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Last weekend for the first time in quite a few years, I set out on Saturday morning (husband accompanying, which is rarer than not and doing the driving) for a preaching/talking ministerial gig more than three hundred miles away. It was for a lovely, warm thriving UU fellowship in the Florida Panhandle, with wonderful home hospitality — a custom constructed showplace worthy of the most extreme house envy: carved wood built-ins, amazing blinds, a massive living/entertainment space — and a couple whose graciousness was beyond belief.
I had forgotten how much I enjoy visiting a congregation for the first time: seeing the building, checking out the sanctuary and the grounds, meeting the people: alike but not alike from place to place. I love talking UU shop: especially curled up in a comfy chair in my beach sweat pants and bare feet, sipping Merlot, comparing stories about membership attraction and retention, staffing, budgets, board relations (I know: totally wonky).
Since it is a guest pulpit experience, I usually haven't stayed up all night putting the sermon together. It is what it is, carried in a UU GA canvas bag, gone over lightly for cadence and emphasis, but not the source of the usual angst. I can relax some and put my part of the service in perspective: what does the rest of the liturgy look like, feel like?
These are the positives of the long trip: not the quick turnaround, the time zone disruption.
The downside was/is the monotony of the mostly flat and impoverished scenery out my passenger-side window. The Panhandle coast is often called the Redneck Riviera and the bedraggled, scrawny pined, over-farmed, empty billboard look of the countryside inland on the way to the Gulf Coast is depressed and depressing.
The meal choices — we're talking a quick lunch — were almost nonexistent on Saturday as we passed through a few small towns with more check-cashing places than places to eat. We were not expecting to be able to choose among the 52 foodie wonderlands available to us within walking distance in our GenX/Boomer hometown. But we had held out some hope that we would not have to settle for one fast food chain or another.
Which is what we did. Picking the Burger King in Dothan, Alabama, we ordered veggie burgers. I asked for one with just lettuce and tomato. Richard opted for cheese, no onions, and mayo. Neither one of us got what we asked for. Hungry enough, cold enough, tired of driving enough, we put up with the mix up and the pretzel bun, for dead white bread, was pretty good.
On the way out of town we saw at least one local independent option. We didn't imagine being back in this same town at the same time Sunday for another road meal, but we kept it in mind.
Of course that is what happened: we left the Fellowship after the service and a Second Hour, a lively session on reproductive justice, coffee-fueled, and drove a couple of hours before we both got too cranky/hungry to go any farther. Pulling into Dothan only to discover that the whole town was shut down for the Sabbath — except the ubiquitous chains and the single semi-agreeable option of a return visit to Burger King.
Where the order was botched even worse than the day before. Where the order of a frayed young father who was there with three of his seven children was wrong — twice. Where families in church clothes watched their kids play in the indoor playground and stopped themselves from public spankings. Where we were the elders in the booths by at least 20 years, and certainly the only ones not inhaling chicken or beef.
Where at least the person who took those orders and who never could get them right didn't call me Honey.
This for another time.

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Sometimes a salad with shrimp, chicken or beef tossed on top makes for a great lunch. It's easy to do and you can do it far in advance of your guests arriving. This makes for a great working lunch or a casual Saturday catching up with friends.
First decide what you want to serve, grilled chicken or beef. This is Wesley Maloney's famous marinade and one of the most popular recipes we have. You can grill a few hours in advance and let rest at room temperature, or cold if it's hot outside. You should also have a seafood option, so go with either the butter pouched shrimp or grilled pesto shrimp.
When it comes to the salad you have an open canvas from a pasta to lettuce to corn, just pick what you think goes best. I prefer a greek salad as it is heartier and the chunks of feta really make it a gratifying meal.
- Cucumber Dill Salad
- Curry Pasta Salad
- Curry Pasta Salad with Broccolini
- Dill Buttermilk Salad
- Feta Watermelon Salad
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- Orzo Salad
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A few weeks ago, Salty, Allspice and I had a conversation about whether or not Allspice should continue running through a niggle she had developed. This led us to ponder the classic runner's dilemma – it hurts, but can I run through it? Because most of us who love to run would give up any material good we own rather than miss a few days of training, many times we do wind up running through pain. Sometimes we're okay – the issue resolves even though we didn't take a break – but sometimes we are decidedly not okay. If only we had a clear set of rules to tell us when the pendulum will swing one way versus the other!
I wish I could give you that clear set of rules, but I can't. Between us Salty Bloggers, we all have a very different set of personal rules for dealing with pain. How your body handles a burgeoning injury is dependent on so many things: your own perception of pain or limitation, your current level of fitness, your genetics, your age – the list goes on. But what I can do is give you some insights I have gained over the course of my own running experience, and invite you all to contribute your own wise words to the conversation. Healthy and consistent running means fast running, so let's all help each other get there!
Changing our attitude towards pain: In his authoritative text on functional movement, Movement, physical therapist Gray Cook writes,
"…pain is simply the brain's interpretation of a neurological signal normally associated with trauma, dysfunction, instant and continuing damage."
He then goes on to write, "Exercise and activity in the presence of pain present more risk than reward," and describes a number of studies in which pain has been shown to alter muscle activity, motor control, and even motor planning. Why, then, do we so often view pain as an inconvenience or an annoyance, and try to cover it up with painkillers, ice, wraps or braces? I myself have been guilty of this on countless occasions; I used to pop three Motrin before every single run to neutralize any protest my body might have had to the training I wanted to do. I felt angry, like my body had betrayed me, whenever I started to develop a sore spot that hampered my plans. But I was doing myself a disservice by feeling this way. My body was trying to warn me, but I didn't pay attention or feel grateful for that danger signal. And let me tell you, this never, ever led to improvements in my running, only full-blown injury, frustration, and more pain.
When a niggle first develops: Muscle soreness is an inevitable part of pushing our limits in training and competing. The symmetrical, bilateral stiffness or soreness in your prime mover muscles (glutes, quads, hamstrings) after a hard workout or race is a natural part of gaining fitness and improving. It's when things don't feel the same on both sides that you need to start to pay attention. Particularly in the feet and lower legs, areas with poorer circulation, asymmetrical soreness needs to be noted. Back pain during or after running is not normal. If you start to feel something while you are running, stop and check it out, particularly if it becomes increasingly uncomfortable as you go on. Take a short break, palpate it, massage it and/or stretch. Try to restart; if the pain is still there, pack it in and go home. Yes, this will ruin your tempo run pace, and might be inconvenient if you are out on your long run, but no single workout will make or break your progress as a runner. If you are a devoted runner chances are you have an extremely strong will, but just because you can continue to run through something does not mean that you should. Your body might be letting you know enough is enough, and if you don't heed the warning you are at risk of breaking down. I would argue it just isn't worth it to take that risk.
Things to help you determine if it's okay to run: Frequently when an injury is first developing and is still in a very mild state, all you need is a day or two of rest and you can resume training. You may feel that your fitness is slipping away by taking that time, but in the grand scheme these few days of rest are just a drop in the bucket. Loss of fitness happens from weeks or months of missed training, not a couple of days or even a week. You will still be well on track for your goals by letting your niggle sort itself out. Pain-free walking is usually a good indicator you are ready to try a run. You can hop on the affected foot/leg before you go out; if this causes pain, give the injury a little more time before challenging it. If not, a test run is appropriate. I like ten minutes of easy running, then a brief break to stretch and check yourself out, and then another ten minutes of easy running if you feel okay. Sometimes there can be a little residual soreness when you start up – this should resolve completely within the first few minutes. If not, the affected area is still vulnerable and likely needs more rest.
The risk of running before it's ready: Months of being sidelined while your running fitness truly does slip away. As anyone who's been out for months knows, you can cross-train your butt off but unless you have easy access to an Alter-G or a Hydroworx treadmill, nothing will maintain your running-specific fitness when you can't run and you will have to build back up once you are finally healthy again. There are many expletives to describe this situation. Don't put yourself there.
Easing back into training: Be sure to give yourself enough time to recover from the test run. I recommend at least a full 24 hours before you try another run, as sometimes an injury response can be delayed. I also think it's wise to spend a few days running easy; get the blood flowing to the affected area and make sure things really do feel well. You might be sore in the area after you run – this is normal, but make sure it subsides and you are pain-free again before your next run. Let your body tell you how much your injury can handle. Accept the fact that you may have to table your quality workouts for the next week or so, and even readjust your training schedule a bit. Don't taint your training with the worry that your niggle just won't hold up – it will be too hard to reap the gains you are hoping for if you aren't feeling healthy and solid.
Finding the root cause: So in response to all of this, you might say "Wait a second, Garlic. Niggles come up in training all the time, and if I babied every sore spot in the way you're recommending I'd never make any progress with my training at all!" But why should we accept that training has to be fraught with injuries? For so many years I did accept this – I thought to be a good runner I had to live in pain all the time, that this was just part of it. But I question this now. Maybe you are getting injured all the time because your movement patterns aren't what they should be. Maybe you lack running-specific strength, skill or power and just need guidance to develop these traits so you can run healthier and better. Maybe you have an anatomic abnormality that can be addressed and managed by a healthcare professional. Figure out what you need to do to run pain-free as much as you possibly can so our sport can be about joy in movement, as it should be.
How do you handle a niggle and keep it from turning into a sidelining injury? Do you think you're more conservative or aggressive in your approach to pain? Do you believe that we need to run in pain sometimes to progress as runners?


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The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program was established in 1901 and has been growing ever since. Originally known as the Oklahoma A&M Aggies, the Oklahoma State Cowboys started as a small program in the Southwest Conference. Through the years the school name, the Oklahoma State football roster and conference changed. On May 15, 1957 the university officially changed its name to Oklahoma State and in 1996 Oklahoma State University joined with the Big 8 and 4 other schools to become the Big 12 Conference. Now OSU is home to the Oklahoma State football roster.
Oklahoma State Staff
Today the Oklahoma State Cowboys football team is still a part of the Big 12 Conference Southern Division. The Cowboys play under the leadership of Oklahoma State University head coach Mike Gundy, who joined the Oklahoma State Cowboys roster in 2001 as the offensive coordinator and was named Oklahoma State University Head Coach in 2005. Gundy is part of the recruitment process that creates the successful Oklahoma State football roster that we know and support.
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The opioid crisis is one of the main public health crises in the U.S., and hospitals are being impacted in many ways. From new restrictions on opiate prescribing to increases in opioid dependence for surgical patients, healthcare organizations must adapt to the challenges created by the opioid epidemic.
Approximately 2 million people in the U.S. have a substance use disorder involving prescription pain relievers, and drug overdoses are now the No. 1 cause of accidental death in the U.S., largely due to opioid abuse, according to a fact sheet from the American Society of Addiction Medicine. So it's becoming more and more evident that hospitals must figure out a way to address the issue.
For surgical patients and those with chronic pain, opiates can provide much needed relief from discomfort and suffering. But overprescribing the drugs is a major concern, and putting a halt to this practice can save lives.
Opioid abuse as a hospital-acquired condition
A blog post for Health Affairs suggests one way to revamp how your organization views opioid dependence: Treat it as a hospital-acquired condition.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines three components of a hospital-acquired condition:
- It begins while a patient is hospitalized.
- It's a high-cost and high-volume condition.
- It could've been prevented by using evidence-based guidelines.
This means it's up to hospitals to combat the crisis and retool their strategies for dealing with opioid addiction. Health Affairs offers some long-term, cultural changes that can be put in motion to improve your organization's treatment of patients who depend on opiates.
Educating patients about managing their expectations of pain relief after treatments can go a long way. So can training providers on:
- the dangers of overprescribing opiates
- treatments for opioid abuse, and
- how to recognize patients who might be at risk for opioid abuse or overdose.
Handling opioid addictions
There are other factors to pay attention to when considering how to tackle opioid dependence at your hospital. Dealing with patients and staff who are already dependent on opioids is just as important as cutting down on opioid abuse.
For example:
- Offer appropriate treatment options for patients with opioid dependence. It's not always possible for a hospital to provide the necessary treatment for a patient who's abusing opioids. Prepare your doctors to provide referrals for outside rehab centers or programs.
- Handle people who exhibit drug-seeking behavior in the emergency department appropriately. Check out a patient's medical history to find out if drug-seeking behavior is a recurring problem and keep track of how often patients come in for prescription refills.
- Stay vigilant about preventing drug diversion. Addictions don't only affect patients. Staff members may also have drug abuse issues, so make sure your hospital's drug diversion prevention policy is consistent and reviewed regularly.
Non-opioid options for pain management
In spite of the opioid crisis, patients still need pain relief and management at the end of the day. So how can your hospital think outside of the opioid-shaped box?
Virtual reality therapy is one possibility, according to Science Daily. One study found patients reported a significant drop in pain after using virtual reality equipment to watch calming videos designed to simulate experiences like helicopter rides over Iceland or swimming with whales. In that study, patients who watched standard two-dimensional nature videos also experienced less pain, although the drop wasn't as significant.
Another study found virtual reality cut down on patients' perception of acute pain, anxiety and general distress during procedures like blood draws.
But those are early studies, and the use of virtual reality may not be an option, for hospitals right now, especially those in low-income or rural areas.
Luckily, there are other ways to manage pain without opioids. Using trigger point injections, non-opioid medications, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks and nitrous oxide can help treat patients with chronic pain – and stop opioid abuse before it starts.


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Some own goals are funny. Some own goals are ridiculous. Some own goals are virtually inexplicable. But it's not often you get one own goal that ticks all three of those boxes.
Sometimes own goals are more spectacolar than normal ones.
In the video above, you can see top ten funniest own goals.
Sit back an enjoy – a collection of 10 funny own goals.


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Why did Rand say this? The military is floating the idea of sending 1000 US soldiers to fight ISIS.
Its very presumptuous to think that were going to decide who takes Raqqa and who occupies Raqqa. Dont you think the people there would be aghast, to think were 3000 miles away, to decide whos going to take over Raqqa and whos going to occupy it?
We can win any battle, Paul said. But when we big we usually go big, and sort of, there have been many people the Powell Doctrine go big or dont go. 1000 soldiers? Paul inquired, appearing to note that this number would not be enough should the U.S. decide to escalate our military efforts in Syria.
A year ago during the campaign, Donald Trump said he would consider sending up to 30,000 U.S. troops to Syria. Yet Trump also has stressed that the U.S. should get out of the business of nation building.
Those two foreign policy views dont typically jibe. Paul addressed to the committee how sending troops abroad inevitably leads to nation building.
And then the other problem [ ] The mantra is always Stay, stay, we must stay forever, and if we leave, thats our fault for leaving, Paul said.
Theres no exit from a situation like this the senator said. Lets say we were to go in and defeat those who were there, to defeat ISIS do you think thats the end? No, when a big force comes, theyre going to shrink away, and they will fight til the end of time.
And they will fight against an American target if Americans are the target, Paul said.
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There's still some neon left. Every night, a few old motels flash pinks and yellows and greens, but the rest of the strip is dark. There was a time when Miracle Mile was alive with beautiful lights, restaurants, temptations for road-wary motorists. I let the blinds fall back in front of my window.
All that's left now are the temptations.
I turn back toward the open room, and she's staring at me. Claire stands by the front door of our studio apartment, shifting her weight from one foot to the other. "This isn't the end, Howie. You know that right?"
I nod and she starts to twirl her hair with the finger she broke the night I met her.
That was shortly after I had grown tired of using overnights at the Pima County lockup to keep me from slipping. So I had been looking for something new. But they don't make support groups for what I got—at least none that I've found. So, I figured I'd try the next best thing. The closest Narcotics Anonymous meeting was a couple miles from my studio, in the auxiliary hall at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton's. She was on the steps when I arrived late.
"You all right?" I asked her, although I wasn't sure she was awake. Her face was turned toward the concrete steps, her back rising and falling as if she were snoring. Then, she puked, turned the steps a light yellow.
When she rolled onto her back and fought for fresh, vomit-free air, I saw her finger. "I fucked it up," she said, holding it out toward me. "When I fell."
She told me she must've been late to the meeting. When I asked her why she thought that, she said, "Because I'm already high."
We didn't go in that night. We decided a trip to the diner off the interstate made more sense, and by the time we finished our food, we'd formed a plan. We didn't need meetings.
I'm not sure why I told her what I told her while we ate hard pancakes and drank cold coffee, but because I did, she's here. Or, she was here. Now, she's on her way out.
"You remember what this place looked like when I moved in?" she asks.
I look around the studio. Milk crates hold up a plywood tabletop, two lumpy mattresses lay against the wall closest the kitchen, and a television Claire found on the curb in front of the apartments is propped up on what I think used to be a bookshelf. The television never worked, but it made us feel like real people.
I shake my head and smile. "I remember the stains you made me cover up, and that a sleeping bag wasn't a good place to sleep."
"So you agree, I made life better for you." She laughs, turns her head toward the door, then turns back to me. "I got to go."
I nod because there's nothing else I can do. I could beg, but it's her father we're talking about. Her daughters. For the first time in three years, she's got a shot. That her old man took care of the girls this long means he can't be all that bad, even if he did leave her to puke in the gutters and figure shit out on her own.
She moves across the living room, her hair falls behind her. Shinier than when we met, fuller. Her skin is clear, the scabs healed long ago. Claire leans in, kisses me on the cheek, hugs me, then holds my cheeks in both hands.
"I love you, Howie."
"I love you, too."
She smiles and walks back across the room. We bought her new clothes last week. She's wearing the jeans I picked—the ones she'd said she hated. They would have fallen off when we first met.
At the door, she taps her fingers against the faded wood. She doesn't turn. "Don't slip."
"You either."
Now, she spins around. "I'm serious. I'm here, and I want you to call me when you need me."
I smile and tell her I will. I don't need to make the same promises and suggestions to her. She'll be all right.
She blows me a kiss and walks out the door.
In the wake of her exit, I see a question mark. I know the question, so I suppose I don't need to see the words that go along with it. It's floating right in front of me but too far away to touch. It must be like the floaters my mom used to see before the start of a migraine. Before she'd pass out in her bedroom.
The first time my mother mentioned them, I was six. That also happened to be the first time Dave came into my room in the middle of the night.
I stand and look at the two lawn chairs. I fold one up and place it against the wall next to the front door. I walk to the window and look out again. In my head, she's down there, staring up, waving at me. But in reality, there's just the road and a dirt lot across the street with a few weeds fighting through the dry earth.
The interstate marks the horizon, cars rushing by, not daring to detour down the strip. Not that they should. I wouldn't want them to.
You don't make friends with anyone but the voices in your head here.
I push away from the window and look at her mattress. I pick it up and drag it on top of mine, then I fall into the cushion of my new bed. It had been months since she last slipped, but I expect to smell the vinegar sweat-soaked sheets I'd grown used to when she was still trying to prove to herself she could quit. Instead, I smell her perfume, and I close my eyes.
That last time—when I made the mistake of leaving her alone too long and she came home covered in piss and missing her purse—she crawled on top of me when I tried to put her to bed. She pressed both hands under the waistband of my basketball shorts. I pulled her hands out and slipped out from under her. She passed out that night before she could be embarrassed or angry.
The next day, I told her there was a time when I would have tried. Or let her try. She asked me why I didn't, and I told her about the neighbor woman who lived near my mother's old place when I was a kid. The one who smiled and winked at me every time I passed her house. The one who invited me inside on a hot afternoon.
Claire asked why I would have gone inside the neighbor's house. "Because I was sixteen and needed to know," I'd told her.
We made a deal after Claire's last slip. She would never go out without telling me where she was going. I wouldn't go more than twelve hours without seeing her. And most important, we'd talk every night. And for her end of the deal, she'd be there. Just be there. She broke that part of the deal, but I'm glad she did. It's better for her.
I fall asleep, but the first gunshot of the night wakes me around eleven. I stand by the window, waiting for a round to shatter the glass. None come. No more shots, no lucky bullets carving their way through my walls to get rid of the question mark for good.
There's a liquor store on the corner. Alcohol had been out of the question because of Claire, but maybe I'll get a six pack and think. I start for the door then remember where thinking gets me. So, I sit in my lawn chair and stare at the blank television screen.
But the thoughts have already come. I think of boys I've never met. I see them there on the screen. The first one I see is about nine. He's playing ball on a field near where I grew up. He's not real. But he's there, throwing the baseball on my broken television. I close my eyes and beg Claire to come back.
When I open my eyes again, I'm no longer sitting. I'm pacing the living room. I stand over the phone Claire bought us three months ago. She thought it'd be good to have a way to call for help if we needed it, but I think she knew she was getting better. Closing in on a new life. I think she knew I'd need the phone more than her.
I'll call her.
No, it's been just a few hours. That's ridiculous.
I do fifty-seven push-ups before collapsing face-down on the dirty carpet. Back when trips to jail were my form of therapy, I had gotten up to a hundred and sixteen straight. I'm pissed at myself that I couldn't keep going, but then I'm not. I wish I didn't have to do a single push-up again in my life.
I lie on my bed, using Claire's scent to keep me occupied. I hear voices calling back and forth across the street below my apartment. Young voices. I stand and look out the window. The neon from the Old Wrangler Motel flashes and pops across the black puddle near the middle of the road. I can't find the kids who were calling out, but I see a woman walking in high heels and a short skirt.
Besides needing a cheap place to stay, that had been the reason I moved here. Before I met Claire, I thought I could buy my way out of my head. The first girl cost two-hundred and fifty dollars and she laughed when I couldn't get hard.
The shrieking siren of a police cruiser sends the woman scurrying for the nearest alley, but the cop isn't after her. I watch the cruiser's lights flash past on its way to something more violent. I walk to the front door, lean my back against it, and slide to the floor. My life isn't worth thinking about, so I think about Claire's.
When she was eighteen, Claire was arrested for the first time. She told me she spent years thanking God for that arrest because she met her dealer in jail. "Such an easy path from pain to forgetting with a dealer you could trust," she'd said with a snort.
Claire's daughters don't know their fathers. She told me she was probably high when each of them was conceived.
I think it made Claire feel better that I hadn't known my own father. I'm not sure why. The logic of me says that her girls need to know their father or they'll end up fucked up just like I am. But that's not what Claire thought.
"The truth is, you're stronger than every fucking one of us. The junkies, dealers, the whores down there walking the Mile. You're better than us all, Howie."
"How's that?"
"You haven't given in. You're fighting like hell, man. No one fights like that."
She never could understand the fact that I hadn't fought hard enough. By the time I was ten, I could have stopped him, but Dave kept coming. Once a week, twice a week. Sometimes, he wouldn't show up for days on end and I'd find myself crying into my pillow wishing he'd open my door and sneak in after my mother fell asleep.
I slam my fist into the floor and shake my head. I can start over and forget everything, but no, I can't. I just end up remembering the Sunday after my high school graduation.
I know it was a Sunday because I was walking past the church I'd been baptized in—the one that used old saguaro ribs to form a cross on the outside wall. Everyone was spilling into the parking lot, shaking hands and basking in the glow of God's love. The boy broke free from his family and ran into the middle of the parking lot, did a flying karate kick, and landed like he was a superhero—one fist to the pavement, head up, eyes strong. I didn't go toward him, didn't keep looking when the boy's father ushered him to their car. But I saw him all day in my mind.
I cut myself that night.
There are a million things you can do to take your mind off something, but as soon as you get to one million and one, that's when you're fucked. I roll onto my side, pull my knees to my chest, and fall asleep.
I made it three days before finding old distractions. I punched a homeless man in front of the police station, spent the night in jail. I broke into PJ's Liquor on the last corner before people escape Miracle Mile for the interstate. Spent a couple nights in jail.
Now, I'm back in my apartment, staring out the window as the sun rises over the Catalinas. The blown-out bulbs and shattered signs lining the strip reflect long shadows that do little to calm my mind. The shadows are pointing across the empty lots, beyond the damaged arms of saguaros unfortunate enough to grow around here. They point me somewhere I can't go.
I smell Claire's perfume despite the spoiled jug of milk I left on the counter before my last stint in lockup. I see strands of her hair sway and shimmer in the morning light. I'll grab them, put them together. I'll build a new Claire.
She hasn't called. She has the girls, her life. But I haven't called either.
I have the six-year-old version of myself clawing at my brain. He's sitting in my head, on the couch his mother used to hold him on. I have the ten-year-old version of myself soaking my shoulder with tears.
The carpet beneath the window sill is cold despite the morning heat coming off the single-pane glass. I sit with my legs folded under me. The room seems brighter than when Claire was here. It's probably just because the blinds have been open more. Claire preferred hiding us away from the world, lest its temptation suck us back in.
After Claire moved in, a temp agency found her a job downtown filing paperwork for an ambulance chaser. She took the bus to work, ate leftovers at her desk, then came straight home. Like a horse with blinders. The only time she let herself see was when she was home, with me.
One night, when she was pounding on my chest, begging me to let her downstairs and down to the corner for a quick score, I suggested we buy a board game. We bought Monopoly, and we played until the sun came up.
I stand and walk to the closet by the front door. Monopoly rests on the top shelf. I pull it down and hold it in both hands. The game is heavy in my hands. I could open it, play it alone. Pretend. But I always knew there'd be a time when I had to admit what I was.
I throw the game across the room. The box splits open, game pieces bouncing across the carpet. When I leave the apartment, I bring the curious six-year-old version and the desperate ten-year-old version of myself along.
I walk past the cemetery at the far-east end of the strip. The funeral home sits on the opposite corner of an old taco shop, boarded up and tagged with spray-painted words. I step down into the wash cutting between the cemetery and the road. My shoes sink into the soft dirt that feels out of place among the hard clay and rock everywhere else.
I step around a stray jumping cactus and kick my way through the rusted cans and broken glass being swallowed by sand. I beg for a flash flood to sweep me away. Three feet below the road above, I picture myself carried through the wash, downstream, to wherever these things spill out. Maybe it would take me all the way to the Santa Cruz River.
Before the wash ends in a metal-framed tunnel, I emerge at street-level. The tire shop at this intersection—where I've never seen a single tire replaced—is boarded up. Yet, I know there are people inside. It's the place Claire pointed to when I asked her where she scored after her final slip. She told me it had been a Mexican restaurant back in the fifties. Now, it's a hole in the earth.
I'm going home.
But I end up walking past my apartment building. I know where I'm going, and it's not home. I try to think about other things. The gas station a couple blocks up where I found out the last car I had couldn't be fixed. The motel I saw lit up by bullets one night two years ago. The Sonoran hot dog stand that'll open in a couple hours.
I shake my pocket and know I have enough change to treat myself. But I'm not going to be on the strip in a couple hours when the stand opens.
I turn and walk down Flowing Wells, past the police station. Just three miles from the elementary school. Miracle Mile is behind me, crying for me to come back. The wraiths of what the strip could have been tip-toe alongside my parallel life. The one where I broke free of this.
"You never break free," Claire had told me a few months ago when I asked her what she'd do when she was done with addiction. "It's not a fix and forget it kind of thing. It lives inside you. It's like a cancer that you can always beat back into remission if you try hard enough."
She might be right. But the way I see it, this life is nothing more than a stretched rubber band. You can only pull on it so many times before it snaps.
It's funny thinking back on what pacifies. All Claire did was listen to me. If that's all it took to keep my mind in check, I wouldn't be half a mile from the school right now.
To be fair, I didn't do much more for her. I hugged her when she asked, I listened to her when she didn't ask, and I played board games until the sun came up.
Thinking about it, thinking about her, steals my breath. I suck in, but the air doesn't reach my lungs. She's going to land right back where she was. I try to catch my breath but it won't work, and I cough and slap at my chest. I let her walk back into the world, unprepared, into a cycle of remission bound to break.
When I stop walking, the air comes back to me. I cough and try to turn around, but I keep moving forward instead. The school is right there. Quiet. The kids won't break for lunch for another couple hours, which means they'll be coming out for recess right about—
The first line of children rushes from the main brick building across the street. I wave a slowing city bus by as I sit on the bench at the bus stop. The playground is bordered by barrel cactuses placed every five feet around the permitter. And a chain-link fence, of course.
After each burst of children running in groups escapes through the door and onto the playground, a boy—maybe a fourth-grader—walks alone, head down. He doesn't go to the playground. He walks around the side of the building and sits on the bench nearest a payphone standing on the sidewalk in the parking lot. The farthest spot he can get to without leaving the confines of the school yard.
My right leg bounces in place, and I watch him. The boy's eyes search the ground in front of him. He lays his hands in his lap. The other kids laugh and scream and jump from the monkey bars. This boy watches a quail half-fly half-run across the parking lot.
I watch the bench he's sitting on melt into the same one I'm sitting on. The world pulls us together, and we're no longer on Flowing Wells Avenue in front of the school, but we're in a '57 Bel Air with the top down on Miracle Mile. The sun has fallen behind us and the neon is alive. Every hotel, bar, and restaurant sings with life. The hookers and junkies are gone. Replaced by couples walking hand-in-hand, high school kids trying to score booze. The boy and I just drive, comfortable.
I'm sweating. Everyone's sweating, but I'm drenched. It's not yet eighty degrees, no excuse for this. Claire's voice is knocking on my eardrums, trying to get through.
"My daddy told me there are some things you just got to figure out on your own." She said that to me the first time she told me about her father. Then she said, "I call bullshit on that one. Nobody figures out jack on their own."
I scratch my forearm just above the scars until her voice goes away. Then, the boy looks up. He looks at me looking at him, but he doesn't turn away. I don't know what comes next, not sure what to do. So, I stand up. I break eye contact first, looking to the street just in front of the school. I shove my hands in my pockets, jingle the change with my left hand. When I look up, the boy continues looking at me.
Curious eyes.
Claire's voice tells me it's all one big choice, then I walk into the street. I wait for a cab to pass by, then I make it to the sidewalk in front of the school. The boy's eyes have never left mine. They are begging me to get my closure as I near the fence.
But I turn up the sidewalk, and I walk into the school's parking lot. I keep watching him as I reach the payphone, and he watches me. I lift the receiver, praying for a dial tone, and I get one. I drop the change in and dial Claire's number.
Justin Hunter is currently working on his MFA at Arcadia University. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Typehouse Magazine, Corvus Review, and Centum Press, among others.


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The convulsions that rattled the euro this year and nearly tore it asunder were supposed to be a wake-up call for Europe, a sign that it had to fix once and for all the potentially fatal flaws built into its single currency. Caught unawares by the Greek debt crisis, European Union governments eventually pulled together a "shock and awe" $1 billion bailout plan to avert the euro zone's collapse and then pledged to overhaul their policies to ensure that they would never again be so threatened. However, when E.U. leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday for a major two-day summit, they are likely to be divided on how best to repair the euro and restore confidence in their debt-riddled economies.
In the run-up to the summit, the European Commission called for tough sanctions that would kick in whenever an E.U. nation breached its budgetary limits. These would involve suspending farm and fishing subsidies to any of the 27 E.U. member states that run high debts and deficits, and the 16 countries using the euro would face an additional sanction of a deposit into an interest-bearing account if they persisted in flouting E.U. spending rules. Commission President José Manuel Barroso told the European Parliament last week that "reform of our economic governance is a cornerstone of our sustainable recovery and our credibility."
The proposals aim to overhaul the E.U.'s so-called Stability and Growth Pact, which stipulates that annual budget deficits should be no higher than 3% of GDP and that debt should stay lower than 60% of GDP. The pact has proven largely ineffective in the past decade: although almost all euro-zone members have broken it, no sanctions have ever been applied because governments have been politically reluctant to punish their peers.
Yet despite their inability to shape spending, sanctions or at least the idea of sanctions remain an article of faith within the E.U. as a key instrument for dealing with fiscal indiscipline. "It is intuitive that people are fixated on sanctions. They like the idea that deficit sinners would be punished like children," says Clemens Fuest, an economist at Oxford University and the chairman of the German Finance Ministry's Academic Advisory Board. "But sanctions are overrated. They might have changed things with Greece, but they would probably have not changed things in the Irish and Spanish cases."
And while E.U. member states agree that sanctions are the best tools for the job, the members are split on how they should be applied. The Commission's proposals were initially backed by deficit hawks like Germany and key northern member states, which blame unchecked fiscal profligacy for the Greek crisis and say the way to restore market confidence is to force errant governments to mend their ways by repairing their public finances. But in a shock turnaround last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to support French President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal for softer sanctions, which would leave any decision on fines up to a vote by the governments.
Although the softer sanctions include measures to withdraw voting rights from member states that break the rules, the Franco-German deal has stoked fears among E.U. officials of a weakened euro regime, one that could make only toothless threats that would do nothing to discipline spendthrift states. At the same time, the plan sets new legal hurdles: Sarkozy has agreed to Merkel's demand that the measures be written into a new E.U. treaty. Coming less than a year after the long-delayed Lisbon Treaty came into force, this raises the prospect of another round of exhausting and uncertain institutional wrangling within the E.U. Many countries, like the U.K., the Netherlands and Ireland, are bitterly opposed to any treaty change, as is the European Commission. "There is a risk that we will be plunged back into months and years of navel-gazing," warned Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.
E.U. custom has it that French and German support is a necessary condition for any measure to succeed. But there are serious doubts about Merkel's deal with Sarkozy. Most of the E.U.'s small countries are adamantly against it, and say they are irked by the Franco-German effort to push the softer sanctions through without consultation. Even Merkel's own Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, has opposed it, saying that a strong euro needs hard deficit rules a notion almost universally shared across Germany.
The argument over what sanctions to apply threatens to overshadow the E.U.'s entire economic-reform package, which aims to improve overall growth and competitiveness. Jean-François Jamet, an economist at the Robert Schuman Foundation, a Paris-based think tank, says the fixation on sanctions has meant that other issues have been ignored. "Sanctions are only one side of the problem," he says. "They aim to deal with issues before they happen, but they do not say much about how to deal with a crisis when it is happening. This is worrying. Greece may get into trouble again in a year or so, and there is uncertainty about how the E.U. would handle such a crisis."
Although the euro debt crisis began rumbling in January, it wasn't until early May that E.U. leaders agreed on their bailout package for Greece and other vulnerable euro-zone members. Now, as they squabble over how to apply sanctions potentially overlooking other areas of economic urgency they again risk letting events overtake them when market forces misbehave.


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San Clemente Company in Slovenia Deal With Gores Group
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Technology4Medicine LLC in San Clemente and Los Angeles-based private equity firm Gores Group have acquired Fotona d.d, a medical laser maker in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The investment firm, headed by billionaire financier Alec Gores, invested in the deal through its Small Capitalization Partners investment fund.
Jeffrey W. Jones, president of Technology4Medicine, will serve as chief executive of both businesses.
"With the formation of the partnership between Fotona, Technology4Medicine and the Gores Group, Fotona will be stronger and have more resources to access the global market," Jones said in a statement.
Fotona's lasers are used for medical, dental, aesthetic and gynecological applications. The company has been in business since 1964.
Technology4Medicine, which operates dental laser and therapeutic laser businesses, was founded by a group of former senior executives at dental laser company Biolase Technologies Inc. in Irvine.
Crowe is a staff is writer for the Los Angeles Business Journal, a sister publication of the Orange County Business Journal.


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By Patrick Lacombe, The Belton Journal
Every Christmas, parents around the world are busy wrapping gifts for their children, preparing meals and teaching their children about the birth of Jesus Christ. Belton is no different. However, some parents are not able to spend money on gifts because of job layoffs, a reduction of hours at work or various other reasons. But thanks to the firefighter and EMT Angels with the Belton Fire Department, economically challenged families are able to provide gifts to their children on Christmas morning.
"Today, we are giving out 90 boxes of toys to 90 families that applied," Volunteer Firefighter Chief Timothy Euting said. "There are 250 kids in the families that otherwise wouldn't have any Christmas gifts.
"The way it works is, we get a list of applicants from The Temple Help Center. We take donations from the community and we spend about a week making up the boxes to give out. We know the make up of the family ahead of time, so we divide the toys into gifts for boys and for girls. Each box is numbered corresponding to which family it goes to and the parents pull up and we load the gifts into their cars for them."
The department began accepting donations just after Thanksgiving.
"We got a lot of toys, and we're thankful for all the donations," Sarah Trevino, Administrative Assistant at the Belton Fire Department said.
Everyone at the Fire Station was in the holiday spirit last Saturday as they loaded gifts into cars.
There was also a Belton family helping out in the spirit of Christmas giving. Cayden and his sister Destin are students at Central Texas Christian School. Their father brought them to the station to help out and learn the value of giving to others.
"It feels really good to help others that can't help themselves," Destin said.
When asked why they were helping out, Cayden said, "You should always put others in front of yourself."
As the line of cars pulled into the bay at the Fire Station on Sparta Road, the recipients of the gifts thanked the Firefighters for their generosity.
One young mother from Belton, who wished to remain annonymous, expressed her thanks with a tear in her eye.
"Without this, our kids would have no Christmas gifts," she said. "I'm so thankful for the Belton Fire Department. They are truly Christmas Angels."
But the families aren't the only ones who benefit from this program.
"It really makes us feel good knowing that these kids will have a Christmas," Euting said. "We had great support from the community and local businesses this year and were able to give some really nice gifts this year."
To find out more information on Santa Pals, contact the Temple H.E.L.P. Center at (254) 770-6842 or visit them at 102 East Central, Suite 100, in Temple.
"If a family needs help, they can apply to the Temple H.E.L.P. Center," Fire Chief Francisco Corona said. "They must show ID and proof of income and they are screened to make sure they qualify. The Help Center then checks with other agencies to be sure that the families haven't applied anywhere else."


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Montco Dems Continue Pandering To Donors
By Joe Gale
As Montgomery County's watchdog and voice for the forgotten taxpayer, I have on multiple occasions exposed the Democrat Commissioners' practices of catering to campaign donors, especially in the area of low-income housing.
My hope was that my shining a light on the shaded backroom governing practices of former Commissioner Josh Shapiro would put an end to politics as usual in Montgomery County.
However, since Commissioner (Val) Arkoosh assumed the role of chair of the board in November 2016 the practice of catering to campaign donors continues.
There comes a point where we can no longer dismiss these votes as isolated incidents and must call it what it is: A pattern and practice of raising taxes on county residents while awarding sweetheart deals to campaign donors.
In the past, the awarding of contracts to campaign donors was done mostly through the allocation of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds. However recently, Commissioner Arkoosh has been doing most of her catering through Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) which gives local taxing authorities the ability to give special tax provisions to a taxpayer for a limited period of time.
This is particularly concerning because Commissioner Arkoosh, with the help of former Commissioner Josh Shapiro who broke his no-tax pledge, has voted to raise taxes on the average county taxpayer every year she has been in office.
When looking at the most recent occurrence and then tracing back to prior votes, the facts speak for themselves:
- At the meeting held June 15, 2017, Commissioner Arkoosh voted to award ELON Development Company, a development arm of the Altman Group of Companies, special tax exemptions for a low-income, senior housing project in Norristown.1 The developer, through another arm of the company, Glenside Partners, has made $1,000 in campaign contributions to Commissioner Arkoosh's campaign committee, 2 $2,500 to the Shapiro/Arkoosh joint campaign account,3 and has given $1,000 to Former Commissioner Josh Shapiro's campaign committee.4
- At the meeting held February 2, 2017, Commissioner Arkoosh voted to award Developer Kevin Silverang special tax exemption for a project in the Borough of Hatboro.5 Kevin Silverang's wife, Claudia Silverang has donated to $2,500 to the joint Shapiro/Arkoosh campaign account6 and a total of $14,500 to former Commissioner Shapiro's campaign committee.7
- Silverang is also the beneficiary of a sale/leaseback agreement in which the County sold its Human Services Building to Silverang for $17.5 million and then agreed to leaseback the building for $34.5 million in rent over the course of 15 years.8
- At the meeting held December 1, 2016, Arkoosh voted to award Westrum Development Co. special tax exemptions as well as a tax forgiveness of $40,000 owed in County taxes (in addition to forgiveness of more than $750,000 in taxes owed to Norristown School District and Municipality).9 At that meeting, Michael Clarke, the Solicitor of the Norristown School Board, urged the Commissioners to vote for the project.10 Michael Clarke has donated $2,500 to Commissioner Arkoosh's campaign account.11
These most recent examples are in addition to the other deals with donors which I exposed in the past. Along with this press release, I am including my previous releases that explain the catering to campaign contributors I brought to light last year.
1 See page 1, http://www.montcopa.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/751?html=true
2 See Page 14, http://webapp.montcopa.org/voterservices/CampaignExpenseRptFilings/ReportDocs/V20160926_11181157_0870.pdf (5/18/2016, $1,000 Glenside Partners to Friends of Val Arkoosh)
3 See Page 42, http://webapp.montcopa.org/voterservices/CampaignExpenseRptFilings/ReportDocs/V2015071420151023_13344040_0651.pdf(10/06/2015, $2,500 to Shapiro/Arkoosh)
4 See Page , (12/29/2014, $1,000 to Friends of Josh Shapiro)
5 See Page 3-4, http://www.montcopa.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02022017-702
6 See Page 32, http://webapp.montcopa.org/voterservices/CampaignExpenseRptFilings/ReportDocs/V2015071420151023_13344040_0651.pdf(10/05/2015, $2,500 to Shapiro/Arkoosh)
7 Publicly available campaign finance report filings (Claudia Silverang contributions to Friends of Josh Shapiro:
4/05/2016 – $2,500
2/02/2015 – $5,000
4/28/2014 – $1,000
2/25/2013 – $5,000
11/19/2013 – $1,000)
8 http://www.timesherald.com/general-news/20140124/sale-of-montgomery-county-human-services-center-norristown-is-closed
9 http://www.timesherald.com/article/JR/20161207/NEWS/161209868
10 See page 2, http://www.montcopa.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12012016-682 (Mr. Michael Clark, Solicitor for the Norristown Area School District, commented in favor of the Tax Forgiveness resolution proposed for 770 Sandy Street)
11 See Page 17, http://webapp.montcopa.org/voterservices/CampaignExpenseRptFilings/ReportDocs/V20160926_11181157_0870.pdf (2/25/2016 $500 to Friends of Val Arkoosh)
See Page 16,
http://webapp.montcopa.org/voterservices/CampaignExpenseRptFilings/ReportDocs/V20150701_10394687_0599.pdf(5/28/2015 $1,000 to Friends of Val Arkoosh)
See page 31, http://webapp.montcopa.org/voterservices/CampaignExpenseRptFilings/ReportDocs/V2015071420151023_13272960_0649.pdf(9/17/2015 $1,000 to Friends of Val Arkoosh)
Joe Gale is minority member of the Demoract-controlled Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.


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Two Hawaii Newspapers, Two Different Negotiations
The Maui News has reached a tentative agreement with its news, pressmen and typographical guilds that would rescind a layoff notice issued April 1 that would cut 10 jobs. In exchange, staff would delay a 2 percent raise and 1 percent retirement match for one year, til July 1, 2012.
According to the Media Workers Guild, the Maui News has reported "continued month-over-month declines in advertising revenue, and has said that the declines have outstripped the savings generated by the 10 percent pay cut that was approved by union members in 2009."
Meanwhile, at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the company has offered five raises of 1%, 1.5%, 1.5%, 1.5% and 2% — or 7.5% over five years, but would reduce sick leave, paid holidays, and vacation. It would also increase the amount it pays for individual health insurance but cut the amount it pays for family plans.
"The bargaining committee has taken the company's offer under advisement. No new bargaining dates have been scheduled, but we are hopeful that talks can resume in late May," the guild said.
The Star-Advertiser's owner recorded a record profit in 2010, though details about how much came from the Star-Advertiser itself are murky.


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On the second day of the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships, there were a number of surprise winners, a UK record and a world class 10,000m to keep spectators happy at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium.
Simeon Williamson (Highgate) was a popular winner of blue riband event, when he took 100m gold in 10.05 into a 1.8m/s headwind. It was a world class run in the conditions and too much for Dwain Chambers (Belgrave Harriers) with 10.22 and Tyrone Edgar (Newham & Essex) 10.28 - in second and third.
Earlier in the day, in the first of the three semi finals, Williamson had thrown down the gauntlet with an impressive 10.14. But no-one could have predicted the way in which he ruled the final and secured a 100m slot at the World Championships.
Williamson said: "I feel I would have liked to have run sub-10 today. I know I am in shape, I've got to go and do it now. It's the equivalent of a sub-10 but it's not sub-10. I mean that's the next step for me. That's the next goal.
"I like running rounds, because I don't really perform well in one-off races. My season's best performance is 10.09 and you have to book your space." Looking ahead to Berlin, he said: "Hopefully if I make the final, anything is possible, people can get disqualified. I'm looking to put a really good performance in."
In the women's 100m final, the athletes were still somewhat hampered by the headwind that had flattened times earlier on in the semi finals. As it was Joice Maduaka (Woodford Green EL) took the win and her sixth title ahead of Kadi-Ann Thomas (Milton K) and Montell Douglas (Blackheath).
In one of the day's most enthralling races, Charlene Thomas demonstrated the benefits of slipping under the radar as the pre-event hype for the women's 1500m focussed on Steph Twell (AFD) and Hannah England (Oxford City).
Yet Thomas, who has clocked an impressive 4.05.06 this year, an A standard for the World Championships, ran a classy race allowing Twell to open out a lead at 500m, but subsequently caught and passing her on the home straight. Hannah England took bronze.
The bubbly Wakefield athlete was the most excited winner during the day's events, bouncing up and down during her post race interview with Katharine Merry.
"I could have 'em I knew it, I just wanted it bad. At one point I thought I'd let Steph go too far in front, but I kicked as hard as I could. I'm just so pleased. I knew I had the A standard but to come here and do it is great."
Twell was gracious in defeat: "I came here to have a go today and that's what I did. Charlene finished well. All three of us ran well today so I hope we will be selected."
With shades of Yelena Isinbayeva, Kate Dennison (Sale) swooped nonchalantly into the women's pole vault competition approximately an hour after it had started and cleared her opening height of 4.05m with so much room to spare, it was merely a question of how high she would want to take the bar once the opposition had fallen away.
As it was she rewarded spectators with a new UK record of 4.57m and then continued on to attempt a truly world-class 4.70m. Despite missing out, she had two strong attempts and the likelihood of her reaching that high this season looked very good.
"The crowd support was key in helping me to 4.57m today, and nearly getting 4.70m, so thank you very much guys!" said Dennison on receiving her $5000 cheque for breaking the UK record.
In the eagerly awaited women's 400m final, Christine Ohuruogu (NEB) did as expected in taking the win in 51.26, but was certainly pushed on in the latter stages by the boundless energy of hurdles specialist Perri Shakes Drayton. Shakes Drayton, whose previous best for 400m was 52.98, removed more than a second in taking silver in 51.81, and revealed soon after she may well move to the flat 400m one day.
"I nearly got her, one day I will you know, one day – when I get a bit older and stronger. I just don't know what my limits are and I just keep pushing myself and improving," she said.
On the infield, Germaine Mason took his first ever UK title in the men's high jump competition clearing 2.24m ahead of Samson Oni and Tom Parsons. The Beijing Olympic silver medallist had a close effort at 2.31m but settled for first place on a muggy afternoon in centre-stadium.
"I had an operation so I have missed a lot of my winter," said Mason. "I hope by the time I get to the Aviva London Grand Prix it will all come together and you will see me jump higher."
In the men's 110m hurdles final, Andy Turner (Sale) battled against a strong headwind of +1.9m/s to take a fourth consecutive UK title in 13.47 although he was pushed all the way by training partner Callum Priestly (Woodford Green with Essex Ladies) in a PB of 13.69.
"I came here to win and get the qualifying time – it's nice to book my place on the plane," he said. "Callum's pushing me all the way and I'm glad he's got a PB today."
Zoe Derham (Birchfield) took the hammer title with 67.94m, whilst clubmate Eden Francis took a deserved win in the shot with her putt of 16.33m, but eyes were also on the performance of Kelly Sotherton, whose comeback from injury was confirmed with a solid mark of 14.51m in finishing eighth. Francis later returned to take silver in the discus, behind Phillipa Roles (Swansea) who won with 57.57m.
Nusrat Ceesay (Woodford Green EL) took the women's 400m hurdles title in the absence of the UK's top three ranked athletes, but ran a solid race to finish in a PB of 57.13 ahead of Hannah Douglas, who also recorded a lifetime best of 57.50.
The women's long jump was a comprehensive victory for Phyllis Agbo with two leaps of 6.42m, however a strong following wind in excess of +4.0ms at some points meant the marks set throughout the competition won't count for record purposes including that of junior Abigail Irozuru (Sale) in third with 6.28m.
Finally, in the day's last track event, Olympic 5000m champion Meseret Defar, put on a demonstration of world class endurance running whilst guesting in the women's 10,000m. Blasting away the final lap to clock 29.59.20, the fifth fastest time ever, the Birmingham crowd were treated to an historic endurance moment. Taking the UK title Claire Hallissey benefitted from the occasion and recorded a lifetime best of 33.10.73, ahead of Gemma Miles and Hatti Dean to compete the championship positions.
Qualifying for Sunday
In the men's 400m hurdles, Euro team championship winner Dai Greene (Swansea) looked relaxed in winning his heat in 51.37 to progress to Sunday's final. Ben Sumner (Enfield), European medallist Rhys Williams (Cardiff), and Dale Garland (Channel Islands) were the other heat winners in the first track event of the day.
The 800m semi finals took place for both men and women. In the men's event, there was further progression for Sam Ellis (Sheffield) and Mike Rimmer (Liverpool PS), whilst Marilyn Okoro (Shaftesbury Barnett), Jenny Meadows (Wigan) and Jemma Simpson (Newquay) all progressed as expected, Okoro leading the way impressively with 2.00.65 in her semi final.
The men's 400m semi finals saw Rob Tobin (Basingstoke), Michael Bingham and Conrad Williams (Kent) qualify with ease for Sunday's final.
The men's 1500m heats were fiercely contested with only the top four guaranteed the final slots in each heat. Lee Emanuel (Sheffield), Colin McCourt (Dundee Hawkhill), Nick McCormick (Morpeth), Simon Horsfield (East Cheshire)and Ross Murray (Gateshead) all progressed safely to set up an intriguing final.


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Key messages to share with your customers during a crisis
By Erik Deckers
We've compiled some tips and suggestions for messages to share in crisis situations:
- Thank your customers for their support.
- Prioritize compassion.
- Explain what your business is doing and how it affects them.
- Offer real value.
- Detail the changes you're making, including to terms of service.
- Tell them about updated refund and cancellation policies, if applicable.
- Tell them how to get in touch with you.
- Reassure them that we're all in this together.
Let's take a closer look at each.
When a public tragedy or emergency presents itself, some brands reach out to their customers with sincerity, and some take an opportunistic approach. Always walk down the sincere route.
When putting out any communication to your customers during COVID-19, focus on being empathetic, informative and helpful. Fail to do so and you are likely to lose customer loyalty.
-- Start by focusing on your customers and how they might feel.
-- Offer a brief Covid-19 update based on where your business is based.
-- Let your customers know what your business status is and what you are doing in response to the virus.
-- Offer a genuine solution or ask your customers how they are and you can help (very important). Get the conversation started.
As mentioned, when pressing global events start to unfold, some businesses shamelessly scramble to earn a few extra bucks. In the digital age, consumers see right through such ruthless sales tactics — so avoid them at all costs.
Naturally, you want to keep your business running, but when you're sending out brand messaging to build your audience or keep the ship afloat during COVID-19, offer genuine value.
If you haven't got a viable solution to present to your audience, hold off the soft sales messaging until you do.
For instance, if you're a personal trainer and your gym is closed, you could reach out to your clients with an email outlining the immune system-boosting benefits of exercise, before offering virtual or park-based PT sessions, either one-to-one or in small, controlled groups. Or if you're a coffee shop owner, you could provide an informational update, followed with useful COVID-19 home-based coffee-brewing tips and a pledge to deliver to customers in your locale. Just suggestions, but you get the picture … offer genuine value.
This should be included on your website, but it won't hurt to share it again. And if you've got a special hotline or emergency contact number, share it here.
When you write your message, be sure to use a welcoming, comforting tone. Let people know that you're there to help them and that you're going to do your best to make their lives easier — in whatever way the products or services or customer support you offer can.
If they have questions or worries, answer them to the best of your ability.
People may get stressed out by the smallest things, but they're only reacting to their bigger fears. So help put those fears at ease.
When it comes to COVID-19 brand messaging, this is essential: read any piece of copy or communication at least thrice before sending it out.
Go through every phrase with a fine-tooth comb to ensure it's 100% accurate and mindful of your audience.
Write conversationally, as you would speak, making sure that your language is fluent, simple and direct. That way, it will be accessible to all.
In summary, here are the dos and don'ts for crafting messages to customers during the COVID-19 crisis:
Do. Be informational and empathetic.
Do. Ask your customers what they need and how they feel.
Do. Offer genuine solutions and deliver valuable content.
Don't. Use complex, exclusive language.
Don't. Go for cheap sales tactics to make a quick buck.
Don't. Be hasty — check over your communications several times before sending them out.
Hopefully, these suggestions help you get started with crafting your messages to your customers. Open communication is vital in trying times, so keep your messages clear and constant. We'll make it through.
Erik Deckers is the president of Pro Blog Service, a content marketing agency.
Writer Dan Hughes contributed to this article. You can find out more about him by visiting his Catchy Space or by following him on Twitter https://twitter.com/ogdensnutgone


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He threatened to kill my children.
He posted photographs of my house and my Atlanta-based advertising agency. He promised to send a "double-tap" my way, a marksman's jargon for pumping two shots in close succession to my head.
He even posted "November 5, 1973"—the date of my father's murder.
I reported the ominous messages to Twitter and sent screenshots to MSNBC executives, where I worked as a political contributor at the time. Using his Twitter handle, several followers were able to track him across various white supremacist message boards. They found his real name and the IP address he was using from a church in suburban Dallas.
"That bitch will get what's coming to her," he continued tweeting.
The messages were as brazen as they were brutal in nature. I remember pleading for help, demanding that someone in law enforcement take the threats seriously.
Ultimately, it would take three days and the intervention of NBC corporate security before Twitter suspended the anonymous account. The real danger, I was told by an in-house detective, might come from someone inspired by those hideous messages to carry out the threat. I was walking a friend's daughter to summer camp at a nearby park that morning and suddenly felt vulnerable.
The damage had been done. If someone wanted me to be afraid, they had accomplished that mission many times over.
Like many of us in the public square, MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry has endured her share of malicious threats online. Monday night in an Iowa hotel, the Wake Forest professor came face-to-face with the sum of our collective fears. As caucus-goers crammed into various polling locations around the Hawkeye State, Harris-Perry was watching the cable news coverage on a television in the lobby when she noticed a man standing oddly close to her.
There was an initial query about the subjects she taught, and then a more pointed question about how she got her job at MSNBC.
"What I want to know is how you got credentialed to be on MSNBC…"
"Well. It is not exactly a credential…" she said.
"But why you? Why would they pick you?"
His voice was angry then, she said, and he's standing closer to her, so close that she can feel his breath.
"I just want you to know why I am doing this," he told her. He then said something about "Nazi Germany" and "rise to power."
Harris Perry was paralyzed in fear, as he continued telling her what he was going to do to her and why. Then she sprang from her seat, put a table between them and a friend came to her defense. The stranger was scared away by their yelling and sped away in his car.
"I don't know if he was there to kill me," she wrote on a university blog. "I know they [her students] were there to save me." Her immediate fear was not just of dying, but being killed in front of her students.
Hotel security seemed hardly bothered by the incident, according to Harris-Perry, even after she explained the torrent of death threats she receives regularly.
I know what that feels like. I know what it feels like to be told that I am "making a big deal" out things. So much so, that I now only report the most egregious offenses and I no longer host public meet-ups among my social media followers. I assess and triage each and every message. In every instance, I have to bet on being right.
I can certainly deal with the mocking attitudes of those who do not agree with my politics or policy positions. That comes with the territory. However, every few days or so, someone creates a fake Twitter account in my name in an attempt to assail my public reputation with malicious and sometimes lurid posts. At last count, one anonymous user has created more than 50 accounts specifically dedicated to trolling me. The most virulent threats came during the George Zimmerman trial. The night of the verdict, I spent hours blocking thousands of intemperate and sometimes threatening strangers.
The social tools afforded by Twitter and other social networks aren't enough. But even the most effective security features would not have prevented what happened to Harris-Perry.
The goal is to terrorize, to make it too uncomfortable for us to continue taking public stands on any number of issues. All too often, they target women. For me, it doesn't matter if it happens to Harris-Perry, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, or a housewife in Minnesota. We have the right to feel safe—online, in a public space, or in our homes.


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Based on field testing and user evaluations, the Minus K
1/2-Hz vibration isolation platforms and workstations perform
about 10 to 100 times better than high-performance air tables
depending on the vibration isolation frequencies. They also
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The transmissibility curves, which compare top-performing
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floor in the transmissibility curve with some resonances at
the higher frequencies.
The Minus K curve below is typical for any Minus K 1/2-Hz
system, horizontal or vertical. Measured transmissibility
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The transmissibility curves provided by Minus K Technology
are generated using a Stanford Research Instruments SR785
Dynamic Signal Analyzer. The output source of the SR785 is
set to generate a swept sine signal. This signal is fed into
a Labworks PA-138 power amplifier. The amplifier drives a
Labworks ET-126 electrodynamic shaker. The shaker is mounted
in a heavily reinforced frame that also supports a 650BM-1
isolator. This support isolator has been adjusted to about
2.75 Hz. It has also been modified to work only in the vertical
direction. This isolator supports a heavy top plate and whatever
ballast weight is needed to bring the total payload including
the test isolator up to around 650 pounds.
Transmissibility as it applies to our isolators is a ratio
of the output signal on the top plate divided by the input
signal that the base of the isolator sees. One can also think
of it as the ratio of what gets through the isolator divided
by what is present on the isolator support. Two similar accelerometers
are used to acquire the input and output signals. The input
accelerometer is attached to the heavy top plate on the 650BM-1
support isolator. The test isolator rests on the heavy top
plate as well. This way the accelerometer measures the vibrations
that are fed to the isolator. The output accelerometer is
placed on top of the properly loaded test isolator top plate.
Both accelerometers are held in place with a thin layer of
seismic wax. This works quite well, providing a secure, yet
easy to undo bond for measurement.
The SR785 acquires both sets of data, calculates their ratio
and displays the ratio as transmissibility..
The horizontal transmissibility was acquired in much the same
way. The differences were that the support isolator was
allowed to move horizontally. The electrodynamic shaker was
mounted horizontally. The accelerometers were mounted on their
sides, which allowed the ratio of horizontal data to be calculated
and displayed as horizontal transmissibility.
The curve below shows the typical vertical 1/2 Hz performance
of the BM-1. It offers 10-100 times better performance
than typical high-performance air tables.
The curve below shows the typical vertical 1/2 Hz performance
of the BM-4. It offers 10-100 times better performance than
typical high-performance air tables.
The curves below demonstrate the better-than-air performance
that the BM-6 delivers. Vertically, the BM-6 offers a resonant
frequency that is comparable to or better than most air tables.
Horizontally, the BM-6 offers much better performance than
typical air tables, which can have horizontal frequencies
as high as 4-5 Hz.
The curve below demonstrates the vertical 1/2 Hz performance
of the BM-8. The BM-8 delivers the high performance of our
larger isolators in a package only 4.6 inches tall. The horizontal
performance of the BM-8 is the same as that of the BM-6.
The curve below shows the vertical 1/2 Hz performance
of the BM-10. It offers 10-100 times better performance than
an air table in a package many times smaller. The horizontal
isolation performance of the BM-10 is the same as that of
the BM-6.
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The trochlear nerve, along with the abducens nerve, are perhaps the simplest of the cranial nerves in their function. Yet, the trochlear has a couple of unique properties and certainly some clinical correlates for the neurosurgeon.
The nerve carries somatic efferent fibers which do but a single job, innervate the superior oblique muscle. The nucleus trochlear nerve is located near the midline, just inferior to the motor nucleus of the occluomotor nerve and at the level of the inferior colliculus. The axons of the fourth cranial nerve leave the nucleus and actually decussates in the superior medullary velum. This is the only cranial nerve to decussate prior to exiting the brainstem. The significance is obvious that the right superior oblique muscle is controlled by neuronal cell bodies in the left midbrain.
The trochlear nerve exits dorsally from the midbrain. Again, this is unique amongst cranial nerves.
It travels along the medial, free edge of the tentorium cerebelli through which the brainstem is passing. It pierces the dura just posterior to the posterior clinoid process and enters the cavernous sinus where runs just medial and posterior to the occulomotor nerve before entering the orbit through the superior orbital fissure.
Since the superior oblique muscle acts to rotate the eye down and laterally a palsy of the trochlear nerve leaves the affected eye rotated up and in.
Attempts to compensate lead to the patient tilting their head to the contralateral side.
Amongst cranial nerve palsies a trochlear injury is the second most common manifestation of raised intracranial pressure, only the abducens more likely. It is the longest nerve and the smallest in diameter and particularly prone to the effects of raised ICP due to its lengthy free course starting dorsally and then extending through the anterior cisterns.
Compressive injuries can also occur uniquely with posterior cerebral artery as early in its course the trochlear passes between the superior cerebellar and posterior cerebral arteries. Obviously pathology in the cavernous sinus can affect the trochlear, as it can the occulomotor or abducens or the first branch of the trigeminal.
A more unique consideration for the neurosurgeon is the trochlears path along the medial edge of the tentorium. Transtentorial surgical approaches to the lower brainstem or the proximal cranial nerves located there, must be careful when incising the tentorium not to incur sharp damage to the trochlear or to overstretch it with retraction.
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By: Michael Lodico
About the Book
Portals is about a typical high school teenager with struggles. The novel takes place in the year 2060. Teenager Lou Sills has the same problems as teenagers today, but in a different time period. Lou is pestered by bullies in school. He gets interested in science in the past, present, and future. He follows a college professor who discovers wormholes. When Lou goes to a seminar at his high school on a weekend, Lou gets interrupted by bullies and suddenly gets thrown into a wild adventure through the wormhole.
Fasten your seat belts on this wild ride through the universe with Lou and a few familiar and odd beings.
About the Author
Michael Lodico lives in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He is currently teaching sixth grade science in District 300 in Algonquin, Illinois. He has been teaching for 28 years. He currently lives alone with his two cats Raven and Nova. His interests are music, writing, science, painting, and movies. His best interests in science focus on animals and astronomy. As a kid growing up he was familiar with classic horror and science fiction movies. They have always been his favorites.
Michael is a cancer survivor twice over and strives to live life to the fullest. He lives a vegan lifestyle and does his part to help the planet. He wishes love and peace to all beings.
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A Veterans Day 'thank you' Tuesday in Shelton
"Thank you for your service," an unknown passerby said to a veteran Tuesday morning as she made her way to the Shelton Riverwalk.
Those simple words were brought to a Veterans Day service.
"To all veterans: Today is your day," said Al Sabetta, a veteran who was the main speaker. The sacrifice service people have made wasn't just theirs, Sabetta said, but their family's as well.
"Today we honor all veterans across the country," said John Anglace, a veteran and the president of the Shelton Board of Aldermen.
The service took place in front of the war memorial by the river.
"We are here so all citizens … [remember] those whose names appear on this monument were ordinary men," Anglace said. "May God bless you and God bless America."
Anglace and Sabetta spoke about how veterans and those who serve in the military fight for freedom, and are brave and disciplined.
Perhaps the most silent and fitting tribute to those who fight for freedom were the 80-plus students who gathered to pay respects during the service.
The teachers of the Valley Regional Education's English as a Second Language classes brought their students to the event. The teachers included Barbara DiCenso, Kathy Harris, Sandy Koenig, Harriet Nelson, and Dilma Martins.
"There's a little excitement, a little intrigue," said Ellen Amodeo, a substitute teacher of the class who was talking about the students.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
And the Zoning Award goes to...
Seriously, if someone can explain to me the process by which a gas station ends up next to a century-old church, I'm all ears.
(This is at the corner of Telegraph and 22nd St.)
6 comments:
- Emma said...
Wow, it's so ridiculous, it looks like a doctored photo.
- August 7, 2008 at 4:39 PM
- Alan said...
Check google maps "street view" at Lakeshore and Mandana. The church may not be as old, but I bet it predates the gas station.
- August 7, 2008 at 6:48 PM
- Eric Fischer said...
It looks like maybe before it was a gas station, it was just a vacant lot with billboards? At least if I'm judging correctly from this photo: http://www.keyrailpix.org/gallery2/v/keyrailmain/album01/Key_22_Bway_Mar1937_RD.jpg.html
- August 26, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Crimson said...
That's a great link! Is the church in the background on the left? Crazy how many billboards were up back then, maybe even more than today.
- August 26, 2008 at 7:44 PM
- Eric Fischer said...
Yes, I'm pretty sure that that's the church in the left background.
Apparently it is old enough to have been damaged pretty badly in the 1906 earthquake and then repaired: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb7489p21s/
- August 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- Jenn said...
A century is not that old, and - why not?
I mean - it's just a church. If they objected, they should have bought the property if it was available.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:11 PM


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