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Geeske Joel might have come to bridge at a late age for a competitor, but that hasn't stopped her from reaching the top. Joel, 48, and her team won the fall North American Bridge Championships board-a-match team competition last Sunday (Dec. 4). The three-day event was held in Seattle, Wash., and is sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League.
Joel, a Palo Alto resident, captained the team of six, which includes Tobi Sokolow of Austin, Texas, Jill Levin of Henderson, Nev., Jill Meyers of Santa Monica, Janice Seamon-Molson of Hollywood, Fla., and Debbie Rosenberg of Cupertino.
Considered the world's most challenging card game, bridge attracts players of all ages and all walks of life, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and tennis champ Martina Navratilova. Joel said the game's complexity and its continual challenge are draws. Bridge offers growth on many levels, she said. It is a game of strategy and spatial relationships; a game of anticipating one's partner's thinking and a game of logic and of memory, she said.
"It's an incredibly challenging game. There is never an end to the puzzle. The beauty of the game is you can play it at any level and find it challenging and interesting. If you like challenges, there's nothing better," she said.
Joel said she came to the game just eight years ago, but that hasn't stopped her from successfully competing.
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Before bridge, she played soccer, got a doctorate in biological sciences from Stanford University and bred Leonberger dogs, a large breed from Germany, according to her United States Bridge Federation profile.
But now most of her time is spent perfecting her bridge skills, she said.
"My husband claims I put in 40 to 50 hours a week. I don't think it's that much, but it's a lot of hours. It has become what I do -- and I love it," she said.
Joel played chess in high school. A math teacher at the time told her she should play bridge, she said. But she didn't begin for at least 20 years, preferring other card games and puzzles. It was through a local group playing duplicate bridge that she became hooked. The 900-member Palo Alto Bridge Club accepts all levels of players. Joel's interest and skill "catapulted," she said.
These days, one doesn't have to sit around a card table, she said. Her bridge instructor lived in New York, so Joel conducted her lessons online.
"It doesn't matter where you live, you can teach and play," she said. But she met her team partner, Tobi Sokolow, at a face-to-face tournament in San Francisco at the first national championship she ever attended. She and Sokolow practice through the Internet, she said. All of the women on her team have won national competitions, according to the American Contract Bridge League. Sokolow has won many championships, Joel said.
The women came in 10th when they started out in San Francisco. Joel's team has played together for 2 1/2 years, and the last two tournaments they've played they came in second place.
"We finally won by a very good margin," she said, sounding satisfied.
Joel thinks bridge should be taught in schools, with its important skill-building lessons. And despite its reputation for complexity, Joel said bridge offers something for everyone. Bridge is a game that is enduring, she said.
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The Palo Alto Bridge Club is also getting a permanent home in Mountain View, where a wing at the I.F.E.S. Portuguese Society is being renovated, she said. The club offers classes, mentoring and a lecture series.


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This year's mascot soccer game pitted sports team mascots against a team made up of Crew sponsor mascots. The rosters were as follows:
Team Mascots: Crew Cat, Stinger (CBJ), Rosie Red and Mr. Red (Cincinnati Reds), Krash (Clippers), Sir C.C. and Moondog (Cleveland Cavaliers.)
Photo by Sam Fahmi
Sponsor Mascots: Biscuit and Gravy (Bob Evans), B.C. (Roosters), Honey Bee (Lifeline), Pepe the Penguin (Kroger), Sub Dude (Subway), Cozy Cat (Columbia Gas), and Kona (Kona Ice.)
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The end result was a 5-1 shellacking by the team mascots. The scoring summary:
TM: Crew Cat (unassisted)
TM: Stinger (unassisted)
TM: Sir C.C. (Stinger)
SM: Sub Dude (unassisted)
TM: Stinger (Moondog)
TM: Mr. Red (Moondog)
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Here are some notes and observations as I watched the game with my buddies Flick and Z-man. Flick dominates this because his voice was loud enough to cut through the crowd noise.
* Flick: "We brought Mr. Red and Rosie Red, but we didn't bring Mr. Redleg because he's too busy laughing at the Pirates."
Me: "Are Mr. Red and Rosie Red married?"
Flick: "No, but they have the same last name. They're brother and sister."
* Flick: "How is Stinger allowed to play? Isn't he locked out?"
* Flick: "Hey Moondog! Stop touching Mr. Red! You're going to put your stink on him! I don't want your Cavaliers stink on him!"
* Z-man: "I like the Cleveland Cavaliers dog there. He's got a small head, so he can see well, and he's got pretty normal footwear. All of those corporate guys are horrible. How can they even see anything?"
* Me, as Stinger celebrated a goal: "Why is stinger running around doing airplane wings when he already has wings of his own?"
* Flick, upon watching Mr. Red knock down Sub Dude by kicking the ball off his face: "And the Reds go high and inside! That was like Homer Bailey brushing back that fat catcher, McHenry."
* Flick: "The bee is from Lifeline, which is weird since bees give up their lives for their queen."
* Flick: "Pepe's just hanging out. It's too hot out for a penguin."
* Flick, upon Mr. Red putting the team mascots ahead 5-1: "If there's one thing the Reds can do, it's close out a game."
*Flick, in summary: "Corporate mascots can't compete. Pepe's stacking ice cream all day. Rooster's Guy, I don't know if he runs the store or spends all day scared that he's going to be the next meal. The Bob Evans guys are named Biscuits & Gravy—not exactly a name you'd associate with a pregame meal."
If you want some slow-motion highlights with music—and who wouldn't?— watch here:
After the game, I caught up with Sub Dude, the Subway mascot, for this exclusive interview. I swear I am not making this interview up.
SS: "You took a good whack out there. What was it like playing in the mascot game?"
SD: "That was a great time. I did not realize that the ball was that hard. If I kicked the ball, it hardly moved. I learned I had to kick it with my knee. Then the Reds guy took a point blank shot at my face and knocked me over. Then he gave me CPR, which is what I remembered when I woke up."
Photo by Sam Fahmi
SS: "The sponsor team appeared to be no match for the sports mascots."
SD: "We had a lot of slow people. We didn't have anybody athletic on our team. It was a stacked deck out there."
SS: "Yeah, because the mascots get to train with their teams all the time, whereas the sponsor mascots have other jobs. Like Flick said, Pepe is stacking ice cream all day…"
SD: "At least I had the proper training diet, with all of my Subway subs. We ARE the official training restaurant."
SS: "So what was it like for you down on the field?
SD: "I brought my soccer cleats and the field was perfect. It got hot inside the mascot costume really fast."
SS: "What's next for the sponsor team after this humiliating defeat?"
SD: "We're going to retire for the rest of the year unless the Reds want to bring us to one of the playoff games."
SS: "Wait, do you play mascot baseball too?"
SD: "No. It would be hard. You can't see anything out there."
SS: "It did seem that the sponsor mascot costumes were more of an impediment. You were the only one with normal footwear."
SD: "Pepe's feet are tied together. That's a problem."
SS: "While you had suitable footwear, I think the sandwich part of you probably made things difficult."
SD: "The mascot costume keeps bouncing up and down. Now that I know what it's like to run in it, I would have done a better job tying it down."
SS: "Walk me through the goal, which came after an egregious 40-yard handball goal by the rooster, which I disallowed."
SD: "It was a quick restart by the goal itself, and I was poaching."
Photo by Sam Fahmi
SS: "What do you say to fans of the sponsor team, who are undoubtedly embarrassed by the 5-1 score line?"
SD: "Next year, we'll be in shape for it. We'll be ready."
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Fox Nation and blogger Jim Hoft have attacked President Obama for reportedly watching coverage of the crisis in Egypt on Al Jazeera. They seems to think that means Obama is in league with the terrorists or something.
However, if it's a problem to rely on Al Jazeera, then Fox News itself is perpetuating the problem. That's because Fox News has relied on the both Al Jazeera's live feed and its reporting as can be seen from a couple of stills from Fox over the last week:
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On the February 2 edition of Pajamas TV's Pollywood segment, Lionel Chetwynd, an appointee to President Bush's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and Pajamas Media founder Roger L. Simon agreed that Al Jazeera had the best coverage:
CHETWYND: I finally left Fox to go to Al Jazeera. All the American networks are way behind Al Jazeera. They were on the ground. Obviously, their commentators were plying the new Arabist leftist version that our State Department has adopted in the last three or four days. And that was an insight into what our left really thinks because that's who's on Al Jazeera. But their coverage on the ground was absolutely flawless there and in Jordan. And I had to go to Al Jazeera.
SIMON: I think your right. And secondarily, of the American networks, I regret to say, because I usually don't like them at all, CNN did the best job. Even Piers Morgan who had the execrable Dan Rather on, but Rather knew more about Mubarak than most of these clowns do.
CHETWYND: For whatever reason, Fox did not rely on Sky. Whenever they go to "our sister network Sky," their coverage is good because BSkyB in England, which is also a News Corp. enterprise are very good on the ground. For some reason they weren't. I also did a little bit of listening to Voice of America who, you know, were way ahead of the story, months ago, way ahead of our own State Department actually.


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Some years we escape snow in April; some years we don't.
This year was one of the "we don't" years if you were watching carefully Tuesday.
"We had a few flakes coming down around noon today," said Morenci weather observer George Isobar, "although it was barely enough to say that it was snowing."
Many years there's actually stuff on the ground, he said, and the average over the last 30-odd years is about an inch of snow during April.
"That's not exactly an accurate representation," Isobar said. "There were a couple heavy years that skewed the average."
That would be 1982, for example, when 10.3 inches was measured and 1994 when 7.1 inches fell.
"Many years it's nothing but a trace, like today's snow, and, rarely, it's nothing at all for the entire month," he said. "It's supposed to be warming up at least through the start of next week, so maybe we're finished. We've got our trace and we're done with it now. Maybe."
Snowfall wasn't anything too big in March, Isobar said, with a total of 2.1 inches measured. The average for March is about 5.6 inches.
"There are many years when we've had a pretty heavy snowfall in March," he said. "This year nearly all of the snow fell early in the month. In fact, there hasn't been anything measurable since March 11.
"What we had melted pretty fast. There were only two days in the entire month with a measurable amount on the ground."
Total precipitation came in at 2.96 inches, right about at the average.
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"Morning lows were in the teens on 10 days in March," Isobar said, "and that led to a colder than usual month."
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"We should have our first 80° day of the season this month, too," Isobar said, "and probably our first day of the season in which someone is going to complain about how hot it is."
That's something most people are going to welcome.
"The snow may be gone, but it sure seems as though winter is lingering," Isobar said. "When I walked outside Monday morning and it was 60° it felt so balmy and spring-like, but that didn't last long. I wouldn't mind getting that feeling again soon."


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In the most contentious exchange of President Obama's marathon through five Sunday shows, he said it is "not true" that a requirement for individuals to get health insurance under a key reform plan now being debated — a requirement known as an "individual mandate" — amounts to a tax increase.
But he could look it up — in the bill.
Page 29, sentence one of the bill introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) says: "The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax."
The "Chairman's Mark: America's Healthy Future Act of 2009" continues: "If a taxpayer's MAGI is between 100-300 percent of FPL, the excise tax for failing to obtain coverage for an individual in a taxpayer unit (either as a taxpayer or an individual claimed as a dependent) is $750 per year. However, the maximum penalty for the taxpayer unit is $1,500. If a taxpayer's MAGI is above 300 percent of FPL the penalty for failing to obtain coverage for an individual in a taxpayer unit (either as a taxpayer or as an individual claimed as a dependent) is $950 year. However, the maximum penalty amount a family above 300 percent of FPL would pay is $3,800."
Here's the exchange between Obama and George Stephanopoulos of ABC's "This Week," taped Friday at the White House:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Probably the most definitive promise you made in the campaign is that no one in the middle class would get a tax increase on your watch.
OBAMA: Right.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yet this week, Senator Rockefeller and several other Democrats say that this bill by Senator Baucus is a big middle class tax increase.
Do you agree and does that mean you can't sign it?
OBAMA: Well, I don't agree. I think that what they were referring to - and I haven't looked at the quotes. But I think that they were concerned about whether or not this was actually affordable. If you're saying to people, you've got to get health insurance but they can't actually afford it and they have to pay a penalty if they don't get it, then that's a pretty big burden on middle class families. That's a concern I share — making sure that this is affordable.
But the first thing we've got to understand is you've got what is effectively a tax increase taking place on American families right now. The Kaiser Family Foundation report just came out last week. Health care premiums went up 5.5 percent last year, at a time when the rest of the economy, inflation was actually negative. So that is a huge bite out of people's pockets.
And part of what I've been trying to say throughout this campaign - this effort to get health care done — is that if we don't do anything, guaranteed, Americans' costs are going to go up, more people are going to lose health care coverage, the insurance companies are going to continue to prevent people from getting it for pre-existing conditions. Those are all burdens on people who have health insurance right now. And...
STEPHANOPOULOS: That is true, but...
OBAMA: And so -- and so -- just -- just to close the loop on this, the principles I've put forward very clearly, when I spoke to the joint session of Congress, is that we're going to make sure that, number one, if you don't have health insurance, you're going to be able to get affordable health insurance.
Number two, if you have health insurance, we're going to have insurance reforms that give you more security -- you know what you're going to get. You know that if you're paying your premiums, you're actually going to have coverage when you get sick.
Number three, it's going to be deficit neutral -- it's not going to add a dime to the deficit, now or in the future.
Number four, it's going to start driving down our costs over the long-term.
Now, 80 percent of what I'd like to see is actually already in all the various bills that are in Congress. That last 20 percent is tough because we've got to figure out -- making sure that we're paying for it properly, making sure that it really is relief to families who don't have health insurance, making sure that all the various details that are out there line up. And that's going to take some time.
But I think that the effort by the Senate Finance Committee is a serious, strong effort to move an agenda forward. We've seen some positive signs from people who might have been otherwise a little bit shaky on health care, including Republican Olympia Snowe, I think, had some nice things to.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hasn't signed on yet, though.
OBAMA: Hasn't signed on, but has said that this is a legitimate effort to try to solve the problem. What I want to see is that we just keep on working on it over the next several weeks.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about a matter of first principles, though. You mentioned these premium increases.
OBAMA: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But they're not happening as a result of a decision by the government.
OBAMA: Right.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You were against the individual mandate...
OBAMA: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ...during the campaign. Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't
How is that not a tax?
OBAMA: Well, hold on a second, George. Here -- here's what's happening. You and I are both paying $900, on average -- our families -- in higher premiums because of uncompensated care. Now what I've said is that if you can't afford health insurance, you certainly shouldn't be punished for that. That's just piling on.
If, on the other hand, we're giving tax credits, we've set up an exchange, you are now part of a big pool, we've driven down the costs, we've done everything we can and you actually can afford health insurance, but you've just decided, you know what, I want to take my chances. And then you get hit by a bus and you and I have to pay for the emergency room care, that's...
STEPHANOPOULOS: That may be, but it's still a tax increase.
OBAMA: No. That's not true, George. The -- for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase.
People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But it may be fair, it may be good public policy...
OBAMA: No, but -- but, George, you -- you can't just make up that language and decide that that's called a tax increase. Any...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Here's the...
OBAMA: What -- what -- if I -- if I say that right now your premiums are going to be going up by 5 or 8 or 10 percent next year and you say well, that's not a tax increase; but, on the other hand, if I say that I don't want to have to pay for you not carrying coverage even after I give you tax credits that make it affordable, then...
STEPHANOPOULOS: I -- I don't think I'm making it up. Merriam Webster's Dictionary: Tax -- "a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes."
OBAMA: George, the fact that you looked up Merriam's Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you're stretching a little bit right now. Otherwise, you wouldn't have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition. I mean what...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, no, but...
OBAMA: ...what you're saying is...
STEPHANOPOULOS: I wanted to check for myself. But your critics say it is a tax increase.
OBAMA: My critics say everything is a tax increase. My critics say that I'm taking over every sector of the economy. You know that.
Look, we can have a legitimate debate about whether or not we're going to have an individual mandate or not, but...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you reject that it's a tax increase?
OBAMA: I absolutely reject that notion.


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Fifteen-year-old Audrie Pott passed out drunk at a friend's house, woke up and concluded she had been sexually abused.
In the days that followed, she was shocked to see an explicit photo of herself circulating among her classmates along with emails and text messages about the episode. And she was horrified to discover that her attackers were three of her friends, her family's lawyer says.
Eight days after the party, she hanged herself.
"She pieced together with emails and texts who had done this to her. They were her friends. Her friends!" said family attorney Robert Allard. "That was the worst"
On Thursday, sheriff's officials arrested three 16-year-old boys on suspicion of sexual battery against Audrie, who committed suicide in September. Lawyers for the three, whose names have not been released because they are minors, released a statement Friday asking the public to withhold judgment until their clients can give their side of the story, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
"Much of what has been reported over the last several days is inaccurate. Most disturbing is the attempt to link (Audrie's) suicide to the specific actions of these three boys," the statement from San Jose attorneys Eric Geffon, Alan Lagod and Benjamin Williams reads. "We are hopeful that everyone understands that these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble with the law, are to be regarded as innocent."
The arrests and the details that came spilling out shocked many in this prosperous Silicon Valley suburb of 30,000. And together with two other episodes recently in the news - a suicide in Canada and a rape in Steubenville, Ohio - the case underscored the seeming callousness with which some young people use technology.
"The problem with digital technologies is they can expand the harm that people suffer greatly," said Nancy Willard, an Oregon-based cyberbullying expert and creator of a prevention program for schools.
Allard said Audrie had been drinking at a sleepover at a friend's house, passed out and "woke up to the worst nightmare imaginable." She knew she had been assaulted, he said.
She soon found an abundance of material online about that night, including a picture.
"We are talking about a systematic distributing of a photo involving an intimate body part of hers," Allard said. He said distributing the photo was "equally insidious as the assault."
She also discovered that her attackers were three boys she considered friends - young men in whom she had confided, the lawyer said.
On Facebook, Audrie said the whole school knew what happened, and she complained that her life was ruined - "worst day ever," Allard said.
Her parents did not learn about the assault until after her death, when Audrie's friends approached them, Allard said.
Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told the Mercury News that investigators for her department started looking into the circumstances surrounding Audrie's Sept. 10 suicide in the days immediately following it. A deputy assigned to Saratoga High heard rumors about the sexual assault and possible photographic evidence, and detectives spent months interviewing students and subpoenaing cell phone records, Smith said.
"We still have more interviews to do. We have more phones to get," the sheriff said. "We have good evidence to justify the criminal charges even though the investigation is ongoing."
Family members also believe the attackers tried to destroy evidence. That claim was posted on a Facebook page for a foundation set up in the girl's name.
It didn't provide further details on what type of evidence might have been targeted by the suspects. However, it asked any students with information to come forward.
In Canada, meanwhile, police said Friday they have received new information and are reopening their investigation in the case of 17-year-old suicide victim Rehtaeh Parsons.
Parsons was photographed while being sexually assaulted in 2011 and was then bullied after the photo was shared on the Web, authorities said. Police initially concluded there were no grounds to charge anyone.
In Steubenville, Ohio, two high school football players were convicted last month of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a crime that was recorded on cellphones by students and gossiped about online. The victim herself realized she had been attacked after seeing text messages, a photo of herself naked and a video that mocked her.
The suspects in the Saratoga case were booked into juvenile hall, where they still were being held on Friday.
The news surprised residents of the town.
"People in this town are involved, parents advocate for their kids to get the best education, the best teachers, the best sports," said Jamie Perez, who was walking her baby and her dog on Friday past a coffee shop.
Perez graduated from the local school system, which has one of the top high schools in the state.
Family videos of Audrie show a bright, cheerful girl standing on a cantering horse, boogie boarding at the beach, playing her violin and singing.
Interviewed for her high school newspaper Saratoga Falcon when she started as a freshman in 2011, Audrie was optimistic and said she was looking forward to playing on the soccer team.
"I'm really excited to meet new people; there are a lot more people in high school than in middle school," she said. "However, I'm not looking forward to all the extra homework. Another thing I'm really excited about is that in high school, the dances seem so much more fun."
Allard, who hired two former San Jose police officers to investigate what happened, said Thursday's arrests "reopened a wound" for the girl's family members, and they have gone into seclusion. But they want to see the boys prosecuted as adults and action taken again those who passed the photo around. Her mother, father and step-mother have scheduled a Monday news conference where they plan to discuss how they found out about the attack.
"If anybody was involved in the ruthless forwarding of this information involving an intimate body part of her, we want to make sure they're held accountable," he said.
Associated Press writer Sudhin Thanawala contributed to this report from San Francisco.
On the Web: https://www.audriepottfoundation.com


text: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Professional Component of EMG Now Billable by PTs in MAC Jurisdictions H, L Qualified physical therapists in jurisdictions H and L, under the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Novitas Solutions, now can perform and bill for both the technical and professional components of electromyography (EMG). The MAC's policy revision, which brings it into alignment with national Medicare policy, is the result of APTA's advocacy efforts. Jurisdiction L covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and certain counties of Virginia (Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax); Jurisdiction H covers Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The revisions are to local coverage determinations (LCDs) L29547 and L32723 for nerve conduction studies and EMG. Previously, the LCD policies stated that physical therapists could bill only for the technical component of EMG services. However, APTA sent a reconsideration letter expressing our concerns with the policies and urging Novitas Solutions to revise the language so that it would be consistent with national Medicare policy. APTA staff received correspondence from Novitas Solutions that these LCDs will be revised shortly to allow qualified physical therapists to perform and bill for both the technical and professional components of EMG services. Novitas Solutions has indicated that the updated LCDs will be on its website soon. For questions or more information, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Its Ivors birthday tomorrow, but were going out tonight as He wants to do his own things tomorrow. So hopefully (If he texts me back in time!) were going to Nandos and seeing Scott Pilgram vs The World! Any Nandos fans out there? I always have Chicken Pitta Medium Hot with Sweet Potato mash, So good! Seeing as were doing nothing special, I just threw on a playsuit, which I bought yesterday and thought was a dress, But its super cute as a playsuit too so it wins, as well as my trusty blazer from Topshop. I'm still embracing the middle part, my hair is starting to learn how to stay like it, But I keep unconsciously moving my hair back to its side part when I swoosh my hair around!
Having some serious envy issues over everyone's Models Own hauls! I didn't end up buying in the end as I was finding it too stressful trying to choose some! Im actually pretty gutted! Oh well you win some you loose some. I haven't actually done my nails in a few days, My nails are so ruined from back when I had acrylics, and then to keep changing my press on nails its just made them really thin and rubbish.
Last night Rivers from Weezer tweeted me and I honestly nearly wet myself. Im so gutted that Weezer delcined to be filmed at Reading and Leeds festival, Big love to Greg for ringing me during it so I could enjoy it! The only other "famous" person to tweet me was that guy, Orlando, From the Gap Yah video. Haha. I also hit over 1,000 followers on my Twitter yesterday! Thanks everyone, Y'all to sweet! Im a bit of a twitter addict so I tweet all the time, and reply to most tweets, so come chat!


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COBB Tunning AP-SUB-002 AccessPORT 04-06 Subaru Forester XT 2.5
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The AccessPORT by COBB Tuning, Inc. is a handheld programmer that allows you to unlock your vehicle's hidden potential by reprogramming the stock Engine Control Unit (ECU).
With a short and guided installation process you can upgrade the ECU in your car from stock to one of our performance oriented tuning maps. The unit uses the OBD-2 diagnostic port, and requires no cutting, wiring, or other such modifications, simply plug-and-play.
The crowning function of the AccessPORT is COBB's unique 'Real-Time' mapping, which allows you to change the tuning data within seconds, as opposed to minutes. Simply park, switch realtime, and resume driving, it's literally that easy.
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The following statement is from the Hope College Board of Trustees following their May 6-7, 2010 meeting.
The statement speaks to actions to four petitions from a Hope College alumni group and other groups identifying themselves as Hope is Ready, Holland is Ready, and Room for All.
Along with the above Board actions, the Trustees endorsed the following statement in the college's communication with its various constituencies:
The college's current position on homosexuality is based on its interpretation of scripture. It is recognized that well-intentioned Christians may disagree on scriptural interpretation. Still, humbly and respectfully, the college aligns itself in its interpretation with its founding denomination, the Reformed Church in America, the orthodox Christian Church throughout the ages, and other Christian colleges and universities.
Written by then President John H. Jacobson, August 16, 1995
Approved by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees
as the official position and policy of Hope College March 23, 2001
"Hope College, like its founding denomination, the Reformed Church in America, distinguishes between homosexual orientation and homosexual behavior or practice. Not all people who have a homosexual orientation engage in homosexual practices and not all people who engage in homosexual practices have a homosexual orientation. The witness of Scripture is firm in rejecting the moral acceptability of homosexual behavior while affirming the responsibility of Christians to be fair to and accepting of persons with a homosexual orientation.
"The College does not condone the commission of homosexual acts. Neither does it condone organizations or activities that aim to vindicate the moral acceptability of homosexual acts, or that suggest by their manner of presenting themselves that they have that aim in view. Specifically, the College will not provide recognition or financial or logistical support for organizations or groups whose purposes include the advocacy or moral legitimation of homosexual behavior.
"The College does support fair and kind treatment for people with a homosexual orientation. It likewise supports the scholarly examination and discussion of all the issues surrounding the phenomenon of homosexuality. The College affirms the right of students and faculty to propound and defend ideas that may be at variance with the institutional position of the College. Persons expressing such views are expected to take care not to attribute those views to the College either by direct statement or by intimation."


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The Duchess of Cambridge is the subject of yet another royal photo scandal.
The palace is upset after Italian magazine Chi, the same outlet that printed the controversial topless sun-bathing pics of the Duchess of Cambridge in September, published photos of Prince William's pregnant wife in a bikini while the couple are currently on vacation in Mustique.
"We are disappointed that photographs of the Duke and Duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas," the palace said in a statement about the baby bump photos. "This is a clear breach of the couple's right to privacy."
U.S. & World
All the details on Will and Kate's Mustique getaway
The paparazzi pic reportedly show the 31-year-old mom-to-be strolling with her husband on the beach of the secluded Caribbean island.
The new photo scandal comes almost five months after Chi and its French sister publication Closer printed snapshots of Middleton sun-bathing topless on vacation in Provence, France. The couple filed a criminal complaint against Closer soon after. No word if the royals will take any legal action against Chi this time around.
Chi has a long history of printing salacious photos. In 2006, they published pics of Princess Diana's body after the 1997 car crash that killed her.


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Mike Conley drove for a layup with 0.6 seconds left, and the Memphis Grizzlies rallied to beat the San Antonio Spurs 92-90 Monday night for their third straight victory.
The Grizzlies matched their franchise record with their 50th win this season, and they won their 12th straight at home. They pulled out a win in a game where Conley's bucket gave them their first lead since 18-16 late in the first quarter.
Conley scored the final five points and finished with 23. Jerryd Bayless had 17 points, Marc Gasol 16, Zach Randolph 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Tayshaun Prince had 11 points.
Tony Parker had 25 points for the Spurs. Parker tried to beat the buzzer with a jumper that was too late.
Tiago Splitter added 13 points and 11 rebounds for San Antonio, who was not at full strength playing its second game in two nights. The Spurs left Kawhi Leonard at home with a sore left knee. Manu Ginobili is out at least three weeks with a strained right hamstring, and Tim Duncan also did not play after playing 35 minutes in Sunday night's 88-86 loss to Miami.
With the Spurs missing three of their top four scorers, Memphis managed to split the season series, with both teams winning on their home courts. The Grizzlies are pushing to start the postseason on their home court in a tight squeeze in the Western Conference standings with Denver and the Clippers.
Conley won the game but he also went without a steal. That snapped his steal streak at 64 games, which had been the longest active streak in the NBA.
The Grizzlies edged San Antonio in points in the paint 40-36 and outscored the Spurs 30-22 in the fourth quarter.
San Antonio opened the game missing its first eight shots. The Grizzlies jumped out to a nine-point lead before the Spurs suddenly started hitting. The Spurs connected on 13 of their next 17 shots and wound up leading by as much as nine themselves with a 44-37 lead at halftime. The Spurs went up by as much as 50-39 in the third quarter.
Bayless scored eight in the fourth quarter in helping Memphis whittle away at the Spurs' lead. The Grizzlies tied it up for the sixth and final time at 90 on a 3-pointer by Conley with 30 seconds left. Parker had a chance to put the Spurs ahead but missed a 14-footer with 7.9 seconds left.
That set up Conley's winning bucket, as he drove past Danny Green to give Memphis its first lead since 55 seconds left in the first quarter.
Notes: Only Michael Jordan and Chris Paul have had steals streaks as long as Conley's since the Grizzlies guard was born in October 1987. ... The Grizzlies won 50 games in 2003-04. ... Parker's had double figures in 56 straight games. ... The Spurs' last four losses came when they didn't score 100 points, and they average 104 points a game. ... The Grizzlies now are 21-8 since trading for Prince, Ed Davis and Austin Daye on Jan. 30.


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Beautiful Brains
August 02, 2013
Some of the most visually striking research into neural networks is being done here. Assistant Professor of Biology Tamily Weissman-Unni mentors students as they use fluorescing neurons to observe how brains behave.
A participant in the international effort to build a complete wiring diagram of the brain, Weissman-Unni came to Lewis & Clark from Harvard. "I'm so impressed with the students here; they truly wish to be challenged and go in-depth, not just earn a grade," says Weissman-Unni. "They are easily as smart and talented as students I worked with at Harvard."
The Amazing Technicolor Brain
Learn more about the work of Weissman-Unni and her students in The Chronicle Magazine.
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Spain took a key first step Tuesday toward enshrining bullfighting as a key part of the nation's cultural heritage, a move that could roll back a ban on the on the blood-soaked pageants in the northeastern region of Catalonia.
Lawmakers in Parliament accepted a petition from bullfight supporters asking for the special status in a 180-40 vote that included 107 abstentions.
A parliamentary cultural commission will now begin work on proposed legislation over the coming months with expectations that it will go to a vote this year. In theory, a new law giving bullfights the protection would take precedence over regional government laws and could be used to overturn the Catalonia ban that went into effect last year.
The petition, promoted by the Federation of Bullfighting Entities of Catalonia following the ban, received 590,000 signatures of support - included among them those of now Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Nobel winning author Mario Vargas Llosa.
Popular initiatives need 500,000 signatures to be considered by Parliament.
Bullfighting is no longer as popular in Spain as it was in the past mainly because of the country's crushing economic crisis and changing tastes. Some 2,000 fights are still held yearly although crowd attendances have fallen drastically.
In practice, the Catalonian ban had little impact because bullfighting had declined drastically in popularity.
Even though Catalonia banned bullfights in rings, regional lawmakers passed separate legislation protecting "correbous," small town fiestas in which flaming balls of wax or fireworks are attached to the horns of bulls. Released in town squares or rings, the frightened bulls charge, taunted and teased by boisterous crowds.
But the bullfight ban irked Spaniards, with many seeing it more as an intentional affront by Catalonian nationalists opposed to Spain as a country rather than a move to protect animals.
Catalonia, whose capital is Barcelona, prides itself on its distinct identity. Its national government has recently begun moves toward staging a pro-independence referendum, something which Spain says is unconstitutional and will be opposed.
Prior to Catalonia, bullfighting was outlawed in 1991 in the Canary Islands region, but the fights were never popular there.
Alan Clendenning contributed from Madrid.


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This Makes You Think Harder About Choices and What Really Matters.
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Short Story by: Timesoftrouble
Two Choices
What would you do?.....you make the choice.
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.
After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:
'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.
Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do.
He cannot understand things as other children do.
Where is the natural order of things in my son?'
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay,
who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world,
an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself,
and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'
Then he told the following story:
Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball.
Shay asked, do you think they'll let me play?'
I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team,
but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play,
it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging
and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
I approached one of the boys on the field and asked
(not expecting much) if Shay could play.
The boy looked around for guidance and said,
'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning.
I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.'
Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt.
I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart.
The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.
In the bottom of the eighth inning,
Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning,
Shay put on a glove and played in the right field.
Even though no hits came his way,
he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field,
grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.
In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again.
Now, with two outs and the bases loaded,
the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?
Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat.
Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible
because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly,
much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate,
the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting
winning aside for this moment in Shay's life,
moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so
Shay could at least make contact...
The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.
As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.
Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates.
Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, Shay, run to first! Run to first!'
Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.
He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!'
Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second,
gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.
By the time Shay rounded towards second base,
the right fielder had the ball.
The smallest guy on their team now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.
He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag,
but he understood the pitcher's intentions
so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and
far over the third-baseman's head.
Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop
ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base,
and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!'
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams,
and the spectators, were on their feet screaming,
'Shay, run home! Run home!'
Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was
cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won
the game for his team.
'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down
his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece
of true love and humanity into this world'.
Shay didn't make it to another summer.
He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero
and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing
his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
People all send thousands of quotes, jokes or whatever through the e-mail without
a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages
about life's deep choices, people hesitate.
The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through
cyberspace, but public discussion about genuine heartfelt decency is too often
suppressed in our schools, religions and workplaces.
If you're thinking about forwarding these important and very meaningful words, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the 'appropriate' ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference in the lives of others, because when we care and do what is right, their heart will retain what was done for them while doing something for someone else; and in the same way, God's kingdom will be built upon love as the base for all things – and never this loveless world as it now is under the rule of man.
We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.'
So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:
Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up
those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
God says every individual shall be judged by how they treat others,
and especially those least fortunate amongst them.
Remember always that only God knows you so well that He even knows the intent of your heart regardless of what your words may say; and we are to love all others as ourselves. Do you in deed being more than words? 1 John 3:14-17 is how God sees the many, does your love show as the few, or are you one of the many?
I have the handicap of a small part of my brain that had to be removed over twenty years ago from a head injury; therefore I have no income, no pension and no Social Security whatsoever with a very difficult life.
Yet all that I truly care about is following our Lord and loving others. Yet no one has shown any care whatsoever from churches or religious websites over the past six years of me only searching for some genuine spiritual friendship through genuine brothers and sisters; yet to this day have found none other than the few God has made known when my wife and I were deep in dire straits.
I have over 20 years with God alone and through these past six years my life has become a direct student with only His word and no interferences from outside sources or human beliefs, therefore through my strong unwavering faith He supplies my survival through making me dependant on only Him who can do all things.
So what is the result? God has been using me to show the world of professing Christianity that genuine love in the heart towards others is missing. Not in all, but in the vast majority. All that any person of God needs to do is read Christ new commandment in John 13:34 knowing that love is a fruit. Read John 15:1-6. Now read 1 Corinthians 13 to realize just how important love is to God above all else. Now you can close with Revelation 22:14 while asking yourself if God can see the commanded love within your heart for others. Heartfelt love is actions beyond words, after all was not the crucifixion of our Lord for all humanity an action through Love?
The cruellest actions ever against me through 57 years of life have been through the harsh and hateful judgmental words of brethren, and that's love?
And when the words of our Lord deliver the message on how Satan has deceived this entire world, this world does not believe God's own words; and when truth comes to all the teachers of darkness, they say Satan is attacking through the individual claiming to be God's messenger using God's own words whereas the accuser uses his own words which come from the psychological input of Satan himself who is the father of lies and prince and power of the air who continually works in all God's children of disobedience worldwide.
"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (Ephesians 2:2)
All religious people will say they are saved and forgiven, whereas the words of our Lord say this;
"And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; (Hebrews 5:9)
Salvation is a free gift from God requiring no works; however, eternal salvation requires the diligence of having faith in every word of God while working always as miner seeking silver and searching for hid treasure in order to gain the fear of the Lord which understands God.
Say you're not disobedient? Look at Christ as you're only Head while asking if you follow as written, or the ways of humanity being of this world.
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Thank you Christina, and being you became moved by the message has a great meaning because you are a special person with a heart; but very sadly the majority in this troubled world have plenty of kind words that never make it past their tongue as if action with deed is pushing them to far; especially religious people overflowing with lip love that never goes any further, and I have six years of seeing and experiencing exactly how God sees them all while even telling them His own words they refuse to believe. Please take care my friend; and I know God is blessing you in different ways for all you have gone through while still keeping your faith.
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Dorothy tells us, "Science fascinated me when I was young. I wanted to understand how the universe worked, what made things tick. I also enjoyed making things, especially books and small toys. I lost the academic thread of science somewhere between physics and calculus but sublimated my scientific desires into the making of artist's books. This book recalls in verse my experiences as a young scientist: the early lure of bugs, the shining world of astronomy, experiments in magnetism, and biology with its seductive taxonomy."
This CD Edition is one of five excerpt editions derived from the deluxe Memories of Science book, which continues to be one of our most popular books ever! This edition has the full text of the original edition in a boustrophedon booklet which can be removed from its case and unfolded to reveal, on the reverse, Susan Hunt Yule's illustrated star maps from the Astronomy pop-up. It also has one of the five letterpress pop-ups from the original edition. Its centerpiece is the audio CD of the text of the book set to music by Doug Yule (formerly of the Velvet Underground and now a maker and player of violins) and performed by Big Red Dog.
You can see the original Memories of Science edition here.
Additional Information
|Astronomy Memories of Science (CD Edition)
|Dorothy A. Yule
|Press Name/Publisher
|Left Coast Press
|Oakland, CA
|Additional Contributors
|Doug Yule (music, performance), Susan Hunt Yule (star map illustration), Big Red Dog - Doug Yule, Tom Collicott, Cary Lung, Dan Yule (performance), Jim Parkinson (logo design)
|Printing/ Reproduction Process
|Digitally printed with one letterpress pop-up
|Number of Images/ Illustrations
|9 illustrations: star map illustration, pop-up illustration, frontispiece and six icons in booklet
|Book Structure/ Binding Method
|Case-bound book with removable boustrophedon booklet; accompanied by an audio CD
|Medium/ Materials
|Embroidery on felt, Dresden moon, threads and brass charms (depending on pop-up)
|Paper Stock
|Mohawk Superfine 65-pound smooth cover and 80-pound eggshell cover
|Number of Pages
|20 pages
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WSJ – Updated March 27, 2013, 7:06 p.m. ET
Can the Tablet Please Take Your Order Now?
As Wages Rise, Employers Consider Replacing Workers With Technology; Burger-Flipping Robot May Be on Horizon
By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN and ANGUS LOTEN
Carla Hesseltine is considering buying a few tablet devices for her bakery so customers can place orders for her signature M&M cupcakes on their own, straight from the counter.
The reason: She fears the $7.25 an hour that she currently pays her 10 customer-service employees, mostly college students, could rise, perhaps to $9 an hour under a pledge by President Barack Obama earlier this month.
In order for her Just Cupcakes LLC to remain profitable in the face of higher expected labor costs, Ms. Hesseltine believes the customer-ordering process "would have to be more automated" at the Virginia Beach, Va., chain, which has two strip-mall locations as well as a food van. Thus, she could eliminate the 10 workers who currently ask customers what they would like to eat.
Matt Eich for The Wall Street Journal
Customers at Just Cupcakes, a Virginia Beach, Va., bakery, may be asked to use self-service tablets, helping owner Carla Hesseltine cut labor costs.
Small-business owners have long griped that increases in the minimum wage hurt their bottom lines by forcing them to spend more on payroll, related taxes and benefits. The president's proposal is unlikely to pass, yet many business owners nonetheless feel threatened having seen the minimum wage increase in nearly every state in the past six years.
Some owners say they now see a possible solution to the problem: replacing workers with new and cheaper technologies designed to help employers simplify operations.
Hardware and software prices have come down in the past decade, making them more affordable to small firms. For example, the average price of a tablet—the kind Ms. Hesseltine is looking into—dropped to $394 by the end of 2012 from more than $1,330 three years earlier, according to IHS, a market research firm.
The combined cost of two such tablets, plus a customized application for displaying products with descriptions and processing orders, ranges from $5,000 to $15,000 to implement. But in recent years, online app-building tools have become available at substantially lower costs.
Unlike major corporations, which can often absorb increases in labor costs, small-business owners typically have few options for coping with higher wages, particularly when the economy is weak. They can raise prices only so much without decreasing sales, and many have already done so because of higher operating costs, such as commodity and gas prices and health-care premiums.
Supporters of the president's proposal argue that the federal minimum wage is long overdue for an upgrade and that a higher rate would provide residual benefits, such as a reduction in turnover and increased productivity. Before rising to $5.85 in 2008, the federal minimum wage held steady at $5.15 for a decade.
Twenty-six states have a minimum wage equal to or lower than the current federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. And 19 states, plus the District of Columbia, require employers to pay an even higher minimum wage, with Washington requiring the greatest amount, $9.19 an hour, followed by Oregon's minimum of $8.95 an hour. Ten states index their minimum wages to keep pace with inflation; for instance, Arizona, Missouri and Vermont raised their minimum wages earlier this year.
In all, one-third of low-wage workers are employed by businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to estimates by the National Employment Law Project, an organized-labor-backed advocacy group for low-wage workers.
Mike Reis, 43 years old, who earns $7.25 an hour as a sales clerk at Hobby Works in Rockville, Md., says he's not worried about losing his job if the minimum wage goes up. "In retail, it's not like you can get a machine to replace someone on the floor," he says. But he is worried about having his hours cut back and ending up with less cash in his pockets, he adds.
Just how many small firms will turn to technology to replace jobs in the face of a wage increase isn't clear. Many studies about the effects of higher wages on overall employment tend to be politicized, clashing over whether the benefits of higher paid workers outweigh the costs of having fewer low-wage jobs.
To support President Obama's case for an increase in the minimum wage, the White House cites a 2009 academic study that says any adverse employment effect from such would be of a small and possibly irrelevant magnitude. The president's 2013 report, released this month, further states that "even with the tax relief we've put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line."
Owners of small firms tend to wear a lot of hats, but might not have the know-how to operate complicated technologies. Even simple technologies, such as tablets, bring other costs, including implementation, maintenance upgrades and repair.
Tarang Gosalia, of Cambridge, Mass., hopes he can get away with having fewer employees waiting on customers at the three hair-salon franchises and one frozen-yogurt outlet he owns by using Square, a three-year-old technology brand designed to streamline credit-card transactions. He is planning to test it out starting in June to see if it will make accepting payments easier and faster for his staffers—and therefore allow him to downsize. About 70% of the 35 employees who work for his combined businesses currently earn $8 an hour, the minimum pay required in his state. Raising prices to offset the higher payroll costs strikes him as too risky, because he worries his sales may suffer.
Some entrepreneurs see a promising market in selling technologies to small businesses that might help them to streamline operations and do away with low-wage workers, or retrain them for higher-skilled jobs. An automatic hamburger flipper currently in development could replace low-wage line cooks at a beachside burger joint, for example. A $22,000 six-foot-tall robot with flexible arms, a face screen and rolling pedestal might replace low-wage workers at small manufacturing firms that can't afford traditional automation. The robot would likely require an employee to program it.
There are significant downsides to using technology to replace low-wage workers, too. At small firms, many employees tend to work a variety of tasks, such as answering customer questions, mopping floors and setting up displays.
Ms. Hesseltine got the idea for using touch-screen technology to eliminate most or all of her minimum-wage customer-service staff after seeing a nearby juice business do something similar. She figures she could install tablet devices that would display photos of her cupcakes, which she sells for $3 apiece, and their ingredients.
Customers could scroll through the options and select what they want, rather than have a customer-service worker jot down their order on a piece of paper and pass that along to another employee who fills it.
Ms. Hesseltine says she hopes her son, a 27-year-old computer engineer, will be able to do some of the setup work for free.
—Emily Maltby
contributed to this article.
Write to Sarah E. Needleman at firstname.lastname@example.com and Angus Loten at firstname.lastname@example.com
A version of this article appeared March 28, 2013, on page B10 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Can the Tablet Please Take Your Order Now?.


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When BEEF magazine and Elanco Animal Health partnered up to present the first National Stocker Award competition four years ago, the primary hope was to highlight the importance of the stocker industry, recognize leading stocker operators, and give stocker producers an opportunity to learn from their peers. Turns out, the process is also helping participants learn more about their own operations.
"I encourage stocker operators to participate in this contest. The application process really makes you sit down and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your business in a new light. We're privileged to have won and we know there are a lot of other top operations out there who can submit applications reflective of their outstanding efforts," says John Paul Pendergrass of Pendergrass Cattle Company, Inc. at Charleston, AR. He and his dad, John Frank, were named the National Stocker Award winner in 2008.
This year's contest, the nomination deadline for which is May 1, offers the same opportunity, though perhaps more simply. Contest organizers explain the application has been streamlined, and only finalists will be asked to submit profit metrics for up to five groups of calves.
The winner receives $5,000 cash and an expense-paid trip to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio next year, courtesy of Elanco Animal Health. The winner also receives an expense-paid trip to the BEEF Quality Summit in St. Joseph, MO, courtesy of BEEF magazine. Two runner-ups will each receive $1,000 cash from Elanco.
So, sharpen your pencils and plan to participate. Get your nominations in by May 1. Application forms and a sample application are available at www.nationalstockeraward.com.


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Plus One Lap used to be all about cyclocross, now it's my dumping grounds for anything cycling.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Cheap Weight Tip #13: Campy lever mod
Rachel sent in this tip:
I just recently discovered your site off a link from race.cx I have really enjoyed reading through the site. You have some great content.
Here's a tip for the weight savvy 'crosser...
If riding Campy with a single chain ring, you can easily convert a regular ergo lever into a lighter weight and cheaper alternative than buying a Record brake lever. (which are the only brake levers currently available from Campy.) Of course you could also use a cheap aero lever from Cane Creek which has the same hood shape, but why ditch the Campy if you don't have to?
Remove all of the shifter gut as well as the thumb lever. I used a 5mm spacer and cut out a chunk so that it fit nicely in the spot where the thumb lever once went. If you're really a fanatic, you could drill the spacer. If you aren't particular about how it feels, just leave it empty for an even lighter set-up.
Anyhow, make sure the altered spacer fits in nicely, and then cover it with electrical tape. Wrap the remaining area around the shifter pod with double-sided tape or carpet seam tape for ultimate hold. The hood is prone to slip without the thumb lever in place. Be careful to ensure there is not tape covering any of the three holes intended for the notches on the inside of the hood. Carefully place the hood into position and you have a sleeker, lighter bike.
If you have a cheap weight tip email it to me at plusonelap at gmail dot com
2 comments:
- Dean said...
Anyone doing this mod feel free to send the removed parts to me.
I have a lever in need of rebuilding.
and will take as many spare parts as I can get.
- bastillecx said...
Exquisite detail - very nicely done!!!
For my taste, the thumb levers are like comfort food - nice to have around when things get funky.
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mediagroove necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
MediaGroove LLC
MediaGroove LLC is a New York City-based production company for independent documentary film and music releases. Our team consists of a founder/executive producer, associate producer, director, 2 assistant editors and a digital archivist. We have been working on music projects since 2006, and the documentary film "Get It All Out" since April 2008.
We employ the use of ridiculously cheap and widely democratized tools of Digital Storytelling to reveal authentic, gem-like stories to an international audience.
We have seen the power of great design first-hand in launching companies, magazines and even movements - & know that the sooner a project (and/or a company) can establish a cohesive identity & look across all its presentation materials (print and digital) the better it is for the team, the projects and the message.
We also believe in the power of social media to connect people, ideas, and transcend time and space (even if we still walk, swim, drive, fly and ride to get where we're going!)
It's reflected in our blog for the documentary: http://www.getitalloutmovie.com and our use of the inevitable Facebook and Twitter presence to pre-market and seed-message our effort to current and future fans.
Right now, the development of our film (and its companion soundtrack, E-book, digital excerpts for stream/download) is our main focus.
MediaGroove turns Mania into Media <tm>.
Outline of our Goals and Target Audience:
- Raising funds for our documentary (on crowdsourced donation/ fundraising sites like Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, &/or WorkBook Project)
- Applying to US & international film festivals once we have a rough cut of the film (ETA - September 2010)
- Framing our pre-marketing efforts prior to the film's release (through social media & in-person networking)
About the film:
"Get It All Out" (GIAO) is
- a meditation on the power of melody (and harmony, rhythm and groove) to persist in the hearts of those that heard it for years, even decades after first being in the air.
- a celebration of the life of the late John Creighton -- a musician, lyricist, poet, activist and humanist - who's creativity, decency, character and art touched the lives of his community, friends and complete strangers.
- an examination of the musical chemistry that can happen when strong-willed personalities both clash and harmonize to create a body of work greater than the sum of its parts (sometimes unknowingly so).
- a glimpse into a brief window-in-time - when both musicians and listeners were more open to the mixing of Black and White music, folkloric music, avant-jazz horn charts and punk energy, art/funk, minimalism/dub, No Wave meets Downtown, Bush of Ghosts vs. Sandinista!, urban yet tropical, atonal at times, melodic hooks too, and always, always percussive.
FIRST!! (#1) - Download our PowerPoint slides & READ the slide notes (the images are Zipped), + check out our blog, Facebook & Twitter pages - there is truly a feeling/vibe of post-Punk that we're looking for (not trading on the cliche "ransom note" lettering of earlier Punk - ala "Anarchy in the UK" - etc.) - it's more about the trans-Atlantic cross-pollination of musical & sub-cultural styles that happened in the window between 1979-1983 *(before MTV took over)
SECOND! (#2) - since we gave you a design brief, we need one from you. A single image or 3 "title"/ poster images isn't going to work for us. Make us a creative brief - at least a 3 to 5 page presentation, slide show, PDF or Word doc. (The more detailed you can be, the more likely we'll be interested).
Our goal is to reach our Target Audience in a scripted, clear, deliberate & approachable way. Describe in your brief (which will show you read the materials) how you will create:
A) A simple yet powerfully magnetic Keynote or PowerPoint template (coupled with a new doc trailer we're working on)
B) Reusable Design Elements, consisting of a style-guide & possible lexicon of iconography to convey the feeling & set the contextual tone of GIAO (and MediaGroove). We intend to use these in a new InDesign version of our Business Plan
C) Typography - Since our logo was designed using the FF Meta typeface, we've also adopted it as our company font --- if you can work with Meta to help us expand our use of it in attractive, designerly ways, great!
D) Last but not least, we need a package of work to help set the tone and identity of GIAO as we both rally people to help us complete it and promote it to the world. An "Identity Kit / Toolbox" to work with / build upon. Templates, yes - but a style and a look carries the water


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Organic Kids Soap In Fun-to-use Shapes!
Description: "Mom, you're the coolest!" What else can they say when you present your kids with these fun (and organic!) mini soaps? Giving a party? The awesomest-mom-on-the-block award goes to you when you give your child's friends these as favors. Great as a gift, birthday party favors, potty-training incentives, and equally fun for the little or big kid. Each soap is individually shrink-wrapped and made with organic oils.
Price: $3.95


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ASP.NET pages are made of code, markup tags, literal text, and server controls. Based on the request, the server controls generate the right markup language. The ASP.NET runtime combines the output of all controls and serves the client a page to display in a browser. The programming richness of ASP.NET springs from the wide library of server controls that covers the basic tasks of HTML interaction -- for example, collecting text through input tags-as well as more advanced functionalities such as calendaring, menus, tree views, and grid-based data display.
When the ASP.NET platform was introduced, server controls looked like the panacea of all evil. They were just perfect for the job making a reasonable tradeoff between performance and productivity. It goes without saying that server controls make it so easy to generate complex markup for pages. All that it requires is a simple step-by-step procedure. You drag one from the toolbox and drop it on the Web Form drawing surface. You select some of its properties and set them declaratively through Visual Studio. You point the browser to the page and see the result.
Books and tons of articles have been written in the past few years to illustrate how to create custom ASP.NET server controls and how to effectively use existing controls. Then, all of a sudden, server controls seem to have lost all of their sex appeal. Why is it so?
In first place, server controls are black-boxes of markup. Using them is similar to talking using only predefined sentences from a vocabulary. You can choose how to combine sentences together; you can pick up one of many similar sentences, but you do not have total freedom of expression. Styling server controls is critical too. No matter Microsoft introduced features such as themes and skins, to gain total control of the user interface appearance you need to resort to CSS over raw HTML. Finally, server controls are necessarily bound to viewstate and the classic page lifecycle triggered by the ASP.NET HTTP runtime.
Amazingly, before the advent of ASP.NET in the late 1990s, server controls were considered a not-so-good idea because they were a server-side framework in a world that was blinking at Dynamic HTML and rich client-side, script-based technologies. Immersed in the context of ASP.NET, server controls became the emblem of productivity. And now, after having been celebrated as one of the greatest invention of the Web, they're pushed again to the corner because of their internal complexity and black-box nature.
Where's the Truth?
For sure, server controls are not high-performance tools when compared to client-side technologies. They do have, instead, a tremendous potential as far as productivity is concerned. Nothing that has happened in the industry in the past 18 months has changed these facts. So why server controls seem not to be so attractive anymore?
It has to do with expectations of developers; and not all developers are the same. Developers really needing to gain total of their HTML can do without server controls. However, doing without server controls requires you to change significantly your programming model -- no more postbacks, no more viewstate, and an overall simpler and lower-level programming style.
If this is your driving force, that's okay. Otherwise, the productivity that server controls can guarantee is unparalleled. Even in a world full of AJAX techniques and script. A server control, in fact, can emit some good JavaScript for you. Have you considered this?


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These days, everybody wants a piece of Bose's noise-canceling headphone business—and Creative's new iPhone-friendly Aurvana X-Fi cans are a very worthy contender.
Unlike other Bose competitors such as Sony, Panasonic and JVC, who have gone with discounted pricing, Creative decided to attack Bose at the QuietComfort 2 pricepoint of $299. It's apt, since they are about the same size (yes, bulky), and run on AAA batteries (two as opposed to the Bose's one). They are as comfortable, with large cushioned earcups, and when they ship, they will come with a connector that works with iPhone, no adapter required. (I do not know yet if these will officially be designated "Works with iPhone" but they will "work with iPhone."
Though I haven't done a side-by-side comparison with Bose, or tested Creative solo in the requisite airplane environment, Creative's noise-cancelation technology sounds like it will do the trick. Overall, the sound quality is terrific, with rich, clear bass and if anything a too-bright high end. Clarity is not a problem here.
When I asked Creative reps how they could compete without lowering the price, they mentioned X-Fi, the company's proprietary audio DSP technology. One component is the Crystalizer, intended specifically to flesh out overly compressed MP3 files. The Crystalizer makes extra sense in the intimacy of headphones, and I could definitely hear an improvement when I toggled the feature on.
The final X-Fi feature is the CMSS (Creative Multi-Speaker Surround) processor, intended to spread out the audio and create a virtual surround environment. This is one of those things that depends on the taste of the listener. It changes the mix of the music significantly, but some would argue that by simulating a natural listening environment it is actually doing the track justice. If you can't tell, I am still on the fence about CMSS.
All in all, it's a great product. I still think Creative should have priced it at $250, if only to send a message to Bose that high quality doesn't have to mean exorbitant profit margins. Then again, it's fascinating to watch Creative fighting hard to maintain a premium brand in the ultra-discounted world of knock-offs.