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ATRIUM HOMES – Trend
Ron Massey
0438 919 537
Display at;- 15 Umina Way
Burns Beach WA 6028
Atrium Homes has been designing and building award-winning family homes of distinction, quality and style for more than 20 years and their latest display, the Trend,
is designed not to follow trends, but to set them, offering plenty of style and perfectly designed for contemporary family living.
Downstairs you'll find the master suite - with its twin walk-in robes and luxurious ensuite. There's also a nice-sized home office, a handy powder room and laundry.
The light and spacious open plan living area takes up the entire rear section of the ground floor and at its heart is a beautiful, large kitchen, designed to make sure that the chef is never far away from what's going on in the rest of the house.
Surrounded on three sides by wide benchtops, the kitchen lacks for nothing – there are stainless steel appliances, an integrated dishwasher and plenty of storage including a pantry, microwave and appliance cabinets.
The Trend is also a home designed for entertaining with a large dining area that flows through to an alfresco area with a built-in barbecue/kitchen. The family room also connects to the outdoors and offers plenty of space for the whole family to relax. While the theatre room on the other side of the living area is ideal for home movie night or for keeping the kids entertained while you entertain.
Upstairs are three large bedrooms, the family bathroom and another sitting area which can be used as a games area, children's study or a teenagers' retreat.
The Trend offers great value for money and because it's an Atrium Home, you can be assured that the emphasis is on quality construction and materials, backed by award-winning pride in craftsmanship and a strong commitment to personal service.


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July 14-29, 2018 at Catalpa Farms
Tickets are $10 per person.
Children 12 and under are free with an adult
Tickets sold onsite
Cash/check only
See our Facebook page for a Buy One Get One Free coupon offer valid on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Weekdays: 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Sundays: 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Ticket gate closes an hour prior to listed closing times.
Directions to Catalpa Farms
Travel east of the Gene Snyder Freeway on Shelbyville Road, headed toward Eastwood. As you enter Eastwood, keep right by the Eastwood Fire Station and continue onto to Eastwood Ext. Road. Turn right onto Eastwood-Fisherville Road and travel approximately 1.8 miles. Shakes Run will be on your left. Turn onto to Shakes Creek Road and go follow it 1.5 miles, you will then enter into Catalpa Farms. Follow signs to the on site parking.
There will be a concession stand selling hotdogs, brats, soft pretzels, sodas, bottled water and a few other items on site. The concession area offers you an opportunity to take a seat and catch your breath between touring the homes. Concession stand accepts cash/check only – no ATM on site.
HOMEARAMA FURNITURE SALE – MONDAY, July 30 from 1-7 p.m.
Not all homes are guaranteed to be open – admission is free. You can contact builders and decorators for more information or call the BIA Office at 502.429.6000.

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WA beauties take on the big guns
Frustrated by mainstream cosmetics brands, home-grown cosmetics businesses are finding a foothold in the competitive mineral make-up market.
Whether it's due to concerns about chemicals or annoyance that international brands don't cater for the hot and dry Australian climate, a posse of WA make-up brands is emerging.
Elusyion Mineral Cosmetics creator Jodye Strickland credits her 1970s childhood growing up with a "clean and green" vegetarian family, who taught her the benefits of organic eating, as the impetus for her to create her mineral make-up brand.
Her brand was formulated in the kitchen of her Roleystone home in the mid-1990s.
"My drive was to formulate a product that was natural and organic, that allowed me to have the glamour I love, but keep the health of my skin, which is very important to me," Ms Strickland said.
Ebony C Cosmetics was launched by Ebony Caldow in 2011. "Originally, the idea of launching Ebony C Cosmetics was to bring high-quality Australian products to the market," she explained. "The products are tailored to the needs of Australian skin types, given our climate conditions and forward-thinking on skin-care regimes."
She says she is extending the range, adding more bodycare products and increasing the range of shades.
Morgan Annie All Natural Beauty founder Kylie Apostoles started researching her mineral make-up brand in 2006, beginning with her It's All About Lips range, before launching a full range in 2008. Ms Apostoles said becoming a mother bought chemicals in the home to her attention.
"This then lead me to my bathroom, where I discovered unnecessary chemicals in skincare and make-up," she said.
"Learning that a well-known international mineral make-up brand still used chemicals in their products, inspired her to pursue her dream of creating her own natural make-up range. She says being a make-up artist for 13 years had made her aware of how make-up should perform.
"Morgan Annie Mineral Make-up is 100 per cent pure, but my goal and passion is to brand my range so that it's fashionable, and can be compared to the big known brands, without all the unnecessary chemicals."
According to Ms Apostoles, who opened her first Morgan Annie Mineral Makeup Bar in March 2012, keeping up-to-date on chemicals was one of the biggest challenges her business faced.
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At Diversicare Therapy Services (DTS), our team of talented and experienced therapists create customized rehabilitation programs based on your needs, to accomplish your goals and visions of the future. Our physical, occupational and speech-language pathologists specialize in innovative therapeutic approaches that focus on achieving your best outcomes. By partnering with the skilled interdisciplinary team, your therapists will assist in the overall communication of a program that encompasses all of your needs. We believe in a seamless approach to getting you back to the life and activities you love. In addition, in many centers, we offer outpatient services provided by the same therapists that assisted you in getting home. This consistency allows you to continue your therapeutic plan with the comfort of trusted therapists that have been dedicated to your improvement since your admission. As a leading providing of senior rehabilitation, Diversicare Therapy Services is committed to providing innovative therapy approaches and exceeding your expectations throughout your journey to recovery.
Our greatest asset, at DTS, is our passionate team of more than 1,100 therapists. Our greatest investment is in the ongoing education and skilled talent development of our therapists. As the needs of our seniors continue to diversify and grow in complexity, we are committed to continuously seeking out innovative team members and creating an environment that fosters creativity in helping our patients regain their lives and personal passions.


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The SIA (Snowsports Industries of America) Snow Show, held every winter in Denver, is a gear geek's dream. Over 900 snowsports brands come together to show their latest and greatest products for the coming year. Skis, boots and bindings are always a hot topic, and lots of innovation should make every skier and rider salivate for what's to come in 2012/2013.
Manufacturers add some amount of rocker to most skis in their line for 2012/2013, which is a good move since sales nearly doubled for reverse and mixed camber skis early this season. Rocker is not just for wide skis anymore: Rocker adds all-mountain performance to skis traditionally thought of as carving skis and also makes skis more maneuverable and easier to turn, helping skiers of all abilities.
Almost a third of all skis sold last season (and the season before) were women-specific skis. Next year manufacturers introduce new wider-waisted models for women, which hooks into a non-gender specific trend of sidecountry skiing. New technology has made wide skis easier to use in both powder and hard snow so manufacturers feel that women will be looking to add a second pair of skis with waists 90 mm and above.
New molds for ski boots and hike-ski features change the game for boots in 2012/2013. Boot manufacturers had to pick up the development pace to keep up with rapidly changing ski technology. This means a shift toward an emphasis on lateral stiffness (instead of fore/aft) and a more upright stance. Also, many boot manufactures will introduce or add new models with a hike-ski mode. This typically includes some mechanism or built-in design that allows for greater cuff mobility for hiking, but that locks the upper and lower cuffs together for downhill performance. These boots also tend to include ease-of-use features like rubber soles, which help skiers hike more comfortably as well as walk in icy parking lots.
To compliment the new trend in ski boots, binding manufacturers continue to offer bindings or introduce models that favor back- or sidecountry skiing, allowing skiers to free their heels and also lock down for alpine performance.
Related Photos: New Gear at SIA
Check out shots from the 2012 SIA Show
Here is some gear to get excited about for 2012/2013:
Dynastar Cham 107
Dynastar's new Cham series of freeride skis, lead by the Cham 107, are designed for the modern skier looking for a ski that floats, cruises through crud and carves. The Cham 107 features Dynastar's Levitation Profile, or a five–point sidecut ski design (130-137-107-122-98 mm) with a reverse sidecut at the tip and tail, long tip rocker, camber underfoot and a flat pintail.
Nordica Hell's Belles
Available flat or with EVO binding set; $799 or $1,099 with set
Nordica's new women's collection has five new models including the expert-level Hell's Belles (132-90-118), designed with Nordica's early rise camROCK technology and women's WI-Core technology, which reduces the weight of the full wood core by 25 percent, making the ski light and lively.
Lange XT 130
Aligned with the trend of high performance boots that are easier to hike in, the Lange XT 130 has a no-nonsense 130 flex, Lange's Control Fit, Natural Stance and mono-injected shell, but also adds grip soles, lightweight components and their new Power V-Lock system. This technology allows the boot cuff to articulate for range-of-motion while climbing, but locks in for downhill performance. When flexing forward, the upper cuff engages the Power V-Lock, locking upper cuff into the lower cuff.
The Salomon Guardian 16
Aggressive skiers will appreciate this new backcountry binding's 80-mm wide platform, designed for greater power transmission and responsiveness edge-to-edge. Uphill junkies will like the Low Profile Chassis with a low stand height for greater stability. Both, however, may enjoy the Hike & Ride Switch, which changes easily from the climbing bar to skiing position with the flip of your ski pole.
Related Content: Gear Test: Next Year's Salomon Guardian Binding & Rocker2 Skis
We took the Guardian and Rocker2s into Alta's sidecountry to see how they perform


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Herterich Artisan Butchers Ltd
The business was established in September 1956 by Louis Herterich and his wife Teresa at Ballymahon Street, Longford Town, Co. Longford. The Herterich family are originally from Bavaria in southern Germany and came to Ireland in 1907.
The Ballymahon St. premises was the location of Louis's manufacturing facility butchery and family home, a true Artisan food producer. Louis produced the finest pork sausages, pastries, and cured and cooked meats in the Midlands. An Expanding pool of regular customers would appreciate traditional recipes and customer service which allowed the business to expand and see growth over the following decades.
The premises underwent a major expansion of shop floor and manufacturing space in 1982 with the first floor former living areas being transformed into offices, stores and a test kitchen. The business became the provider of choice for many hotels, restaurants and shops in the midlands area.
To meet increasing customer demand and rapidly growing customer base t underwent a further expansion in 1999, the entire premises was knocked with the exception of the front façade which was retained and the original stone work cleaned to remain true to the traditional roots and values. At this point a factory was opened at Townspark Industrial Estate in Longford providing the necessary production facilities to meet EEC food regulation and to provide the capacity to expand the business along the lines of retail and wholesale and foodservice.
The business continues to expand its catering, cooked and ready meals offering, acquired a catering trailer "Herterich Artisan Food on the Road" to deliver hand cooked and homemade food to revellers of various events, and a BBQ trailer to service the corporate and high end event catering. These new bolt on services allow the company to build its brand and bring the taste of our products to a wider audience.
In January 2013 the business structure was changed from a sole trader "Louis G Herterich" to Ltd. Company under the Companies Act 1963 to "Herterich Artisan Butchers Ltd."
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European Badges Alliance - EBA Conference in Brussels
On 27th June, 50 participants from 11 different countries attended the European Badge Alliance-EBA conference in Brussels, to discover the outcomes of this 2-years Erasmus+ Strategic partnership.
The EBA Conference was sepparated into two parts. Setting the outcomes within two different dimensions, we had the morning part of the Agenda linked to a political dimension and then the afternoon one to an informational dimension.
In the morning, the first part of conference was held at the European Parliament, hosted by MEP Svetoslav Malinov, the rapporteur on the Europass revision initiated by the European Commission. During the session, we were able to discuss various topics and also to present our policy Recommendations as a vital outcome of the project.
Some of the most important topics that were tackled during the session at the parliament were:
- The connection of Open Badges with the Europass as a chance to enhance better the recognition of Learning Mobilities
As the revision of Europass is currently ongoing, EBA work wants to use the opportunities and connect the possibilities of the use of Open Badges within Europass. That would offer a chance to highligh and enhace the recognition of Learning Mobilities and assist participants, leaners and educators in explaining better their personal and occupation developement that takes place during their time abroad. With the statement by MEP Mr. Malinov, Mr. Lambardi and representative of European Commision Mr O'Keffe, we do see some reservations when it comes to new tools and approaches, but it is vital to incorporate these tools within time as they offer more chances and support young people to understand their own development better.
- Open Badges in the youth field, but other sectors as well.
As part of the Conference, the consortium had the chance to present all new set of Badges that were created during the project. That was seen as a connection of mobility in the youth field to the process of recognition of non formal education. In order to understand better this connection, and in line with our Policy Recommendations, the session included the presentation of using Badges in other sectors like in Universities and Local Administration. At the same time, participants commented on the potentials that this tool offers and saw further connection to adults' learning, involvment in decision making and other processes that we lack of participation by young people.
Closing the first part, the participants had the chance to network during the lunch at MundoJ, giving a possibility to discuss and comment what was presented at the European Parliament. This was a given space and time by the consortium in order to bild connections between the participants and to be able to discuss and address further the comments made by the panel. Additionally, participants got the chance to approach us for further comments and recommendations to our work, or to seek potential partnership. As before, there was time and still is to Join EBA Community.
Moving towards the second part, participants got a chance to go through details of the outcomes and specifically the badges and badges systems created by EBA. Within a structure of a training, attendance provided guidance on how to come up with a badge system and use the Badgecraft.eu platform to issue badges. At the same time, participants got a copy of the first draft of our publication. The final draft will be soon ready and published on EBA website.
The Badge Systems that we presented, were based on the Systems that we created and tested during the project. These set of Badges (in connection to their "creators") were:
BADGE SYSTEMS created by the Alliance:
- Badge System for Junior trainers (YEU);
- Badge System for Senior Trainers (YEU);
- Badge System for International Facilitators (YEU);
- Badge System for Organisers of International Activities (YEU);
- Badge System for International Training Activities (YEU);
- Badge System for International Placements (YEU);
- Badge System for Long-term School Exchanges (EFIL);
- Badge System for VET mobility (UNISER).
BADGE SYSTEMS tested addtionally by the Alliance:
- Badge System for International Youth Exchanges;
- Badge System for Mobility of Youth workers;
- Badge System for European Voluntary Service;
- Badge System for EVS mentors;
- Badge System for Strategic Partnerships.
Overall, YEU comes out of this project as an Organization that is aware of the possibilites that Open Badges bring. Due to the project and our General Assembly of 2016, we as YEU have moved beyong the use of Badges for testing and now we actually integrated them within our international activities. That connects to our roles as a youth organization and an advocator for the recognition of Non Formal Education and Learning Mobilities.
Open Learning Badges are used as part of our activities to assist participants and others (e.g PET members) while self-assesmening and to be able to recognize the learning they gain during those activities. At the same time, it empowers them to better explain and share what they have learned. That could be in relation to their CVs or while filling up their YouthPass. As it is part of our processes, we are working and will continue to do so to better integrate them within our work and specifically Youth Work, but to also contribute to a sustainable badge ecosystem with our Advocacy and collaborations.
If you want to know more about EBA and Open Badges, please visit the project's website.
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Meet Craig Breslow, the smartest man in baseball
Craig Breslow would rather you didn't call him that.
He's gracious enough about it. "There are a lot of worse things I could be called," he says, seated in the Twins dugout hours before a game. "You see the trouble other athletes have gotten into. If that's what makes me notable, I'm smart enough not to dispute it."
As he talks—confidently, articulately—it's clear he wants you to see him as a left-handed reliever, a guy who can get that critical out or two to shut down a rally and rescue his predecessor from a jam. To wit, just one of the guys doing his part this summer to help the overachieving Twins.
"I'm as much a baseball player as anyone else in the clubhouse."
Ah, but baseball is always looking for what sets guys apart. It seizes upon those characteristics to fashion the most eloquent sobriquets in sports: "The Left Arm of God," "The Yankee Clipper," "Blue Moon," "The Splendid Splinter," "Sweet Music."
So Breslow becomes "The Smartest Man in Baseball."
That's thanks to Lavelle Neal, the Star Tribune's baseball beat writer, who gave Breslow the name during his first go-round with the Twins in 2008. The following year Jason Turbow of the Wall Street Journal upgraded Breslow's intellectual dominion: "Judging by his résumé, Craig Breslow is the smartest man in baseball, if not the entire world."
Here's why: Breslow graduated from Yale. Through May, only six of the 1,052 players who have appeared in a Major League game this year graduated from the Ivy League. Six.
Two you've heard of: Kyle Hendricks, the Cubs' pitcher from Dartmouth, and Chris Young, the Royals' pitcher from Princeton. Three you haven't: Danny Barnes (Blue Jays/Princeton), Matt Bowman (Cardinals/Princeton), and Brent Suter (Brewers/Harvard)—all pitchers.
Breslow not only graduated from Yale. He did so with a 3.5 GPA. Majoring in molecular biochemistry and biophysics.
Smartest Man in Baseball.
There have been other bright guys to play the game, sure. Moe Berg, who played for five teams in the 1920s and '30s, graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School. He also spoke seven languages.
Leon Feingold, who played in the Indians' farm system in the mid-'90s, is now president of the New York chapter of Mensa. More recently, we've had Mike Mussina, a Stanford man who pitched 18 years for the Orioles and Yankees and did the New York Times crossword puzzle.
But the title now belongs to Breslow, who does the USA Today crossword ("because I know I can finish it"), reads two or three books at a time (at the moment: Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in economics), and has been accepted to medical school (after scoring a 34 on the MCAT).
"We took graduate courses in molecular biology and he could follow things like how we use imaginary numbers to figure out the crystal structures of proteins," says his former Yale classmate and teammate Matt McCarthy. "That's not easy to do, especially at 21."
Breslow aims that keen intellectual curiosity on baseball too. During the Twins' May swing through Baltimore, he met with Dave Kirilloff, a former college coach and current hitting guru (and father of Alex Kirilloff, the Twins' No. 1 pick in the 2016 amateur draft). Breslow listened to Kirilloff explain his theory about the way a batter's dominant eye accounts for a hole in his swing and reviewed the charts of data he had compiled on hitters such as Miguel Cabrera and Jose Altuve. "He's willing to take information from anyone, process it, and put it in his files to have when he can use it," Kirilloff says.
Breslow was the first pitcher to seek out Kirilloff to learn how he might be able to exploit that weakness to his advantage. "That's the kind of guy Craig is," says his agent, Bob Baratta. "The scouting report on a guy might be 'keep the ball down.' Craig wants to know why."
When Breslow was with the Red Sox, Josh Beckett bet a teammate that Breslow was so smart he could calculate the number of rotations a baseball makes from the pitcher's hand to the plate when thrown 90 miles per hour. Beckett won the bet.
"There are a lot of variables, but I put in some figures and came up with answers for a fastball, curve, or slider," Breslow told a reporter. "It's rather simple once you do it."
Well, simple if you have gray matter like his. Smartest Man in Baseball.
At 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, Breslow is slight by MLB pitching specs. On the mound, he tugs his cap low so his ears pop out, making him look like a little brother who fast-talked his way into a game with the older kids.
Cap off, the ears recede and his smile takes over. Large spread of white teeth. Boyish, warm, yet confident, knowing, accompanied by a pleasant demeanor. Put him in a suit, and it's easy to imagine him meeting with clients at Ameriprise. He has the air about him of a guy who could be successful at whatever he chooses to do.
You might expect a guy with such cognitive capabilities to be an ill-adapted brainiac. Not so. The résumé belies his regular-guy appearance and manner. There in the dugout, outfitted in a snug long-sleeve blue top, athletic shorts, and Nike sneakers, he blends in among the other players milling about the field. Just one of the guys.
He can recite long passages from movies like Happy Gilmore and Dumb & Dumber, and knows nearly the entire canon of rap lyrics from the '90s. In addition to books by Nobel laureates, he reads thrillers by the likes of Vince Flynn and David Baldacci. He watches the same shows on Netflix you do. He and his wife, Kelly, just finished Homeland and are now into Sneaky Pete. He and fellow reliever Matt Belisle, who sit next to each other on flights, are into Blacklist.
After New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's foot fetish surfaced in internet videos, Breslow agreed to do the spoof "My Pretty Left Hand," in which a woman ogles and asks to touch his hand. (A comedy troupe approached him with the idea to use the video in one of its shows and agreed to donate proceeds from ticket sales to Breslow's foundation.)
Unlike Ryan's situation, the video did not go viral, and women did not approach Breslow in real life to admire his pitching hand. "I don't know too many people who saw it," he says, adding somewhat sheepishly: "Most of the views were by me to see if anyone else had looked at it."
His sense of humor and down-to-earth demeanor have allowed him to blend in seamlessly over his 15-year career.
"He fits in well in all sorts of clubhouses," says Andrew Miller, Breslow's former teammate on the Red Sox, who now pitches for the Cleveland Indians. "If he didn't have a reputation as someone who fits in on your team, he wouldn't have worked for seven teams. Those guys get filtered out pretty quickly."
This speaks to Breslow's social intelligence. "He is able to develop friendships with people from any walk of life, just because he is so genuine," says Jon Steitz, another former Yale teammate.
Since signing with the Twins in February, Breslow has eased back into the Twins' clubhouse, which has undergone a wholesale turnover since his last stint with the team in 2008-09. Only Joe Mauer and Glen Perkins remain. He recently entertained his bullpen mates with Al Pacino's famous speech from Scent of a Woman.
"He's very bright, but he is every bit a roll-with-the-flow-of-the-clubhouse guy," Belisle says.
Still. For a guy with that kind of mental horsepower and not drafted until the 26th round, you would expect him to be practicing medicine by now, like his former Yale teammate McCarthy, a fellow pro pitcher turned physician after attending Harvard medical school. Breslow did apply to med school after the Brewers released him in 2004 (he bested McCarthy's score on the MCAT) and was accepted at New York University.
His fascination with medicine began during his formative years in Trumbull, Connecticut, where both of his parents were teachers. When he was eight, he broke his wrist playing soccer. It mesmerized him that a physician could set the bone, wrap it in a cast and, six weeks later, his wrist was healed.
Four years after that, his older sister Lesley was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had it removed. (Today she is healthy, symptom-free, and the mother of two children.) "That has a pretty powerful impact on one's childhood," he says.
McCarthy believes Breslow would be a thoughtful and caring physician. Yet despite his potential and fascination with medicine, Breslow has deferred his medical school acceptance four times so he can keep playing baseball. Med school is the mother at the door calling her boy home for supper, but Breslow's shouting back, "Not yet, Ma. The game's not over."
Here's another misconception. You might think being known as the Smartest Man in Baseball, a game where most of the action takes place between the ears (or 90 percent of the game is half mental, to quote one of the game's philosophers), would be a good thing. But you would be wrong. Because you have not walked a mile in the cleats of the Smartest Man in Baseball.
Breslow looks out at the gray clouds hanging low over the infield and says ruefully, "It has typecast me."
For nearly a decade—a seeming eternity in the life of a professional ballplayer—he has dragged around that label like Jacob Marley with his chains. "I have this stigma that follows me."
He doesn't mind the way teammates expect him to know everything. They ask him what time the bus is going to leave, if it's going to rain that day, what they should tip in restaurants, how to get their iPad working, why a manager made a certain move—and expect him to have answers.
And it's not the teasing from friends, which he takes in stride. McCarthy tells him the title is like being "the loudest whisperer—the bar is not that high." Steitz ribs him as though he has superpowers. If something goes wrong, say a rental car breaks down, Steitz tells him, "You can figure it out. You're the smartest man in baseball."
(This, of course, is not always the case. When the Oakland A's signed Breslow in 2009, he moved in with Steitz and his wife in the Bay Area. They would occasionally ask Craig to look after their baby. One day the child woke crying with a soiled diaper. Breslow had to call his mother back in Connecticut to ask her how to change it.)
It's not even that the rep from Akadema, who supplies his gloves, sent him a glove with SMIB imprinted on it as a joke. One of four in his locker, Breslow wears it to play catch but would never use it in a game. "I prefer to give hitters no reason for extra animosity toward me," he says with a smile.
No, the label becomes a burden when it makes others think Breslow isn't serious about baseball, that his gifted mind is elsewhere. "If something is going wrong —I'm having trouble getting guys out—people think I'd rather be doing something else, but there is nothing I'd rather be doing."
It bothers him. He wants you to understand that baseball is not a passing fancy for him. He's not marking time. This is his passion.
So forgive him if he gets a bit testy when asked what he is thinking about his future. "I'm thinking about how to get the Astros out," he says. The game starts in less than three hours. "While I'm here, I'm going to stay focused."
He is good at that, as you might expect. His concentration has been a critical element in his success as a major league pitcher. Steitz, a former pitcher himself, confirms. "He is very focused. I have always thought that's what separates him from folks with more physical ability. He has an absolute lock in the moment, the ability to focus on repeated delivery to spots—bam, bam, bam on the corners."
Yet concentration alone cannot guarantee perpetual success. After two separate stints on the disabled list in 2014 and 2015, Breslow was healthy in 2016, but he couldn't seem to get batters out. The Marlins demoted him to AAA New Orleans, then released him in July.
The Rangers picked him up, but released him 10 days later after three rocky appearances with AAA Round Rock, Texas. On August 8, his 36th birthday, he was home in Newton, Massachusetts, healthy but unemployed.
Others might have taken fate's hint that his career was over. Lesser men have. Not Breslow. He wasn't ready to quit. He had gotten through tough times like this before.
Drafted by the Brewers in the 26th round —that's so late it can't even be considered an afterthought—he paid his dues in the lower rungs of the minor leagues before getting cut mid-season 2004. That's when he took the MCAT and applied to med school. He also grabbed a spot on an independent team in the lower minor leagues.
He did well enough for the Padres to give him a $1 signing bonus (yes, you read that right) after a 2005 spring training tryout. Assigned to AA, he got a call-up to San Diego. His first day there, someone mistook him for the batboy. Mr. Breslow, meet ignominy.
It was a prolonged introduction. The Padres let him go in December. He pitched two summers in the Red Sox organization, mostly in AAA. The Indians claimed him off waivers in March 2008, and Breslow made the opening day roster, but lasted only seven weeks.
That's when the Twins claimed him off waivers. He spent the next nine seasons mostly in the majors with five teams (Minnesota, Arizona, Oakland, Boston, and Miami) until he found himself out of work last summer.
That would have been the time—if he truly had been playing with one eye on the future—for him to matriculate at med school. Thing is, he still loved baseball, but at that point it had become an unrequited love.
His wife gave him the nudge he needed. "You're a baseball player," she told him. "It's in you. Figure out a way to keep playing baseball."
So the Smartest Man No Longer in Baseball drew upon his greatest asset to reinvent himself. He pored over data in PITCHf/x, which tracks the velocity, movement, spin, release point, and location for every pitch thrown in MLB games, to determine what made certain pitches work better than others.
He quizzed friends like Andrew Miller about his slider and Rich Hill about his breaking ball. "It wasn't about being able to throw the same pitch. But I figured if I could replicate the spin [on their pitches], I could get similar movement," he says.
To do that, he calculated a need to lower his arm a couple of inches on his delivery. He bought a $3,000 3D camera called Rapsodo that allowed him to measure how much the ball moved horizontally and vertically from different delivery points, as well as velocity, spin rate, spin efficiency, and pitch location.
It wasn't easy. Those two inches felt like two feet. Think learning to ride a bicycle having to turn the handle the opposite direction you want to go. Or cutting your hair in a mirror. He had to instill new memory into muscles accustomed to pitching in a specific way. But he believed in his analysis.
And, lo! Two months later, he started seeing reliable progress. By the time he was ready to unveil his new delivery in a showcase for scouts before spring training, he had added half a foot of side-to-side movement on his breaking ball and ten inches to his fastball. He was also getting six inches of additional drop on his two-seam sinker and developed a slider.
Breslow could not only show scouts his new delivery, but back it up with data gathered by the Rapsodo camera. "Every agent calls a team and says, 'My client is in the best shape of his life,'" he says. "I had a data-driven profile that is easier to digest, less refutable."
It worked. Sixteen teams wanted him on their 2017 rosters. He chose the Twins, though they offered less money than some others, because he found a kindred spirit in Derek Falvey, the team's new chief baseball officer, a fellow believer in the power of analytics.
Falvey wanted him to be a leader on a young team. The two talked for hours. "He recognized that the totality of my value could continue beyond the mound," Breslow says. (Falvey did not respond to repeated interview requests.)
The leadership role comes naturally for Breslow, who captained the Yale baseball team. He will turn 37 in August, which makes him the second-oldest member of the Twins, two months behind Belisle.
Breslow is not the kind of guy to organize post-game clubhouse dance parties like Torii Hunter. Nor is he prone to motivational speeches of the Kirby Puckett variety. He leads by example. Teammates recognize him as someone who takes every pitch seriously. Who does not pout or throw tantrums when things don't go his way.
In short, someone who's a good role model to younger players learning how to conduct themselves in the majors.
Through the first two months of this season, Breslow has demonstrated modest improvement. He is striking out fewer batters than he has over the course of his career, but he's also giving up fewer walks, hits and earned runs. By throwing more breaking balls, he's also inducing more groundballs, which are less likely to go for extra-base hits.
Breslow insists he is still adjusting to his new delivery and expects continued improvement. "This is a work in progress," he says. "I haven't reached my ceiling."
The accumulation of data and new technology like Rapsodo could put baseball on the cusp of a revolution, allowing pitchers to retool their deliveries. Those coming back from surgery, or those who have never been able to achieve their identified potential, would make likely candidates to use what he's learned. And this could provide a second career once he's done pitching. His experience gives him credibility absent in the pure sabermetricians.
Those skills are already in demand. Last winter Breslow received unsolicited offers from multiple teams for front office jobs. But he's not ready for that. "I still intend to play for a long time," he says.
And then? Though he long imagined himself practicing medicine, Craig Breslow, M.D. is seeming less inevitable. Baseball has its hooks into him. "I long envisioned my impact as a physician," he says. "The longer I'm in the game, though, the harder it is to imagine a life where I'm not."
The possibilities are plentiful: He could be a manager, a general manager, or the guy able to interpret data and instruct players in its application.
It's worth mentioning that Breslow has already made an impact in the field of medicine. In 2008, he founded the Strike3Foundation to raise awareness and funds to research childhood cancer, inspired by his sister's experience. The foundation has raised $3.3 million through galas and an annual Wiffle Ball tournament. Breslow and his wife Kelly oversee it. The foundation's website lists his email as executive director, and he replies personally to inquiries.
That dedication is what initially impressed Kelly Shaffer (now Kelly Breslow) who met Craig at one of his foundation's fundraisers in 2010. "Knowing he has a high-pressure day job, but then seeing him within 10 minutes of the last out of a game respond to an email to his foundation, I realized the caliber of guy he was," she says.
It also has impressed those he works with. The Red Sox nominated Breslow twice for MLB's annual Roberto Clemente Award, given to the player who "best exemplifies the game of baseball on and off the field."
Kelly and Craig married in November 2013, 10 days after Breslow won the World Series with the Red Sox. They had twin boys in 2015.
That means Breslow now spends much of his time off being a dad. He takes the boys for morning walks in the stroller. Packs them into the Burley for family bike rides. At night after games, he faithfully unloads the dishwasher and prepares the boys' bottles for the next day.
It takes a certain kind of humility to do those things, something Breslow also has in abundance.
Breslow does not get a chance to get out any Astros this evening, but manager Paul Molitor summons him for duty in the seventh the following day. The Twins have scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth to pull within one, 6-5. But the Astros respond with four runs and now have men on first and third, no outs.
Two days earlier against the Astros, Breslow had his worst outing of 2017. In the eighth inning, the bullpen gave up 11 runs. Three of those were Breslow's after allowing three hits and managing only one out.
Now it looks as if the bullpen is about to explode again. Two relievers have already failed to record an out this inning. It is Breslow's shot at redemption.
He quickly records two fly ball outs. The first scores a run. The next batter hits a groundball to second, but Brian Dozier has cheated to his right. It goes through cleanly for a single.
Breslow pitches too carefully to the next batter, All-Star Jose Altuve, and walks him to load the bases.
Breslow sweeps the rubber with his foot in frustration. He steps behind the mound to collect himself, then faces Carlos Correa, who already has three hits on the day.
He throws an off-speed pitch for a strike. Then another. Correa pops it to Dozier. Breslow trots from the field. The crowd cheers. Disaster is averted.
Molitor selects Jason Wheeler to start the eighth. His first pitch lands in the left-field bleachers. It doesn't make Molitor look too smart. But the Smartest Man in Baseball is in the dugout, having proved his worth for another day.


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A man whose partner is accused of murdering their two children in a Spanish hotel is facing jail after using hypnotism and violence to groom and sexually abuse a young girl.
Martin Smith, 45, who had regular access to the girl, abused her for almost a decade from when she was aged just seven, Manchester Crown Court heard.
He has been found guilty of 11 specimen counts of rape, attempted rape, indecency with a child and indecent assault, spanning nine years from May 1995 to May 2004.
The victim, now in her 20s, told the jury Smith would attempt to hypnotise her, hit and bully her, to ensure she complied with his demands.
Smith's own daughter, Rebecca, five, and son Daniel, 11 months, were found dead in the Hotel Miramar in the resort of Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava on May 18.
Smith had been arrested in Spain on a UK extradition warrant days earlier. Their mother, Lianne Smith, 44, is being held by Spanish police on suspicion of their murder.
During the week-long trial Miss Smith choked back tears as she gave evidence from Spain in support of her partner of 18 years.
The couple fled the UK in December 2007 after Smith had been accused of the child sex offences. Smith, originally from the North Shields, was extradited back to the UK earlier this year to stand trial.
Smith blinked but made no further reaction when the guilty verdicts to each of the 11 counts were given by the jury foreman.
Mr Justice Stephen Irwin told Smith: "Having been convicted you know that you inevitably face a long sentence in custody."


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Edinburgh Theological Seminary is committed to training men and women for ministry and mission. Many churches are reaching young people for the Gospel and many Christians are already involved in youthwork (Sunday school, youth clubs, summer camps). This interactive course is designed for those who are already involved in youth work or who plan to be.
Students can complete much of the course online. All lectures can be accessed and downloaded and assessments are also submitted and assessed online. Interaction with the course organiser takes place online and through a combination of face to face appointments or discussions using Skype or Facetime.
Course Aims
The Diploma in Christian Youthwork Course will equip youthworkers to:
- Model Jesus Christ in their behavior, character and words
- Embody, articulate and defend a Christian worldview
- Serve young people with care, kindness and integrity
- Safeguard and protect young people
- Share the gospel with boldness, clarity and sensitivity
- Disciple young Christians to grow in their faith
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- Understanding God
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Lectures: Nick Mackison delivers 16 lectures (30 minutes each) that form the theological backbone to the course. Students watch the videos to engage with their content.
Placements: Students complete a youthwork placement arranged by the Course Organiser and supervised by a local leader.
Workshops: If practicable, workshops can be organised to share good practice and to learn from practitioners. Topics may include: Communication skills, Evangelism and discipleship, Use of technology and social media and Child Protection.
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Assessments are creative, reflective and practical. Students develop their ability to:
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On successful completion of the course, all students are awarded the Diploma in Christian Youthwork at the ETS Annual Awards Ceremony in May. Students who receive a Distinction on at least half of their assessments will receive a Diploma in Christian Youthwork with Distinction. Students are encouraged to receive their diploma in person.
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Fans of sci-fi and animation are in for a treat when TBS series Final Space launches on VRV this week. The series, created by and starring "Tennessee wonder child" Olan Rogers, is a mix of comedy, drama, and action in space. To get viewers warmed up, I had a chat with Coty Galloway, the voice of Avocato and a long-time friend and collaborator of Rogers's.
For decades, internet users have turned to cats to provide them some reprieve from social problems and their personal troubles. In the beginning, there was longcat, Caturday, and That Fucking Cat. Then, there were cheezburgers, Maru, keyboard cats, nyan, and so on—the list is endless, and the sheer quantity of shared cat material online suggests that they may have been the engine that launched meme culture out of the orbit of sites like 4chan and onto the general internet.
This is the reality we now live in, in which one can purchase cat meme books at Spencer's Gifts and easily follow any number of cat accounts on Twitter.
You navigate your mouse cursor, clicking on every pixel in desperation, before resigning yourself to a hastily-searched walkthrough, then smacking your forehead in disbelief at the solution.
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Fans create amazing things. They collect, they build, and they show their love and appreciation in a beautiful myriad of ways. Whether they have the world's largest Hatsune Miku figurine collection or are trying to build every Doctor's TARDIS, fan collections and creations are simply marvelous. A sterling example is Chuck Kovacic's authentic and historically accurate recreation of Sherlock Holmes' sitting room at 221B Baker Street.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 1 second Why is foster care important for the children in Ukraine? Ukraine also should create possibilities for our kids who are orphans, or who are without parents of care to life in family environment, too. This is one issue, and the second issue is a child who lives in family, who lives in a foster family, can receive the same support, the same care, as a child in an "original" family– with their parents. And can receive enough education, can receive also love, and can be developed as a child in families of origin.
Skip to 1 minute and 3 seconds Ukraine started this process of fostering development in 2006, and from that time, Ukraine actually increased three times children living in a family environment in foster families, and it's something like now we have 15,000 children who are living in foster families. Nevertheless, we need foster families for our kids to protect their rights, and to create possibilities for them to live in families Does fostering in Ukraine provide temporary placements? Based on legislation, foster placement and foster caring in Ukraine is a temporary solution. Based on our legislation, the best for a child is family of origin, and governmental authorities should do their best in order to keep the family, original family for a child. And the second priority is adoption.
Skip to 2 minutes and 25 seconds And fostering is only a temporary solution to place a child while governmental authorities should work on returning re-integrated child to biological family, to find a family for adoption, or to place a child in kinship care for their relatives. And even a recent change in legislation told that even foster parents, caregivers, also should actively participate in the reintegrating of children to a biological family, or to find family for adoption. But unfortunately, it's based on the legislation. In many cases, parents, caregivers are not prepared for returning children to a biological family, or to be adopted by another people.
Skip to 3 minutes and 39 seconds Even sometimes local authorities, when a person goes to a local authority, and comes and says that I would like to adopt a child, they propose not to adopt but to receive some incentives and to create foster family. And one difficulty is because in, let's say, in our children village families, there are a lot of big sibling groups– like five children, seven children, and, of course, to find adoptive family for such big sibling groups, it's difficult. And another issue is problems and the lack of resources of state social institutions who should work for integration of children or for children adoption.
Skip to 4 minutes and 45 seconds We here at SOS, we are in better condition because we have lot of our specialists, psychologist, and pedagogues, and other specialists who can work on this. How do you choose foster carers in Ukraine, and do children participate in decision making? Actually the process of choosing foster parents starts from public advertisement that state authorities or charitable organisations, like SOS, are looking for foster parents.
Skip to 5 minutes and 29 seconds And we would be happy to receive application from everybody who would like to be a foster parent. But then started the process of selection, which is not very easy, and which takes time and effort. We will have state licence training for people who would like to be foster parents. And after five days training, which includes many different aspects of working as a foster parent, then people can be, let's say, advised to be a foster parents– or not advised because of some different, let's say, psychological issues, or some pedagogical issues, or during the training it was found that that motivation of these people is not to care for kids, for example, but to receive accommodation and some incentives and so on.
Skip to 6 minutes and 54 seconds And then, if a person receives this recommendation to be a foster parent, then person can apply their documents to special governmental body, which is called the Child Protection Department, which exists in each city, in each district, if it's a big city. And then, if there are some children, orphaned children, or children without parental care, the children are placed to a foster family. And based on legislation, a child has the right, if a child already has 10 or 12 years, or can say they are, let's say, decisions as they would like to be joined to this or that particular family, a child can participate even during the court process, and during the process of creation of foster families.
Skip to 8 minutes and 13 seconds So we always try to find the right family for this particular child. Unfortunately, in practise, in families, foster families which are created by the government, it's not happening like this because, in many cases, there is no qualified people in Child Protection Department who can care for this process and another issue is that there are not enough families.
Foster care (Part 2)
In this video, Chrissie Gale talks to Andriy Chuprikov, who lives and works in Ukraine, and asks him about foster care programmes in his country.
Andriy has been National Director of SOS Children's Villages Ukraine since 2008. He has more than fifteen years of experience working in human rights protection including Tacis EU programmes and World Bank Group business development projects. His public activities include being a member of the UK-Ukraine Professional Network under British Council in Ukraine.
Andriy reflects on some of the challenges of developing a foster care system and provides specific examples of this in the context of Ukraine.
Whilst listening to Andriy it would be helpful for us to consider the investment needed to ensure a safe, effective, and high quality foster care service. Although in some countries foster care can be less costly than residential care, start-up costs may initially be quite high. It is essential, however, that all necessary investment is made if we are to uphold the "suitability" principle.
We might also consider the issue of remuneration and allowances for foster carers. Are such payments appropriate? What levels should they be set at? Who should receive them, and what are the advantages, but also possible challenges this might create? Is it an allowance that is provided for the child's needs or is it a "salary" on top of the child's needs? Some countries find it important to provide an allowance to foster carers. In others, paying foster carers can lead to such difficulties as resentment in the community where, for example, informal kinship carers receive nothing. Research in Bulgaria, for example, has shown that some parents with children with disabilities would not have relinquished their children into alternative care if they had been provided with financial assistance to cover additional health care and other costs.
Finally, let us consider how the creation of foster care should not be the panacea for replacing the use of institutions or other forms of residential care. It is not the answer for deinstitutionalisation to move children out of institutions into foster care without also first considering reintegration.
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Dallas-based filmmaker Barak Epstein announced today on Twitter that his new company, Aviation Cinemas, is taking over operations of the Texas Theatre.
A message on the Texas Theatre's website says the historic theater is undergoing renovations and will reopen with showings in October.
We rang Epstein this morning, but he hasn't called back yet. The 31-year-old is a writer, director, producer and actor, mostly for independent films, many of which are filmed and produced entirely in Dallas.


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Before we traveled to Regensburg, I still managed to pick up my long awaited new camera lense. I had been dreaming about the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM for months and have been saving every cent for it. Now I was finally able to save enough money and it arrived right on time for our big weekend away. Soon after our arrival, I had to try it out and probably got on the nerves of everybody during the weekend as I played around with settings, light and had to photograph every little detail of the trip, food and drinks included. Therefore all had to wait for their first bite just a little longer :) Sorry for that once again, guys!
Amazing dinner on Friday evening!
I have been in love with the lense ever since and can only recommend it for all those detail photography fans out there. The effects are just like I was hoping for! Only issue now is to adjust outfit pictures to the new lense. That will take some practice, but that's how it goes with all new things. Trial and error!
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Dai Davies v Robbie Turley 2 – Round of the Year
BoxingWales Annual Awards 2014 Dai Davies vs Robbie Turley, Round Seven – Round of the Year Not enough all-Welsh fights are ever made but the ones that are, often deliver, especially when there's a Welsh title on the line. Dai 'Dutters' Davies (12-23-2, 2KO) was in his third reign as champion while old-foe Robbie Turley (14-5, 3KO) was in the third fight of a comeback after medical queries had kept him out for two years. Both boxers fought like they had a point to prove and it was never more evident than in the seventh round. Turley was out for revenge, having been stopped by Davies five years earlier, whereas the champion felt disrespected by notions that the win was a one-off that couldn't be repeated. An unforgettable all-action round came after six previously punishing rounds where there was no shortage of power punching from the pair. Turley was his typical self, utilizing a jack-in-the-box style that saw him duck away from shots and rise with awkward uppercuts and hooks. However, Davies was wise to his opponents' angles, jabbing to the chest and catching the challenger mid-lunge while his chin high was in the air as he exited exchanges. Hundreds of home fans roared 'Dutters' on and he soared, trapping Turley on the ropes after a minute of the seventh round and they proceeded to tear lumps out of each other. Davies enjoyed an edge in the earlier rounds and appeared the fresher, allowing him to be on the front foot, with Turley's back pushed against the ropes. By now, it wouldn't have mattered if it was fought in a phone box, they still would have had all the space they needed. The atmosphere was at boiling point with both sets of supporters banging the seats to increase the racket, sending decibels bouncing off the ceiling and back down to ringside. Such was the set up by Sanigar Events, the show's promoters, that it almost felt as if the fans were in both boxers' corners, bellowing encouragement from just feet away. Although Turley only lives 30 minutes away from the Rhydycar Leisure Centre in Merthyr Tydfil, his fans were on an away day and desperate to be heard amongst the chaotic carnival in the stands. They were vastly outnumbered, though. It was almost inconceivable that hometown hero Davies, by this point 31-years-old, had spent the last seven years on the road as the opponent in the away corner, booked by promoters to turn up, test the home-boy and lose. Aside from sways to the side to gain leverage to throw punches, both boxers stood in front of each other for what must have felt like an eternity, probably about two minutes in reality. However, even when swaying, their feet remained planted. As they were on the other side of the ring to the press, it was difficult to identify every punch that landed but they were undoubtedly going in, evident by the sprays of sweat sent flying to the canvas and thuds of leather to skin collisions. The only break in the action would come as Turley's head popped up for air, gasping for milli-seconds before the punching would recommence. With legs like lead, both boxers pushed against each other to create space but it was more difficulty for Turley to get forward momentum, pinned against the ropes. An inspired Davies refused to give up his positional advantage to take a break but it eventually came at the bell and a relieved Turley trotted back to his corner. After another round, the banners in the crowd were abandoned amidst the crazed celebrations as Tony Borg and Chris Sanigar retired Turley in his corner. Davies ran to his home corner and jumped on the top ropes, saluting those who sang the "There's only one" anthem that's seemingly mandatory for any British boxer with a fan base large enough for a stagecoach. Davies raised his opponents' hand in the air to encourage fans to applaud Turley's gallant efforts. It was a fitting conclusion to a memorable fight, especially that staggering seventh round. Previous winners: 2012, Tony Pace v Lance Sheehan.


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Fall has a way of trumping all other seasons when it comes to raking us over the coals of busyness.
I love fall. I love its feel. I love its wardrobe. I love its traditions and new beginnings.
But with new schedules come new opportunities. Fall delivers one invitation after another to say yes or to say no. Guilt and Duty show up on our front-porches with narrowed-eyes and hands on their hips. It's hard to meet their glare and when we do, we're prone to buckle under the pressure, say oh alright, figure out a way to make it work, and then resent the intrusion of this unwanted obligation in our lives.
Ask me how I know.
With all three kids in school and all three kids asking to do a sport and all three kids invited to the myriad enrichment opportunities pitched by school, church, friends, and family, my decision-making anxiety has reached an epic state. Because any mom out there knows that opportunities for them ride hand in hand with obligation from us.
Volunteering in their classes.
Helping with team meals and youth group meals.
Getting kids to and from practices.
Sending snacks for soccer and academic team practices.
Tournaments. Games. Field trips. Auditions.
This is parenthood. This is what we signed up for. This is simply part of life if we're choosing to live on the grid, provide our kids with opportunities, and be part and parcel of our community and micro-communities.
But we do get to choose. And sometimes I think we forget that. I forget that.
When August rolled around, I said yes to very few "extras" that would take me beyond the agreed-upon priorities. After all, how is one to know how life is going to shake out when a new season and schedule begins?
Why is it so hard to receive the grace to simply wait and then provide an answer when we feel we can make a wise decision?
We said yes to fall soccer for one and cheerleading for another.
We said yes to winter basketball for the middle kid.
We allowed the cheerleader-percussionist to remain in band but not play in Festival Band.
We said yes to youth group and most church activities and opportunities with extended family.
I said yes to Bible Study Fellowship and the 45-minute drive.
I said yes to helping with some pre-game meals and youth group dinners.
I said yes to writing almost every day.
We've said yes to our small group and to community.
And there has been at least one no for each of those yeses.
Sign-up sheets for volunteering came and went. I didn't forget. I simply chose to wait.
Now that we're almost two months into things, we're better able to gauge what we can do and what we cannot. For example, I've determined that I can give part of one morning a week to my son's kindergarten classroom and that I really want to, not out of duty but out of desire. I just started this week and I can already tell you that this is going to be a good yes.
But I waited before I gave it. I waited two whole months between the invitation and my response. I've learned the hard way that I didn't want to commit to a good thing out of obligation or wishful thinking and then watch as the good thing morphs into a bad thing because it wasn't the right season.
I've found that a rushed response often gives way to resentment.
There is so much for me to learn about prioritizing and time management and opportunity cost. I won't lie. Most of what I've learned is from flat-out failure. My family and I have suffered from my tendencies toward overcommitment, giving my family my leftovers, people-pleasing, discounting the concept of margin, refusing rest and stillness, and thinking I have more hours in the day than I really do.
Can I get a witness?
I'm learning not to take my cues from my crazy busy culture. I'm learning not to compare our schedule to other schedules. I'm learning to see how the calendar translates into real life and real relationships with one another and then add things in slowly if we think it's a fruitful opportunity. And I'm learning to cut things out if it's not.
Of course, all of this is easier in theory than it is in practice. I had a full-on crying jag Saturday afternoon about this very issue. How to prioritize family and still prioritize others? How to order the tasks of my days? How to discern priorities? How to make room for the things that everyone wants me to make room for and that I also want to make room for?
So if you think it's wrapped up all in a neat and tidy bow around here, you're mistaken. We're kind of a mess.
But we're learning. God has us in a real and raw place of struggle and fight and working this out. That's why I'm writing this little series. I've talked to enough of you to know that we're not alone in our quest for balance and wisdom and stewarding our time.
We want to be intentional about our yeses. We want to be wise and discerning. We want to make the most of these years together as a family and not spend our time running around after pursuits that are just fine but not necessarily fruitful in the long-term.
We want to be purposeful with our time. I know you do too. So let's keep talking about this. I'll be back later in the week to dish a bit more.
In the meantime, receive the grace to let things settle. If some opportunities are floating around in your world and you're feeling the pressure to commit but not necessarily the permission, it's okay to wait.
Let the shape of this season determine the shape of your schedule.
What are your thoughts about this? How do we confuse productivity with fruitfulness? How have you said no to a good thing in order to say yes to better things like margin or rest or waiting? I'd love to hear what you've got.


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The long-term career goal of Dr. Arunabh Bhattacharya is to establish himself as a successful and well-funded, independent investigator through sustained basic and translational research in the field of aging, in particular, in the area of muscle biology. His doctoral and postdoctoral training in the area of inflammatory diseases and oxidative stress laid the foundation for this career development award application. His research career to date has been highly productive with more than 38 publications in peer- reviewed journals. As a faculty member of the Department of CSB/Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies in San Antonio, he has been studying the role of lipid mediators generated by the inflammatory pathways in muscle atrophy, which is a new direction of research at UTHSCSA. Barshop Institute has one of the largest Biology of Aging programs in the in the nation and provides excellent opportunities for junior faculty mentoring in aging research. Arunabh is on the path to a long-term independent research career in the field of muscle biology and the K01 career development award will provide the mechanism for him to make this transition. He is submitting this proposal under the joint mentorship of Dr. Van Remmen and Dr. Musi, active faculty members of the Barshop Institute. Dr. Van Remmen is a leading authority in the field of oxidative stress and its role in aging, and Dr. Musi, a funded Ellison Foundation Beeson Scholar, studies the role of inflammatory pathways in skeletal muscle in insulin resistance and aging. The overall training program that has been outlined in this K01 award includes a mixture of practical laboratory training with didactic course work and intensive mentoring interactions with the mentor/co-mentor and other members of the advisory council. In addition, the training program is designed to provide valuable experience in other aspects of research including managing a research budget, running a laboratory independently, forging collaborations and writing grant applications to national funding agencies including Muscular Dystrophy Association and an independent R01 application to National Institute of Aging. Together these factors will ensure his successful transition to an independent investigator in the field of aging and aging-associated changes in quality of life. Through interactions with his mentor/co-mentor, members of the advisory council and the consultants who have agreed to assist Arunabh in this proposal, the K01 award will allow him to gain expertise in a variety of techniques that will provide a strong basis for his continued advancement in the field of muscle biology. Because of his interest in understanding the mechanisms of muscle atrophy during aging, he has designed this K01 grant proposal to study the role of the pro-inflammatory 12/15-lipoxygenase (12/15-LO) pathway in age- related sarcopenia. Based on the preliminary data in mice null for 12/15-LO and in aging mice, he has developed a hypothesis that 12/15-LO plays a significant role in age-related muscle atrophy by modulating the ubiquitin-proteasome and the lysosomal autophagy pathways of protein degradation. This will be tested using a combination of in vitro and in vivo approaches.
In Specific Aim 1, in vitro primary myotube culture and isolated muscle preparation will be used to determine the effect of 12/15-LO metabolites, 12- and 15-HETE on the regulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome and lysosomal autophagy pathways. Since induction of protein degradation pathways is modulated by PI3K/Akt signaling and downstream mTOR and FoxO3 pathways, and activation of NF-?B, these pathways will be measured in cells and in isolated muscle preparation from wild-type (with/without PI3K/Akt inhibitor) and MISR mice (mice with muscle-specific inhibition of NF-kB) to determine the relative role of PI3K/Akt and NF-?B signaling pathways. Activation of downstream lysosomal autophagic pathway will be determined by measuring the expression of autophagic proteins (Atg-7, LC-3II/LC-3I, p62) and the autophagic flux through the pathway and activation of ubiquitin-proteasome pathway by measuring proteasome activity and ability of the proteasome to degrade an ubiquitin-labeled GFP substrate.
In Specific Aim 2, the sciatic nerve transection model will be used to determine whether the inhibition of 12/15-LO protects against denervation-induced muscle atrophy by modulating the protein degradation pathways. The level of 12- and 15-HETE, PI3K/Akt signaling and downstream mTOR and FoxO3 pathways, activation of NF-?B, markers of the induction of the lysosomal autophagy and ubiquitin-proteasome pathways in control and denervated muscle from wild-type and 12/15-LO null mice will be measured in this Specific Aim. Finally, the hypothesis will be tested in vivo to determine whether inhibition of the 12/15-LO pathway during aging protects against loss of muscle mass and function by modulating the protein degradation pathways. Age-related muscle atrophy and loss of function, level of 12- and 15-HETE, PI3K/Akt signaling and downstream mTOR and FoxO3 pathways, activation of NF-?B, and markers of the induction of the lysosomal autophagy and ubiquitin-proteasome pathways in wild-type and 12/15-LO knockout mice and in mice treated with a pharmacological inhibitor of 12/15-LO will be measured in this Specific Aim. In summary, this proposal addresses an area of research that is of high relevance in the field of aging. The studies that have been proposed will be the first to examine the potential role of signaling from lipid mediators such as the HETEs in muscle atrophy;thus the opportunity exists to make some fundamental novel discoveries in this project which may have long-term implications in improving the quality of life in the aging population.
Aging is associated with progressive loss of muscle mass (termed as sarcopenia) which leads to functional impairments in the aging population, significantly worsens the quality of life and increases the risk of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. This proposal will help identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention to prevent or delay sarcopenia.
|Zhang, Ning; Valentine, Joseph M; Zhou, You et al. (2017) Sustained NF?B inhibition improves insulin sensitivity but is detrimental to muscle health. Aging Cell 16:847-858
|Bhattacharya, Arunabh; Wei, Rochelle; Hamilton, Ryan T et al. (2014) Neuronal cells but not muscle cells are resistant to oxidative stress mediated protein misfolding and cell death: role of molecular chaperones. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 446:1250-4
|Bhattacharya, Arunabh; Hamilton, Ryan; Jernigan, Amanda et al. (2014) Genetic ablation of 12/15-lipoxygenase but not 5-lipoxygenase protects against denervation-induced muscle atrophy. Free Radic Biol Med 67:30-40


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James interviews renowned feminist, professor and author Zillah Eisenstein. Distinguished Scholar of Anti-Racist Feminist Political Theory at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, she wrote two articles for al Jazeera discussing women's issues in terms of the military and more.
Conservation, Climate, Energy and Environment: Iowa's Natural Resource Priorities for the Future.
James Moore discusses these issues with Rep. Curt Hanson, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Chuck Isenhart, ranking member on the House Environmental Protection Committee, and Patrick Bosold, conservation chair of the Leopold Group, southeast Iowa's Sierra Club chapter.
we go "Inside the Headlines' with award-winning journalist and filmmaker JP Sottile, the Newsvandal. This week topics include numbing numbers, sucking economy and blowback & forth. Links to headlines listed below.
Tom Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
His songs include modern standards such as "The Last Thing on My Mind", "Bottle of Wine", "Whose Garden Was This?", "The Marvelous Toy", and "Ramblin' Boy". Paxton's songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs, The Fireballs, and many others.
He has performed thousands of concerts around the world in such places as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and all over the United States.
Catch Tom live in Cedar Rapids at the lovely CSPS this Saturday, January 26th at 8pm.
Fri 3:30pm, James Moore speaks with Executive Director/CEO Betty Andrews about an exciting 2-day event celebrating I"ll Make Me a World in Iowa as the first major festival of the year; the kickoff to Black History Month; the home of Iowa's newest official state song (titled I'll Make Me a World in Iowa's); with over 20,000 projected attendance.It's composed of three events: Education Day [Fri 9am-2pm]; Excellence Gala [Fri 7pm-9:30pm] and Saturday's Celebration Day Festival [10am-7pm] featuring Billy Dee Williams, Lady Tramaine Hawkins ("Oh Happy Day"), and many other stellar events including soul food, fun for the kids with inflatables, pony rides, and much, much more. For more info, the phone number is 515-288-7171.
Acting coach/director/producer Tom Todoroff talks with James Moore about his career and upcoming workshop in Fairfield on Saturday, January 26th at Morning Star Studio.
We have a very special segment planned for you. Newsvandal JP Sottile and James will highlight several emerging conspiracy angles and consider a few older ones as well. Zero Dark Thirty--a government propaganda coup? We'll share thoughts. Also, take a look at some good news and odds & ends. Click "Read more" below for link to sourced headlines.
Leah Bolger, president of the Veterans for Peace, shares her story and experiences of 20 years in the U.S. Navy and more recently as a peace activist. She travelled to Pakistan last year to take part in a convoy led by Imran Khan to protest the use of drones.
Singer/ songwriter Taylor Ross talks with PLANET ERSTWILD host James Moore about her first release 'Come on, the Comet' and her upcoming Beauty Shop concert on January 12th. She performs live in the studio and discusses her work helming the successful artists in residence program this past year.
Brando Piggue, president of the campus-based group NetImpact, talks with host James Moore about activities planned around this year's Martin Luther King Day. A Lord's Cupboard food drive gets underway January 14 at drop off points around the city, with a campus blitz January 18 and special entertainment in Dalby Hall at 7:30pm with keynote speaker Patti Miller. For more information the website is fairfieldvolunteercenter.org
At 4pm we go "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile. This week our three main categories include Politics & Fleas, the economy doen't suck, it just sucks for you, and Meet The New Year, Same As The Old Year, plus Good News and Odds & End. For a complete list of every headline discussed with link, click "Read more" below. Archives available. And as always, thanks for tuning in.
Host James Moore speaks with Azril Bacal who came from Peru, now visiting his daughter in Fairfield before heading to Sweden. This spring, he hopes to go to Tunisia for the World Social Forum which we'll learn about.
"Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sotille. This week it's Lasting Impressions, the Economy Doesn't Suck, It Just Sucks For You and Food Fights. For a list of all the headlines with links, click on Read more below.
we go "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sotille. This week it's Lasting Impressions, the Economy Doesn't Suck, It Just Sucks For You and Food Fights. For a list of all the headlines with links, click on Read more below.
A shorter "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile that explores the contours of the invisible handshake with some Good News and Odds & Ends mixed in for good measure. See complete list below.
"Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile looks at Hearts, Minds and Bombs; that sucking economy; and chemistry sets in ouor food plus the usual nod to Good News and Odds & Ends mixed in for good measure. See complete list below.
KRUU 100.1 FM station manager James Moore talks with Lori Knox at the Chamber of Commerce and First Fridays Artwalk Director Dania De Bortoli about this month's holiday gingerbreadpalooza. It's the Chamber's 9th year supporting the gingerbread house extravaganza. The event sponsor is Hy-Vee.
James Moore interviews John Newton, the founder of Health Beyond Belief. John returns to Fairfield to do his complementary healing work, as well as keynote the 2012 Earth Expo which is taking place Dec 1 & 2 at the Sheraton Hotel in Iowa City.
A special "Inside the Headlines": a discussion of historian Henry Wiencek's revelations on Thomas Jefferson from his new book "Master of the Mountain." James and JP Sottile, the Newsvandal share insights on this subject, the new UN observer status for Palestinians (which 138 countries voted to grant, 41 abstained, and 9 countries voted against, including the US, Israel, Canada and the Czech Republic), plus some more thoughts on JFK.
Pirate Satellite host Bruce Miller interviews awakened Dr. Ron Leymaster, a seasoned mental health professional with over thirty years' experience assisting people in making real life changes. His passion, life experience and training help his clients to find the fire that burns within, to define who they are, He became involved with the Oneness Blessing through the teachings of Bhagavan Kalki years ago. He is taking part in the 2012 Earth Expo Dec 1st & 2nd at the Sheraton Hotel in Iowa City.
James Moore interviews LYRICAL VENUS host Heather Miller about the release of her self-produced "Anchor" CD and her celebration/performance this weekend at Cafe P with special friends.
At 4pm, we go "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile for a look at the latest news haps from around the globe. Click "Read more" below for a complete listing of this week's headlines.
In the final hour, we'll take you "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile. Firewall 101, the economy doesn't suck--it just sucks for you, and a hot mess are the categories today. Click "Read more" below for full list of headlines.
November 30-Dec 2, The Department of Sustainable Living at Maharishi University of Management will host Australian expert, Darren Doherty, for his workshop on Drought-Proofing Your Farm Utilizing Keyline Design. Keyline Design is a technique for maximizing beneficial use of water resources of a piece of land. Keyline Farming is an integrated approach to broadscale landscape design and a practice that emphasizes soil building and innovative water harvesting, with the resultant soils becoming the largest reservoir of water in a landscape. The workshop will also cover survey and layout methods including GPS (Global Positioning Systems). There's a Free Friday Eve Public lecture Nov 30 at Argiro Center at 7:30 pm and a weekend workshop at the-New Sustainable Living Building, MUM Campus: 9-5 Sat.and Sun. For more information, contact Molly Reiff at firstname.lastname@example.com or 319.594.0086 or Leanne Hays at email@example.com or 641.472.1174. Click on the pic to register. Cosponsored by KRUU-FM.
At 4pm we go "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile with a further look at the fallout and fall in for Republicans and Democrats, and much more. Click on "Read more' below for a complete list of today's headlines with links.
It's a special extended version of "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile. This week we look at voting machinations, the not-so sweet flow of money, honey, and the secrets that "they've" got, plus some Good News, and Odds & Ends, including a look at the scientific basis of "truthiness.' For this week's headlines, click "Read more" below.
In the final hour, James speaks with Newsvandal JP Sottile all about the Cuban missile crisis which marks its 50th anniversary this month. That and much more on Fairfield's topical and musical safari known as PLANET ERSTWILD, where jokers are always wild and the party never stops.
James Moore talks with Atlanta attorney Loren Collins, author of BULLSPOTTING: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation, about the DVD called "Dreams of My Real Father" by Joel Gilbert whose film is showing this weekemd in Fairfield, calling it "complete bunk." The DVD asserts that Obama's Kenyan father is a ruse to cover the "real" story: Obama is actually a red diaper baby, the son of commie/poet Frank Marshall Davis. Gilbert has made other films: one claiming Paul McCartney is dead and another that Elvis Presley is alive.
The assertions of the story, according to Collins, simply do not hold up to simple investigative scientific scrutiny. Collin's website barackcryphal has the breakdown in clear detail. Up till this moment, it's received little comment from media and screened at only six places in the past two months, according to Gilbert's offical website. But perhaps flying under the radar means it will have a little explosion in key swing states just in the run up to the election, begging the age-old question: When money talks it is impolite for facts to interrupt?
Bluesman extraordinaire Larry Garner speaks with James Moore about his new record, BLUES FOR SALE, and upcoming performance at Morning Star Studio Saturday, October 27th. With all the honesty and power of the blues Larry delivers a show that has earned him 7 W. C. Handy nominations including 4 for Best Contemporary Blues Male Artist. In 2002 Larry was inducted into the Louisiana Hall of Fame. He is the winner of the BB King's Lucille Award, three time recipient of Blues Songwriter of the Year Award in Paris, the Slim Harpo Ambassador for the Blues Award in Baton Rouge, and many more.
At 4pm, it's our regular weekly segment "Inside the Headlines" with Newsvandal JP Sottile, award-winning journalist/filmmaker. This week we look at the cushy Gucci Gulch world of corporate lobbyism (yes, it's a job that not only pays the bills, it writes them, too!), you are what you--gulp--eat (pig feces in seafood? wish i was making that up), and D-N-A, easy as 1-2-3 (Hit it, Michael Jackson! Supreme Court to rule on self-replicating products? oh my.) Never mind Canada kicking our butts in 1812, obese pets, and Jefferson's dark side. Click "Read more" below.