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Eaton Rapids, MI (April 24, 2014) – After starting off the 2014 Kenda AMA National Enduro Series with three-straight wins, Charlie Mullins comes into round four of the series in Park Hills, Missouri on May 18th with lots of momentum and a healthy lead in the series standings.
Sitting 33 points ahead of second place in the championship chase, Mullins threatens to break away from the competition with another win. And while his commanding lead might indicate that the factory KTM rider has had a relatively easy go of it to this point in the schedule, that was certainly not the case at the previous round in Westpoint, Tennessee, where Mullins counted himself lucky to come away with the win. Riders like N-Fab/Am Pro Yamaha's Brad Bakken, Maxxis/Klim/Dirtwise-backed Jesse Groemm and AirGroup Racing's Nick Fahringer, who are starting to put on a surge, and are certainly looking to keep Mullins in check at the Missouri round.
A mixture of rocky gullies, hard-packed with a few sand washes, with a tricky waterfall section thrown in for good measure, the Lead Belt Enduro will test a competitor's ability, concentration and endurance. Look for Groemm, who sits second in points, to have a good day as the terrain should play right into the New Jersey native's wheelhouse.
FMF/KTM's Steward Baylor, from South Carolina, is another rider who excels in sandy conditions, and the 2011 national champ is due for a breakout ride.
Fahringer, on the other hand, posted his first podium finish of the season last month in Tennessee, and his stock is certainly on the rise as well. Meanwhile, Bakken grabbed an impressive runner-up finish at the Rad Dad and will be looking to improve on that this weekend.
Other riders to look out for are eight-time national champ Mike Lafferty, who is in his final year of national competition after announcing his retirement during the off-season. Also, Factory Husqvarna Racing's Andrew DeLong should be in the mix, not that he's had a few rounds to adjust to his new team and new bike.
Tyler Trammell holds a 10-point lead over Martin Howell in the Rekluse Expert-AA class, 66 points to 56 points. For all you AA riders, this is a great new class set up just for you. Each round pays $100 for first, $75 for second and $50 for third. Plus, at the end of the year the Expert-AA Class Champion will earn $1000 from Rekluse, if he runs Rekluse Clutch Components. The Expert-AA Class Champion is determined by a rider's best 8 of 10 rounds. Be sure to check out the Rekluse website for exact details.
The Expert-AA class was created to give these talented young riders a stepping-stone to achieve their goal of becoming pro riders. The NEPG is encouraging these riders to push their limits in a highly competitive class where the top five are separated by mere seconds, just like the pros. The NEPG will keep these riders grouped together for the rest of the year.
The Lead Belt National Enduro in Park Hill, MO, southwest of St. Louis, utilizes the St. Joe State Park and the retired Lead Belt mine. A few trails used within the park are fairly fast and sandy, but most of the course is classic single track and a little rocky in spots. The course usually loops around coming back to camp for gas and many spectator points are close by. There is a 17-mile paved bicycle path that goes right from the starting area and some checks are accessible by bicycle path on Sunday. Here is a link for the bicycle trails: http://www.mostateparks.com/trails/st-joe-state-park?type=bicycling
On Saturday, KTM will be offering demo rides from 10:00 to 4:00 pm, followed by a Spaghetti dinner from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. There will be no test loop, however, the park area will be open for riding on Friday and Saturday.
If you're looking for a sightseeing opportunity while you're in the area, be sure to check out the Lead Mine Museum, which is not far from the start area.
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A Day In The Life
Students create a movie or slide show depicting a typical day at school through the eyes of a student.
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Among the joys of watching minor-league baseball in Maryland is that four of the Orioles' minor-league teams—the Frederick Keys, the Delmarva Shorebirds (Salisbury), the Bowie Baysox, and the Aberdeen Ironbirds—play in such close proximity to each other and the big-league club. In the press box at a recent Delmarva Shorebirds game, the visiting team's broadcaster loudly expressed envy over the relative closeness of the Orioles' minor-league affiliates to the parent club. There's also an intimacy associated with minor-league baseball that is absent at big-league games; whether it's the atmosphere and more affordable cost of tickets that create an opportunity for families to enjoy each other's company or the up and close and personal interaction with the ballplayers, minor-league baseball is more laid-back and casual than going to the big-league games. Plus, they're readily accessible at the spur of the moment. We made early-season excursions to three of the four local parks—the Aberdeen Ironbirds' season starts in mid-June—to let you know what's on deck for 2014.
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You have to keep your eyes toward the ground when you're walking along the concourses of the Orioles' minor-league ballparks in Frederick, Bowie, Salisbury, and Aberdeen. There's a lot going on in those first four feet above ground: Kids hopped up on high-fructose corn syrup and cotton candy scramble in every direction; puddles of spilled beer and splattered ketchup and mustard colorize the pavement. We almost stepped in a horse-sized dump dropped by a towering Great Dane and abandoned by the dog's owner on "Bark in the Park" night at a recent Frederick Keys game at Harry Grove Stadium (21 Stadium Drive, Frederick, [301] 662-0013).
Half-carnival, half-spectator sporting event, sometimes it feels as is the game on the field is playing a secondary role to all of the peripheral activities surrounding minor-league baseball. The ballparks in Bowie, Frederick, and Salisbury all have carousels and other amusement-park rides located down the outfield lines inside the ballpark. In a time when ADD is the accepted norm, there's always some kind of interactive contest, show, or call for audience participation designed to keep the kids engaged on top of the dugouts or in the stands between every half-inning.
But there's plenty of adult fun to be had at the ballparks as well. In Frederick, my girlfriend and I shared a barbecue beef brisket panini and a huge grilled Italian sausage with a pair of locally produced beers from the Brewer's Alley concession stand.
On the field, the majority of the minor-league players are young and unseasoned, but the quality of the baseball can be top-notch on any given night. Orioles' third baseman Manny Machado recently completed a three-game rehab stint in Frederick, in which he went 8-for-12 with a triple, four doubles, two RBIs, five runs scored and a stolen base. (The jersey worn by Machado during his brief time in town was later auctioned on the Keys' website for $993.88.) Slugger Chris Davis also completed a recent rehab stint with the Orioles AA Eastern League affiliate in Bowie.
The Keys are named for Frederick's own "Star-Spangled Banner" scribbler, Francis Scott Key, who was born in town and is buried in the cemetery across the street from the ballpark under a huge bronze memorial in his own likeness. Opened in 1990, after 24 years as the home to the Baltimore Orioles' single-A Carolina League affiliate, Harry Grove Stadium represents a nostalgic post-Rockwellian slice of minor-league Americana. In place of the Orioles' tradition of singing "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," fans are instructed to stand up and shake their key chains and join in singing the team's theme song, "We're the Frederick Keys," during the seventh-inning stretch.
Bowie Baysox
There were so many kids at Prince George's Stadium (4101 Crain Highway, Bowie, [301] 805-6000) for a recent Bowie Baysox game that they seemed to outnumber the adults two-to-one, if not more. Many of the youngsters were cashing in free tickets to the game earned through the Baysox 18-years-and-running Home Run Reading Program, which rewards kids for reading at least four books outside of their regular curriculum with a complimentary ticket to a game. At one point during the game—an exciting 10-inning affair won by the home team on a walk-off infield single—the collective sound of children's voices was like a tremendous group of birds chirping.
Again, in Bowie, they do a great job of keeping the kids entertained so the parents can also have some fun. We enjoyed huge half-pound burgers from the ballpark's Black Angus Grille, washed down with a couple of pints of Troeg's Sunshine Pils from a well-stocked microbrew beer stand. My favorite promotions in Bowie are the very adult beer dinners, which include pairings of beers and a themed buffet dinner in the ballpark's Diamond View restaurant, scheduled each month throughout the season.
They still play "Gangnam Style" over the PA system in Bowie, and at the sound of the first note, every kid in the ballpark bounced up and began going through the wild gesticulations of the pop-dance phenomenon. After the game, we pulled out of the parking lot under a pretty impressive fireworks show, which happens most Friday nights during the season.
Delmarva Shorebirds
Arthur W. Perdue Stadium (6400 Hobbs Road, Salisbury, [410] 219-3112), named for chicken-magnate Frank Perdue's father, is home to the Delmarva Shorebirds, the single-A South Atlantic League affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, and also houses the Eastern Shore Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame. We were greeted enthusiastically by volunteer docent Teddy Evans, who gave us a quick tour of the museum's exhibits and memorabilia, drawing our attention to highlights like a set of Ty Cobb's golf clubs and a pair of his sunglasses while providing a succinct but informative history of professional and semi-professional baseball in the region. There are plenty of black-and-white photos of the major-league stars and others who played in various local leagues during the area's golden era, like Teddy himself, who proudly but humbly pointed out the trophy he received as Central Shore League batting champion in 1956.
While the crowd was relatively light on a recent Monday night game in Salisbury, it was a family affair of a different sort for 19-year-old Shorebirds pitcher Hunter Harvey, the Baltimore Orioles' number-one draft pick of 2013. Harvey took the hill for the home team in front of his parents, who were visiting from North Carolina. Harvey's father, Bryan, was a two-time All-Star during his nine-year major-league career. (Also, current Ironbirds outfielder Mike Yastrzemski is the grandson of Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski.) In the best performance of his brief career to date, Harvey pitched seven scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts, and retired 16 consecutive batters in the Shorebirds 3-0 victory over the Lakewood Blueclaws.
When I bumped into him after the game in front of the Hampton Inn in Salisbury, where his parents and I both happened to be staying, the younger Harvey mentioned how his father's presence influences his performance: "I love it when he comes to watch. I really just want to prove myself to him. He was an All-Star, and one of my goals is to be better than my dad. So that's something I'm working toward."
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4. The Colts should be more than a little embarrassed with the way they've quit on this season. I've seen a few people claim in recent weeks that, if they had a vote in the NFL MVP balloting this season, they'd vote for Peyton Manning, ahead of Aaron Rodgers. All you have to do, they reason, is look at how bad the Colts have been without him. That proves he should be the MVP every season. I'm sorry, but to heck with that line of thinking. What's happening in Denver with Tim Tebow should embarrass the Colts. The Broncos had every reason to quit playing hard after five games. In fact, I think it's obvious John Elway figured that playing Tebow might actually help him get rid of the guy. The Broncos clearly thought they'd throw their fans a bone by throwing Tebow out there, show them he couldn't play, and at the same time put themselves in a position to draft Andrew Luck or Matt Barkley. It totally backfired. They're probably going to win that division. But you know why it backfired? Not because Tebow is an amazing quarterback. He's fascinating to watch, and I'm loving every minute of this, but he's not the sole reason Denver is winning. They're winning because the entire team rallied around him. The defense is playing superb football, Willis McGahee is running hard, the kicking game has been superb, and the coaches have played to Tebow's strengths. Tebow gets a lot of the credit, and he deserves a lot for the way he's been able to finish close games, but it's still a total team effort. They're proof adversity is sometimes an opportunity. What has Indianapolis done? The exact opposite. They undermined Curtis Painter's confidence by bringing in Kerry Collins at the start of the year, then eventually quit on Painter (even though they have nothing to play for) and signed Dan Orlovsky, who has never won an NFL game. A few players on defense are still playing hard -- Dwight Freeney for one -- but some of the skill position players on offense checked out weeks ago. I'm not saying the Colts should be in contention for the playoffs, but the fact that they couldn't muster three or four wins this year is absurd. On Ray Rice's 6-yard touchdown, Jacob Lacey gave one of the most pathetic efforts I've seen all season when Ed Dickson came out to block him. He didn't even try to shed the block. He just let Dickson walk him backward into the end zone. The Colts seem more determined to finish the season 0-16 than they were determined to finish 16-0 a few years ago. Before their final drive, they had 91 yards of total offense. It's ridiculous. If there's any justice, Andrew Luck will stun the world by deciding he wants to be a fifth-year senior at Stanford, making the Colts look even more foolish for throwing in the white towel so quickly.
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Dumagette is much quieter than PG, no town nearby to get a drink. To be honest, I wasn't much impressed. While the staff was excellent in their attitude and service (Gloria and Randell in the restaurant received especially good tips) the dive staff didn't seem to want to take the skiffs very far. One couple told us they had gone to one spot 6 times within one week. We were hoping to get out to Apu island, afterall this was a fam and we thought they would want to impress us, but we never got out there. The night dive was ok, some nice sea snakes but anything we saw in PG or Dumagette, we could have seem much more of and with more frequency and diversity by going to KBR.
Please don't tell Andy in PG that I said this. He is a heck of a nice guy and I wouldn't want him to think that I don't appreciate his hospitality. Its just that business is business and when my partner and I lead a trip we really are concerned that our guests get the very best diving in. Most of them are repeat guests and extremely well traveled so their expectations of the diving are as high as my own.
Now, here is another thread that probably doesn't belong here but 'tough". While we were in PG we asked some of the staff about tipping. My partner and I usually tip pretty darn good as many of these people work very hard for very little. In the conversation it came up that generally, only Americans really tip at all. They said the Asians from either Japan or China never tip and neither do most Europeans. Is this true? Most everyone here is a seasoned diver and traveler and you're not all Americans so what is the scoop? I don't want to judge, I just am interested in other's perspectives on this issue.
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 11:42 AM
The idea of not giving a tip to a guy or girl who is lucky to make $4-5$ a day doesn't sit right with me. In addition to tips, I gave staffers my hats, bought some t-shirts to give away and some other goodies I didn't want to take back with me and they seemed to appreciate it.
Think about it, a dive guide who might make $10 a day including tips needs to work for a month to buy the regulator he dives with.....
Yeah, it is their job to serve guests and lug our stuff around, but getting rid of all our leftover currency is not going to kill anyone.
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 12:14 PM
Americans tip a lot because it is ingrained into our culture. We think it's the best way to show appreciation for good service. It's appropriate that many American invaded places like Mexico, the Carribbean etc expect good tips.
However the world at large do not have as big a tipping culture as the US. For eg in the Philippines or Thailand (where I've been going to both places for over 15 years and spent a year as a kid in Manila), the culture is decidedly different. Sure $5 is nothing to most US tourists but think of the local culture. Tipping too much not only creates tension (as Nick pointed out) but also disrespects the locals who most probably cannot tip like the tourists do. By spoiling the market as it were, we as US tourists garner the better service, food etc while the ones who tip less get crappier service. It's human nature to want more money.
It is imho, distasteful and disrespectful of the local cultures to assume 10% of the costs is "standard". There are 2 prices in the philippines, local and gringo. I don't know about others but giving a guy triple his salary for doing his job is just not right. As for thinking of compensating for that particular person's social plight, there are many much more worthwhile charities that do a lot more work that affect a lot more people for that $20.
A well travelled friend once said "I can't give a guy 400% of his salary as a dm, a doctor makes less in this country." The social and cultural implications of generous gratuities are a little more complicated than just getting rid of change, imho. Money isn't always the only way to show appreciation. One of the guys who has travelled with me actually helps carry all the equipment back etc and yaks with the crew all day, always treating them as equals. I think he was definitely more liked than the other guy who smiles and throws a C note as a thank you.
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 12:18 PM
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 01:08 PM
I personally don't like any of the concept of tipping...I think it should be included in the service price....and he employee who has the best service/performance should be recognized and rewarded by the employer...
I think tipping is more of a back east thing in the U.S....the concept of trying to figure out how much should go to the waiter, the maitre' de, the busser, etc, I think is lame....
On the other hand I hate to see a guy or girl bust their tail and not get rewarded by their employer....that is a disincentive.
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 11:49 AM
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 12:03 PM
To this day, when one tips at most restaurants, hotels, resorts in the Philippines it is never a percentage of the price of the meal/stay/service. One would have a family dinner totally over $100 and the tip would maybe amount to a couple of dollars. Most of the higher end establishments do automatically add a service charge and in those cases tips are not required. When I first moved to the West, I was shocked at how much I had to leave as a tip, having been used to giving a minimal percentage (if you can even call it that) as a tip. Now, having gotten used to the minimum of 15% tips, I feel a need to re-adjust my thinking whenever I'm back in the country of my birth as tips of that amount is just never really done.
On trips I lead to dive the Philippines, I normally recommend that the total tip (DM's, Staff, etc) be a total of 10% of the bill with the guides (if they're good) getting about 50% of the share and the balance evenly split with the rest, though if the guest wants to leave more, it's their discretion to do so...one thing as well to note, NEVER tip until just before you leave, we tipped one guy a day early and when we needed to load up our gear onto the boat, he never showed... I found out later that the total tip from the group was about 2 months salary for him and he drank himself senseless! B)
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I've never been to KBR, but have friends who've been there. These same friends have gone with me to the Philippines and have told me that they'll never go back to KBR. The diving and variety of life in the Philippines is equal or better plus the costs associated with diving are much lower. Friends who've said they never do repeat trips to dive destinations have done the Philippines 4 times with me....must be something there eh? Nudibranchs in Anilao and PG, Threshers in Malapascua, Mantas, gorgeous soft corals in Tubbataha...
I have the benefit of being able to speak fluent Tagalog, I easily converse with the locals. This fact alone gets me and thus my groups better service every time. The locals appreciate the fact that even though I'm from abroad, I still use good manners in dealing with them. I use the proper form of addressing those older than I, or their given names....never use a "Hey You!"
Will throwing money around get you good service...sure...but the Filipinos are a proud people....a smile, a gentle tone will get you a lot more than being a brass westerner looking down on his little brown brother/sister and giving them some extra cash. The 1st year I went with a group, I overheard one of the boatmen say in Tagalog "Look! More white folk! We'll have a great time taking their money!" Imagine their surprise when I came up to them and said "Let's just see you try!" After their jaws bounced back from the floor, they said "Oh, you're a kababayan (a local), why didn't you say so?". The service level went up a few notches after that...and of course we did tip them in the end, but not excessively so.
Yes, there is the gringo price and the local price. A friend of mine was playing the haggling game with one of the many T-shirt/basket ladies of Puerto, she thought she got a great deal on a collection of baskets...until I walked up and in Tagalog asked "Is that the best you can do? She's my friend". The seller's face lit up and she said "Why didn't you tell me you were a local? Would she like another 10% off?"
Anyway, I guess I ended up with a bit of a rant here...
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 01:04 PM
Many places in the world (China, South America), service is provided as part of their jobs. Tipping is not necessary. And I have seen much better service at these places than i have gotten here in the states.
anyways my $.02, I had to give the rest during lunch for tips.....
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Posted 01 August 2006 - 07:53 AM
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Posted 01 August 2006 - 08:59 AM
I once had a waiter run after me after a dinner in Vail, Colorado, questioning whether I had left the right tip (indicating I had not left enough). I promptly said, 'Sorry I think I gave you too much' and took a few dollars back out of his hand, as his jaw dropped to the floor.
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 01:23 AM
Whenever we travel we ask the travel agent how is the country we are going to in this matter. Some operators (like Aggressor) include some info in their website...
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 04:02 AM
As for operators like Aggressor, it's to their advantage you tip 10%. They are in a foreign country making good profit while paying the locals pretty pathetically(relatively). This is especially true in many parts of asia. The local crew get pittance, the foreign crew get quite a bit more and of course the companies make the biggest cut. If they can get the customers to pay the crew more to keep them, then it's more profit to them.
I wish I could tell you how many foreign operators have foreign bank accounts to not pay taxes or to contribute back into the host country. Which is why I always prefer using local owned and run operations.
Stu, my best stories about the exploitation of gringoes all happens on Malapascua. I was walking on the main beach when the ferry came in and the passengers were disembarking. Of course the gringoes pay 35 pesos and the pinoys 15. So one german tourist questions why he has to pay 35 pesos when the guy in front paid 15. He was arguing pretty adamantly until a voice in the back shouted... "you're white, so you pay 60 cents, live with it!!!" It was an american woman who didn't want to wait at the back.
Another time, I'd just gotten off my boat from Malapascua when i realized I left something behind. So I chartered the boat again to go back. After collecting my stuff I walked onto my chartered boat, then suddenly locals were climbing on board and paying the boat man too. So I said to him, if I'm paying him, why is he collecting from the other locals. He said it's extra. Obviously he was working me over. So I said to the locals coming aboard that I'd paid for the boat ride and they didn't have to pay. I was quite popular that day in Malapascua.
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 04:09 AM
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 07:27 AM
At times, I've actually tipped the boatman more than I have the dive guide, especially if all the DM does is sit on the boat sending text messages to his wife instead of looking for critters! In PG, I don't get a guide anymore because I've been there enough times that I can make my way around pretty well...though if I'm looking for a particular critter then I request someone I know who is a fantastic spotter.
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 09:48 AM
I think that´s the way I go. Call me what you want, but I don´t think 10% is something I would pay as a tip. That would be closer to rent a boat and then pay for the hand labour. For an eight room 2000$ liveaboard that´s a tip of 3200 $ a week. Say there are two dive guides, captain, two cooks and five more people around, would be 1280$ per person a month, ok not always full, make it 1000$. It sure looks to me closer to a salary than to a tip...
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 10:19 AM
Perhaps I do not understand how tipping would make any of us a "brass westerner looking down on his little brown brother/sister" and "throwing money around". Those two behaviors have liitle to do with tipping. You can be/do each without ever leaving a tip, or you can tip sufficiently to your liking without ever being/doing either.
A group of dive-guides or workers in another country, seeing me (except I wouldn't be mistaken for "white") coming down the road and talking about taking my money is no different than a waiter in a US restuarant seeing me sit down with a large group of collegues and saying to himself..."ahhh...finally, a big table and a big tip".
I buy into that scenario and am more than comfortable with it. Which is probably because I harbor the same kind of thoughts when a great business opportunity comes my way. I am seldom insulted, or feel my cultural norms are being offended, when a possible windfall is at hand. And to date I have not seen evidence of this in any other country or region I have visited or dived in, regardless of it's locations on the globe.
Clearly how we conduct ourselves is important. But simply by offering a tip I am not diminishing the worker nor acting the boorish Westerner. The way the dive industry has been established over the past 30 years is that we the divers are part of the workers remuneration. One can argue against the practice and assail it's premise, but that is the reality and we all know it. The real boorish behavior would be to accept the service without accepting the responsibilty that we know is implied by our participation.
I believe we all have known for a long time that going out on a dive boat is not like going to the electronics store and buying a TV. It is, except for very exacting circumstances, obligatory to leave some money for the workers, because we know and understand that they are paid short in the expectation that guests will assist in the rest.
In the end it is probably less expensive for us to leave a tip, than it is for the operator to pay the workers more and subsequently pass that increased cost to us in the form of more expensive charters.
In any case the person who leaves a bit of money can hardly be impugned for the act of doing so. Though I believe it is important HOW we offer a gratuity. When in doubt, I always leave it or offer it in private rather than making it a public act.
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"Heart attacks could be predicted in advance," The Daily Telegraph has reported, while the Daily Mail assures readers that a "simple and inexpensive test that can spot a heart attack waiting to happen could be available next year".
However, these claims aren't quite as impressive as they first appear. The reports are based on a small study looking at how levels of particular cells in the blood changed after a heart attack, not before one had occurred. Researchers tested levels of "circulating endothelial cells" (CECs) in 50 patients who had a heart attack and 44 healthy volunteers. Endothelial cells are normally found lining blood vessels but can leak into the bloodstream when arteries are damaged, as can happen in the time before a heart attack.
Researchers found that CEC levels rose after a heart attack, leading them to conclude that CECs may be a useful predictive tool to detect heart attacks before they occur. The flaw in this logic is that, without finding evidence that CEC levels rise before a heart attack, we cannot tell whether they signal an impending heart attack or merely rise as the result of one. The most practical way to test if CEC levels really can be a heart attack predictor is to test a group of subjects regularly over time and assess whether CEC levels do change prior to a heart attack.
For now at least, don't rely on CECs to predict a heart attack, or on the media to predict a proven new heart attack test.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Scripps Translational Science Institute in the USA and was funded by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards and the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The study was published in the peer-reviewed Science Translational Medicine Journal.
The Telegraph's coverage was generally well-balanced and included comments from other experts in the field highlighting the limitations of the study, which were that the blood samples were actually taken after the heart attack occurred: pouring water on other newspapers' claims that scientists have found a way to predict a heart attack. For example, the Daily Mail's claim that "a simple and inexpensive test that can spot a heart attack waiting to happen" seems overstated given the criticism the study has received from experts. This makes the Mail's claim that the test "could be available next year" seem rather unlikely.
What kind of research was this?
This was a human study examining how the numbers and characteristics of types of cells called circulating endothelial cells (CECs) differed in patients who had had a heart attack and healthy volunteers. Endothelial cells are usually present in the lining of blood vessels such as arteries but can slough off into general circulation when the blood vessels become damaged.
Heart attacks, also known as acute myocardial infarction, are usually caused by a blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle (myocardium). This interruption of blood supply starves the heart muscle of oxygen and causes muscle tissue to die (infarction). This is usually caused by an atherosclerotic plaque: a mass of cholesterol, other fatty substances and cellular matter that has built up on the wall of the coronary artery. These unstable atherosclerotic plaques can rupture or tear, causing a blood clot (thrombus) to form which can block the artery and cause a heart attack. Heart attacks are called by different names depending on findings on ECG (electrocardiogram) scans that suggest whether the coronary artery has been completely blocked or only partially blocked. The patients in this study had all suffered from a full blockage, known as an ST elevation MI.
The researchers stated that it is still very difficult to predict an acute heart attack with full blockage of an artery, even given recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. They said that a clinical measurement that can predict an impending heart attack is still "desperately needed".
This research aimed to determine whether CECs isolated from heart attack patients might show differences in number and characteristics that may be useful to predict heart attack events due to plaque rupture.
What did the research involve?
The researchers analysed the volume and cellular characteristics of CECs in 50 patients who had an ST elevation MI (an acute heart attack caused by a complete blockage of a coronary artery due to arterial plaque rupture). The CECs of the patients who had experienced a heart attack were compared with 44 healthy controls.
Heart attack patients were recruited from the emergency room at four regional hospitals in San Diego from Jan 2010 to Feb 2011, where they had blood samples taken to analyse their CECs. Blood samples were taken before their heart attacks were confirmed using an angiography (an imaging technique to look inside the coronary arteries) or before any non-emergency treatment was given.
Healthy controls were recruited from the blood donor programme at the Scripps Research Institute and were aged between 18 and 35. They were asked to report details of any chronic diseases they had, and only those reporting none were included.
Researchers used what they described as a "clinically feasible" microscope technique to detect and isolate CECs from the blood of study participants. This means that doctors should be able to use the technique in a medical setting such as a hospital rather than requiring equipment unavailable to most doctors. The number of CECs, their size and shape and the genes they expressed were analysed from the blood sample and isolated CECs.
The analysis compared the number of CECs in the heart attack patients with the healthy controls. They did further analysis to see if any differences in CECs were related to age or other markers of heart attack.
What were the basic results?
The average age of the heart attack patients was 58.5 years and 82% were male. By contrast, the healthy volunteers had an average age of 30 and only 51% were male.
The study found that numbers of CECs were significantly elevated in patients who had a heart attack compared with controls: CEC counts were 19 cells per millilitre of blood in heart attack patients, compared to just 4 cells per millilitre in the healthy controls.
This raised CEC count did not correlate with other recognised measures of heart muscle death, such as test results relating to creatine kinase-myocardial band and troponin levels. Blood levels of these proteins will normally be raised in a person who has had a heart attack.
The researchers also noted that heart attack patients had CECs with different cellular characteristics from controls. Compared to healthy controls, the heart attack patients had CECs that were significantly larger, misshapen and had larger nuclear areas (the areas within cells containing the cellular DNA).
Cellular differences in heart attack patients were also observed when comparing them with patients with pre-existing peripheral vascular disease, a condition that leads to the narrowing and hardening of blood vessels in the legs and feet. It can cause blood clots and other circulatory problems.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers concluded that their results indicate that CEC counts "may serve as a promising clinical measure" for the prediction of heart attacks caused by atherosclerotic plaque ruptures.
This small study shows that CEC counts were significantly higher in 50 people who had a heart attack, compared with 44 health controls, which the authors claim could be useful in developing a predictive tool to detect heart attacks before they occur.
The major flaw with the logic of this study is that they have collected blood samples after the patient had already been admitted to an emergency hospital ward for a heart attack, rather than before. Therefore, it is difficult to know whether the differences in the number and characteristics of the CEC observed in this study were present before the heart attack occurred, or were caused by the heart attack itself. Further research would be needed to establish whether there could be any meaningful, accurate and practical way to test their levels and predict a heart attack. For example, even if CEC characteristics do change before a heart attack, the length of time between the change and the attack needs to be established. If it's just a few days it seems unlikely that at-risk patients will want to take precautionary weekly blood tests or that hospitals will have the resources to continually test people's blood just in case they might have a particular type of heart attack.
To assess this further there would probably need to be a prospective study that follows a large group of people over a long period of time (for example, those identified to be at risk of cardiovascular disease), taking regular blood sample measurements and examining whether high levels of CEC are present before a heart attack occurs. Only when this type of study has reported its results will it be clearer whether elevated CECs could be useful in predicting heart attacks.
This current study by itself only shows the potential of CEC counts to be useful in the future; it does not prove that they are useful now or can actually predict a heart attack.
- Damani S, Bacconi A, Libiger O et al. Characterization of Circulating Endothelial Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction. Science Translational Medicine 21 March 2012: Vol. 4, Issue 126, p. 126r
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ITHACA, NY — Dante Lauretta — professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of NASA's first mission to bring back asteroid samples for study and analysis—will visit Ithaca College on Thursday, Sept. 13, to give an overview of the project. Free and open to the public, the talk will begin at noon in the Center for Natural Sciences 208.
Entitled OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer), the project will require a 3.5 billion–mile roundtrip to a primitive, carbonaceous asteroid called 1999 RQ36. Launching in 2016, the spacecraft will execute a touch-and-go maneuver at a selected sample site before returning the collected sample to Earth in 2023. Scientists participating in OSIRIS-REx are currently conducting studies to determine the process for selecting the optimal sampling site.
"The target asteroid contains a record of the conditions when the solar system first formed, so you can think of 1999 RQ36 as a time capsule," said Beth Ellen Clark, associate professor of physics at Ithaca College and the OSIRIS-REx Mission Asteroid Scientist. "Studying the samples will improve our understanding of how the planets formed and provide insights into the formation of prebiotic organic compounds needed for the origin of life. Also, because 1999 RQ36 crosses the Earth's orbit every 1.2 years, OSIRIS-REx will give us data to help refine the asteroid's orbit and devise strategies to mitigate possible impacts between Earth and other celestial bodies."
OSIRIS-REx will marshal the expertise of scientists from 14 colleges and universities as well as the Goddard Space Flight Center, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the Johnson Space Center and other organizations. The mission is the third in NASA's New Frontier Program. The first was launched in 2006 and will fly by the Pluto-Charon system in 2014. The other launched in 2011 and will orbit Jupiter to conduct the first studies of the giant planet's atmosphere and interior.
For more information, contact Keith Davis, assistant director of media relations, at (607) 274-1153 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Cent Saving Sisters started couponing four years ago looking for the best deals to reduce costs to feed and provide for their families.
Sisters Amy Gates of Gibsonville and Amanda Chaiken of Graham were able to drastically cut their weekly families� budgets through the use of coupons. They now share what they learned to the public through Cent Savings Sisters, which they formed together.
On Tuesday, Gates and Chaiken presented a couponing workshop at the Times-News which included tips on how to get coupons, get organized, plan a trip to the store, and what to do at the store once there to find the best bargains using coupons.
Chaiken said some people who decide to coupon get overwhelmed with the process in the early stages and don�t commit to couponing. Being patient and persistent eventually pays off. Gates said it took her several months to become more efficient with couponing.
�Try something different so you don�t give up,� Gates said.
Gates has a family of five people. Before couponing, Gates said her family spent $150 per week on groceries. After three months, her weekly grocery bill decreased to $50.
Chaiken said most families spend about $1,000 per month on groceries. Through couponing, Chaiken said her family spends about $250 per month. Chaiken started couponing shortly before her husband was laid off from his job and when the couple had a newborn baby.
Couponing helped sustain the family until her husband was able to find work again. He was out of work for 11 months, Chaiken said.
Gates said she decided to start couponing to reduce her weekly grocery bill.
The sisters offer what they learned in couponing on their blog at centsavingsisters.wordpress.com. The blog also has links to several sites that update regularly on where to find the best deals.
During the workshop on Tuesday, they provided information on which websites to use including www.southernsavers.com and www.couponmom.com to plan before heading to the store.
They also discussed four ways to organize coupons using a binder, accordion pouch, coupon bag or a hybrid approach combining some methods. Gates explained how some stores will accept coupons from other stores.
Gates and Chaiken are Elon University graduates. Gates currently teaches in Guilford County Schools while Chaiken has taught music for six years at Alamance-Burlington Schools.
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Most Web applications are data-driven and centered on relational databases. However, for years architects have designed applications modeling the domain of the problem through objects. But communication between objects and relational databases has never been smooth and easy. The difficulties that arise when you try to set up this sort of communication are often referred to as "object/relational impedance mismatches" (O/RM). A persistence layer is required to save and load from objects from relational tables. Over the years, a number of design patterns have been defined to provide guidance to architects engaged in this task. Today, developers write this persistence layer entirely on their own or, more often than not, with some help from O/RM tools such as NHibernate or Genome.
While a backend with a domain model and persistence layer is still the most recommended option for complex, large, durable, and enterprise-class applications, it might be too costly for simpler scenarios. And applications that fall under the umbrella of "simpler scenarios" are probably more numerous and used more frequently.
LINQ-to-SQL was created just to address the needs of these applications and provide a powerful, yet simple, set of tools to operate on data stores at a higher conceptual level.
The LINQ-to-SQL framework is specific to SQL Server and, unlike ADO.NET, can't be used to address other relational databases. LINQ-to-SQL is based on the LINQ syntax and is used to query and update an object model built on top of a given database.
LINQ operators such as from, where, and select work on the data context. The data context is a collection of objects created to model the schema of a particular database. In Visual Studio 2008, you find a tool -- the O/R designer -- purposely created to automate the creation of the data model for Linq-to-SQL.
From the programmer's perspective, note that the data context is filled up with data as you access objects programmatically, and any changes to the model (deletions, updates, insertions) are saved back to the database as you call a submit method on the data-context class. Lazy-loading and pre-fetch options give you a way to fine-tune the data loading to optimize the overall behavior of the application.
So what is LINQ-to-SQL and where does it belong? Is it a tool to express the domain model of a system incorporating both logic and persistence? Or is it a sort of object-oriented ADO.NET?
All in all, you can use LINQ-to-SQL for both extremes once you have clear the overall design of your system's backend. In any backend, no matter the complexity, you need logic and persistence. Then, based on the level of complexity of the domain model you decide whether you need a separate persistence layer or perhaps a unique layer of code. LINQ-to-SQL offers an effective domain model (sort of an Active Record) and persistence. In most cases, this is just enough.
In complex, typically enterprise, scenarios LINQ-to-SQL is only an excellent tool to perform physical data access when no O/RM tool is employed. In this case, the objects of the LINQ-to-SQL model are internal to the data access layer and have nothing to do with the domain model in the business layer. In the middle tier, I suggest you use another set of objects to manage entity classes. The middle-tier objects can then use LINQ-to-SQL classes to store data and add methods to expose any requested behavior to the presentation layer. The LINQ-to-SQL objects therefore will be only an object-oriented replacement for T-SQL opaque strings.


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There were no theatrics. No single women came in to protest life's travails, no displaced workers told of the factory shut down. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Forum was government as it should be. Serious people hard at work.
They didn't sugar coat the problem. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called it the "most serious economic downturn in more than sixty years." Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, expected this to be "the worst year for the U.S. economy since the end of the 1930s."
But the solution is taking shape as well. Speaker Pelosi called for "bold action," stressing both the urgency of quick action and the need for long term solutions. The broad outlines from multiple speakers and the Q&A look roughly like this.
1. Act Fast. We are heading downhill and picking up speed. Action is needed quickly to put money and energy into the economy. The fastest way to do it is to put money into hands of people who will spend it. Food stamps. Unemployment insurance. Child tax credits. It's good for people and good for the economy, and it should be done by February.
2. Put People to Work. Repairing schools, strengthening levees, laying rail lines. These are good jobs now and smart investments in the economy for the long run. Some infrastructure needs to be "shovel-ready" so work can start and money can flow immediately, but the queue can begin now for next year's work.
Monetary policy like lowering interest rates is good – but it's not enough. We need not only to increase the supply of money, but to increase the demand for it. That means we should spend.
3. Build People, not just Things. Behind the drive to invest in physical infrastructure is the investment in human capital. From early childhood and pre-kindergarten education, to post-college graduate degrees in engineering, we need to invest in our people. That's the innovation infrastructure that will power the economy when the two year stimulus package is a distant memory.
4. Think Big. The U.S. economy is huge, and actions to affect it need to be big as well. One percent of GDP is roughly $150 billion, and recommendations range from roughly 3 percent of GDP to 7-8 percent of GDP. You can do the math yourself (or just read this parenthesis: no less than $450 billion and up to $1.2 trillion is needed to affect an economy this big).
a. This is not the time to worry about deficits. This is the time to spend. We need to add money to the economy – so spending with offsets doesn't do the trick. It just breaks even.
b. With interest rates low, this is a good time to borrow.
c. Deficits in the trillions seem big, but again it's a big economy.Our current and expected deficits as a percent of GDP are not so alarming. (And the way to reduce the deficit as a percent of GDP is to grow the economy, not shrink the spending).
5. Problems are Inter-related, and so are Solutions. Energy affects foreign policy and our dependence on foreign oil, but also our domestic economy. New energy solutions can put people to work – improving insulation on old building, revamping the power grid, or inventing the plug-in hybrids.
Health care was also a cross-cutting theme. Starbucks spends more on health care than on coffee, and General Motors spends more on health care than on steel. It's hard on business and harder to compete in the global economy. The problems occur at every level. A worker loses her job and with it her health care; she goes on Medicaid. Now the state has to pay for her Medicaid, but the state just lost the revenue of her payroll contribution. Health care problems amplify each other and cry out for systemic solution.
6. Act Fast, and Keep it Up. We need to stimulate now — but even if it works, everything won't be fixed two years from now. We need to use this crisis to lay the groundwork for longterm solutions, not just postpone the next crisis.
That's the substantive overview, but the atmospherics were important as well. I sat there in the audience, listening to the speakers and reviewing the data, and felt better about America than I have in a long time. These were serious people doing serious business. The people's business.
They were smart and they were trying. They weren't flailing around and blaming others. The ideas might not work – Rob Reich spoke of "experimentation" – but at least they were trying. With that in the background, maybe we can get something done.


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The Mercury's Falling...in Women's Seafood Consumption
Fish fouled by heavy metal mercury has been a concern, especially for pregnant women. Since it can wreak havoc on the developing nervous system of a fetus.
But here's some good news. Though Americans still chowed down on about the same amount of fish between 1999 and 2010, blood levels of mercury in women of childbearing age appear to have dropped 34 percent during that time. And there's been a 65 percent drop in the percentage of women in that age group who have enough mercury in their blood to spark health concerns.
The findings are from the Environmental Protection Agency, based on figures from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. [Trends in Blood Mercury Concentrations and Fish Consumption among U.S. Women of Childbearing Age NHANES, 1999–2010]
The data suggest that moms-to-be are still supping on sea life and racking up the vitamins, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids enmeshed in each fishy bite. But they're making savvier choices, avoiding the fish with the most mercury—such as shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish.
Though most seafood contains some trace amounts of mercury, the EPA says that at low levels it's nothing to lose sleep over. For us, if not the fish.
—Dina Fine Maron
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Construction Inspection Checklist #09 Partial-Depth Repair of Portland Cement Concrete Pavements
Primary Topic: Pavement System Preservation
Description: Checklist #9 in series created to guide local highway maintenance and inspection staff in the use of innovative pavement preventive maintenance processes.
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The series is provided through the joint efforts of the Pavement Preservation Program of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Foundation for Pavement Preservation (FP2).
FHWA Publication Number: FHWA-IF-03-042
Publication Year: 2005
Document Links: PDF (file size: 0.3 mb)