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An Industrial Chic Shared Nursery
Name: Annick (2.5) and newborn
Location: Philadelphia, PA
We live in a loft that had one large bedroom so we had to use the bedroom for our daughter and new baby that will be here any day and make it a shared space for both of them.
So my husband and father-in-law built a loft with a climbing wall with stairs along the side for my 2-year old. To get to the top of her loft she can go up the stairs or climb the wall. The whole structure is painted white with some wood left natural to give it a modern look. She sleeps underneath and has a play area on top of the loft for now and maybe later will sleep up top. She has a reading nook as well underneath the loft.
The baby's crib is on the other side of the room with changing table on one side and Annick's "closet" on the other side. There is no closet in the room so we had to be creative with storage. One wall is a chalkboard wall so Annick can draw all over it. Everything in the room was either built by my father-in-law (Annick's big girl bed, changing table, dresser) or made by myself or husband. I made art storage for her supplies, a bird mobile that goes over the bed, and many other decor elements. The theme was to keep everything white and have pops of color throughout the room. And since I have no idea the sex of the new baby I stuck with birds because there is so much out there with birds for decoration, and they can be so colorful.
The room is large with high ceilings, a brick wall, and some interesting architectural elements left behind because the building we live in is an old warehouse. You'll find old wood beams and a metal door that we sealed and use for magnets to play with. The floor is cement so easy to clean up art messes but we did have to have some certain areas covered by foam play mats or area rugs. I decorated and designed the whole room along with my husband. It is a kid's play ground because my daughter can climb, play, do arts and crafts, sleep and read all in one room.
Thanks, Marie! Readers, visit Marie at Unique Annick.
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So, this morning, I was in my bathroom, trying to get myself looking somewhat presentable before I prepared to leave my house, when Charlie walked in. He was making his usual morning demands...
"Mom! Can I watch a different kid show?"
"Mom! Can I have some more cereal?"
"Mom! Can I have a popsicle?"
"Mom! Where's Dad?"
He's got about 10 different questions that he harasses me with most mornings and I try very hard to ignore as many of them as possible. I will sometimes try to give him little tasks to keep his mind busy so that I can have a little peace as I brush my teeth and apply mascara.
"Why don't you go downstairs and see if you can find your Star Wars guys."
"Take the doggy's toys outside and see if he wants to play with you."
"Check the kitty's food and water and fill her bowls for her."
I'm generally unsuccessful in my attempts to distract him, but I'm a stubborn girl, so I keep trying. This morning, I tried something a little different.
"Charlie? Is your room clean this morning?"
Ya right. Like any of my kids have just awakened one morning and spontaneously cleaned their rooms. But we started giving this kids allowance over the weekend, with the stipulation that kids with dirty rooms don't get their allowance, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
"Yes." he replied. (never ask charlie a direct question if you want an honest answer. he will always say 'yes.')
"No Charlie, I mean have you pulled up your sheets and blankets all nice and smooth? And put your pillows on pretty? And put your clothes away in their drawers?"
.....blank stare.....
"Why don't you go work on that for a minute?"
And you know what? He scurried off down the hall and left me in silence. SUCCESS!
I almost laid into him, ready to tell him not to pretend like his room is clean when it isn't and not to try and trick me. Then I looked at his face. And his GINORMOUS brown eyes staring sincerely back at me and realized, right in the nick of time, that he really did try to make his bed. All by himself.
"See Mommy? I did it." He said.
"It was a wot a work."
Bless his little Charlie heart.

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THUMBS UPto Alamance County Public Libraries, designer Henry Carlson, illustrator/painter Carlene Morton and Lowe�s Home Improvement for creating the first Little Free Library in the county at the Mebane playground. It�s part of a worldwide collection of community book exchanges housed in decorative containers, operating on the honor system, in which people can �take a book, leave a book� at no charge. Alamance County�s Public Libraries Director M.J. Wilkerson plans more little libraries this year at Cedarock Park, Beth Schmidt Park in Elon and in Pleasant Grove. She (and we) hope the book exchanges spread a love of reading to places residents don�t have ready access to the county�s three branch libraries.
Speaking of knowledge, THUMBS UPto San Francisco-based Lumosity, a website that turns memory exercises into online games. They have used information they�ve gathered in this pursuit to rank the nation�s top 100 cities in terms of intelligence of inhabitants. Burlington is No. 52 in a list of what they say are the 100 smartest cities in the country. The only other North Carolina city to crack the list is Boone, which ranked No. 23. OK, so maybe most of the cities in the list are college or university towns, but don�t spoil our enthusiasm with a bunch of details. We�re proud to be smarter than all get out.
THUMBS UPto the N.C. Department of Transportation for hosting a Rail Safety Summit recently in Chapel Hill to discuss ways to improve rail safety education and keep folks from walking on railroad tracks. About 100 community leaders, including Burlington Police Chief Jeffrey Smythe, convened and brainstormed some of the potential issues causing increased fatalities on the railways, and, more importantly, solutions to the problem. Folks, just stop walking there. It�s dangerous.
THUMBS DOWNto the loss of Dee Atkinson, who passed away last Friday. Atkinson was a member of the Elon University Athletics Hall of Fame since 1977. He was the fifth all-time leading scorer in the program�s men�s basketball history with 1,799 points. He appeared in 127 games, averaging 14.2 points per game across his career. He ranks ranks fourth on the school�s career rebounding chart with 1,215.
THUMBS UPto the efforts of the Burlington Police Department�s community-oriented police unit and the Burlington Royals baseball organization. Together they will be holding the 1st Charity Cornhole Tournament at the Burlington Royals Stadium on July 13, which they hope will become an annual event. It will raise money for both the department�s COPS CARE program and the Special Olympics of North Carolina.
THUMBS UP to Zachary Taylor, a young man with aspirations to study medicine. The Williams grad, who just completed undergrad studies at Belmont Abbey College, will be spending the next year on a medical mission trip in Kenya instead of jumping right into medical school. He will travel to Nairobi with the Benedictine Volunteer Corps, where he will build schools and homes and help treat children in slums there. He thinks his time abroad will allow him time to find a niche in biology or medicine he�d like to focus on in a career. It�s often good to stand back and take a look ahead.
And THUMBS UP to the quick response of the 82nd Airborne�s public affairs office this week when we contacted them about the calls we got from readers who were concerned about the large number of planes flying overhead Monday night. The activities in the sky turned out to be a drill, a joint operation between the Air Force and the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army, involving about 1,700 paratroopers who were dropped from 30 aircraft in Fort Bragg. Alamance County was along the group�s flight route.
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nrogoff necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 62 design presentati da 22 designer.
The website will be geared for giving advice in all sorts of subject areas in an interactive way. Subject areas could be as diverse as connecting up your home electronics to getting divorced. The logo should incorporate the name of the site, be clean and modern.
Desired Style:
Clean, Crisp, Modern, Professional
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
The requirement is to have 2 logos. One incorporating the domain name 'DontStruggle.com' and the other an identifiable logo image only (that may or may not be part of the main logo) that can be used as an icon in various sizes. This may change somewhat from very small bullet size to larger icons.The logo should allow the user to immediately identify the DontStruggle.com brand.The logo should be clean, modern and preferably express the intension to relieve someone from something that they may be struggling with. The site is about NOT struggling or finding help or getting a solution or answer in an easy to understand, intuitive and interactive way. The logo should also express the best and latest in technology and expertise too.The logos will be used on the website in various sizes and places. I look forward to some really creative designs. Thanks Nicholas
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


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I predict sage green will be the next big thing in weddings – take one look at this springy inspiration session by Anouschka Rokebrand Photography and you'll see why. Hints of sage peek out from every corner – the subtle ink in the romantic calligraphy, the deep hues of the ring box, and the soft presence of the delicate, cheerful cake. This gorgeous green shoot will leave you wanting more!
From Anouschka Rokebrand Photography... This styled wedding editorial was created for my April fine art wedding photography workshop. We worked with an incredible team of international vendors, and our models were Rianne and Daniel – one of my previous wedding couples and adorable people to work with! We went for a natural and organic feel in this shoot, with sage greens, creams, and soft pink shades with a gorgeously styled table, set underneath an old tree in a rustic garden, adorned with a gorgeous centerpiece by Fleuropean. For Rianne, we opted for a 3-piece gown. That off the shoulder lace top took my breath away! Kimi from The Kimi Collective created all the stationery on stunning paper – all handwritten calligraphy in sage green and so, so gorgeous! The cake was in a soft sage green and adorned by fresh flower blossoms. A great feeling of spring time!


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Nanda's Alarm Clock Not Only Runs Away From You, It Runs Away From eBay Too
from the wake-up-nanda dept
"Nanda Home Inc. is the owner of the intellectual property rights pertaining to these listings. By listing the 'Clocky' product you are in serious violation of the company's rights. Additionally, Nanda Home does not permit the re-sale of any of their brand product on eBay. There are no authorized Nanda Home re-sellers on eBay. If you continue to list our items, further legal action may be taken."Clearly, Nanda has a gross misunderstanding of the right of people to re-sell their own property. While it's true that it is against the law to sell counterfeit copies of a product, re-selling your own goods and representing them as "real" is completely within the bounds of the law, and eBay policy. To make matters worse, the condescending tone of the email also suggests that:
"You may need to take a tutorial. The next time you sell, you may be asked to take the tutorial, if it's required. Once you've completed the tutorial successfully, please review your account status for any other possible concerns. If there are no other issues, you should be able to sell again."Or, perhaps Nanda and eBay should take a tutorial on the right of first sale. In the aforementioned tutorial, eBay clearly understands the right to re-sell (in fact, a huge part of its business relies upon this fact). Yet, to make matters worse under eBay policy it's still a laborious process to get the item relisted -- even with the bogus takedown notice. As a seller of an incorrectly taken down Clocky listing, you have to contact Nanda and have them specifically authorize your product to be re-listed. Yes, even though it's Nanda who issued the incorrect takedown in the first place. So much for frictionless commerce.
The even bigger problem is in the process in which such listing takedowns are handled. Under the guise of rooting out counterfeit products, Nanda is able to unfairly reduce the number of its own secondhand goods in the marketplace. Other manufacturers have tried to do this in the past for everything from shampoo to radar detectors. And, much like the DMCA process, this "guilty until proven innocent" approach ultimately hurts the consumer, who now has unfairly reduced access to many products that were to be sold completely legally.
That said, my brother followed the eBay process to get his Clocky relisted. They sent him an email apologizing for their error and authorizing him to relist, which he did. Guess what? In an effort to punctuate how ridiculous this policy is, one day later, he got an email, "Trademark Violation - Unauthorized Item."
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I was, and remain, a compulsive reader. Back then, I read on the school bus, at the bus stop in the cold, at the dinner table, beneath the sheets and for hours sometimes in the only room with a door that locked, the bathroom, despite my sister's pounding. This book was about a solitary little boy who, as I did, had a nervous habit of tapping everything he touched, and counting the combinations of taps. One day, he tapped a wall of stone. A door appeared. Behind it was a different world, not better really, but brighter and less dull. I read for the same reason that he tapped: to look for doors, to push through walls.
-- Ben Ehrenreich is the author of the novel "The Suitors."
Confession: I am an abuser of books. I break their spines; I underline passages with felt-tip pen. Once, on vacation, I actually dropped Joyce Maynard's delectable "Where Love Goes" -- a beach-book "Anna Karenina" that I like to re-read every three years -- into the Jacuzzi. For my books, it's spring break at Ft. Lauderdale and they're scared. This is all to the horror of a fusty male friend who keeps his British first editions in a humidity-controlled room, as though they were wine. I see now, though, that my 7- and 8-year-old daughters have caught their mother's bad habit. Across the back seat of our filthy wagon are capsized or spread-eagled "Goosebumps," Jenny B. Joneses, "Beastmasters." They are smeared in juice and Cheetos, and, to my horror recently, I saw this terrifying pink thing called "The Puppies of Princess Place" covered in ants. But, as my girls pointed out, ants like a good read too. Indeed.
-- Sandra Tsing Loh is the author of "Mother on Fire."
One of the best ways to read is to re-read. Because sometimes it requires too much courage to pick up a new book.
My literary hedges against depression:
"Brideshead Revisited," by Evelyn Waugh. I love these characters as if they were my own crazy family. Why would I, from a clan of buttoned-down Dutch Protestants, be so attracted to insane English Catholics? I only know that when I am low, the mysteries of the loves (and hates!) in this book fill me with hope. And Waugh's similes are magician's tricks.
"The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," by Arthur Conan Doyle. Just the sight of this fat book lifts my spirits. In the days when I could hide when I felt low (before motherhood, before e-mail, before cellphones), this was what I would repair to bed with. These days I just sneak in a story or two.
Then, when I am too depressed to get out of bed, I read cookbooks.
-- Sonja Bolle, former Los Angeles Times book editor, writes Word Play, a column about children's books.
It was Camilo who gave me the book. He is dead now. He was killed at the start of the Nicaraguan insurrection that toppled the 45-year-old Somoza dynasty. We were both young. We were both aware that our country was in trouble and that all the civic avenues to change were closed: Elections were rigged, and the military captured, tortured and killed anyone who dared express opposition. Camilo showed up one day at my office with a worn-out copy of Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth." The Algerian author wrote of colonialism and struggle, but his book made me realize that we Nicaraguans had no alternative but to fight the dictator. The words on the page were like hands shaking me awake. The images I had collected from living in a country where social injustice and dictatorship had cut short so many lives came galloping into my mind. I knew I couldn't remain indifferent. Shortly afterward, I joined the Sandinista guerrillas. I remember that book often. I remember the rage but also the courage it made me feel. Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible. I named my son Camilo in memory of the dead friend who gave me that book.
-- Gioconda Belli is the author of "Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand, a novel of Adam and Eve."
Book City
I'm a reader because I grew up in Los Angeles,
most readerly city I know
A city of bookshops then,
all those sun-faded, two-tone bookmarks with no area codes:
raffish Papa Bach,
stately Hunter's,
the Duttonses, of blessed memory,
Acres of Books, a penicillin colony in every binding,
once-starry Stanley Rose,
the Crowns,
bottom-feeders, but they bought the back page every week,
righteous Midnight Special,
those mayflies, Urban Inversion and Butler Gabriel,
quixotic L.A.: The Bookstore,
and Chatterton's, prostrate at the end
But no less a city of bookstores now:
savvy Diesel,
impossible Metropolis,
Williams' of San Pedro, 100 this year,
Book Soup and Village, ineradicable,
Libreria Martinez, barbershop no more,
books and music in sublime Counterpoint,
newborn Stories of Echo Park,
and Skylight,
soul risen from Chatterton's body
All these and so many others
sanctuaries from speed
havens for mavens
like the city
clinging to a strand.
-- David Kipen, author of "The Schreiber Theory," directs the NEA's Big Read program.
Iread because it is one of the very few satisfying escapes from reality that isn't fattening and doesn't destroy brain cells.
-- Amy Koss is the author of the young adult novel "Side Effects."
When I was a kid, the greatest thing about reading was that it made the world so much more sympathetic. The bully around the corner, the mouthy girl in class, the recluse nobody talked to -- I understood them all as composites of characters who lived in the stories of Louisa May Alcott, Beverly Cleary, Charles Dickens, Norman Juster, Aesop, the brothers Grimm. Every two weeks, my mother took me to a library to stock up on a new set of books, and I looked forward to those visits the way I looked forward to parties or social engagements. The library was where I made my best friends.
There's a genuine community of reading out there that transcends a lot of differences. Even if you're into James Baldwin and somebody else is into William F. Buckley, you can always argue ideas. Curiosity and critical thinking put you in the same house, if not always the same room.
Much is made about the cultural relevance of books, about whether they speak to a child's background or view of the world. I understand the concern. But books are ultimately about stimulating imagination and broadening a worldview. In my South-Central neighborhood, Dickens more than did the job.
-- Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist.
Ithink of my car as a literary tabernacle. Sometimes I listen to music, sometimes news, but most often my automobile is where I lose myself in the written word. I savored nearly all of Anne Tyler's novels on audiotapes, and readily recall the vivid scenes I imagined listening to Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full." I drove to San Diego once with Amy Tan reading to me from "The Bonesetter's Daughter," heading back home with John Updike's "Rabbit" Angstrom and friends as companions. My favorite audio reading experience, however, was listening to an unabridged recording of A. Scott Berg's biography, "Lindbergh." For several weeks, Charles Lindbergh and I prepared for his New York-to-Paris journey together. The day his small plane finally touched down in Paris, I was so choked up, I actually had to pull off the freeway.
-- Barbara Isenberg is the author of "Conversations with Frank Gehry."
When I moved here in the summer of 1987 from the East Coast, several friends warned me: "You'll be miserable. You read; they don't."
They were partially right -- I was miserable -- but not for the reason they assumed: I missed snow. But the reading was never a problem. They -- we -- read plenty here. The libraries are well-used, now more than ever in this economy. And people who can afford it continue to buy books.
"It's Hollywood," one of the East Coasters cackled. "It's all those agents and directors and producers, sending their assistants out to find books they can turn into movies. They're not reading. Their grunts are."
Those folks probably do account for some percentage of area sales. But the myriad folks reading as they sit on park lawns, the ones with their noses in books while they wait for the takeout lines to inch forward at lunch? The population of readers on coffeehouse patios? They can't all be development gremlins.
So, fine: We'll own up to the have-a-nice-day stereotype, but don't try slapping us with "they don't read." We do. We just have the option of doing it outdoors for more months of the year.
-- Karen Grigsby Bates is an L.A.-based correspondent for NPR News.
We read to free ourselves from the grind and the misery and big ticking time-bomb questions of life. We read for the same reason we walk alone in the woods or squeeze our ears between headphones. We all need contemplative time, time away, time in another world altogether. For me, that happens when I pick up a good book -- or, for that matter, a good newspaper.
-- T.C. Boyle is the author of "The Women: A Novel."
When I was 9, I was sent to a boarding school run by Catholic nuns. I hated it and missed my family terribly. But going home was not an option because my father was working in an oil field in Assam. I cried myself to sleep every night and awoke with a hollow feeling in my stomach. The only time I felt happy was when I borrowed a book from the library and escaped into it. Reading helped me survive that traumatic year. By the time my father was posted to a big city and I returned home, I was hooked.
-- Chitra Divakaruni is the author of "Palace of Illusions."
Ionce had a stepfather with a head like a badly stitched football, who would get drunk and leer and say, "If I were a gopher, I'd gopher you." Or sing "Pennies from Heaven," because my nickname was Penny at the time. I had a boyfriend who clacked his tongue against the roof of his mouth and made the most unnerving sound. I had a whole set of relatives who loved to start sentences with, "The trouble with YOU is ... !"
The world I found myself in didn't come up to my standards. I was 11 at the time. So I went to the library and found Commander Edward Ellsberg and went deep-sea diving, or Elizabeth Enright, whose Melendy family knew how to have fun with each other, or Kate Seredy, whose Hungarian kids rode magnificent horses across the Magyar plains and never fell off.
Now, if my life doesn't come up to my standards, I have no one to blame but myself. I still open a book.
-- Carolyn See is the author of "Golden Days" and "The Handyman."
Reading as lifeline, that's how it was in my childhood home, all of us immigrants reaching for something in the written word. My mother, sitting on the porch, slicing open the pages of a new French novel, sheltered in the language as much as in the story; my father, learning English slang in Life magazine; my Russian grandfather, a czarist to his dying day, finding his vanished homeland in an expat newspaper, the gritty pages printed in letters my American friends couldn't understand.
When it came my turn to read, I still remember the feeling of betrayal. "See Spot run. Run, Spot, run." Seriously? But then came E.B. White and Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain and Harper Lee, Kurt Vonnegut and J.R.R. Tolkien, and I got it, I understood, you're sitting right there, reading, and you're anywhere, everywhere.
-- Veronique de Turenne writes the blog Here in Malibu at laobserved.com/malibu.


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ha yes glad another one got hooked on netsky. the em is the best one of the year imo.
oh yea for sure dude. netsky is the fucking man, one of my favorite djs now. did you scope that kryptic minds mix?
not sure if you have heard of them or not but they rock. that mix is pure fire
Awesome. It's her best song. If you like her though you should check out her cover of Monica's Don't Take It Person (Just One of Dem Days). Listen to Monica's version first. I'm sure you heard that song before. Also, there are some Icarus remixes I am sure you'd love, too.
Glad to hear it. I recommended it to you when I first started coming in to chat back in March :)
i am awesome.
I'll try
Apparently my question got under your skin. Try not to let strangers on the internet bother you so much, Mr. Hung.
You need to teach me the melbourne shuffle.
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Insight into the Yates/Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing team
by Tim Wohlford
By now, sharp-eyed readers of AutoRacing1.com have noticed that the rumor (reported here) of an impending merger between the Champ Car World Series' (CCWS) Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing team, and NASCAR's Robert Yates Racing team did indeed come to pass.
AutoRacing1.com has a large number of CCWS fans among its subscribers. They are dedicated -- perhaps rabid – fans, and no doubt they are wondering why the strongest team in CCWS is flirting with "The Dark Side" of stock car racing. Some might even wonder if this is the first step in losing Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, or whether it means that CCWS is in serious trouble. The press conference was held in the midst of the 400+ member NASCAR press corps gathered here, all of the questions were NASCAR-centric and leaves those questions unanswered. So, let me give some insight into this merger in a way that will help both CCWS and NASCAR fans alike.
Recently, Robert Yates Racing has struggled to be
competitive. Surprisingly for a team renown for their engine expertise,
their main weakness is the fact that they are one of the last of the
"eyeball engineering" teams. Far from being the engineering powerhouse of a
top Indy-style team, they depended on experience, seat-of-the-pants feel,
hunches, and the stopwatch. Other top NASCAR teams have now adopted virtual
testing (simulator) computer programs, in-car telemetry during testing,
suspension testing machines-- in short, everything that CCWS, IRL and F1
teams have taken for granted over the past decade or so. Ford became
frustrated in their relationship with Yates because Ford couldn't share
engineering expertise – some developed during Ford's F1 effort -- with RYR.
It's not that Yates was resistant to Ford's help, it's just that no one on
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Flexsteel Reports Rise in 3Q Sales, Profits Dip
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Flexsteel Industries Inc. today reported an increase in sales for its fiscal third quarter, ended March 31, on a slight drop in earnings.
The Dubuque, Iowa-based furniture maker said net income fell to $3.1 million, or 42 cents per share, during the quarter compared to $3.3 million, or 48 cents per share the previous year. Sales totaled $98.4 million, a 7.3% increase over prior year quarter net sales of $91.6 million. Residential net sales were $79.9 million in the current quarter, an increase of 12.3% from the prior year quarter of $71.2 million reflecting an improved demand for upholstered products. Commercial net sales were $18.4 million in the current year quarter compared to $20.4 million in the prior year quarter, a decrease of 9.9%.
Gross margin for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 was 23.2% compared to 24.1% in the prior year quarter. The percentage change in gross margin is primarily due to changes in product and customer mix, and to a lesser extent freight, raw material and finished product cost increases. The company adjusts its selling prices to reflect market conditions and cost changes. For the nine months ended March 31, 2013, the gross margin was 23.5% compared to 23.8% for the prior year nine month period.
For the nine months, the company reported net income of $8.9 million, or $1.22 per share, versus $8.7 million, or $1.24 per share, a year ago. Sales for the period were $284.2 million, a 10.1% increase compared to the prior year. Residential net sales were $228.9 million in the current nine-month period, an increase of 14% from the prior year of $200.7 million. Commercial net sales were $55.3 million in the compared to $57.5 million in the prior year nine month period.


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Oklahoma wheat farmers have a new resource to battle greenbug infestations.
Tom Royer, Oklahoma State University Extension entomologist, says a new sampling tool, Glance 'n Go, available through the Cereal Aphid Expert System, "helps producers learn more about cereal aphid management, including how to assess natural enemies and how to determine economic thresholds for treatment.
"Wheat fields are beginning to green up in Oklahoma," Royer says. "And that means greenbug season soon will be upon wheat producers."
The Expert System is located at http://www.pswcrl.ars.usda.gov/gbweb/index.htm.
"The Economic Threshold calculator was developed from research conducted over a six-year period," he says. "It allows a producer to determine a treatment threshold for greenbugs based upon the amount of injury actually caused by greenbugs, the potential value of the crop, and the cost of control. It represents a huge advance in aphid management in wheat compared to the currently available recommendations."
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Royer says the Glance 'n Go system was developed from two years of research in more than 100 wheat fields. "It's a sequential sampling system, also called presence/absence. With it, a producer can determine if the treatment threshold has been exceeded by simply keeping track of infested tillers. It is simple and quick."
Royer says he ran pilot tests on the system on 70 fields in 2004. "A sampler spent, on average, nine minutes sampling a field to make a decision to treat or not treat. We are continuing to improve the system, so a producer can determine the level of natural enemy activity in a field while sampling for aphids." (Beneficial insect numbers) can be a part of a decision to treat or not treat.
"We are also pilot testing the newest version, which incorporates the natural enemy assessment this year. Our future plans include developing a Glance 'n Go system for Russian wheat aphid."
Royer and colleagues have developed the following question and answer format for the new resource.
The Cereal Aphid Expert System and Glance 'n Go Sampling for Greenbugs:
Questions and Answers
Developed by: Tom A. Royer and K.L. Giles, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University; N.C. Elliott and S.D. Kindler, USDA-ARS, Stillwater, Okl.
What exactly is the Cereal Aphid Expert System?
The Cereal Aphid Pest Management Expert System is a set of computer programs designed to help the user manage cereal aphids in winter wheat. It was developed through the cooperative efforts of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Site Specific Technology Development Group of Stillwater (SST), and Oklahoma State University through a grant provided by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST).
This expert system has a Greenbug Economic Threshold Calculator, which will compute a treatment threshold for greenbugs based upon data the user provides. It also allows the user to print a Glance 'n Go sampling form he can use for multiple fields. Treatment thresholds calculated by this expert system are precise because it uses historical weather data to predict growth rates of greenbug populations as it calculates treatment thresholds. In addition, it has an Insecticide Selection helper, an Aphid Identification helper, and a Natural Enemy information module.
What is Glance 'n Go Sampling?
The Glance 'n Go sampling system for greenbugs is designed to help a user accurately and rapidly sample wheat for greenbug infestations. It is based upon data taken in more than 100 wheat fields in Oklahoma over a two-year period.
Glance 'n Go requires the field scout to keep track of the number of tillers infested with greenbugs instead of counting their actual numbers. This strategy works well when we want to know if the number of greenbugs is below or above a set treatment threshold. It is a fast, easy and proven technique for sampling insects. The Glance 'n Go sampling system can reduce sampling time by 25 percent or more, yet is as reliable as directly counting the insects in the field.
How will Glance 'n Go benefit my wheat production operation?
Research shows that greenbug infestations can cause economic loss long before they cause visible injury to the wheat plant. Glance 'n Go is designed to save a wheat producer time and money. By checking a winter wheat field with this system, a grower can detect greenbug infestations quickly and make control decisions based upon the value of the crop and the costs needed to produce it.
Why do I have to use a different sheet for fall and spring?
The time of year is important because research shows that in the fall greenbugs are distributed within the field in a different pattern compared to the spring. This makes sense, because in the fall greenbug outbreaks usually develop from winged individuals that fly into fields from other crops or grasses. Spring infestations typically develop from existing greenbugs that successfully overwintered in the wheat field.
The treatment threshold is based upon the yield loss caused by greenbug feeding, the cost of control, and the value of the wheat crop. The estimated yield loss caused by greenbugs was determined from research conducted in Oklahoma over four years.
Why do I have to calculate a treatment threshold?
The other two factors, control costs and wheat value can change from year to year, field-to-field, and producer-to-producer. For example, in one year wheat may be worth $2.20 a bushel and in another it may be worth $4 per bushel.
The control costs can vary with the price of the pesticide and the cost of application. A producer who owns spray application equipment could spray a field at a lower cost per acre than a producer who has to pay for a custom application. The treatment threshold in Glance 'n Go accounts for all of those factors and reflects their values.
Does the treatment threshold work for wheat at different stages of growth?
The treatment threshold used in Glance 'n Go can be used on wheat only after it reaches the four-leaf stage. It is not appropriate to use it on seedling wheat, because greenbugs can kill seedlings. Results show that once the wheat plant reaches the four-leaf stage, the amount of injury caused by greenbugs is independent of plant height or other factors. The research used to develop this system provided no reason to adjust greenbug treatment thresholds based upon the size of the plant.
Does Glance 'n Go work for other cereal aphids?
Glance 'n Go is designed only for the greenbug, which is the most important aphid pest of wheat in Oklahoma. Research is under way to determine the amount of yield loss caused by the birdcherry-oat aphid. When the research is completed, Glance 'n Go may be modfied to include both aphids.
Does Glance 'n Go account for natural enemy activity?
The latest version of Glance 'n Go accounts for activity by the parasitic wasp, Lysiphlebus testaceipes, on greenbugs by accounting for presence of mummies in the field. Although ladybird beetles can dramatically reduce greenbug numbers, predicting their impact on greenbug numbers has proven to be more difficult, and at present, does not hold much promise for use in Oklahoma.
Why do I have to walk at least 15 paces between samples?
The Glance n' Go system will accurately evaluate a field if directions for collecting samples are followed. That includes taking a representative sample of the field. To assure that representative samples are taken, the sampler should: (1) not look at tillers before they are collected, and (2) sample a large portion of the field.
Taking 15 paces between samples increases the odds that the field is being adequately sampled. Large fields (larger than 100 acres) should be regarded as two fields and sampled separately to make a decision.
Remember, this tool is only as good as the information used to make a decision. Shortcuts will make this sampling tool much less useful!
Where can I get more information?
Contact your local County Extension Office. Extension Educators can access the Glance 'n Go system and are well versed on its use. You can also obtain a Glance 'n Go scouting form from the Entomology and Plant Pathology Web site at http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ by selecting "Agriculture Models" then "Cereal Aphids Pest Management" and following instructions for printing a copy.
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#1 Feb 11, 2008
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#2 Feb 13, 2008
After a poll of my 14 neighbors we have come to an agreement that Springboro Schools will have to go without this year. The constant asking for more money then assuring us Springboro residents are "wealthy" enough to afford it is appalling. Maybe they should remember "it's the ecconomy stupid". Also, it is really ok for those whose children participate in school sports to "pay to play". After all, although sports has a place, it is not a necessary part of a public education which needs to be funded by the entire community. At least after a child no longer participates in a sport, the parents will no longer be paying for the "pay to play". But if the fees are included in the levy all of us will always be paying.
#3 Feb 13, 2008
I have to agree with Taxed Enough's comments. More focus needs to be placed on academics and not just the bogus claim that Springboro Schools has received an "excellence" rating. With the demographics of Springboro and the amount of time spent teaching to the test each year, it would be a calamity if Springboro did NOT receive the excellent rating.
The district is moaning about the increase in gas and heating costs for the schools, but this is something that everyone is experiencing. The only difference is that the individual family cannot just go to their job and tell them to fork over more cash to cover the increases, rather they must learn to live with what income they receive. Springboro Schools will need to do the same. Also, Springboro's complaint that they are paying more for healthcare costs for employees is annoying. Everyone, every business, is also experiencing this increase and the result is the individual employee is having to contribute more money to cover their own healthcare. Let the Springboro School District pass the costs on also. The voters cannot carry their own and the districts healthcare increases! Give me a break!
#4 Feb 19, 2008
I'v reviewed the proposed levies and agree the original levy should have a yes vote. The new 6m levy should have a no next to it. I can't believe they want the Springboro citizens to help fund increases for the 10% match by the school to teacher pension funds and an automatice 4.65% increase in pay. Also, a 3% increase in pay for purchased services. Why don't don't they just call purchased services what it really is, salary. So, over five years that levy will generate 30 million and 15 million will go to the pay increase, pension, and healthcare.(9 million to teach pensions). Why don't they lessen the amount they are putting in as a match for teachers pensions and allow the kids to play sports and get a bus ride to school. I guess the pension and pay increases are more important than the kids being educated. They could give each teacher a 3% pay increase each year and stop requiring families to pay fees. They fail to mention that the students pay fees on top of the parents paying for the property tax.
SO, from 2008 on each resident of Springboro will have to put less in a retirment plan and forgo healthcare, but the teachers will have a wonderful pension plan at retirment. I will my rich uncle would pay for my retirment.
#5 Feb 20, 2008
Mr. Williamson your letter should be shared with the local media. I have been fed up with the way the school system expects the tax payers to go overboard for teacher retirement, healthcare, and salaries while our own employers are requiring us, the individual employee, to pay an even larger chunk each year. Then we see how the public employee, including our own Doc Baker, is double-dipping and this whole levy seems like a scam.
Springboro Schools likes to make it sound like teachers are martyrs, "Doing it all for the children", but let's not forget that teaching in a school system like Springboro is a cushy assignment. Even their propaganda mailing where Springboro is compared to other schools in Ohio, which most of us have not even heard of, is a joke. Even my college statistics professor made it clear that data can be manipulated to support whichever side one wishes to support. The more accurate look at the data is comparing Springboro to schools in our own area and when we do this we see Springboro is doing just fine. Two of its neighbors, Lebanon and Waynesville, have lower per student spending ratios than Springboro. More money is not needed in March!
#6 Feb 24, 2008
"Springboro Schools likes to make it sound like teachers are martyrs, "Doing it all for the children", but let's not forget that teaching in a school system like Springboro is a cushy assignment."
I have taught in 4 other school districts...this by FAR is the hardest job I have ever had. Parents are always on your case, demanding almost as much daily individual attention as their child gets. Administrators are always looking over your shoulder, demanding student data and wanting you to prove how your weekly lessons plans touch on each benchmark standard, how student pre-test and post-test data looks for each learning unit. I am at school sometimes for 10 to 12 hours daily just to get my work done. I am insulted you would think my life is cushy and that the excellent rating is bogus. How often does your boss and do your clients/customers hover over you for quality control...I doubt it is daily like for teachers.
#7 Feb 24, 2008
"Parents are always on your case, demanding almost as much daily individual attention as their child gets. Administrators are always looking over your shoulder, demanding student data and wanting you to prove how your weekly lessons plans touch on each benchmark standard, how student pre-test and post-test data looks for each learning unit. I am at school sometimes for 10 to 12 hours daily just to get my work done."
As a former Springboro teacher I can relate to the frustration of the teacher above. Springboro has become a district with too much emphasis on sports and test scores and neither of these are what a real education is all about. Too many hours were spent teaching to the test so the administration could boast about an excellence rating. Each week athletic activities account for the majority of the Super. Dr. Baker's weekly newsletter. And yes, pandering to obnoxious Springboro parent's who think each "little Johnny" or "little Susie" is going to be a pro athlete or valedictorian was all too common. I hope more of the Springboro citizens wake up and realize throwing more money at this district is not what is goint to make a difference in the children's education. A revamping from the top down will! Vote No for the new levy!
By the way, I have relocated to another district and found it a lot less stressful and it has more students and in a period of growth also.
#8 Feb 25, 2008
I agree with most of the post here especially "Taxed Enough". What is so wrong with Pay for play? Everyone is having to cut back and watch expenses. Why shouldn't the schools do the same? There are plenty of non-education related cut backs that could be made. They want to give the teachers a 4.65% across the board automatic increase for a 9-month job? I will not be getting near that this year and lucky if I do not get layed-off and I have to show up all 12-months of the year - imagine that!!
And by the way, when they claim the renewal is "no new taxes" is really misleading as when it was sold to us 3 years ago it was billed as a temporary increase - not so temporary is it? Our taxes would actually go down if not passed (as was originally planned). Therefore it really is a tax increase.
Given th lack of support signs in invidual yards I believe is a sign we are not alone in our thinking that this levy is not the right thing. We are voting no and many I have spoken to are doing the same.
Since: Feb 08
#9 Feb 25, 2008
Yes, Mr. Williamson's information should be sent to the local media. It would be very enlightening if the general public would realize this...
Springboro schools are just too tax happy and need to realize that the taxpayers are NOT their personal ATM.
#10 Feb 26, 2008
I read last weeks's levy article in the Springboro Sun. It's disgraceful that senior citizens on fixed incomes who can hardly afford to pay for their health care are required to pay this increase if the levy passes. I will only vote for this levy if Dr. Baker assures me that he will refund these increases to our senior citizens.
#11 Feb 26, 2008
Comments made re: the Levy (Feb 19th)
I would like everyone to know that my comments made on Feb 19th provide for great discussion. I want to be very clear that my aim was at the process and not the Teachers. It's the taxpayers money and we decide how it's spent. The response from Sprinboro schools are typical of anyone who is fighting for a raise or increase in benefits. You try to justify the increase, but I don't recall voting for the following: These issues are all stated by the School's CFO in an article written in the Suntimes 2/26.
1. Provide for 90% of the teachers healthcare payment. Unions are the only employer that pays for 90% of healthcare.
2. Buying life insurance for each teacher.
3. Liability insurance - Most companies lower payroll or benefits to pay for increases in cost.
4. Hire 26 new teachers - I think we can find 26 new teachers that will charge less than 6 million dollars a year.
5. 10% mandatory match of salary for deposit into each teachers pension account.
The teachers and administrators are employees of the Springboro citizen. I think it's time we know exactly what we're paying for in detail.
Our current Federal, State, and local tax system expect more and more cash. They act as if the supply of cash is endless. I think the teachers contracts and pay should be voted on by the taxpayer, not the teachers.
Since: Feb 08
#12 Feb 27, 2008
Springboro Resident - curious why you believe only seniors citizens should get some type of refund for this proposed tax increase. What about the folks that are recently laid off and on a fixed income or single folks that to do contribute to the "issue"? Pay for play would solve these issues - only parents with kids would pay the extra leaving taxes the same for seniors and singles who do not use the system...
Since: Feb 08
#13 Feb 27, 2008
Correction - "or single folks that to do contribute to the "issue"? " should be "do not contribute to the issue"...
#14 Feb 27, 2008
Today I paid my semi-annual property taxes and realized they have increase almost 50% since 2003! Most of the increase has been for the Springboro Schools! I am angry that in this economy and after how much they already receive that they are asking for more. I believe this levy will fail and rightly so. Even many parents with children in the system are opposed, which says alot. I just hope that finally Springboro residents stand up and refuse to take on more taxes, taxes that never go down! Last time I checked Springboro is not a nanny state yet, and just because the school administration and school board "feel" we are wealthy enough to support their increase whims, WE the PEOPLE, have the finally say. Don't be conned by "it's for the children.." Please remember to vote NO in march.
Since: Feb 08
#15 Feb 28, 2008
Yes, I just paid mine yesterday. Perfect timing (right before voting) to remind people exactly how much they already pay; with the VAST majority going to Springboro Schools. We just built (and are paying for) two new schools. They begged, pleaded and promised this would fix all of the districts problems but yet they are back now with their hand out. This is either very poor planning or milking of the taxpayer - or my guess a bit of both. Learn to cut back like the rest of us. I am growing increasing tired of all the scare tactics and emotional pleas - i.e. "It's for our children's future". What's next? Sally Struthers debuting in their new round of scare tactics?
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#16 Feb 28, 2008
YOU go in every day to a room full of everyone elses children and deal with teaching those young ones who do not get enough sleep, are full of their parents problems. Our children are our future. People want better homes and cars but not better schools. Everyone including alot of the younger parents seem to have their own investments that are far higher on the list than their children. Children today are at a big disadvantage and the schools need more and more daily to cope with educating these children. It takes more than reading, writing and math. There are more special needs, councelors, alot of children do not even get three meals a day unless they go to school. The many single parents out there are scraping badly to make ends meet and even to afford to feed the children and keep them warm. It is the job situation that our goverment put these people into. Yes your schools do need more money. Just like our schools do over here. Forget one cup of coffee a day and pay the taxes to help educate the children in your community. You are as bad as the grinch!!
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#17 Feb 28, 2008
Our teachers deserve far more than they are given. You have no idea what they deal with daily.
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#18 Feb 28, 2008
SCARE TACTICS!! THE ONLY SCARE IN YOU IS GIVING UP MONEY THAT YOU PROBABLY WASTE AWAY ANYWAY. iF YOU DO NOT WANT TO PAY THOSE TAXES, DONATE A DAY OF YOUR TIME TO THOSE CHILDREN IN THOSE SCHOOLS AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK AROUND,THEN TELL ME IF YOU WOULD WANT YOUR OWN EDUCATED THAT WAY. WITH THE ARISING PROBLEMS OUR CHILDREN HAVE TODAY IT SIMPLY COSTS MORE TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR THEM.
#19 Feb 28, 2008
Yes, I will drop by some Wednesday afternoon in July while on a break from work and see exactly how hard they are working. Oh, that's right they will not be there -they will in the middle of a THREE MONTH VACATION!!!
Since: Feb 08
#20 Feb 28, 2008
Typical narrow thinking of the folks that just want to tax to no end. I am just wasting money anyway so I might as well pay more taxes and give it to the schools? What an ignorant thing to say. It is MY money, not yours! You have no idea what I do with my money and it frankly is no concern of yours - keep your hands out of my pockets!
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Picked up two of these last year. My wife likes the upright posture. These bikes are very comfortable for cruising around town. Have had some problems with the chain on my bike but that is most likely due to my large frame (280lbs). All in all great bike for getting back into bikes.
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I purchased this product for one thing - exercise. I just have to get my fat self into shape. I am 35 and tired of being fat. I didn't have much money, but I knew that I needed to do something. Unfortunately Century Cycles Medina was out of the '08 model in my size (6 foot tall)so I had to shell out the additional dough for the '09 (20% more expensive). OH well. For those of you worried about durability, I weigh 286 pounds currently (I was just over 300 when I started) and the bike is just fine. The bike is great looking and is EXTREMELY comfortable, even for my big bum. After about an hour of riding I still get a bit sore, but I have been going out almost every day for the past month, and besides losing weight, I have been able to go further and further without much pain (besides my muscles, that is). I guess that is why they call it a comfort bike. The only drawback is that the frame is a bit heavy for lifting, but considering the features included on this bike, (shocks and stuff) it is going to be heavier than a racing bike :) Speaking of racing be aware that the gearing of this bike is designed for comfort and not speed. You will max out the 21 gear at about 15 mph. It's fine for family riding or exercise, but I wouldn't enter a triathlon with this bike :)
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Wow", I was trying to figure out how to make my Trek road bike more rider friendly and comfortable,seems the road bike position is laking so much everday ridability,.... I was miserable on it,..I called Cris at EC and he showed me the Sodona,in just about 30feet of peddiling out the door and down the sidewalk "I was HOOKED"! Then me and my German Shepard rode it all the way out onto the beach thru the soft sand and all over Honymoon Island, and all over the Trail,...wow what a fabulous do-all bike, its so comfy, when we rested i sat on the seat and enjoyed the sunset "Tanya" had a blast in the salt water, and could barly keep-up with me,...Thanks to Cris and Bob and their wonderful help I wish i had bought one a long time ago,...-collin
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Brothers left school last season after his junior year when he was selected 34th in the first round of the Major League Entry Draft by the Colorado Rockies.
Also missing is Brandon McClurg, a right-hander who is still working with the team as a student coach. Only senior right-hander Josh Smith remains from the weekend pitching rotation.
"When you sit back and look at it, it could be 10 more years before we replace a first round draft pick," said Forehand. "We hate to lose a pitcher of Rex's caliber. But we think we have improved our depth hoping that we can replace a truly outstanding pitcher in Rex with several guys.
"We have to make up not only for Rex, but we have to replace McClurg, a veteran pitcher who kept us in every game we played each weekend. Hopefully, we have some guys with an upside who can come in here and replace those two veterans."
Smith put up solid numbers as a junior last season leading the Bisons staff with seven wins. He also posted a 3.86 earned run average.
Nationally, in NCAA Division I, Smith ranked 29th in hits allowed per nine innings (7.1), 32nd in strikeouts (101) and 42nd in strikeouts per nine innings (10.25).
"Josh will be the veteran we lean on a little bit more," said Forehand. "Josh is a solid pitcher."
When Forehand finalizes his 25-man roster for the spring he was to have 10 pitchers in line to give him much needed depth.
"On paper people might look at us and say we are not as strong at the top," said Forehand. "And they are probably right if you look at it on paper. But from the 10th man up we are strong."
If Forehand had to start the season this week his starting rotation would be Smith, junior college transfer Dannie Strable, sophomore Davey Hackett and senior Matt Bowling.
"Strable has pitched a year of junior college and decided to transfer early," said Forehand. "He is showing three pitches with decent velocity."
Joining Strable in the list of junior college transfers are right-hander Chad Fromm from Cleveland State, right-hander Mike Grace from Jefferson College and left-hander Alex Ross from Maplewoods Community College. Josh Chism, a utility player who can also pitch, has transferred to Lipscomb from Itawamba Community College. He is a right-hander.
"Fromm could be a starter or reliever," said Forehand. "Grace, Ross and Chism are guys we will be counting on out of the bullpen."
Forehand also plans to have Martin Grude and Josh Cotham, both sophomore right-handers, work out of the bullpen.
Forehand is counting on Hackett and Bowling to be much improved over last season. Hackett, a right-hander, finished the season with a 0-3 record and a 7.58 ERA. He made 11 appearances, including five starts. He gave up 27 runs, 25 earned, allowed 36 hits and struck out 17.
Bowling, also a right-hander, was 1-2 with a 7.04 ERA. He made 24 appearances, but only started twice. In 38.1 innings he scattered 43 hits and gave up 40 runs, 30 earned. He struck out 29 batters.
"Davey's first outing was at Georgia Tech, his second was at Auburn and his third was at Vanderbilt," said Forehand. "Games like that will quickly get your feet wet.
"Davey has really matured. He is really working hard."
Forehand is also happy with the progress of Bowling as he prepares for his senior season.
"Confidence has been the big thing for Matt," said Forehand. "He throws the ball 90-plus miles per hour and has a hard breaking ball. In his first three years he has bounced from being a starter on Tuesday or Wednesday to being a reliever on the weekends and then he was a reliever all the time.
"He and Davey both got some innings in and got better as the season progressed. Both he and Davey have a little pep to them this fall. Davey has to throw strikes. In his first three years he has bounced from being a starter on Tuesday or Wednesday to being a reliever on the weekends and then he was a reliever all the time."
Also expected to step up and challenge for pitching time are three true freshmen _ Chris Nunn and Blake Fonfara, both left-handers; and right-hander Brandon Rowe.
"On this level everybody they face will be a good hitter," said Forehand. "Those guys are recognizing the pace of the game is little faster and they aren't going to beat people just by throwing a little harder."


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Appears in *Hyginus (3) (Fab.274) in a list of discoverers and inventors. She is described as an Athenian girl who lived at a time when there were no *midwives, because women and slaves were forbidden to learn medicine; this scenario matches no known historical period. Disguising herself as a man, Agnodice studied medicine under 'a certain Herophilus', and then practised medicine at Athens successfully, challenging the professional monopoly on the part of male doctors. Accused by her jealous rivals of seducing her patients, Agnodice demonstrated her innocence by performing the gesture of anasyrmos, lifting her tunic to expose her lower body. This revelation led to a charge of practising medicine unlawfully, but she was saved when the wives of the leading men lobbied the *Areopagus in her defence. Hyginus claims that Athenian law was then changed so that freeborn women could study medicine.
Stephen Hodkinson and Antony Spawforth
Ken Dowden
Luc Brisson
In the modern use, "bisexuality" refers to sexual object choice, whereas "androgyny" refers to sexual identity. In ancient Greece and Rome, however, these terms sometimes refer to human beings born with characteristics of both sexes, and more frequently to an adult male who plays the role of a woman, or to a woman who has the appearance of a man, both physically and morally. In mythology, having both sexes simultaneously or successively characterises, on the one hand, the first human beings, animals, or even plants from which arose male and female, and on the other, mediators between human beings and gods, the living and the dead, men and women, past and future, and human generations. Thus androgyny and bisexuality were used as a tools to cope with one's biological, social, and even fictitious environment.
anthropology and the classics
Helen King
Anthropology and the classics currently enjoy a fairly good relationship, but one which has never been stable. In the 19th cent. the interest of evolutionary anthropology in a 'savage' period through which all societies must pass meant that studies of contemporary simple societies began to be used to illuminate the classical past. After the First World War, classicists reacted against what were perceived as the excesses of the work of Jane Harrison and the Cambridge school, in which it was claimed that knowledge of 'things primitive' gave a better understanding of the Greeks. Meanwhile, in social anthropology, the rise of the static structural-functional paradigm and an insistence on an identity as 'the science of fieldwork' combined to cause a rejection of history. In the last 50 years, the divorce between the subjects has been eroded from both sides, with comparative studies increasingly valued as enabling us to escape from our intellectual heritage and the specific—though, to us, self-evident—ways it has formulated questions and sought answers.
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Artemon (5), of Magnesia, Greek author
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Artemon (5), of Magnesia (date uncertain), author of a Famous Exploits of Women, from which *Sopater (2) made excerpts.
Nicholas J. Richardson
Baubo belongs to the main Orphic version of the Rape of *Persephone (Asclepiades of Tragilus, FGrH 12. 4; Orph. frs. 49–52 O. Kern; see


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BNP Paribas BNP, -1.41% said Monday the penalties would shave a little over half a percentage point from its core tier-one capital ratio — a key measure of a bank's financial health — to about 10% at the end of the second quarter.
Machenil said the bank's "ample" liquidity position would allow it to shoulder the massive penalties inflicted by U.S. authorities for violating U.S. sanctions.
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Following Anna's Retrospect column on the Bentwood Chairs of Gebrüder Thonet, it's an excellent time to roundup the large variety of bentwood café chairs — available at a range of prices.
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We may be a little more than halfway through 2013, but in Washington and state governments across the country, the focus is increasingly on federal actions taken in 2011.
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I wish to address the 1929 dining car that is being placed on the tracks near the museum. I feel this is a very dangerous place to put it, as there are no crossing lights at this intersection and the trains cannot blow their whistle at the crossing.
It was hard to see down the tracks with the engine there, and now they are adding this other car.
The La Grange City Council on Monday, Aug. 8, passed a 1 percent compensation tax. According to the ordinance, 100 percent of the funds collected through the tax will be used to pay the city's bond obligation on Oldham Reserve business park.
Oldham Reserve is a 1,000-acre business development located off of Exit 22 on Interstate 71. It is home to The Rawlings Company, an 8OO-person operation; the average salary there is $63,000. From an economic development and spin-off perspective, this is equivalent to two or three medium-sized businesses.
Last week, on the occasion of my eldest child's 21st birthday, I spent most of the day trying to garner compliments.
Perhaps "compliment" is the wrong word. It was really reassurance that I needed. I didn't care who said it, I just wanted to hear those magical words: "My goodness, young lady! You do not look anywhere near old enough to have a 21-year-old daughter!"
For generations now, students have been taught that Abraham Lincoln was the first native Kentuckian to be U.S. President.
Technically speaking, however, that's not true.
Project Guild of La Grange would like to send out a special thank-you to the community of Oldham County and its visitors for attending the 43rd annual Oldham County Day.
The Grand Marshal Luncheon, sponsored by Citizens Union Bank; the YMCA 1M and 5K races; the Dancing in the Street concerts on Friday and Saturday nights, sponsored by the city of La Grange; and the annual La Grange Rotary pancake breakfast were all successful.
It was with some concern that I learned last week that my cancellation notice for the 2013 Annual Veterans Recognition Event had not been printed by The Oldham Era this past week or the week before.
For several reasons, it was necessary for me to cancel this year's event, and the newspaper had promised to publish the notice to that effect. It was my goal to inform readers that, after seven years of hosting this event on the second Thursday in August, I am unable this year to hold it.
At 43, it's probably time to stop saying, "when" I become middle-aged, and accept that I've arrived. I don't know what the official marker is for middle-aged, but I seriously doubt I'm going to make it to 86.
We all had role models growing up. Maybe you still do.
Who was your role model? Why did you choose the person? What qualities did he/she possess?
Did your role model fall in your eyes over time?
Mayor Greg Fischer has proclaimed Louisville to be "Compassion City."
What a noble thing to do! For compassion is the unique human ability to care about other people, to be considerate of others and sensitive to their needs.
Nestled inside a grocery sack filled with pint-sized cartons of shelf-stable chocolate milk, four containers of banana yogurt and other kid-friendly snacks is a book about being scared that I hope my daughter will never open without me.
I recently shopped for supplies to keep our daughter, Harper, happy and well-fed for at least 24 hours in the event of an emergency that prevents us from reaching her preschool.
Are you conscious of the chatter in your mind? For the next few minutes, pay attention to it.
Maybe you are making a grocery or "to-do" list. Perhaps you are passing judgment on the person who just walked past you at the mall and comparing how you measure up to her. Now your mind is wandering off to how you have never been good enough or smart enough or pretty enough.
My dad recently decided to sell the old family homestead.
The last time I was there was right after the death of my precious grandmother. The house was to be rented, and my job was to clean it before the new tenants arrived. The task proved to be more difficult than I had imagined.
When I was a child, I always knew grandma would be waiting for me on the front porch. As she got older, she would greet me at the door.
My wife, Sarah, and I moved to Oldham County nearly 10 years ago.
Having grown up here, I knew the area quite well.
For Sarah, the outsider, the learning curve was more precipitous.
When needing to get somewhere in Crestwood, La Grange or Goshen, Sarah would often come to me for directions. Those conversations sometimes went like this:
Sarah: "How do you get to (fill in the blank)?"
Me: "Do you remember where (fill in the blank) used to be?"
Sarah: "No."
This week, thousands of parents, teachers, volunteers and staff members who contribute to the success of students in the Oldham County district received a 1,000-word tirade from Superintendent Will Wells.
His message? He combined criticism of the local newspaper for publishing differing opinions with yet another pat-on-the-back for the Oldham County Board of Education's five elected officials.
It's election season — and that means campaigns are making confetti out of data.
Because no matter your argument, there's always a statistic to back it up.
Take, for instance, elections for the Oldham County Board of Education — a pivotal race that could drastically alter the course of Oldham County Schools.
Numbers have been flying around like monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.
During a candidate forum Sept. 25, Division 3 candidate Gary Gibson cited a number of statistics that have been fact-checked since the forum.
It's election season — and that means campaigns are making confetti out of data.
Because no matter your argument, there's always a statistic to back it up.
Take, for instance, elections for the Oldham County Board of Education — a pivotal race that could drastically alter the course of Oldham County Schools.
Numbers have been flying around like monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.
During a candidate forum Sept. 25, Division 3 candidate Gary Gibson cited a number of statistics that have been fact-checked since the forum.
Twenty-one years ago, when hubby and I were planning our wedding, I wasn't really sure how to go about choosing songs. I knew I didn't want recorded music, but finding sheet music was a bit difficult.
Back in those days, we didn't have the benefit of Googling the lyrics.
We have never really had a song that we refer to as "our song." Our song changes with each stage of our relationship. When we first began dating, we listened to a lot of Roger Miller.
To the editor:
My family adopted a dog from Camp Canine in April. It was the best experience for us. We let everyone know that Zippy came from Camp Canine. We think it's the best program in the world.
We met three inmates when we were selecting our dog. They were all very personable and thankful that we were supporting the program. They told us that it was teaching them responsibility and other valuable skills.
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