this material is collected and transported to the regional composting facility where it is used to make Texas Pure Products Opens a New Window. .
- Single-Stream Recycling Opens a New Window. - This program mirrors the recycling program for Plano residents, allowing the collection of all acceptable materials in a single container. Single-Stream recycling is the easiest program for businesses of all sizes and types to implement. It is estimated that 98% of Plano businesses could successfully participate in this program.
- Green Business Certification (GBC) - This program is for businesses that exhibit enhanced environmental attributes. Recycling is just the start. This program is designed for small to medium-sized Plano businesses - no matter their current environmental status. Get connected with Plano businesses utilizing numerous sustainability measures.
Your commercial recycling team represent over 60 years of collective recycling industry experience. They look forward to assisting you with waste minimization through conducting waste-stream audits, providing recycling training, assisting in preparation for Green Business Certification, and offering environmental resources. These value-added services are provided to Plano businesses at no cost.
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The program is a recycling incentive program which assesses a monetary deposit based on the project's square footage and project type: alteration, remodel, demolition or new construction.
Commercial Recycling coordinators are available to offer assistance through support materials, information and training.
For more information, contact Commercial Recycling at 972-769-4393 or by email.
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Commercial Recycling's Organic Recycling Program offers businesses the opportunity to divert organic material from their trash collection. The program includes:
- waste audit and on-site assessment,
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- on-going assistance and training as needed.
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A nominal monthly service fee is assessed based on the number of 95-gallon carts used and number of days per week they are serviced, as well as typical monthly volume collected. In order to adequately service medium to large generators, the minimum service level may not be offered to every business.
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As you embark on the certification process, we are confident your business will reap the economic and environmental benefits of the sustainable changes you put into place. Environmentally-aware consumers are seeking to do business with establishments which mirror their concern for the conservation of our resources and are good stewards for the Earth. Our goal is to recognize small- to medium-sized businesses which exhibit verifiable sustainable attributes and assist in connecting them to green consumers.
The GBC will initially offer certification to offices, retail outlets, restaurants, grocery stores and multi-family communities. As our program progresses, additional industry categories may be included in the certification process.
The City of Plano's Green Business Certification (GBC) program was developed by the City to recognize green businesses and is managed by the City's Commercial Recycling Division. The GBC program verifies these businesses are upholding a commitment to conduct their daily practices to reduce the impact on our environment. The program also focuses on a checklist of green operational practices designed for small- to medium-sized consumer businesses with a walk-in clientele.
Not only do green business practices benefit the environment, they make good economic sense—saving your business money. Candidates for the GBC program must provide evidence of completion of specific green initiatives in the following areas:
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There is also an elective category of innovation for those businesses that wish to elevate their sustainability efforts. Some initiatives vary by industry, but all have core requirements which must be fulfilled for certification. If your business has already taken sustainable steps, you are on your way to certification.
It is the City of Plano's vision that businesses who earn certification will save money, assist in protecting our environment and have their business recognized for its efforts in a variety of ways. The City intends to ensure certified businesses maintain environmental integrity and are authentic in their actions and results.
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best tv show Ive ever seenCreating a stage we have all seen in our mind but only U2 could make it reality. Might be the best opening song of their concerts. The static tv's, bono's smoking n kicking outline and the beats ripping thru your body. Running to stand one of the shows many highlight. Only problem was we were so jacked up going into the show we forgot where we parked it afterward. U2 the soundtrack of my like.
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I caught the red plastic cupI think it was at the beginning of Pride, Bono booted a red plastic cup full of beer, it went spilling over the audience, and I caught it in the 14th row. So, Bono gave me my first beer.


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Perhaps you've wondered where your puppy really came from, or wish there was a way to check out a breeder's record before purchasing a dog. Maybe you just want to learn more about a specific breeding kennel in your neighborhood. Well, now you can!
The ASPCA is pleased to announce the launch of our Puppy Facts Database. This innovative and user-friendly online tool allows you to search through the inspection reports of breeding facilities all over the country—and if you live in New York, particular state laws make it possible for you to research pet stores, too!
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Chinese or Japanese eggplant is one of my favorite stir-fry vegetable .I like my eggplants stir-fry with spicy sauce and seafood.The right way of cooking stir-fry Chinese/Japanese eggplants is to cook the eggplants in a wok of hot oil first before stir-fry with your favorite paste.If you think the cooked eggplant is too oily after cooked in the hot oil,then sieve it up and run it under water to removed the excess oil away!!Since I have some leftover clams,I toss it together with the cleaned shrimp.Viola!! I can eat a couple bowls of rice just with this dish!!
3 Chinese or Japanese eggplant,washed and cut
2 sleeves celery,washed and cut
15 clams,washed
10 large shrimps,peeled and cleaned
1 small onion,peeled and slice
2 tbsp sambal-belacan-paste
3-4 tbsp sambal-hei-bee or dried shrimp
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp tauchu(bean paste)
salt to taste
1/2 cup oil
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2:Remove extra oil from wok.Use the same wok at medium heat,add in sambal-hei-bee-sambal-udang , tauchu and sambal-belacan-paste,mix well for 30 seconds.Then toss in ,clam and clean shrimp.Stir-fry for 30 seconds,then toss in cooked eggplant,celery,onion,sugar and salt together,mix well for 1 minute.
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Typical attempt to avoid the problem - poor teaching at primary level.
You write potato, I write ghoughpteighbteau
The rules need updating, not scrapping
GHOTI and tchoghs may not immediately strike readers as staples of the British diet; and even those most enamoured of written Englishs idiosyncrasies may wince at this tendentious rendering of fish and chips. Yet the spelling, easily derived from other words*, highlights the shortcomings of English orthography. This has long bamboozled foreigners and natives alike, and may underlie the national test results released on August 12th which revealed that almost a third of English 14-year-olds cannot read properly.
One solution, suggested recently by Ken Smith of the Buckinghamshire New University, is to accept the most common misspellings as variants rather than correct them. Mr Smith is too tolerant, but he is right that something needs to change. Due partly to its mixed Germanic and Latin origins, English spelling is strikingly inconsistent.
Three things have exacerbated this confusion. The Great Vowel Shift in the 15th and 16th centuries altered the pronunciation of many words but left their spelling unchanged; and as Masha Bell, an independent literacy researcher, notes, the 15th-century advent of printing presses initially staffed by non-English speakers helped to magnify the muddle. Second, misguided attempts to align English spelling with (often imagined) Latin roots (debt and debitum; island and insula) led to the introduction of superfluous silent letters. Third, despite interest in spelling among figures as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, Prince Philip and the Mormons, English has never, unlike Spanish, Italian and French, had a central regulatory authority capable of overseeing standardisation.
Yet as various countries have found, identifying a problem and solving it are different matters: spelling arouses surprising passions. Residents in Cologne once called the police after a hairdresser put up a sign advertising Haarflege, rather than the correct Haarpflege (hair care). Measures to simplify German spelling were rejected by newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine, and defeated in a referendum in Schleswig-Holstein (though later endorsed by its legislature). A similar fate befell the Dutch, when opponents of the governments 1996 Green Book on spelling (Groene Boekje) released a rival Witte Boekje. French reforms in the 1990s didnt get off the runway, despite being presented as mere rectifications, and attempts this year to bring European and Brazilian Portuguese into line were denounced in Portugal as capitulation to its powerful ex-colony.
There are linguistic reasons too why spelling reform is tricky to undertake. Written language is more than a phonetic version of its spoken cousin: it contains etymological and morphological clues to meaning too. So although spelling English more phonetically might make it easier to read, it might also make it harder to understand. Moreover, as Mari Jones of Cambridge University points out, differences in regional pronunciation mean that introducing a phonetic spelling of English would benefit only people from the region whose pronunciation was chosen as the accepted norm. And, she adds, it would need continual updating to accommodate any subsequent changes in pronunciation.
Yes despite these concerns, some changes are worth considering; it takes more than twice as long to learn to read English as it does to read most other west European languages, according to a 2003 study led by Philip Seymour of Dundee University. Standardising rules on doubled consonantsnow more or less bereft of logicwould be a start. Removing erroneous silent letters would also help. And as George Bernard Shaw observed, suppressing superfluous letters will in time reduce the waste of resources and trees. In an era of global warming, that is not to be sniffed at.
*Fish: gh as in tough, o as in women, ti as in nation (courtesy of GB Shaw). Chips: tch as in match, o as in women, gh as in hiccough."
The above article appeared in The Economic Times from The Economist
Typical attempt to avoid the problem - poor teaching at primary level.
Is the problem poor teaching at the primary level?
Could be but when good teachers are compared to average teachers in countries with more phonemic and consistent writing systems, the students advance as much in one year as English speakers do in three.
Basically it is harder to teach inconsistency than it is to teach consistency.
Most students eventually learn to read at the 3rd grade level but this is often characterized as functional illiteracy.
If you give the graduating seniors in some high schools a newspaper article to read, half will be unable to read it well enough to answer simple questions over the content. The usual problem is the inability to decipher multisyllable words or words that are not high frequency words.
Those who advocate spelling reform believe that it will save 2 or 3 years of primary school. This would depend on the kind of reform that was implemented and how it was implemented.
There may also be other ways to save 2 or 3 years of schooling out of the 4 devoted primarily to basic literacy.
One promising approach is to teach the dictionary key first in a writing to read program.
When this has been done, students became code literate in 3 months.
They could read with as much understanding in the sound code as they could when the same material was read to them aloud. tüm bäm cóm
rather than the traditional tomb bomb comb. Unifon: TÛM BOM CÓM
After 3 months, they transitioned to the traditional writing system where the same sound is often represented 4 or more different ways. They were able to go from macron-A to radio, raid, ray, vein, rey, and ade within a few months without the usual confusion.
[á] = ai-ay, ei-ey, aCe, aCV,. as in raid, ray, vein, rey, ade, acorn, radio.
Dictionary: rádió, rád, ráy, vein, rey, ád, ákôrn. where y=/i/ in IPA.
(note: ray-ee is not that different from reh-ee.)
In addition to the variant sound-spellings they had to pick up couple of dozen word-signs such as THE, OF, OFF, .... UNIFON: ÐU UV XF
Having a way to talk about speech sounds enabled all of the students to reach a 3rd grade reading level in 9 months. ref: www.unifon.org
So having a parallel phonemic writing system from a dictionary may be almost as good as having a reform of the traditional spelling to reduce its irregularity.
As a class the Unifon students could spell better than their peers but they could only spell unfamiliar words in code. The student might guess that SIZ3RZ would be written sizzers in the traditional writing system. Learning where to insert silent superfluous letters comes later. *scissors
The article in the Economist has right most of the time. Give it a careful read.
There is a lobby to drop accuracy in English. It should be discouraged. Since children in England at the end of the 19th century were largely able to read, write and cipher by the time they left school at 12, it is incredible that modern children of the same age are not able to do these things.
Good basic primary level teaching is vital to ensuring a child can benefit from education.
By the way, has it been used long enough to be able to say whether 14 year olds who've learnt UNIFON can spell regular words better than control 14 year olds; or is it still largely experimental?


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Life and Death of Charles Knowles and Rosamund Pitcher.
John Knowles (known as Charles) , the son of William Knowles of Hunworth and Hannah Jarvis of Field Dalling , married Rosamund Pitcher , the daughter of James Pitcher of Hunworth.
They started a family and for the next seventeen years they must have gone through all kinds of emotion. Rosamund gave birth to fourteen children , but only three lived to see adulthood.
1838 Sarah baptised , 1839 Maria baptised , 1840 Maria died--William born--William died , 1841 Maria baptised--Elizabeth born , 1843 Mary born--Mary died , 1844 Alfred born , 1845 Alfred died , 1846 Phoebe baptised--Phoebe died , 1848 Mary Ann born , 1849 Mary Ann died--Clara born , 1850 Clara died--Samuel baptised ,1851 Samuel died , 1852 Valentine baptised--Valentine died--John"s(Charles) father William Knowles died , 1853 Charles baptised--Charles died , 1854 John baptised , and 1855 John died.
Could we nowadays cope with this kind of life. They did have a hard life and must have become tough and resilient.
Rosamund had died by the time of the 1861 Census. John(Charles) was
a Woodman and had a Housekeeper. By 1871 he had remarried , to a Chrlotte Leader of Holt. In 1881 he was an Agricultural Labourer and was still living with Charlotte in Hunworth. Rob Pegg
Family Nicknames/Second names used
My Pegg Grandparents had nine children. The oldest was Charles Pegg , born in Corpusty , Norfolk in 1898. He fought in the First World War , as did the second born child Arthur. For some unknown reason he was called "Mitchell" for most of his life. It is said that he was in the Royal Marines. He lost a finger , not sure when though.
Next in line was Georgianna Maud and all her life was called "Maud"
She lived from 1902--1982 and could speak anybody under the table.
They then had Hilda Mary in 1904. Strangely enough she kept her first name , but her husband-to-be , Albert Ernest Allen , was called "Ernie".
Helen May , born in 1908 , was called "May". She married and moved to Cleethorpes.
George Henry was born in 1910 and kept his name. He fought in World War Two and for awhile was stationed in Canada. He was in the RAF. He also died in 1982 in Banbury , aged 72 years.
Jack Pegg , "The Black Sheep of The Family" apparantly , do not know why , was born in 1913 , but kept his name too.
The last two boys had nicknames , Frederick was called "Jockey" because he was short. He worked on the Steam Engines at a Fun Fair.
Last born was my father Albert Maurice. He was born in 1920 at Sutton before the family moved to East Ruston. He was called "Bill" or "Billy". He joined the RAF and served in Malta during "The Siege".
He died in Felixstowe , Suffolk , aged 66 years of age.
Hello everyone. Are there any Norfolk Peggs out there.
Hello. I am Rob Pegg and i live in Basingstoke. My ancestors come from Norfolk and Malta. I arrived here in Hampshire via Birzebuga in Malta , Norfolk , Libya , Stafford , Libya , Norfolk , Felixstowe , Upwood , Felixstowe , Ipswich and Felixstowe again.
My interests are Family History , Football , Walking , Travelling and mostly my wife , 3 children and 3 grandchildren , plus other family and friends.
The families i am interested in are Armiger , Attard , Bean , Bunnett , Coman , Doughty , Edwards , Galey , Jarvis , Joyce , Knave , Knowles , Micallef , Pace , Pegg (Bloodline) , Pegg (maternal) , Pitcher , Psaila , Richmond , Rivett , Weston and Zammit.
Well , thats me , signing off , roger and out. 1949.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will give a pre-CES keynote at 8:30 p.m. CST (6:30 p.m. PST), where he's expected to talk about the company's future plans for tablets, entertainment and possibly Windows 8. We'll be liveblogging it here.
Note: Some of what Ballmer's expected to announce has already been released. During a news conference at CES today, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky confirmed rumors Microsot will make "the next version of Windows" work on the types of processors used in smartphones and tablets, called "System on a Chip" or SoC architectures. Chip-makers involved include ARM, AMD and Intel. However, this will take a while: The next version of Windows won't be out for at least two years.


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Outside of merely running fun wargame battles using construction toys, storytelling is a top level concept for the BrikWarrior Community, tying together Factions, Locations, Teknology, Characters, Theologies and Philosophies, Creatures and Beasties, Materials and Phenomena, and any sense of Continuity (or focused, intentional lack thereof). Players might approach a variety of media forms to engage this process, like stop motion animation, fiction writing (called BrikFic), comic book presentation, physical or digital artwork, photograph series, battle reports, forum battles, forum thread discussions, and more.
BrikWars Clusterfic
Often in BrikWars, stories will spring to life from the varied goings-on of its community. Collections of battle reports will begin to form an overarching plot, players will photograph vignettes and storyboards that tie in with their own or other players' battles, and epilogues and prologues will be written or filmed in association with battles and stories.
The following pages list out the various BrikWars Story Clusters as top level concepts and show all the elements (discovered elsewhere in this wiki) that contribute to it.
Being the conflict between the Allied Nations - United Systems Collective and the Third Alliance.
Being the Chronicles of the FringeWorld HubPlanet Arkeais.
Being the tales of Brikpocalypse and its agents in the BrikVerse.
Being the setting and stories of the region of space around the Doom Moon of Dis, an entertainment, industrial, and penal hub in the centrally BrikVersian Nehellenium Galaxy.
The Communo-Fascist Insurgency
Being the record of a combined Communist and Fascist invasion of several nations within the Nehellenium Galaxy.
Being the record of events, forces, and characters in the Devoid Sector.
Being the Apocalypse of 2018/19.
Being the record of the most central conflict in the BrikVerse, an invasion conquest campaign spearheaded by the Immortal Empire into the heart of the Galaxia Nehellenium.
Being the record of medieval combat and maze-like plotlines on the isolated planet of Medivo.
Being the misadventures of the BrikVerse's most charming godlike superfigs.
Throughout the Rekonstruktions, many great works of bloody literature have been produced as accounts of the warring history of Brikwars. This is known primarily as BrikFic and it may take many forms, whether deadly serious or laughably lighthearted.
A Carol devised in the winter-times by the forum members to bring the spirit of the forum to the general public.
A series of the best and brightest from the forum brought to you in an easy-to-read and fun format.
Colette's Valentines Day Special
Attempting a romance with the non-romantic Trattorians ends the way you'd expect.
A BrikFiction account of the First Battle of New York during the AN-TA War.
A shanty composed by the sailors of the ship Venus, now sung in various sea and space-ports. Original author: The Sex Pistols.
Rayhawk's interactions with an anorak.
The volumes containing the very nature of the Brikverse. Read with caution.
His Bow Fires Katanas is a song relating to the exploits of Katana Bow Man, by Zupponn.
Stubby's equine anal birthday story.
The third best description of the forum yet, the first and second, respectively, being "One 'person', named 'forum'. It's possible that [it has] multiple personality problems." --Tzan "One Schizoid, Paranoid person in an insane asylum with MPD." --501st Cadians
The Man, The Myth, The Legend. He will kill you and give you tea.
An account of the heroic actions of Leonidus.
Lux Apocrypha: A Quiet Proposal
An M-Thronian Agent, while on a routine shit-stirring mission, encounters the fabled Lux for the first time in the form of an angel who proposes a dangerous, tentative alliance with the Emperor.
A collection of Manly Tales from the forums. A recommended read, containing several amounts of piltoggs.
The Most Noblest Tale Of Good Sir Shadowscythe, Brikwarrior and Comrade Extraordinaire
In the late early G.R. 2,011, The Shadowscythe was revisited by an ancient enemy, who threatened everything that was and will be. It will never be the same.
The sacred book of the Brikthulhu Cult. The text itself cannot be displayed here due to safety reasons.
A Wiki Lesson.
A record of Piltogg's quest to retrieve each of the nine artifax of pre-creation.
Random quotes from Rayhawk which are obviously trolling attempts, but manage to be profound in some way."
A collection of Short Stories from the Scythian Empire written by Shadowscythe.
The Saga of Harpoon Jones, Hero of the deep.
The tale of Harpoon Jones, who gave his very life to defeat a truly horrible foe.
A young detective deals with a crisis at an ABS Refinery. Submitted for the BrikFiction Festival 2016.


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What can you create with a line? In this book, you learn all about the magic of creation with lines and circles. Read to discover.
Eklavya is a non-profit, non-government organisation that develops and field tests innovative educational programmes and trains resource people to implement these programmes. It functions through a network of education resource centres located in Madhya Pradesh.


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David R. Upham argues the Founders intended a significant democratic element to our Constitution; fidelity to it requires some judicial restraint.
Timothy Sandefur replies to Kermit Roosevelt III on judicial deference and the roles of the elected branches in protecting the Constitution.
Kermit Roosevelt III responds to Sandefur's charge that modern courts are too deferent to the legislature.
Powerful private interests can easily manipulate legislatures. That's exactly why courts need to watch over them so closely.
Today's judiciary is philosophically far removed from its individualist, classical liberal foundations.
Sandhya Bathija argues that libertarian judicial philosophy opposed many important civil rights gains, and would do so again if we returned to it.
David R. Upham argues that the people can indeed be trusted to guard their own liberties. For the most part.
Timothy Sandefur doubts the usefulness of rational basis judicial review.
Sandhya Bathija argues that the Constitution can and does evolve - democratically, and toward liberty.
A plea for the most famous footnote in American jurisprudence.


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Find out who's climbing Cleveland's corporate ladder.
Going Places: Nov. 5, 2012
VOCON: Susan Austin to chief human resources officer; Scott Ashley to head, workplace strategy.
NEUROS MEDICAL INC.: Joe Schwoebel to vice president, clinical and regulatory affairs.
PARTS ASSOCIATES INC.: Michele Hicks to human resources manager.
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Jose C. Feliciano to the 2012-13 President's Ambassador; Said Sewell to assistant provost for academic affairs.
MS CONSULTANTS INC.: Jonathan Hren to Northeast Ohio transportation business unit leader.
KEYBANK: Tracy Dowe, Linda Skinner, Paul Steiger and Robert Helton to portfolio managers, asset-based lending.
MCMANUS, DOSEN & CO.: Erin M. Connors to accounting supervisor. SS&G: John Hollo, M. Lynne Baranek, Brandon Morris, Lisa Smith, Jennifer Seeling, Kelly Pulling and Jennifer Ludwig to senior associates; Dennis Vaughn Jr., Michelle Hawkins, Ronald Reed Jr., Sharon Sturgill, Jaysen Mercer and Donald Grassler to managers; Jeannette Schwartz to executive administrative assistant.
SUMMA BARBERTON AND SUMMA WADSWORTH-RITTMAN HOSPITALS: Dr. Joseph P. Myers to vice president, medical affairs.
GE LIGHTING: John Strainic to general manager, North America Consumer Lighting. SPECTRUM SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS CORP.: Jim Hoffman to vice president of endoscopy and field operations. TIMKEN CO.: Blake Scanlon to director of global sales and engineering development.
TRIAD/NEXT LEVEL: Adam Mullen to media specialist, traditional and emerging technology.
CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: Patrick J. Ertle to chief development officer. HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND: Angela Dudek to director of special events and public relations; Kristin Okel to development associate.
FREEDONIA GROUP: Ken Long to manager, durable goods; Jennifer Mapes to manager, consumer and commercial products. VEDISCOVERY LLC: Paul Cervelloni to vice president, sales.
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: Patrick M. Scanlon to director of guest experience, Quicken Loans Arena.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS OHIO NORTH CHAPTER: Cristina McCarthy to president; Laura Gills to president-elect; Kara Hungate to at large director; Lisa Thomas to communications director; Tracy Hartong to financial director; Kaleigh Cody to membership director; Lisa Perfetto to professional development director. ASIAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF OHIO: Deborah W. Yue (Gallagher Sharp) to president; Barbara A. Lum to president-elect; Sanjiv Kapur to secretary; Edward Chyun to treasurer; Elaine Tso to vice president, membership; James W. Chin to past president. COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS USA: Marc Safier to treasurer. GREATER CLEVELAND SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES: Chris Johnson (Thomas Associates) to president; Karen Lewis to vice president; Charles Schmidt to secretary/treasurer; James A. Hieb to immediate past president; Ellen Kelley to director, industry partners.
ERC AND CLEVELAND SOCIETY OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Christa Lenko (Skoda Minotti) received the Organizational & Employee Development Award. LEADINGAGE OHIO: Steven Willensky (Chair, Montefiore) received the Board Member of Distinction Award.
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It looks as if the groundhog got it right – at least for the next few weeks.
"So, an early spring it will be," was the prediction Feb. 2 after Punxsutawney Phil failed to see his shadow.
Now the meteorologists are making similar predictions.
Once the next blast of cold air – some of the most frigid of the season – moves past the Northeast by the end of the week, the weather forecasters say the temperature will start to feel less like the Yukon and more like some of those March days when you can actually eat lunch outside without watching your soup develop a layer of ice on top.
The change will be dramatic: As of Thursday evening about 60 percent of the nation will have snow on the ground, says Accuweather.com. But, by the end of next week, less than 25 percent of the country will be covered with the white stuff.
"It will be one of the biggest meltdowns we have ever seen but with very little in the way of flood problems," says Henry Margusity, senior meteorologist at Accu-Weather.com in State College, Pa. "The back of winter has been broken."
It will be a very sharp contrast for places like Dallas, site of the recent SuperBowl, and Ground Zero for unwanted snowstorms that shut down the airport and caused rolling electrical blackouts last week.
"I've lived here for 35 or 40 years and never remember as much bad weather for as long as we had last week," says John Crawford of Downtown Dallas, Inc. "We look forward to temperatures in the sixties so we can get back to promoting visitors and relocations."
Greenland block breaking down
Behind the warm-up is a shift in the weather pattern. An area of high pressure that has spent the last few months over Greenland is finally breaking down. The high pressure system had served as a block, forcing the jet stream to run straight up the East Coast, resulting in cold weather in the eastern third of the nation and snow storm after snow storm.
"That wall is breaking down, allowing the jet stream to flow more evenly across the country," says Scott Bernhardt, chief operating officer at Planalytics in Berwyn, Pa. "When that happens, the weather moderates, we get significantly nicer weather." [Editor's note: The spelling of Berwyn, Pa., has been corrected.]
Mr. Bernhardt says there will still be some periods of rain, but "it will feel like such a nice break from what we were experiencing."
Spring this early may seem unusual after last year. Last February and early March, the mid-Atlantic states were buffeted by blizzard after blizzard. Places like Washington, D.C. could measure the snowfall by the foot. This winter, most of the snow was in the Northeast in places like New York, Hartford and Boston. Because the temperature rarely broke the freezing mark, much of it is still on the ground.
Return of the happy consumer
If the weather cooperates with the forecast, Bernhardt says there are some ramifications for the economy, as well: the malls may start to fill-up.
"Two-thirds of the country has cabin fever," he says.
Once consumers get cabin fever, one of the first things they do is go shopping, says Kathy Grannis, a spokeswoman for the National Retail Federation in Washington. "A lot of people are tired of wearing their winter clothes and are ready for some fresh apparel."
Warmer weather will also put consumers in a better mood.
In Bethlehem, Pa., Linda Cameron says the worst part of this winter was all the ice. She is looking forward to being able to go for walks without worrying about falling. "I almost bought it so many times," she says.
Christine Cannon of Haymarket, Va. says the warmer weather means she won't have to nag her four children, ages four to eleven, about wearing their hats and coats all the time. " 'What is it you don't understand about winter?' I've been asking them."
And, New York resident Sharon Gamsin says the better weather means she won't have to spend so much money plowing out her weekend cottage in Great Barrington, Mass. "It's costing me a fortune," she says. "I've had to have the roof cleared three times and some of the snow storms have been so heavy, I've had to pay for them to come twice in one day."


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Google has been slowly moving into digital content distribution services for a little over a year now. The last update to the Android Market included the integration of Google Music, Google Video, and Google Books. The services, in the countries they are available in, are even available on the android market website, and included the ability to purchase any content and have it exist anywhere. The services were sort of bolted on, and many felt offered as a consolation prize for users who were willing to accept Google as their one and only. The package was a distant third behind iTunes and Amazon, who were both offering similar services for their platforms.
As Google plans new products and services for Android, there needed to be a unified platform where everything is part of the same product and competes with the existing products on the market. That re-branding has happened and all of Google's digital media services have merged to become Google Play.
What's new about Play?
If you are already using Google Music, Movies, Books, and own an Android device, not much has changed for you in terms of how things work. You have a web hub and an app hub for all of your Google-powered digital goods. There's no "killer feature" that will blow your mind in any way. On the surface, this is just a re-branding, unifying the services under a new name. Over the next few days, your Android phone will get updates changing the names of apps to the new branding. Google Music will become Google Play Music, and so on. The Android Market will be called Google Play in your app drawer and on the website, but otherwise you haven't gained or lost anything. The message here is clear: Google Play is your home for digital content, and its all in the cloud because it's Google!
As you search the Play store, though, you begin to see the changes. This is no longer just a warehouse of things that you can buy, but rather an attempt at an actual shopping experience. Google has implemented the Play of the Day, which gives you an Android app or an Album for $0.25 every day. Movies and Books don't appear to have similar deal programs in place at the moment. So, you purchase your app and are prepared to install it, when Google Play now greets you with a recommendation for other apps on the home screen now, something we're all to used to on Amazon.
Why is Play important?
A brand is an incredibly important thing, especially in a world where — even on Android — your services face a unified competitor. The release of the Kindle Fire created an environment that is difficult to explain to a consumer. Yes, technically it is an Android tablet, but it is missing all of the Google bits. It's not an easy point to get across, especially when all of Google's services are considered separate at the moment. Now, it is much easier to say "this device does not support Google Play" and be done with the explanation. Being able to point at Play as though it is a single, critical component to Android will be a significant boost in the ability to explain the services as a combination of competitive products.
Re-branding all of Google's digital offerings is an important step for new services as well. Google has created a single object that is focused on the concept of buying things and having them live "in the cloud" for you to be able to access anywhere. That sounds like the perfect stage for Google to unveil their long-rumored "Google Drive" cloud locker, as just another part of Play. Now, when new cloud-based services are released with a mobile focus, they can be attached as new featured to Play, and the service will continue to grow from this framework.
What Google Play needs
Play still suffers from the same issues the separate services had before they were rolled into Play. There's still no way to gift any of the books, movies, albums, or apps to another person. There's no gift card or allowance function for users who have accounts that could benefit from that. When you navigate from the main Play website to Play Music, you are unable to click a button and get back to the main Play page. The services still mostly feel separated, and the apps are the same as they were yesterday. If Google wants us to believe these services are the same, they need to do more than slap a new graphic at the top.
Also, where is Google TV in all of this? Further proof that Google's smart TV product isn't seen as mission critical can be seen plain as day when you see that Play is not available in any real unified capacity on the platform. For all of their talk of unifying these services, there's still a lot to be done for this to actually feel unified.
Take a look at the Play promo video…