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Appeared in all 12 games ... Finalist for Lowe's Senior CLASS Award ... Honored on Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America honorable mention team and preseason All-Ivy League first team ... Named to NEILA Preseason All-New England team ... Scored 11 goals on the season ... Netted a goal in win over Canisius (Feb. 27) ... Grabbed three ground balls at Georgetown (March 3) ... Had a goal and ground ball in win at Holy Cross (March 6) ... Notched a goal in victory at Massachusetts (March 13) ... Notched two goals against Colgate (March 16) ... Collected a ground ball in win over Dartmouth (March 27) ... Found the back of the net and snared a ground ball at No. 10 Cornell (April 10) ... Scored three goals and picked up a ground ball at Penn (April 17) ... Notched a goal in win over No. 6 Princeton (April 24) ... Scored a goal, grabbed and grabbed a ground ball at Yale (May 1).
2009 (Junior):
Tabbed to Tewaaraton Watch List ... Selected to NEILA All-New England first team ... Chosen to All-Ivy League second team ... Named to Inside Lacrosse's Preseason All-America honorable mention team ... Also selected to Inside Lacrosse's Preseason All-Ivy League squad ... Honored on the NEILA All-New England Preseason team ... Played in all 13 contests ... Was third on the Crimson with 20 points ... Netted a goal and had two ground balls in victory at Duke (Feb. 22) ... Tallied a man-up goal and grabbed a ground ball in victory at Stony Brook (Feb. 28) ... Had a ground ball against Massachusetts (March 7) ... Scored twice and had a ground ball win over Hartford (March 13) ... Had three points on one goal and two assists in Ivy opener against Penn (March 21); selected to Ivy League honor roll ... Assisted on two goals against Presbyterian (March 27) ... Scored twice and handed out an assist at Cornell (April 4) ... Found the back of the net at Princeton (April 11) ... Scored a goal and picked up a ground ball against Brown (April 15) ... Snared two ground balls and caused a turnover in victory over Holy Cross (April 18) ... Named to Ivy League honor roll after scoring two goals and assisting on three other tallies against Yale (April 25) ... Had a ground ball and caused a turnover at Dartmouth (May 2).
2008 (Sophomore):
All-Ivy League First Team selection ... NEILA New England First-Team ... Academic All-Ivy League ... Saw action in all 14 contests ... Led Harvard with 26 goals and 32 points ... Tallied five man-up goals ... Netted a season-high four goals in 12-3 victory over Fairfield (March 15) ... Collected hat tricks in victories over Massachusetts (March 8), Hartford (March 11) and at Holy Cross (April 19); also had an assist and grabbed four ground balls against the Crusaders ... Tallied two goals and assisted on two other scores at Brown (April 16) ... Netted two goals in win at Yale (April 26) ... Scored a goal and added an assist in 9-6 victory over Stony Brook (March 1) ... Had two goals and a ground ball at Denver (March 29) ... Tallied two scores at Penn (March 22) ... Had two goals vs. Princeton (April 12) ... Scored goals at Duke (March 25) and against Dartmouth (May 3) ... Collected an assist in opener at Siena (Feb. 23) ... Had two ground balls against Cornell (April 5).
2007 (Freshman):
Finished fifth on the Crimson in scoring and first among freshmen with 11 points, all coming on goals ... Scored at least one point in eight of the team's 12 games ... Had a hat trick to spark Harvard's 9-8 win against Brown April 10 ... Had two goals each against Stony Brook (March 3) and Massachusetts (March 10).
Before Harvard:
Four-year letterwinner in lacrosse at Adlai Stevenson HS ... Also lettered in football ... .Two-year captain of the lacrosse team ... All-America, all-state and all-conference selection in lacrosse ... All-area selection in football ... Helped lacrosse team to the 2005 IHSLA semifinals and led the football team to the state quarterfinals in 2004 and 2005 ... National Honor Society ... AP Scholar with Honors.


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Most kids love pushing the child-size carts around the grocery store.
But a donation from Trader Joe's has those carts taking on a new role.
The Foundation for Blind Children is using two donated carts to help their students learn to navigate an everyday activity -- a trip to the grocery store.
"Grocery shopping is such a staple of life and a necessity. What better way to help our kids navigate a grocery store than a shopping cart," said Steve Pawlowski, director of communications and development for the foundation.
He said that when one of their staff members stopped by the Trader's Joe in Paradise Valley, the store manager "graciously donated two carts without blinking an eye."
One of the Trader Joe's managers said that when someone from the foundation came in asking for a cart, they were happy to help. And they even gave more than what the foundation asked for.
"Obviously we are indebted to Trader Joe's," Pawlowski said.
The Foundation for Blind Children also teaches their students other essential daily skills, such as how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, shave and apply makeup.
Their programs are working, according to Pawlowski. Nationally the unemployment rate among blind people is 70 percent. That rate is 5 percent for students at the foundation.
"We're putting kids to work," he said.
Pawlowski also pointed out this training benefits more than just their students.
"A blind person at the age of 18 can start collecting a social security check. If that person chooses to forgo that check, over the course of their lifetime that saves taxpayers $1.4 million per person," said Pawlowski.
Foundation alumni have become engineers and teachers, and two are currently in med school.
So that donation of two shopping carts -- it's worth more than meets the eye.


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Measuring and Monitoring Children and Young People's Mental Wellbeing, Birmingham
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About this course
The Anna Freud Learning Network is hosting a series of free, regional workshops to help schools and those working with them to measure and monitor the mental wellbeing of children and young people.
Measuring mental wellbeing can help schools understand when young people need support, what support to provide, whether it works, and how to improve it.
Why attend?
- Learn more about child mental wellbeing, and how it can be measured
- Hear practical examples and have your questions answered
- Learn how to introduce wellbeing measures to children and young people
- Make links with local services
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A collection of some of his most inspiring words.
On August 28, 1963 when more than 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for a massive civil rights march, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was introduced as "the moral leader of our nation." The civil rights leader, scholar and Baptist minister took the stand and began his famous "I have a dream speech" with the following words: "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation."
King talked about Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which he said was a beacon of hope for "millions of Negro slaves seared in the flames of withering injustice." He could easily have included "millions of Indigenous Peoples" in that statement since the United States was founded on the genocide and labor of Indigenous Peoples and African slaves. A year later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. By the time King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he had expanded his vision of freedom and civil rights for African Americans into a universal message of freedom and human rights for all. Along the way of becoming an American icon of non-violent resistance and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, King left a legacy of soaring oratory on peace, justice, and the dignity of being human. Here are some of his most inspiring words from his writings, speeches and sermons:
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."
"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: – 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."
"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly."
"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact…that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters…"
"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream—a dream yet unfulfilled."
"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
Other inspiring quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.:
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
"I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events, which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
"The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood."
"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education, which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
"They tell me that one-tenth of one percent of the population controls more than 40 percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes."
"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of good will to come together with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'We ain't goin' study war no more.' This is the challenge facing modern man."
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
This story was originally published January 16, 2012.


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Andy Roddick ends the run of John Isner at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic. Click here to see Isner tower over Roddick.
Maria Sharapova wins over scrappy lefty Patty Schnyder in the final Acura Classic at the La Costa Resort and Spa. Sharapova beat Schnyder 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, but couldn't figure out how to fix her opponent's flyaway hair.
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- 2001 Meßmer Spätburgunder Weissherbst Auslese - Germany, Pfalz (6/11/2006) ½ bottle; 12,0 GBPounds
Orange/pink. A lovey nose of carrots and botrytis or something that deceptively smells like rot. The palate is very sweet and intense, with nice supporting acidity. Great length. Very good!
- 2003 Meßmer Portugieser Weissherbst - Germany, Pfalz (6/11/2006) 1,0 litre 6,0 GBP
A simple, but pleasant, nose of strawberry, earth and wet rock. The palate is sweetly fruity, with decent balancing acidity. Not anything special, but a fine rosé! For the price I payed, very good!
- 2004 Meßmer Muskateller Kabinett - Germany, Pfalz (6/11/2006) 7,0 GBP
Very light gold, greenish. The nose is lovely: pungently mineral, with the typical grape and grapefruit scents of the variety. The palate is also fairly dry, mineral, with lovely ripe acidity backing it up. The aftertaste is long and has a delightful mineral water component. Lovely stuff!
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The old-timey main streets of 14 towns in the West let you glimpse the past in homes, saloons, shops, and museums.
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Columbia, Calif.
"Now a state park, this is one of the best-preserved Gold Rush towns," says Dale Swanberg of Atwater, Calif. "Have fun panning for gold, making candles, riding a stagecoach, or seeing a play. Don't skip seeing candy being made at Nelson's Columbia Candy Kitchen." (209) 588-9128, parks.ca.gov/?page_id=552.
Ferndale, Calif.
"A favorite of Hollywood filmmakers," says Amy Rodrigues of San Jose. "With many vintage storefronts and homes, the town is a step back in time. The Majestic, Outbreak, and Salem's Lot were made here." (707) 786-4477, victorianferndale.com.
Fremont, Calif.
"There's something for everyone in the Niles District here," says Swetha Kowsik of Fremont. "Antique shops, cafés and restaurants, and a train that runs to Sunol on a picturesque route. A small rail museum near the station is definitely worth visiting." (510) 742-9868, niles.org.
Locke, Calif.
"Founded in 1915 after a fire in the Chinese neighborhood of nearby Walnut Grove, this town has restaurants, shops, and a museum that recall the days when many Chinese people still lived here," says Betty Chu of Morgan Hill, Calif. (916) 776-1661, locketown.com.
Placerville, Calif.
"Home of the oldest continuously operating hardware store west of the Mississippi and many Gold Rush–era buildings," says Vicki Kissinger of Pollock Pines, Calif. "One, from 1852, houses a historical museum." (530) 626-0773, placerville-downtown.org.
Santa Rosa, Calif.
"Fourth Street features two charming sites," says Corey Mostafa of Santa Rosa. "There's Old Courthouse Square, with its cobblestone streets, and Railroad Square, with Italianate stone buildings that predate the great quake of 1906." (707) 578-8478, railroadsquare.net.
Virginia City, Nev.
"A feast for the senses," says John Webster of Portland. "Boardwalks creak under your feet. Country music drifts out of bars with names like the Bucket of Blood Saloon. And you can breathe the same mountain air that Mark Twain enjoyed decades ago in this mining hub." (800) 718-7587, visitvirginiacitynv.com.
Cottage Grove, Ore.
"This town boasts vintage buildings, cafés, bakeries, and murals galore," says Kathy Moline of Creswell, Ore. "It even has a Western wear store that looks to be out of the 1800s, with wooden floors and a huge old cash register. There's a gold-mining museum on Main Street." (541) 942-2411, cgchamber.com.
Oakland, Ore.
"An old brick railroad town where it's easy to feel lost in time," writes Magi Hart of Roseburg, Ore. "Among the many well-preserved homes and businesses you'll find the Oakland Museum, which highlights, among other things, the town's former role as the nation's turkey capital." (541) 459-4531, historicoaklandoregon.com.
St. Helens, Ore.
"Right on the Columbia River, it's full of cool old buildings and homes," writes Samantha Katterman-Stekhuizen of St. Helens. "People have been doing a great job of reviving the atmosphere with fun, quirky shops and outdoor seating at restaurants." (503) 397-6272, travelcolumbiacounty.com.
Willamette, Ore.
"Founded in 1908 after the Willamette Falls Locks were built, this town—long ago made part of West Linn—has kept its turn-of-the-century look," says Rose Case of Wilsonville, Ore. "It has interesting shops, eateries, and pubs." (503) 657-0331.
Helper, Utah
"This town got its name from the helper engines that would push trains up a 15-mile grade to Soldier Summit," says Tami Jones of Logan, Utah. "Enjoy the Western Mining & Railroad Museum, walk by the river, browse art in studio windows, or knock down pins at the Gateway Lanes, then eat lunch at the Balance Rock Eatery & Pub." (435) 472-5391, helpercity.net.
Edmonds, Wash.
"I visit this Puget Sound town every year," says Ann Staatz of Portland. "Main Street is walking distance from the ferry dock and beach. A travel store, art gallery, gift shop, cookware emporium, and family bookstore line the downtown streets, which fan out from a central fountain. And a 1910 Carnegie library houses a historical museum." (425) 776-6711, www.ci.edmonds.wa.us/vguide.stm.
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Bron Shoe Company closes after more than 80 years in business
It is one last trip down Memory Lane.
For more than 80 years, the Bron Shoe Company at the corner of Alum Creek Drive and Memory Lane in east Columbus preserved precious memories by dipping keepsakes in copper, or popularly known as "bronzing."
Customers brought it a variety of items from baby shoes to memorabilia, to items that you couldn't even believe, to have them last a lifetime. The factory housed a company that created more than 14 million memories in more than 80 years.
"In the 1950's or 60's, we got into direct marketing through Parents magazine and it just exploded," Bob Kaynes, the owner of the company, said.
The Bron Shoe company, started by Kaynes' grandmother in 1934, became the largest bronzing and silver restoration business in the country. 105 employees clocked in each day at the company's peak.
"We were shipping 2,000 baby shoes a day," Kaynes said. "That's a lot of baby shoes!"
Today, there are fewer time cards and employees punching into work. The tools sit idle and the shelves are empty. Only about 50 shoes a day have been making it out of the shop in recent years.
"These are some of the last shoes we're going to be bronzing. It's sad. It's the passing of an era," Kaynes said.
With the final orders going out, Kaynes and his employees still at the plant are surprisingly upbeat. They smile and are proud to have played a hand in memories for so many families around the globe.
"We can mope around here and be depressed or we can say, 'doggone it, we had a really good run!' We should be mighty proud of ourselves," he said.
Over the years, they bronzed some amazing items too, including shoes from golfer Bobby Jones, ice skates from Sonia Henie, and even a pile of horse manure.
Kaynes hoped to maintain the tradition and pass on the business in his family but it just wasn't meant to be. Now, many of the items in the plant and the building itself will go up for auction.
"It's very bittersweet for me but I'm proud," Kaynes said. "I'm proud. I was part of something special."
Customers who submitted orders to the plant will be finished. No new orders are accepted.


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Today I get the chance to talk about another new item we are bringing in for CHA. I am so excited! For the last few years I have been using X-Press It High Tack double-sided tape, and I love it. Now, Imagination International is going to start distributing X-Press It Foam Tape.
What has me excited is that this tape is super strong, and comes in two economical sizes: 1/2" for larger things, and 1/4" for narrow objects.
The narrow tape is for popping up a strip of ribbon, or something else really long and narrow. I also love it for popping up detailed embellishments that really need tiny pieces of foam tape.
Here is a quick birthday card I made with the narrow foam tape. I wanted to hide the border on the lace with a strip of paper, but I didn't want to use a really wide piece of paper. The 1/4" foam tape was perfect for hiding the lace and glue used to hold down the lace.
If you are coming to CHA, be sure to visit our booth and see the new tape. If you are not going to make it to California, check with your local Copic supplier to purchase tape for yourself. Tape is now in stock and has started shipping!
Stamp: Our Craft Lounge, Vintage Roses, Memento, Kaisercraft Pearls, Assorted markers (i forgot to write down the colors, sorry!) X-Press It 1/4" Foam tape, X-Press It Double Sided High Tack tape. Wyla Lace, dyed with assorted Copic Various Inks, Cosmo Cricket paper.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
New Foam Tape
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6 comments:
- Beate said...
I am super excited about the tape. I can't wait!
Your card looks great!
Hugs and smiles
- January 19, 2012 at 6:46 PM
- Jan Castle said...
Sounds like a real winner! Hope I get a chance to see/meet you. I will be at booth 862! Love my Copics!!!
Jan Castle
- January 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Rose said...
Love your card... the colors are beautiful!
- January 21, 2012 at 8:39 PM
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I really like the 1/4" option. Is the tape acid-free? Thanks for the preview!
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Hi all,
I just purchased a 2880 secondhand. I'm aware of its limitations compared to the 45000 (multiple loop storage mainly) but the price difference (300 euros used compared to 560 euros new) didn't have the cash for the 45000.
I've been wondering if anyone has tried a 45000 foot controller with the 2880 to see if it allows the 2880 to store multiple loop storage or better yet if anyone knows whether it's possible to upgrade the 2880 by installing the 45000 software onto it and then use it with a 45000 foot controller.
Did EHX do more than change the card slot and the foot controller or is the new unit is intrinsically different.


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The announcement that the bus would be cut by the end of the current school year took many parents by surprise. Approximately 60 children take the school bus back and forth between the Big Six residential towers at Laurel Hill Boulevard and 61st Street and P.S. 229 at 65th Place and 51st Road, a distance of a little less than a mile.
The decision to cut the bus service was made based on the short route, but parents say that crossing under the BQE and along its service roads is too dangerous for young, elementary school children, and that the only other alternate route, up past the towers and along Queens Boulevard, is much longer than a mile.
"Pedestrians don't use this intersection," said Michelle Kates, a concerned parent of two P.S. 229 students and a resident of the Big Six towers. "It's a uniquely dangerous intersection due to its ten lanes, two exits from the BQE, and service roads that are clogged with traffic during rush hour. We're scared for the safety of our children, and a lot of working parents will have to worry about their kids getting to school alright."
"This change doesn't make sense," said Israel Martinez, a father of three P.S. 229 students. "It's going to be a hardship for working parents, and it's going to create more traffic and emissions around the school."
Martinez also questioned the safety of letting students cross the intersection, saying that when he bikes to work, he dismounts and carefully walks across the very same intersection.
After filing hazard variances with the New York City Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT), Kates and other P.S. 229 parents started asking the State Department of Education to investigate the intersection. The parents also circulated a petition asking several elected officials to keep the bus running, and Councilman Eric Gioia held a press conference at the intersection to demand that the bus service remain in place.
"The decision to cut off this bus route seems to have been made without anybody coming down here and actually seeing the intersection," said Gioia. "This is a dangerous intersection. At 8 in the morning, it can look like the Indy 500 around here, and no bureaucratic agency should endanger our children's safety like this. It scares me just to be standing her with all these young boys and girls, and I wouldn't want my little girl to have to cross it by herself."
Assemblywoman Marge Markey also issued a statement regarding the dangerous nature of the intersection, saying, "This area has been the scene of 16 documented accidents in the past year alone. The decision to limit eligibility for bus transportation to those who live less than one-half mile from the school may have been made by the Department of Education with the best of intentions, but the consequences for these children are severe."


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It would be hard to forget that face, even if they hadn't seen it just the day before.
A young Afghan man stood on the side of a narrow dirt lane, watching an open-top truckload of Marines head into a volatile neighborhood in this river valley town coveted by Taliban insurgents and drug lords.
The man smiled at the Marines and waved. Then he yanked a kite string detonation cord attached to a bomb buried in the road.
A platoon from Camp Pendleton's 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment would have been decimated in the attack. The battalion already had suffered more casualties than any other in the 10-year war in Afghanistan, long before its seven-month tour ended this month. But the homemade device was a dud. It smoked but failed to explode until the Marines drove safely out of the way.
The next day, the Marines shot their way back into the ravine, wounding an armed fighter who was dragged into a mosque. When they reached the alley where they had been attacked, Cpl. Jason Gaal and Staff Sgt. Nathan Stocking couldn't believe their eyes. Both recognized a guy riding by on a motorcycle.
"Lo' and behold, there's our trigger man," Gaal said.
Stocking walked the trembling flex-cuffed detainee back to base, overcompensating for his fury with exaggerated gentleness. "My buddy … my buddy," he sang, guiding his prisoner lightly by the arm.
The arrest in March of the suspected insurgent was one of many hard-fought victories the 3/5 Marines were savoring during their last weeks in Sangin. Even by Marine Corps standards and the long history of one of its most decorated battalions, their tour that ended this month was brutal.
In October, the Camp Pendleton unit was dropped into the deadliest area of the country for international troops. Their ensuing battle for Sangin extracted a grim toll from their ranks — nearly one in four wounded or killed, most in the first three months. At least 29 Marines and sailors from the battalion and its attachments died and a couple hundred more were wounded.
When Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew to Sangin last month, he said he had been praying for the 3/5 Marines daily, because they had paid an extraordinary price in sweat and blood to add their names to the Marine Corps roll of honor. But the result had been a "dramatic turnaround," in his view, for an area of the country that had bedeviled and bloodied British troops and the Afghan government for years.
"You've killed, captured or driven away most of the Taliban that called this place home. And in doing so, you've linked northern Helmand, Uruzgan and Kandahar provinces, a major strategic breakthrough," Gates told the Marines.
Going in
They had prepared for a tough fight. Anyone who Googled "Sangin," as many of the Marines heading there did, knew that subduing the "Fallujah of Afghanistan" would be a challenge. Before the British pulled out in September, they lost more than 100 troops in Sangin, nearly a third of their war dead.
The town of mud-walled homes and concrete block bazaar stalls in the far northeast of Helmand province is flanked by jagged peaks and a patchwork of poppy fields. Its stunning beauty, remoteness and access to a strategic crossroads made it a nexus for Taliban militants.
The British had shouldered much of the security burden in Helmand province since 2006. Troop levels forced them to focus on more populated areas while they struggled in Sangin to secure the main road, the district government offices and their military bases.
With British troops penned in under constant attack, the insurgents had free rein to run weapons, fighters and drugs. The Kabul administration seemed to write off Sangin as a lost cause. Helmand governor Gulab Mangal raged at the British, "stop calling it the Sangin District and start calling it the Sangin Base. All you have done here is built a military camp next to the city," according to U.S. diplomatic cables first publicized by the WikiLeaks website.
A ferocious fight
When the 3/5 Marines arrived, they literally stepped into a minefield.
They were warned by another unit that took command for a few weeks after the British departed, the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines from Twentynine Palms, that the density of homemade bombs dug into the dirt roads, paths, and bullet-pocked housing compounds of the Sangin valley was unlike anything international forces had encountered in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The new battalion started the tour losing 10 Marines killed and many more wounded within nine days, most of them to improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
Kilo Company's introduction to Sangin began Oct. 14, when a patrol was attacked by streams of enemy machine gun fire. Amid the firefight, one Marine stepped on a homemade bomb. A minute later, a second Marine triggered another.
A Navy hospital corpsman, knowing he was surrounded by buried explosives, ran to help. He lost both his legs. Lance Cpl. Alec Catherwood and Lance Cpl. Joseph Lopez died, a squad leader was shot in the leg and incapacitated, and several other Marines suffered concussions.
With so many wounded and killed and stunned, a 26-year-old scout sniper leader operating in the distance, Sgt. Matthew Abbate, ignored the bomb threat and maneuvered in to take control. (In December, he too was killed, and the battalion nominated him for one of the Navy's highest medals for valor in combat.)
That evening, with two platoons running low on ammunition, the company commander and his enlisted leaders walked into Patrol Base Fires to resupply the Marines. Insurgents had flooded the area to cut off the base. The only way in was a trek through mud.
"Fires was totally surrounded," Capt. Nickoli Johnson recalled.
During the Korean War, the 3/5 Marines had been encircled by divisions of Chinese troops in the Chosin reservoir, Johnson reminded them, but the "Darkhorse" battalion broke out under extremely dire circumstances and fought its way to the sea.
"This is your opportunity to lead a breakout of your own. We're going to go out there, we're going to penetrate those defenses and we're going to chase the enemy down. We're going to punish them where they sleep and follow them wherever they go, until we break their backs," he said.
In October, international air forces dropped more weapons on Afghanistan than in any other month since at least 2007. Most of the Hellfire missiles, 500-pound bombs and Excalibur artillery rounds, among other ordnance, supported the Marines in Sangin, where the ferocious fight continued for months.
At first the insurgents organized complex ambushes and fought toe to toe with the Marines from elaborate defenses, including perches in trees and firing ports gouged into mud walls. Later they relied increasingly on indirect attacks, including homemade bombs, assassinations and beatings to intimidate "collaborators."
On several occasions, Marine positions were close to being overrun. At a patrol base protecting a power station, the small unit first assigned there made a warning system out of a string of soup cans. Insurgents threw death threats for their translator over the patrol base wall at night tied to corn stalks.
The mass casualties continued, but the Marines kept pushing out of their patrol bases, deep into Taliban territory.
The toll
Lt. Will Donnelly, a popular 27-year-old platoon commander known for his willingness to drive inebriated Marines home at all hours of the night, had finally convinced his longtime girlfriend to start a family. They married in the forest of Yosemite Park two weeks before he deployed to Sangin. He was shot to death on Thanksgiving Day, and his men fought back to base with his body, firing rifles and throwing grenades.
Lance Cpl. Brandon Pearson, 21, and Lance Cpl. Matthew Broehm, 22, were murdered by a turncoat Afghan soldier who gunned them down on their patrol base while they were standing post. The Afghan man drank tea and watched music videos with the Marines before the attack as if nothing was amiss. He fled that night under cover of insurgent gunfire. When the Marines later realized it had been an inside job, their blood curdled in loathing and mistrust.
Lt. Robert Kelly, another popular platoon commander who made a point of leading from the front, was killed by an insurgent bomb buried in the bank of a canal. Many of the men he served with had no idea that the 29-year-old officer, who had previously served in the enlisted ranks, was the son of a three-star Marine Corps general.
Lance Cpl. Brandon Long, whose legs were blown off, among other grave injuries, felt that he died during the bomb strike. "I was walking to the light and I heard a voice tell me it's not your time,'" he wrote in a letter to his rifle company.
"Which way do I go?" he asked.
"The way that you came," the voice responded. Two days later his daughter was born. Wanting to be a father to her brought him back to life, he said.
Gaal, 22, who was promoted to squad leader in January after another Marine he admired died, said "there is really no way to prepare yourself for the first time that you see somebody's legs get blown off, or you see one of your friends get killed.
"It sucks, but the situation that we're in, you don't have a lot of time to sit there and think about it. You just have to keep pressing on," he said.
As waves of combat replacements deployed to Sangin, many seriously injured Marines hid their wounds to avoid being sent home. At least two who were shot and ordered back to Camp Pendleton to recover returned months later to Sangin to finish the tour.
At a memorial service in January for three of his Marines killed in action, Lt. Col. Jason Morris, the 3/5 Battalion commander, asked: "Where do we get men such as these, men who look death in the face and continue to move forward?"
The losses were painful, but they steeled the resolve of the Marines to punish the enemy, Johnson said. "It was like throwing gasoline on a fire that was already burning."
During a shura meeting in January, an Afghan man approached the regimental commander in charge of northern Helmand at the time, Col. Paul Kennedy, and smashed him in the face with a rock, breaking his nose. A Marine in his security detail shot the Afghan dead.
That month, a squad reinforced with snipers and machine gunners battled the Taliban in a six-hour firefight, killing at least two dozen of them. The Marines were running low on ammunition for the second time that day, night was falling and they had chased the insurgents into another unit's area of operations before the company commander ordered them back.
The Taliban had built a mystique of being magical warriors who appeared and disappeared like ghosts. But Sgt. Philip McCulloch, Jr., the 22-year-old squad leader, said: "There were motorcycles and dead Taliban all over the battlefield. It was something you don't see every day out here."
The closure of about half the British bases, including checkpoints lining the main route through town, had handed terrain secured at great cost back to the insurgents.
The decision was based on manpower and a more flexible patrolling strategy. By the time the Camp Pendleton 3/5 Marines arrived, the main road was full of bombs. To resupply its northern Sangin bases, the 20-minute drive required an all-day detour through the desert, where each convoy invariably hit a bomb.
In December, the Marines secured Route 611 during a two-week operation to clear the explosives. The operation was possible in part because of a mini surge of troops and other resources sent to the greater Sangin valley that helped the Marines fortify their positions and build new ones.
A company of Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment that had been operating in Marjah took over one corner of the battalion's area of operations, while reconnaissance Marines moved into another. Reservists from the 3/25 Battalion pitched in standing post and other duties in Sangin, and a company of tankers plus a battalion landing team of about 1,000 Marines reinforced their southern flank in Gereshk.
The influx was coupled with the infusion of extra Afghan paramilitary police forces early this year and the appointment of about a dozen district government officials, as a logjam of Afghan resources that had been particularly felt in Sangin began to break free across Helmand province, British and American civilian representatives said.
The added manpower and reopening of the road were among the factors that reached a tipping point in Sangin over the winter, resulting in a steep plunge in violence and newfound cooperation by formerly recalcitrant tribal elders. Another factor was the changing of the seasons, when head-high corn was harvested and leaves fell from the trees, depriving the enemy of cover, and cold rains degraded explosives.
The Marines assigned to the most heavily bomb-laden central areas had also learned the hard way early on that no technology was infallible and even the ground they stood on was not safe. Engineers assigned to sweep ahead of the patrols couldn't always count on their metal detectors to find the bombs, so they shuffled their feet with small steps. "I make sure that I'll be the one to step on it before any of these guys," said 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Zachary Stangle.
The bomb threat is a numbers game in the insurgents' favor, because the Marines may find 99 explosives, but it takes just one to kill. "Fortunately we are a learning organization, and the Marines obviously want to keep their legs. They want to stay alive. So they got very good at finding them," said Morris, the 3/5 battalion commander.
By March the battalion had encountered more than 1,000 bombs in their area of central Sangin district. Only 145 of them were strikes. The rest were found or interdicted before they could harm. By comparison, the battalion was engaged in more than 520 firefights and killed or wounded about 470 enemy fighters in that time.
Bing West, a military historian who made several trips to Helmand province in the last year, said that the innate aggression of the U.S. Marine made the difference on the battlefield. "The Marines have won. No one wants to fight them anymore," he said.
When Brig. Gen. Joseph Osterman, the Task Force Leatherneck commander, sent his theatre reserve of about 400 reconnaissance Marines into the far north of Sangin in late November, fighters swarmed to the area. The recon Marines killed hundreds within about five weeks, he said. "The insurgents attacked them in that position and basically just impaled themselves on the Marines." The intense combat helped push the largest tribe in Sangin to a cease-fire, which was clinched in January after Afghan provincial officials showed the Alikozai around the bustling and relatively peaceful provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
The tribe broke with the Taliban in 2007, but insurgents crushed the Alikozai uprising, dragging one elder out of town behind a truck. Afghan and British forces stood by, unable or unwilling to intervene.
The latest security agreement did not live up to its promise, since attacks continued in Alikozai areas. But a steep drop in enemy activity allowed Marine engineers to finish grading and graveling Route 611 in March up to the Kajaki district border, Marine commanders said.
Rebuilding the road was central to the Marine strategy of "big stick COIN," in Sangin — counterinsurgency operations that rely on both the carrot of development and the stick of combat power, said Lt. Col. Thomas West, a civil affairs Marine from Anaheim Hills.
"Securing that 611 route and taking it away from the Taliban is opening a huge avenue of stability," said West, who was part of a companion surge of governance and development experts sent to Sangin. "It makes a vital economic corridor that the people here depend on."
Capt. Abdul Hamid, 29, an Afghan army commander who has been stationed in Sangin for a year and a half, said that enemy flags and bombs used to surround the international coalition's patrol bases. "Now, with the Marines' help, some of the Taliban have turned in their weapons, and the people feel free to come and tell us about the IEDs. Now they know the government is dominant here."
What's next
The true test of whether the security gains the 3/5 Marines wrought in Sangin can be sustained will come this summer, after the poppy is harvested and the traditional fighting season is in full swing. Before their replacements took over in April — the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, also from Camp Pendleton — small groups of fighters had begun to infiltrate Sangin, causing an uptick in harassing shooting attacks.
Many Sangin residents say they are weary of war. Toward the end of their tour, so were many Marines. The glamour had worn off for many gung-ho infantrymen stationed in Sangin, who declared the boring patrols to be the best.
"We've done what we came out here to do. This place is a lot more stable now," said Sgt. Ivan Teran, 24. "You're not going to hear any of these guys saying 'yeah, let's get some!' … They've experienced just about as much as you can experience being a grunt in the Marine Corps."
The Darkhorse Marines fought on after seeing their best friends ripped limb from limb, over and over again — five times in the case of one lance corporal this reporter spoke to. The courage of this generation of Marines in the face of such an insidious weapon, "a weapon designed to maim, a weapon designed to have psychological impact by inflicting grotesque casualties," made a deep impression on Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, the senior Marine and NATO commander of southwestern Afghanistan for the last year.
"I'm just awed by their ability every day to disregard the danger and face the enemy," knowing what each step could cost them, Mills said.
Back in San Diego, medical staff assembled a multipart plan to help the Marines and their families with the transition home.
Sangin changed them, the Marines conceded. They wouldn't be human otherwise. But Stocking, the 27-year-old platoon sergeant serving his fourth combat tour, said he was not worried about their mental state. "Once everyone gets home they're going to realize that the sky is so much bluer, the air breathes so much better," he said.
"Guys that have been in this type of situation … they realize how good life really is."


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The Volunteer Center of Durham coordinates volunteer events and services across the Triangle. For more information on these events, visit www.HandsOnTriangle.org or call 919-613-4515.
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• Men are needed as Friendly Visitors and Big Sibs at the volunteer center. Call 919-681-1835 or email email@example.com.
• Carolina Villages needs kind-hearted occasional volunteers to help older adults in Chapel Hill and Carrboro remain in their own homes.
• UNC hospitals needs volunteers to make infant gowns and cover boxes with fabric.
• Want to be a part of the theatre program at The ArtsCenter? The Theatre Team is made up of volunteers interested in all aspects of theatre – from helping build sets, to doing tech work, to ushering and everything in between.
• Do you have a caring heart for families of children with cancer? Volunteer in the Ronald McDonald Family Room on the 7th floor of the NC Children's Hospital where families can relax and "get away" while still being close to their child.
• Help TABLE with its hunger relief programs. Shifts are Monday and Tuesday nights from 6 to 8 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon and 2:20 to 4:20 p.m.
• Do you enjoy learning folk tales from other countries? Are you good at editing? StoriesWork needs a panel of four people to edit and research international folk stories for its story bank.
• Do you have expertise in herbs? The InterFaith Food Shuttle needs a volunteer herbalism instructor.
• Meals on Wheels of Durham is increasing the number of people they feed, as there is an increased need for services as the population ages. Drivers are needed. Arrive between 10 and 10:30 a.m. to deliver hot meals to clients in your own car. Allow up to an hour and a half for delivery.
• Do you have an interest in history and the Holocaust? The Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education of NC needs volunteers to do online research. Can be done from your home.
• Would you like to do something to help a cancer patient? ACS needs volunteers to drive patients to medical appointments.
• MusicianCorps seeks talented and dynamic individuals with a proven track record in musicianship and community leadership to serve as MusicianCorps artists in the Triangle this fall.
• Help homeless animals by being an ambassador for AnimalKind at community events in the area.
• Be a part of an inter-faith youth movement to transform divided societies into communities of peace. Assist in data entry and communication for Kids4Peace.
• Become a Parent Supporter to new mothers with Welcome Baby by calling them weekly.
• Do you have experience writing grants? Help with grant research and proposal writing for the Congo Initiative remotely from your home.
• Make a difference in the lives of seniors by calling them on a weekly or daily basis at the Durham Center for Senior Life.
• Help out at the warehouse for the Durham Economic Resource Center. Answer the phone, enter data, and restock shelves.
• Work with experienced naturalists and educators to work with a small group of children during explorations, games, and other hands-on outdoor activities at Creekside or Forest View Elementary, or at Githens Middle School.
• Do you enjoy administrative projects? Volunteer your skills at DERC, The Land Loss Prevention Project, Durham Community Land Trustees or the Center for Child and Family Health.
• Would you like to improve your community? Apply to serve on one of the 43 advisory boards of Durham County.
• Through creative activities and guided homework sessions, help a child develop the skills they need to succeed. Provide one-on-one mentoring or tutor a small group of students through your local YMCA.
• The Veggie Van works to deliver boxes of fresh, locally grown veggies to people who have limited access to these products. Volunteers are needed for the van sites at Durham Tech and the DC Health Dept.
• Help EarthShare NC with marketing and tracking participating groups to celebrate North Carolina's natural environment.
• Help students with homework in after-school tutoring at the Salvation Army from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
• Are you knowledgeable about wildlife? Volunteers are needed to answer WildNet phone lines on weekends. WildNet connects wildlife to rehabilitators and can be forwarded to your personal line.
• The Durham Literacy Center's Teen Career Academy provides one-on-one tutoring with young adults who are pursuing their GED. Become and instructor Monday through Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
• Do you have some free time on Wednesday nights? Do you speak some Spanish? Converse with Latino immigrants on an informal basis at Pilgrim UCC, 3011 Academy Road, Durham.


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2013 Result: 45-37 (7th West seed), lost in Conference Quarterfinals to San Antonio A season with such high expectations had a ton of things go wrong, starting from the decision to hire Mike D'Antoni over Phil Jackson as head coach. Players and fans wanted Jackson, who has already won five rings with the franchise. For much of last season it seemed the Lakers would miss the playoffs for the first time since 2005. And by the time they finally did make the playoffs, they were without Kobe and got swept. Even the allure of the famous purple and gold couldn't keep Dwight Howard, and Metta World Peace is off to the Knicks. But Steve Nash, who is now a relatively average player at age 38, will still run point next to Kobe. As Kobe admitted during one of his infamous postgame press interviews, the Lakers are old. In just a couple years or so they'll have to rebuild completely, but for now they will still start Nash, Bryant (35), Pau Gasol (33), and Chris Kaman (32). Guard Jodie Meeks is a nice breath of fresh air but he's still just a fill-in player until that big rebuild coming up. But worst of all they're still stuck with D'Antoni as coach, and it looks bad having him there but it would look even worse to fire him now. With the Lakers struggling they are losing market share to the dominant Clippers, but their lineup still features some of the world's best ballers. Make sure to see Kobe and the other big names while they're all still together on the same court—a truly unique opportunity. The Los Angeles Lakers are one of two teams to represent the city of Los Angeles in the Pacific Division and Western Conference of the NBA. The franchise was founded in 1947 as the Minneapolis Lakers, a reference to the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Shortly after moving to LA, the Lakers would again experience success, reaching the NBA Finals 6 times during the 60s. Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West would keep the Lakers in contention before they acquired another center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who would win multiple MVP awards with the franchise. The 1980s Lakers were nicknamed "Showtime" due to their Magic Johnson-led fast break-offense. The team struggled again in the early 1990s before acquiring Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant in 1996. From 2000 to 2002, the Lakers would win three consecutive titles, securing the franchise its second "three-peat". The Lakers have won a total of 16 NBA titles, the last time being in 2010. Sixteen Hall of Famers have played for Los Angeles (Bryant is on his way there as well) and four have gone on to coach the team. Become a part of history by getting your tickets to the Los Angeles Lakers' 2013-14 NBA season today!
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the insights-up-top,-humor-down-below deptThe most insightful comment this week was another clear winner. (Second place was way, way behind.) It was a comment from an Anonymous Coward, in response to the claims from the NSA that Anonymous was somehow likely to target taking down power grids. This AC gave a good reason for that to be unlikely:
Let's go the other way, why would Anon, who uses computers which require power, shut down their power source?Coming in second was Richard's comment in response to my suggestion that all laws should have a sunset period at which point they need to be reviewed before they could be renewed. As Richard notes, this might have a side benefit:
If it did nothing else this would limit the amount of time available for making new laws!For editor's choice, we've got Chosen Reject explaining how he deals with the fact that certain "inventors" aren't:
My hobby: Every time someone says "Edison invented..." I mentally replace "invented" with "was somehow involved in patenting".For the second editor's choice, I'll go with TasMot's comment on the NSA/Anonymous hacking the power grid story, which gets to the real heart of the matter:
Before chasing after the group Anonymous, let's put the idiots in jail that put the On/Off switch for the Power Grid on the Internet. I mean how stupid was that? Does somebody working at the power company need to get on a web page from home and turn off the power grid?Moving on to funny, we had three comments very closely clumped together at the top... and then there was a huge gap from them to number four. So, rather than leave out that "third" comment, let's just list out all three of those comments. Amusingly, the top-voted funniest comment... is actually a response to the most insightful of the week! Never seen that before. It's also by an Anonymous Coward (though a different one) responding to that claim of Anonymous supposedly not wanting to take down power plants because they'd lose power... and then mimicking the bizarre two sentences we quote from the article about how Anonymous can't take down the power grid, but "experts" feared that if they did then that would increase the likelihood that a power grid would be taken down:
Why doesn't NSA actually look into what parts of the power grid can be accessed from the Internet and go "fix" that? Oh Yeah, I forgot, you can't take away any civil liberties if you do that........ You just fix the problem and move on..... And besides, that would make more sense.
Anonymous doesn't yet have the capability to run computers without a power source, officials say. But if the group's members around the world developed or acquired it, an attack on the power grid would become far more likely, according to cybersecurity experts who spend their time giving stupid quotes for stupid articles.The next two were both on the story about Techdirt being filtered out for kids in Germany as being harmful to minors. First we had someone going by the name "TD regular guess who" noting:
Yeah, but we just go there for the articles.Then we had yet another Anonymous Coward explaining:
In other news, Techdirt readership among German youths is up 42%.I will admit that I was really, really tempted to make my editor's choice comment this hater's comment because it really is amazingly funny and gets funnier and more ridiculous the further you read (summary: it argues that I'm a total idiot, and to make my life miserable, this amazing individual might "buy" this blog just to make me suffer -- I should probably just send him our starting price), but I thought that might just be funny to me. So, instead, we'll go with yet another Anonymous Coward comment, explaining how Universal Music withholding millions from Eminem royalties to pay for Eminem's lawsuit against Universal Music made sense:
Of course, some of those looking for freaky German porn were notably confused.
What's the problem with charging the artist for legal fees you incur defending against lawsuits filed by the artist for not paying the artist?And now that we know the secret business model, I'll leave you and get ready for the upcoming week...
Lets compare this to a similar situation, to show Universal Music's point.
-Universal Music hires you as an employee paid at the end of each month, with a $120,000 dollars a year salary.
-At the end of the month Universal Music pays you only $4,000 before taxes, not the $10,000 you were expecting, so you sue Universal Music.
-As the lawsuit continues you continue working for Universal music for an entire year, getting paid $4,000 dollars each month
-You win an expensive lawsuit against Universal Music, so Universal Music gives you an accounting statement saying you're owed $72,000 in back salary. But Universal's statement also says it cost them $60,000 to defend against your lawsuit (and that's not counting the $20,000 you spent on your own lawyer in that lawsuit), so Universal writes you a check for $12,000 and calls it even.
You see, perfectly reasonable of Universal Music! It's also a darn convenient way to get around pesky minimum wage laws, thanks to a little bit of creativity. Creativity is good! If we punish Universal Music for their creativity then the artists Universal Music represents won't be motivated to create new music!


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Physiotherapy London is one of the leading Physiotherapy and Sports Injury clinics in London.
Located directly opposite Westferry DLR, we're also only a very short walk from Canary Wharf. At our Canary Wharf clinic our Physios specialise in treating back pain and sports injuries. Whether you're an office worker, athlete, or weekend warrior, we will help get you back on the road to recovery.
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The Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) is an independent foundation that accelerates sustainable trade by building impact-oriented coalitions of front-running companies, civil society organizations, governments and other stakeholders. Funded through a €130 million grant by Dutch, Danish and Swiss governments, it started in 2008.
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As a result of their collaboration with Accenture Strategy, IDH and the TWG have a comprehensive overview of how traceability technology solutions can help overcome the challenges associated with implementing traceability in palm oil.


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Tagged: Dots
Nieman Predictions For Journalism 2014: 'Connecting The Dots'
Thanks, Joshua Benton, for including me in what has become an annual tradition at Nieman Journalism Lab.
One of the most popular new games of 2013 was an addictive mobile app called Dots: A Game About Connecting from Betaworks. It's deceptively simple: a white board full of evenly spaced colored dots worth points when connected in a short amount of time. You can play instantly without reading the rules, or you can get immersive and obsessively strategic. You can play against yourself or against an expanding universe. You can play for free or you can buy ways to improve your game — but the choice is up to each player: earn your way to advancement or pay for it.
The game launched on iOS in May and had a million users within days. Now also on Android, it passed 15 million installs in November. By early fall, it had been played a billion times.
For the media in 2014, connecting the dots has to be more than a game. We have to connect the fragments of information that flood the zone daily. We have to connect with our communities. We have to connect with each other.
Please continue reading at the Lab, where you can find an abundance of thought about the year ahead from many people smarter than me.


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DiabetesJune 2004
By Lyle MacWilliam, BSc, MSc, FP
Almost everyone knows someone who has diabetes. An estimated 18.2 million Americans and 2 million Canadians, over 6% of each nation's population, have been diagnosed with diabetes.1,2 Millions more have the disease and are unaware of it.
The World Health Organization estimates that by 2025, the number of people with diabetes will reach 300 million—a staggering 122% increase in less than 30 years.3 At the dawn of the third millennium and 83 years after the discovery of insulin, "we are still grappling with the enormous complexity of a disease process in which almost every aspect of the body's metabolism goes awry."4
Diabetes is now recognized as the sixth leading cause of death and disability in the US. Its associated health care costs have spiked dramatically, more than doubling from $44 billion to $92 billion from 1997 to 2002. In Canada, diabetes treatment now consumes 15% of the national health care budget. Today, diabetes accounts for 28% of all new cases of kidney disease in Canada, and is a primary cause of adult blindness, non-trauma-related limb amputations, and major cardiovascular events.5
The disease exhibits a strong ethnic bias: Native Americans, Hispanic-Latino Americans, and African-Americans show an increased prevalence compared to the non-Hispanic white population. Unknown in Canada's aboriginal community until recently, type II diabetes has undergone exponential growth. Within the next two decades, 27% of Canada's First Nations (native) peoples are expected to develop the disease.5
Epidemiological data from elsewhere mirror the North American situation. Within the next 30 years, diabetes is projected to soar by almost 50% in Great Britain, 72-78% in New Zealand and Australia, and a staggering 184% in Mexico.6
Diabetes is often misunderstood as a simple sugar imbalance that can be readily corrected through medical intervention. In truth, it is a complex metabolic disorder in which a confluence of social, behavioral, dietary, and lifestyle factors unmask an underlying genetic susceptibility. The disease has serious implications for vision, cardiovascular health, and kidney and neural functions. Its expression largely depends on lifestyle issues, including diet, weight management, and physical exercise—a multifaceted combination of factors that makes treatment complex and
The Driver: Type II Diabetes
Over 90% of diabetics are type II, and it is the rapid increase in this form of the disease that is propelling the global increase in all diabetes cases. While diabetes exhibits a strong hereditary component, its rate of increase is too great to be a consequence of increased gene frequency. Instead, evidence points toward the combined influences of lifestyle, dietary, and environmental factors.7
An Emerging Epidemic: Diabetes and Children
Obesity is a hallmark of the disease. A predisposition toward visceral obesity (deposition of abdominal fat) is associated with increased insulin resistance and contributes to its early onset.9 This may explain why 85% of American children who develop type II diabetes are overweight or obese at the time of diagnosis. According to Dr. Arlan Rosenbloom, chair of the American Diabetes Association Consensus Panel, "Type II diabetes in children is an emerging epidemic."
Insulin Resistance: the Silent Stalker
The onset of insulin resistance is characterized by a host of related symptoms, including:
The syndrome is particularly alarming in children and adolescents because the changes, which in adults are usually spread over a number of years, are compressed into a few short years in young teens.10 The longer a person has the disease, the greater the likelihood of developing long-term disabilities. Unfortunately, physicians are now seeing more young people prematurely develop these life-threatening complications.
The prognosis is not encouraging: approximately one-third to one-half of those diagnosed with insulin resistance will develop diabetes. Of those, two-thirds will eventually die of cardiovascular complications. Compared to non-diabetics, adult diabetics are almost twice as likely to have asthma, three times more likely to have hypertension and heart disease, and four times more likely to suffer a stroke.11
Clearly, early detection of the disease is paramount.
A Delicate Balance
When blood sugar levels are low, or during times of stress, liver glycogen stores are quickly converted back to glucose by the action of glucagon, another pancreatic hormone. Glucagon also encourages the breakdown of fat in adipose tissue to glycerol and fatty acids. The liver reconverts these to glucose, releasing it into the blood. Through this intricate balancing act, insulin and glucagon perform a central role in regulating the body's blood-sugar level.
Rising insulin resistance disrupts this balance when the normal levels of insulin no longer unlock the cellular "doors." The beta cells of the pancreas, in a futile attempt to restore homeostasis, shift into "overdrive" and begin pumping out ever-increasing amounts of insulin. Chronically high levels of insulin further "desensitize" the cellular receptors, leading to even greater insulin resistance. A vicious and damaging cycle ensues—the genesis of type II
The Mechanism of Onset
McGarry presents a compelling case that the ectopic accumulation of fat in muscle and other peripheral tissues is intimately involved with the onset of insulin resistance and the gradual collapse of pancreatic beta cell function.4 Insulin sensitivity can fall dramatically without the appearance of diabetes, as long as the pancreatic beta cells compensate. It is their inevitable demise (possibly due to lipotoxicity) that leads to increased hyperglycemia, a further rise in blood lipids, and an ever-greater accumulation of fat in the muscle cell. Increasing hyperlipidemia (high blood lipids) in turn exacerbates insulin resistance and degrades liver function.


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From last 4 year i have been using my Yamaha PSR 1500, now i want to upgrade my keyboard. So for my budget i am planning to purchase either Yamaha PSR s910 or MOX6/8. Please suggest which one would be better option.
I am looking for
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