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At the outset of Linda Farthing's career, she was an operating room nurse at Central Kansas Medical Center. Now, almost 30 years later, she is the new vice president of St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center.
The 2011 Kansas Department of Corrections Employees and Volunteer of the Year were announced by Governor Sam Brownback and KDOC Secretary Ray Roberts today during special ceremonies at the Kansas Statehouse. Employees were nominated for each of the awards by their peers and the winners were chosen by a special panel from the KDOC Central Office. Here is a list of the winners and a brief synopsis for each:
Cornerstone Interiors has been chosen by VIETRI to represent Kansas in Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. 'The VIETRI story began in 1983 when a mother and two daughters traveled to Italy and fell in love with colorful, handpainted dinnerware made by local artisans. Today, VIETRI is the largest U.S. importer of exclusively Italian, handcrafted ceramics, stainless and pewter flatware, mouth blown glassware, lamps, urns and planters for home and garden, dining and decorating.
The Fuller Brush Company announced Thursday that Ellen Moran has been promoted to the position of chief financial officer, effective May 2. In her new position, Moran is responsible for the administration of all corporate finance and accounting functions. In addition to these duties, she will also supervise both the Information Technology and Human Resources departments.
When Connie Ruble, owner of Curves in Great Bend, opened the business seven years ago, the mission was to give the women in the Great Bend community a complete aerobic and strength training workout in a fun, supportive environment.
Pilates is a movement system that will lengthen and strengthen the body through a specific series of exercises. Pilates exercises work entire body groups in smooth, continuous movements. By developing proper technique, faulty movement patterns can be unlearned and you can actually re-train your body to move in safer, more efficient patterns of motion - invaluable for injury recovery, sports performance, good posture and optimal health. Focus is emphasized on proper breathing, spinal and pelvic ...
Each year, high school seniors living in the Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech service area with a parent or guardian subscribing to communication services are eligible to enter the Rural Telephone and Nex-Tech Scholarship Contest.
Modern Tire Dealer magazine just announced the top 100 retreaders in the U.S. and Becker Tire was listed once again. Shannon Jones, manager of the Retread Plant has 13 employees help him run the day to day operations of the retread plant. On average, the retread plant does four light truck tires, 130 truck tires, three OTR (Off-The-Road) tires a day. The plant is open Monday - Friday and some Saturdays. The Great Bend Retread ...
JLD Carwash recently opened at 205 E. 10th Street. Services available include vehicle cleaning and detailing. Call 620-796-2031 for more information.
Great Bend entrepreneur Mark Kind, owner of Miracle-Ear Service Center located at 918 Williams in Great Bend, earned the prestigious 2010 Platinum Club award from the Miracle-Ear® franchise organization. Miracle-Ear presents the award to the top franchisees in their network for achievements in adhering to compliance standards and excelling in four weighted sales performance categories.
The ribbon was cut Monday afternoon at the newly named St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center, formerly Central Kansas Medical Center. The Great Bend Chamber of Commerce event drew a large crowd to the facility.
Current President Rod Neier today named Mike Hilderbrand as the new incoming President for Roto-Mix, LLC. Neier will now assume the position of CEO and will continue to be a vital presence within the organization. "After conducting an extensive search, we were pleased to find the right team member to help lead us to the next level." commented Neier.
Donna Zimmerman, Barton County Clerk and Election Officer, attended the Kansas County Clerks and Election Officials at the Ramada Inn in Salina on May 3, for the annual 2011 Spring Conference.
Rick Long, Farmers Insurance agent in Great Bend, has completed the Career Agents Course at the University of Farmers. The University of Farmers training facility, located in Agoura Hills, Calif., was officially dedicated November 3, 2006.
More than 450 people attended the 2011 Kansas Optometric Association Convention, which took place April 28-30 in Wichita.
Dale Phillips, Barton County Road and Bridge, Noxious Weed and Memorial Parks Director, was named as the 2013 Highway Official of the Year by the Kansas County Highway Association.
Cheryl Gage has been promoted to manager of Commercial Banking Services in Long Beach for City National Bank. As manager, she is responsible for working closely with a team of specialists to deliver the bank's full range of financial solutions and expertise to successful, growing middle-market companies in Long Beach, South Bay and surrounding areas.
Harden Hospice Kansas recently hosted an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony on in celebration of its new office in Great Bend. Jan Westfall, hospice consultant with Harden Hospice Kansas, presided at the ceremony that was attended by 45 guests, including Harden Hospice Kansas staff members from the Great Bend, Hutchinson and Wichita offices. Chamber members and ambassadors, and members of the public were also included.
Barbara Wolford, an insurance agent in Great Bend's John Jaco agency for over three decades, was named the Agent of the Year Award by the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents at its annual management conference Oct. 3-4 in Overland Park.
TOPEKA - The Kansas Supreme Court announced Wednesday that Lisa Taylor has been appointed public information director for the Kansas Judicial Branch. Taylor succeeds Ron Keefover, who founded the court's public information office in 1981 and retired in September.
ELLINWOOD - Owned by Ann Christiansen, Annie Mae's, 518 E. Santa Fe has opened in Ellinwood. The former John Henry's now also serves breakfast and has takeout and delivery in Ellinwood.
Author Diana Webster announces the release of her new family novel, "The Parent," which helps parents examine their own relationships with their children.
C&V Home Improvement has been serving Central and Western Kansas for over 35 years. Since 2011, the growing company has been under the ownership of Matt Hoisington. When founder Dennis Carson sold his business to Hoisington, the two worked to move the company's headquarters from Ellinwood to Great Bend, with an office at 2407 10th Street. After two years of continual growth, C&V Home Improvement once again needed room to expand. In October, they hosted ...
The mission statement for The Station sums it up. "The purpose of The Station is to bring emotional and physical awareness and relaxation to the human body in a professional, honest, and educated way with accessibility to the client at a reasonable cost."
Rosewood Ranch horse therapy instructor Melinda Suppes took part in a grueling exam last May in Loveland, Colo. She endured four days of a workshop, written testing and field work, all with the goal of becoming a certified instructor with Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International. It wasn't until more than five months later that she learned the results of her exam.
Derek Fredrick thought if the buckets were "poppin' pink" they would draw a lot of attention. And if the results of a recent fundraiser are any indication, he was right.
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Q & A Q. If an employee is involved in an accident when driving a transit system maintenance vehicle (i.e., tow truck), the vehicle receives disabling damage, and the employee cannot be completely discounted as a contributing factor, should there be an FTA post-accident test? A. Yes, if the vehicle requires a CDL to operate. The technical corrections to the regulations published on March 6, 1995 changed the definition of mass transit vehicle to include not only buses and vans, but also non-revenue service commercial motor vehicles and vehicles used by armed security personnel. The information presented on this page should be used to update Chapter 2 of the Implementation Guidelines. |

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EAST RUTHERFORD: Capping a record-setting season with a spectacular display, Lionel Messi scored from three dazzling runs to finish with an unprecedented 82 goals for club and country and lead Argentina over South American rival Brazil 4-3 in a friendly Saturday.
"It was a very good year, and this was a great way to finish it," Messi said through a translator.
Already a three-time FIFA Player of the Year at age 24, Messi scored 73 goals from 60 games this season for Barcelona, breaking the previous European club record of 67 goals set by Bayern Munich's Gerd Mueller in 1972-73 and the world club record of 70 by Archie Stark of Bethlehem Steel in the American Soccer League in 1924-25.
"It's beautiful that people actually recognize me and know me and love my play," Messi said. "But again, I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't because of my teammates."
Messi scored nine goals from nine games for Argentina in the same span, raising his career total to 26 in 70 appearances. His goals in the 31st, 34th and 84th minutes Saturday gave him his second international hat trick and boosted his totals to 12 hat tricks this season and 22 in his career.
"I don't feel like I'm one of the best players yet," Messi said. "I want to keep growing, getting stronger and be in front of my team , and win, of course, because when you win, everything's easier."
Brazil dominated in the first 20 minutes, and Romulo put the Selecao ahead in the 23rd from short range with a right-footed shot from 8 meters off Neymar's free kick.
Messi followed by flashing the explosive speed and technical ability that has many ranking him alongside Pele and Diego Maradona among football's greatest players.
Gonzolo Higuain stripped the ball from Sandro just before midfield and passed to Messi. He outran defenders Bruno Uvini and Juan, took a touch and slotted in from about 15 meters.
Three minutes later, Messi exchanged passes with Angel Di Maria, usually a rival from Real Madrid , near the center circle, then burst in, rounded goalkeeper Rafael Cabral and scored from 10 meters to the delight of 81,994 fans at MetLife Stadium, a record for football in New Jersey..
"Amazing. Amazing. It's unbelievable," said midfielder Javier Mascherano, his teammate at Argentina and Barcelona. "He's the best player in the world, maybe one of the best players in history."
Using a mostly youthful squad ahead of the Olympics, Brazil took a 3-2 lead with goals by Oscar in the 56th and Hulk in the 72nd, the latter when goalkeeper Sergio Romero batted a corner attempt right to him, but Frederico Fernandez equalized three minutes later when he headed in a corner by substitute Sergio Aguero.
Then came a goal that will long be remembered. Messi took a pass just past midfield near the sideline, dribbled around Marcelo and cut diagonally for the goal. He took a half-dozen touches as defenders dropped back. Then, with Juan stepping up to stop Messi's run, the Argentine cut to the center and just short of the arc let loose with a 23-meter rocket that went in just under the crossbar.
Messi ran to his bench and was mobbed by teammates as Rafael Cabral turned and retrieved the ball from the net with a disgusted look. It was his 26th goal from 70 games for Argentina.
"Nobody can defend again him," Albiceleste defender Pablo Zabaleta said through a translator. "He makes the difference on any team.
He's incredible, the way he plays. He goes hand in hand with his team. He goes from the right, the middle, shares the ball. You can't stop him."
Barcelona lost its Champions League and Spanish league titles, but won the Club World Cup and Copa del Rey this season. Argentina, coming off a disappointing 2010 World Cup and 2011 Copa America, is in the middle of qualifying for the 2014 tournament, which will be played in Brazil.
"I'm not sure if the amount of goals made me feel better," Messi said. "Being able to finish like this against Brazil and win, I'm happy, I'm calm. I didn't ask for the ball, but they gave it to me anyway."
Brazil: Rafael Cabral; Rafael da Silva (Danilo, 80), Bruno Uvini, Juan, Marcelo; Sandro, Romulo (Casemiro, 74), Oscar (Giuliano, 60); Neymar, Hulk (Lucas, 83), Leandro Damiao (Alexandre Pato, 68)
Argentina: Sergio Romero; Federico Fernandez, Ezequiel Garay, Pablo Zabaleta, Clemente Rodriguez (Hugo Campagnaro, 88); Javier Mascherano, Fernando Gago, Jose Sosa, Angel Di Maria (Sergio Aguero, 74); Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain (Ezequiel Lavezzi, 88)


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Knowledge assets - how to ensure they stay relevant
There has been lots of debate recently about knowledge assets, mainly the knowledge assets of an organisation... or at least I think that's what it means. So I'm just wondering what does the term 'knowledge asset' mean?
I have found lots of use of the phrase but no clear definition. The context of the article/blog/tweet/conversation is not always the same, in fact neither is the sector, nor the implication of the words.
For law firms, what might represent a 'knowledge asset'?
My view is it's more than KM processes and tools although these can be really valuable to sharpen up and gather opinion, a chunky element of the 'asset' recipe might be missing. Sharing experience combined with opinion, to create something more powerful... perhaps that gives us the definition of a 'knowledge asset'?
If there is an active community, taking ownership and refreshing that knowledge keeps it developing and remains meaningful and relevant. So it's 'best practice' with teeth, always being brushed up with regular interaction, expertise and consideration. That all has to come from various people with their own views and expertise, to shape, change and develop any asset. It shifts from something with little flex into a moving asset guided along with direction; otherwise you can see the possible result of too many discussions without any focus. I think that this is where it's possible to really add value and richness to knowledge, it has new depths.
Perhaps an unlikely comparison is the social media hub we are all familiar with, Facebook. Now I know it's not the same as a knowledge asset, and I'm not suggesting it is, but please keep with me for a few more seconds. There might be something we can learn. Many users enthusiastically keep their profile, status and more up to the minute. It develops its own best practice and the community of practice shares knowledge constantly. A friend of mine is a collector and regularly contributes to various Facebook groups and makes some amazingly useful connections. Her passion for Hello Kitty merchandise cannot be reined in, but it's very profitable - who knew?! So what's the point? Facebook has becomes a well leveraged (by some) personal knowledge asset, and is increasingly becoming linked to legal matters.
The Daily Telegraph recently reported the High Court's ruling to serve legal claims via Facebook, due to difficulties in trying to locate one of the parties. That's happened before through the County Courts but this is the first for the High Court.
Of course Facebook is not all it seems though. My friend's dog has his own Facebook page, and Facebook friends. His name isn't an easily recognisable dog name and no photo. He has even organised a party through Facebook, what a smart little fellow.


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I tried the MP3 players for the PS2 (PS2 reality player & Paradox's MP3 player) and notice that the sound has quite a high level of distortion in the background. This becomes even clearer when Kenny G's sax is being played. Bass tracks a quite ok, as the distortion focuses around the 1-5khz region of the sound spectrum.
Are the two players using the same MP3 decoder, as both of them sounded awful and iritating when I hooked my PS2 to my Arcam amplifier and Mission speakers. Well, at least on computer speakers it sounded far better due to the lower fidelity. Any other MP3 players for the PS2 that is on par with the quality sound found on Winamp?


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Sign language interpreter finds gratification in helping disable students succeed
Chuc Nguyen, The Oklahoma Daily
For more than 20 years, Alicia Martin has worked to help students get the most out of their education.
Martin is the head sign language interpreter and the associate director of OU's Disability Resource Center. Each semester, she works with students to make sure they have equal access to information in their classes despite disabilities.
There are currently eight students on campus who have interpreters or real-time transcriptionists, said Suzette Dyer, director of Disability Resource Center.
Martin said the most gratifying thing about her job is being able to watch students succeed.
"The ultimate [reward] is to see students graduate and succeed in what they love," Martin said.
Martin started studying sign language when she was 13 years old. She enrolled in a class out of curiosity, she said.
That curiosity manifested into something much more.
By her second semester of college, Martin already was interpreting for 20 students.
Interpreting turned into a career for Martin, who served as an independent contractor at OU for 15 years before she was hired as a full staff member eight years ago. Martin was promoted to her current position as associate director four years ago.
Martin currently works with three students on campus. Her days are spent either in the classroom or working to coordinate resources for other registered students.
The relationships she has with students are very professional, Martin said, but former students frequently reach out to her after graduation to update her on their accomplishments — which she finds very fulfilling.
Special education junior Amy Galoob said it is very easy to communicate and connect with interpreters like Martin. Galoob is one of the eight students registered with Disabilities Research Center as deaf or hearing impaired.
Galoob didn't use an interpreter in high school, however, she said she decided to have one when she transitioned to college. She said she didn't have the support she needed in high school, but working with the Disabilities Resource Center has given her that support.
"I wanted to show people what I can do," Galoob said. "I can do whatever I want to."
The resource center does not just offer interpreters to students; it also works to target specific teaching trends that are more challenging for students that are deaf or hard of hearing, Martin said.
For example, classes that regularly utilize movies and other types of media are more challenging for these students — who find it difficult to watch both the movie and the interpreter, she said.
Her goal is to get professors to include captions on films during classes so the students can "have full access" to the material, Martin said.
The resource center's ultimate goal is to make sure all students receive the best education in their classes and obtain all of the information, Martin said.
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To date, we have managed to raised SGD 310.
SGD 240 from the sales of our toys SGD 70 from cash contributions
The lady at the local store has gotten back with the quotation.
The socks and slippers will add up to a grand total of SGD 432
We may be able to add more items to our list if we manage to raise more than our initial targeted amount of SGD 500.
Items that we may be adding to the list are
3 street soccer balls
6 table tennis bat
3 ping pong balls
5 tubes of badminton shuttlecocks
Cup Noodles (assorted flavours)
Packet Drinks (assorted flavours)
Steam buns (assorted – for tea break)
Nestum cereal (tin)
We will still be needing your support to help spead the word so that more people will get to know about this.
You can
- Blog about this on your site (pls leave me a note or drop me an email so that I can link you back)
- Share this post to those you know via email and Facebook
- Place the Project Happy Feet banner (200 x 200 pixels) on your site
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Cash and toy contributions are welcome but do drop me an email haifangsee[at]gmail[dot]com if you intend to do so.
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Converter Lockup Control for GM automatic trans w/lockup converter & electronic speedometer
- Provides dash mounted control to govern converter lockup at speeds between 30 & 90 mph
- LED indicates converter as locked or unlocked
Provides control of converter lockup through vehicle speed on GM TH-700, 200, 200-4R, 350 and 4L60 transmissions with a lockup converter. Eliminates lock and unlock cycling and premature unwanted lockup avoiding engine lugging and spark knock. Provides lockup at highway speeds for fuel economy. Can be used for lockup operation when converting a non-lockup equipped vehicle to a lock-up style transmission and converter.
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Hi guys, im new here and not much of a network guy. My desktop is connected to my dlink router, and my laptop is connected wireless via router. Both pc's run vista 64.
From what i was told every device should have a different ip address. But my pc and router seem to have the same.
So far my "obtain ip address automatically" is checked. Everything seems to work fine, But when i try to change my pc's ip address to lets say 192.168.0.X, my internet stops working.
If I change the ip address of the router to 192.168.0.X, my default gateway changes to the same address. Im assuming thats normal.
Here is a screen of my network map if anything seems to be out of the ordinary
sry for the newb questions guys, Im seriously considering a networking for dummies book lol....i really am no jokes


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Organ Transplants at Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine has been a pioneer in organ transplantation for nearly 50 years, performing its first successful kidney transplant in 1966. Penn Transplant Institute in Philadelphia, PA, leads the region in total number of transplants performed and is ranked among the top 10 multi-organ transplant centers in the country.
Transplant Programs
Organ Transplants at Its Best
The Penn Transplant Institute consistently meets or exceeds the national average in all organ transplants. These superior outcomes are a result of the combined efforts of multiple clinical departments across Penn Medicine and a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of end-stage organ disease.
View Outcomes & Survival Rates | Heart Transplant | Kidney Transplant | Liver Transplant | Lung Transplant
Raising Awareness for Organ Donations
The Penn Transplant Institute is dedicated to increasing awareness of the need for organ and tissue donation. Penn supports the Gift of Life Donor Program through such events as the DASH for Organ Awareness and U.S. Transplant Games.
Organ Transplants for Children
For a parent, there is nothing more frightening than being told, "Your child needs an organ transplant." The transplant center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of the largest multi-organ pediatric transplant centers in the country and its team members are committed to improving the health and lives of children needing transplants.
Penn surgeons work hand-in-hand with the pediatric transplant specialists in the kidney and liver transplant programs to perform the transplants at CHOP. In addition, the Penn Transplant Institute has established a joint program with CHOP to allow healthy adult relatives to donate organ tissue to children with end-stage kidney or liver disease.


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Seems like nobody invests more sweat equity in their sport than track and cross country athletes and their coaches. The athletes start logging miles in the off-season and then pile on even more once the season starts. And the work doesn't end after the workout. Coaches invest hours analyzing the data, logging individual split times on the computer and strategizing on how to help their athletes improve. We have some of these volunteer coaches in our midst here at Garmin, so we get it. And we think it's payback time, so we just launched the Garmin Coach program. Garmin Coach rewards student athletes and coaches with a $50 rebate on the purchase of a Forerunner 210, Forerunner 610 or an FR70 with foot pod. In addition to giving athletes the ability to track every mile and minute of their training, they can upload their runs to a team page at Garmin Connect where their coach can analyze the data in detail, see an athlete's progression through the season, compare to other team members' data and more.
Look for the Garmin Coach rebate at your specialty fitness dealer and find out more at the Garmin Coach website. Rebate extends from January 15 - May 15, 2012.


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Tuesday, September 27 6-8 pm
Join Karen Lindeen, Head of Middle School, Amy Miller, Assistant Head of School, and Terry Passalacqua, Head of School, for a dynamic conversation about successful parenting in the middle school years. Topics like the importance of structure, appropriate homework support, and creating an environment conducive to academic and personal success will be discussed. Please see the attached 'Parent Community Seminars' for a full listing of seminars offered throughout the year.
Archive for September, 2011
Parenting In The Middle School Years Seminar
Shelton Tutor Training
Shelton Sequential English Education Program Tutor Training
Saturday, October 8 9 am-4 pm
Sunday, October 9 9 am-1 pm
We are pleased to host Joyce Pickering, Executive Director Emeritus of The Shelton School in Dallas, for a workshop for individuals interested in tutoring students with diagnosed learning differences related to language. The SEE program will be implemented at Desert Academy during Special Sessions this school year, and will be offered as a summer program next summer. We need more tutors! This is a free training designed to prepare parents, teachers, or interested community members to tutor in this program. Please contact Guillermo Tilley, Desert Academy learning specialist, at firstname.lastname@example.com, if you would like to participate in the training.
Parenting Students with Learning Differences Seminar
Parenting Students with Learning Differences: A talk by Joyce Pickering from the Shelton School
Thursday, October 6 6:00-7:30 pm
Plan to join us on Thursday, October 6 for an evening with Joyce Pickering, Executive Director Emeritus of the Shelton School in Dallas. Shelton is the largest school for students with learning differences in the world. This will be an informative and enlightening opportunity to understand how best to support your student with learning differences.
Interim Week Success
Our Interim activities have been a great success! Be sure to check out our facebook page
New Campus Gathering
Please join us for a community gathering at 2:00pm Sunday, October 2, 2011 at our soon-to-be new campus!
The property is 26 acres, located at 7300 Old Santa Fe Trail which is the corner of Old Santa Fe Trail and El Gancho Way. Our Parent Association is sponsoring this event and will provide refreshments. Guests will be able to see our plans for the property and hear from students, parents, and others about our community's excitement about our future. Our architect and contractor will be there to answer questions about construction while our Board of Trustees and administration will be on hand to talk about what this means for the future of education in the Santa Fe area. We welcome the community to join us for this joyous event!
For questions, please contact Kay Rice, Director of Advancement, and 992.8284 x 23 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Parent Education Seminars
Please click to download the link below to access the Parent Community Seminars Schedule.


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Big Weekend 2011
In Rainbows @ The Big Weekend...
"Challenging and encouraging – the best combination"
"thought-provoking, life-developing and great fun too"
150 students and graduates gathered at Cliff College in Derbyshire for The Big Weekend from the 11th to 13th of February. Together with Mark Greene from London Institute of Contemporary Christianity we explored the topic of 'Whole Life Discipleship' and the notion that everything we do matters intensely to God, because quite simply, God is intensely interested in us. Mark led us through three excellent plenary sessions promoting a very challenging but life affirming message that our faith must touch our uni courses, our work, the music we listen to, the films we watch and even the current student predilection for Facebook...
Alongside the plenary sessions very practical training was given in three distinct tracks. These helped students to go deeper into discovering how to grow practically in discipleship (Ignite); how to help others grow as disciples (Equip) and how to be effective as disciples in contemporary culture (Engage).
There was time for walking in the beautifulcountryside, checking out Chatsworth House, Six nations Rugby and for a great game of football on a muddy pitch on Saturday! In the middle of the afternoon the clearest, most amazing Rainbow appeared over Cliff College which reminded us of God's promises and resonated with the theme of the weekend- God is with you wherever you are, whatever you are doing and the whole of creation belongs to him.


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..or would it be a waste? Have the impression 2caps per day could be quite harsh
Have the impression that you're a pus$y
Fairly certain the methylsten isn't very effective at that dose.. never heard good things about ultradtol being ran at 12mg. As for the other compound I have no idea. Really I have no idea..haha. But when I decide to run my bottle i'm definitely going 2 caps.
Cultivating Mass.
LmfaoOriginally Posted by jamesm11
My Log: http://anabolicminds.com/forum/cycle-info/232379-halfhuman-ironflex-ultra.html
Better a puss than dead
Really? Dead? Like that extra 10mg of each suddenly surpasses the toxicity levels? Take the proper supports.Originally Posted by uubiduu
If you're that clueless, unable to read others logs and/or do research then you shouldn't even be taking hormonal supplements.
Why is he clueless because he wants to take 1 per day?
Methylstenbolone alone suggested dosing for new users is 8-12mg per day.
Are there any logs in existence where someone recorded taking only 1 per day? I'd try it.. why not?


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Is a genuine friendship between a man and a woman possible?
Do you really believe that men are from Mars and women from Venus? I do not. Not all men and not all women behave identically. This type of categorization is unreasonable and counter-productive, because it creates a scission between the two genders. Since men and women are from the same planet, does it signify that they can be real friends? Well, I do not believe in this eventuality either. I think that there is always a degree of sexual implicitness between a man and a woman that prevents a true and healthy male-female friendship from existing. If travesty of friendship there is, it cannot be entirely fulfilling, because this unavoidable sexual tension needs to be suppressed at all costs, and this is frustrating. Both individuals who are involved have the obligation to conceal what their true motives are, so the platonic relation can be given a chance to survive longer.
Do you currently have a friendship that is completely drama-free with someone of the opposite sex, in the sense that there is absolutely no unspoken expectation whatsoever? If you answer yes a bit too rapidly, I would encourage you to take a truthful look at your feelings and to open your eyes wide, so you can assess what your friend's true motivations are. Maybe is he a "friend with benefits?" Under this scenario, sex is not taboo, which represents a significant advantage. However a challenge still subsists. The man and the woman must not judge themselves for mixing friendship and casual sex, and neither one of them must secretly seek a relationship. Good luck…
::: Is it that reprehensible to be sexually attracted to a friend?
A platonic relationship is always possible but, ultimately, isn't it destined to be short-lived? What primarily creates this attraction that generates the desire that a man and a woman have to connect? Is it a physical attribute, an intellectual proficiency, a social or a professional status? These are superficial viewpoints that you have been trained to embrace, so you can make choices according to constructed and often times imposed standards. But if you erase such programming from your mind, the element that truly triggers your interest to connect with someone of the other sex has nothing to do with a measurement or a judgment. In reality, it is an energy that captivates your attention and that fills your body and your mind with a sensation that only euphoric sex can produce. If you truthfully choose to be in tune with all your senses when you meet someone with whom you want to develop a friendship, regardless of the gender, you will experience this very particular sensation. It feels good, warm, nurturing, safe and orgasmic. So the exact same energy that is experienced during euphoric sex is the key-element that attracts you to another individual.
As soon as you or your friend acknowledges that the friendship was built on the premises of an energy that replicates the sensations that only great sex can offer, the friendship becomes totally biased. The pretense of maintaining a platonic relation cannot hold any longer. In this case, what are your options? Do you come clean and reveal the content of your realizations? Well, this can be quite risky. First, the decision to confess that the friendship was in reality based on a sexual energy can have one major dreadful consequence: that your friend refuses to admit that he or she had the same motives and now blames you for opening-up. In all two-way interactions, it takes two to tango. What you initially felt is no different from what he or she initially felt as well. No one was forced to commit to a platonic relationship that was certainly not one from the very beginning, anyway. However, the utter refusal to acknowledge a reality led to a farce. Second, your friend who refuses to openly admit his or her true feelings, certainly out of shame or embarrassment, will use your honesty as a tool for emotional extortion. And how can you react to someone who says, "How could you do this to me? I thought we were friends!"? Don't you feel compelled to do whatever it takes to appease your accuser?
In this day and age, male-female interactions cannot be avoided, whether they happen in a professional or in a social setting. In this world, to be involved in a romantic relationship is viewed as an absolute necessity, because of the heavy judgments that are directed toward those who have not found their mate yet. In this society, most marriages are utterly horrendous and the courage to walk away is quasi-inexistent. And such cowardice pushes those unhappy souls to seek comfort in the reassuring words of a friend, with the hope that it will soon turned into the arms of a lover. Now who benefits more from those types of interactions? Is it a win-win situation for all parties involved? Can everyone be rewarded emotionally? Or does it rather tend to be a one-way street, where the individual who is convinced of the pertinence of his or her unspoken feelings has a definite edge?
::: Ultimately, is a man-woman friendship no different from a man-woman relationship?
Aren't the expectations exactly the same, at least in the beginning? A man-woman relationship starts on the exact same premises as a man-woman friendship, excepted for the fact that in the relationship, sex is supposed to quickly become an intrinsic part of the equation. How often have you claimed that you had finally met your best friend on the day you thought that you had met your life partner, or the other way around? Both types of relations cannot be dissociated. They originate from the exact same energy. This is why the sexual desire, whether it is cognitive, is omnipresent in the friendship, whereas it tends to disappear over time in the relationship. It is in most individuals' nature to crave what they cannot get. Consequently, when they are unable to gratify their sexual appetite because the friendship does not allow them to be open and forward about their true desires, they stick around, hoping that intercourse happens one day. When it does happen, the unspoken goal has been reached, and the choice to maintain the friendship does not make much sense any more. There is a progressive loss of interest, and the interaction slowly dies. This is also what happens in a great majority of relationships. One party grows tired and disinterested, and the relation ceases to exist. To avoid loneliness, it then becomes urgent to construct a friendship with someone of the opposite sex, hoping that this relation includes sex at some point down the road. This is the extra-marital affair.
Most men and women are ashamed of their feelings and desires, especially when those revolve around sex. For reasons that only their upbringings and self-imposed beliefs and values can explain, the reluctance to acknowledge and own such feelings and desires is utterly painful, if not totally impossible. So it generates interactions that are toxic before they even start. If we consider that all male-female friendships are based on a sexual energy, can you sense the level of intrinsic discomfort that systematically rules the lives of those friendships? Behind the laughters, the discussions, the commonalities and the activities, there is a lot of resentment since the sexual desire is suppressed. And any glitch in the interaction, certainly because of something trivial that was said but surprisingly misinterpreted, is in reality a reflection of this sexual desire that is so difficult to continue suppressing. This is when all the emotional baggage that was accumulated from all past failed relationships and friendships emerges again. And it is fueled by all the vexations inherent to a friendship that is not going the way it was implicitly expected to go. The person who becomes the recipient of the other's sudden anger and frustrations cannot choose any other alternative but to be defensive and defiant, in reaction to his or her own inability to express his or her true intentions.
For what reasons do most individuals refuse to create clean interactions with people of the opposite sex? They are in relationships, they have circles of friends, and none of these relations is healthy. Is it because of the presence of an insatiable sexual desire that cannot be revealed? Is it because of a sexual desire that was finally satisfied, and now there is nothing exciting left to look into? If you take the need for physical sex away from all these equations, then a new possibility can emerge that will not disrupt the dynamic. When contemplating your involvement in a healthy relationship or friendship, the sole alternative is the necessity to be totally judgment-free. Without it, either one is deemed to fail sooner or later. This certainly goes against all the programming and conditioning to which most folks have been subjected and the way this world functions, where judgments must be an intrinsic part of all interactions.
Platonic love does not exist. Friendships with benefits work as long as all parties involved get their share of the benefits. Beyond that, it is important to note that all friendships are based on an initial attraction that carries a strong sexual energy. It does not necessarily mean that it is a desire to have sex. It is nothing more than just a sexual energy. And anyone who judges sex in any shape or form cannot have healthy friendships and, of course, relationships. If you assume the entirety of your thoughts, which means that you do not judge them, then the male-female friendship is possible.


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I'll break each meal down for you below.
For breakfast today, I had and egg and cheese sandwich. Or… that's what I thought I was going to have when I ordered it last week. What I actually got was a Southwestern Egg and Cheese sandwich. To be honest, this meal was mediocre. Partly because I don't like eggs that much (and probably made a mistake in ordering them) and mostly because I don't like salsa or bell peppers with my eggs and this "southwestern" mix was full of both. I think maybe if my tastes were different and I enjoyed eggs more, I would have thought it was fine, but I didn't so… moot point. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's cinnamon raisin whole wheat bagel with yogurt-cream cheese.
Lunch was FANTASTIC. I had a turkey meatball sandwich. Uh, yum! The meatballs were smothered in great tasting sauce and there were quite a few of them (score!). The roll was fresh and delicious, though it was a little small to fit all the yummy meatballs and sauce. Luckily, thanks to my stealthiness (and lifetime of learning to eat a lot and disguise it as a little…) in the words of Tim Gunn, I made it work. The only wrinkle in my lunch was when I got (unhealthily) excited about a deli pickle which the directions on the package instructed me to remove before microwaving my meal. When I opened the package to remove said pickle, the pickle was missing. I was SO looking forward to that pickle… maybe next time!
Cheese tortellini with meat sauce and sauteed broccoli and carrots. Like lunch, also really good. The meat sauce was eerily similar to the turkey meatball sandwich mixture and therefore, yum-tastic. The tortellini portion seemed small but I think I will get used to it and once I was actually eating instead of examining, there seemed to be plenty. The broccoli was good… it was broccoli… not a lot you can mess up. The carrots were cooked carrots, which are just about my least favorite cooked veggie, but they were not bad either. I would order this again for sure.
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Career Transition Truths for Women
I am writing a book about my career transition, which started in 2006 and is still unfolding and developing. Through this reflective process, I am seeing so clearly that transition is always in motion even if you are in the same industry and company for a long time.
If you are a woman managing and juggling all of the things that women are responsible for, you see that transition, and the transitioning process, is pretty much a daily occurrence.
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When things outside of us change, we are changing too. Most times we are not even aware of it, unless it is some tumultuous turn of events. I can remember being on such a high ride 1985-2000, while in broadcast radio. It was the best of times for business and our industry. It was fun, it worked for customers and clients, and we all made money.
Subtly, things started to transition and change internally and externally: commissions were reduced, procedures were changed, budgets and staffs were cut back, management became more conservative, the economy slowed, technology changed, and so on. They affected all of us, but we trudged on.
Transition to where it was going was already in motion. So, why don't we pay more attention to these early signs and shifts? Too busy? Inertia? Fear? Complacency?
I could feel the "winds of change" pick up. Gusts of wind started blowing through our company. I was caught in the draft. After 20 plus years in media and 9 at the same company, I sensed impending big change. I wanted to ignore it, but it was hard to ignore the "cheese was moving."
Women have such a strong sense of "intuition" that can be so useful and effective in transitioning.
I have learned to pay attention to, and trust, that intuition. When I announced I was leaving in 2006, people told me I was "out of my mind." I smiled and said "Maybe, but it's going to change anyway." It did, big time.
The Truths
In looking back on my transition so far, I have learned 4 truths that have helped me keep the faith and keep going.
- Vision: It's never too late to transition.
- Courage: Don't be afraid of change.
- Self esteem: Believe in who you are and the value of what you do.
- Perseverance: Set yourself up to be successful by doing whatever it takes.
Think back, what are some of the things that as a woman you have learned during your transitions?
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We are always transitioning, even when we are stable. Learning to Flow and Grow with, and during, transition and making good things come out of it is a highly valued skill these days, especially for women!
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NEW YORK (Feb. 8, 2011) – Joseph King Kong Agbeko will defend his International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight world championship against undefeated rising star Abner Mares, who defends his WBC Silver bantamweight championship in the eagerly awaited finals of The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All on Saturday, April 23 LIVE on SHOWTIME® (10:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. In what will be a hotly contested co-feature, former two-division world champion Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan and former IBF bantamweight world champion Yonnhy "El Colombiano" Perez will clash in the tournament consolation bout. brownsugar says:
Battle of the Mohawks,..Wow,.. Agbeko is the most improved boxer in the tournament.. it was shocking to see how he finessed his way through his bout with Perez. Mares might have too big of a pair to box effectively. His balls to the wall approach is his biggest asset and his biggest liability.. Agbeko by smooth 12round unnanimous decison.


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Viewfinder: The E-1's focusing screen is very bright and contrasty. The screen image shows 98 percent of the picture area, a great performance with no parallax error, superior to other SLRs in this class. However, the viewfinder magnification was among the lowest of the DSLRs we've tested. In our AF-sensitivity diagram, shaded areas inside the marked AF zones represent the actual sensitivity. The center cross shows slightly off-center horizontal and vertical sensitivity, while the two side zones have narrow vertical sensors smaller than marked. |
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After failing on a few occasions to start inland water transport for Mumbai, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has made yet another move to kickstart water transport for the eastern and western fronts. A few years ago, hovercraft services were available between Chowpatty and Juhu on the western front and Gateway of India to Vashi and Belapur in Navi Mumbai. A few experiments were conducted to provide hovercraft services till Mulund too. But the unorganised efforts of companies did not yield results. The MSRDC has been planning to shape up the proposal. Its last attempt was caught in a legal wrangle and the company shortlisted for the task was not financially viable. This time around, the MSRDC wants to formulate a concrete plan with all-weather crafts. As the MSRDC is seeking companies with good financial backgrounds, the officials have called for proposals with a deposit of Rs three crore for the western suburbs and Rs two crore for the eastern suburbs. The project will be implemented on Build Operate and Transfer basis. The companies will have to design, finance, construct, monitor, operate, maintain and transfer the project. The final proposals have to reach the MSRDC office by March 7, 2009. On the western front, the MSRDC wants to connect the central business district of Nariman Point with Gorai, with stoppages at Chowpatty, Bandra and Andheri. On the eastern side, the authorities plan to connect the Gateway of India with Navi Mumbai and Mulund. This will save travel time too. MSRDC's founder-managing director R C Sinha who shaped the flyovers for the city said, "The corporation must study the proposal and its feasibility or it would turn into something like the Worli-Bandra project (where costs are increasing each month.)'' The Maharashtra Maritime Board was to start the construction of jetties at Gorai, but this too has not been done. Corporation sources said they have the permission from the environment and forest ministry but the eastern front plan was yet to get the final nod. Following the terror attacks, the department of atomic energy is also likely to put forward its objections as the BARC falls en route.
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Cambridge City manager Gary Roberts has added Allen Bossman and Chris Bacon to his first-team squad.
Bossman, a midfielder, is the brother of recent new signing Kelvin Bossman.
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Tumors are ugly. But the staff at Massachusetts General Hospital takes a snapshot of almost every one that crosses the doorstep.
These snapshots are not photographs, but are rather whole rap sheets on the genetic deformities that twist normal cells into cancerous ones. In a laboratory tucked within the labyrinth of corridors connecting the hospital's many buildings, researchers punch tiny cores no bigger than a grain of rice from tumor samples. Those cores are handed off to robots and tested for 110 mutations that commonly strike 15 genes important in cancer.
Across the country, doctors at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland use another method for testing tumors. The staff there looks for 643 different mutations in 52 genes in solid tumors, such as those of lung and colon cancer, and screens blood or bone marrow from leukemia patients for 370 mutations across 31 genes. Though the tests don't reveal everything that has gone wrong to lead to a patient's tumor, they may point to mistakes that drive the cancer. "They're the original 'stomp on the gas pedal' type of mutations," says Christopher Corless, a pathologist who directs the tests at Oregon.
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If Tulsa's shiny, new comprehensive plan was fully executed you might think you were in the wrong place. You'd see a much denser, more transit centered kinetic space with lots of alternative housing, a more lively street life, lots of "intelligent," even canny streets, buildings and way pointers, and a profoundly richer economic outlook.
We have a first rate road map, but our new planning machine needs a gifted driver, a detailed rulebook, some jumpstart projects and some walking around money.
We also need some hyper driven determination.
Gauging the reality of Tulsa's embrace of emerging planning concepts is a little like watching Akira Kurosawa's epic film Rashomon. The film depicts a brutal assault on a husband and wife via a kaleidoscopic and wildly different set of eyewitness accounts of the tragic event, including a view from the vantage of the perpetrator, one from the wife, another from the dead husband, and the perspective of a sort of "above it all" narrator -- an outlook that seems the most evenhanded. The collective perspectives are mutually contradictory.
My talks with agency leaders, key stakeholders and some folks at City Hall reminds me of Kurosawa's powerful visual poem.
According to some, we are off to see the wizard having adopted a surprising visionary, imaginative comprehensive plan. This contingent of folks also says that a new zoning code -- to add some regulatory and legal teeth into the new plan -- is at hand as well.
Dwain E. Midget, who is Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr.'s czar for neighborhoods and some allied matters, is a firm advocate of the progress vantage. He says that Tulsa has a new and powerful toolkit for crafting a vibrant, fully competitive and fairer city, and that we only get one chance per generation at launching a project of this scale. Midget says we have to take the time to get it right.
Countering such claims is a growing cadre of critics who say the pace of the Mayor's efforts to date are simply too slow.
PLANiTULSA citizens advisory committee and Transportation Advisory Board member Jamie Jamieson and Bill Leighty, chairman of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission and a member of the city's Transportation Advisory Board are in the doubt club -- and both are highly committed veterans of the PLANiTULSA process.
Jamieson and Leighty are also fevered advocates for some of the most far-reaching and imaginative elements of Tulsa's new plan. They say, rightly, that PLANiTULSA was a broad scope participation process, garnered intense interest from a panoramic bevy of Tulsans and, apart from basic service provision, should be totally central to what the Mayor and Council focus on for months and months to come.
Like Midget, both Jamieson and Leighty see the new planning machinery as vehicle, provided that big private investments and sizable public bucks are available, for sparking a re-animated, more prosperous community.
What few are saying openly is that the ongoing Mayor/Council war has done damage to Tulsa's new planning effort by draining it of crucial political, psychological and actual energy. If you're fighting a war -- and that's only a slightly hyperbolic description of the nearly two-year struggle between Bartlett and the Tulsa City Council -- you can't be at the top of your game on other fronts.
Back to the Future
Tulsa has an intense, schizoid fixation with city planning and futures work. We privilege the cowboy impulse, free markets and gonzo capitalism, but place great value on an ordered town, grand civic and cultural assets and a road system that works well.
Effective planning is more than maps, concepts and creating conditions for quality physical spaces and projects.
Excitingly, crucial elites and powerful folks in our business community are finally coming to grips with the continuing impacts of the Race Riot of 1921 on racial atmospherics and a still hugely dysfunctional growth dynamic that makes North Tulsa and parts of West Tulsa devoid of retail and commercial vitality.
This and other efforts to get beyond our "Oil Capital of the World" identity are real economic and psychological tasks.
The PLANiTULSA project is ambitious and multifaceted and includes an ensemble of physical, transportation and economic development futures for Tulsa.
The plan was synthesized from a huge array of meetings, sample surveys, mobile workshops and lots of consulting and public staff work. The project would have died absent huge political investment from former Mayor Kathy Taylor, support from key members of the Tulsa Planning Commission and good support from the Tulsa City Council.
Core Ideas
•A new zoning code: There is a vastly different model for zoning called form-based zoning, which focuses more on the scope, scale and neighborhood "fit" of a proposed/redeveloped project than on its "use" -- a prime target of conventional zoning. The idea is straightforward: mix things up and return big patches of Tulsa, over time, to kinetic mixed use spaces. Once the city selects a helper firm to assist in the new zoning code, it may take 18 months for a finished product -- one that will surely feature some facets of the form-based notion.
•Context-specific solutions
Planners and engineers have reconceived street corridors a that define the day-to-day life of a city. Imagine our streets in Tulsa having widely differing features -- some having lots of bike lane space, others featuring semi-dedicated lanes for rapid speed buses, others having narrower spans to accommodate pedestrian pathways. Obviously we have, in small measure, instances of all this stuff in Tulsa. Context-specific solutions for roads and other fixtures, however, would allow for a sort of radical customization of our built world to match varied requirements.
In the next issue, I'll explore more of the core ideas at play in Tulsa's new plan.
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