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A successful meeting between ISA President, Fernando Aguerre and Panamanian Minister of Tourism, Mr. Salomón Shamah was held during the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games in Costa Rica.
Shamah showed a great deal of interest in letting the surfing community know that Panama is a "Surfing friendly" country. The campaign has already begun with an initiative by Panama´s main airline, COPA Airlines, by not charging extra fees for surfboards on most of their flights.
The promotion "Bring your Surfboard for Free to Panama," runs between September 15 - November 15, 2009. It will resume on March 1, 2010 and run through May 30, 2010.
One board bag with a maximum of two boards inside is allowed per person on flights coming from the United States of America (Los Angeles, Orlando, Miami, Washington, and New York), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Manaus) and Costa Rica (San José).
The only thing you have to do is call the COPA Airlines call center and let them know that you're going to travel with surfboards.
According to ISA President, Fernando Aguerre, ""I congratulate Mr. Shamas for his support of surfing. Panama is certainly one of the greatest surfing destinations in the world. Add tropical weather, warm water, and the welcoming nature of the Panamanian people and you have a top place in the short list of destinations for any traveling surfer. Gracias Panama!"
Wave-rich Panama, home of the world-famous breaks Santa Catalina and Bocas del Toro, is providing the unique chance of going on an exotic surf trip without the added cost of surfboard baggage fees.
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Colin Dart 2006-2008
Colin is a 2008 grad who majored in managerial finance. Colin brought a unique perspective to the student group having lived in Africa for six years while his dad worked for Catholic Relief Services in particular (The Gambia, Burkina Faso, and Rwanda) his time ended in Africa when he and his family were forced to leave their home during the genocide in Rwanda. Colin was very active in school participating in varsity football, student senate, investment club, and softball intramurals. Colin loves working hard and seeing a finished product done right at the end. He tailors his life to fit something Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"


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This is too good to not be reproduced. Looks like the photocopiers at Cupertino are working overtime. Perhaps, the artists at Cupertino are out of innovation. Use any of the many smart retorts by the loud Apple fans over the years against Microsoft and reverse the company names. As first spotted by CoryRS at Zunited.com, here's what you get:
The tag line on iTunes.com, today, is exactly the same as the one Microsoft has been using for a while on zune.com.
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Debra Hoffman, the new publicity chairman for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, shares her experience:
I was honored to be the first recipient of the Jimmy B. Parker Scholarship last year. Through the generosity of Jimmy's family, I was able to realize my dream of traveling to Salt Lake City for the first time. Not only was I able to spend a week learning from leading experts in the genealogical field at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, but I was also able to research my ancestors at the Family History Library. It was a fantastic educational experience and one I will never forget! Get your application in and good luck!
Jimmy B. Parker Scholarship Announcement
The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is pleased to announce we are now accepting essays for the Jimmy B. Parker Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy scholarship. Full tuition to SLIG 2014 will be awarded to the student whose essay and application exemplify the culture of giving back to community, lived by Jimmy B. Parker. The scholarship will be awarded by a committee comprised of SLIG committee members and the family of the late Jimmy B. Parker.
Applicants are asked to submit the following via email to firstname.lastname@example.com:
1. A one-page essay detailing how attending SLIG will help you prepare to give back to the genealogical community.
2. A short biography, including previous volunteer and research experience.
3. The name of the course you would like to attend.
4. A letter of recommendation from someone who has benefited from your volunteer service.
The winning essay will be posted on the UGA blog at http://ugagenealogy.blogspot.
1. American Research and Records: Focus on Families (with Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FUGA, FMGS)
2. Researching New York: Resources and Strategies (with Karen Mauer Green, CG, FGBS)
3. Research in the South (with Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA)
4. Advanced Research Tools: Land Records (with Richard G. Sayre, CG, CGL and Pamela Boyer Sayre, CG, CGL)
5. Credentialing: Accreditation, Certification, or Both? (with Apryl Cox, AG and Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL)
6. Producing a Quality Family Narrative (with John Philip Colletta, Ph.D., FUGA)
7. Researching in Eastern Europe (with Kory Meyerink, MLS, AG, FUGA)
8. Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum (with Angela McGhie and Kimberly Powell)
9. Advanced Genealogical Methods (with Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS)
10. Problem Solving (with Judith Hansen, MLS, AG)
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Your morning roundup for Dec. 21, the day we learned dick jokes don't always fly in Wisconsin. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.
What we watched: The Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl featuring FIU and Marshall. After the game, a brief scuffle broke out on the field involving excessive finger pointing and angry stares. Nothing really happened, but Marshall proceeded to jump up and down in jubilation as FIU ambled off the field. Nothing like obnoxiously celebrating your 7-6 record after Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl supremacy.
What we're watching (all times EST, unless noted): Miami at Orlando in NBA preseason basketball at 7 (NBATV). Texas at North Carolina in men's college basketball at 7 (ESPN2). Philadelphia at Dallas in NHL hockey at 7:30 (Versus). TCU vs. Louisiana Tech in the Poinsettia Bowl at 8 (ESPN). Oklahoma State vs. Alabama in men's college basketball at 9 (ESPN2). Los Angeles Lakers at Los Angeles Clippers in NBA preseason basketball at 10:30 (NBATV).
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Tears of joy: "Take a typical high school halfback. Walks around the halls with his chest out, fancies himself a bit of a badass. On gameday, he feels fleet, agile, cocky. The play comes in from the sideline-running play, up the gut-and as the huddle breaks, he's putting a poker face while mentally prepping to become a human cannonball. Then, something unsettling. The linebacker in the slot. He's-wait, he's sobbing. Not out of fear, or pain, or shame. It's more of a smiling, loopy, just-got-engaged kind of sobbing. He's so geeked to knock the shit out of someone that he's actually weeping with joy. Our typical high school halfback has probably just turned into a prey species against this very atypical linebacker. How the hell is someone supposed to want it worse than a guy who cries during the snap count?" [The Classical]
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Dec. 21, 2008: LeBron: Don't Start Printing Those #23 Knicks Jerseys Just Yet
Access to Mr. Met is worth $20 million: "Of course, the owners of the Mets, who have spent the last four months trying to line up 10 or so minority partners, have some long-term upsides to sell: the $20 million would buy 4 percent of a New York City sports franchise that, history instructs, is likely to rise in value over time. But for those perhaps uncertain over whether to part with their millions, the owners have listed some less obvious perks that would come with a share of the Queens ball club. Access to Mr. Met, the team mascot, although the degree of access is not entirely spelled out. It definitely means you, as a part-owner, can schmooze with Mr. Met at Citi Field. It's less clear whether you could get him to come to your child's birthday party without a fee." [NYT]
You don't have to call him Metta: "Feel free to call me anything yal want. Don't feel bad if yal call me Ron:))" [@MettaWorldPeace]
Your Freestyle Soccer Tricks Interlude:
The Chicago Bulls' future is secure: "Derrick Rose has agreed to a five-year, $94.8 million contract extension, and the Bulls will make the formality official at a Wednesday news conference at the Berto Center, sources told the Tribune. 'It's something big,' Rose said without confirming the announcement. 'I'm going to talk about it more with my family there. I don't think about money. The Bulls show they trust me. I just feel blessed.'" [Chicago Tribune]
Another former NFLer with brain issues: Everything is coming up roses - or, given the season, poinsettias—except for this: [Ben] Utecht has frightening gaps in his memory. He has no recollection, for instance, of the wedding of a close friend, though Utecht was a groomsman and sang at the ceremony. Utecht suffered five concussions he knows of in his football career: two at the University of Minnesota, two with the Indianapolis Colts and one with the Cincinnati Bengals. The last one, during training camp in 2009, ended his career. He worries about what's ahead. 'Will I experience early-onset dementia in my 50s? Will I experience more issues with amnesia or headaches or behavioral changes? All of these things are consequences of brain injury. I think now that I'm aware of them—especially now that I'm the father of three beautiful little girls—it's definitely in my heart and on my mind. I'd be lying to you if I said it wasn't.'" [USA Today]
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 132 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Pioneer Brite
Pioneer Brite is an established US company with a record of success, and a goal to grow business in the industrial floor cleaning marketplace. To energize the brand as well as introduce it in new industry markets, PB plans a comprehensive communication overhaul; to invigorate the brand look and feel, beginning with logo design.
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Bold, confident, fearless, resourceful problem solvers.
"Pioneer Brite didn't invent cleanliness. We just invented the best processes to get it"
PB has time-proven, proprietary processes.
PB approaches each customer's cleaning problem as a partner; taking on any challenge and working to determine a program that's best for the facility.
PB provides everything needed; chemicals, equipment, supplies and training.
PB can clean the facility from top to bottom. Or, can train staff with proven cleaning programs. Or, bring in the equipment needed. Whatever it takes to solve the cleaning challenge.
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Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden calls President Obama "powerless" and blames the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. support for Israel in a new tape released by Al-Qaeda's media arm on Sunday.
Coming two days after the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center which killed nearly 3,000 people, the fugitive terrorist reportedly pledges in an 11-minute video titled "Message to the American People" to continue a "war of attrition on all possible axes."
In the video, which features an audio statement and still image of bin Laden, he accuses Obama of leading from weakness by keeping Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, on his team, AFP reported. "Reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised," bin Laden says.
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The last tape attributed to the terror chief surfaced on June 3 as Obama was visiting Saudi Arabia. In it, bin Laden criticized Obama's outreach to the Muslim world and warned of decades of fighting. He is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, Pakistan or the mountainous border between both countries, according to The Associated Press.


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By Emily Steves, '15
After reading the 2013 All Bonaventure Reads book "Full Body Burden," each freshman University 101 class presented its own spin on the book at this year's First-Year Experience Poster Conference.
The Kristen Iversen book is the memoir of a woman who grew up in a Colorado town near the infamous Rocky Flats, a former secret nuclear weapons plant once described as "the most contaminated site in America."
The environmental aspect of the memoir didn't deter students who aren't necessarily engaged in environmental studies.
"The students adapted the book to their majors," said Chris Brown, director of FYE. "They picked up on a wide variety of themes and diversified their topics –– it was fantastic."
Each class had a table set up in the Robert R. Jones Trustees Room, with the capability to present their ideas through any medium.
With a mix of physical education and sport studies majors, Lance Hardy's class did a documentary and PowerPoint presentation on wellbeing for those who come in contact with environmental issues.
Dr. Imhoff's class of undeclared majors hit home by choosing to highlight the federal cleanup of the West Valley Demonstration Project site.
"In our backyard, we have the same problem," said Imhoff of the site, located about halfway between Olean and Buffalo.
"I thought the book was interesting with how (Iversen's) life kind of weaved through it with her alcoholic father and family ties," said Noah Burton, a political science major in Imhoff's class.
Journalism major Madeleine Faircloth disagreed. "The book was kind of choppy," she said.
Classmate Gabriel LaMarca agreed.
"It would have been more interesting if she (Iversen) had split her personal life from the environmental aspect," he said.
The University 101 class taught by Madeleine Gionet, a graduate student in the Integrated Marketing Communications program, won the friendly competition.
"We did a video kind of like the ABC News show 'What Would You Do?' but in Bonaventure-style," said Gionet. "We created different scenarios to see how students would react and asked them questions about how they would handle different ethical situations."
"It was actually a very close competition," said Brown. "Three other sections tied for second place."
But the competition didn't take precedence for some students.
"(ABR) brings the whole class together," said psychology major Gregory Winters.
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A Modern, Outdoor Wedding at Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The landmarks of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, inspired the wedding between Dawn Carrier (26 and a project manager) and Carson Narcomey (30 and a field engineer). "Carson and I wanted a very memorable wedding that was personable," Dawn says of her day, which used notes of navy, gold and silver. The Louisiana Capitol was in the background for the ceremony in Capitol Park, while the rooftop reception showcased the sweeping views of the old Capitol and the Mississippi River. The museum's modern structures were softened by dark wood chiavari chairs and flowers. Dawn and Carson met in the same city while in a computer science class at Louisiana State University. She sent him a Facebook message to ask a question about a test she already knew the answer to and they hit it off from there. She went to visit him in his hometown in Oklahoma, and he popped the question in one of his favorite places. He then gave her a bouquet of peonies, which she also used in her wedding day. Dawn wore a layered, beaded gown with varying shades of white and tan, while her bridesmaids wore white Joanna August floor-length gowns in white. Carson wore a navy blue custom-made tuxedo. For the reception, festivities moved to the Shaw Center for the Arts to their terrace. "The terrace overlooks the Mississippi River, which was great for sunsets and our fireworks show." White chairs and couches made the space feel cozier. Guests dined on Southern favorites like fried catfish and shrimp and grits. After their first dance to "I'll Be Here for You" by Randy Rogers, they did a money dance, in which guests could give them well wishes and money for the honeymoon. Fireworks lit up the river in a surprise ending before the couple left to sparklers held by loved ones. Carson had the best advice for other couples: "Don't take yourselves too seriously, and love often. Life is a great thing and can be even better with a kick-ass wife." —Caroline Eubanks
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SHELF LIFE- Disappearing act: Where are all the free radicals?
The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual
By Eric Lott
272 pages, $26
Basic Books
"Let me say right away that no new political group is safe from its own members. You aim to put something together, and the very act of doing it opens up so many possibilities and disagreements that if anything at all happens, it seem like a f***ing miracle."
Nothing makes for good headlines or good political drama like party infighting and backstabbing.
Although Republicans and Democrats have experienced disagreement within their ranks in recent years, it has been the liberals whose internal disputes have been interpreted by the public and the media as "wishy-washiness" or "vagueness" on the issues. (One recalls Ralph Nader and Howard Dean incurring the wrath of the Democratic establishment in the 2004 election.)
These "domestic disputes" suggest differences of degree rather than just differences of kind when it comes to identifying political loyalties. Whether willingness to accommodate these differences always results in vague opinions is itself a matter of opinion- and UVA English professor Eric Lott certainly has his own.
In his new book, The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual, Lott examines the differences between various factions calling themselves liberal in order to add weight to his own political argument: today's moderate liberal leaders and thinkers (Bill Clinton, Cornel West, former UVA luminary Richard Rorty, are a few well-known examples) have blunted the Left's capacity to promote progressive social change.
The book's stated purpose is twofold: to chronicle the development in the last 15 years of a new kind of "boomeritis" liberalism led, not by pioneering progressives, but by a "responsible" and "reasonable"-– but ultimately impotent-– baby boomer elite. His real purpose is to critique this new development, noting with some good humor his ambition "to raise invective to an analytical art."
Writing from what he calls a "radical egalitarian perspective," Lott singles out several prominent thinkers of the "new liberal front" who advocate "piecemeal, reformist self-satisfaction." He calls these individuals "boomer liberals," defenders of what journalist Michael Lind has dubbed the "radical center," a centrist political approach based on compromise with the Right rather than vigorous advancement of substantive, progressive initiatives.
Lott deplores this trend, directing his anger at their "responsible" and "realistic" approach. Lott reserves particular contempt for those liberals who disclaim radical demands for equality and social justice as "dangerous" while citing their experimentation in the countercultural 1960s as evidence of their own credibility.
The baby-boomer generation has learned all the wrong lessons from the 1960s, Lott claims, punishing itself now for the perceived indulgences of its youth. "Why," he asks, "should radicalism of the intellect- and of the will- be viewed as something you eventually grow out of?"
In making his case for reinvigorating political activism, Lott gives the impression that there is a certain antagonism between the competing democratic ideals of political conviction and pluralism, the former urging change and the latter encouraging compromise and peaceful cohabitation. Feeling that the current state of affairs leaves little choice to the embattled egalitarian, Lott is willing to sacrifice the peace in service of achieving something other than benign political compromise.
Lott's prose is dense, rich in language and allusion, as he draws on an array of cultural and political figures, from Bob Dylan to Bill Clinton, to illustrate his point. Despite its academic flavor, the book will interest anyone concerned with the state of progressive politics.
In the first pages, Lott acknowledges his support of living-wage campaigners at UVA, a group that has garnered media attention in the past month for their four-day sit-in at Madison Hall. Local readers might take particular interest in the epilogue, in which Lott recounts the UVA Labor Action Group's protest at the 1998 Fall Convocation.
Commenting on this and other successes of political activism, Lott acknowledges both the importance and the inevitability of discord among liberals, who are often contentious individualists. "You know an organization is a good one," he affirms nevertheless, "if the people in it become more alive to one another's humanity."
Lott's argument, as powerfully stated as it is artfully delivered, will leave the reader, as the author hopes, "amused as well as edified or outraged." #


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What comes next in Detroit's bankruptcy?
State judge finds Gov. Snyder, Orr's decision unconstitutional
DETROIT – The bankruptcy battle has begun with late breaking developments in Detroit's Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing.
A state judge has ruled it unconstitutional and demands Governor Snyder pull back the case. The Michigan Attorney General wants an emergency hearing to try and stop that case and the governor doesn't appear like he's going to withdraw his approval of Chapter 9.
"This is the day to stabilize Detroit," Snyder said in defense of his bankruptcy decision.
Read: Meloni: There was never any doubt
Kevyn Orr chastised the opposition "your decision instead of coming to the table with me is to continually file lawsuits against me. Who is not operating in good faith?"
Friday Judge Rosemarie Aquilina declared Orr and Snyder's actions as unconstitutional saying it blindsides pensioners who stand to lose much in the Chapter 9.
Read: Detroit retirees fear pension cuts after bankruptcy filing.
Her only problem is once a Chapter 9 case is filed there is an automatic stay of legal challenges. Local 4 bankruptcy expert Doug Bernstein of Plunkett Cooney says the judge is out on a limb.
"After the fact of the filing it's kind of surprising that she would take that approach because really once the bankruptcy is filed as long as it's pending all matters are stayed by operation of the bankruptcy code. So it's an unusual step," he said.
While that battle simmers many are wondering what comes next.
Well, there is the choosing of a bankruptcy judge which came this afternoon. Judge Stephen Rhodes, a Detroit based bankruptcy judge, was chosen for the task.
Rhodes will set ground rules and scheduling to manage objections then he will start hearing the case on whether Detroit qualifies to be in bankruptcy in the first place.
"The decision on that issues, the eligibility may take up to a year," said Bernstein.
In Stockton, California it took a year and the city did not qualify and had to go back and re-file. Orr says he intends to avoid that.
In the end the idea is to work toward a plan that the creditors all agree on and that could take a year or two or more.
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Men and women who are very large around the middle are at much greater risk of dying from any cause than people with thinner waists, a new study says.
Eric J. Jacobs, PhD, and colleagues at the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society, examined associations between waist circumference and the risk of death in 48,500 men and 56,343 women aged 50 and older.
They found that people with very large waists -- 47 inches or more for men and 42 inches and more in women -- were about twice as likely to die, compared to thinner people, and not just from weight-related problems.
All participants had completed a mailed questionnaire about demographic, medical, and behavior factors and provided information about weight and waist circumference during the 1990s. Over a nine-year follow-up period, 9,315 men and 5,332 women died.
A larger waist was associated with a higher risk of death across all measures of BMI, or body mass index, including people of normal weight and people who were overweight and obese.
A somewhat surprising finding was that among women, the risk association between waist size and death was strongest for those with a normal BMI. Researchers say the reason is unclear and that more study is needed.
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The study findings could affect the development of future guidelines on obesity.
"Currently available clinical guidelines from the National Institutes of Health are based on evidence from the 1990s," the researchers say. "These guidelines recommend that waist circumference be used to identify increased disease risk only among individuals in the overweight and obese categories of BMI."
NIH guidelines recommend weight loss goals for all patients with a BMI of 30 or greater. BMI is a ratio of a person's weight to their height to determine degree of body fat. A person with a BMI of less than 18.5 is considered underweight, 25-29.9 is overweight, and 30-39.9 means obese. A BMI of 40 or more means dangerously obese.


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Freshman Assemblywoman Marie Waldron has spent the last four months boning up on Skype, fog warnings at Lindbergh Field, how a bill becomes a law and lobbyist regulations.
After 14 years on the Escondido City Council, Waldron was easily elected last November to represent the Assembly's 75th District, which includes much of inland North County and Temecula.
Since then, she has taken a crash course in California state government and how to juggle her work life in Sacramento with her family life in Escondido.
"They start you off with a lot of training," Waldron said Friday morning in her new district office in downtown Escondido. "It's how to hire staff, how a bill works through the process and other things like that."
Meanwhile, Waldron has been trying to stay connected with her husband, Steve, and 12-year-old son, Michael, while living 500 miles away in Sacramento four days a week.
She Skypes with Michael often, texts with him back and forth, and does everything she can to make sure his homework is done.
"It's different when you're a mom and a woman," said Waldron, 51.
Another hurdle has been taking so many airplane flights and train rides.
"The toughest part is the traveling back and forth," she said. "When I'm up there working, it goes by quick."
Traveling can also be fraught with complications, Waldron said. She sometimes takes the train up to Sacramento on Sunday nights to avoid fog closures and delays at Lindbergh Field.
Waldron said she has made her life in Sacramento smoother by renting a townhouse about seven minutes from the Capitol building.
"I don't have to keep taking things back and forth like some of the people still living in hotels," Waldron said, referring to some of her fellow freshmen in the Assembly.
Waldron, a conservative Republican, said she also has had to shift gears politically. She went from the Escondido council, where she was part of a supermajority, to the Assembly, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 55 to 25.
But she said the atmosphere in Sacramento has been less partisan than she expected. One explanation might be that half the Assembly's 80 members are freshmen this year, she said.
"Like me, a lot of the new folks came from city councils, where it's nonpartisan," she said.
Waldron said she's also hopeful that she can work with moderate Democrats on issues important to her, such as loosening regulations on small business and lowering taxes.
But even without cooperation from Democrats, Waldron said she expects to play an important role.
"The Republican voice should be heard because millions of people voted for us," she said.
Waldron has sponsored five bills so far. They've focused on harsher penalties for child pornography, business taxes, prison realignment, electric vehicle parking and the state's video game industry.
None of the bills have become law yet, but the one related to child pornography passed the Assembly without opposition last Monday.
Waldron was recently appointed the Assembly's Republican whip, a leadership position that entails rallying members of her party and gauging their support for specific bills.
Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee), the party's caucus chair, said Friday that Waldron was an ideal choice for whip.
"She's a quick learner, but she also takes enough time to really understand things," he said. "She's got the right temperament and intelligence to move the caucus in a positive direction."


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Since its inception, the health and fitness club industry has been about members—attracting them and then holding onto them. In the preface to "IHRSA's Guide to Membership Retention," published in 2007, John McCarthy, the then-executive director of the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, wrote that membership retention had become the industry's Achilles' heel, since the industry tends to focus more on sales than retention. During the past 20 years, the average annual retention rate for clubs has ranged from 60 percent to 75 percent, with many of the largest club groups experiencing retention levels as low as 50 percent to 60 percent.
Research from several fitness industry groups shows a correlation between membership retention and certain metrics or indexes. If you want to improve retention at your club, you should be monitoring or measuring several metrics.
The metrics that seem to have the closest statistical relationship to retention include:
- Member usage. Research shows a closely related relationship between frequency of usage and membership retention. The more frequently that members use the club, the more likely they are to remain members. The less frequently that members use the club, the more likely they are to resign.
- Early stage usage. Research shows that frequency of usage during the first 90 to 120 days of membership is closely correlated with retention, both during the first few months and after more than one year.
- Member satisfaction. Data shows that the higher a club's "net promoter score" (percentage of members who rate you as a five on a five-point scale, minus those who rate you a one, two or three) the better a club's membership retention levels are.
- Additional services revenue per member. The more money a member spends in a club, especially during the first 90 to 120 days of membership, the more likely they are to remain a member.
The following metrics are valuable since they can be easily measured, are easily communicated and are easy to grasp. They also can be influenced by the entire staff once they know your targets.
- Percentage of membership using the club daily. Management should understand that a percentage of the total membership visits the club daily. The higher the percentage of daily visits, the more engaged the membership is. A good number to shoot for is above 25 percent.
- Percentage of members using additional services. The higher this percentage is, the more engaged the membership is. Although the percentages partially depend on your club's business model, achieving greater than 20 percent penetration will positively affect retention.
- Average additional services spent per visit. This number, especially if measured daily, can help management and staff zoom in on new approaches to generating spending and improving retention.
- Percentage of members who use the club less than four times per month and more than eight times per month. These two variables have the most reliable relationship to retention. If you can decrease the percentage of members who use the club less than four times per month and increase the percentage of members who use the club at least eight times per month, you will positively influence retention over the long haul.
The following are some informational metrics that you can act upon immediately once you know the numbers:
- Current members who use the club less than four times per month. Contact these members and identify strategies and actions to get them more involved.
- New members from the past month who have used the club less than four times. Implement strategies for helping them connect more effectively with the club.
- New and existing members who have used the club at least eight times in the last month. Knowing who these members (your "business apostles") are, allows you to recognize and reward them.
- New members who have not spent money in the club in the last 90 days. If you learn the names of these members, you can focus on getting them engaged in club services.
Stephen Tharrett is president of Club Industry Consulting. He is the author of four books and is a former board member and president of IHRSA. Tharrett is involved in public speaking, having served as an international keynote speaker at conventions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, England, Ireland, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Spain and Turkey, as well as domestic conventions such as Athletic Business, CMAA, IHRSA and SIBEC.


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Missouri CourthousesContact and other information about this county is available on the National Association of Counties website, http://explorer.naco.org/.
Jesse Carroll built Holt County's first courthouse in 1841-42 for $659. The two-story, frame building measured 20 by 26 feet, rested on rock foundation, and had walnut weatherboarding and shingles. The courthouse site fronted 20 feet on Nodaway Street and 26 feet on Washington. R. M. Barkhurst acted as county superintendent. In October 1842 the court accepted the completed building.
Henry Watson contracted for $4,995 to build the second courthouse, a 46-foot-square, brick, two-story building with hip roof. The court received the completed courthouse in May 1852; final cost came to about $6,000 (Figure 1).
Figure 1Holt County Courthouse, 1850-1965. (From: An Illustrated Historical Atlas Map of Holt County, Missouri, 1877)
Remodeling with mansard roof and tower, designed by Levi Zook and built by Moses Bennett, transformed the building in 1881 at a cost of $9,600 (Figure 2). The work began in June and was completed in December. The entry, from the north, featured a 15-foot vestibule paved with stone slabs. A double staircase of black walnut led to the second floor. Patterned colored roofing decorated the mansard roof.
Figure 2Holt County Courthouse, after 1881 remodeling. (From: postcard, Trenton Boyd collection)
Some people questioned the legitimacy of the court's action, which took the county so far into debt. They were convinced that the court actually rebuilt under the guise of repair to avoid taking the issue before the county, since voter approval was not required for repair. Their protest resulted in a lawsuit that went to the state Supreme Court in 1886. There, the court affirmed the county's power to act as long as it did not violate the constitution by incurring a debt in excess of the revenue provided for that year.
Twentieth century remodeling included a citizen-funded project in 1911, designed by St. Joseph architects Eckel and Aldrich, which added four rooms on the south. Another addition came in 1938. The building was painted gray in 1927, white in 1950, and restored to natural brick about 1960. Fire in February 1965 destroyed the several-times-remodeled courthouse.
Voters authorized a bond issue for $162,500 in August, 1965. Architect B. R. Hunter, of the Kansas City firm Geis, Hunter and Ramos, was architect of the new building (Figure 3). Brick for the new building was similar in color and texture to the previous courthouse. The design called for a flat roof poured in place or of precast concrete. Tinted glass in the exterior windows diffused glare and heat. Contractors for the 90-foot-square building were Herbert and Broomer, St. Joseph, for $194,863.45. Completed in the summer of 1966, Holt Countians celebrated with an open house Sept. 4, 1966.
Figure 3Holt County Courthouse, 1965-. Architect: B. R. Hunter (Courtesy: Richard Buntz, Holt County Clerk)
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Every so often we're going to be highlighting a member of the ZBC community. There are an amazing number of astonishingly talented artists among us, and some in particular stand out for their generosity. These people constantly share new work, explore or discover aspects of ZBrush use, and participate in the community.
This week we've interviewed Ralf Stumpf. A perusal of his ZBC Gallery shows that he's done it all! Aliens, robots, monsters and humans – they're all there. Ralf has also been an important beta tester, with constant feedback that has helped make ZBrush 3.x what it is today.
Note: The ZBC Gallery link above will take you to the many WIP threads that Ralf has contributed. This is a great way to learn more about Ralf's techniques. To see his favorite finished works, please click on the thumbnails at the end of this interview.
Hi Ralf. Thanks for taking the time for this interview! To begin, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I studied design in Germany and graduated in 1989. I work as a freelance artist. For a long time in my career I made packaging and corporate design for international companies, but my real passion is illustration and character development. To work on a feature film project for Pixar or Blue Sky Studio would be nice.
Could you share a bit more about yourself? What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
I enjoy watching good movies. I collect robot models and I love "making of" books and art books from all genres. (Nothing compares to a physical book.)
So how did you get started in CG?
I started CG in 1987. I just wanted to do things like in Pixar's short "Luxo Jr." Over the years I worked with many software packages on different hardware systems. Now my main software programs for 3D are Maya and ZBrush.
And how did you first discover ZBrush?
I was not satisfied with the techniques for organic modeling in standard 3D programs. Point tweaking is not the right method for artists. Then I saw the great works from artists on ZBrushCentral and I was immediately aware that ZBrush is a must for every digital sculptor. This was in 2004 and my opinion hasn't changed over time.
Could you be a bit more specific? What were your reasons for using ZBrush?
Working with ZBrush is very natural, like clay. The sculpting brushes have so much power even in higher levels with millions of polygons. I like to sketch in ZBrush with a very simple base mesh, and then make a new topology inside ZBrush later if I have found the right design direction. And in the end I can texture the entire model directly with ZBrush in 3D.
So what would you say is your favorite new feature or features of ZBrush?
I like the clear interface, the real-time workflow in different subD- levels with the sculpting brushes in real 3D space, and the possibility to generate 32-bit displacement and 8-bit color maps for other applications like Maya. I also really like the new features in ZBrush 3.x like Subtools, Polypaint, Retopology and Projection, working with Alphas in 3D space and of course the real-time MatCaps and Preview Shadows.
So we know that ZBrush is great for your needs. Would you recommend ZBrush to other artists, and why?
Yes! ZBrush is the complete package at the moment. The control of the sculpting brushes is amazing and it can handle real high polycounts even with older computers. And with the realtime MatCaps and Preview Shadows you really have great feedback while sculpting your model. The possibility to texture your model with Polypaint is intuitive and you can convert this later with the right UV's to a texture map for using in other applications.
We're seeing more and more new ZBrush users all the time. What advice can you offer them?
Learn ZBrush like a child that is discovering a new world. Play with the tools and take the time to look at ZBrushCentral to see what is possible, and to get tips and tricks.
What other impressions or comments about ZBrush would you like to share with us?
ZBrush 3 is a great step in the right direction. Artists always have wishes and there are still many challenges for software developers, but I really like that Pixologic continuously improves the package.
Do you plan to incorporate ZBrush in future projects?
ZBrush is one of the main applications in my workflow and has influences in every job or project I work on. And from time to time I teach ZBrush to some students.
I think all artists are inspired by other. Which artists do you find most inspirational, and why?
I respect all artists who do their work with heart. Artists who try to improve their skills over time. Art and design is a big field and I'm interest in nearly all variations.
Thanks, Ralf! To finish the interview, which ZBrush piece is your favorite out of what you've done so far?
Every new work is my favorite. I always looking forward and I hope never stop to learn.
Ralf Stumpf's Finished Works
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Lactose-Free Macaroni & Cheese
"My family never gets tired of this recipe and can't seem to get enough of it, it's so good," exclaims Pam Kaiser of Mansfield, Missouri. This is a very flavorful option for those who are lactose-intolerant.
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes3 servings
- 1 cup uncooked elbow macaroni
- 1/4 cup soy milk
- 2 tablespoons crumbled soft tofu
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 4 teaspoons nutritional yeast flakes, optional
- 2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 2 teaspoons margarine
- Cook macaroni according to package directions. Meanwhile, place soy milk and tofu in a blender. While processing, gradually add oil in a steady stream. Add the yeast flakes if desired, soy sauce, turmeric, garlic salt and paprika; cover and process until smooth.
- Drain macaroni; toss with sauce mixture. Transfer to a 3-cup baking dish coated with cooking spray; dot with margarine. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until heated through.


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As a graduate, you've probably stumbled across a few hard truths about post-college life. You can't emerge from your cozy bed at noon and be considered a functional member of society. There's no school-sponsored taxi to drive you home after you've knocked back a few too many at happy hour. And, sadly, your annual income is equivalent to the amount you owe on your student loans. Ouch.
While you really should show up to work on time and limit the number of tequila shots you share with your boss, you don't have to suffer through your student loans.
1. Do a little sacrificing
The word "sacrifice" doesn't mean you're miserable. It simply means you're trading something of lower value for something more valuable. While you're still adjusting to adult life, continue to live like a student. Use that ratty bus pass, keep your cheap apartment, eat at home, and watch your bar budget.
2. Work that BA
Student loan debt is something that becomes increasingly less valuable (and, therefore, more expensive) the longer you carry it. The education your loan paid for is obsolete within six months of graduation. Taking 25 years to pay off a loan that hasn't enhanced your income is like spending 25 years paying off a car that's stopped running.
To make your degree useful, treat it as leverage. Negotiate for a higher starting salary. If you've already started, then leverage your education in your annual review. Ask your employer if he'd pay your student loans in lieu of a raise. Many will consider keeping a valuable employee on by providing loan repayment as a benefit. (For this to actually work, you have to be a rock star. You can't half-ass it and expect any favors.)
3. Tap Uncle Sam
If you landed a job with the government after graduation, the Office of Personnel Management can help you. A portion of your loans can be paid off by the government, up to $10K per year. (Ahh, that's where our tax dollars go!)
Even if you don't work for the feds, they can still help. The federal Income-Based Repayment program allows borrowers to pay loans back according to what's affordable, rather than what's owed. The government realizes that engineering majors and ceramics majors don't make the same income after graduation.
4. Seize tax breaks
You may be eligible to deduct up to $2,500 on the interest you've paid on your student loans. The result is a smaller tax bill. Guess where that "extra" money can go? Yep, to your student loans.
5. Get your side hustle on
Find ways to generate income through businesses, online content generation, or affiliate marketing. These methods allow you to earn money while you're sleeping or working at your full-time job. You can manage more than you can ever do. A second job will suck up whatever free time you have left to achieve your other goals.
Find extra income from prize money, completing surveys, being a secret shopper, completing errands or chores, or spending below "budget." You can do this by pretending you're paid twice a month, rather than bi-weekly. Budget for 24 checks, and you'll have 2 extra checks per year to devote to your loans. Mind games are essential to paying off student loans.
6. Go ahead and make extra payments
Once you find extra money, make additional payments. Whether you can afford an extra $20 or $200, paying down your principal eliminates interest later. (And let's be honest, an extra $20 now means you'll get to eat steak sometime this decade.)
7. Be realistic
If it's easier to structure a settlement that allows you to rid yourself of it once and for all, then pursue it. Make sure any settlement includes a letter stating that you paid on time, as agreed. Ensure that all three credit bureaus get a copy.
Another option is to claim hardship status if things have been difficult for you – divorce, car accident, etc.– so your temporary problems don't compound into long-term problems. Hardship status can get your debt reduced or eliminated altogether, particularly if you're dealing with a lengthy illness. Locate the Statement of Financial Status on the Department of Education's website to get started.
Post-college life is full of hard knocks – but student loan debt doesn't have to be one of them. Pay your loans off to cut them out of your life. Once you do, you have my permission to toast your achievement with a shot with the boss.
Chris J. Snook has spent over 11 years as an author, entrepreneur, and venture catalyst and has spent the last 5 years in the investment community incubating media startups as the Managing Partner of TLEC Ventures. He co-authored the international best-selling books, "Wealth Matters 2007 and 2011" (2nd Edition) and "Burnout: How to Transform Frustration to Fortune in 2005."
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This is my second post - and its a long one.
Full Disclosure: I have a selfish motive for sharing this no Im not trying to sell you anything.
Im going to share with you exactly how I flooded a local business with more new customers than they can handle. They were swamped with so many new customers they had to turn people away and refer them to competitors!
If you have a local business, you should copy this idea - like tomorrow. Im going to share with you exactly what I did.
What is my selfish motive?
Over the years I have read countless articles about the power of giving away your BEST information for free without expecting anything in return. The theory is that when you do this, somehow it will come back to you - most of the time not directly. Instead indirectly through other people in the future. Call it karma if you will.
Still not sure how much I believe this, though I do believe it to some degree. Ive heard a lot of stories and I want to put it to the ultimate test. I want to give away my best information to as many people as possible and see if anything significant happens.
For the past 10 years I have successfully helped businesses grow and attract new customers, and what Im about to freely share with you has worked better than ANYTHING else I have ever done ever. My client literally increased annualized revenue by $1.2 million in less than six months - at a cost of only $7,500.
This is literally the BEST idea I have had in 10 years. So Im going to test this karma thing out by freely sharing with you my most successful idea ever. I plan to freely share this on as many forums as possible to make my test more effective.
By the way...
Im NOT going to share my company name.
Im NOT going to share my company website.
Im NOT going to post my company contact information.
Im NOT going to hold back any secrets and ask you to pay for it.
My point is Im not here to try and sell you information, coaching, training, whatever.
Anyways, here is the most successful idea Ive ever implemented for a client. If you have a local business, you should definitely go do this.
You should organize a Ladies Eat Free event in your city. During the event, every lady in your city can receive a free meal at any local restaurant that participates in the event. The restaurant covers the cost of the food.
In order to eat for free, ladies must visit the restaurant with a guy. The guy can be their friend, father, brother, boyfriend, husband, co-worker, son, uncle - doesnt matter.
The guy pays for their own meal, but the lady eats for free. Ladies must present a voucher to get their meal for free. The voucher can be printed from their computer.
Here is how you can get a TON of new customers...
Build a special website just for the event. Promote your company on the website. Tell everyone the event is sponsored by your company. Talk about your company and give everyone your contact information.
Lastly, require everyone to sign up for your email list in order to receive the vouchers that must be presented at the restaurants.
68,234 people signed up for our email list when we did this and my client got a TON of exposure.
This is in a city of 279,000 people. Word about the event spreads quickly. Who doesnt love free food?
You will have both guys and ladies signing up for your email list. Guys sign up so they can take out their dates or their wives without having to pay for their meal. And obviously ladies sign up so they can get free food.
If you organize this event, people all over your city will know your company. Your company will become very popular in the area. People will love you and thank you for organizing such an awesome event.
Do this and youre going to receive a flood of new customers without wasting money on advertising that doesnt work. My client is a dentist. He got so many new patients, he had to turn people away. He even had to refer people to his competitors! It was freakin crazy.
His annualized revenue increased by $1.2 million in a very short time period - less than six months from when I organized the event for him.
Here is the icing on the cake:
You now have thousands of people you can email any time you want to promote your company. Just be careful not to spam them.
As the event sponsor, you should be emailing everyone on the list during the event. You should be emailing them about different things related to event, all while promoting your company at the same time.
For example, you should email everyone during the event to remind them not to forget to attend. Promote something about your company in the same email. Email them again towards the end of the event to remind them the event is about to end. Promote something about your company in the email.
Email them again after the event is over to thank everyone for attending. You guessed it, you should also promote something about your company in the same email. Once the event is over, get creative about reasons to email everyone. Just be careful not to spam them with blatant advertisements.
Thats pretty much it.
You should definitely do this like tomorrow. Seriously.
You can literally attract as many new customers as you want. It doesnt matter what type of local business you own. This will work for you too.
I have never seen this done before. The opportunity is wide open. When I got the idea, I said to myself, this is freakin brilliant!
I did everything for my client, including building the website for the event, convincing local restaurants to participate, and marketing the event.
Convincing the restaurants to give free food to the ladies was time consuming and a little challenging, though I got it done. Maybe I can come back and explain more about how to do that.
Marketing the event is very important too. You have to market free stuff just as much as stuff that costs money. Though once a good chunk of people know about the event, the word spreads like wildfire.
I could very easily charge companies to train them how to do this, though as I explained above, I decided to test this karma thing by freely sharing it rather than charging for consulting as I normally do.
This is the best idea I ever had for a client. As they say, my client is laughing all the way to the bank.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I will do the best I can to answer your questions.


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ROCHESTER — Twenty-six extraordinary, talented pets will perform amazing tricks and skits when the curtain rises at the Rochester Opera House for the Popovich Comedy Pet Theater on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. International award winning circus performer Gregory Popovich wows audiences with the awe-inspiring antics of his world-famous menagerie of adorable cats, dogs and birds. The unique comedy, combined with the astounding juggling skills of Mr. Popovich, is a delightful evening of entertainment for kids, teens, families and adults.
Popovich rescues all of his pet stars from animal shelters across the country. When asked how he trains his dogs and cats, he explains, "Each animal has a special quirky thing they naturally like to do. I figure out what this trick or talent is, and then I just encourage them to do it in my show. When my pets are performing, they are showing off their favorite tricks!
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text: Monday, June 03, 2013 US Sen Kirk Credits Physical Therapy in His Stroke Recovery A recent article in the National Stroke Association's StrokeSmart magazine interviewed Sen Mark Kirk about his recovery from a stroke a year and a half ago. APTA member Mike Klonowski, PT, DPT, PCS, is featured prominently in the article as Kirk's main physical therapist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where Kirk spent nearly 11 weeks. In the article, Klonowski reiterated 2 messages that physical therapists often cite in advocating for adequate rehabilitation for patients who have had a stroke. First, that "'it's no time to lie down and take it easy.' He explains that the time right after a stroke is the best opportunity for the brain to heal more quickly and the body to respond at its best levels. Working in rehab with a greater frequency and intensity creates an optimal environment for plasticity." And second, that "the myth that many stroke survivors have heard—that you stop improving six months or a year after the stroke—it isn't true. 'You will still see changes,' says Klonowski. 'They won't be as dramatic. You'll continue to achieve once you get into an environment where you're doing what's important to you. Put in the time and preparation at the beginning and you'll continue to improve.'" Klonowski also recounted his appearance at the State of the Union Address on February 12 as Kirk's guest. APTA's PTNow clinician's portal includes clinical guidelines on stroke (member login required), among other resources, and the association's consumer guide to stroke is available on our MoveForwardPT.com website.


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Do any of you know of a book list of go alongs for the prairie primer that aren't listed in it.Like some magic school bus,animal ark books.Just some you may of used that weren't nessesarily the ones listed in the book.
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North Carolina apparently has some voters� remorse from 2012.
Actually, the general dissatisfaction with Gov. Pat McCrory according to at least two new polls probably can�t be explained that easily. In fact, folks in North Carolina like President Obama even less than they do McCrory. And they�re not too choked up about either of the state�s U.S. senators or leadership in the state General Assembly.
Tar Heels, it seems, are just plain unhappy with the state of government on nearly all levels, according to a poll released Thursday by Elon University. The poll, conducted by land line and cell phones Sept. 13 to 16 of 701 registered voters, found that 70 percent believe the United States is on the �wrong track.� Almost 60 percent say North Carolina is careening down a similar path.
No wonder political leaders are recording roughly the popularity numbers associated with root canals.
President Obama, who didn�t carry North Carolina in 2012, remains unpopular with a disapproval mark of 51 percent. What is surprising is the drop for McCrory, who won bipartisan support by a wide margin in 2012. He registers a 46 percent disapproval rate after less than a year in office.
The Elon results are similar to numbers reported last week in a poll conducted by High Point University. That survey found Obama and McCrory tied with an approval rating of 39 percent in the state. The High Point poll found that the economy, unemployment and Syria are driving dissatisfaction with Obama�s performance. McCrory�s numbers are tumbling because of so many changes enacted by state government over the past several months.
That�s perhaps the silver lining for McCrory in the Elon poll. Apparently, state voters dislike members of the state General Assembly even more � if, in fact, they can determine who they are.
Only 31 percent of voters surveyed could identify state House Speaker Thom Tillis, while 67 percent had no idea who he might be. Of those who did know Tillis, just 22 percent viewed him favorably while 35 percent see him unfavorably. Forty-three percent aren�t sure. Senate Pro-Tem Phil Berger fares a little better, but not much with a favorable rating of 21 percent and an unfavorable of 30.
Not encouraging numbers for Tillis, who is seen as a possible candidate for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kay Hagan. (Hagan, by the way, has a disapproval rating of 35 percent).
Overall, the General Assembly rates a 48 percent disapproval mark.
The good news for state lawmakers is that Congress continues to be the most disliked political body not only in North Carolina, but perhaps the nation. Just 14 percent of those asked by Elon pollsters voiced approval for how Congress is doing its job. Seventy-five percent disapprove.
So at least there�s something state voters agree about.
All kidding aside, the numbers across the board are troubling, if only because they indicate an overall lack of optimism among state residents that government machinations will improve anytime soon.
It seems that politicians should be spending some time these days trying to win back the confidence of the people who put them in office.


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In his book Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds page 124, Turaev defined a TQFT $\tau$ axiomatically.
For a cobordism $(M, \partial_{-}M, \partial_{+}M)$, a TQFT assignes a $k$-homomorhism $\tau(M)$ from the projective $k$-module $\tau(\partial_{-}M)$ to the projective $k$-module $\tau(\partial_{+}M)$. Here $k$ is a (ground) ring.
One of the axioms is a functoriality. Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be a cobordisms and let $M$ be a cobordism obtained by gluing $M_1$ and $M_2$ along a homeomorphism $f$ from $\partial_+(M_1)$ to $\partial_{-}(M_2)$. Then the functoriality says that
$\tau(M)=k\tau(M_2)\circ f_{*} \circ \tau(M_1)$, where $\tau$ is a TQFT and $k$ is an invertible element called anomaly for the pair $(M_1, M_2,f)$.
My question is whether this is associative or not. Namely, if we have two pairs $(M_1, M_2,f)$ and $(M_2, M_3,g)$, then we can calculate the anomaly in two way, gluing first along $f$ and then $g$, or gluing along $g$ first then $f$.
Are anomalies obtained in these ways same? If so, how do we prove it from the axioms of Turaev TQFT?
If we regard $(M_1 \cup_f M_2)\cup_g M_3$ and $M_1 \cup_f (M_2\cup_g M_3)$ are the same, then we should have the anomalies the same. Or if we think there is a homeomophism between these spaces, then the anomalies should be the same up to invertible factor. Right?


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After vows, disabled LI couple's aim: a life together
Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels are in love. They're getting married. But after their honeymoon, they'll be forced to live in separate homes.
Paul, 29, and Hava, 35, are mentally disabled. They live in Manorville about three miles apart in group homes for the disabled. They've been engaged since 2011, when Paul gave Hava a ring to slip on her size-4 finger.
But after their wedding next Sunday and a short honeymoon in Pennsylvania, they'll be living separately.
It won't be by choice. Their group homes have told them they don't want to house a married couple together, according to court records.
Paul, Hava and their parents have filed a federal lawsuit against New York State and the two nonprofit agencies that run their respective group homes. Their goal is to secure the couple's right to live together, arguing that not allowing them to do so once they're married violates the Fair Housing Act, Americans With Disabilities Act, the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment, and New York mental-hygiene law.
The defendants won't comment directly on the suit but are moving to dismiss it in court. A conference is scheduled for Wednesday.
If the two families are successful, said William Brooks, clinical professor of law at Touro Law Center and supervising attorney of the Civil Rights Litigation Clinic at Touro, the case could be precedent-setting. "If successful, it would likely require residential providers of services to people with disabilities to take steps to accommodate individuals who seek to live in marital relationships," Brooks said, adding that there is currently little case law regarding people with intellectual disabilities and marriage.
Some area agencies do allow married couples to live together in group homes, according to court papers.
The couple's story, so far
Paul and Hava met eight years ago at an arts program that teaches skills to people with disabilities through rehearsing and performing shows such as "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Annie."
A year later, the two began to take an interest in each other. "She was very beautiful," Paul said.
The attraction was mutual, and Hava invited Paul on their first date, to a dinner dance at her bike club.
Seven years have passed and Paul and Hava are just as enamored with each other.
"I just want to spend the rest of my life with Hava, and I want to grow old with Hava together and because I just care about Hava," Paul said, explaining why he proposed. "Because I always help Hava when she's sad, and she helps me when I'm sad."
"May I?" Hava asked, as she often does when she needs people to pause while she forms her words. "Love. I love him."
"I love you too, sweetie," Paul said.
The agencies that manage the two group homes -- Independent Group Home Living Program, which runs the home where Paul lives, and Maryhaven Center of Hope, which runs Hava's home -- wouldn't comment directly on the lawsuit.
In a September 2012 letter to Paul's parents, Thomas Trakoval, IGHL senior director of program services, wrote that the agency felt that Paul lacked the skills and ability to be married.
And Walter Stockton, chief executive and founder of IGHL, said in an interview that the agency isn't against relationships, but he said that none of its 55 area group homes are set up for married couples.
"We don't think we're required to provide that type of service in our homes," Stockton said. "It'd be very difficult in the small, family-type environment that we have."
IGHL, Maryhaven and the state attorney general's office have indicated in letters to the court that they plan to seek dismissal of the suit. State officials would not comment directly on the lawsuit.
"We can't comment on matters in litigation," said Chris Hendricks, a spokeswoman for Catholic Health Services, of which Maryhaven Center of Hope is a member.
An uncommon courtship
Paul and Hava see each other at their day program in Port Jefferson Station, on a weekly "date night," and on weekends, when Paul's parents, Roseann and Frank Forziano, or Hava's parents, Bonnie and Norm Samuels, take the couple home with them.
Hava has lived in the group home since 2000, Paul since 2009. Their disabilities mean that neither Paul nor Hava can drive, manage money, or live independently. Their reading and writing skills are limited. They have trouble counting, and find puzzles meant for children to be a challenge.
Paul's IQ was measured at 50 and 58; Hava's at 44 and 50, her scores possibly affected by her struggle to speak more than a few words at a time.
Both families welcomed the relationship but said they were confounded when Paul and Hava first approached them with the idea of marriage.
Could a disabled couple marry? Roseann Forziano wondered whether she would have to discourage Paul, as she did when Paul wanted to learn to drive.
The parents said they researched the issue with the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, and found that a disability on its own was not a barrier to marriage.
They also learned that some group homes for the disabled allow married couples to live together.
"It's their civil right, just like anybody else's," Roseann Forziano said.
The families approached Paul's and Hava's group homes, where they said they met resistance.
"Both these agencies felt people like that couldn't have a true marriage," Roseann Forziano said. "If you're not able to live independently, you really shouldn't be married and you shouldn't ask us to do it."
The agencies, according to court records, tested Paul and Hava to see whether their disabilities precluded them from being able to consent to sexual activity. If an individual is classified as "non-consenting," then any sexual contact with that person can be grounds for an abuse claim.
IGHL and Maryhaven conducted sexual-consent assessments on Paul and Hava, court papers say. Each found them unable to consent to sexual conduct, but both sets of parents argue in court papers and in interviews that the exams were done without giving Paul and Hava the sexual education they needed to answer the questions.
The Forzianos and Samuels then began teaching the couple about sex on their own using a curriculum developed by YAI, another area group home provider, then took the couple to YAI in Manhattan for another sexual-consent assessment, which they said they both passed. Maryhaven rejected the outside assessment. And IGHL expressed concerns with how the assessment was done, court papers say.
In January, both families filed suit in federal court in Central Islip against IGHL and Maryhaven, as well as the head of the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities and the state, arguing that the government should require the agencies, which receive government funds, to accept a married couple, especially because other agencies do.
"When you're trying to deny somebody something on the basis of disability, you have to look carefully at what their abilities are and what your reasons are for denying it, and you better have darn good reasons," said Martin Coleman, an attorney litigating the case for the parents.
Paul's and Hava's parents say intellectual disabilities aren't emotional ones -- while they might never be able to crunch a budget, they know what love is.
"There are certain things they don't understand and never will understand," Roseann Forziano said. "That doesn't mean they can't sustain a loving relationship, which is what marriage is."
Seeking long-term solution
Both families noticed changes in their children as the relationship progressed -- Paul became more selfless, constantly solicitous of Hava's needs. Hava grew more self-confident under Paul's stream of compliments, more willing to express her thoughts, however difficult she found the words.
And both sets of parents say Paul and Hava's relationship has brought them a sense of comfort, too.
After their parents die, Paul and Hava will still have each other.
"For me to be able to think that he has a wife and a companion for the rest of his life, it makes it easier for me to kick off at some point," Roseann Forziano said.
"Like any couple, they will be their own family," Frank Forziano said.
On Valentine's Day, mother and daughter disappeared into a small room at the Bridal Suite of Centereach.
When they emerged, Hava walked stiffly inside a strapless wedding dress that pooled around her feet. It was the first fitting for the dress she picked out herself.
"Relax, relax," Bonnie Samuels soothed.
"I am, Mom," Hava insisted, still not moving, her arms rigid at her sides.
Bonnie Samuels, Hava and Roseann Forziano went to the tailoring area, where the seamstress pinned the dress and attached wide straps to the bodice to hold it up.
"Better," Hava said, relaxing a little and smiling as she gazed at her image in the mirror.
"Hava had a baby-naming at 2 weeks old," Bonnie Samuels said as the seamstress cut through the rich ivory fabric at Hava's feet. "There's a prayer -- 'I should see you under the chuppah [canopy in a Jewish wedding ceremony] with your bridegroom.' And then when we found out she had problems, it was like, those are things I'll never see. Then she had a bat mitzvah, which was amazing. And now to do this, this is even more amazing."
After the fitting, Samuels, Forziano and Hava drove to R&S Diamond Exchange in Rocky Point, where they had purchased Hava's engagement ring. Paul, Frank Forziano and Norm Samuels were already there, ready to select the couple's wedding bands.
The couple leaned over the display case, looking at a variety of gold wedding bands. Hava tried on a yellow band, then a white one, comparing them both against her engagement ring.
"Hard decision," Hava said. "Hard."
"I want one like Daddy's," Paul said.
Their parents helping them, they decided on matching gold bands -- yellow for Paul, white for Hava.
Paul and Hava could live together after their wedding if they were to move in with their parents. The lawsuit says that the state made that recommendation, but neither set of parents believes that's a long-term solution. Paul and Hava moved to group homes, they said, because they needed a place to live that would last beyond the life span of their parents.
"If they came home and lived with us, and then something happened to the both of us and they both needed emergency placement . . . who's going to force them to house them together?" Roseann Forziano said. "They could very well be separated."
While the parents researched other agencies that would take married couples, they said they couldn't find any in the area with openings. But they believe all agencies should be required to house married couples.
All set for matrimony
Meanwhile, the families are preparing for Paul and Hava's wedding next Sunday.
"We're doing a leap of faith," Roseann Forziano said. "We're all not getting any younger."
Some unknowns lie ahead. While the couple has received sexuality education, none of the parents know whether their relationship will be a sexual one. Hava is on birth control pills for a medical issue, and the parents say Paul and Hava know having children isn't an option for them because of their disabilities.
"The sexual aspect of their marriage is their business," Frank Forziano said. "Maybe they won't have sex. Maybe they will."
The parents have said they're preparing Paul and Hava for the fact that, after their honeymoon, they'll be returned to their respective group homes.
"It's going to be the saddest moment when we take them back," Norm Samuels said.
A week after Valentine's Day, the two families gathered at Brookhaven Town Hall to apply for Paul and Hava's marriage license.
"I feel nervous," Roseann Forziano said. She carried a sheaf of paperwork, including the papers that indicated she and her husband gave up their rights as guardians over Paul in regard to marriage.
Paul was excited.
"I want to get married just like you and Daddy got married and just like Bonnie and Norm got married and just like my grandparents got married," he said.
Finally, it was time to go in. Paul and Hava sat down, clutching each other's hands, as senior clerk Mary Dugan typed the license.
"I'm happy," Hava said.
"Me too, honey. I'm happy," Paul replied. "I'm so excited, honey. Our marriage license."
When Dugan returned with the license, the two mothers went over it for mistakes, then watched as Paul wrote his name on the signature line. When it was Hava's turn, her mother coached her through each letter.
"You know how to make an 'A,' " Samuels said.
Back at the Forzianos' house, Frank Forziano popped open a bottle of sparkling wine.
"To Paul and Hava on this wonderful, groundbreaking day -- the day of their getting their marriage license," he said. "Now we're legal, and we're ready to go."
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Amazing, really cool developments from Ancestry.com
First, the family you are working on is highlighted in a color with the head of household in a contrasting color. Second, as you scroll across, there is a pop-up list of everyone on the U.S. Census page. The list follows across like a split screen in a spreadsheet. There is also another pop-up list at the top with tags showing the definitions of the columns. I cannot tell you how many times I have gotten lost trying to move across a blown up Census page. This seems so simple and so obvious an addition, that I assumed that I had somehow missed seeing this new feature and it had been there a long time. But I know that it hasn't been more than one or two days since I was last on Ancestry.com and I haven't changed any settings.
Since I noticed this first on the Library Edition at the Mesa FamilySearch Library and then found the same changes when I got home today, I suppose it works on both programs. I decided to look back through the Ancestry.com blog posts to see if I had just missed the boat. Nope, I couldn't find anything. Of course, if I read the 100+ blog posts waiting for me in Feedly.com, I will likely find that everyone else already knew about the change. It is amazing how I am excited by very simple things.
Thanks, Ancestry.com.
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These wonderful tools that Ancestry develops and provides to help us are the reason I get aggravated when I read all the criticisms of Ancestry just because it's a subscription site. It's a wonderful resource and I'm grateful for it.ReplyDelete
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I don't know what the official name for it is, but internally we call it "Gridlines". My team has been developing it for the last few years and we roll it out one collection at a time. It involves several teams and processes, starting with the early part of the Imaging pipeline, in which we first dewarp the image to get it back as rectangular as possible and then we register a form template against it, trying to match up corners and line intersections as closely as possible. When you know on a pixel level where everything is, you can do things in the viewer, like record highlighting, that make it seem like you _understand_ the document's content. I've been trying to get the guy on my team who is considered the principal investigator for this technology to write a blog post for our TechRoots series. BTW, I used one of your images (with your permission) in one of my blog posts about our Image Processing Pipeline. Does that sound familiar? I enjoy your blog and rely on Feedly on my Android to let me read everything you write! Thanks!Replies
Thanks so much for your response, you certainly have my permission to use my screenshots or whatever from my posts.Delete
I've seen it on some Census documents on Ancestry.com in the last couple weeks and not on others. I'm hoping the feature will roll out to all of the Census documents. It is very helpful!ReplyDeleteReplies
See the previous comment. It will probably take some time but will roll out on more collections.Delete
This change was announced at the Ancestry.com keynote, RootsTech 2012. I have been using it on some census years for many months. It seems strange to me that someone who uses the site as often as you just sees this now... HmmmReplyDeleteReplies
I wonder what more I missed at RootsTech 2013? I was a little bit preoccupied during the Keynotes. Thanks for your comments as always.Delete
It was 2012.ReplyDeleteReplies
Well, that would probably explain why I didn't remember hearing about it. Thanks for the clarification. I always welcome corrections.Delete