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New products introduced over the last week include new income indexes from BlackRock designed for pre-retirees; Fidelity's planned new ETFs that will be subadvised by BlackRock; a new China Internet ETF from Krane Funds; and a new retirement share class for many of American Century's funds.
In addition, Guggenheim Investments changed the index followed by its Canadian Energy Income ETF; Northern Lights Distributors launched a new educational series for advisors; and Sammons Retirement Solutions added an array of new investment options, as well as new fund managers, to its LiveWell Retirement Series products.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) BlackRock Introduces Income Indexes for Pre-Retirees
BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager, announced Wednesday that it is launching a series of indexes that let advisors and their older clients calculate how much annual income they will need in retirement as well as the level of savings they will need to reach their retirement income goals.
At the same time, BlackRock also is filing prospectuses for bond funds linked to the index, with the intention of offering the funds for use within its existing target date funds.
The BlackRockCoRI Retirement Index series was developed to help investors age 55 and older plan for retirement by tracking the estimated cost of $1 of future, annual inflation-adjusted lifetime income beginning at age 65.
Read the full story at ThinkAdvisor.
2) Fidelity to Launch 10 Sector-Specific ETFs With BlackRock as Subadvisor
Fidelity Investments has announced that it plans to launch 10 sector-specific ETFs that will be subadvised by BlackRock. Known more for its actively managed mutual funds, Fidelity seeks BlackRock's expertise in passively managed products to bring its new ETFs to market more quickly than it might otherwise have been able to.
Fidelity has registered the 10 new ETFs, which have not yet been approved by the SEC, in a preliminary prospectus on Friday. The ETFs offer exposure to sectors such as financials, consumer staples and discretionary, energy, telecommunications, utilities, healthcare, industrials, materials and IT.
3) KraneShares Launches China Internet ETF
Krane Funds Advisors LLC announced Thursday the launch of KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB), which provides exposure to Chinese Internet and Internet-related companies. According to a McKinsey & Co. report, China e-tailing accounted for $190 billion in sales in 2012 and could reach as much as $650 billion by 2020.
KWEB's benchmark is the CSI Overseas China Internet Index, from China Securities Index Co. of Shanghai. Krane Funds Advisors LLC serves as the investment adviser to the fund.
4) American Century Investments Rolls Out New Retirement Share Class
American Century Investments announced Wednesday that it has completed the addition of a new retirement plan share class to many of its most popular mutual funds, as well as 10 new target date funds. A total of 41 fund strategies now have the R6 share class, the lowest total expense ratio of any share class offered by the firm. The move was specifically designed to underscore the firm's commitment to clients and prospects in the defined contribution plan marketplace.
The R6 class shares are generally available only through employer-sponsored retirement plans where a financial intermediary provides retirement recordkeeping services to plan participants.
5) Guggenheim Investments Changes Index for Canadian Energy Income ETF
Guggenheim Investments, the investment management division of Guggenheim Partners, announced Thursday that Guggenheim Canadian Energy Income ETF (ENY) has changed its benchmark index to the S&P/TSX Canadian High Income Energy Index. ENY, which previously tracked the Sustainable Canadian Energy Income Index, is the only ETF to offer exclusive exposure to the Canadian energy market.
The S&P/TSX Canadian High Income Energy Index is designed to provide exposure to high-yielding securities in the Canadian energy sector that meet size and liquidity requirements.
6) Northern Lights Distributors Launches Educational Series for Advisors
Northern Lights Distributors, LLC announced Tuesday the upcoming launch of an educational series to provide advisors with information detailing each step of the mutual fund distribution process.
The four components of mutual fund distribution—sales, key accounts, portfolio and executive management and marketing and public relations—are explained in the first educational report in the series, which also includes videos and other multimedia materials. All resources will be posted on the "Distribution 101" section of its website, www.nldistributors.com, launching later this year.
7) Sammons Retirement Solutions Adds New Investment Options, Fund Managers
Sammons Retirement Solutions Inc. announced Thursday that it has added new equity, bond and alternative investment options to its LiveWell Retirement Series of mutual fund IRAs and variable annuities. The additions, 36 mutual funds, 8 VA investment options and 4 fund companies, bolster existing offerings in key sectors like balanced equity/bond and high-yield bonds while opening access to gold and real estate options.
Sammons has added 36 new mutual funds to the two LiveWell Mutual Fund IRA Series offerings and eight investment options to the LiveWell Variable Annuity. Along with the funds, Sammons has introduced four new fund companies—Columbia Management, First Investors, Pax World and Transamerica—to its multimanager IRA platform. Columbia Management and First Investors have also been added to the VA offering.
Read the July 26 Portfolio Products Roundup at ThinkAdvisor.

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Funding supports five U.S. institutions working on shared projects with scholars in the U.K.
Tuesday afternoon, the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) newly created Office of Digital Humanities announced the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant award recipients on behalf of the NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The announcement was made by NEH Chairman Bruce Cole during an event at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of five JISC/NEH grant recipients—it received funding for its project, "Shakespeare Quartos Archive," in collaboration with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. A total of five projects received over $600,000 in funding.
"The JISC/NEH grant program encourages international collaboration on humanities projects of value to scholars worldwide," said NEH Chairman Cole. "Award recipients in the U.S. and U.K. are working together to create digital archives, centralize holdings, and develop tools to improve humanities research online. These projects embody the best of the digital humanities and advance the mission of the Endowment."
Other JISC/NEH grant recipients include the Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA; New York University; the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, VA; and Tufts University. Representatives from the Internet Archive, New York University, and Tufts University attended yesterday's event, during which attendees were given the opportunity to look at a selection of Shakespeare quartos.
"These projects demonstrate the great potential of collaboration between our two countries in the field of digitization. They bring together skills, expertise, and important scholarly content in ways that we hope and trust will deliver major benefits to scholars on both sides of the Atlantic," said Dr. Malcolm Read, JISC Executive Secretary. "We are delighted to be working with the NEH on this digitization initiative and we look forward to seeing the fruits of these projects in due course."
Inaugurated last year as part of the Endowment's Digital Humanities Initiative, the JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant program is supported by both the NEH and the Higher Education Funding Council for England acting through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). These grants provide combined funding of up to $240,000 for one year of development in the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot projects, the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects, or the development of infrastructure (either technical "middleware," tools, or knowledge-sharing) to support U.S.-England digitization work. Each project is sponsored by both an American and an English institution, whose activities will be funded by NEH and JISC respectively.
The formation of the Endowment's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) also was announced during the event. In 2006, the NEH launched the Digital Humanities Initiative, a program encouraging and supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology on research, education, preservation, and public programming in the humanities. With the creation of ODH, the initiative is being made permanent as an office within the NEH. ODH will continue the work of the initiative and will help to coordinate the Endowment's efforts in the area of digital scholarship.
A complete list of the projects announced can be found below:
The Folger Shakespeare Library
and the University of Oxford, with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland and the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, plan to create the Shakespeare Quartos Archive, a freely-accessible, high-resolution digital collection of the seventy-five quarto editions of William Shakespeare's plays. The project will also develop an interactive interface and toolset for the detailed study of the quartos, with full-functionality applied to all thirty-two copies of one play, Hamlet, held at participating institutions, including the British Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, the Huntington Library, and the National Library of Scotland. ($119,598)
The Internet Archive in the United States and the Oxford Internet Institute and Hanzo in the United Kingdom plan to develop procedures and tools to improve the effectiveness of humanities research on the Web. This research and development effort promises to yield superior methods for indexing and analyzing the textual parts of larger digital collections, more focused browsing ("crawling") of the Web, and unified access to data resources, i.e., the ability to search for information across multiple digital databases. ($106,395)
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London, plan to launch Concordia, a set of tools and procedures to enable seamless textual searches and the dynamic mapping of a variety of humanities collections. The pilot project will concentrate on large holdings of papyrological and epigraphic texts from North Africa during the Greek and Roman periods. ($129,828)
A team of scholars from the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Virginia, the University of Southampton's Nevis Heritage Project, and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool is working together on the St. Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative. Together, they plan to develop an integrated digital archive of diverse archaeological and historical data related to the experiences of slaves on sugar plantations in the Caribbean by digitizing and delivering on the Web information from two 18th-century plantations. ($132,832)
The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University and the Internet Centre at Imperial College London plan to develop Philogrid, a Web resource for scholars of Classical Antiquity. The project would generate a digital collection of fragmentary writings of Greek historians that is designed to interact with multiple source editions; a repository of philological data about the Greco-Roman world; and set of procedures that draws on the recipient's experience in processing textual materials from Perseus but that can also be extended to other digital collections. ($119,992)
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is a joint committee of the U.K. further and higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and research. It is best known for providing the JANET network, a range of support, content and advisory services, and a portfolio of high-quality resources. Information about JISC, its services and programs can be found at www.jisc.ac.uk, or contact Philip Pothen by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Foulab is pleased to announce our next workshop, Wearable Electronics for beginners! Come learn all about building your own wearable creations, using your own garments and ideas.
The workshop is divided into two parts, an Introduction to Sewing in the morning and an Introduction to Wearable Electronics in the afternoon.
During the sewing workshop, you will learn about: Your basic supplies - needles, thread, pins, measuring tape, fabrics and sewing machines. Basic techniques: Threading needles, tying knots, common stitches, measurements, and how to put things together. Mundane stuff that will give you the basics to do many different projects!
If we have time we will also cover basic garment making and modding.
After lunch, you will learn to apply these techniques to electric circuits that can be sewn into clothing. Bring your own clothes and ideas for how to make them flash! We will connect a blinking circuit to LEDs that you can sew into your garment. You'll leave with a turn signal jacket, a blinkenhat, or a blinkensac, or anything else you like.
The workshop will take place Saturday, July 16, at 10:00 AM, at the Foulab location (999 Du College, Suite 33B). Bring a dish to share! We'll have a potluck (with beer on sale!) between the two halves of the workshop.


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Dolly Parton will be working around the clock to bring the classic 1980 film 9 to 5 to the stage in a new musical.
The show will make its debut in London's Savoy Theatre for a limited run from Jan. 28 to Aug. 31, 2019. The book is written by the original film's writer Patricia Resnick, and Parton has written the music and score.
The cast will feature Louise Redknapp as Violet Newstead, Amber Davies as Judy Bernly, Natalie McQueen as Doralee Rhodes, and Brian Conley as Franklin Hart.
9 to 5 follows three working women as they battle their sexist and egotistical boss in a plan to take him down and reform the office work environment.
Tickets for 9 to 5 The Musical go on sale Tuesday.
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Have you heard those radio ads for "Completely Biased Car Advice" from Subaru?
Kinda cute.
But have you heard those radio ads for "Completely Pointless Driving Advice" from Gray Power Insurance?
OK, so I do qualify for Gray Power on the hair colour count.
And no, contrary to that scurrilous comment herein a few weeks ago, I don't dawdle in the left lane with my turn signal (and a hat) on. After all, the Ontario government built the Jim-Only lane for me, and the police departments appear to enforce my exclusive thereof, so why wouldn't I use it?
And the only hat I wear in a car (other than in a convertible - gotta watch out for that sun) always has a Snell sticker in it.
(For those that don't get that reference, that's a racing helmet. Get your own and meet me at the track...).
But I digress.
These Gray Power ads purport to reward 'good' drivers like 'Stewie' - they even wrote a little ditty about him - who always comes to a full stop at every Stop sign.
I guess Gray Power doesn't insure the people who rear-end each other because Stewie - and Stewie alone - came to that complete stop.
The fact is, every Stop sign is an admission of failure to design the intersection properly. Actually, the 'Stops' should all be roundabouts, again like most of the intersections in the UK, but one step at a time...
At the very least, virtually every Stop sign should be a Yield sign which, in the absence of a roundabout, is what they typically use in the UK. The vast majority of even our drivers treat Stop signs as Yield signs anyway.
Hence, Stewie is probably gonna get rear-ended on a regular basis.
For safety, traffic flow management, reduced fuel consumption and lower emissions - never mind everyone getting home sooner - a Yield is what we need.
Yeah yeah, I know what the law says. It's not the only place where, in the words popularized but surely predating Charles Dickens, "The Law is an Ass''.
And it's still down to the traffic planners who do have the option of installing Yield signs instead of Stop signs where they would be more appropriate,
Which is almost everywhere.
Then there's the ad which extols 'Bob' for always checking his blind spots before changing lanes.
Come on, Bob. Open your mind, open your eyes, get with the program.
Do you drive like the young woman I saw in an Acura EL on Bayview the other day who must have driven half the length of a football field looking over her left shoulder, presumably checking her 'blind spot'?
Which, as regular readers know, simply does not exist: crank those side-view mirrors out farther, and presto - no more blind spots.
This young woman definitely would not qualify under the 'over-50' criterion for Gray Power Insurance; just as well, because you wouldn't want her on your roster under any circumstances.
Good for you Gray Power to try and use your platform to communicate driving tips to the general public.
But you've got to make them accurate and useful, not dangerous.
As in:
- Stewie, always back into your parking space so it's safer when you pull out again;
- Bob, learn how to adjust your mirrors correctly;
- everyone, turn on all your lights, all the time, because Daytime Running Lights typically don't illuminate the taillights, and in most of our driving they're more important than the fronts.
Have your copywriters give me a call. I've got enough driving tips for ten years worth of ads.


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Jack Angeles
Jack Angeles is an actor best known for his role as Mr. Tuttle, a high school teacher, on Saved By The Bell. Angeles was born in Albany New York and attended Holy Cross College. After college, he studied law and earned his J.D. from the prestigious New York University. Angeles initially planned on pursuing a career as a Wall Street attorney. However, after graduation he visited a friend and former NYU classmate who was practicing Entertainment Law in Los Angeles at the time. The sister of that friend was a casting director who helped convince Jack Angeles to move to Los Angeles. Jack Angeles spent his first two years in Los Angeles working a talent agent representing various actors and actresses. He took the California Bar Exam and after passing and being admitted to the California Bar, worked as a production attorney for Columbia Pictures Television and then eventually transitioned over to acting.
Angeles has had small roles in various TV shows and movies, including Falcon Crest, Growing Pains, Mousehunt, as well as a substantial role in the 1993 TV movie, Rubdown. Despite having numerous acting roles, there can be no doubt that Angeles is best known for his role as the morbidly obese Mr. Tuttle on Saved By The Bell.
Mr. Tuttle taught several classes, including Driver's Ed, and was also an advisor to the Glee Club. The Driver's Education episode of Saved By The Bell was particularly memorable because for some unexplained reason, Mr. Tuttle taught Driver's Ed with a golf cart in the middle of a Bayside High School classroom. Even more unusual was the fact that the golf cart only had three wheels!
The Tuttle character was an incredibly underutilized asset on Saved By The Bell. Mr. Tuttle was only used in maybe 5 episodes, but generally stole the scenes in which he appeared. In the Driver's Education episode, he utter the memorable line to A.C. Slater, "Pushy, pushy, move your tushy!"
Tuttle was close to the students at Bayside and occasionally schemed with both the students and with Principal Belding (played by fellow washed-up actor Dennis Haskins).
Unfortunately, the acting roles dried up for Jack Angeles after the original run of Saved By The Bell ended. Although Angeles did have a substantial role in Rubdown, it is clear that his acting career is over. Although I thought he was great as Mr. Tuttle on Saved By The Bell, it is obvious that Jack Angeles is one washed up celebrity!
***Update - May 10, 2009***
I am sad to report that Jack Angeles passed away suddenly and peacefully following a recent brief hospitalization. All kidding aside, Jack's "Mr. Tuttle" character was one of the most memorable on Saved By The Bell and brought joy to fans of the show. He will be missed.
Jack's birthname was "John J. Cangilos." Jack was the American Legion Oratorical champion when he was 18 and gave a speech at the Republican National Convention in 1968! His speech was broadcast live on television. Those are certainly impressive accomplishments for someone who was only 18 years old at the time. Here is a picture of a young Jack Angeles:


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Carcass bruising: What's wrong with my birds?
The consumer's decision making process when purchasing poultry products mainly takes into account appearance, hygiene and flavor. To help guarantee that the best quality product reaches consumers, several procedures should be in place.
Veterinary inspection at the time of slaughter aims to guarantee that poultry carcasses are free from disease or fecal contamination. In the presence of one (or both) contaminations, carcasses are condemned and withdrawn from the food chain.
Carcass bruising/hemorrhaging is one of several reasons leading to carcass downgrading (reduced quality) or condemnation in the slaughterhouse. It is caused by the breakage of blood vessels and subsequent leakage of blood into tissues without skin rupture.
It is difficult to determine whether they occur at the farm, during transport or at the plant; therefore, any major financial losses that result are usually absorbed by the slaughterhouse.
According to scientific literature, the colour of the bruise may be indicative of the age of the injury with red to dark red being recent bruises (≤ 12 hours) and light green, yellow-orange and yellow ones being older (≥ 24 hours).
Some 90% of bruising occurs within 12-24 hours before processing, with breast, wings and legs being the most frequently affected parts. The potential causes are inadequate flock density in the grow-out house and/ or the failure to properly adjust pickers at catching.
Inadequate stunning (voltage and time) can lead to petechial hemorrhages usually occurring in the breast and legs. The presence of pathogens in the farm, such as IBDV (Gumboro disease), may increase capillary weakness which leads to carcass bruising.
Mycotoxins such as aflatoxins work in a similar way by reducing the force required to produce bruises due to increased capillary fragility. Usually these occur in the thighs. For mycotoxin-related problems, prevention can be undertaken through the use of a proper mycotoxin risk management tool which relies on complementary detoxification strategies (biotransformation, adsorption, bioprotection) to eliminate the toxic effects in the animals, while guaranteeing liver and immune protection.


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Men's Team Pursuit Gold Final - Great Britain v Australia - 2013 UCI World Track Championships
Track cycling dates back to at least 1870 and, with the exception of 1912, has played a part in every Olympics in the modern era. Track Cycling events can be roughly split into 2 disciplines -- Sprinting and Endurance
Sprint Events:
Individual Sprint
This is a very tactical event in which riders try to outmanoeuvre their opponents. Sometimes riders will come to a standstill in an effort to make their opponent take the lead, which is the least advantageous position before the final sprint to the finish line.
Team Sprint
This spectacular form of racing sees two teams start off on opposite sides of the track. It is raced by teams of three riders over three laps for Elite Men and two riders over two laps for Elite Women. Each rider leads for a lap before dropping back.
Kilometre / 500m Time Trial
This is an individual time trial from a standing start. Elite Men race over 1km and Elite Women over 500 m. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.
Keirin racing originated in Japan. Contested over 2 km, the field of three to seven riders follows a pacing motorbike at an increasing speed, all the while jostling for position. When the motorbike pulls off the track with two and a half laps to go, the battle begins to win the sprint to the finish.
Endurance Events:
Individual Pursuit
Two riders start on opposite sides of the track and compete over 4 km for Elite Men and 3 km for Elite Women. The winner is the rider who manages to catch his/her opponent or who records the fastest time.
Team Pursuit
Two teams of 4 riders (3 riders for women) start on opposite sides of the track and compete over 4 km (3 km for women). The winning team is the one that manages to catch its opponents or that records the fastest time.
Points Race
This superbly tactical discipline is contested over a long distance, usually 40 km for men and 25 km for women in major events. The final result is determined according to points gained during sprints (one every 10 laps on a 250 m track) and when a rider manages to lap the rest of the field.
Up to 18 teams of two riders take part in this relay race contested by means of intermediary sprints. While one team member races, the other slows down to take a rest. When he rejoins the race, his teammate throws him into the action with a hand sling. The classification is established according to the distance covered and the points won in the sprints (every 20 laps). The Madison is held over distances of 25-50 km for Elite Men depending on the competition.
Scratch Race
This is a race for up to 24 individual riders over 15 km for men and 10 km for women. The first across the finish line is the winner.
The omnium is made up of 6 events and is disputed over 2 consecutive days. The final classification is established by adding up the finishing places in each event. The winner is the rider who has the lowest total. At the 2012 London Olympics, the omnium comprised a Flying lap, a Points race, an Individual pursuit, a Scratch Race, a Kilometre / 500m time trial and an Elimination Race.
For more information and news on professional cycling, visit http://www.uci.ch or follow us on Twitter @uci_cycling. For more cycling videos and to watch live events our YouTube Channel can be found at http://youtube.com/ucichannel
Men's Team Pursuit Gold Final - Great Britain V Australia - 2013 Uci World Track Championships


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the_suites necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Outshine Online
Outshine Online helps outstanding small and medium sized businesses succeed online. We prefer to work with passionate business owners who want to grow their businesses. We do that using search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, conversion optimization, etc.
Many similar companies have very boring, very generic, very techie feeling logos. We don't want that - we want something that is a reflection of who we are and what we stand for.
We have small and medium sized clients around the world, including partnerships with design and marketing agencies. Therefore, it's important for us to get a logo that is well designed and conveys the right message.
The logo needs to convey professionalism, but not stuffiness. We are not "suits." Words I would use to describe the company would be: young, confident, passionate, energetic, insightful.
The website (not up yet) will be visually interesting and striking. We are aiming to build a strong brand, and the logo is the cornerstone of that.
Our tagline is "Outrank. Outsell. Outshine." If it can be worked into the logo and look good, that would be great. If not, it is not a requirement.
Ideally, the logo should play with the idea of "outshine" - either with some literal like a lamp, lantern, beacon, etc. or something more abstract.
I am open to suggestion on colours and fonts. I do tend to like fresh colour palettes a lot, more so than darker/more conservative ones.
No clip art, cartoony looking images, or overly busy logos.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I will be monitoring the contest frequently.
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SWANSBORO � Swansboro High School junior Anthony Brennan is taking a more cerebral approach to tennis these days.
SWANSBORO � Swansboro High School junior Anthony Brennan is taking a more cerebral approach to tennis these days.
And the 16-year-old Brennan hopes that will help him reach his goal of winning the NCHSAA 2-A individual championship.
�I used to get really nervous and angry all the time because I always thought that I should beat everybody and I should be better,� he said. �But I�ve been starting to realize that you should keep a calm head, a level head, and don�t let nerves or anything affect you because it only makes it worse.�
So much has that realization set in that during a match earlier this year Brennan tried to calm a teammate who was losing his cool.
�It was only the beginning of the match, but he let it get into his head and that caused him to lose a crucial match,� Brennan said. �Emotions can affect you really drastically. Tennis is a much more mental game than anyone would think.�
Brennan�s approach seems to be working.
The 5-foot-9, 140-pound player heads into the NCHSAA 2-A East Regional at Greene Central High School on Friday as the East Central Conference champion, having beat Richlands� Calvin Yurick 6-1, 6-4 in the finals last week.
This is Brennan�s third straight trip to the regionals � and he�s looking to earn a third straight trip to the state championships May 10-11 at the Cary Tennis Center. The regional semifinals and finalists advance to the state championships.
�I want to win states,� Brennan said.
As a freshman, Brennan made it to states in doubles with Zack Cowan, but the Swansboro pair lost in the opening round to the eventual state champions. Last year, Brennan lost to David Beard of Croatan in the ECC finals before eventually advancing to the state quarterfinals before losing to Salisbury�s Michael Ogden, who went on to win it all.
Asked about making it to states again this year, Brennan quickly replied: �I haven�t made it to states yet.�
But given his track record and that he should have a better seeding going into the regional this year thanks to winning the ECC, his chances look good, and first-year coach Megan Mahone isn�t about to bet against her No. 1 player.
�He�s goal driven,� she said. �If that�s what he wants, that�s what he�s going to work toward and so I think that�s going to help him.�
In preparing for the regional, Brennan hit the courts against Yurick after talking to The Daily News and then this past weekend at Ole Porte Racquet Club in Swansboro he hit with 48-year-old David Creech, who played No. 1 or 2 in singles and doubles at East Carolina in 1985 and 1986.
Creech, who has played with Brennan for about two years, called his younger foe a �great kid� who has matured physically and emotionally � as well as strategically � on the court. There was a time when Brennan let his emotions get the best of him. That rarely happens these days, Creech said.
�He would get upset and it was like he would just check out,� Creech said. �I would say, �Come on, Anthony. You�re just hurting yourself. It�s just a point, just let it go and go onto the next one. You�ve got to just focus.�
�I�ve seen that (change). � He�s staying tough the whole match and he�s winning more and more sets against me, which he should be. I told him my winning sets against you should be fewer and fewer because he�s getting better and I�m not. I�m 48 years old and I�m not getting any better.�
Brennan has been playing his sport of choice since he was 7 years old, taking up tennis as a youngster on Long Island with his cousins while also playing other sports as well. He continued to hit the courts after moving to Swansboro in the middle of the fifth grade and gradually quit other sports, including his beloved baseball.
Asked to describe his game, Brennan said he likes to think of himself as a consistent player with a strong forehand and serve.
�I�d like to say I�m a smart player who tries to keep mentally tough,� he said. �That�s a huge part of tennis.�
Mahone agreed.
�He�s consistent and confident and calm. I guess there�s three C�s,� she said. �When he�s on the court, you can see his head rolling, but if there�s a bad point, you can see him kind of drop it to the wayside and move on to the next point. I think that�s critical.
�He�s consistent. He plays all the time, and it shows. When he goes to make a hit, he knows it�s going to go in because he�s done that, he�s practiced that swing over and over again. And the confidence thing I think comes with that because he�s dedicated his time to doing this. He�s ready.�
Creech said Brennan has got �a lot of weapons,� from a serve with �pop� to a consistent backhand and forehand he can use as a �weapon.� But in the last year Creech said Brennan has become a smarter player.
�Before I could play him and he would sort of get sloppy and it would get away from him,� Creech said. �Now I�m just watching how he plays points and he�s a lot smarter at just being more patient and going for winners when he needs to but not going for winners on every shot.�
Brennan said he has become smarter on the court from a strategic standpoint, although one thing remains consistent: Why he loves the game.
�Well, the selfish thing is that I don�t have to rely on anyone, and if I work hard, it will get results,� he said. �And if I work hard, there�s no one else that can slow me down. It�s very selfish, I know. You work hard, you get results. You don�t work hard, you lose.�


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Temperatures in Winnipeg, Canada, can drop to minus 40 degrees, the snow lies meters-thick. Not that the locals are complaining – quite the opposite: they love winter.
The gargantuan heap appears out of nowhere, jutting up in the middle of a desolate, flat area, covering 20 football pitches and soaring 25 meters high – a dirty white-brown mountain of ice and snow. This is where everything the winter skies chuck down on the Canadian city of Winnipeg is collected. Summers can be hot in Winnipeg, but in the dark months the icy storms that whip across the prairies in the province of Manitoba turn the city of 700 000 inhabitants into one of the coldest cities in the world, with temperatures that can drop as low as minus 40 degrees. To keep the traffic from coming to a standstill the snowplows are out and in action between November and March, clearing roads, sidewalks and driveways. Hundreds of thousands of truckloads of snow are brought to the three gargantuan snow dumps just outside the city over the winter season.
"Best take a taxi," says the receptionist at Fort Garry, a grand hotel at the heart of Downtown Winnipeg. She underscores this advice with a slight frown; it's not often she's asked for directions to the snow dump. "And ask the driver to wait! Otherwise you won't get out of there alive." The taxi driver takes me four kilometers outside the city and drops me at the dump, which is a vast heap of dirt, snow and ice. Instantly, I regret my foolhardiness. There isn't another pedestrian in sight. In the distance, trucks speed up and dump fresh loads; a small caterpillar vehicle climbs the mound and pushes snow into place here and there.
Today's weather is fairly mild, and yet the cold creeps through three layers of clothes and batters my face to the point of pain. The wind whistles over the plain and around the snow dump, making my eyes water as my hands become stiff inside my gloves. A mild day in wintery Winnipeg still means minus 20 degrees, colder than in a deep freeze. I wouldn't be surprised to see a polar bear pop up from behind a heap of snow. Instead, a small car pulls up beside me, bringing both salvation and the person I am waiting for. Jim Berezowsky winds down the window: "What are you doing out in the cold? Come into the warm." Rarely have I been happier to get into a well-heated car.
Berezowsky is the manager of streets maintenance. If there's anyone who understands snow and ice, it's this man: 52 years old, muscular, tanned, buzz cut. You can see that he spends most of his time outside. Street managers such as Berezowsky are employed by cities like Winnipeg, Montreal and Toronto to professionally organize snow-clearing operations. The city's declared aim is to keep all main roads clear – even if a meter of snow falls overnight, it'll be gone by morning. As many as a thousand people work with plows to clear the roads, car parks and driveways.
"We haven't had much to do this year," he says, "four years ago our snow dump was 40 meters high, and it hadn't completely thawed even by August." In really hard winters, Berezowsky and his teams apply over 100 000 tons of salt and grit, at a cost to the city of as much as 60 million dollars per season. And that's not including ice damage to roads, bridges and squares that need ongoing repairs. Winter in Winnipeg creates work, costs money and blocks the roads. For months on end. Car batteries have to be hooked up to the electricity grid to keep them warm and ensure they remain functional. Many car parks have power sockets for this purpose. Bus stops have to be heated to make sure that people are prepared to wait for a bus.
Snow is our passion
Sounds like winter's a pretty frustrating season… "Why would you think that?" asks Berezowsky, and he is perfectly serious. He speaks about his hobby, ice hockey, "People here love the cold season, they are amazed at how effective our snow clearing is – snow is our passion," he says with a grin. The inhabitants of Winnipeg are ideally prepared for snowstorms: in every car boot you'll find a shovel, broom and salt. Outdoor stores sell thermal boots and gloves that promise to keep you toasty at temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees.
A nation that loves winter more than anything? A few days' skiing in the Aps, sure, and I loved ice-skating as a child. But to be snowed in and frozen solid for four months – and enjoy it? I'm not the only person to associate long, dark winters with negative emotions. "SAD" is the acronym used by psychologists for the winter blues, and it stands for the alarming-sounding Seasonal Affective Disorder. In winter, the number of depression-related illnesses rises, and the levels of serotonin and melatonin in our blood plummets. Many people suffer from tiredness and lack of motivation. So how does that fit in with Berezowsky's positive winter euphoria? To sum up what the psychologists advise: It all boils down to what you make of it. Getting out, meeting friends, doing sports is the key to surviving winter; in fact, not just endure it, but become firm friends with it.
People in Winnipeg have internalized this anti-depression program better than anyone else. The city is crisscrossed by kilometers of frozen rivers, which are like racetracks in the morning. Wrapped up in woolly hats, scarves and gloves, the people glide elegantly to work on skates. "Nothing beats it," says Elizabeth Shearer, a young environmental activist. "It really gets you going in the morning." A municipal ice ranger is responsible for keeping the tracks smooth as the snow and ice piles up in 30-centimeter blocks along the riverbank. Some companies in Winnipeg have changing rooms for their employees, where ice skates, snow masks and snow-covered coats can be hung up to drip and dry during the working day. Anyone not on the river trail or working seems to be playing ice hockey. Practically every yard in Winnipeg has been prepared for the national sport, and there are countless fields on the frozen Red River, the city's main river.
I receive the most poetic proof of the love the people of Winnipeg have for winter the following night, when smoke rises into the clear, dark sky and the air over the river starts to smell of wax and petroleum at the annual ten-day Festival du Voyageur, one of the greatest spectacles in Canada. It celebrates the indigenous people, like the Cree and Assiniboine, who 200 years ago inhabited the shores at the confluence of the Assiniboine River and the Red River, not far from where the city's Central Station now stands. The tribal areas of these indigenous people extended far into what is now the United States. The men would hunt in canoes, catching beaver, musk and fox pelts to sell to European traders.
Representatives of the indigenous tribes of Manitoba have gathered in front of the futuristic-looking Museum of Human Rights, ready to start their procession. Holding burning torches they cross the Esplanade Riel pedestrian bridge, which spans the Red River, leading to the French quarter of Saint-Boniface. Here, men in checked flannel shirts are using chainsaws to carve astonishingly delicate sculptures; bears seem to be a popular subject. Others are busy shaping a heap of snow into a giant canoe. A few meters on, I find the true professionals at work: ice sculptors Damon Dowback and Walter Kuch. They have come from neighboring Ontario, and they travel from winter festival to winter festival to compete. "Too warm," grumbles Dowback, narrowing his eyes and glaring accusingly at the sun. Then he continues to scrape away at a two-meter tall ice block. "The Musicians" is the name of the joint artwork. Once it's finished it will show a duo complete with instruments.
I stop by a food stall and order pea soup and bison meat in a bread roll. Someone hands me a mug of Caribou, a tooth-achingly sweet concoction of red wine, whiskey and maple syrup. I just manage to register that it is the national winter drink before the mixture of sugar and alcohol rushes to my head. Later, I find myself in a party tent with hay-covered floors. Country music blasts from the speakers, and people dance until their glasses steam up. Winter can get pretty hot in Winnipeg.
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Jasmine Jafferali, MPH, ACE-CPT, is the program coordinator and instructor for the Online Professional Certificate in women's exercise training and wellness, an interactive online Web-based certificate program designed to ensure the development of safe and effective exercise programs for women by personal trainers, allied health/medical and fitness professionals, and the general public. She has a diverse fitness background, having worked in campus recreation, corporate wellness and the commercial health club setting. Her practical experience in wellness programming gives her a distinctive opportunity to teach wellness to other fitness professionals. She also advocates on bringing the fitness and medical community together through wellness and preventative programming. Jafferali specializes in women's health and wellness, focusing on pre- and postnatal fitness and is a master trainer for Healthy Moms Fitness and Resist-a-ball. You may contact her at [email protected].
Wellness is a hot topic. The wellness industry is expected to be the next trillion-dollar industry within the next five years. With health care rising 10 percent each year for the past several years, many organizations are working to implement and develop wellness programs for their company. In fact, more than 50 percent of U.S. companies are operating corporate wellness programs today.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for every 100 employees in this country:
- 27 have cardiovascular disease
- 24 have high blood pressure
- 50 or more have high cholesterol
- 26 are overweight by 20 percent or more
- 10 are heavy drinkers
- 59 do not get adequate exercise
- 44 suffer from stress
Wellness programs for the corporate world are an opportunity for every health club. There is a need for wellness because of the health care crisis we are battling each day. Health care in our country focuses more on treating the sick instead of preventing the disease through preventative care.
Wellness programs offer much more than just educating our clients. Programs offer an opportunity to change an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one. There are many ways you can incorporate wellness programs into your facility. You can offer a corporate wellness division, in which your health club offers employee wellness programs for organizations, or you can just simply add more wellness-based programs for your members.
However you choose to add wellness, each facility has to decide what wellness will mean in their organization. Being "well" is more than just going to the gym—it is getting a sports massage, going to a meditation class to relieve stress or attending a wellness seminar. It is giving members a place to relieve stress and get healthy through other means than just exercise. (To read about the seven dimensions of wellness, go to: http://fitnessbusinesspro.com/stepbystep/programming/seven-wellness-dimentions/index.html.)
Deciding what wellness will mean in your facility may be "going green" and offering recycling bins throughout your club, which would be one aspect of wellness. Once you decide what wellness will mean in your facility, it is important to have a team of people that is devoted completely to wellness. Once you have your team in place, management will have to determine its target audience before programming begins.
Target populations can be broken up into different categories:
- Children's activities (6 months to 15 years)
- Special populations (prenatal, Baby Boomers, gender specific, etc.)
- Athletic programs (running/walking, triathlon and marathon training, etc.)
- Family programming ("Mommy and Me" classes, kids camps, self-defense classes, etc.)
You may even go as far as surveying your members to see what it is they are seeking in their health club. A good opportunity to do this is when they first join. However, you can also survey your members through e-mail and have it automatically calculated to see where the interest is. Having this information can be important for the team that is responsible for the wellness division of your organization. It will help them coordinate wellness programs more effectively and give them a good base to begin programming.
Another good place to begin programming is to look up national health observances (www.healthfinder.gov). During each month or week, there is a different health initiative. For example, the third week of January is Healthy Weight Week, a good week to launch a weight-loss program. September is Cholesterol Awareness Month, which is a good time to offer cholesterol screenings. The Web site also provides sponsoring organizations and contact information for materials. Creating programs based around these health observances is a great way to educate and bring awareness to your members.
Be sure to set goals for yourself when it comes to your wellness programming. This is essential when creating the program and judging the success of the program. There are several different types of goals, including:
- Strategic/innovation goal: Focuses on the long-term strategy of achieving program results.
- Financial goal: Focuses on how a program can generate better profitability for the club.
- Results goal: Defines immediate results as an outcome.
- Process/milestones goal: A large goal that has been divided into smaller measurable goals.
- Day-to-day activity goal: Not related to a project, this is an activity that is part of your job.
You may use one or all of these goals as part of your program planning. Once your goal is set, create objectives that define the goal in measurable terms. A typical program has five to 12 objectives for each goal. If you have fewer objectives, your program may not have been thoroughly developed. If you have more than 12, you may have too much detail. As a rule, there should be at least two objectives for each component of the programNext month, we will discuss how to put together a complete wellness program, including creating a marketing plan and program evaluations.


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I haven't seen any discussion of the issue for a while, so can't help asking:
Does Poco still plan to release a PE version of PocoMail 4?
I don't use a memory stick and have no immediate plans to buy one (I use a USB hard drive instead), and I'm not sure I'd ever use contact manager/calendar features. So I don't really care about Barca/myinfotogo.
Plus I've been waiting for a good two years now for some glitches to be ironed out and new features to be added to PE. It would make me really really really happy to have a PE version of PocoMail 4.
Is that still in the works? And if so, about what month ought we expect to see it?


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Every afternoon (after having worked on her loose tooth for the majority of the bus ride) Kit would come running to me after school to show me the progress. It was actually adorable the way she wouldnt brush her teeth hard (I think that one might have been intentional!) or chew on that side. She wasnt even happy about drinking, always fearing that she might accidentally swallow her tooth and then she would have nothing for the tooth fairy...
SO when it happened in the morning, Kit was overjoyed! From the moment she had noticed a loose tooth, Kat had given Kit her own tooth fairy box. Within minutes the great little tooth was wrapped up in tissue and placed inside the box right next to the window (in case the tooth fairy lost her way and spent too much time looking for it!)
Kit kept on telling me all day how her friends had told her that the tooth fairy gives chocolate coins, so naturally I made a mental note to buy some before night so I could do the same. It was only around bedtime that I realised that I had forgotten to do the single most talked about task I had totally forgotten about the chocolate coin!! Kat was very disappointed in me and when I put Kit to sleep, I had no idea what I was going to do...
As always, I got into the kitchen and invited food to talk to me. I know it sounds weird but sometimes I actually do that when I have no way of knowing what to make for dinner, I open the refrigerator and the pantry and somehow can see food that I can cook by using what I have. I like to think these are the makings of a great cook but never the less, this saved me! When I opened the pantry, I immediately saw some Disney chocolates which had not been eaten (surprisingly) for a while. I knew I could not use these as such so I carefully took out the chocolate part and very creatively wrapped it in foil paper and voila the chocolate coin was ready!
Imagine Kits surprise when she found the coin in place of the tooth (it rests safely in my baby drawer) chocolate eaten, enjoyed and the whole adventure of the first tooth gone is over...I have to admit, Kit looks awfully cute with that little gap in her teeth!


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Max Krause moved to Oklahoma City, OK in September of 2017 from Albuquerque, NM where for almost 5 years his show was ranked as one of the Top 10 things to do on Trip Advisor. Max recently opened Max's Magic Shop and Max's Magic Theatre in OKC and invites you to an intimate performance at his new venue. With seating limited to just 20 people, everyone will get an opportunity to be a part of the show!
Max has been performing and practicing magic for over 36 years and has traveled to 49 of the 50 states and performed countless shows. Max's show consists of original effects and routines combining family friendly comedy, magic and mentalism to create an experience you won't soon forget!
The show will last between 60-75 minutes.
Come to a show and see why Max's Magic Theatre will become the MUST SEE experience in OKC!
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Smooth-talking disk jockeys who reside on the far end of the FM dial are now telling my kids what's hot when it comes to music. Ryan Seacrest's recommendations about what's hip are sacrosanct, while I'm a mildly annoying fogey who, my 8-year-old recently informed me, dances like "an old lady."
I'm the family's designated music downloader -- the person who buys singles from iTunes and puts them on everyone's iPod. (I don't have an iPod, but that's another story.)
Recently, however, my twin 11-year-olds and my 8-year-old have kindly requested that I cease placing unauthorized music on their iPods because my selections are so, ya know, lame and old school. And I'm rather unhappy about this new development.
For a few precious years, after the children had grown tired of so-called "kids'" music (Raffi and the like) my musical tastes constituted the major influence on my children. They listened to a mix of U2, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, the Dave Matthews Band and an eclectic medley of tunes I'd heard on "Grey's Anatomy."
My CD collection became their CD collection (this was before they had their own iPods, they had no complaints. We all sang along to more or less the same music, with the exception of my daughter's Hannah Montana/"High School Musical"/Jonas Brothers/Demi Lovato fixation. (She still listens to Disney-centric music, but she's alone in her admiration, at least in this house.)
But that was before the kids discovered a local pop station and it proceeded to wrap its reptilian arms around them and squeeze me out of the picture, music-wise. Now they listen to top 40 countdown shows on a boom box in their "Kids Squad" playroom in the basement, which they've transformed into a "kids' only" hangout (adults can enter, with permission) where the gymnastics matt they got several Christmases ago has been converted into a "sofa."
They've pilfered pillows and blankets from the house in order to make their room comfy so they can lounge around while listening to the latest pop offerings, maybe intermittently lobbing their Nerf basketballs at the hoop on the back of the door.
The kids now emerge from their playroom with lists of artists and songs, most of which I've never heard, and ask me to put them on their iPods. The first time they did this and I attempted to vet the songs in advance to see if they were explicit or inappropriate for them, I did not go quietly into the night.
In a vain attempt to reclaim my position as their personal DJ, I'd go rogue and slip a new U2 single or a classic Rolling Stones jam onto their iPods amidst the requested tunes that I'd approved. They'd inevitably return and respectfully ask me to remove what I'd added.
This is moving a little quickly, this supplanting. Smooth-talking disk jockeys who reside on the far end of the FM dial are now telling my kids what's hot when it comes to music. Ryan Seacrest's recommendations about what's hip are sacrosanct, while I'm a mildly annoying fogey who, my 8-year-old recently informed me, dances like "an old lady."
It's not as though I had deluded myself into thinking I'd be like an uber-hip Lorelai Gilmore and that my kids would look up to me the way Lorelai's teenaged Rory daughter did on the fictional TV show "Gilmore Girls."
Well, maybe I did want us to be able to share music together like Lorelai and Rory, at least until they got into their mid-teens. And I'm not too proud to admit that it stings a bit to have some random guy on the radio suddenly become their arbiter of what's tank. What, you haven't heard of the word "tank" as a synonym for the word "cool?" Read on, my fellow oldsters, lest you be enlightened.
My response to being summarily replaced as the resident pop culture guru hasn't been good, I'm sorry to say. In fact, after my musical selections were bounced from their iPods, I found myself sliding into Phil Dunphy territory.
Let me explain: Phil Dunphy is a well-meaning but goofy fictional father on the new ABC comedy "Modern Family" who tries to be "down" with them there teenyboppers, often to embarrassing ends. For example, he thinks he's up to speed on the latest texting lingo and proudly says he knows that "WTF" means, "Why the face?" (it doesn't) and then brags that he knows all the words to the songs from the "High School Musical" movies, plus the accompanying dance moves.
My "why the face," wake-up moment occurred a few weeks ago when I attempted to use new-ish slang with my 11-year-old son. I invoked the word "beast," meaning cool.
"Mooom!" my son said, "It's not 'beast' anymore!"
"When did that happen?" I asked, chagrined. "What do you mean?"
"It's 'tank.'"
"Yeah, that's the new word," he said.
Later, I checked with the Urban Dictionary of slang words online for that particular use of the word "tank" (which is an inherently uncool thing to do) and discovered that "tank's" too new, even for that slang dictionary. I suppose once it's in that dictionary and the likes of me are using it, it'll cease being tank.
Back to this music thing. I'm not going to be rushing to download the top 10 song list from the local pop radio station anytime soon.
I now realize that I need to stop trying so hard and stop worrying about whether my current favorite tunes are hip with my offspring. The kids'll like what they like, and if they so happen to enjoy some of same songs as me from time to time, well, that'd be great.
I've also decided it'd be a good idea to readjust my expectations and be pleasantly surprised when we happen to like the same songs, instead of expecting that they will, because I seriously don't wanna be as woefully clueless as Phil Dunphy who thinks he's tank, but he's not. LOL.
Columnist Meredith O'Brien blogs about parenting at the Picket Fence Post (wickedlocalparents.com/picketfencepost) and about pop culture at Suburban Mom (suburbanmomnotes.blogspot.com). Follow her on Twitter: MeredithOBrien.


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Chanhassen, MN — Despite the continued struggles of the economy that have affected most of the club industry, Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, continues to experience steady growth, reflected in the second-quarter results that the company announced last month.
Life Time's revenue grew 18.7 percent to $192.4 million in second quarter 2008 compared to $162.1 million during the same period last year. Net income in second quarter 2008 grew 20.3 percent to $19.8 million, compared to $16.5 million in second quarter 2007.
"We saw further proof of our ability to perform in a challenging environment in the second quarter," Life Time CEO Bahram Akradi said in a conference call with analysts last month.
Life Time's increased revenue was driven by growth in membership dues, which increased 18.2 percent compared to the same period in 2007, and in-center revenue, up 22 percent in second quarter 2008 compared to the same period last year. The in-center increase was spearheaded by the growth of personal training.
Memberships, which were at 489,489 on June 30, 2007, increased 11.9 percent to 547,497 on June 30, 2008. That's ahead of the company's initial plan for a 10 percent increase during that time, Akradi said.
"This positions us very well to accomplish our goal of 13 to 14 percent membership growth in the second half of the year," Akradi said.
However, Life Time did experience a 38 percent attrition rate, slightly higher than anticipated, according to Life Time Chief Financial Officer Michael Robinson, but more people are also joining. Life Time had a net membership increase of 26,000 in the second quarter 2008 compared to 15,000 during the same time last year.
Akradi said that the attrition was due to economic factors and increased activity in membership price changes in the first half of the year. When asked if Life Time planned to implement one- or two-year membership contracts to combat the attrition, Akradi was emphatically against the notion.
"Philosophically, we think that's a very, very bad way of doing business with the customer," Akradi said. "The customer should be at your club because you are keeping them satisfied and they want to be there, not because their ankles are tied up because of a contract."
Life Time had 74 open centers on June 30, 2008, compared to 64 on June 30, 2007. Three new facilities and one acquired club are expected to open in the third quarter. Of the 74 centers, 54 are owned by Life Time. Akradi was asked in the call about the advantages of owning club locations compared to leasing property.
"All along, we told our shareholders that we like to own our real estate for flexibility and to give us equity in our company that gives us the ability to grow in just about any type of economic challenge," he said.
Akradi is aware of the struggles other companies are having, but he said it may be another year before some struggling club owners decide it's time to sell.
"Occasionally, we talk to those people to see if we can help them out in any shape or form by providing a place for their members," Akradi said. "We're well prepared to do what we can to benefit from it."


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Well let's see what Javier Baez has in store for us today. The Cubs are in split squad action today, today's televised game starts at 3:05 PM CST on WGN, and here is how the Cubs will line up. Speaking of Baez, he and Jorge Soler have been optioned to their minor league teams. Now games there don't start for a while either so Baez and Soler might still see some at bats here in camp. Soler was optioned to single A Daytona and it is expected Baez will join him there shortly. I must say, Baez and Rizzo hitting back to back in the lineup has me all warm and tingly inside.
- David DeJesus, DH
- Javier Baez, SS
- Anthony Rizzo, 1B
- Alfonso Soriano, LF
- Brent Lillibridge, CF
- Dave Sappelt, RF
- Welington Castillo, C
- Christian Villanueva 3B
- Alberto Gonzalez, 2B
Scott Baker will get the start.
Thanks for reading,
– George


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A judge says a San Diego hotel room tax that would raise $35 million a year is legal but appeals are likely.
U-T San Diego ( https://bit.ly/Z2i08B ) says a Superior Court judge issued a final ruling on Thursday. The judge found that the tax is an acceptable means of raising money to finance a $520 million expansion of the city convention center.
Hotel owners approved the tax last year. It would add a 1- to 3-percent room surcharge to guest bills.
Opponents say the tax should have been submitted to a general public vote. They plan to appeal, which could delay the expansion project for a year or more.
Information from: U-T San Diego, https://www.utsandiego.com


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Infrastructure Modernization Act would create jobs and keep the state competitive
Springfield, Illinois - Appearing today before a joint hearing of the Senate Energy Committee and the House Public Utilities Committee, ComEd President and Chief Operating Officer Anne Pramaggiore testified that electric grid modernization was a critical step to keep Illinois competitive and meet the challenges of the digital world."Illinois is at a fork in the road with respect to its electric grid," said Pramaggiore. "We can choose the status quo, which will put us significantly behind other states and the demands of the digital economy, or we can choose to embrace the future by modernizing the grid now."
Tuesday's joint committee hearing marked the beginning of a policy discussion on the best path to building a sustainable and technologically advanced grid. The Infrastructure Modernization Act (Illinois HB14 Amendment 1) would pave the way for badly needed energy infrastructure investment by reforming regulatory oversight. The bill is sponsored by Kevin A. McCarthy, Illinois State Rep., 37th District and Dave Winters, Illinois State Rep., 68th District.
The legislative proposal would do three things:
New demands of the digital agePramaggiore said new technology industries, such as data centers, have set the bar on reliable power higher than ever before. Even traditional manufacturing is relying on microprocessors that are highly sensitive to electric grid disturbances. Dispatching renewable energy sources like wind and solar power will require a flexible, responsive grid.
"It is time to build a grid for the 21st century economy," said Pramaggiore. "And it is time to do it now, because our energy and economic future depend on a modern electric grid."
Investment in a modern gridPramaggiore said the bill will allow ComEd to invest $2.6 billion over 10 years - above what the utility has already budgeted to maintain the system. The investment would require 2,000 workers at its peak and fall into three categories:
A better system for setting utility ratesTo allow utilities to make the significant investments that grid modernization requires, HB14 proposes changes to the current regulatory model while maintaining all the safeguards and oversight of the current system. Traditional regulation is based on a short-term outlook that forces a reactive mode of operations that's inefficient and more expensive for customers and utilities alike. Adjustments to the regulatory process would involve an annual process for setting rates and more consistent and agreed-upon formulas for determining utility cost recovery.
"HB14 proposes a better system for setting utility rates. It combines the transparency and accountability of current regulation and more frequent regulatory oversight, with a new process that produces stability and a long-term perspective to investment," said Pramaggiore.
Benefits to customers and stateThese benefits include new pricing options for customers through advanced meters, operational savings passed on to customers, improvements in customer service and economic expansion opportunities with a more competitive grid to attract businesses to the state.
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In the years we've worked in Africa, TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr and I have been to some pretty out-of-the-way places: Sudan, Somalia, the Ethiopian mountains, Congo. But I doubt we'll ever again go somewhere as off the map as Obo in southeastern Central African Republic. To reach Obo, you fly to CAR's capital Bangui, then for four more hours east over unbroken jungle, with almost no sign of life below. Once in Obo you find a town with no power, one road, one church, one hospital with one doctor, several thousand refugees, who have fled from as far away as the Democratic Republic of Congo to escape Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)—and one U.S. Special Operations base built out of palm thatch and grass.
Access to the Special Forces: nil, as expected. Access to the Ugandan army, who the Special Ops are assisting in their hunt for the LRA: nil, which was disappointing. But with close to 100 of its people abducted by the LRA and forced to become fighters, only to escape and return home years later, Obo turned out to be a treasure trove of information on one of the most mysterious and notorious rebel groups in the world.
It was also a revelation on another count. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, with nothing to eat but what they grew or caught, Obo was one of the most welcoming, most charming and—now that they had U.S. base on the edge of town to discourage attackers—the most peaceful places we've ever visited, proof, if ever it was needed, that a rich life can be measured in many more ways than mere money. In the evenings, Dominic would complain that he'd come to shoot a war and had ended up shooting a bucolic paradise. I think his beautiful pictures capture the place perfectly.
Read More: "The Warlord Vs. The Hipsters"
Alex Perry is TIME's Africa bureau chief.
Dominic Nahr, a TIME contract photographer, photographed the Arab Spring in Egypt. Nahr is represented by Magnum.


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UBS (UBS) said Wednesday that it had recruited an advisor from rival Morgan Stanley (MS). It also saw a team depart to go independent and affiliate with a boutique investment firm.
Elaina S. Spilove joined UBS in Princeton, N.J., from Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan Stanley. Spilove is a senior institutional consultant and will be joining the UBS Institutional Consulting Group, where she is reporting to complex director John E. Geoghan in Red Bank N.J.
A 30-year veteran of the financial-services industry, Spilove had about $224 million in assets under management, according to Morgan Stanley. Her clients included public funds, endowments, foundations, various trade associations, pensions, profit-sharing plans and private clients, and she holds the designation of Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) from the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA).
Also on Wednesday, New York-based Further Lane Wealth Management said former-UBS advisors Stuart Conley and Harvey Spira have joined the boutique firm as managing directors.
"The team's quality, experience and expertise are impressive. Stuart and Harvey have significant investment management experience and strong skills as portfolio managers. Both have outstanding investment track records that we plan to leverage," said Michael Araiz, CEO of Further Lane, in a press release.
Conley and Spira's clients include professionals, business owners and corporate executives. The reps have worked on pre-sale and pre-IPO planning, exit strategies for business owners and executives, and retirement and legacy planning.
"I made the move to independence so that I can more effectively execute robust investment strategies on behalf of my clients. With complete open architecture, I have increased flexibility in the solutions I can provide my clients from a portfolio risk and return standpoint," said Stuart Conley, in a press release.
Further Lane says it works with Dynasty Financial Partners, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services and Pershing so that its advisors can offer clients a variety of products and services.
Conley has over 17 years of experience in the industry and, prior to joining UBS, was a director of investments at Oppenheimer and a financial advisor at Smith Barney.
"If you want to provide your clients with the best out-of-the-box solutions in a timely manner, independence is the only way to go. We are looking forward to offering our clients the best investment opportunities in the market," said Spira, in a statement.
Spira worked as a managing director at Bear Stearns, before moving to UBS. He is on the financial planning committee of the New York State Society of CPAs.
LPL Affiliate
Washington Wealth Management, an independent hybrid RIA that uses LPL Financial (LPLA) as its broker-dealer, said Tuesday that it recruited a team from Wells Fargo Advisors to its platform.
Kimball Creek Partners, an independent group based in Bellevue, Wash., has had about $220 million in client assets under management. It includes Dean Bennion, CFP, and Mike Vincent, CFP, who each had worked at Wells and Wachovia for over a decade.
"Kimball Creek's decision to maximize its opportunities for growth and independence by joining our team further demonstrates the strength of Washington Wealth Management's robust multi-custodial platform, which enables exceptional former wirehouse advisors to expand their practices by transitioning to the independent channel," said Washington Wealth CEO Robert Bartenstein, in a press release.
With this addition, Washington Wealth is nearing $1 billion in client assets under management.
"We chose to partner with Washington Wealth Management because they respected our business model and unique service offering, yet also provided an increased range of products and support from a spectrum of providers," said Bennion, in a statement.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
We are business consultants. We are damn good business consultants. People like our straight forward, no nonsense business tips and advice. We provide free actionable and tactical tips. Simply put, we provide real help for real people who want to get better at running their businesses.
We are looking for a clean logo to be designed. The logo should be for Bite Size Business Tips (or the URL of BiteSizeBusinessTips.com). Whichever looks better
Business professionals. CEO's, Managers, Employees, Successful people, People who are struggling but want help. We cater to anyone who wants to learn. Our site will have many 2-10 minute free videos for people to watch. The site will be built on a wordpress / CMS platform.
We need a logo that will work great on a white or black background, and will look great in black and white. That said, we don't mind a professionally done logo that has colors in it. We just want the logo to be very professional and business minded. We will need versions of the logo for both web and print.
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The writer whose Rolling Stone article brought down Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he never thought his reporting would bring about the effective end of McChrystal's career, as well as a crisis for the Obama administration.
"I did not think General McChrystal would be fired. In fact, I thought his position was basically untouchable," freelance journalist Michael Hastings told TODAY's Matt Lauer via satellite from Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. "I thought it would give them a headache for maybe 72 hours."
After meeting with President Barack Obama Wednesday, McChrystal resigned as the top commander in Afghanistan. Obama replaced him with Gen. David Petraeus, the architect of the successful surge strategy that turned around the war in Iraq.
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The resignation followed publication of Hastings' profile "The Runaway General," in which McChrystal and members of his staff made a number of disparaging on-the-record comments about the commander in chief, Vice President Joe Biden and other members of the administration.
Hastings said that he has already gotten feedback from troops in Afghanistan who are happy that McChrystal is out and Petraeus is in.
"I got an e-mail from a Marine just this morning saying they were pleased with the decision, because they did not agree with Gen. McChrystal's policies here," the writer said.
On the record
Hastings initially met McChrystal in Paris for what was to be two days of access to the general and his staff for the profile he was writing. When ash from the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland grounded all flights, the interview turned into a month-long process that continued in Berlin.
Hastings has said that everything he was told was on the record, and Rolling Stone editors have said that neither McChrystal nor his staff tried to get the magazine to delete or change any quotes during the magazine's fact-checking process before publication.
But, Hastings told Lauer, he did receive pressure from the general's staff to change some of his intended reporting.
"They tried to pressure me not to write about some things that were on the record. I told them I can't really play that game," Hastings said.
A generation ago, Rolling Stone gave America the "gonzo" reporting of Hunter S. Thompson. That tradition has continued today with the unfettered reportage of a new generation of writers who do not operate by the conventions of the mainstream media, including Matt Taibbi and Hastings.
"One of the things that happens in journalism, especially with powerful figures, is that they give journalists access in exchange for favorable coverage and future access," Hastings said. "That dynamic didn't apply to me and the story I was writing, or just my general style of journalism."
Game changer?
Lauer asked if Hastings is concerned that his article will change the rules of reporting and cut off access to major figures.
Hastings referred to the extraordinary circumstances of his interview and said any effects are likely to be minimal. "I think what's interesting is that the access was almost a throwback to the old days of fly-on-the-wall reporting. Nowadays the access is always so controlled, so it was very rare to get this kind of access anyway. So I don't see any sort of significant changes," the writer said.
However, he did suggest there may be some short-term reluctance of major figures to do in-depth interviews.
"I apologize to my colleagues if they're not if they're not getting any interview requests from Gen. Petraeus in the next couple of days," Hastings said.


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Who was that familiar face on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" recently, holding forth about the banking industry? The super-earnest guest argued that "banking should be boring," and wants to bring back the Glass-Steagall Act, one of Franklin Roosevelt's Depression-era reform bills. Ah yes; the hundred-megawatt smile; the Dos Passos-era haircut; the broad vowels redolent of her Oklahoma birthplace. It's Senator Elizabeth Warren, a.k.a. the Big Noise.
I call Warren the Big Noise because in her brief political career she has proved to be a panderer of Charles Schumer-esque proportions. For 28 years we had a showhorse senator, John Kerry, better known for posturing on television (his unflattering nickname was "Liveshot") than getting things done. With her PR savvy and her lawyerly gift of gab, Warren makes for a worthy successor.
Then-Harvard Law School professor Warren hit the big screen in September 2009, with her famous interrogation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. She was chairwoman of the bipartisan Congressional Oversight Panel, which was scrutinizing the massive bailouts authorized by the Troubled Asset Relief Program. A former president of the New York Fed, Geithner was the errand boy for Big Capital appointed to President Obama's first-term Cabinet so we could remember whom to blame for the 2008 recession.
Warren quizzed Geithner about the government's massive rescue package for insurance giant AIG, a key player in the mortgage default mess. Warren knew, and Geithner knew, that AIG had steamrolled the government to win a 100-cents-on-the-dollar bailout, courtesy of the US taxpayer.
For five-plus minutes, Warren flogged Geithner with the wet noodle of her purported outrage, knowing full well that the money was long gone and Geithner couldn't do anything about it. As a charter citizen of the country I call post-shame America (new arrivals — Representative Mark Sanford, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer), Geithner was the perfect foil for this staged morality tale. The hero was Elizabeth Warren, who became an icon for "speaking truth to power" and accomplishing . . . very little.
Handily elected to the Senate, Warren has continued her successful career of baying at the moon. She routinely anathematizes Wall Street, the "corporate capture of the federal courts," and loves to browbeat hapless regulators when the cameras are rolling. Inveighing against the high cost of student loans won her many headlines, and criticism from people who actually understood the issues on the table. Matthew M. Chingos and Beth Akers of the liberal Brookings Institution called Warren's idea of financing student loans through the Federal Reserve discount window a "cheap political gimmick" and an "embarrassingly bad proposal."
That posturing ended when the Senate shelved the Student Loan Affordability Act.
The Brookings Institution also thinks Warren's latest hobbyhorse, updating the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, is a silly idea. Glass-Steagall, as Warren interprets it, forbids staid commercial bankers from gambling with depositors' money in the "casino" atmosphere of hedge funds and derivatives markets. An unholy alliance of Democratic pols (Bill Clinton), troglodyte members of Congress (Senator Phil Gramm) and Wall Street lobbyists torpedoed Glass-Steagall in the late 1990s.
It's delusional to think that banks caused the recent recession, and that limiting banks' investment activities will prevent another economic collapse. Countrywide Financial Corp. and its odious CEO Angelo Mozilo weren't part of a bank when they were wreaking havoc on the mortgage market. Goldman Sachs, which notoriously bet both sides of the market downturn, wasn't a bank, and nor was Lehman Brothers, the investment firm whose bankruptcy triggered the economic crash in the summer of 2008.
Banks didn't own the rating agency patsies, Moody's and Standard & Poors, either. S&P is owned by a publishing company, McGraw-Hill.
Warren's staff sent me this statement: "Senator Warren has fought for years to level the playing field for middle-class families and to hold big banks accountable. She believes in using a variety of tools in the toolbox to promote a consumer advocacy agenda and has a proven track record of results ranging from influencing the implementation of the bailouts and saving taxpayers money."
I say she is a feckless demagogue; they say she is a tireless and principled crusader for economic justice. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
Alex Beam's column appears regularly in the Globe. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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The coast of Asturias runs for 345 kilometres along the Cantabrian Sea: it is the Costa Verde (Green Coast). Come and discover this part of northern Spain. You will love its great climate and variety: broad, fine sand beaches, cliffs, small coves, sand dunes and protected nature areas, picturesque fishing villages, harbours with small fishing boats… The perfect place to enjoy.
Nature. This word defines the Asturias Region perfectly, both in its inland areas and all along the coast, known as the Costa Verde (Green Coast). The waters of the Cantabrian Sea wash this region, giving it endless shades and contrasts, where the blue of sea and sky, and the green of the landscapes will accompany you on your way. Mountains and sea come together in stunning landscapes, and there are charming villages and ports, valleys, mountains and forests, beaches, estuaries, cliffs, and important heritage towns and cities… All this in magnificent surroundings with a host of options to enjoy your leisure and free time in this part of Green Spain.
If peace and quiet is what you are looking for, you should head for the westernmost part of Asturias, which borders with Galicia. This is the least known part for many people. Here you will find villages such as Luarca, Cudillero and Castropol, with beautiful beaches in harmony with the surrounding countryside, some of which are almost untouched. The smell of the sea is present in every corner of these villages, which maintain their authentic flavour despite the passing of time.
Meanwhile, in eastern Asturias, in the part closest to Cantabria, you will find some of the Region's most emblematic towns and villages, such as Llanes, Ribadesella, Cangas de Onís and Villaviciosa, whose beaches are the ideal setting for water sports such as sailing, rowing, surfing, windsurfing, fishing and scuba diving. A few kilometres from these beaches there are famous locations, such as the Picos de Europa National Park and the Covadonga Lakes, amongst others, where you can enjoy a few days of rest and relaxation in complete touch with nature. What could be better? Don't forget that cities such as Gijón and Avilés also have excellent beaches, both in their historic centres and their surrounding areas.
The Costa Verde is much more, though. Be sure to sample the gastronomy in Asturias, with products such as cider, cabrales cheese and its most famous dish, fabada (sausage and bean casserole). Outings, gastronomic routes, important cultural heritage where special mention should be made of Asturias pre-Romanesque art, which has the UNESCO World Heritage designation, traditions, adventure sports… It's time to start the journey.
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Directional Valves
PE16-S67K — Piloted, Proportional, Spool-Type Valve
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A screw-in, cartridge-style, proportional, pilot-operated, spring-centered, spool-type,
hydraulic directional valve.
In neutral position, the PE16-S67K blocks port 3 while 2, 4 and 5 are connected to each other.
When the remote pilot signal at 1 exceeds the force of the bias spring, the spool shifts proportionally
to the applied pilot pressure to allow flow from 3 to 4 through a load such as a hydraulic cylinder or
motor, and from 2 to 5 and to tank. On remote pilot signal at 6, the valve�s spool shifts proportionally
to the applied pressure in the opposite direction, reversing the flow direction. The valve�s spool is
non-symmetrical, providing meter-in control.
• Hardened spool and cage for long life.
• Cost-effective cavity.
• Excellent metering characteristics.
• Good Linearity.
Max. Operating Pressure: Ports 3 and 5: 345 bar (5000 psi) with polyurethane seals;
Ports 2 and 4: 240 bar (3500 psi); Ports 1 and 6: 27.6 bar (400 psi)
Flow: up to 90 lpm (24 gpm)
Maximum Internal Leakage: at 207 bar (3000 psi): 197 ml/minute (12 cu. in./minute)
Temperature: -40 to 100 °C (-40 to 212 °F) with Buna seals;
-26 to 204 °C (-15 to 400 °F) with fluorocarbon seals;
-54 to 107 °C (-65 to 225 °F) with polyurethane seals
Filtration: See page 9.010.1
Fluids: Mineral-based or synthetics with lubricating properties at viscosities of
7.4 to 420 cSt (50 to 2000 sus); See Temperature and Oil Viscosity, page 9.060.1
Installation: No restrictions; See page 9.020.1
Cavity: VC16-S6; See page 9.116.1_6w
Cavity Tool: CT16-S6xx; See page 8.600.1
Seal Kit: SK16-S6x-BMMMM; See page 8.650.1
Cartridge: Weight: 0.76 kg (1.68 lb);
Steel with hardened work surfaces.
Zinc-plated exposed surfaces; Buna N
O-rings and polyester elastomer back-ups standard.
Ported Body: Test housing available.
See page 8.016.1_6w
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