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I got my U350 Win 7 upgrade discs yesterday and I've performed a clean install. I've installed the easy camera application from Lenovo support site and it works well.
After I installed the Lenovo Energy Management software, all the Fn buttons are also working and they are showing the little graphic image on the screen (like volume up/down, camera on/ff etc).
Any idea, why the ReadyComm software used?
The only drivers I've installed from the Win 7 upgrade disc 2 are,
1. Ethernet driver
2. Chipset driver (even though I guess it is not required, as my screen resolution was perfect with out it)
3. Sound driver (sound card was working but to get the Dolby and Smart Audio applications, I've installed it)
4. Energy Management
5. Camera software (i inturrepted the driver installation in between, but before that as well Win 7 recognized my camera and the driver is from Microsoft and not from Lenovo)
I'm not sure if I need to install any other drivers.
So far, so good with my U350 + Win 7. No problems detected.
I read on some other forum that people are having issues with Sleep and Wakeup.
I tried to put my laptop to sleep by closing the lid and after a little while I tried to wake it up, but it was not coming so I had to do a hard restart.
Afterthat I've changed the settings under "Power Options:" in control panel on what to do when the lid closed, what to do when the sleep or power button pressed, and it was good till then.
If i put it to sleep, it wakes up quickly when I want it.
Guys, if you have any questions or have any comments please let me know.
1. I've also installed the Synaptics Touchpad (mouse) driver. But the multi touch feature is not working. It worked earlier on Win Vista.
Any of you have the same problem?
2. When I installed the Intel matrix storage monitor driver (I'm not sure what is the need of this?), when the system restarted the Harddisk was making very loud noice when the Windows Login screen appeared. (I guess that is when the application actually loads (at the login screen) and is causing that sound).
I was scared of damazing the hard disk and I've uninstalled that driver and the sound is gone. now it runs nice and smooth.
Do we need to install this driver at all? Whats the use? Anybody else has the same problems?
3. Also, what is the use of ReadyComm software?
Download the latest drivers and go into the drivers and turn on multitouch. By default it's turned off.
Thanks for the link. I've downloaded the 64 bit drivers and installed. However, there is no option to enable the multi touch feature, but there are other options that are for multi touch such as three finger tapping, three finger flicks etc.
I like the zone tap feature of this device. It's cool.


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I am already spayed, up to date with shots, good with kids, and good with dogs.
Raven has been spayed and is current on her immunizations. If you would like to make Raven a member of your family, please contact Gail Ross at 870-431-8229, or via email at email@example.com
Raven, a Oakland Labrador Retriever puppy was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Labrador Retriever for sale in Oakland, or seeking a Labrador Retriever puppy from a breeder in Oakland.

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Adam Medros heads worldwide product development for TripAdvisor and is a member of the company's management team. Since joining the company in 2004, Medros has led efforts in search marketing and revenue optimization and has overseen developments to product functionality, merchandising, and acquisition integration. He was instrumental in TripAdvisor's 2007 launch of travel applications onto the Facebook Platform. These applications - Cities I've Visited, Local Picks, and Traveler's IQ Challenge -- have introduced the TripAdvisor brand to millions of new people around the world and generated a high volume of new content for the core site.
Prior to joining TripAdvisor, Medros held Senior Analyst and Product Manager positions at Nordstrom.com, Amazon.com, and The Parthenon Group. He serves on the board of oneforty.com, the Twitter app store and is an advisor to Care.com. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.
Michael Barron is a Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in the Corporate Practice Group. Mr. Barron focuses on providing legal services to emerging technology and life sciences companies and to investors in emerging technology and life sciences companies, in addition to providing trademark and licensing services. Mr. Barron is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Mr. Barron is a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, the Licensing Executive Society, the Bioscience Network and the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (Board of Directors). Mr. Barron is the Founder, Clerk and Chair of Legal Committee for the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX).
Head of Online Video & Display, Retail Technology - Google 2009 - Present. Boston.
Display Regional Sales Manager - Google 2007 - 2009. Boston.
Regional Sales Director AOL MN - 2004 - 2007. Boston. Managed New England team and relationships with New England partners.
VP Sales - IMN (formerly IMakeNews) - 2002 - 2004. Managed Outside and Inside Sales, Reseller relationships, as well as Client Support for IMN, a Marketing
Services ASP. IMN provides an emarketing publishing solution including newsletter publishing, blogs and RSS distribution to over 1000 customers in the US,
and partners with International resellers. (2 years)
VP Sales - 2000 - 2002. Newmediary. Newmediary created private label buying directories which were housed on branded websites. Newmediary then sold
advertising and sponsorship programs in these directories. Managed Inside and Outside Sales, as well as Customer Support. The assets were sold to CNet and
became the foundation of a very successful White Paper Directory and publishing offering. (2 years)
Dartmouth College - Bachelor of Arts, Economics
Resident of Marblehead, MA, married to Michele, father of two - Morgan and Liam.
Joe is president and CEO of Mullen Lowe, a leading interdisciplinary agency whose clients include the likes of JetBlue, Zappos, Swiss Army, Panera, Alberto Culver, BASF, Olympus, Stop & Shop, SC Johnson, and Timberland among others.
Joe was one of the original partners at Mullen, joining the firm 27 years ago when it had 10 employees and didn't make the top 50 agencies in New England. No stranger to change and transformation, Joe has led Mullen through numerous economic booms and implosions as well as dramatic transformations in the advertising industry, rebuilding the agency after a devastating fire, then rebuilding it after losing 50% of his business in one year, selling the company to the Interpublic Group 11 years ago, expanding to multiple offices and, most recently, moving the agency headquarters to Boston after 40 years on the North Shore. Throughout, he has championed and evolved a strong and distinguishing company culture that is its engine for success.
Joe started his career in media at Benton & Bowles and moved on to account work at Ted Bates. He was recruited to Boston by Hill Holliday in 1981. Joe's an Italian immigrant who's been a latch-key child, a near hoodlum, a construction laborer, a rock musician, a Harley-Davidson bike builder, a staff accountant and a shoeshine boy in his uncle's barber shop in Queens, NY. Each experience has added invaluable perspective to his life, which he loves to share with young people. Today he spends most of his time at the agency defining strategy and inspiring people to dream and exceed expectations. He also serves on, and has chaired, numerous boards in and out of the industry.
David Hayes is the President and Founder of HireMinds, a professional and executive search firm specializing in the areas of digital marketing, technology,
and science. In his role, David is responsible for the strategic leadership neccessary to ensure the achievement of HireMinds' performance goals and
preservation of the core values established over a decade ago including fostering true partnerships with hiring clients and job candidates.
David was a graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Philosophy and entered the search profession with Source Services after beginning his career
in marketing with IBM. In his first year, he was named Rookie of the Year and went on to be one of the top producing search consultants in the firm. He
took on increasing responsibility, culminating in his role as Managing Director of the New York region until the firm was acquired by Kforce.
A recognized leader on employment, leadership, and workplace related issues, David is regularly quoted in the Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, The
Wall Street Journal, Boston.com, and Mass High Tech. David is personally passionate about helping others achieve their goals, whether client, job
candidate, or employee. He serves on the Board of Directors for MITX and is an active member of BIMA and MassBio. He is also a committed volunteer to the
Cambridge based East End House community center.
Jeff Janer is Chair of a CEO peer advisory group for Vistage International that includes both first-time CEOs of VC-backed disruptive companies and experienced leaders of larger, more established companies.
Prior to Vistage, Jeff was a serial entrepreneur; most recently as co-founder and CEO of Springpad, a personal assistant app. Prior to Springpad, Jeff was Chief Marketing Officer of Third Screen Media, a mobile ad network and technology platform acquired by AOL. Before joining Third Screen Media, Janer held a variety of senior executive roles at startups and large companies, including Fidelity Investments. Janer holds a BA in International Relations from Brown University.
A Business Assurance Partner in the Technology, InfoComm and Entertainment practice, Vic is the leader of the Technology, InfoComm and Entertainment (TICE) practice for the firm's Northeast Region. Vic was previously the Global Leader for the Software and Internet Sector. His clients range from start-ups to multinational companies, including closely and publicly held, high growth companies.His educational background includes a MS in Accounting and a BS in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA). Vic is a member of the Curriculum Advisory Board for the Accounting Department of SUNYA. He is a Board member of The Massachusetts Interactive Multimedia Council and an active member of the Massachusetts Software Council. He is also a member the American Institute and Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.


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Corneal Endothelial Cell Density Changes In Healthy Subjects, When Administered ISV-403 for 5 Days
This study has been completed.
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 7, 2010
Last updated: August 10, 2012
Last verified: August 2012
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The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect on corneal endothelial cell density changes when ISV-403 is administered for five (5) days compared to no drug treatment, in healthy subjects.
|Drug: Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Suspension 0.6%
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Screening
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Contralateral Study To Evaluate Corneal Endothelial Cell Density Changes In Healthy Subjects, When Administered 0.6% ISV-403 Three Times Daily For Five Days
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: BesifloxacinU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Bausch & Lomb Incorporated:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Endothelial cell density change between treatment group. [ Time Frame: Baseline, 5 days ]Difference in the change from baseline in endothelial cell density between eyes treated with besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension and untreated fellow eyes.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Endothelial cell density change within treatment group [ Time Frame: Baseline, 5 days ]Change from baseline in endothelial cell density within eyes treated with besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension and within untreated fellow eyes.
|Study Start Date:
|May 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Suspension 0.6%
Topical ocular administration three times daily (TID) for 5 days
Drug: Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Suspension 0.6%
administered 3 times a day for 5 days to one eye.
Other Name: ISV-403
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must have pin-holed Snellen visual acuity equal to or better than 20/40, in both eyes
- Must be in good health (no current or past relevant medical/ocular history) based on the judgment of the Investigator
- Must be willing to discontinue contact lens wear for the duration of the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known hypersensitivity to fourth generation fluoroquinolone (SS734) or to any of the ingredients in the study medication Investigator determines could interfere with the study
- History of extended or continuous wear contact lens use other than silicone hydrogels
- History of intraocular surgery
- Any topical ophthalmic medication, including tear substitutes, that cannot be discontinued during the study
- Participation in an ophthalmic drug or device research study within the 30 days prior to entry in this study
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01120418
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01120418
|United States, New York
|Bausch & Lomb
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14609
Sponsors and Collaborators
Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
|Study Director:
|Laura Trusso, MS
|Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
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Keywords provided by Bausch & Lomb Incorporated:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01120418 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 7, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 10, 2012
Keywords provided by Bausch & Lomb Incorporated:
Endothelial cell density
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
7-(3-aminohexahydro-1H-azepin-1-yl)-8-chloro-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinolinecarboxylic acid
Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
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Area caregivers and health-care professionals will come together next week for the statewide 2013 Senior Aging Conference, set for Oct. 23-24 at the Holiday Inn City Center, 700 Rogers Ave.
Area caregivers and health-care professionals will come together next week for the statewide 2013 Senior Aging Conference, set for Oct. 23-24 at the Holiday Inn City Center, 700 Rogers Ave.
Hosted by the Senior Care Alliance, the two-day conference will focus on equipping attendees with information in various areas dealing with senior care, according to Melissa Curry, president of programs for the Senior Care Alliance, an organization of senior-related professionals serving as a unified resource and advocate to regional senior citizens and family caregivers.
Themed "The Best Is Yet To Come," the conference will feature exhibits, educational breakout sessions and panel discussions with area senior industry experts. Topics such as medications, exercise, parenting your parents, managing expectations, hospice and geriatric care, wound care, financial issues, and federal and state assistance for the elderly will be covered during 36 different breakout sessions throughout the conference, Curry said.
Keynote speakers for the event will be former U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson and geriatrician Dr. David Lipschitz, giving presentations at noon Oct. 23 and 24, respectively.
Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. both days, with exhibits open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. Door prizes will be awarded at the closing ceremonies.
The conference will include 10 continuing education units for therapists, nurses, social workers, case managers, administrators and other health-care professionals.
Registration ranges from $30 per day for a caregiver/participant to $175 for health-care professionals receiving CEUs.
For information, call Curry at 414-2093 or Kristi Graham at 484-7782; for a detailed conference schedule or to register online, visit www.arseniorcarealliance.org.


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Welcome Fishsticks Designs
Earlier this month we added a new downloadable pattern company called Fishsticks Designs. Fishsticks offers sewing patterns for unique and modern clothing that is always practical for you and your family. You'll find that most Fishsticks patterns are sewn with cotton knit fabrics because that is exactly the fabric that most of us live our lives in. Each pattern includes step-by-step instructions with words and pictures so that you can read and see what to do next.
The owner/creator of Fishsticks Designs is Bonnie Ferguson. She is a mom to six children, two girls and four boys. Because her youngest three are boys she focuses a lot on designing patterns that work great for boys. She also creates patterns with an incredible amount of versatility so that you can become comfortable with a pattern and go back to it again and again without your end products looking exactly the same. You will to be able to build a whole wardrobe for your child from just a few patterns.
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Happy Almost Halloween!!
Are you ready to take down the Halloween decor to get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas?
I am, lol!
Well, I hope you guys are ready to link up your latest creations, cuz I can't wait to see them!!
5 Quick Tips for Taking Better Halloween Pictures from Simple as That
Be sure to head on over to Rebecca's site and PIN these awesome tips!!
Be sure to see the rest of this week's features HERE.
Thank you to all of those that take the time to link up your latest creations.
Here's to an even bigger and better party!
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2. No ads for shops, giveaways, etc. please 🙂
3. Be sure to spread the love and visit other posts and leave them a comment!
4. Help promote others – go to the original post and PIN the most viewed link.
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Senior executives from Mitsubishi Materials held a press conference at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles on Sunday to formally apologize for using American prisoners of war as forced laborers during World War II. Continue reading
Seventy-three years ago, an attack on Pearl Harbor catapulted the U.S. into World War II. National Air and Space Museum curator Jeremy Kinney shows off a rare survivor from that day — a military seaplane — and explains how specialists agonize over how to keep it in tact. Continue reading
For the women whose lives are documented in the new book "The Girls of Atomic City," a top-secret mission during World War II gave them a chance to make history at a time when there were few career options. Ray Suarez talks to author Denise Kiernan about the women who helped enrich fuel for the first atomic bomb used in war. Continue reading
During a visit to Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed the alliance between Japan and the U.S., despite an ongoing feud over an airbase in Okinawa. GlobalPost reporter Sonia Narang reports from Japan on the recent protests over the marine base. Continue reading
Jeffrey Brown talks to author Robert M. Edsel about his new book "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History." Continue reading
More than 60 years since they were forced to leave their university during World War II, Japanese-Americans have received their honorary diplomas and an official apology from Oregon State University. Lee Hochberg reports on their long-awaited graduation. Continue reading
Director Ken Burns talks about his new documentary, "The War," which takes an in-depth look at the effects of World War Two on four town across the United States. Continue reading


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Capvex wine tasting in the Baltic's
Special price for
New Tokaj winery
All the wine-makers behind Capvex are trendsetters in their region. National and international awards and constant quality is a must for them. This is their natural way of doing things, not an external pressure. Constantly seeking new ways, experimenting and fine tuning of the traditional techniques guaranties highest standards.
Most of them awarded as "wine-maker of the year", these people became brand names of their own right.
Their natural environment is the vineyard and the cellar. From dusk till dawn, no rest, no holiday. But no complain at all. Everything makes sense when we enjoy one of their beautiful and fantastic wines in the evening. All the hard work and passion that is concentrated in every bottle!
We do believe, that the accurate hard work of these people, their way of thinking and their spirit comes through to our customers once they taste our selection.
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August 4, 2011 BY John Kim
Just a short while ago Sneaker News showed you the glow-in-the-dark Luminous Pearl colorway of the Nike Zoom Rookie, the latest hybrid shoe to be born out of the Nike Penny chronicles. While none of the three major components of the Zoom Rookie – Air Flight One, Air Go LWP, Air Foamposite One – are official Penny Hardaway signatures, they're often attributed to him, and for good reason. All three sneakers have served as rock-solid foundations for the Nike Air Penny signature line (with the Foamposite One being a welcome intermission between Air Penny II and III), and in this first look at a White/Royal/Silver/Black colorway, we can see that the Flight One, LWP, and Foamposite One combined make for a sick sneaker with Penny Hardaway at the essence. Continue reading for a first look at this new colorway of the Nike Zoom Rookie and stick with Sneaker News for more updates regarding this exciting new sneaker. via air-randy.
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The folks over at Capcom have reacted to the lukewarm reception of "Resident Evil 5" in a curious way: take out the stuff people like, and double down on what they don't.
You still have an annoying computer-controlled companion who's more a watchdog than a sidekick, shooting enemies you can't even see yet, making you feel far too safe in an experience billed as "survival horror." The focus is tilted even further toward pure action, with melee attacks so powerful, you could practically put away your guns and roundhouse kick your way through the entire game. A million other annoyances abound, like the addition of a radar dot that appears onscreen at all times to tell you which direction your next destination is, and how far you are from it. Nothing inspires fear like being told you're 8 meters from a save point.
Instead of one long adventure, like its predecessors, the game is split into four medium-size segments, in which you control four characters, each with a different fighting style. These range from a segment that mystifyingly apes "Gears of War," with its focus on popping out from behind cover to shoot people, to a jaunt through a zombie-infested Chinese city with our old friend Leon Kennedy. Leon's segment is the best, with thrilling lighting effects and freaky images, like a zombie president who looks like George H.W. Bush and a Leon Kennedy who has mysteriously turned blond since we last saw him, in "Resident Evil 4." That's not all that's changed since "Resident Evil 4."
Series creator Shinji Mikami made "Resident Evil 4" a watershed game with an innovation that sounds minor but made all the difference: He tied the movements of the camera to the movements of your character. The camera was fixed over your character's shoulder, so if he pivoted left, the camera pivoted exactly with him. You could look up, down, left or right, but at no greater angles than an actual human neck could achieve. To gamers used to rotating the view in any direction they want, free of their character's perspective, this can feel restrictive, but it immerses you deeper in your character's predicament. The keynote of horror is being able to imagine yourself in the protagonist's situation. Being able to see no more than your protagonist could made for a claustrophobic, panic-inducing experience that set this 2005 game apart as the definitive masterpiece of the 2000s.
|'Resident Evil 6'
|System: PS3, Xbox 360
|Price: $59.99
|Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
"Resident Evil 6's" greatest crime, then, is to untether your view from your character's, switching to a system where the left joystick controls movement and the right stick controls the camera -- the exact approach Mikami defied. This splits your focus between moving your character and moving the camera, gives you a headache because you're constantly adjusting the view, and removes you from your character's predicament. Mikami left Capcom after "Resident Evil 4," and this decision on the camera is sad proof that the folks he left behind have lost their way without him.
It's not the worst "Resident Evil" -- look to March's "Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City" for that -- but it's the worst numbered entry, and represents something that would have been unimaginable to series fans a few years ago: that there's such a thing as "Resident Evil 6," and it doesn't matter.


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Vivint APXALARM Cancellation Run Around - No does not mean NO!! Provo, Utah
This is the best way to manage and repair your business reputation. Hiding negative complaints is only a Band-Aid. Consumers want to see how a business took care of business.
All business will get complaints. How those businesses take care of those complaints is what separates good businesses from the rest.
Consumers love to do business with someone that can admit mistakes and state how they made improvements.
A program that benefits the consumer, assures them of complete satisfaction and confidence when doing business with a member business.
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I contacted Vivent on June 4th to cancel my service. I had been told by a salesman that once the original contract ran out, I was month to month. That was of course not accurate and the small print of the contract supported the companys position that the contract automatically renews for a new 12 month period if notice of cancellation is not received "no later than thirty (30) days before the end of the original term or any renewal term." I admitted that they had a gotcha in the contract and agreed that I would have to pay the remaining two months on my renewed contract. However, on June 6th I faxed, and received confirmation of receipt, notice that I wished to terminate the contractual relationship with Vivent effective July, 2, 2012. I also advised them to send the bills to my address on file. Fortunately they could not access the credit card I had on file.
It took them nearly a month to finally send a paper bill, after several harassing calls because I owed for the month that they could not charge my credit card. Each time I told them that when they send me a paper bill I would send in the payment. They repeatedly tried to get a new credit card number, which I refused to provide. I am convinced that if I gave them a new credit card, my miseries would be much worse.
Yesterday I received a new bill from Vivent for a payment outside of the renewal contract. When I called customer service to inquire why I was being billed as my service was cancelled, they informed me that it was not cancelled, but was in a cancelled pending status as I was supposed to call and confirm verbally that what I had provided in writing was actually what I wanted to transpire. I got upset and told them very directly, without use of any profanity, that I wanted to have the service cancelled per my written request and that I should not have received the bill nor should I have had to contact them as a result of receiving the bill. They said that I would need to speak to someone in the cancellation department. I refused to be transferred as I did not want to speak to anyone else. (I did not want to deal with all of the retention garbage.) I told them emphatically that I expected them to be able to advise their cancellation department of my desires. They said that they could have the cancellation department call me and I very emphatically told them that I did not desire to speak with anyone from their organization, I just expected all of this to end immediately. I then terminated the conversation.
I would encourage anyone looking for an alarm system to run from Vivent!!!
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Bill McNabb, chief executive officer of theVanguard Group, has 130 billion reasons to smile this holiday season. Thats $130.4 billion to be more precise.
Vanguard Group yesterday said it eclipsed the industrys single-year record for asset inflows in 2012, taking in $130.4 billion in net cash inflow through November 2012. According to a press release, the firm said it outpaced the record held byJ.P. Morgan Chasein 2008 of $129.6 billion, citing data fromStrategic Insight.
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Published on TBNWeekly.com - July 20, 2006
Some people find their deafness comes late
By RACHEL B. ANDERSON
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
CLEARWATER For some, it happens suddenly, like a crash of lightning in an open blue sky. For others, it sneaks up slowly a silent disease creeping closer with time.
For Bill Reese, it had been coming since the age of three. It might have started because of the mumps or another childhood illness; it might have stemmed from being trapped under a kiddie pool as a child. No one knows for sure.
Either way, Reese, 55, a resident of St. Petersburg and father of two adult children, has been heading down a path toward deafness almost his entire life.
Now president of the Suncoast chapter of the Association of Late Deafened Adults, or ALDA, Reese went deaf at 35, and, in the last few years, he became what he calls stone deaf, hearing nothing at all.
Its been an ongoing battle every step of the way day by day, week by week, year by year, he said.
Reese is one of more than 165,000 people in the Tampa Bay area battling some degree of deafness, according to the Deaf and Hearing Connection for Tampa Bay, also known as the DHC.
As it is, though, this nonprofit hearing center at 7545 83rd St. in Seminole is the only place of its kind in both Pinellas County and Tampa, offering accessible programs and services for the hearing impaired.
Jeff Rupp, a hearing instrument specialist at the center for three years, said the DHC provides all kinds of deaf services, including consultations, amplified telephones, hearing aids, counseling and sign language classes.
You can see what youre doing, he said of his work. You can see how you help.
Reese knows firsthand just how much the DHCs services do help. Before turning to the center for assistance, he suffered through two years of pain and isolation a time he grimly labels his Hell years.
Gone were the days of easy shopping trips, chats with his wife and children and fun outings with friends. Reese lost his job as a civil engineering designer and all close relationships.
I was cut off from people looking through the window glass, watching them laugh and cry and talk, he said. It was as if I were dead to the world.
After finally crawling out of that hole, Reese got cochlear implants to help him communicate, and he attended his first ALDA meeting.
The nonprofit support group for late deafened adults gave Reese new found friends and emotional support. The implants gave him a renewed sense of stability, making it easier to communicate through sign language and lip reading.
Unlike hearing aids, cochlear implants do not amplify sounds. Instead they electronically find useful sounds and send them directly to the brain, bypassing the damaged or non-working parts of the inner ear.
The entire process the surgery, the doctor visits, the whole thing typically costs about $40,000, according to the American Academy of Otolaryngologys Web site.
Today the Pinellas County ALDA chapter has about 55 members.
For the last 10 years, Tess Crowder of Tampa, a certified real-time captioning provider, has volunteered her time at the groups meetings. Without her assistance, there probably wouldnt be much of a meeting at all. Crowder provides text captioning onto a screen for easy reading.
Regular meetings are held at different locations across the county, but there are numerous other social functions, such as coffee nights at the new Pinellas Park Starbucks, movie nights and picnics.
Many of Reeses closest friends are members, including 37-year-old Cindy Henrion of Tampa, ALDAs current vice president.
When Henrion was 23, two tumors behind the ears forced her to have surgery, a procedure that left her completely deaf.
So, basically with my situation, she said, there was nothing that helped. I hear nothing.
From daily chores to driving to ordering food at a restaurant, Henrion said fitting in is a challenge, especially at her office job. However, she has learned to find joy through good company and attending art shows.
And deafness hasnt taken away her sense of humor.
I think the first year I was deaf I think I burned up two vacuum cleaners, she said with a laugh, explaining how shed forget to turn off her vacuum until it was too late.
Fellow group member Sharon Milian of Palm Harbor is a former nurse and journalist who can relate to Henrions daily challenges. She has fought deafness since her teenage years but especially in the last eight years.
When it comes to conversation, (deafness) has a tendency to make both people nervous, she said, adding that the disability often leads to social isolation.
She wishes the hearing world would be more comfortable around the deaf and more services were in place to accommodate them.
Shes worked especially hard to get captioned movies, particularly in Palm Harbor. When the first captioned showing was finally available there, lots of her deaf friends went to it.
It was a terrible movie it was Scream 3 or something, she said, but we went because it was available.
Milian knows what its like to miss an important announcement or accidentally ignore her neighbors. As independent as shed like to be, she realizes its just impossible, and she said shes blessed to have such a supportive family.
The kids have had to take up my slack a lot of times, she said. It matures them really fast.
But wherever a person is at in his or her own battle with deafness, Reese wants people to know that warm smiles and new friends await through ALDA. He encourages prospective members to e-mail him at
for more information.
He paused for a moment.
We know their pain.
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It's one thing taking to the internet to say how badly you want a game to be re-released. It's another thing to altogether to then go and spend money on it.
Capcom admitted recently that it might have come to the end of the road when it comes to re-releasing its 2D fighting titles on modern formats in HD. And now it has explicitly admitted to its disappointment at the sales of Darkstalkers Resurrection.
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Rev. Joseph Lowery, the civil rights leader who prayed at Obama's inauguration, has long supported civil unions and predicted black churchgoers will continue to support Obama even if he backs same-sex unions. "The president has overwhelming support from the black church because people are looking at the bigger picture," Lowery said. "He will not be hurt by one issue."
Sanders agreed, remembering the 1996 political fight over the Defense of Marriage Act. "I personally don't really remember a whole groundswell of support from African Americans for the Defense of Marriage Act [when it] passed. That was a white evangelical issue," said Sanders, who also teaches Christian ethics at Howard University. "We are tolerant and that might not be a bad thing. It may be ethically messy, but I think that's the best you can do."


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Our "Hope and Change" president who ran a filthy and dishonest campaign against a a decent and honorable man--has apparently won Ohio--and therefore a second term. The Democrats will maintain control of the Senate.
But the Republicans will keep the House of Representatives. The battle continues.
The good news for Obama? He won. The bad news--the next four years.
The second term will be one of the Obama scandals. The House will investigate the Benghazi murders and the green energy crony capitalism outrages. And it will continue to hammer away at Operation Fast and Furious.
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The design of the 200X staction just doesn't visually appeal to me. Perhaps it's the ridiculously large hand? In my opinion (and I know there are plenty of people who will disagree) the MOTU Classics...
I would too. I don't really like the look of the 200X staction.
Let's face it. We won't actually know unless they DO. Too many times in the past they have told their customer base they would do something and not followed through.
Maybe they have just decided to follow HasbroToyShop's lead and sell AFA graded figures. :hmgrin:
I remember as a kid when you had a couple of years to pick up a figure after it was released. I miss those days. I prefer no changes to the actual figures. I hope the figures are reissued exactly the...
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Squadron Welcomes Mayor's Proposal to Stop Unfair Nycha Payments to Nypd
Squadron Has Long Advocated to End Agreement, Which Makes NYCHA Only Residential Landlord Required to Pay for Police Protection and Essentially Charges NYCHA Residents Double
NEW YORK -- Today, State Senator Daniel Squadron -- who has long urged the City to end the Memorandum of Understanding between the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the City that requires NYCHA to pay the New York Police Department (NYPD) for ongoing law enforcement services for NYCHA residents through "Police Service Areas" (PSAs) -- welcomed Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to end NYCHA's payments to the NYPD.
Currently, NYCHA pays over $70 million a year to the NYPD for these "special police services," making it the only residential landlord in the City that is required to pay for police protection.
Last year, Squadron and Assemblyman Walter Mosley introduced legislation that would end the MOU and require transparency on "additional policing" provided to businesses throughout the city.
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"For years, we've urged the City to finally end the unfair agreement that makes NYCHA the only residential landlord in the city required to pay for police protection. And now, I'm thrilled that Mayor de Blasio is taking action.
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Biased Research, No Matter What the Methodology
Editor's Note: This was mistakenly published under my byline when it should have been attributed to Ron Sellers. Sincere apologies to Ron for the oversight and to our readers for any confusion!
By Ron Sellers
There are endless discussions about methodologies and sampling today. Are phone interviews representative anymore? Have online interviews ever been representative? Is social media sample superior to online panel sample? Is river sample viable? Should we all go back to doing mail surveys as the only way to reach a representative sample?
While unfortunately I don't have all the brilliant answers to those questions, it's time to insert a word about how methodology choices – whatever those choices are – can affect your research.
I bring this up because of a study I just read. It's all about how donors age 60 and older are frequently giving online to non-profit organizations.
Just one little issue: the study was only conducted online. Anyone else see a problem here?
Hmmm, I have some other good ideas:
- I can interview people at truck stops to see what percent of the American population drives a Kenworth.
- Maybe I should sample residents of Eugene, Oregon, to see what is the proportion of Oregon Ducks fans in the national population.
- Or possibly I can go to a major RV show where older people have come from all over to evaluate $100,000 vehicles, and do "a nationally representative survey" that shows how the senior population is far more upscale and active than previously thought.
Sadly, while the first two examples were jokes, the third is actually a "survey" I saw many years ago in the news. But while all three examples are a bit over the top, the same kinds of bias issues are involved with choosing a methodology for any study.
I'm not going to argue here whether online sampling is superior or inferior to phone sampling, whether online panel research can be considered representative, etc. The truth is, if you're in the research business, you're probably going to use both of these methodologies at some point. The trick anymore is not to avoid any type of skew, but to understand what type of skew your selected methodology may be bringing to the data.
The most recent figures I've seen from Pew Foundation show 53% of Americans do not use social media, and other research has suggested that the people who use it differ from those who don't (as well as the fact that heavy users differ from lighter users). Social media sample might work well for a study about how people use social media, but might not work so well if you're studying how Americans form and maintain relationships, for example.
I've seen estimates that over 20% of Americans do not have a landline, and those people differ significantly from the 80% who do (much younger, greater ethnic diversity, etc.). A landline phone study might work well if you're trying to interview people over 50 about their investment habits, but maybe not so well if you're trying to determine what Americans think about cell phone service.
Online panels entirely exclude the 20-something percent of Americans who do not use the Internet at all, as well as everyone who uses it, but is not comfortable enough with it to want to do surveys online (which describes many older adults, for instance). Panel sample might be a great way to do rock music testing or advertising evaluation among young mothers, but might not be such a good choice if you need to estimate technology adoption rates.
There are times you may have no choice in methodology (e.g. if the client has no e-mail addresses for customers, their customer survey is probably going to be done by phone). In those situations, it's still critical to understand what questions cannot legitimately be asked, or where the data may have to be adjusted, due to the methodology.
In the case of the non-profit survey cited above, a major finding was that 51% of donors 60 and older give online, which is surprisingly close to the 75% found among donors under 40. Unfortunately, the researchers did not adjust for the fact that the proportion of people 60 and older who don't use the Internet is far higher than it is among younger adults.
Let's say the proportion of Internet users among older donors is 65%, compared to 90% among donors under 40 (fairly realistic guesses). The adjusted (and correct) figures should be that 68% of donors under 40 give online, compared to 33% among older donors. Now, instead of saying younger donors are only 47% more likely to give online, the reality is that they're 106% more likely to give online than are older donors. That's a pretty huge difference because of a failure to recognize the bias caused by a methodology choice.
Unfortunately, we now do research in a world where arguably there is no such thing as a fully representative sample. Everything has some skew. Understanding what that skew is likely to be, and what you can and cannot hope to measure accurately as a result, is part of being a good researcher in today's world.
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March 19th, 2012 at 7:11 am
I couldn't agree with you more. Well said!
March 21st, 2012 at 11:19 am
In addition to the sample frame bias Leonard explores, we should also consider response bias. My research career started in 1985 as a phone interviewer. We did random phone samples and we had to have at least 3X the phone numbers that we needed for target completes. Ten years later, as a project manager, I had to have 10X the phone numbers. Caller ID and voicemail service from the phone companies encouraged the general habit of most consumers to screen their calls. Now, as a client of MR vendors almost 30 years later, I see invoices for sample that is 20X the number of target completes. Calling 20 phone numbers to get one completed interview is not going to produce a representative result, unless the projectible universe of your research is households with a land line, without caller ID or an answering machine, with someone in the house who would rather take a survey than play Angry Birds on their iPad (or more likely they don't have an iPad).
In one of my research jobs, I did in-person in-home interviewing. This was very expensive for the client, however the results were actually projecible to the US population because the households were scientifically selected and every household that was occupied participated in the research. There were 360 households in the original sample and 315 completed interviews. The only segments of the US population not represented in the research were the homeless, people who live in short-term rentals (Residence Inn, etc), and people who would not answer their door or telephone over a 90-day period. That study was the only research I have seen in more than 25 years in the business where the cited confidence interval was actually valid.
March 21st, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Great points Philip; thanks! Just to be clear though, Ron Sellers wrote this, not me; this is his exploration of methodological bias issues, i am just the conduit via the blog. 🙂


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but as i was on my way, i realized i was kind of embarrassed to be visiting the 4th floor for no reason other than going to the bathroom.
so i decided i wanted to make it look like i was headed to the 4th floor for some Official Business Stuff and not just to use the potty. and i decided this could be accomplished by taking the stairs up, and then the elevator -- located in the opposite direction -- down. that way, i only walk by the 4th floor people by the stairs once.
and if they only see me walk by once, then surely i must be on their floor for some important reason.
(do not question NJ06 low-cal reasoning.)
so i walked to the bathroom, and then walked out the opposite way and was waiting for the elevator thinking my plan was pretty well executed.
until the elevator door opened and there was someone in it, which complicated matters.
because, even though i have a perfectly legitimate* reason for taking the elevator from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor, i still feel stupid for doing so. i can't very well explain why i'm not taking the stairs, you know?
uh, hi, coworker i don't know! sorry to get on the elevator and get off one floor down and interrupt your going to the lobby. i know it's only one floor and i should take the stairs, but you see, i CAN'T take the stairs because the people who sit near the stairs will see me and they will know i was only on their floor for like, three minutes and they will therefore figure out that the only reason i was there was to use the ladies' room and then they'll hate me.
right. i can't say that.
so instead, i got on the elevator and pretended that i, too, was headed down to the lobby.
oh hey, coworker i don't know! you're going all the way down to floor one? cool! me too!
but then on my way down to the 1st floor, i realized i didn't have a plan for what to do once i got there. i had no money on me so i couldn't purchase anything from the coffee stand. worse, i didn't have my security badge on me (so if i got off te elevator i wouldn't be able to get back on it since the badge is required to get on the elevators from the first floor).
thankfully, by the time we reached the lobby, i'd had an idea. i realized that if the person on the elevator with me hears that i don't have my badge on me, she will understand that i could not get off on the first floor without first retrieving it!
so when the elevator stopped at the lobby and my coworker started to get off, i pretended like i was getting off, too. but then! i cleverly touched my pocket where my badge would normally be and then feigned surprise. i exclaimed, "oh, i forgot my badge!" and stepped back on to the elevator.
and while i'm pretty sure she didn't hear me, or care, whatever. i managed to safely return myself to the third floor.
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- Anonymous1:38 PM, January 05, 2006
This is just proof that it's not only Boys who bring out the Crazy in you. Although Bob is a boy, hmmm.ReplyDelete
Still, a very relatable story.
That was a close call!!ReplyDelete
Happy new year kristy... may much potty happiness be ahead for you in 2006!ReplyDelete
YES! It's the good ol' L-O-L Kristy! That was a great little story. And although I probably would not have gone to the lengths you did, I probably would have had the same mental worries about passing the people by the stairs. I think I would have not worried about the elevator person so much and just gotten off at the 3rd floor. My mental process would have been something like, "Hey, for all you know, I have a sprained ankle or a respiratory problem, or some other condition preventing me from using the stairs, so don't look at me like that for taking the elevator one floor!" But your recovery once you reached the lobby was brilliant all the same :)ReplyDelete
- Lauren in Austin6:59 PM, January 05, 2006
Now *that* was funny. And the funny came from the fact that it's absolutely true and sounds just like something I would do.ReplyDelete
Its cool that you are considerate enough to know not to take the elevator if you're one floor up or down, reference my post: old ladiesReplyDelete
See...pretty, witty...and smart!! You rock. I've found that if you carry a folder or binder under your arm and walk really fast, and look a little pissed off, people never question you. You look like you're on an important mission. The only thing to keep in mind is if you're the only woman who wears black, steel-toed Docs, (now referring back to one of your old blogs), don't forget to check under the "third" stall to see if anyone else is in there already. (Is it me, or are these v-words getting more complicated?)ReplyDelete
Girl.. has anyone told you lately you might have some issues? ::laughing my ass off::ReplyDelete
And too funny that we both posted bathroom humor at the same time!
that's not lieingReplyDelete
that's sheer genious
I totally believe in the "use another floors restroom" especially if:
A. the one on your floor stinks
B. the one on your floor is full
C. you need "personal time" and don't want to do so on your own floor where people know you.
- Anonymous8:45 AM, January 06, 2006
i am so pleased to know that there are other grown, sane women that have the same sort of thought process as me!ReplyDelete
Oh my God. I do this kind of stuff all the time. I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who is sometimes ruled entirely by the crazy.ReplyDelete
Great post.
That is SO something I would do. Today I went to the bathroom, but there was someone in there so OBVIOUSLY I couldn't pee. I pretended I needed to fix my hair instead.ReplyDelete
- Caroline9:58 AM, January 06, 2006
Okay, I had to read that first line a couple of times to get that you weren't literally going to pee on the floor.ReplyDelete
I carry a piece of paper, even though I always use the upstairs bathroom - 22 women work on my floor and the bathroom has 2 stalls and the one on 3rd floor has 8 stalls and 2 women working on that floor. These are also public bathrooms. With the paper, I always look as though I'm going to search for books in the stacks and no one can tell how many trips I make to the john.ReplyDelete
Do you really need a security badge to ride on an elevator?ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, that was funny...On a slightly different note...I have been known to "hold it" if I have to go potty when there are people in the break room, because the one person ladies room is right off of the break room, and the acoustics are terrible...People in the break room can hear everything...I don't want my coworkers listening to me go potty...ReplyDelete
This is not crazy. I do likewise - if the cleaning crew is taking up the bathroom on my floor, I scurry down to the next floor. And I just KNOW that anyone coming down the hall, who sees me coming out of the stairwell and going into the bathroom, will assume that I am a work-pooper furtively 'doing my business' on another floor. Oh yes. Because I assume that about people I see in my bathroom - "My" bathroom! - who I know came from another floor. And even though I don't know those people, and have no reason to care what they think of me, I do, and I will sometimes trip past the bathroom down the hall, until they are gone, and then I come back to the bathroom.ReplyDelete
By which time the crew on my floor might have been done. You're not crazy! I have been reading your blog since last summer and love it. Glad you're back up and posting regularly again. Yes, I said 'regularly' in a comment about furtive-not-work-pooping.
This story hit home... I ended up walking around my whole building (granted it's only 3 floors... but I DID hit everyone of them), using the stairs and 2 different elevators looking for my "safe haven" restroom... those bathroom breaks can get pretty complicated!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:13 PM, February 24, 2006
Okay, I typically refuse to use LOL in my daily use. But goddammit, that was LOL funny!ReplyDelete
BTW, I do the same floor hopping when I can't get the spacious handicap stall.


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Saints Dig Out, Clean Up During Harsh Winter
The snow descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and the Saints pitched in.
And so went winter this year throughout much of the United States and Europe. While New England members of the Church dug through four to five feet of snow, members in California coped with heavy rains and flooding. In the eastern U.S., members isolated by the storms shared their food storage with neighbors. In La Crescenta, California, members helped clean up flood damage.
Boston, Massachusetts, was smothered by two to three feet of snow that added to two feet already on the ground in February. Wind whipped snow into twelve-foot drifts.
"I don't think there's any question that the Saints in general were much better prepared for this type of imposed isolation by the weather than were many of our friends and neighbors," says President Gordon Williams of the Boston Massachusetts Stake.
"There were many examples where members dug into their own home storage material and passed it out to friends and neighbors who could not get to the store."
Boston was so buried that—like other places in the East—roads were closed for days while military personnel and other crews attempted to clean the clogged streets.
Through the home teaching network, the Church kept in touch with members, President Williams says. Home teachers checked on members and in some cases helped them meet emergency circumstances.
"One woman had a severe asthma attack, and her home teacher arranged transportation to the hospital," President Williams says. Other home teachers dug passageways from homes to streets for shut-ins and others who could not shovel their own walkways.
Home teaching also provided a way to conduct Church services on Sunday when people could not reach the Church facilities. Members met in homes for Sunday School and sacrament meetings.
"For example, the Cambridge First Ward had ten different Sunday School and sacrament meetings held throughout the ward boundaries, with members gathering with other members in each others' homes.
"Incidentally, the attendance at those home sacrament meetings was about 20 percent higher than the usual attendance," President Williams says.
Members also baked bread for neighbors who lacked food storage. They shared canned foods, powdered milk, honey, and other staple items.
"That obviously served as a good missionary tool, too," he says.
Most home heating in the Boston area is with oil. With streets full of snow and snowed-in cars, access to homes was difficult. When a family in an area of Boston ran out of heating oil, the member neighbor and other neighbors shoveled a roadway to the family's home, so that the oil truck could replenish the family's supply.
"There was a universal good feeling of the people involved—a great swell of comradeship, esprit de corps, that we're all in it together, so we all have to work together to overcome the problems that we have," President Williams says.
Between 100 and 150 people in the Boston area died during and soon after the storms, among them only one known member. He died from a heart attack while shoveling snow.
Ruth Tingey, stake Relief Society president in the Boston Massachusetts Stake, says the storm made her want to preach the virtues of family preparedness.
"I think everybody's pulled together, but I just feel like I want to stand up on a tower and say, 'Okay, you people, get prepared.' We just extended what we could to the neighbors."
The Tingeys have had their food storage for years, but in the last two years they have tried to store a year's supply of fuel. They purchased a Norwegian wood-burning stove and stocked wood.
"We felt very confident when the storm hit, that whatever happened we could manage. We had heat. It's just been an adventure for us. For some people, it's been tragic, or very, very difficult."
Banding together and digging out were also the story in Los Angeles, when heavy rains flooded and broke a catch-basin dam in the La Crescenta area.
A member family's home was filled with twenty-four to thirty inches of mud when the dam broke. Within an hour of the flood, fifty members of the Tajunga Ward at Tajunga, California, were at the Fred Nash home, cleaning out the mud. For seventeen hours, the group ripped up carpets, hosed down walls, cleaned floors and repaired flood and mud damage.
"They're in pretty good shape now," says Stake President Don Lee Rogers of the La Crescenta California Stake. "Originally, the city indicated that the house would be a total loss. But with the help of members, damage will be minimal."
In the same ward, other members of the Church had lesser damage to their homes. Others from the stake and region helped clean homes of both members and nonmembers. Many yards and lots had significant damage, and some were washed away entirely. Some members also lost automobiles.
Members in the La Crescenta Ward had minor damage to their homes when another catch-basin overflowed. Four of the seven wards in the stake are in areas that were flooded. No Church members were known to have lived in the town of Hidden Springs, California, which was washed away completely.
Flooding and storms were so serious in the Providence Rhode Island Stake that most counties in the locale were declared disaster areas. Even so, there was little disruption in the life-style of the members there, says Stake President Brent W. Lambert.
Auxiliary meetings were canceled, and some Saints couldn't attend church because of closed roads.
Homes of at least two Church member families were damaged, he says, and the families had to be evacuated.
"They even weathered that well," says President Lambert.
Winds in excess of 100 miles per hour, high tides, and twenty-foot-high waves endangered those who lived near the water. Stores were closed for thirty-six hours, but food trucks got through to restock store shelves.
Some areas of the stake were covered with 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 feet of snow, but water was the problem. Rhode Island's transportation was curtailed for a week while snow was cleared. The stake includes many areas hardest hit by the storms, including southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and southeastern Connecticut.
"There was a really good spirit of cooperation among all the people in the towns. People who had vehicles were providing transportation for others—they're used to doing it here," says President Lambert.
"The great benefit of this whole experience has been being home with my family," he says.
Family ties also became important in New York, when New York City got enough snow to clog traffic and make commuting nearly impossible. Some Church members who hadn't heard from relatives throughout the country for months soon got telephone calls from worried kin.
Visiting teaching and home teaching also boomed, say Church members in New York City. Home teachers checked on their families, and visiting teachers offered help. Bishops in the area report higher percentages of home teaching than normal.
While some families in the area dipped into their food storage during the worst of the storm, some families had little to dip into. One inactive family went without food for 2 1/2 days, until relatives from California called to see how they were faring. When the New York family told of their food shortage, the Californians called the hungry family's bishop in New York.
Some Church members took the lead in helping New Yorkers cope with the storm. Walter Stanzig, security guard at Governor's Island in New York City, helped organize shoveling, cleaning, and evacuation.
As snow melted in suburban Westchester, New York, the basement of the Westchester meetinghouse flooded. Pumps wouldn't work, because a snow-laden tree had fallen and hit power lines. Many priesthood holders helped bail out the water.
However, even snowstorms have their silver linings.
The New York City Visitors Center became a warm stop for many chilly New Yorkers. One man who came inside to get warm took a tour of the center and asked for information about the Church. On a referral card he wrote, "Please call and see me. I want to know more about the Church." He is now being taught.
Genealogy Materials Now Available for Blind Members
Nobody is exempt from doing genealogy work. At least, that's what members who are blind are learning.
The Genealogical Society Library at the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City has begun helping blind persons do their genealogy work, and groundwork is being established to enable blind persons to do effective genealogy work in branch libraries throughout the world.
Friday night classes for blind library patrons and sighted volunteers are being taught. Each blind patron, working with a volunteer, learns his way around the library. Blind patrons learn about the files and indexes that show where their family's genealogy work stands. Sighted volunteers assist by guiding, looking up references, and writing down information.
Some blind volunteer consultants and Braillists also assist.
About half of the accredited researchers in Utah are giving time to the program. Volunteers give a minimum of two hours of help each month. Many Genealogical Society employees assist with the program.
Materials are available through the Genealogical Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Doraville, Georgia, a nonprofit institution founded and directed by Diane Dieterie, a member of the Church. Organizing the Church's program is Atheline Wold, senior reference consultant in the U.S. and Canada reference section of the Genealogical Society Library.
"When I first started, I thought simply that the blind would be exempt," Sister Wold says. "But I've learned that some of them have received impressions that they should do genealogical work."
One blind woman who feels strongly about the necessity for everyone—even the blind, deaf, and physically handicapped—to do genealogy work is Marianne Fisher of Salt Lake City. Sister Fisher, blind since birth, is resource specialist at Liberty Park Elementary School.
"I've always been interested in genealogy, but I've never had the services that I needed to help me further the work," Sister Fisher says. "Now I'm so thrilled that I'm a part of it."
Linda Braithwaite, a blind woman who works for a center for the visually handicapped at Murray, Utah, has been converted to the need for the blind to do genealogy work.
"For a long time, many of my blind friends discussed if we should be expected to do it or if we should just make a point to know our immediate ancestors. I thought my best contribution would be to contribute to the genealogy fund and to do temple work."
Then she met Marianne Fisher and was contacted by Diane Dieterie.
"I realized, wow, this is exciting," she says. "I have been bitten badly, and I'm suffering greatly from the genealogy bug disease," she says and laughs.
The work is not without setbacks, however. Braille materials are bulky. In addition, blind persons must rely on public transportation or on friends to get to a genealogy library. Also, many materials have not been translated into Braille or have not been read onto cassette tapes.
Materials are being prepared to enable branch librarians throughout the Church to help blind persons do genealogy work. And the work will not be limited to the visually impaired, either. Deaf persons and those with physical handicaps also will be enabled to do genealogy work.
Comprehension may be a challenge to many deaf persons who want to do genealogy work. Deafness makes reading skills more difficult to learn.
Work is underway to make library services available to those with other physical handicaps, Sister Wold says. And many of the materials being planned for use with handicapped persons will help those without handicaps, too.
Church Sponsors Series of Reader's Digest Inserts
Fifty million readers will have a chance to ask themselves this month if their family life might be happier.
An eight-page insert in the April issue of the Reader's Digest will ask the question, "Can You Have a Happier Family Life?" The Church is sponsoring a series of inserts in the magazine.
The initial insert will feature the family home evening program. The insert will run in the U.S. and German editions of the Digest, which have a combined readership of 50,480,000. Subsequent inserts will appear in the June, September, and December issues.
The April insert has a threefold purpose, says Heber G. Wolsey, managing director of Public Communications for the Church.
"First, we hope to contribute to a general strengthening of family life. Second, we want to suggest some specific ways families can be happier. And finally, we hope readers of the little pull-out booklet will better understand the Church."
The insert gives tips on showing love and affection and includes a "Family Strength Self-Quiz" to help the reader gauge the strength of his family.


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It's turn of upper caste to suffer, TN Govt tells SC
The Supreme Court asks Govt to spell out norms for the reservation policy:
The Supreme Court asks Govt to spell out norms for the reservation policy:
New Delhi: Having put on hold 27 per cent quota for OBCs in Central educational institutions, the Supreme Court on Thursday wanted to know whether Government could spell out norms for going ahead with its reservation policy and submit a fact-sheet to it.
"Can the court not ask the Central Government to justify with factual situation for continuing with the reservation policy," a five-judge Constitution Bench which is examining the validity of law providing 27 quota for OBCs in Central educational institutions, said.
"Certain norms have to be laid down as a policy," the Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan said when the anti-quota petitioners said some parameters have to be kept in mind while making a mandatory law for quota.
While senior advocate Harish Salve was pressing that the concept of equality as defined in the Constitution cannot be given a go-by, the Bench remarked that "the government was bound by the recommendation of the National Commission of Backward Caste (NCBC)."
Salve submitted that if the statute calls for reservation for a class, then it (class) has to be identified and government must come out with the parameters about backwardness.
"There are various tiers for backwardness," he said before the Bench, also comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, CK Thakker, RV Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari.
While Salve had strong opposition to the Central Educational Institution (Reservation for Admission) Act, 2006, senior advocate K Parasaran, appearing for the Tamil Nadu Government said: "They (upper caste) dominated for centuries and now they should suffer."
At this, the Bench said suppose only 10 per cent people were the oppressor, then why the 90 per cent people should suffer now. Salve also said it cannot be said if Brahmins have oppressed others in Tamil Nadu for years, now it was their turn.
The senior advocate said special provision providing quota to OBCs has to be the act of balance for social engineering. "The identification of OBC must be based on sociological and statistical data. It cannot be on personal expression, data or hunches," he said adding that "political compulsions are driving the reservation policy."
"The legislative and executive action has to be based on established data and what is indisputably the measure of social engineering," he said.
However, "the system is misfiring," he said and elaborated it further by stating that government has not done anything in the post-Indra Sawhney judgement (Mandal case) for identifying the 'Creamy Layer' among the OBCs to exclude them from the benefit of reservation.
"Creamy Layer has no place in the reservation system," he said maintaining that "reservation has become a measure for entrenched right."
Salve said selection of caste for reservation would further perpetuate caste system which then would destroy the purpose of quota by way of special provision.
"If you start with caste, then ensure periodic revision for extending the benefits of reservation," he said, adding that while moving from caste to homogeneous class, the Creamy Layer has to be excluded.
Tracing the history of reservation, Salve said in the pre-1931 Census, people used to plead to be registered as forward case and now reverse was happening.
The court by its March 29 order had stayed the implementation of the law providing 27 per cent quota stating that the data based on a 76-year-old Census cannot be the determining factor for affirmative action.
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Home Runs Aren't Always Mistakes
Ivan Nova leads the major leagues with 46 extra-base hits allowed. Many of them were mistakes. This one, a solo homer by Kirk Niewenhuis in the third inning of the Yankees-Mets game on Saturday, was not.
Nova would've liked that one back, of course, because of where it ended up. But you know how we always talk about putting process ahead of results-oriented analysis? That pitch's process was pretty sound.
There's a perception that home runs always come on hangers, that a batter can't really make a pitcher pay beyond a bloop or a bleeder unless he misses his spot and leaves a pitch over the middle of the plate. Nieuwenhuis' homer shows that's not the case.
In an article last month, R.J. Anderson quoted Greg Maddux as saying, "You know what makes you smart? Locate that fastball down and away. That's what makes you smart." Usually, it does. In fact, two pitches earlier in the at-bat, Nova threw Niewenhuis a nearly identical pitch, a 92-mph fastball on the outside corner. Niewenhuis took it for a strike. It looked like he had no other option.
Looks can be deceiving.
Nova did make one mistake: he fell behind in the count. Nieuwenhuis probably wouldn't have hit that pitch for a homer if it had come on 1-2 instead of 3-1. Still, Nova made the best possible 3-1 pitch, another 92-mph sinking fastball even lower in the zone, and Niewenhuis hit it out.
So, yes, some home runs do look like this one, Nieuwenhuis' first major-league homer back in April:
"Hanging breaking ball right here, and it stays flat," Keith Hernandez said. "Oh, that's just a hanger, and he turned right on it. That's belt high... that one did not break."
But some home runs look like this:
"This is a nasty, sinking fastball from Ivan Nova on a 3-1 count," Tim McCarver said. "Right on the black."
Home runs aren't always the result of bad pitching. Sometimes the pitcher picks a good spot and hits it, and the batter still makes him pay. Imagine how demoralizing that must be.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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It's also true that not every hanging breaking ball (or nothing fastball, or change-up that gets left up in the zone) gets hit. I always thing of the strike-zone illustration in "The Science of Hitting" in which the fat part of the zone is never 1.000 -- pitchers *can* and *w2ill* get outs with bad pitches. So it only is fair that some good pitches get hit.
Jun 24, 2012 07:18 AM
That's exactly what I was thinking. How many times do you say to yourself or a room full of friends, "he got away with one there." Or something to that effect, only way more colorful? That's why they play, why they are professionals, why they make it seem so easy, and so hard at the same time. After all, didn't Chris Davis strike out Adrian Gonzalez?
Jun 24, 2012 22:51 PM
Ask any pitcher who's faced Vladimir Guerrero. There's almost no BALL he can't crush, much less a strike.
Jun 24, 2012 17:50 PM
Pretty good piece of hitting ...he let the ball 'get deep' in the zone and stayed behind it with his head. He started the butt of the bat toward the ball and created two nice levers with his hips and forearms.
Jun 25, 2012 14:25 PM
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Trackstar reups his Still Dreamin' series and brings along Jimetta Rose to add some sugar and spice by playing the host. If you're in the City of Angels, word is there's a pretty nifty release party to coincide with SD7. Even if you're nowhere nearby, the mix is still yours to listen to and enjoy.
Oh yeah, artwork by the almighty Tech Supreme.
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