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After being held scoreless in the last four games, Lizeth Garcia of the Sparks girls soccer team snuck past the Fallon defense and sent a right footer past a diving goalie. The ball rolled past the far post and Sparks was kept off the scoreboard for the fifth straight game.
The almost goal would have tied the game at one in the 26th minute but instead Fallon added another goal three minutes later on its way to routing the Railroaders 6-0 on the road Tuesday.
Garcia's shot was the closest Sparks would get.
"Well, we need more connections up top," coach Jerry Miller said. "We are still not getting penetration into their 18 (goal box )… We have a spatial issue."
The offensive woes translated into defensive struggles Tuesday as Sparks left numerous defenders unmarked in front of the goal. Fallon tacked on four second-half goals after taking a 2-0 lead into halftime.
"It was not a good defensive effort today," Miller said.
The Sparks coach is going to give his girls Friday off in hopes of "rejuvenating" his squad, which he feels is "burnt out" before the team travels to South Tahoe Saturday.
While the Sparks girls continue to struggle to score, the boys seemingly can't be slowed.
The Railroaders messed around and topped Fallon, 5-0, on the road Tuesday to improve to 7-1, 6-1 in league meetings. Senior Ruben Pacheco finished with his fifth hat trick of the season, putting the ball past the Fallon goalie in the 27th, 44th and 48th minutes.
"I'm very proud of the boys. They played as a team, as a group and they continue to buy into our program," coach Frank Avilla said. "We continue to keep improving."
Fallon played aggressively against the Railroaders, racking up three yellow cards and 11 penalties but only managed six shots compared to Sparks' 45.
Juan Hernandez scored the first two goals of the game in the sixth and eighth minutes before Pacheco had his fun.
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Seton Hall scored three consecutive first-half goals, then held No. 22 Creighton scoreless in the second half to come away with a 3-2 victory Saturday.
In the third minute, sophomore Timo Pitter connected on a cross from freshman Fabian Herbers to give the Bluejays (7-6-2, 3-3-1 Big East) a 1-0 lead.
Three minutes later, Seton Hall knotted the game 1-1 on Samuel Geiler's goal. Kai Greene broke the tie with an unassisted goal at the 18:19 mark, then Geiler's second goal of the match off a penalty kick in the 33rd minute gave the Pirates a 3-1 advantage.
A minute later, Creighton scored on an own goal to make it 3-2.
That lead held up the rest of the match, though the Bluejays had several scoring chances.
Creighton was more aggressive in the second half with nine shot attempts while holding the Pirates (7-7-2, 3-4-0) to four. CU held a 6-1 advantage in corner kicks after the break but could not connect on a goal. A Bluejay attempt in the final minutes hit the left post.
Seton Hall improved to 6-2-1 at home, winning four of the last five matches at Carroll Field.
CU junior goalkeeper Alex Bolowich finished with two saves and dropped to 6-5-1 while SHU's Julian Spindler improved to 6-7-2. The Pirates ended the match with more shot attempts (15-14) than the Bluejays.
Creighton returns to Omaha for its final two home matches of the season.
The Bluejays host Drake at 7 p.m. Wednesday, then DePaul at 4 p.m. Saturday. Creighton will honor its six seniors on Senior Day against the Blue Demons at Morrison Stadium.
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Questions raised by staff cutbacks at the Exploratorium
A round of recent layoffs at the Exploratorium in San Francisco has taken museum staff by surprise and sparked questions about the institution's focus going forward, an unexpected turn of events on the heels of the institution's splashy reopening at its refurbished 330,000 square foot facility along The Embarcadero.
In mid-August, just a few months after the Exploratorium opened the doors of its LEED-certified space at Piers 15/17, some 80 full-time-equivalent positions were eliminated without prior warning. The cuts included 35 layoffs, 35 positions that went unfilled, and eight reductions from full time to part time, according to spokesperson Leslie Patterson, a 14-year Exploratorium employee who was among those affected. The total staff is comprised of 290 full-time-equivalent positions, according to its website.
Roughly three quarters of the impacted staff members are represented by SEIU Local 1021, and union members are now gearing up to launch a social media campaign in response to the sudden staffing cuts. They've created a graphic depicting founder Frank Oppenheimer (above), and are posting to Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #ourcommunitymuseum.
Officially, the cuts were made to solve for a budget shortfall created when attendance at the new facility failed to reach anticipated levels, making actual revenues lower than what consultants had projected. "They had very, very aggressive projections for attendance," noted Eric Socolofsky, an exhibit developer who has been representing unionized museum staff at the negotiating table.
"We worked so hard to get in these doors and open this place," Socolofsky said of the new waterfront spot. "People have given so much," but in the weeks since layoff notices were issued without warning, "there's a lot of disillusionment."
Yet Patterson, the museum spokesperson, emphasized that "our crowds have grown" since the new facility opened, despite the uncertain financial picture. June attendance was triple that of June in the previous year, she said, but the overall attendance figures still failed to hit necessary targets. "We needed to reduce the workforce to offset a budget gap," she said.
Revenue generated by museum visitors is separate from the money raised to relocate the Exploratorium from its previous home at the Palace of Fine Arts. That effort was bankrolled by a capital campaign, which has collected $290 million of its $300 million goal so far, according to Patterson.
Meanwhile, several museum employees expressed to the Guardian that there is more to the sudden staff reduction than just solving a simple budget gap. There appears to be a reorganization effort afoot to promote business development, Socolofsky said, and that has some staff members concerned about a shift in priorities that could detract from efforts geared particularly for Bay Area patrons.
Socolofsky said more energy had been going toward "client services," or contracting with outside institutions to build exhibits, and rent or sell portable exhibits developed at the Exploratorium.
And even as the layoff notices have been issued, the Exploratorium is hiring for a dozen or so new positions. "Whatever positions are available are being opened to people who were laid off," Patterson said. But when asked how the museum could possibly afford be hiring at a time when it was cutting staff to balance the budget, she said she didn't know the answer.
"One of our concerns is that it's moving toward a profit model," Socolofsky said, adding that it was his understanding that some positions had been eliminated because they did not fit into the new organizational structure.
In some ways, it seems odd that the celebrated 44-year-old institution, which lists its budget online as $58.6 million for 2012-13, would be facing financial problems. Its board of directors includes representatives from prominent businesses including Google, Twitter, eBay, Bechtel, Disney, PG&E, and a host of prominent venture capital firms with investments in the tech sector. Amid speculation that the museum could be changing course, some observers have hinged on the fact that Exploratorium Board Chairman George Cogan is a director at Bain & Company, Inc., a firm that specializes in restructuring, which gained notoriety during the 2012 presidential election due to GOP candidate Mitt Romney's history of involvement there.
David Barker, a graphic designer with the Exploratorium's Institutional Media Group who was forced into an early retirement as a consequence of the staffing cuts, echoed Socolofsky's assessment that a reorganization effort seemed to be driving staffing cuts in part. But at the same time, he said the museum had to do something to adapt to a new climate in which funding sources are drying up.
"It just seems like the pendulum has swung more toward the business aspect," he said. An employee for more than 30 years, Barker lamented that the staffing cuts could dampen mentorship opportunities for younger artists and designers.
Barker was dismissive of the idea that the reorganization was somehow linked to Cogan's role at Bain & Co., saying, "There's no person who is more dedicated to the museum."
Amid the unanswered questions, impacted and unaffected staff members alike emphasized in interviews with the Guardian that the Exploratorium staff continued to feel like a kind of family. "I think it's kind of extraordinary," said Pamela Winfrey, a senior artist who started working at the museum in 1979 and just had her hours scaled back. "I think there are new directions in the wind as well as a budget shortfall," Winfrey said. "It's a complicated picture."
And across the board, she added, the Exploratorium must contend with the fact that there's a steadily eroding pool of funding for arts and science. "Funders are really having to think about whether they want to feed starving children," she said, "or feed the mind."
Visitor numbers are below budget, which means it runs at a loss, which means they cannot afford those extra staff, and of course there is less work to do.
Not everything is a vast right-wing conspiracy.
I had no idea it was a unionized workplace though, and have no idea why that is the case. Doesn't help with the cost structure.
The Museum, unlike The City and The State, cannot merely run up debt and pass on its healthcare/pension obligations to the public and the General Fund...with never a worry about debt.
Too bad, but true
Unless you like endless debt piling up with no way to ever repay it.
Amazing! Its really amazing paragraph, I have got much clear idea about from this paragraph.
Does it not give you pause that their miscalculated projections resulted in laying off 18% of their workforce? and in mid-August before the summer season has officially ended? It would make logical business sense to have projections, but to have a buffer that gives time to regroup if the projections are off. Instead, the Exploratorium management chose massive lay offs of people who gave their heart and soul working at the exploratorium for over a decade. I think management should have been the first to go, not the people who make the Exploratorium what it is.
Private business can't run anything right. Just another case of private inefficiency.
And if a non-profit in San Francisco makes error judgment, nobody is surprised.
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serving up his usual prejudices against success.
Or maybe the "miscalculation" is simply an excuse to get rid of influential staff and insert your own Bain & Co. corporate culture? Could it be?!
That means that I can fire you whenever I want for whatever reason I want, or even no reason at all.
That said, projections are just estimates and, insofar as they prove to be incorrect, then that implies either hiring more people or firing some people. That is how employment works, and is perfectly natural and desirable.
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But I do not believe that would apply here.
Only a small portion of the Exploratorium's budget comes from admission. The museum has struggled for the past decade to close its budget each year. Many times it has resorted to various rabbits-in-hats, hail-marys, deus-ex-machinas etc to pull it off.
The staff are loyal, hard-working, and creative. They are not particularly good at finances. I'm glad they are unionized, the protection is needed when the annual budget crisis comes around.
I won't be more specific, because I love the place ecen though I despair for them.
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Maybe the Exploratorium would run more efficiently with some layoffs?
Or do you unions think the money to pay their salaries AND BENEFITS is printed by little green elves?
The Exploratorium admission fee was ZERO for MANY years and then switched to "suggested donation" and even after posted set prices, they would still happily waive or negotiate a price if asked.
The Exploratorium historically has been WAY more than a museum dependent upon admission $$. Much of what they do is combine art and science and then find ways to engage the community.
Classes, seminars, lectures, collaborations, publications are also a big part of what the Exploratorium is and does.
Please look at these pages of their website:
They changed the way not only science museums but ALL museums interact with people. And they did that by fostering a unique blend of creativity and imagination from artists, scientists, engineers, biologists, filmmakers, sculptors, physicists, etc. The shift away from that unique chemistry that is the core of the Exploratorium to one of "client services" is one is the most upsetting.
People work there because they love it. The salaries are not great, but an atmosphere like that can't be bought. It has to evolve and grow from the right combination of people. They're now cutting off a lot of those people. I fear for it's future and the future of a uniquely San Franciscan creation and mind-set.
The amazing staff of the Exploratorium works incredibly hard at below-market wages because of a shared belief: That they can create exhibits, public programs, books, and a website that help people understand the world around them. It's a noble goal, and one that many staff members have dedicated their lives to.
Maybe we could move a couple of the Lusty Lady booths to the Exploratorium. This way, the kids could get a good working knowledge of the vagina, as well as sidebar lessons in concepts such as "slut shaming" and "female empowerment." Also, it would likely drum up additional traffic in the form of previously uninterested fathers. It's a win-win-win. You just have to think outside the snuff box.
The Exploratiorium story has parallels with San Francisco Botanical Garden Society, which is putting a $15-million fortress in the former Strybing Arboretum.
They too have taken on more staff (subsidized by funds from Phil Ginsburg) while cutting their educational budget!
The Exploratorium could surely be privatized, and in fact I had assumed it was private before reading this.
While botanical gardens are very expensive to maintain and having non-public, non-union staff maintain it could lead to massive savings, and therefore a lower entry fee.
Whenever someone tries to float this bogus argument, that privatizing and outsourcing somehow saves governments and communities money and improves services, I like to respond with the following patently obvious allegory highlighting the fact that when you include the huge profit taking that private contractors remove from the process, the outcome is worse, not better.
Imagine that the City has a municipally owned corn patch on which it grows hard corn to supplement the diets of low income San Francisco children.
Let's assume on that little garden plot that the City, with all of its very real bureaucratic and red tape inefficiencies, manages to harvest 8 bushels of corn from that plot.
Can a professional private grower with lots of experience growing hard corn get -more- than 8 bushels harvest off of the same plot for less financial cost? Of course it can. Professional private specialists are likely to be able farm the corn more efficiently. (Especially when you factor in the fact that a private company have more latitude than the City government to jerk around its workers and lower their pay and benefits.)
So let's assume that the private contract farmer is so much more efficient at corn growing that it gets a whopping 12 bushels of corn off of the corn plot. Wow!
But wait. This is a private company we are talking about. And private for profit companies make, guess what, profits. How does our private corn grower make that profit. 1) By, as mentioned above, screwing workers and externalizing its costs to others, and 2) by -selling- some of the corn to the market for income.
So let's say that out of the 12 bushels it grows for the City, the contractor sells 6 of of those bushels to Frito Lay with which Frito Lay will make Doritos.
Now, do the math, and see how many bushels of corn poor children in San Francisco get.
That's right, 6.
But the inefficient city government, because it takes no profit can give them 8 bushels.
That's Government Outsourcing 101.
Even an unskilled city workers makes probably 60K a year plus insane healthcare and pension benefits, along with pesky unions, restrictive work practices, days off up the wazoo and inflexible work contracts.
A private enterprise can pay half of that, make a profit, and still be far cheaper. Plus it frees up a municipality's capital and enables it to focus more on it's core services like public safety and fixing the streets.
That's why nations around the world have been privatizing utilities and other non-core businesses since the 1970's. the fact that SFBG still advocates nationalizing and socializing such businesses just serves to show how hopelessly out of touch they are with modern thinking.
The UK is currently in the process of privatizing their post office, and has already privatized most of their transit systems. If anything the US is behind the curve on this.
business than the private sector, he obviously hasn't spent much time in the private sector.
One word. Efficiency.
In it, I bring out the obvious reality that yes, private companies are indeed more -efficient-, but they take so much value in -profit- that municipalities wind up with -less-, not more. And their mistreatment of workers drives down the entire local community economy by lowering wages and personal spending.
easily more than compensate for that with the employee cost savings, as mentioned.
..is bad for a community and its economy. As I clearly stated already.
There is a massive anti privatization wave sweeping nearly the entirety of south and central America right now because all of those countries finally woke up to the fact that privatizing is a huge rip off and was utterly destroying their societies and economies.
San Francisco itself recently, and very wisely, rejected a bid by Bechtel to privatize our water system. (This is the same Bechtel that was thrown out of Cochabamba, Bolivia by a public citizen uprising, after it took private control of the water system and jacked water rates through the roof - and then even tried to get a law passed to make it illegal for Cochabambans to gather rain water so that they would be forced to buy their water from Bechtel. That is the true face of privatization.)
Privatization is a well recognized global failure, and your claims that the trend is otherwise are a complete fairy story.
In the end, regardless of how cheap a private company can make the process, the final result under privatization, is that the kids get 6 bushels of corn instead of 8. And that is the number that matters.
counter the massive and successful use of privatization in Europe, Canada, Australia etc i.e. places much more like the US.
Of course, since you are a socialist, ideology trumps any rational economic analysis.
the basket cases that Europe, Canada and the US have become because of privatization.
the fault of us having private businesses.
Median household income down 8% since 2000, despite your personal experience and anecdotal information.
almost any other nation. And picking 2000 is cherry-picking since that was the peak of the dot.com boom.
Median household income is about the same as in 1988 and 1995, so the same as 25 years ago. And it is declining.
Perhaps because it suits your purpose more?
What I do know is that the stock market is about seven times higher than in 1998 and at twice the level of 1995. For home prices that is probably about ten times and three times respectively. That tells me we are all a lot wealthier.
Wealth isn't just about income. It's also about asset values.
Nearly all economists use medians.
On median wealth, the US ranks 27th in the world.
Does anyone really believe that the median wealth per person in the UK is three times what it is in the US?
percentage of Americans with negative net worth.
as Americans, on average?
That seems stunningly unbelievable and undermines any credibility of the cited data.
Because of people like Gates and Buffet, any -average- wealth comparison would artificially make American wealth look higher. But let's get real here. If you average the income of nine people who make $37k per year against Gate's $3.7 billion dollar annual earnings you get an average of $370 MILLION a year. It is clearly utterly laughable to then represent that as the average income of the people in that scenario as if it describes their general well being as a population.
This is the whole point of using the 'median' income (meaning the income in the middle) instead of the average, because it is a much more accurate representation of how the common Joe and Jane in a society are doing.
And in the UK, the common Joe and Jane certainly are doing much better than their common US counterparts.
Free universal health care alone accomplishes that by enabling those UK commoners to keep most of the money they would have wasted paying for overpriced private health care.
success or wealth achieved by those richer than me.
The wealthy generally do great good with their money e.g. the Gates Foundation.
Far more of Bill Gates' currently hoarded and sequestered wealth, would have far more positive economic impact, if it were more evenly paid to common consumers who will spend it on real goods; including Microsoft software. This patently obvious reality is why one of the smartest capitalists of all time, Henry Ford, paid his workers higher wages than his competitors.
it would be confiscated and redistributed?
In fact, his billions ended up in the Gates Foundation, doing far more good than enabling the hoi polloi to buy more trinkets.
Instead of paying themselves billions (because of caps not confiscation) they would pay their own workers more.
And those workers would spend so much more of that money into the economy that it would generate far more taxes and public benefits than Gates and his foundation.
The ultimate source for the data is a report by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. About as pro-capitalist a source as you could want.
I'm not sure it should be at all surprising that the median Briton has higher wealth per adult than the median American. As a previous commenter mentioned, socialized medicine in Britain means no one pays out of pocket. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (stats.oecd.org), the difference in spending per capita in 2011 was $4396 ($8174 vs. $3280). Over a lifetime, that really adds up. According to the Credit Suisse report I cited, mean American debt per adult (unfortunately, there is no data given on median debt) is over $11,000 higher than mean U.K. debt per adult. French debt per adult is more than $20,000 less than in the U.S. This obviously increases net wealth for the U.K. and France relative to the U.S.
Another part of the picture is wealth inequality, which is worse than income inequality in every country surveyed in the Credit Suisse report. While the U.S. is 27th is median wealth per adult, it is 7th in mean wealth per adult. That is a direct reflection of the higher inequality in the U.S. compared to other rich nations.
We could debate whether equality is a good or bad thing but, either way, the fact that the US may have a more unequal income or wealth distribution does not in any way imply that the US is overall less prosperous.
And the "free healthcare" thing is a red herring. If I am perfectly healthy then it will make no difference, while if I am as sick as a dog, it will make a huge difference. But we were comparing gross incomes and net worths, and not net of this, that or the other which would render the figures meaningless.
I do not know if the Brits are wealthier than us. I doubt it but I suppose it is possible. Even so, it is only likely to be a marginal difference. Brits are clearly not three times wealthier than Americans and that invalidates any of the cited figures, I'm afraid.
This is not a question of how prosperous "America" is. It's a question of how wealthy middle class "Americans" are. Wealth distribution is hugely important to answer that question.
How do you know that the median Briton is not three times wealthier than the median American? You are just going with your gut instinct rather than any evidence. Credit Suisse has now issued three wealth reports, improving their methodology as they go along. Another report will be out next month. Credit Suisse is no socialist mouthpiece; it has gotten slapped down for helping Americans evade (yes, the illegal kind of tax reduction) their income tax. It is, you know, a Swiss bank.
Eric has argued at multiple points that if we want to understand the economic situation of the "typical" American, we need to look at the median rather than the mean. This is exactly correct. If Bill Gates' wealth doubles, it makes a noticeable change in mean wealth per adult. It has no effect whatsoever on median wealth per adult. We are interested in the people at the middle of the wealth distribution, running from perhaps the 25th to the 75th percentile, if we want to understand the situation of the middle class.
Wealth inequality is what gets the U.S. from the 7th wealthiest country on average (per adult) to having its median adult less wealthy than in 26 other countries. This is true even though the U.S. has higher gross domestic product per capita than most of them.
Actually, even if you are completely healthy, the healthcare system affects you a lot. If you buy health insurance, or pay taxes, a portion of that will go to paying for uncompensated care at the U.S.'s highest-in-the-world costs.
I can send you copies of the Credit Suisse reports if you'd like; some of the original links seem to now be broken but I downloaded all three reports when they were available. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you're interested.
wrong because of course those outliers are all super-billionaires like Gates and Buffett, so obviously omitting them makes the US figures look worse.
But the effect of their wealth benefits us all, and it is misleading to ignore them even if (or especially because) it suits your argument.
effect meme doesn't change its falsehood.
Your response, "No poor person ever gave me a job" is more accurately written, "No rich person got rich without inheritence or from skimming the production of his employees or from despoiling the environment."
He was arguing that the US is a wealthy nation and that, at least in the Bay Area, that wealth is growing as indicated by such metrics as stock prices, house prices, corporate profits, stock options, bonuses and capital gains.
To the other many successful people achieve prosperity without disadvantaging anything or anyone. Indeed, their success spins off to others. How would the US be more prosperous without Buffett, Gates, Jobs etc?
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For adjustment, Catlike implemented its patented Multi Positioning System Evo (MPS eVo) at the rear of the helmet. Essentially, this system allows the adjustment of the rear section of the helmet in multiple dimensions. So, with one retention adjustment, you can change the position of the helmet's rear both up-and-down and open-and-close. For preparation against the creepy crawlies found on the trail, the helmet also includes an Anti-Insect Net to block out any unwanted visitors to the helmet. And speaking of blocking things out, the Leaf includes a large removable visor to keep your field of vision unobstructed and resolute.
The Catlike Leaf Helmet is available in the sizes Medium and Large and in the colors Matte Black, Matte Black/tree, Matte Lime, and Matte Red.
Tech Specs
Size chart
| in
|Small in
|Medium in
|Large in
|MT in
| Kompactoin
| in
| 20.1 - 21.3in
(51 - 54cm)
|21.7 - 22.8in
(55 - 58 cm)
|23.2 - 24.0in
(59 - 61 cm)
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| Vacuumin
| in
|21.3 - 21.7in
(54 - 55 cm)
| 21.7 - 22.0in
(55 - 56cm)
| 22.4 - 23.6in
(57 - 60cm)
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| Whisper Plusin
|20.9 - 21.3in
(53 - 54 cm)
| 21.3 - 22.0in
(54 - 56cm)
|22.0 - 22.8in
(56 - 58 cm)
| 22.8 - 24.0in
(58 - 61cm)
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| Chrono Aero Plusin
| in
| in
| in
| in
|21.7 - 23.6in
(55 - 60 cm)
| Chrono Aero WTin
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| in
| in
| in
|21.7 - 23.6in
(55 - 60 cm)
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| in
|21.3 - 22.4in
(54 - 57cm)
|22.8 - 23.6in
(58 - 60cm)
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- How to Measure:
- Measure around your head where your helmet would fit comfortably.
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A 58cm measurement is on the bottom end of a size Large.
Medium 54-57 cm
Large 58-60 cm
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Cam Phillips
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Anyone have any issues with wearing sunglasses with this helmet? It seems to be a common complaint with the All-Mountain/Enduro style helmets.
Ben Towery
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Cam, Enduro helmets tend to have greater coverage than road or XC helmets and might infringe on melon and mug space for glasses. But below there are 5 positive reviews of this brain bucket without a single mention of sunglasses. I think you can be confident in using sunglasses with the Leaf. If they do end up causing problems we have a killer return policy. Hit me up with any other questions. firstname.lastname@example.com
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There is no problem wearing sunglasses with the leaf. The only gripes are the chin strap canes back against the neck and so you have to fiddle with them to get further out under the chin. The cool max pad in the front will fill up with sweat and if your forehead presses against it the sweat will come pouring out on your glasses and face. I wear Oakley fives or piv lock v2s and have not had a problem with either fitting. This is a great helmet and it looks different from all the trabecs, and fluxes everyone seems to have right now.
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I think it's the best helmet I have. I like the knob adjustment in the back and visor. Handsome appearance too.
Bug net will come in handy in the spring and summer.
Fits great
Colorado Chris
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- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I don't have this helmet yet but I did try on at the bike shop. Thought I would at least let others know it fits similar to giro just better. More contact points to make more comfortable rather than giros 2-3 contact points leaving marks on your forehead, etc. I tried Bell helmets and I know other say the same time...either your a bell head or giro head. This Leaf will be my next helmet!
Best Helmet yet.
Richard Eyre
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Love this thing - I'm picky about helmets and seem to have a hard time fitting them correctly. The leaf is super adjustable, light and ventilated. The quick adjustment dial in the back works super well & I can only assume (as evidenced by the lack of wasps in my helmet) that the bug screens are doing their job. I tried both the Poc Trabec and the Six Six One Recon during my purchase & this one seems light year better.
I have a pretty big head & always wear a large... the large in this helmet is perfect.
Light as a Leaf... Almost
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This was purchased for my husband and this is what he has to say-
The Leaf helmet is perfect for long XC rides because the ventilation is amazing and it is incredibly light weight while still offering protection. Compared to my old helmet, the Leaf feels like a light breeze.
Great helmet
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I have had this helmet out on the trail three times now and it has been great, I completely forget I'm wearing it, vents very well and is very light weight. I have been wearing a fox flux up until I got this helmet, the fox fits great just a bit heavier and doesn't vent as well. I wear a giro aeon on the road bike and the leaf feels very similar in weight and ventilation.


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HARRISONBURG, Va., Dec. 6, 2012 – On Thursday, Nov. 29, the James Madison softball team spent time at Stone Spring Elementary School volunteering as part of the after-school program.
The team spent about an hour interacting with 25 students as part of third-grade teacher Kate Dougherty's school program. Activities participated in included art projects, cooking snacks, working on homework and gym/activity time.
Freshman infielder Hannah Hayes (LaCrosse, Va./Kenston Forest) was the team's representative for writing a feature of the afternoon's events. She had this to say about the time spent at Stone Spring Elementary:
In Their Own Words – Hannah Hayes
On Thursday, November 29, the JMU softball team participated in after-school activities at Stone Spring Elementary School. We arrived at the elementary school just as the kids were getting out of class. All the kids that were staying after school for the program came into the cafeteria where they sat and waited until snack time. The softball team took this time to interact with all the kids and they were so excited to have helpers.
After everyone got situated in the cafeteria, they announced that it was snack time -- which of course is the best part of the day! While the kids were finishing up their snacks, the teachers ask our team members to split into groups to help with art, gym, cooking, and computer lab.
I choose to help with art, and we made posters to hang up on the walls of the school to encourage the kids to be on their best behavior. The reward for being selected "best behaved" would be that the students could watch a movie in their pajamas and eat popcorn with friends during the school day. [Sophomore pitcher] Reba DePriest (Apache Junction, Ariz./Skyline) and I partnered up with the only third grader in the art section, and I have to say our poster, by far, looked the best!
Before we knew it, it was time for us to leave. I think I can speak for the entire team when I say interacting with the kids at Stone Spring was a great way for us to give back to the community.
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Margie Moody, 85, of Benton passed away July 12. She was born Jan. 9, 1927, in Benton to the late Roy Robert and Josie Keene Wilson.
Margie was a member of the Grape Chapel Church of God and Sharon Extension Homemakers Club. She attended the Benton Senior Activities Center and was a volunteer for Churches Joint Council on Human Needs.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charlie Moody; a granddaughter, Kristy Kurtz; a great-granddaughter, Emma Kurtz; her brothers, Melton, Elton and Doyle Wilson; and her sisters, Edith Woodall, Lois Berry and Emma Hussey.
Well Kobe Bryant has opened his mouth at the wrong time once again. On Wednesday, Kobe stated that his 2012 U.S. Olympic team that will be competing in London could beat the 1992 Dream Team that won gold.
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Saline County Circuit Judge Gary Arnold ruled Wednesday to set aside a motion requiring MySaline.com owner Shelli Russell to divulge information three Bryant alderman hoped would lead them to the identify of a particular blogger who writes under the alias, "The Shadow."
The ruling to quash the motion stems from a lawsuit the aldermen filed in February against six anonymous bloggers on the MySaline. The three claimed the blogposts were "libelous and defamatory on their face."
Bryant resident Ricky Tripp and Saline County Circuit Clerk Dennis Milligan were subpoenaed to give testimony Tuesday in a Saline County Circuit Court proceeding conducted by Circuit Judge Gary Arnold. However, only Tripp was called as a witness.
Attorney Tona Demers, representing Bryant Aldermen Adrian Henley, Danny Steele and Brenda Miller, had planned to put both on the stand in the effort of Demers' clients to learn the identity of an anonymous blogger at the website MySaline.com. The pertinent comments were posted under the alias, "The Shadow."
Bond is not being reduced for the former Benton firefighter accused of downloading images of child pornography to a computer at his home, authorities told The Saline Courier late Thursday.
Timothy Ryan Bodkin, 38, is being held in the Saline County Detention Center on a $200,000 sheriff's bond. He is facing a thousand counts of felony possession of child pornography.
One of Saline County's two representatives at the Miss Arkansas Scholarship Pageant won her second preliminary award Wednesday night.
Miss Greater Little Rock, Bethany Whitfield of Bryant, tied to win the Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit Preliminary award on Wednesday, the second night of preliminaries at the 75th Anniversary Miss Arkansas Pageant at Summit Arena in Hot Springs.
On Wednesday night, Whitfield won the pageant's Preliminary Artistic Expression in Talent award.
Whitfield, 23, tied for the swimsuit honor with Sarah Elise Gafvert, Miss Northwest Arkansas.
Septic tank disposal operators are finding themselves at odds with Benton city officials.
Terry McKinney, general manager of Benton Utilities, and the Public Utilities Commission have recommended that the city disallow the discharge of residential and industrial waste from residential and commercial waste haulers into the Benton Wastewater System.
The first reading of an ordinance that would prohibit this practice was presented at a City Council meeting Monday night.
Several haulers attended the meeting to protest the action which, they say, will effectively put them out of business.
It was revealed Wednesday in Benton District Court that a former Benton firefighter allegedly confessed to authorities that he specifically searched for and downloaded child pornography to a computer in his home.
Timothy Ryan Bodkin, 38, who appeared via satellite from the Saline County jail, is facing 1,000 counts of felony possession of child pornography. He is being held on a $200,000 sheriff's bond.
Saline County's two representatives at the Miss Arkansas Scholarship Pageant in Hot Springs won preliminary awards Wednesday night in the pageant's first public competition.
Bethany Whitfield of Bryant, competing as Miss Greater Little Rock, won the talent award with her vocal presentation of Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" from "West Side Story." Technically, the award now is known as "Preliminary Artistic Expression in Talent Award."
Jo Ann Arras, 44 of Little Rock, passed away Tuesday, July 10. She was born April 14, 1968, to James and Lois Arras of Bryant.
Jo Ann was loving and devoted to her mother and grandmother. She was born on Easter Sunday and collected bunnies. She graduated from Baptist Health and was previously employed as an LPN at Baptist Health.
She was preceded in death by her father, James Arras; and her grandparents.


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Walker, a professor and chair of the university's Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Science, received a 2010 Project of Excellence award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture in January for his research testing unregulated water supplies in the Navajo nation. The recognition has spurred a flurry of offers from numerous organizations inviting Walker to conduct research across the country and abroad.
"The Project of Excellence award has been helping me get involved in projects that I would have never been involved with otherwise, like this trip to Samoa," Walker said. His project was profiled in the National Water Program's annual publication.
Walker recently returned from Samoa, where he spent 10 days conducting research on the parasite leptospira and leading a workshop on preventing waste contamination of water supplies. Walker's work strives to protect public health from potential toxins.
His research at UNR has focused on exposing and assessing the health risks of water contaminants such as arsenic, E. coli, leptospira and cryptosporidium. The research he conducts away from the university is brought back to his classroom and taught to his students, who have the opportunity to analyze and sometimes participate in Walker's research.
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Airbrushing Picture Frames part 2
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Here is a way to turn an ordinary picture frame into one that resembles a piece of finely chiseled granite. Materials you'll need: base coat color (a light shade of gray mixed with just a touch of brown, red or green), two or three top coat colors (they should be complementary to your base coat – I always include white as one of my top coat colors), a fine or medium brush for touch-ups, paper towels and clear coat (varnish, lacquer, or clear acrylic).
Step 1:
Outline the area that you wish to paint and suuround it with a barrier of masking tape. Then fill your color cup with your base coat color and regulate your compressor's pressure to 50 psi. If you have a compressor wihtout a regulator that operates at 40 psi, that's all right - you just might need a drop more than thinner.
Step 2:
Begin spraying, covering the entire area. Let dry and the recoat.
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Change to one of the top coat colors. Turn down your compressor's pressure to the point where the color just exits the airbrush in little specks. When you'have got this under control, spray a light, even layer oer the base coat. When it dries, spray another coat on, but this time unevenly. Repeat this procedure with one or more top coat colors. Don't forget a few specks of white!
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To finish, spray a glossy or matte clear coat for protection.
This method creates the illusion of richly carved marble on a frame's molding. Materials you'll need: a base coat color similar to the one described for the granite look; black, white, brown, green, and red paint; a rag or paper towel; a feather or fan brush; a few torn pieces of paper; a fine or medium brush for touch-ups; a small amount of talcum powder or comstarch; and a glossy clear coat.
Steps 1 and 2 are same as for the granite look.
Step 3: Mix some white with one of the colors (just enough to cut down on its intensity), and fill your color cup with it. Grasp a torn sheet of paper in your other hand and lay its edge anywhere on the base-coated molding.
Step 4: Lightly spray from the edge of the paper out. Ease your figure up on the airbrush lever until eventually the paint stops coming out, allowing the color to fade away gradually. Repeat this in other randomly chosen areas along the molding. Continue by changing color and applying it in the same manner. To prevent an unnatural look, swap your original torn paper for another piece that has a different edge.
Step 5:
With a dry feather or a fan brush, very lightly drag some white paint across the molding. Do this in just a few places. This will create the look of the "veins†that so often appear in the marble. You might also use your fine brush to apply smaller veins of either red or green. Don't get carried away with this step, though!
Step 6: This step is optional. Take a rag or towel and randomly smear or rub a tiny amount of color onto the frame. This is yet another way of giving the marble effect a "natural†look. Again, don't forget to spray a few specks of white onto your "marbleâ€.
Step 7: Use a glossy clear coat. When the clear coat is dry, finger-rub some comstarch or talcum powder onto it and then blow off whatever doesn't adhere.
Here's your chance to turn your frame into a real conversation piece! By simply using common objects, you can create endless combinations of the most interesting patterns. The only rule to follow is that you restrict your color to a group of complements tones. For example, purple is a lively, upbeat color. Yet the one color that really turns purple on is yellow. Why? Yellow is purple's complement. It is opposite purple on the color wheel. You remember the color wheel – the circle that you were shown in art class that had all of the colors of rainbow on it. Well, It works!
Colors that lie adjacent to the complements will also go with parent colors. Adding a little white as a tint not only multiplies the range of the color, but its brightness also keeps everything upbeat. Colors work well when placed near other colors that reflect the same qualities.
Using bright, cheery combinations and interesting, unusual patterns will guarantee a smile form the person who receives your frame. Or you may opt for utter simplicity. When decorating a frame, it might take just one or two simple sweeps of airbrushed colors to accomplish your goal. For this project, spontaneity is paramount to success!
Materials you'll need:
complementary and adjacent secondary colors, paper towels, clear coat, fine and medium brushes, and found objects or anything that you can spray on or through that you will create an interesting pattern. Base coat colors are optional here – remember, this technique calls for spontaneity!
Steps 1 and 2:
are again the same as before
Step 3:
place your first mask over a selected section of molding. Spray light the first time and observe the result. From here you can decide how much paint you'll want and which color would look best next. Experiment by shifting your mask around. You might even try lowering the pressure to see how speckles look compared to a uniform spray.
Step 4:
continue with other colors and stencils until you feel that your combination has reached a satisfying point. Don't let your design turn into a mess!
Step 5:
After all of the paint has dried, examine your results carefully. It's here that you will have an opportunity to learn from your "deliberate accidents.†Also, there might be some spots that will require touch-ups. These can be done easily with either your brushes or a quick repeat of your stencil.
Step 6: Cover with your choice of a matte or glossy clear coat.
This project is one of the most interesting. It will require you to re-create or match some or all of the colors among the outer edge of your picture and continue them onto the frame. In some cases, it might also require that you continue the image or shape of what is also along the outer edge of your picture.
In other words, you will create the illusion that the picture is flowing out onto your mat and frame. Materials that you'll need: assorted colors that match or complement the art, fine and medium brushes, paper towels, pencil, masking tape or other stencil material and clear-coat.
Step 1: Starting at any point along the outside edge of your artwork, draw guidelines that appear to continue the elements of the design. As you draw these guidelines, pause briefly and examine the work from a slight distance. You'll probably notice that the extensions of your picture are creating a design all their own. Keep this in mind as you go along to help you decide at which point you wish to start filling it in with color. Remember, its necessary to fill up the whole mat or frame with color. A few key picture elements wandering across the mat or frame might be enough. Step 2: Mask off the areas you'll be painting with masking tape (for frames) or acetate and paper (for mats),and begin filling with color. Do this until all areas drawn are filled. Step 3: When the paint is dry, erase stray pencil marks, and then complete your touch-ups with your fine brushes. Let this dry overnight before any further handling.
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You mentioned that you were an only child - you probably didn't experience siblings coming in and bothering you all the time. Little siblings aren't well know for respecting privacy. And it really isn't privacy, if at any time someone can walk by and see and hear everything you're doing. Even having my mom walk into my room was distracting, being able to hear every last thing that anybody said or did just. . .disturbed my peace. I think you should probably think about what you will do if your children have different privacy needs than you do. It seems unnecessarily controlling and disrespectful to tell anyone (child or not) that they can't set their own boundaries, and that's what this would be doing. Assuming a child is old enough that getting themselves in danger is a concern, I really, really don't understand how it could be unhealthy for them to want to read a book on their bed and play some music with the door shut.
Yes, I am an only child, and also a child of divorce...so in my teenage years I found it very comforting to be able to hear my mom putter around the house.
I find this thread very interesting because I am a huge advocate of respecting people no matter their age. But for some reason this particular issue really does not seem like a healthy family choice to me. One can just as easily read a book and play music with the door open...goodness knows I did enough of this as a kid. Having the door open never really made me feel exposed or whatever. It was just as much my personal space as if the door were closed. Its just that my personal space was not isolated from that of the larger family.
In my experience all the families I have known who allow closed doors have been very dysfunctional in terms of communication. Kid went off to room, closed door, and both kid and family thought good riddance. Nothing important was ever discussed in those families (and in a couple of cases the families were downright abusive which was why the kid was so eager to shut them out). Again this is just from my own experience, with the people I knew growing up. My family on the contrary was very communicative. I guess I had always assumed a link there, between literal open doors and figurative ones.
In terms of blocking out the TV, well that will not be an issue because we are a TV free household.
I guess I don't see a need for privacy within my own family. I will certainly watch my child for his comfort level on this though. I am curious though, do all of you close the doors on rooms other than the bathroom against your DP as well? Does your DP close themselves up in a room for privacy? Or is this just something that kids do in your household?
There seems to be an interesting correlation between this thread and the territorial room thread. Many of you don't allow anyone into your bedrooms without permission (or at all) another concept that I find completely foreign. I don't see what the issue is there either honestly. I don't have anything to hide from my own family, and I don't need any space that is just mine. I guess that is why I am so happy living in a small house.
Food on the other hand is a different matter. You had better not eat something that is mine, or I'll come after ya (RIGHT DH??)!


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ATLANTA, Ga., Nov 23, 2013 – The James Madison swimming and diving team won two swimming events and had two divers qualify for the finals as it sits in fifth after two days at the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday.
JMU has accumulated 463 points through 14 events to hold fifth out of nine teams in the three-day event. Tennessee continues to lead with 741.5 points, followed by Florida Gulf Coast (681.5) in second, Georgia Tech (647.5) in third and Vanderbilt (490.5) in fourth. Trailing the fifth-place Dukes is Miami (282.5) in sixth, Florida Atlantic (166) in seventh, Clemson (89.5) in eighth and Charleston (9) in ninth.
JMU started the evening's finals session by setting a school record in the 200-yard medley relay to earn its first event win of the weekend. Madison used a team of senior Shannon Dubay (South Windsor, Conn./South Windsor), juniors Sin Hye Won (Springfield, Va./West Springfield) and Susanne Gingher (Boalsburg, Pa./State College Area) and sophomore Kacy Edsall (Roanoke, Va./William Byrd) that sped to the wall in a time of 1:40.26 to break the previous school record by 0.15 seconds.
Won picked up JMU's other event win on the day, outracing the field in the 100-yard breaststroke. The 2013 NCAA Championship participant turned in a NCAA "B" cut time in the event, touching the wall at 1:01.24.
The Dukes picked up points from two divers on the three-meter board as redshirt freshman Taryn McLaughlin (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) and freshman Olivia Lehman (Dayton, Ohio/Centreville) both qualified for the event finals. McLaughlin led the way, placing fourth with a score of 298.60 while Lehman finished in 10th with 204.50 points.
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Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. (Prairie Farms Dairy) is a farmer-owned producer and marketer of dairy food products. The company's product portfolio includes fluid milk products, juices and drinks, butters, creams, tea, dips, cottage cheese, sour cream, ice creams and ice cream mixes, dips and yogurt. The company also co-packs dairy products for other companies. Prairie Farms Dairy supplies its products to food producers, drug and convenience stores, mass merchandisers, schools and restaurants. Along with its subsidiaries, the company operates 24 plants and 13 joint venture plants throughout the Midwest and Mid-South of the US. The company has joint ventures with six dairy companies in the US. Its distribution network is spread across Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, and Mississippi, the US. Prairie Farms Dairy is headquartered in Carlinville, Illinois, the US.
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DEKALB — Every Thursday night during football season, the man Northern Illinois hired last February as offensive coordinator called his daughter to reveal the first play of Saturday's game.
Wherever he has called plays, Mike Dunbar always shared that secret with his little girl, Lori, now an adult living in Phoenix, since she was old enough to know vertical stretch didn't mean reaching high on her tippy-toes. Dunbar, a coaching lifer, even occasionally asked his wife of 40 years, Linda, to leave the room so only Lori would know.
"It always has been a father-daughter thing,'' Dunbar said.
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So Dunbar upheld the family tradition with the blessing of the NIU coaching staff even after the 63-year-old took a leave of absence Sept. 3 to resume chemotherapy. Every week, Dunbar, officially reassigned as an NIU special assistant, still consulted on game plans in-between cancer treatments. Every week, Dunbar reminded Rod Carey, his replacement as play-caller and now NIU's head coach in the wake of Doeren's departure to North Carolina State, of his longtime ritual.
"We'd script the first few plays and he'd ask, 'You don't mind if I share this, do you?''' Carey said. "I knew what it meant to him. I thought it was great, whatever he wanted.''
Doing so provided what Dunbar needed; a comforting bit of normalcy cancer couldn't steal and evidence the most meaningful decisions NIU coaches made this magical season didn't involve football.
"If this was going to happen, it couldn't have happened at a better place,'' Dunbar said in his first public comments since stepping aside. "I needed them more than they needed me, to get out of the house. That was very important to me to still be around and deal with the health situation.''
Discussing his health situation remains uncomfortable for Dunbar, a former head coach at Northern Iowa who also served as Northwestern offensive coordinator under Randy Walker. He intentionally avoids specifics, saying only the cancer exists "around my lungs,'' and stressing the way NIU treated a guy employed for months like he had been there for years. The only hint of vulnerability came when Dunbar stared into space recalling the surreal feeling upon hearing his diagnosis last spring.
"There's a psychological battle you go through when the doctor mentions the 'C word' … You're like, 'What? Do you have the right guy?''' Dunbar recalled.
Besides his family, Dunbar told nobody at NIU except then-coach Dave Doeren. He coached spring football because practices were spread out enough so he could recover from chemotherapy. But surgery and a second round of chemo later in the summer made it impossible to keep from the NIU staff and players.
"Chemo kicks your fanny from an energy perspective,'' Dunbar said. "There was just no way. I told Dave that probably the best thing we could do was promote Rod (Carey) and make Joe Tripodi full-time.''
After calling his only NIU game, the season-opening loss to Iowa, Dunbar put his health and family ahead of his career to attack a different kind of opponent. Carey always will remember the way Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker, a friend of Dunbar's, banged on NIU's locker room door afterward to wish Dunbar well.
"That's the coaching community,'' Carey said. "All's fair in love, war and recruiting. But whenever somebody's struggling, we reach out.''
Which was what Carey encouraged Dunbar to do as much as possible given his new reality. Graduate-assistants dropped off game-plan information on days Dunbar couldn't swing by the office to interact with players. Dunbar confessed to spending inordinate amounts of time "doodling,'' ideas Carey welcomed.
"I flat-out told him, 'Coach, you're going to have to tell me to stop calling you,''' Carey said. "He took care of me. He would tell it like it is. He'd say, 'I don't like that play. We should think about this.' And I'd say, 'You're right.'''
Last week Carey turned the tables with a suggestion for Dunbar: Speak at Sunday's team banquet. Carey knew Dunbar was leaving Wednesday for Las Vegas to begin a new treatment opportunity because "the chemo stopped working,'' in Dunbar's words, and wanted him to address the Huskies.
"It was special,'' said Carey, who presented Dunbar the Huskie Spirit Award.
His speech elicited joy and sadness, tears mixed with laughs.
"The joke is I told the team, 'Coach Doeren asked me to mentor Rod and the offensive staff and obviously I did a helluva job,''' Dunbar said.
He won't be in Miami for the Orange Bowl. Instead Dunbar will be surrounded by family watching the culmination of a historic NIU season to which he contributed. Dunbar cannot predict how he will feel 2,500 miles away. But he takes solace knowing two Dunbars in the room will know what to expect from the first play.
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Howard Dillon Marstiller, 86, a resident of Laurel Mountain Road, passed from this life Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, in Davis Memorial Hospital. He had been in declining health for several years.
Friends will be received from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. today at the Tomblyn Funeral Home in Elkins. A funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home chapel. Pastor David Fisher and the Rev. Dr. Basil A. Hensley will officiate. Interment will follow in American Legion's Little Arlington Cemetery where full military rights will be accorded by members of the United States Navy, H.W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion and Tygart Valley Post 3647 Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Fed Study of Finasteride Tablets 5 mg and Proscar® Tablets 5 mg
This study has been completed.
Mylan Pharmaceuticals
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Last updated: March 31, 2008
Last verified: March 2008
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The objective of this study was to investigate the bioequivalence of Mylan's finasteride 5 mg tablets and Merck's Proscar® 5 mg tablets following a single, oral 5 mg (1 x 5 mg) dose administration under fed conditions.
Drug: Finasteride Tablets 5 mg
Drug: Proscar® Tablets 5 mg
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Bio-equivalence Study
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Open Label
|Official Title:
|Single-Dose Food In Vivo Bioequivalence Study of Finasteride Tablets (5 mg; Mylan) to Proscar® Tablets (5 mg; Merck) in Healthy Male Volunteers
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Drug Information available for: FinasterideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Mylan Pharmaceuticals:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Bioequivalence [ Time Frame: within 30 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|October 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2004
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Finasteride Tablets 5 mg
Drug: Finasteride Tablets 5 mg
5mg, single dose fed
Active Comparator: 2
Proscar® Tablets 5 mg
Drug: Proscar® Tablets 5 mg
5mg, single dose fed
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age: 18 years and older
- Sex: Male During the course of the study, from study screen until study exit, male volunteers must use a spermicide-containing barrier method of contraception to prevent the pregnancy of their sexual partner. This advice should be documented in the informed consent form.
- Weight: At least 60 kg (132 lbs) and all subjects within 15% of Ideal Body Weight (IBW), as referenced by the Table of ""Desirable Weights of Adults"" Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1999 (See Part II ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF BIOEQUIVALENCE PROTOCOLS).
- All subjects should be judged normal and healthy during a pre-study medical evaluation (physical examination, laboratory evaluation, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV tests, 12-lead ECG, and urine drug screen including amphetamine, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabinoid, cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine, and methadone) performed within 14 days of the initial dose of study medication.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Institutionalized subjects will not be used.
Social Habits:
- Use of any tobacco products within one year prior to dosing.
- Ingestion of any alcoholic, caffeine- or xanthine-containing food or beverage within the 48 hours prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- Ingestion of any vitamins or herbal products within 7 days prior to the initial dose of the study medication.
- Any recent, significant change in dietary or exercise habits.
- Use of any medication within the last 14 days prior to the initial dose of study medication, including over-the-counter medications.
- Use of any medication known to alter hepatic enzyme activity within 28 days prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- History of any significant chronic disease and/or hepatitis.
- History of drug and/or alcohol abuse.
- Acute illness at the time of either the pre-study medical evaluation or dosing.
- A positive HIV, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C test result.
Abnormal and clinically significant laboratory test results:
- Clinically significant deviation from the Guide to Clinically Relevant Abnormalities (See Part II ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF BIOEQUIVALENCE PROTOCOLS).
- Abnormal and clinically relevant ECG tracing.
- Donation or loss of a significant volume of blood or plasma (> 450 mL) within 28 days prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- Subjects who have received an investigational drug within 30 days prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- Allergy or hypersensitivity to finasteride or other related products.
- History of difficulties in swallowing, or any gastrointestinal disease which could affect the drug absorption.
- Consumption of grapefruit or grapefruit containing products within 7 days of drug administration.
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00650377
|United States, West Virginia
|Kendle International Inc.
|Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26505
Sponsors and Collaborators
Mylan Pharmaceuticals
|Principal Investigator:
|Dorian Williams, M.D.
|Kendle International Inc.
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on April 23, 2014
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Daily Med - posting of most recent submitted labelling to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and currently in use
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|Responsible Party:
|Will Sullivan, Global Head of Product Risk and Safety Management, Mylan Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00650377 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 30, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 31, 2008
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
5-alpha Reductase Inhibitors
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