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"GOLDEN SISTERS" (30 Minutes)
Series Premiere – Saturday, June 1 (Two back-to-back episodes from 10 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ET/PT and 10:30 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT)
The new original series follows the outrageous, real-life adventures of Mary, Josie and Teresa, three golden-aged sisters who shot to fame after a web video of the trio viewing the Kardashian sex tape went viral. Mary is in her eighties and twin sisters Josie and Teresa are not far behind, but these three outspoken, fun-loving Bronx-born women are no sweater-knitting, porch-rocking seniors … not by a long shot. In this season, the spunky trio head on a road trip to Las Vegas to gamble, have the surprise of their lives when they meet Oprah Winfrey, visit where they grew up in the Bronx to reminisce about the good ol' days, live la vida loca at the racetrack and much more.
(P) Saturday, June 1 (10 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Josie's Salon
Josie founded her salon, Michelangelo Hair House, in the 70's. Back then, the place was cool, as she says, like "disco." But as the business grew older over the years, Josie's loyal clientele grew older with it, and she has come to the realization that it's time to bring in some fresh, young customers. The Golden Sisters put their heads together and shoot a commercial to spice things up.
(P) Saturday, June 1 (10:30 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Mary Cheats on Jack
Mary finds out that her favorite singer, Engelbert Humperdinck, who she hasn't seen in concert in 40 years, will be performing at a nearby casino. With her sisters in tow, Mary is ready for the night of her life and the man of her dreams. Mary wants Engelbert to notice her, so the girls decide to get makeovers. At the concert, Mary can hardly contain her excitement after Engelbert finishes singing her favorite song, "Please Release Me" and she storms the stage while Josie and Teresa watch in disbelief.
(P) Saturday, June 8 (10 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: #winetasting
The sisters have the surprise of their lives when they meet Oprah for the first time. While reminiscing, they decide to make some of their famous Rucola bread. Looking for something to pair the bread with, the sisters head to wine country where they end up over-indulging in some of the local spirits.
(P) Saturday, June 15 (10 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Teresa's Agency
The girls get a tweet while eating lunch: "What is the biggest risk you've ever taken?" For Teresa, it was buying a talent agency and learning the job on the fly. Her claim to fame was discovering Shia LaBeouf and now it's time to discover new actors during pilot season. Teresa's assistant is out sick, leaving her alone in the busiest time of year in Hollywood. With nowhere else to turn, she calls her sisters to come save the day, but calamity ensues when she realizes they don't know the first thing about running an office.
(P) Saturday, June 22 (10 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: What Happens in Vegas…
Mary heads to her favorite place in the world, Las Vegas, and Josie and Teresa aren't about to miss out on the fun or the large buffets. While Mary competes in a casino poker tournament at the Palazzo Venetian, the sisters decide to take Vegas on like seasoned veterans. Things get messy when Teresa tries a "Master Cleanse" to make room for all the Vegas food. They have a great time until one of the sisters breaks the rules, but as they say, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
CONTINUING SERIES (New Episodes)
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"OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER" (60 Minutes)
Sundays (9 – 10 p.m. ET/PT)
The primetime series features Oprah Winfrey as she steps outside of the studio for riveting, enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders and real-life families.
(P) Sunday, June 2 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Oprah Visits the Set of The Voice
Oprah visits the set of the hit television singing competition series "The Voice" and speaks with all four coaches: Usher, Shakira, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. Oprah is given a tour of the set and surprises the Top 10 artists.
(P) Sunday, June 9 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: John Legend and His Wife
Oprah sits down with nine time Grammy winner John Legend in his Hollywood Hills home to talk about his first solo album in five years, his passion for education and politics, and his friendship with collaborator and executive producer Kanye West. Legend's fiancée, model, TV host and Twitter personality Chrissy Teigen, joins the conversation to discuss their relationship and tabloid rumors of infidelity.
(P) Sunday, June 23 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: African American Women in Hollywood
Oprah sits down for an in-depth conversation with some of Hollywood's most powerful female African-American actresses including Alfre Woodard, Viola Davis, Phylicia Rashad and Gabrielle Union. In the discussion, the iconic actresses open up about the challenges and triumphs they face as African-American women in the entertainment industry. In the groundbreaking conversation, the women shed light on a topic that is not often discussed in the entertainment industry.
"OPRAH'S MASTER CLASS" (60 Minutes)
Sundays (10 – 11 p.m. ET/PT)
"Oprah's Master Class" tells the stories you've never heard from the people you thought you knew best. Hand-picked by Oprah Winfrey for their unique impact on the world, true modern masters share their successes, their failures, their triumphs, disappointments and heartbreaks. "Oprah's Master Class" offers an unprecedented first-person insight into the brilliant minds of the famous people we love, respect and admire.
(P) Sunday, June 2 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m.) Episode: Lenny Kravitz
The multi-Grammy Award-winning artist, producer and actor Lenny Kravitz talks about how his mixed cultural background influenced his signature retro music style and how he challenged the industry with his unconventional image. Raised in a biracial family (his mother is Roxie Roker known for her character Helen Willis on the hit 70's sitcom "The Jeffersons" and father is Sy Kravitz NBC news producer of Russian-Jewish descent), Kravitz opens up about his upbringing and how his father's infidelity affected him as a young boy. Plus, he reveals more about his marriage to actress Lisa Bonet ("The Cosby Show") and his relationship with daughter, Zoë.
(P) Sunday, June 9 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m.) Episode: Susan Sarandon
Academy Award-winning actress and humanitarian Susan Sarandon talks about her first big break when she auditioned for an independent film on a whim, and then found herself in Hollywood scoring leading lady roles in big feature films, such as Annie in "Bull Durham," Louise in "Thelma and Louise" and Sister Helen in "Dead Man Walking." A New Jersey native and the eldest of nine siblings, Sarandon grew up in a strict Catholic school which shaped her world view, leading to her future social and political activism. She talks candidly about becoming pregnant after doctors told her she wouldn't be able to have kids, aging in a business that is tough on women passed a "certain age," and why she believes relationships need to evolve, even if it means parting ways. Now a mother of three, Sarandon remains one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile leading ladies, yet she credits her success to the fact that all her plans failed.
(P) Sunday, June 16 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m.) Episode: Berry Gordy Jr.
If you know the music of Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Jackson 5, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder – just to name a few, then you know Berry Gordy, Jr. He is the man behind all those hits, as founder of the legendary Motown record label and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who shaped the careers of many young superstar singers. Gordy Jr. talks about his love affair with Diana Ross, their behind-the-scenes stories, spinning out #1 hits, and how life growing up in Detroit wasn't always glamorous in the beginning.
(P) Sunday, June 16 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m.) Episode: Diahann Carroll
Living legend Diahann Carroll is a groundbreaking actress with many "firsts" to her name including being the first African-American to win a Tony Award and originating many leading lady roles, such as the title role in her 1968 sitcom "Julia," as the first African-American actress to star in her own sitcom. Carroll talks about growing up in New York, the prejudice she endured, creating the role of Dominique Deveraux in the television soap opera "Dynasty," and being a breast cancer survivor.
Sundays (11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET/PT)
The Emmy Award-winning series "Super Soul Sunday" delivers a thought-provoking, eye-opening and inspiring block of programming designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them. Home to Oprah's Book Club 2.0, "Super Soul Sunday" features exclusive interviews and all-new conversations between Oprah Winfrey and top thinkers, authors, filmmakers and spiritual leaders. Exploring themes and issues including happiness, personal fulfillment, wellness, spirituality and conscious living, "Super Soul Sunday" presents an array of perspectives on what it means to be alive in today's world.
(P) Sunday, June 2 (11 a.m. – 12 p.m.) Episode: Oprah & Dr. Brian Weiss: Reincarnation, Past Lives and Miracles
Dr. Brian Weiss, groundbreaking psychiatrist and best-selling author of "Many Lives, Many Masters," tells Oprah of how he came to practice past life regression therapy.
(P) Sunday, June 9 (11 a.m. – 12 p.m.) Episode: Oprah & Karen Armstrong: Losing Faith, Finding God
Former Roman Catholic nun and best-selling religious historian, Karen Armstrong, who created TED's Charter for Compassion, reveals her life story and why she is on a mission to build greater compassion in the world.
(P) Sunday, June 16 (11 a.m. – 12 p.m.) Episode: Oprah & Phil Jackson
Widely considered one of the greatest American basketball coaches in history, 11-time NBA Championship coach Phil Jackson opens up to Oprah like you've never seen him before, talking about his strict upbringing and his coaching philosophy as it relates to life lessons.
(P) Sunday, June 23 (11 a.m. – 12 p.m.) Episode: Oprah & Grammy Award-Winner India.Arie: Spiritual Awakening
Grammy Award-winning musician and songstress India.Arie sits down with Oprah for a truly spiritual and heart-opening conversation where she reveals her downward spiral after being shut out of her first Grammy nominations. Arie talks about what was holding her back and how she broke through. Plus, Arie performs a very special song from her new album.
(P) Sunday, June 30 (11 a.m. – 12 p.m.) Episode: Oprah & Grammy Award-Winner India.Arie Part Tow: How To Break Through
The India.Arie conversation continues as she addresses a recent controversy that landed her in the headlines. She explains her spiritual awakening in Hawaii, talks about love relationships and why she chose to trust her intuition.
"THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS" (60 Minutes)
Tuesdays (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT)
From prolific writer, director, producer Tyler Perry, "The Haves and the
Have Nots" follows the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful
Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent mansion set in
Savannah, Georgia. From the outside, family patriarch Jim Cryer (John
Schneider) and the Cryer family are the enviable face of success and
wealth, but behind the veil, the family's dysfunction threatens their
world of privilege. The Cryer family housekeeper Hanna Young (Crystal Fox)
has a secret of her own, a scurrilous daughter Candace (Tika Sumpter)
whose secret extracurricular relationship with Jim Cryer could lead to the
destruction of the family for whom she works.
(P) Tuesday, June 4 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Beautifully Dysfunctional
Candace (Tika Sumpter) continues to blackmail Jim (John
Schneider) and threatens to ruin his career if he doesn't pay her soon.
Jim's friend David (Pater Parros) hires a dirty detective to
help Jim deal with the Candace situation. Meanwhile, Candace's brother
Benny (Tyler Lepley) presses her to pay the overdue mortgage on
their mother Hanna's (Crystal Fox) house.
(P) Tuesday, June 11 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Entering the Race
Jim (John Schneider) formally announces that he is running for
Governor, while Candace (Tika Sumpter) threatens to go to the press
and reveal his indiscretions, unless she is paid off. A sheriff delivers
a notice of eviction to Cryer housekeeper Hanna (Crystal Fox).
(P) Tuesday, June 18 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: A Woman's Pride
Hanna (Crystal Fox) confronts her son Benny (Tyler Lepley) about mortgaging her house. Tired of the charade with Jim (John Schneider) and Candace (Tika Sumpter), David (Peter Parros) initiates a plan to end the situation once and for all. Hanna discovers that her employer Mrs. Cryer (Renee Lawless) has cancer.
(P) Tuesday, June 25 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Angry Sex
Jim (John Schneider) is seduced by Candace (Tika Sumpter) again, despite her blackmail threats. David (Peter Parros) gets fed up with Jim's behavior and takes matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, the Cryer's household employee Celine (Eva Tamargo) becomes increasingly jealous of Hanna (Crystal Fox).
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR" (30 Minutes)
Wednesdays (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. ET/PT)
Written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry, "Love Thy Neighbor" is a half-hour comedy set at The Love Train Diner, a family run restaurant where every day the menu serves up good food, great laughs, valuable life lessons and a whole lot of love. Diner owner and feisty family matriarch Hattie Mae Love (Patrice Lovely) has her hands full not only managing her customers but her family drama, too. Her daughter Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) splits her time between Hattie's home and the apartment she shares with her philandering husband. Linda's son Danny (Andre Hall), a recent college grad, moves into a bachelor pad with his best friend Sam (Jonathan Chase) and lands a job at a hot internet design firm. He quickly establishes himself as a rising star…that's when he's not distracted by Sam's hard-partying ways and their beautiful co-workers Marianna (Zulay Henao) and Drew (Darmirra Brunson). Meanwhile, Uncle Floyd (Palmer Williams) is an ever-present thorn in the Love family's side. Like old luggage, they can never seem to get rid of him.
(P) Wednesday, June 5 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Episode: Love Thy Privacy
After Sam (Jonathan Chase) discovers that Danny (Andre Hall) has given Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) a key to the apartment, he confronts Danny about Linda wearing out her welcome.
(P) Wednesday, June 5 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.) Episode: Love Ain't Opening This Door
As Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) grieves the loss of her marriage, Hattie (Patrice Lovely) encourages her, in typical Hattie fashion, to get a job, take care of herself and move on from her philandering husband. Meanwhile, Danny (Andre Hall) accuses Sam (Jonathan Chase) of partying too much, and Sam asks Danny to do something about his clingy mother always being at their apartment.
(P) Wednesday, June 12 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Episode Where's My Mamma
A dejected Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) shows up to Floyd's (Palmer Wiliams) tiny studio apartment, at three o'clock in the morning, looking for a place to stay after her ex-husband cancelled her credit cards and Hattie (Patrice Lovely) refused to let her in. Floyd attempts to play peacemaker, by petitioning a headstrong Hattie to help her needy daughter. Linda is given a dose of Hattie's tough love when Hattie physically attacks Linda in an effort to get her to "fight" for her life.
(P) Wednesday, June 12 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.) Episode Love Thy Journey
Hattie (Patrice Lovely) gives Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) advice on how to make a good impression for her job interview. Vivian (Sondra Currie), the woman who owns a competing restaurant and the building that Floyd works for, pays The Love Train Diner a visit to ask for Floyd's (Palmer Williams) assistance.
(P) Wednesday, June 19 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Episode: Love Thy Vindication
Floyd (Palmer Williams) and Hattie's (Patrice Lovely) business suffers after Vivian (Sondra Currie) decides to post a billboard slamming The Love Train Diner for being closed by the board of health. Hattie gets her revenge by spray painting Vivian's billboard. When Vivian arrives at the Love Train Diner to confront Hattie about destroying her property, the entire restaurant overhears Hattie threaten to burn down Vivian's restaurant.
(P) Wednesday, June 19 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.) Episode: Love Thy Partnership
With Vivian's (Sondra Currie) restaurant out of business, The Love Train Diner opens its doors to more customers. Unfortunately, they are less than satisfied with Hattie's (Patrice Lovely) cuisine, so business suffers. With the diner being financially strapped, Hattie accepts Vivian's offer to form a partnership that will increase revenue for the diner.
(P) Wednesday, June 26 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Episode: Don't Mess with That White Lightning
A frustrated Danny (Andre Hall) has grown tired of Sam's (Jonathan Chase) obsessive partying. Hattie (Patrice Lovely) decides to take matters in her own hands so that Danny doesn't move back. She shows up at one of Sam's parties and gives Sam a drink called White Lightning. Sam wakes up the next morning handcuffed to Hattie. Horrified, Sam vows to stop partying and drinking so much.
(P) Wednesday, June 26 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.) Episode: Love Thy Celibacy
Linda (Kendra C. Johnson) agrees to attend a 20's themed costume party that her friend is hosting. During her preparation for the party, Hattie (Patrice Lovely) misinterprets a conversation that she has with Linda about celibacy.
"RAISING WHITLEY" (30 Minutes)
Saturdays (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. ET/PT)
"Raising Whitley" is a humorous and poignant new docu-series following actress and comedienne Kym Whitley and her riotous collective of friends – whom she calls "The Village" – as they attempt to do something none of them have ever done before: raise a baby…together. When Kym signed up to mentor a troubled young girl, she never imagined she'd get a call from the hospital saying, "Your baby is ready." After learning that her mentee exited the maternity ward leaving only Kym's contact information, Kym experienced a cataclysmic moment. With less than an hour to make a life-changing decision – and to do a lifetime of soul-searching – Kym chose to become a mother. The Village banded together to help Kym bring up baby Joshua the best they knowhow, but sometimes it's hard to tell who is more mature – Joshua or the adults tasked with raising him
(P) Saturday, June 1 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Palm Springs Shimmy
Kym and "The Opinion" take Wendell up on his offer to have a girls' weekend in Palm Springs. The girls are skeptical of Wendell's ability to take care of Joshua while they detox and relax, but he rises to the occasion when Joshua gets sick.
(P) Saturday, June 8 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Flirting with Disaster
After 20 years as friends, Rodney asks Kym to go on a date. He also asks Wendell for help picking out a gift; a nice dinner and jewelry. Meanwhile, Harold and Val suspect that Rodney is up to something, and although Kym doesn't disagree, she worries that she likes it.
(P) Saturday, June 15 (9 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Friends with Benefits
Rodney shocks Kym by asking if he can move in with her. Undecided, Kym weighs her friends' opinions during CPR class. Emotions flare with some adamantly against it and others for it.
"LIFE WITH LA TOYA" (30 Minutes)
Saturdays (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT)
"Life With La Toya" offers an inside look at the outrageous world of La Toya Jackson – the wild card of one of showbiz's most famous families – as she tackles love, career and maybe even parenthood, all on her own unpredictable terms. The new reality series gets up close and personal as La Toya hunts for a new house, builds new business ventures, contemplates starting a family and perhaps the biggest of all – jumps into the dating pool for the first time, ever.
(P) Saturday, June 1 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: La Toya Finds the Beat
La Toya wants to get back into the studio, but when her music exec tries to force her to demo a song, La Toya shuts him down. When he brings in her father Joseph to try to persuade her, she decides to record a dance song with her friend, RuPaul, instead.
(P) Saturday, June 8 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: Family Vacation: Jackson Style
La Toya's relationship with her father has always been about business, so when a camping trip is organized to bring them together, La Toya jumps at the chance for a little father-daughter time.
(P) Saturday, June 15 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: La Toya Jackson, You're Fired
La Toya flies to New York to film "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice." But drama eventually ensues when old rival Omarosa threatens her chances of winning.
(P) Saturday, June 22 (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) Episode: The Secret Life of La Toya
La Toya is asked a deeply personal question by her friend, Kathy Hilton: Is she a virgin? This causes La Toya to have an emotional breakdown, and she quickly goes MIA. After a week of no contact, Kathy and Jeffre decide an intervention is in order. La Toya will either open up to them, or put her walls back up.
Premieres Sunday, June 23 (10 p.m. ET/PT)
"Dark Girls" is a fascinating and controversial film that goes underneath the surface to explore the prejudices that dark-skinned women face throughout the world. It explores the roots of classism, racism and the lack of self-esteem within a segment of cultures that span from America to the most remote corners of the globe. Women share their personal stories, touching on deeply ingrained beliefs and attitudes of society, while allowing generations to heal as they learn to love themselves for who they are.
Premieres Thursday, June 6 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT)
Rosalie Hollingsworth's only child, Triana, is kidnapped by her ex-husband not once, but twice. The decade-long search for her daughter culminates in a gut-wrenching dangerous chase to South America to steal her back from her father who has strong ties to the local mob. This special is the first hand account of Triana's harrowing, heartbreaking and shockingly true abduction. It is told through her own voice, along with her mother, and the man who ultimately rescued and saved her life.
Premieres Thursday, June 13 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT)
In this special, three shocking stories of crime and corruption in small town America are recreated. A respected townsman moonlights as a bank robber, a rogue drug enforcement team terrorizes a neighborhood, and a quiet community is stunned when drugs take over its youth.
Thursday, June 20 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT)
In this special episode, host Lisa Ling joins "ex-gay" organization Exodus International president Alan Chambers and a group of reparative therapy survivors as they engage in a face-to-face confrontation 40 years in the making.
Premieres Thursday, June 27 (10 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT)
Two families mourn the tragic loss of loved ones. One a teen in a fatal car accident and the other has three orphaned daughters searching for their mother who is missing for over 40 years, when suddenly abandoned bones are found. But are they really dead? This special tells the compelling, gut-wrenching, and sometimes just plain bizarre stories of people who get another chance at life.


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A friend of mine is in Sunny Key West Florida right now, and notified me that the Pinto Wagons are staying strong and living the dream down there. Is this normal? Cars still rust down there right? How in the world did this thing survive?
3 thoughts on "Do Cars Stay Young Forever in Key West?"
Naww, just BONDO!

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Jury duty no-shows in Jensen trial fined $100
Opting not to impose jail time, Mesa County District Judge Valerie Robison on Thursday fined two people $100 apiece, while ordering 20 hours of public service, for skipping out on jury duty service in January during Heather Jensen's trial.
The no-show jurors, Suzannah Wolcott and Brian Ludlow, also heard a firm lecture from the judge during a contempt hearing. Wolcott and Ludlow were issued summonses to appear Thursday. The judge noted arrest warrants could have been issued.
"Jury service is a cornerstone of our democracy and everybody needs to take it seriously," Robison said, while acknowledging people have "varying degrees of enthusiasm" for serving on a jury.
"It's part of our civic duty," the judge added.
Robison could have imposed fines up to $750, and up to six months jail, for the failure to report back to general jury selection in Jensen's case on Jan. 21. Wolcott and Ludlow both appeared at the Mesa County Justice Center as they and several hundred other candidates completed questionnaires specific to Jensen's case. All were ordered by the judge to return on Jan. 21.
Wolcott, a senior at Colorado Mesa University, told the judge that was the first day of the school semester and her only opportunity to enroll in a physics class needed for graduation. Wolcott said she assumed she was free from jury service after reading a story in the Daily Sentinel, which included information about other CMU students being excused by the judge early on during jury selection. She apologized to the judge.
"I didn't realize this case was such a big issue," Wolcott said, who retained a private attorney for Wednesday's hearing.
Brian Ludlow said appearing on Jan. 21 would have meant forfeiting a work-related promotion with his employer that required a trip to Greeley.
"I just bought a house, I need this job and promotion," he said, apologizing.
Robison gave Wolcott and Ludlow the option of completing public service through the Food For Thought program of Mesa County, which allows people to buy their way out of public service hours. The funds support several Grand Valley nonprofit organizations.
Some 550 summonses for jury duty were mailed in advance of Jensen's trial.


text: Report: Cost estimates for legislation often skewed By Eric Eyre November 12, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia lawmakers are passing bills with inaccurate and biased estimates of how much the proposals will cost, and little is being done about it, according to a report released Tuesday.Legislators often attach price tags, called "fiscal notes," to their bills. But agency officials who prepare the fiscal notes sometimes inflate expected costs to kill legislation they don't like -- or downplay costs if they want bills to pass, according to the report."As revenues continue to fall, it is increasingly important that legislators understand how proposed legislation will affect the budget," said Sean O'Leary, who prepared the report for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. "The state's current process for producing fiscal notes, however has led to biased, inaccurate and inconsistent information that legislators largely distrust."The report cites numerous examples of fiscal notes that have included basic math errors, state agency bias and conflicting information. Some notes also had missing explanations and failed to disclose how legislation would affect cities and counties.Earlier this year, for instance, lawmakers passed a bill that requires county sheriff's departments to issue bulletproof vests to deputies. A table at the bottom of the fiscal note listed "$0" financial impact to the state. However, a written summary on the same document declared that counties would have to pay $143,750 for the protective vests."Local costs or savings are often ignored by fiscal notes," O'Leary said.State agencies also "game" fiscal notes to undermine bills, according to the report.Several years ago, the Department of Education estimated it would cost $1.5 billion -- nearly as much as the state spends on K-12 education each year -- to provide daily physical education classes in schools statewide. Department officials inflated the analysis by including the costs of building new gymnasiums and athletic facilities, according to the report.During the past legislative session, the Tax and Revenue Department prepared 22 fiscal notes, the most of any state agency, followed by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board with 10, and the Secretary of State's Office with six. Seventy-two bills had fiscal notes. Lawmakers frequently amend bills as they move through legislative committees. But the bills' fiscal notes are seldom updated, even though the revisions often change the legislation's financial impact, according to the report.In 2011 and 2012, the Legislative Auditor's Office reviewed fiscal notes, finding that 32 or 143 bills passed had cost estimates that were off by more than 10 percent."With many fiscal notes providing grossly inaccurate estimates and many others providing no data at all, they are falling short of their goal of educating legislators and the public about how a bill will affect the state budget, individual agencies, local governments and taxpayers," according to the Center on Budget and Policy's report.The Charleston-based nonprofit think tank also surveyed state lawmakers. More than 80 percent said fiscal notes clearly explained financial impacts less than half of the time.The survey solicited written comments from lawmakers. One legislator likened fiscal notes to notes sent home by a teacher."You don't agree, but your opinion will have little effect on the punishment sure to follow," the lawmaker wrote. Another legislator suggested that legislative leaders might benefit from a course on the proper pronunciation of "fiscal." The lawmaker wrote the state should "provide a training class to committee chairs, explaining they are 'fiscal' notes, not 'physical' notes."The report recommends setting up an independent legislative office that would provide an unbiased review of fiscal notes. The notes also should explain how state agencies calculated the financial impact of a bill, according to the report."When the Legislature suspects a fiscal not is unfairly biased for or against a bill, it only serves to create distrust, making the legislative process more difficult and contentious," O'Leary said.Reach Eric Eyre at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-4869. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 2 Toyota announces new $115 million project for WV plant 3 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 4 'Report for America' pilot project begins in Appalachia 5 Congressional opioid investigation targets drug wholesaler Miami-Luken Charleston police to conduct safety checkpoint Previous Story Wayne auto parts plant to expand, adding 250 jobs Next Story


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Environmental Factor, December 2008, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Global Warming and Insect Populations
By Eddy Ball
December 2008
The Scientific Research Society, Sigma Xi, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., hosted a presentation on November 17 by North Carolina State University (NCSU) ecologist Rob Dunn, Ph.D., as part of a monthly lunchtime lecture series. The talk, titled "Global Warming and the Neglected Majority," explored the impact of climate change on invertebrates - and ultimately humans - by focusing on ants, one of the best studied insect species
Dunn (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rrdunn/) is part of the NCSU Conservation Ecology Research Group, which uses integrated approaches to study diversity, rarity, extinction and conservation. Within the group, research interests include microcosms, large-scale experiments on corridors, studies of rarity and diversity at continental scales, and diverse modeling approaches. Dunn is the author of a new book, Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys.
"What I want to talk about today," Dunn began, "is what we can project about the ecological aspects of the future." What he also did was to turn the attention of his audience away from global warming icons, such as the polar bear and its Arctic habitat, to the temperate areas of the world where humans and their often unseen invertebrate neighbors coexist.
According to Dunn, these areas include the back yards of residents of central North Carolina where an average of 30 species of ants can be found. The back yard is also where people may encounter the three major invasive species of ants that "are doing better and better each year" in North Carolina, he added - the fire ant, the Argentine ant and the aggressive Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis), whose painful sting can trigger anaphylactic reactions in as many as one out of every 100 people it stings.
Dunn described the contributions of insects, some of them members of endangered species that could be threatened by global warming, as sources of pharmaceuticals, dispersers of seeds and pollen, and mediators of many, if not most, ecological processes. He added, however, that insects also make up the majority of pests, are capable of destroying crops and buildings, and can serve as disease vectors.
From what Dunn and other investigators have learned about the central importance of temperature to insect populations, global warming is likely to help at least some species of ants and other insects invade parts of the world where they are now less prevalent, such as higher elevations and, for fire ants, the interior of forests. Climate change is also likely to accelerate the dominance of invasive species - many of which, like the Asian needle ant, perform fewer ecologically beneficial activities and can pose a threat to human health and quality of life.
"It doesn't take much," Dunn asserted, "to go from a community [of insects] dominated by the processes we [humans] like to a community with a whole bunch of invasive species doing some pretty nasty things."
Dunn concluded his talk by re-emphasizing how little scientists understand about the world of insects and the specifics of what a warmer world will be like for humans and the "neglected [insect] majority." He noted that many of the tens of millions of insect species estimated to exist are still undiscovered. Even today, he observed, "You could still go out in Central Park and find a new species."
Because so much remains to be discovered about insects, human attempts to control them can easily backfire - just the way that the use of DDT ironically ended up accelerating the northwards spread of fire ants by ten or twenty years.
(Individuals interested in attending the Sigma Xi lunchtime lecture series should contact series organizer Catherine Clabby, associate editor of American Scientist.)
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Boxing News of Friday, 6 July 2012
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Matchmaker Solomon Otoo Lartey is crying wolf that Ghana
Boxing Authority (GBA) boss Samir Captan is apparently still in office calling himself
President of the nation's boxing governing body.
Reacting to a purported letter from the GBA to various associations
under the body including the United Boxing Coaches Association of Ghana signed
by Mr. Captan, Mr. Otoo Lartey described it as out of order and is calling on
the National Sports Authority to call Samir Captan to order and restrain him
from calling himself GBA President.
"The politicians he (Mr. Captan) is following in
Odododiodoo, he should ask them what is the meaning of President. Before you
become a president you have to be elected. Formerly, J.J. Rawlings was the
Chairman of PNDC before he was elected as president through NDC," Solomon Otoo
He added: "I don't blame him, it's lawyer Felix Quartey I
blame because he has to tell them about the law. He knows that the law has
changed and it's LI – 1988 which is working now so their administration is
The Ghanaian boxing administration have come under intense
pressure to assimilate themselves unto the New Sports Regulations LI – 1988,
which prescribes the formation, organization, administration and elections of
officials of sports association to rest in the hands of people interested in
that particular sport (stakeholders).
A stakeholder pressure group, the Committee for Boxing
Stakeholders (CPBS), have called for Mr. Captan who is in office by government
appointment, the two year tenure having expired in June last year, to vacate
office for the boxing fraternity to go to Congress to elect their executives. A
stand that has received the backing of the National Sports Authority (NSA) who
have since ordered the GBA to go to congress to elect their officers.
That is why the GBA have notified the various stakeholders
to elect their executives by August 31 so the process for congress and election
of executives for the boxing governing body could be executed thereafter.
"His tenure of office expired last year and he was only by
appointment. He's only a chairman, not president, who elected him to call
himself president? Presidents are people who are elected. He can't address himself
as president, he can't. If you hang unto power like Muammar Ghadafi, you will
die," United Boxing Coaches Association President Godwin Dzanie Kotey AKA
Alloway has also said.
Abdul Rashid Williams, Secretary of the United Boxing
Coaches Association also adds his beef on GBA Communications Director Mohammed
Amin Lamptey. "Amin Lamptey is the one bringing problems in Ghana boxing and
Mr. Samir Captan should bring Amin Lamptey to order because he goes on air to
attack coaches without any cause. What is wrong with coaches calling for
congress when Mr. Captan has also been part of the call for congress long
before he became the GBA Chairman? Instead of Amin Lamptey to know that the new
LI allows congress to come on, he goes on air and just tries to defend the


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Local choral society looking for new members
BENNINGTON >> Rehearsals for the Bennington County Choral Society (BCCS) start Feb. 1 for its annual spring concert, "Cries of War, Hopes for Peace."
BCCS is looking for singers to join its rehearsals every Monday evening at 6:45 p.m. at the Second Congregational Church in lieu of performances on May 14 and 15. All singers ages 15 and older are able to join with a $35 membership fee per concert or $60 for the full season, according to a release from the society. There is a show in the spring and the fall.
This spring's concert will feature two 20th century pieces: "Chichester Psalms" by Leonard Bernstein and "Dona Nobis Pacem" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
"If you come for the first rehearsal and find it's not for you, then that's okay," singer Patricia Gardner said. "Just come and see what it's all about. If you can match pitch and carry a tune, we want you to come and see what we're about."
Voices that make up BCCS come from southern Vermont, nearby New York and Massachusetts communities. It's goal is to musically grow with weekly rehearsals and performances as a source of pride and pleasure.
Gardner said that most singers in the choral society also sing for their church or the Battenkill Chorale. Last year the group was invited to sing the national anthem at the annual Battle Day Parade.
The choral society's director, Cailin Marcel Manson works with the singers during practices and looks forward them each week, Gardner said.
"When we go through rehearsal, he'll teach us how to make it sound right. That's one of the things we really appreciate," she said. "Cailin refers to our rehearsals as his Monday night caffeine. Everyone looks forward to them."
During the spring, there is a competition for the BCCS Music Scholarship that encourages future generations of musicians to practice. Applicants compete in front of a panel of judges for prize money and constructive comment, according to the website. Two scholarships up to $400 are awarded each year.
For more information about BCCS, visit bccsmusic.wordpress.com.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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Everybody and their mothers are on the Royal Wedding bandwagon lately.
The event is indeed around the corner and will surely be an affair to remember. In many ways, "the wedding of the year" is going to be the best PR jolt the UK has had in a while and I'm sure the Ministry of Tourism is salivating at the prospect.
Whether you like weddings or not, this one is going to be spectacular; and from the look of it in the media, most will be watching it in some form. If irony is your poison, check Kathy Griffin's faux-reportage on the Royal nuptials later on that day.
I suspect that Miss Catherine Middleton shall wear a somewhat 1930s silhouette……but with or without sleeves? That is the question. She's tall and slender, like Blake Lively, so such silhouettes will suit her well and work with her frame. She can't wear anything like Diana Spencer, it'd be gauche and the style is démodé beyond belief now. Perhaps Diana's veil might be coming out…..we shall see.
Breaking with tradition is difficult, especially if the queen has any say in it. She's a stickler for protocol. But some traditions could be made anew, like ermine! Nothing says "royal" and "official portrait" like ermine, and the Windsors (the Hanover/ Saxe-Coburg-Gotha clan) have a well-documented love for it.
The Queen Mother wore it on her way to the wedding. On a side note, bridal furs are making a come back. Not everybody wants to get hitched bare feet on the beach!
Stay tuned for more royal wedding scoop and my take on Ms. Middleton's dress next week.


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Garmin has obtained FAA TSO approval for new VHF com and navcom radios that offer 8.33-kHz frequency spacing, more transmitter power and built-in frequency databases. Shipments of the new GTR (com) and GNC (navcom) series radios began last month, replacing the SL 30 and 40 models, which will eventually cease production. European TSO approval is expected in the first quarter.
Features include a frequency database, which helps pilots find frequencies associated with an airport or facility by entering location name or station ID. They also offer a nearest function, for airports, area control centers, flight service stations, weather frequencies and VORs.
All of the new radios include a voice-activated two-place intercom; storage of 20 most frequently used frequencies and up to 15 pilot-selectable frequencies; flip-flop for entering frequencies in a standby window; and a communications monitor function. The GNC navcoms add VOR and ILS with glideslope and can display nav indicators on Garmin G500/600, G500H and G3X systems. The GNC navcoms also interface with most autopilots, according to Garmin. The new radios are intended for Part 23 airplane and Part 27 helicopter applications.


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Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer.
Hi, thanks for your question. You should hire a lawyer for specific legal advice. No attorney client relationship is created here.
The chapter 13 plan sets out the repayment amount. You would then file a proof of claim supporting the balance owed with documents (copy of judgment etc).
If the debt is unsecured, you are paid pro-rata with the other unsecured debts.
If you are secured (meaning you have recorded your judgment lien on the title to a home etc). then you are paid according to the plan. If you object to the set repayment, then you need to file an objection to confirmation of the plan.
Once a plan is confirmed, it generally cannot be changed by a creditor.
I did hire a bankruptcy attorney in Maryland - to file the claim for me. We have a Nov 15 date in front of the Bankruptcy judge...
ok, cool
There is no house to put a lein on- he is upside down on the house. Only can go after h is 120,000 salary I guess.
so, you are an unsecured creditor.
You don't have much say, just file your proof of claim.
The trustee will make sure that the debtor is paying the correct amount into the plan.
You get to share in that pot with the other unsecured creditors.
You may only get pennies on the dollar, depending on the required repayment.
monitor the case. You cannot collect on any balance outside of the case, and if the case is discharged, that's it, the debt is done. You may be able to take a tax deduction for the unpaid portion, so talk to your accountant.
If the case gets dismissed, many do, then you can start to collect on the full balance agian.
I know my attorney filed our claim- stating all moneys he owes me are secured...:
1. 35,000 arrears for childsupport
Oh, I see.
then, since you are support,
you get 100% of the arrears.
CS is paid as a priority, ahead of the unsecured debts.
2. 20,000 legal fees, 3. 35,000 college for children, 4. 46,000 IRA money judgement, 5. $2000 healthcare premiums for children, 6. $1280 sale of childrens car, 7. share of Delphi retirement, 8. maintence for 7 years as per judgement of divorce=$15,000 Our claim is saying all of above is for domestic support or non-dischargable claims based on conversion. not sure what that means. He owes his divorce attorney 25,000 too is that non dischargable?
if you can support that all of the above are domestic support obligations, then they will be paid at 100%. property settlements are not domestic support obligations, so those may have to be pulled out. have your attorney review which would be covered and which would not.
property settlements can be paid as unsecured debts, the domestic support obligations - definitely child support, usually maintenance, attorneys fees related to those two.
the others are a maybe, depending on your case.
do you have any other quesitons?
My Ex filled out his bankruptcy form stating after making 10,000 per month...he only has 2700 left at the end of the month to pay to Trustee...to be split . I know he has padded his expenses and provided info proving that. Sound like I might collect more if his case gets thrown out and I start up garnishing his wages again for the money judgements????
does the Trustee ever tell the debtor- hey just live onless because you need to come up with more thatn 2700 at the end of the month to pay the creditors?
You can attend the 341 hearing and present evidence if the information in the schedules is false. You can request that he prove the expenses
The trustee looks to the means test calculation to determine what percentage of the creditors are repaid, based on disposable monthly income.
They look to reasonableness too.
So, have your attorney review the schedules I & J with you (budget pages).
If you have evidence that information is incorrect, you can object to confirmation because of it.
if the 341 is the initial meeting of the creditors- my atty did attend ...did not have all my documents yet- now she does and has filed an objection to his proposed living expenses. I think that is whart the Nov 15 meeting is for- I am going to that meeting.
Ok, sounds like your attorney has your back.
You'll get a nice chunk of payments from the money paid in up front, good luck on the case
but can the trustee tell him he simply needs to live on less...perhaps put less than the maximum amount he can put toward his retirement? can i go ahead and file the QDRO's with his Delphi former employer retiurement plan? or is there a stay for that too?
It is based on reasonableness. That is subjective. if the trustee feels certain expenses are too high or unnecessary, they can ask for a higher payment amount yes, especially if creditors are pushing the issue.
The means test calculation sets out some living expenses based on location and household size too, and if the debtor is above those, they have to justify them to the court (which is difficult).
what is the question?>
Can I continue to process the QDRO's with his former employer Delphi Automotive filing the paperwork for half of his retiremnet...or does the "stay " apply to that see my question a few screens ago
generally QDRO's are an order for a pension company to distribute assets between parties. So the order is to the pension, not to the individual, so usually not an issue in the ch13
If the order is in place to distribute, then it would be best to bring a quick motion to modify the stay only for purposes of getting the pension as set out in the qrdo order.
That way you won't have to worry about any stay violation
great! one more question- The Federal Gov has been garanishing/siezing his tax returns for past 2 years. Does chapter 13 stop that?
the deductions stop, since the plan pays out the debt that the seizure was paying
who notifies the federal gov? NYS childsupport told me it was anautomataic process of anyone more than 4 months in arrears on childsupport.
They get notice from the bankruptcy filing.
if NYS child support unit has already received the tqx return money... then get notification of chapter 13... does that money have to be returned to him ?
any money taken pre-bankruptcy will be kept. any money taken post-bankruptcy filing, should be returned if the debtor pushes the issue.
do you have any final questions?
is that true also for monies garnished from his wages - for my $46000 money judgement- I put in place prior to my being notified of chapter 13? I think a few thousand were garnished before I was told I had to write to Maryland clerks office and stop the garnishing. of his wages.
in addition to that last question... if there is a stay of garnishing his wages... do I have to cancel the money judgement or void it out? It was a NYS money judgement I had converted to a foreign money judgement in Maryland(good for 12 years) as his employer is in maryland.
The stay is effective as of the date of filing. so technically, money deducted after the case filing should be returned (for arrears). Current support deductions can continue.
Talk to your attorney regarding NY procedures. That is state specific, and beyond the scope of this forum.
thank you


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – State officials say they will be deploying helicopters over Lake Bistineau to spray herbicide on invasive aquatic plants.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says spraying over the northwest Louisiana lake is scheduled to start on Nov. 27 and last two days.
The operation is designed to treat roughly 800 acres of giant salvinia, which has seen a surge in growth in parts of the lake. The department says none of the herbicides are harmful to the lake's ecosystem, animal life or humans.
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The Daily Echo has signed Zoltan Liptak.
Yes, that's right ... one of the more obscure former Saints players put pen to paper, especially for us, to help autograph hunters Michael and Steve Morrison complete their quest to collect all the post-war signatures of players from the club. Liptak made seven appearances, all as a substitute, when he played at St Mary's in 2008/09. The Hungarian centre back moved from Ujpest on loan to shore up a leaky Saints defence.
He has since returned to his home country to play for Gyori ETO, near the Slovakian border.
But now Liptak has returned – if only in ink form – to the south coast. His signature's arrival straight from Hungary to the Daily Echo HQ, has helped Steve and Michael whittle their collection down – to just one left outstanding. And the remaining one is called Whittle!
"He's (Liptak) proved quite elusive to get hold of, but the support from the Echo has been very humbling and I can't thank you enough for their support in getting his autograph for us," said Steve Morrison.
"The power of the press is incredible and it's helping us make that one last big push across the finish line.
"What we have is probably the biggest collection dedicated to one club in the world.
"We are getting it fully valued, but the ball park figure is probably around £30,000. "We would ideally like the club to put it in cabinets on display when it's completed."
Steve and Michael's last great quest in their post-war challenge is to find Jim Whittle. The Scot made two appearances for Saints in 1953/54 but returned to his homeland, where he played for Ayr United. He also played for Hamilton, Hearts and Cambuslang Rangers. He passed away in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, in 2001. The pair started collecting nine years ago and to locate Whittle (and maybe and example of his signature) will be the culmination of an epic adventure, which has seen them communicate with an oil rig off the coast of Brazil and out-bid a very rich American businessman.
The father and son team have hoarded more than 2,800 signatures and have already started to negotiate the pre-war era, already collecting 100.


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Are You Eating the Right Type of Celery? – Heart, Root, or Seeds?
Isn't Celery Just Celery?
I was actually really lucky growing up – my mum cooked a lot, and so I got to know common fruits and vegetables (and even some exotic ones) pretty well. However, I have to admit, I was was really confused when it came to celery. I had eat celery plenty as a kid, but I had always called it "celery." So what the heck were hearts and roots?
<h3What's the difference between Celery, Celery Heart, and Celery Root?
It turns out that they're not all the same thing as I'll explain below.
What is Celery?
As you probably know, celery is this crunchy green vegetable often used to dip into various dressings or as an ingredient in salads. It's frequently eaten raw, and has the silly myth of being a negative calorie food.
What is Celery Heart?
I used to think that these were some special type of celery that magically looked clean and came in a plastic bag. But actually, they're just a cleaned up celery without all the leaves and the outer (often tougher) stalks. You can effective buy "normal" celery, take off around 4 outer stalks, chop off the top of the celery where the leaves are, and voila, you've got a celery heart.
What is Celery Root (Celeriac)?
You might be tempted to think that this is just what grows at the bottom of a celery plant, and you'd be sort of right and sort of wrong.
Celery root (more correctly called celeriac) is the "root" (it's technically a tuber even though it's called a root) of a type of celery plant (so your "normal" celery does not have that big bulb hanging onto it).
Celeriac has a similar flavor to normal celery (although it's not as strong), and it's a lot more starchy than normal celery.
Celeriac is great for in soups, mash, casseroles, and stews (like other root vegetables).
What about Celery Seeds?
Celery seeds are as you might have guessed the seeds of celery plants, but they're actually from a different variety of celery to normal celery or celeriac. The variety is called smallage, and they're grown for the seeds (the stalks are too stringy to be good tasting).
Celery seeds are used as a spice and can be bought whole or ground. I've actually never used it much, but this website gives some ideas for how they can be used (watch out – not all of the ideas are Paleo!).
And What's Pink Celery?
I have never seen this variety of celery, but it does exist! And it's not the same as rhubarb or swiss chard, even if they look sort of similar.
What type of Celery are you eating?
Have you ever had celeriac and celery seed? Have you ever seen Pink Celery? Let me know in the comments below.
Images: photo credit: Chiot's Run, Dinner Series, seaoat, avlxyz, The Adventures of Kristin & Adam, and Pulseman.


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Community Forums › Forums › Showcase and Feedback › Site built with the Epik Theme – What do you think?
This topic contains 14 replies, has 13 voices, and was last updated by mhilgtx 4 years ago.
June 18, 2013 at 12:41 pm #46595
Any feedback would be great!
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June 18, 2013 at 4:44 pm #46645
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Great job!
June 18, 2013 at 7:02 pm #46667
Wow, nice. It really shows off your property. The Epik theme was a great choice for your site.
JimJune 18, 2013 at 11:44 pm #46696
Very nice!
When I loaded the page, I noticed the site painting the picture frame border on the main image really slow. One idea might be to compress the image, use http://tinypng.org/ on image home-frame.png
I downloaded the image and tried it, the side reduced the image by 45% and with no quality loss.
For jpg's I use http://jpegmini.com/
Best of all, it's FREE!June 19, 2013 at 12:19 am #46697
Thanks guys! I'm loving the Epik theme.
Devnick, I will definitely compress that .png . Thanks for the heads up.June 19, 2013 at 8:24 am #46738
That's a fantastic job.
Can you tell me how you did it?
After 5 years with Thesis, I just purchased Genesis and the Epik theme which out of the box is nothing remotely close to the demo.
Still don't quite understand this because when you buy Twitter Bootstrap themes you get the actual demo on your site and work backwards to make it your own. With Genesis and child themes, it looks like I'm going to have to hand code everything anyway so I'm a little confused on the purpose of the child themes.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.June 19, 2013 at 9:46 am #46752
looking great Blue really nice work, one small thing I noticed is that in Chrome, you're getting 1 error with a missing graphic header.png, which i believe in the epik child theme is related to the custom header background.
Other than that looking good 🙂
WordPress Developer – Need help upgrading to Genesis 2.0? – My Blog
Follow me on TwitterJune 19, 2013 at 10:00 pm #46847
Thanks Stewart, I fixed the header.png thing. I hadn't noticed that one.
vincentpolisi, with Genesis child themes you don't have the dummy content automatically added so you have to do that yourself by importing the XML file included with your child theme. It's in a folder labeled xml. Or you can just add it yourself manually. (http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/import-demo-content/)
The theme will make much more sense once the content is in there and then you can start making your modifications. Check out the Appfinite support forum also. It is a huge help.
For the Epik theme this widget location screenshot is super helpful: http://appfinite.com/topic/epik-widgets-guide/
Let me know if you have any specific questions about the modifications I made. I'm happy to help.June 20, 2013 at 8:33 am #46885
Wow, what a great-looking site!June 23, 2013 at 9:37 pm #47407
Exactly - WOW - you have inspired me to use Epik. I actually bought it some weeks ago and then lost interest in it. Not now!!June 26, 2013 at 9:48 am #47799
Epik Theme looked great to me and i purchased it.
Unfortunately the Epik Theme developer website ( http://www.appfinite.com ) is not reachable from Italy anymore ( we know the website had hosting problems as the owner pointed out in the last months).
I've tried to get in touch with him via Twitter and other ways, still the website and related support info for the theme are not reachable from Italy, unless i use Vidalia Tor Bundle which is not the way i am supposed to get in touch to the developer of a Theme i purchased.
Wes, you've done a great job with your theme but please do check about this issue, you surely might be missing customers from Italy.
RickyJuly 3, 2013 at 3:56 pm #49069
Nice design! You have gone twenty steps further than I did on http://www.wptraining.co
I also have issue connecting to appfinite.com form the UK since they moved servers.
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Wow, this is really an amazing homepage.August 28, 2013 at 4:46 pm #59340
Wow, this is awesome! Did you use a plugin for the slider? I'd love something like that on my own!August 28, 2013 at 9:19 pm #59392
I am most envious. That is a very well done home page and layout.
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HBS Press; Harvard Business School Press
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|Source: Harvard Business Press Chapters
|Publication Date: May 3, 2005
|Product #: 5498BC-HCB-ENG
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Even the most rock-solid case will fail to persuade without a winning presentation. Emotions, perceptions, and predispositions also play major roles in how people make business decisions. To persuade others, you thus need to address your listeners' minds and their hearts. This chapter focuses on strategies for winning both.
This chapter is excerpted from Harvard Business Essentials: Power, Influence, and Persuasion.
To focus on strategies for winning people's minds and hearts.
Decision making; Making presentations; Management communication; Management philosophy; Persuasion; Power and influence


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"We are investing in people - this is how we manage to succeed."
Perusing an open air fruit market in Moscow, Kristina Rossova sees and smells possibilities everywhere. As part of PepsiCo's research and development team, she oversees the creation of fruit and vegetable products for regions including Greece, Turkey, Romania, and the Ukraine. It's actually part of her job to notice that apples are in season, ripe and ready to go into a PepsiCo apple juice product.
Kristina is highly attuned to the tastes and traditions of developing markets and how local foods may translate into to a new flavor or product. Before focusing on fruits and vegetables, she worked in PepsiCo's Snacks division developing unique region-specific flavors for Lay's potato chips – Red Caviar and Mushroom & Sour Cream chips both became hits in the Russian market.
Beyond travelling and tasting, Kristina's favorite things about PepsiCo include building and developing a strong team and surrounding herself with talented people. The group often hosts several taste tests where technicians present her and her team with various flavors and samples. She can be very hands-on in the development of new products but also enjoys having broader managerial responsibility
"What I enjoy the most is having the freedom to give my opinion."
How do you keep pace with one of the fastest growing economies? Juliana Grizzi, a supply chain project leader in PepsiCo's Brazil office is answering this question while taking on the challenge to improve the region's increasingly complex supply chain and distribution process. She's looking at how food and beverage products are being distributed to figure out the best, most creative and effective way to get customers and consumers what they want.
"I get to take the big picture – the lifespan of a product – and oversee in detail how it functions in the world. Then I get to recommend ways we could do it better."
The vibrancy of the city of Sao Paulo is felt in the busy city streets and in the high energy PepsiCo office, where Juliana and her team explore possibilities daily from within an open floor workspace and with an open door policy.
"The company provides an environment where you can say what you think and your ideas are taken seriously. I have access to anyone at any level in this company to say what I need to say. Creative thinking is encouraged and embraced. And I feel like I have a real impact on the way that we do business. I love that."
"PepsiCo gives you many tools to develop yourself as a leader."
For Ricardo, PepsiCo has not only provided a career path, it has guided him down a life path. Fifteen years after joining the company at age 25, he was asked to move from his home country of Brazil to Buenos Aires to take on a regional Chief Financial Officer role.
Now, Ricardo's managing four different countries in South America with four different currencies, learning about new cultures, and gaining valuable, enriching life experiences alongside his wife and children. Despite the vast differences, sharing the expat experience with his family has helped to bring them closer together.
Ricardo likens his leadership role to that of a coach of a soccer team. While he's not playing in the field, he needs to give his employees direction and strategy to get the job done, because at the end of the day, they're who are going to score the goals. Ricardo's notably demonstrated his ability to lead in empowering his team to recover from a very damaging plant fire. For turning a tragedy story into a success story, Ricardo was awarded the highest employee honor and reminded that the potential and possibilities at PepsiCo are truly endless.
"Every day I come to work I feel valued and like I am empowered to make a difference."
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to work for PepsiCo Canada? Follow Meagan White, a presell
customer representative, through her day and learn what it takes to work for a Canada's Top 100 Employer!
As a PepsiCo Canada ambassador, Meagan's role is a great opportunity to represent some of Canada's
favourite brands! While the job is fast-paced, it is equally rewarding; largely because it can be treated like running your own business!
Having entered the role straight out of university, Meagan says that she has grown both personally and professionally as a result of the opportunities available to her through PepsiCo Canada.
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Kadapa (AP): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday said his government was committed to development of all districts and provide high speed broadband services to every house in the state.
During his tour of Kadapa district, the home turf of YSRC chief and Opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Naidu inaugurated a slew of projects and also laid foundation stones for development works worth Rs 142 crore.
The TDP-led government is committed to all-round development of the state's 13 districts, including Kadapa, he said.
Naidu was addressing a public meeting this evening after inaugurating the new Collectorate building here.
He said the government will install a statue of Dr B R Ambedkar in the Collectorate complex, which is spread over 30 acres and has been built at a cost of Rs 67 crore.
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The CM also inaugurated 'Sri Rama Colony', constructed to rehabilitate the people who were moved out to build Sri Rama Temple at Ontimitta near here.
Naidu laid foundation stones for development works worth Rs 142 crore.
At one of the functions, he said his government was committed to complete phase II of GNSS (Galeru-Nagiri Sujala Sravanti), which will provide water to Chittoor district.
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The budget-conscious Rays beat the financial odds in two of the last three seasons to overtake the big-spending Yankees and Red Sox and win the American League East. At first blush, it seems the Rays don't have much confidence of making three out of four.
They are slashing last year's team-record $75 million payroll down to the $50-55 million range and traded right-hander Matt Garza, one of their top starting pitchers and a player who figured to make $6 million in arbitration this winter, to the Cubs last weekend in an eight-player deal in which the Rays did not receive any players who figures to make an immediate impact when the upcoming season begins.
The trade comes after a winter in which left fielder Carl Crawford, first baseman Carlos Pena and closer Rafael Soriano have left as free agents, designated hitter Willy Aybar was non-tendered and shortstop Jason Bartlett was traded. However, the Rays insist they are not running up the proverbial white flag on 2011. They still feel they can win another division title.
"It's always going to be an uphill battle in the AL East," executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. "We still have some spots to fill to round out our roster but we have a very talented core in place and a core that we think that with the added experience of winning another AL East title last year and what we're going to shoot to do to supplement around them, that we'll be in good position to defend our AL East crown."
Rays club president Matt Silverman said money "didn't drive" the Garza deal and the money will be reinvested in free agents or players acquired in trade. Friedman ideally would like to add two late-inning relievers, including one who could close, and two hitters to fill the holes at first base, left field and DH.
"Major-league payroll is always going to fluctuate, but the key is maintaining a talent level that allows us to compete with teams that can go out and spend more than $100 million on a single player," Silverman said. "So we need to be able to compete this year, and we need to be able to look out for the next several years and know that we're going to have the talent to compete in this division."
Friedman said it was not his intention to trade Garza or any of his other starting pitchers this offseason, though the presence of young right-hander Jeremy Hellickson gave the Rays six starters for five rotation spots as he will join left-hander David Price and James Shields, Wade Davis and Jeff Niemann. Should an injury occur in spring training, the Rays also have right-hander Andy Sonnanstine and rookie lefty Jake McGee to provide depth.
The Rays felt the trade gave them a chance to make a good farm system even better. Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein had four of the five players coming to the Rays ranked among the Cubs' top 12 prospects: right-hander Chris Archer (No. 3), shortstop Hak-Ju Lee (No. 5), outfielder Brandon Guyer (No. 11) and catcher Robinson Chirinos (No. 12).
"It's essential for us as we try to maintain success in an increasingly hostile economic climate within baseball," Friedman said. "Depth is a luxury that small-market teams often cannot afford. We have to maximize our resources. Our success is never going to be linked to the free agents that we sign that we outbid all 29 other teams. It's going to depend on players like the ones we got in this trade who can play major roles on our 2011 and beyond teams."
For the second time in as many months, the Angels were rebuffed by a major free agent in an attempt to upgrade an offense that was ninth in the AL and 19th in the major leagues last season with an average of 4.20 runs a game.
This time, it was third baseman Adrian Beltre who turned down a five-year, $77 million offer from to take a five-year, $80 million deal from the AL West rival Rangers that could be worth $96 million over six years if a vesting option for 2016 kicks in. The rejection from Beltre came after Crawford turned down the Angels to sign a seven-year, $154 million contract with the Red Sox during the Winter Meetings.
"We pursued some opportunities that did not pan out but we will be a better club offensively," Angels general manager Tony Reagins said.
Manager Mike Scioscia also sounded a hopeful tune.
"There were some talented players who didn't come here but we'll be fine," he said.
The Angels are banking on a full season from first baseman Kendry Morales, who suffered a season-ending broken leg on May 29 last season. Morales had a .299 TAv and 3.8 WARP in 2009, his first full season as a regular. Scioscia also believes a big key to Angels' success in 2011 will be Maicer Izturis getting the majority of starts at third base and the leadoff spot of the batting order rafter having an injury-marred 2010 in which he had just 238 plate appearances and his TAv dropped to .258 from .278 the season before.
"His ability to get out there and play at least 100 games is going to be really big for us," Scioscia said.
The Cubs aren't the only National League Central team to give up well-regarded young players to obtain starting pitching. In acquiring Zack Greinke from the Royals last month, the Brewers traded pitching prospects Jeremy Jeffress and Jake Odorizzi along with two young major-leaguers in shortstop Alcides Escobar and center fielder Lorenzo Cain less than two weeks after dealing second base prospect Brett Lawrie to the Blue Jays for Shaun Marcum.
The Brewers have not been timid in trading prospects even though they play in the smallest market in the major leagues. During the 2008 season, they dealt four minor-leaguers, including two who are now major-league starters in first baseman Matt LaPorta and left fielder Michael Brantley, to the Indians for left-hander CC Sabathia.
Sabathia helped the Brewers win the NL wild card that season and make their first post-season appearance in 26 years. The Brewers believes Greinke and Marcum can take them back to the playoffs in 2011, thus making it worth the risk of trading the young players.
"You can't operate your farm system separate from your major league club," assistant GM Gord Ash said. "There has to be a cooperative path between the two. If your team is positioned to win now, which ours is, you have to take advantage of that."
There is more than a little irony that Pat Gillick and Roberto Alomar will enter the Hall of Fame in the same year, joining Bert Blyleven in Cooperstown for the induction ceremonies on July 24. Gillick, then the Blue Jays' GM, acquired Alomar in one of the biggest blockbuster trades of the last quarter century when he got the second baseman and Joe Carter from the Padres at the 1990 Winter Meetings for Fred McGriff and Tony Fernandez.
"It was a good trade for both clubs at that time and it was a trade that went down really fairly easily," Gillick said. "(Then-Padres GM) Joe McIlvaine and I were on the same wavelength. Joe was the GM of the Padres at that time, and there was a lot of bickering; in fact, I was trying to get another player in the deal. But we negotiated back and forth, and it was a good 'ol baseball trade. We needed a right-handed hitter and they wanted to make a move and get a left-handed hitter at first base in McGriff. Looking back, that was one of the best trades from the standpoint that everybody came out a winner."
Gillick, though, was being gracious when he claimed both teams won. The Blue Jays received 37.6 WARP from Alomar and Carter, 30.4 of which came from Alomar, while the Padres got 21.2 WARP from McGriff and Fernandez. Furthermore, Alomar and Carter helped the Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series in 1992 and 1993 while the Padres did not reach the Fall Classic until 1998 after McGriff and Fernandez were long gone from San Diego.
John Perrotto is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Uh, that was more than a little "coincidence" not "irony" that Gillick and Alomar are going to Cooperstown together.
Jan 11, 2011 07:37 AM
Lou Doench
Interesting notion, back when that 4 player trade happened you could make a case that all 4 of the players involved had a chance at the HoF. Was there anything that stood out at the time that said Alomar was the one?
Jan 11, 2011 10:55 AM
Matt Kory
Not to nitpick, John, but Crawford's deal with Boston is for $142 million, not $154 million. (I'd heard $141 before but Cot's has $142: http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2004/12/boston-red-sox.html)
Jan 11, 2011 12:11 PM
John Carter
As a Torontonian who made Robbie Alomar my first pick in a keeper Scoresheet League that winter (8th overall), I do recall that trade well including what I thought of each player in it. I considered Alomar and McGriff the greater of the two components, while Carter and Fernandez were merely above average veterans. They were all perrenial all-star candidates. That is what impressed me about Robbie - that he was an all-star at such a young age. Back then, I didn't give much thought as to who had Hall of Fame potential. That's something that has been drummed into me more recently as a BP subscriber. I just considered them outstanding young players.
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Ramona Rodeo's first Cowboy Barbecue Cookoff will be held Saturday, May 30. Located in the stage area of the rodeo grounds, the cookoff will feature entered teams competing for prize money in three different categories.
At noon, the teams will turn in their pork ribs to the judges. They will turn in pork shoulders at 1 p.m. and beef brisket at 2 p.m.
According to Eddie Brisendine, head cook for the local "Here's the Rub" team, good barbecue is all about cooking "low and slow."
"Although we don't start turning our entries in until noon, we will all be there setting up on Friday evening," said Brisendine, a Ramona resident. "Typically, we cook our briskets around 8 hours and the pork shoulders even longer."
The judges, who will include many local and visiting celebrities, will judge the entries on taste, tenderness and appearance. First through third place awards will be announced on the stage at 4 p.m. on May 30.
Tickets will be sold to the public starting at noon that day for $2 tastings of the different entries. All are invited to "come on out and talk to the teams and try some of the best barbecue around."
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Life shouldn't always imitate art.
Find out how a rock n' roll drummer got slapped by royalty.
Last month, an 18-year-old kid in Illinois decided to steal a bulldozer from a construction site in the middle of the night and take it on a joyride down city streets.
Asking someone to marry you can be the most nerve wrecking thing you go through in life. This man did it all wrong but Jimmy Kimmel saved the day.
Is there anything worse than fraud? This idiot got caught on camera trying to get workman's comp. It backfires on him really bad.
Car crashes into Missoula home, killing the driver, but no names have been released.
An amazing selection of classes at the Bitterroot's own college.
Yes we're still 'shotgunning for a cause' this weekend, our friends from Chicks N Chaps are just joinin' in on the fun!!!
At Wednesday's City Council Committee of the Whole, the Missoula City Council will be revising the city budget due to what have been termed 'inadvertent errors' made in the original budget that was passed in July.
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According to sources, Bruno Samartino is getting paid much more than the reported $5,000 for his WWE Hall of Fame induction.
Sammartino is reportedly getting in the high six figures for his Hall of Fame induction and his pay is said to be equivalent to that of a WrestleMania main eventer as we reported earlier.
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Does a CCW holder, ever Open carry?
If you can legally carry concealed, is there ever a reason to open carry?
There is a recent incident in my state where are CCW permitted person open carried, (also very legal), and excited people at a public event. No law violations, but lots of complaints to public officials.
Some folks here may know what I am referring to, and I do not want to debate or question the individual's decisions at the time.
While I would hope more open carrying would make it more acceptable, it seems in doing so could create a threat to the CCW rights.
Am I missing something?
Tactically it is a poor decision to open carry when you could CCW. But if it legal it shouldn't be an issue other than perceptions.
I never ever tell anyone I am carrying (my close friends know I do, but so are they). Keep them guessing, cause once its out there the escalation of force will have only one way to go. My 2c.
The other side of the 2 cents are those of us who feel it doesn't matter and that maybe it is a tactical advantage to open carry. The gun is usually more easily drawn and if a bad guy sees right away that you are carrying, unless he has a death wish, he will probably choose a different target.
Either way, if you are open carrying, you give up the element of surprise. Many armed bad guys enter the situation with their guns concealed, survey the scene a little, assess the danger, and then commit their act. If every armed "bystander" was openly carrying, the bad guy has a tactical advantage. He has chosen his target(s) before he comes out in the open and exposed his intentions.
Maintain an element of surprise and you have a tremendous advantage in any confrontation.
In NC there's no law that specifically prohibits open carry, but the LE and sheeple frown upon it. I choose not to, not to scare the sheeple, but to keep the BG guessing. I want the element of surprise to be on my side. If I'm open carrying, he can scope out where my gun is, what type of holster, what type of retension my holster has. Trying to see how easy it would be to disarm me. Let him take his chances when I CC.
Let me preface this by saying that I have no problems with concealed carry, but I do have problems with some of the arguments of those who oppose open carry (not saying that you oppose).
I think the "surprise benefit" that many anti-OCers use is bogus. Would you rather have the element of surprise in drawing on a BG, or would you rather never have to draw because the BG (being cowardly by nature) chose to go someplace else?
I'll admit, that I'm an activist (this isn't for everyone) and I have very strong opinions (of course they are like a$$holes, everyone's got one).
I want everyone who is legally able, to carry a firearm for defense. How better to let people know that they, too, can carry? How better to let people know that not everyone that carries a gun is a raving lunatic or law enforcement?
If open carry isn't right for you, great, but carry that damn gun! Never leave that firearm at home.
First- let me say I don't drink. At all. Diabetic. However, law here does not permit a CCW holder to carry concealed in any establishment that serves alcohol. So if I am taking my lady out to eat at the local restaurant, which DOES serve beer, it is not legal to carry- CONCEALED. So either leave it in car, or take jacket off before entering. 2 in S&W revolver, blued, black holster, dark pants, rarely noticed. Legal, and owner does not object. A number of LEOs off duty eat there, and not uncommon to see one that has taken jacket off. Nobody gets in an uproar.
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3rd-6th April, 2015
The Alfa Romeo Owners Club Victoria Division is proud to host the 2015 Alfesta at Creswick. Alfesta will be centred around the Novotel Forest Resort.
Alfesta will kick off with a morning briefing, then to a venue near Ballarat for a social motorkhana. This will be a fun, low-pressure event enjoyable for the whole family. Lunch will be provided after the motorkhana. Saturday observation drive in the surrounding Spa and Goldfields country of Central Victoria.
Sunday morning will be the Alfesta Show'n'shine that is opento the general public and visitors. Sunday evening will be the Alfesta Gala Dinner in the dining room of the Novotel, an evening of entertainment to remember.
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Langama Park, 190 Mitchells Lane, Sunbury
3 April, 2015 (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
The Kruze 4 Kids Car Show & Family Day is being held on Good Friday 3rd April 2015 and is raising Money for the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal. All vehicle types welcome.
Day runs 10-4pm with $10 entry for show vehicle. Stall's, trade stands, jumping castles, face painting, pony rides, auction with items for all and trophies up for grabs.
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MG National Meeting
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3rd-7th April, 2015 (2:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
The M.G. Car Club Victoria is delighted to be hosting the 2015 National Meeting over the Easter weekend, and will be basing the events and activities in and around the charming Yarra Valley, approximately 1 hour north east of Melbourne.
Friday registration and optional road speed familiarisation session at Historic Rob Roy Hillclimb. Saturday Concours at Rochford Winery, 878-880 Maroondah Highway, Coldstream. Sunday Hillclimb Speed Event and Picnic Day at Historic Rob Roy (Clintons Road, Christmas Hills) and Observation Run - Competition Event (Yarra Valley). Monday motorkhana and presentation dinner. Tuesday farewell breakfast. Looking forward to seeing you in 2015.
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Sandown Raceway, 591-659 Princes Highway, Springvale
3 – 6 April, 2015 (5:00 PM - 10:00 AM)
The Falcon GT Club of Australia is proud to present the 30th Anniversary Falcon GT Nationals at Sandown Raceway over Easter 2015.
Entries now open and downloadable from the website. Trade stands, track time, judging and main show day on Saturday. Planned activities and only in Victoria every 10 years so come along and enjoy these timeless classics.
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Will I be at a greater risk on contracture? I'm considering silicone implants. I also take 5mg of prednisone daily. My PS wants me to discontinue the prednisone for 4 weeks to include a week before the surgery and three weeks after. Would such a low dosage really prevent me from healing and finally, because I have a compromised immune system, would it be possible to be on an antibiotic while I heal. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
I Have Lupus and Im Considering Breast Augmentation. Will my Immune System Attack the Implant?
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Breast Augmentation with Lupus
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any specific studies addressing your situation, so we must use our best judgment. There is no evidence to suggest that an autoimmune disease like yours would predispose to capsular contracture (a possible outcome from an increased immune response to the implant) because the implant is not part of you. Whether or not you stop the steroid is really up to the dose and depends on your medical doctor. Nonetheless, once you coordinate that isse, good results are likely, as I have seen many times with patients in your position. Although the new standard is to not give antibiotics after the augment, in your case I think that several days of prophylactic antibiotic would be reasonable.
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Lupus and Breast Augmentation
The association between Lupus (and other autoimmune diseases) has been very well studied, since, at one time, there was supposition that breast augmentation caused the autoimmune disease. This has been disproven. There is no evidence that Lupus increases the risk of capsular contracture or other problem other than, perhaps, slowing healing because of some the medications that she may be on. Even a low dose of prednisone can reduce healing. What your plastic surgeon has suggested is reasonable. No surgeons will play shoe on an antibiotic just before surgery. However, antibiotics for longer than this have not been shown to further reduce the risk of infection.
Breast augmentation with Lupus
This should not be a problem, although steroid treatments, if you are on these, can increase the risk of infection to a small degree, as well as reduce wound healing. I would seek the advice of your immunologist about weaning off steroids, this needs to be managed with care.You should not have an increase risk of capsular contracture. Good luck, Dr Steve Merten
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Regardless, this is what you will find when you read the insert that comes with breast implants:
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Safety and effectiveness have not been established in patients with the following:
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Antibiotics won't prevent an infection.
Have explored other alternatives.
Fat grafting is a valuable tool in breast surgery. This technique has gained more popularity over the past 7 years. There are many techniques used to harvest the fat, process the fat and then re-inject the fat. Conventional suction lipectomy is performed with a small diameter cannula, processed by separating the liquid and fibrous tissue from the fat, and then placed into syringes for re-injection or through a closed system.
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Thank you for your question. You are definitely at a higher risk of having issues with an implant with the lupus history. You will need to have a meeting with your doctor managing the lupus, and the Board Certified Plastic Surgeon doing your surgery. They can evaluate the severity of your lupus versus the surgery, and the risk profile which emerges. They can then develop a plan for you. I hope this helps.
I Have Lupus and Im Considering Breast Augmentation.
These are questions better asked of your Rheumatologist. But if you need the prednisone for control of your disease it sounds like it would be a mistake to discontinue it.
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Work begins today to carry out essential maintenance work on Vong Lane. This will involve reconstruction of the southern footway and installation of additional surface water drainage near Holly Meadows School.
It is anticipated that these works will take approximately eight weeks to complete.
Due to the construction processes involved and to maintain a safe working environment and protect the public it will be necessary to close Vong Lane for the majority of the works. The closure will be in force 24hrs per day, from 28 July to 3 September, with the remaining works carried out under localised traffic management. The closure has been programmed for this period in an attempt to minimise disruption by carrying out work in the school holidays.
A signed diversion route will be in place during the closure and access to properties within the works will be maintained at all times. The hourly Norfolk Green bus service will be permitted through the works and emergency services will be informed of the closure, so that alternative arrangements can be made. Norfolk County Council recognises that the closure of Vong Lane may cause some disruption and inconvenience. The County Council apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.
The work which will cost £41,200 will be carried out by Norfolk County Council's Environment, Transport and Development Department and their contractors.