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Two goals in TransLink's Transport 2040 strategy are to have most trips in the Metro Vancouver, BC, region occur by walking, cycling and transit and to have the majority of jobs and housing in the region located along the Frequent Transit Network. To that end Translink has created a number of transit-oriented development documents. Four of those have been added to the Resource Center best practices.
The Age Of Transit Transparency
July 8, 2013
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A study that examines the history of transit transparency -- the release of transit schedules, routes and real-time feeds for third-party use -- has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
Understanding How the Built Environment Around TTA Stops Affects Ridership
July 1, 2013
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A 2006 Triangle Transit Authority report exploring the impact of the built environment on transit ridership has been added to the Resource Center best practices.
2013 Sustainability & Public Transportation Workshop
June 27, 2013
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The American Public Transportation Association will hold its 2013 Sustainability and Public Transportation Workshop in San Francisco July 28-30. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and the San Francisco Bay Area Transportation District (BART) will host the event at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in Union Square.
Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation
March 22, 2013
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The Transit Cooperative Research Program's 2012 report on "Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation" has been added to the Resource Center's best practices database.
Are We There Yet? Getting Out Of Gear
December 18, 2012
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home Trends underway in the housing and jobs market portend a need for more transportation choices to help people get where they need to go as well as to enhance this country's economic competitiveness. Market trends confirm the shift in demand away from single-use, single-family neighborhoods, corporate campuses and shopping centers connected by highways, and toward compact mixed-use neighborhoods where streets are not the sole province of fast-moving cars but are shared with pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users. Providing more transportation choices is critical to supporting this 21st century lifestyle and it seems to be what both younger and older generations want. For the younger generation, traffic congestion, $5 a gallon gas prices, and the popularity of smartphones and social media have made driving far less appealing than it was to their parents. According to the U.S. department…
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October 13, 2012
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home The Denver Broncos and a resurgent Payton Manning take on a Chargers team Monday night. These division rivals have no love lost and will seek to keep each other further away from the post season with a win today. In the realm of complete communities, unlike on the gridiron, San Diego and Denver compete in different divisions. San Diego competes with the heavyweights, with just over 3 million residents, while Denver falls in the middle division, where regions between 3 million and 500,000 population compete. That in part may explain why Denver brings home straight "A's" in Living, Moving, Working, and Thriving, while San Diego has three "Cs" and a "B." Denver's competition isn't generally as fierce as San Diego faces in the top tier. In many cases, San Diego does a better job on individual metrics than Denver. San Diego has a higher share of households who live near…
Learning From Street Configuration And Envisioning Future Transit Improvements
June 22, 2012
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A study on the impact of street configuration on transit ridership and a transit vision for the Hampton Roads, VA, region in 2025 and beyond have been added to the Research Center best practices database.
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June 21, 2012
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Getting Around When You're Just Getting By
June 21, 2012
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A 2011 report from the Mineta Transportation Institute on how rising transportation costs affect low-income families has been added to the Resource Center best practices database. "Getting Around When You're Just Getting By: The Travel Behavior and Transportation Expenditures of Low-Income Adults" uses in-depth interviews with 73 adults to determine travel behavior and transportation spending patterns; the costs and benefits of alternative modes of travel; cost management strategies; and opinions about the effects of changing transportation prices on travel behavior.


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They are, however, having some difficulties in stopping the opposing team from scoring. After losing 4-3 at Campbell Thursday night, the Bisons bounced back for a 4-3 win on two goals by freshman defender Josh Lind in the final 18 minutes at Mercer Saturday night to go 1-1 in the Atlantic Sun for the weekend.
The win is the seventh for the Bisons overall, tying their 2007 record for wins.
"We've got some defensive issues to work out," said Bisons coach Charles Morrow. "Giving up seven goals in two games is not something we want to make a habit of doing. We will get that sorted out by next weekend."
"The good thing is we are not having any problems scoring goals. There is probably not a coach in the conference that wouldn't trade places with me. It is hard to figure out how to score than it is to figure out how to stop a team from scoring. Of the two problems we have the easier of the two to fix."
The Bisons spotted Mercer a 1-0 lead at 2:11 when Arkenson Neckles scored his first goal, an unassisted effort.
Forward Miguel DaSilva tied the game for the Bisons at 7:43 as he kicked the ball into the left side of the net. Midfielder Angel Chairez was credited with the assist.
At 11:42 of the first half defender T.J. Williams put the Bisons ahead 2-1 as he found an opening in the right side of net from approximately 25 yards out. DaSilva assisted on the goal.
In the second half Mercer took control on a pair of goals by Bolade Ogunmade at 60:10 and 61:55. One was a header into the right side of the net off a cross pass. His second goal came from the right corner. Ian Cameron assisted on both goals.
Lind tied the game at 3-3 at 72:29 taking a shot from the left side of the box that went low into the left side of the net. Williams assisted on the play.
At 77:37 Lind scored what proved to be the game-winning goal off of a deflection. Chairez picked up his second assist on the play.
They were the first two goals of the season for Lind. Williams also scored his first goal as well.
"It is amazing to me that we have the top two scorers in the conference because so many different guys score for us," said Morrow. "We have plenty of guys who have scored and have proven they are goal scorers.
"Josh getting two goals at the end was great. One by Josh takes a funny bounce and goes in. The second one was sent in by Angel and it just bounced off of Josh into the net."
The Bisons are 7-6-2, 3-1-1 in the A-Sun. Mercer is 1-8-4, 1-3-2 in the conference.

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POMONA >> Ever since Auto Club Raceway started hosting the final NHRA event of the season, it has resulted in a stressful Sunday for those battling for a national championship and/or race title.
Jeg Coughlin started the day in that mode, but at 1:55 p.m., the pressure was removed during the second round of Pro Stock competition at the Auto Club Finals. Coughlin's closest challenger for the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series champion, Jason Line, was eliminated Buddy Perkinson, giving Coughlin his fifth pro NHRA championship.
Three minutes later, Coughlin — "ice cold and relaxed" — jumped the start against Mopar teammate Allen Johnson by .001 of a second and started his victory celebration. It was his first since he quit the class in 2010 and 2007.
"This championship is extremely special without question," said Coughlin. "When I stepped away after the 2010 season, I wasn't sure how long it would be before I would return. This was the tightest and one of the most intense championship races I've ever been involved with".
"It ranks right up there," added the 43-year-old from Delaware, Ohio, of his title campaign. "It's been a fantastic year. We got great team support. To win a championship under the Mopar banner is fantastic."
Coughlin was among the day's winners in the 24th, and final, series event witnessed by a strong crowd of an estimated 25,000 at Fairplex.
In Top Fuel, newly-crowned champion Shawn Langdon beat Doug Kalitta to complete a sweep down Parker Avenue, having also won at the Winternationals. Langdon ran 3.784 seconds at 323.58 mph down the 1,000 feet to the losing 3.808 at 323.04. Kalitta
Matt Hagan beat 2013 Funny Car titlist John Force in the last round, giving Don Schumacher Racing a record 23rd national event title of the season (of 24 total events) in the two nitro classes, 4.018 at 320.66 to 4.057 at 317.94. Even more improbable was that Dickie Venables, Hagan's crew chief, didn't make the trip West, recovering from a Wednesday operation in Indiana.
Rickie Jones displayed raw emotion after his initial national event win, and the 57th different class winner, outrunning defending Pro Stock champion Allen Johnson on a holeshot, 6.584 at 210.28 to 6.581 at 211.03.
In Pro Stock Motorcycle, Eddie Krawiec won for the fourth time at Pomona by beating Scotty Pollacheck to the line. Pollacheck was atop the Buell that carried Matt Smith to the PSM championship. Krawiec ran 6.918 at 192.41 to defeat Pollacheck.
And if all that wasn't enough, Frank Manzo closed out a stellar sportsmen career by posting his 105th national event victory. Manzo, a 17-time Lucas Oil champion, finished with a record of 105-25 in final rounds.
Bobby Dye Jr. carried the Southern California banner by winning Super Comp, defeating Chatsworth's Andrew Madrid in the process.
To win the championship, the last of the four pro NHRA titles to be decided, Coughlin claimed four events in 2013 and finished second four times. He started the season with a runner-up effort at the same Winternationals quarter-mile against Mopar teammate Vincent Nobile.
"He's had my number all year," said Coughlin of his 2-4 record against Nobile, the driver of the Upland-based Mountain View Racing team Dodge. "I had to bring my 'A' game."
By winning that round, it put pressure on Line and Mike Edwards, who had slim chances of stopping him. Edwards, the top qualifier, faltered against Kurt Johnson in the first round while Line went out a round later to end all the title drama.
Langdon completed a magical season for Al-Anabi Racing team manager Alan Johnson. He had eight wins, which increased Johnson's total to 112, eight at Pomona. In fact, by winning both Pomona events, Langdon joined Tony Schumacher (2004) and Gary Scelzi (2000) in that exclusive crowd, with Johnson wrenching both years.
"This is what I envisioned while dreaming as a kid," said Langdon, from nearby Mira Loma. "I am almost at a loss for words."
Langdon defeated Steve Torrence, David Grubnic and Clay Millikan before his win over Kalitta, who failed in his bid to second in the points.
Hagan, whose 3-2 record against Force in finals is one of the rare achievements in the class, was operating with assistant crew chief Mike Knudsen calling the shots. The team scored wins over Alexis DeJoria, a retiring Johnny Gray and Cruz Pedgron before the run against Force.
"He's tough, John is a competitor," said Hagan. "I love racing him. I want to keep racing him for years to come. Why would you want a big rivalry to go away?"
Hagan won for the fifth time this season in nine finals and finished second behind Force. DST teammate Jack Beckman ended third, followed by Pedregonm, Robert Hiht, Ron Capps and Courtney Force.
"Hagan is a good competitor. I really wanted that final," said John Force, whose winning streak was snapped at four national events. "There is only one positive thing that comes out of this. At the other end when he congratulated me on the championship and I congratulated him on the win, I knew right then I am ready to race next year.
"This is what I do and I want to win them all if I can. I know you can't do that, but that will be my attitude next season. That is what it takes. Hight has that attitude. My girls are learning that attitude. That is the key. I have sponsors to find and I have a lot of work to do next year."
With the Pro Stock focus on Coughlin, the 26-year-old Jones basically snuck through the day. He opened with wins over Matt Hartford, former champion Greg Anderson and Bubby Perkinson before the runoff against 2012 champ Johnson. It was his first win in four finals.
"We've been working on this for so long," said Jones, from Galesburg, IL. "I've been a truck driver and working on the car. If you keep beating on it, it will finally come in the end.
"This is what I've dreamed of since I was 10 years old, racing juniors. This is more than I ever imagined."


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Celebrating IYC 2011 in AustraliaActivity by Vicki Gardiner | added on May 22, 2010 | Australia
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Let's feature IYC in the RACI's monthly magazine, Chemistry in Australia !
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So established is Circle K Midwest that even brand-new vehicles recognize what its red-and-white logo stands for—fuel, snacks, and everything else a car might need to keep powering down the road with its driver. Circle K's story starts back in 1951, when Fred Hervey bought three Kay's Food Stores in El Paso, Texas. Under his guidance, these three little shops grew into the more than 3,000 convenience stores that crouch on our nation's street corners today.
After rolling up to a Circle K, drivers can pump their faithful roadsters full of high-octane fuel and send them skipping through a car wash to experience the cleansing touch of Blue Coral Beyond Green and Rain-X products. Then it's time to step inside the air-conditioned shop for a peek at the provisions. Rows of sodas hibernate behind glass doors, and snacks, candy, and their ATM guardians stand boldly out in the open. Some Circle Ks also offer the Take Away Fresh Café, which presents an appetizing lineup of healthy road fare including sandwiches, fruit cups, and fresh-cut vegetables. Drivers can gear up for a long drive with premium coffees or enjoy a cold Polar Pop, whose specially formulated cup keeps drinks colder thanks to the family of tiny snowmen trapped in its foam walls.


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The audit, released March 13 by the Arkansas Division of Legislative Audit, audited the county for its "general fund, road fund and other funds in the aggregate of Arkansas County" for the year ending Dec. 31, 2011.
Arkansas County officials will consider approving the county's 2011 audit report during Tuesday's quorum court meeting at 9:30 a.m. in the Arkansas County Courthouse in DeWitt.
The audit, released March 13 by the Arkansas Division of Legislative Audit, audited the county for its "general fund, road fund and other funds in the aggregate of Arkansas County" for the year ending Dec. 31, 2011.
The nine Justices of the Peace will hear the audit's findings, which state law requires to be reported at the next quorum court following the audit's release.
According to the audit, it first identified that county officials do not segregate the financial accounting duties relating to initiating, receipting, depositing, disbursing and recording transactions among appropriate employees to help reduce risk of fraud or error.
It noted that county officials have responded that they would segregate the duties as much as possible with the current staffing levels.
Auditors also performed tests on the county's compliance with "certain provisions of the state constitution, laws, regulations, and contracts and grant agreements" that could affect financial statement amounts. The test results showed no instances of noncompliance.
The only other issues addressed were "presented to assist in the efficient operation of the county." The audit addressed the compliance of elected officials with noncompliance found in both the offices for tax collector (Allen Cheek) and county clerk (Cathy Orman) through June 30, 2011, and County Judge Glenn "Sonny" Cox from July 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2011.
For the tax collector, the audit noted that the "cash disbursement journals again were not prepared as required by Ark. Code Ann. §14-25-113)."
According to the audit, the county clerk's office had no formally documented and approved Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity Plan.
"This situation could cause the entity to be without computer processing for an extended period of time in the event of a disaster or major interruption and could place undue financial and personnel burdens on the resources of the entity," the audit noted.
It's the only vote on the agenda. Officials will receive updates from Treasurer Charles Horton, Cheek and Office of Emergency Management Coordinator Shanda Harris.
Cox and Administrative Assistant Ruby Allen will also discuss the beaver control program.
In handouts only, Justices of the Peace will receive a copy of the 2012 fine collections from prosecutor Robert Dittrich, a copy of the Public Health Week Proclamation and a copy of the March 12 agenda and attendance sheet for the elected officials and chief deputies meeting.
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PWG and DGUSA on the same weekend would have been epic. Screw ROH.
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So in this weeks VIP - ETC. NEWSWIRE: Sean Radican lists this piece of info.
(2) ROH management tells Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly they can no longer work in EVOLVE: According to one source, Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly have been told by ROH president Cary Silkin they can no longer take dates with EVOLVE, which is booked by former ROH booker Gabe Sapolsky.
Radican's analysis: ROH not allowing O'Reilly and Cole to work DGUSA dates was understandable given that both ROH and DGUSA run iPPVs and compete for revenue in that market. EVOLVE is a whole different matter, as O'Reilly and Cole aren't appearing on iPPV when they wrestle for EVOLVE.
The bottom line is that when O'Reilly and Cole aren't wrestling for ROH, they should be able to wrestle wherever they want as long as they aren't wrestling for a company competing with ROH on iPPV. This move comes across as sour grapes on ROH's part. The company already blocked DGUSA from running an event during WrestleReunion V weekend in Los Angeles in late January and the trend is continuing here with Cole and O'Reilly


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Golden Eagles host two meets, including OVC
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech cross country teams will run on some familiar turf this fall, including two meets on their "home" layout at Southern Hills Golf Course. In addition to hosting their annual TTU Invitational in early October, coach Tony Cox and his teams will serve as hosts for the 2010 Ohio Valley Conference Championships later in the month.
The Golden Eagle runners get the season underway with a return
to the Sewanee Invitational on Sept. 4, and run in the Western
Kentucky Invitational two weeks later in Bowling Green, Ky., on
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The first home meet is the TTU Invitational, set for the starting gun at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, at Southern Hills. Tech runs in the Furman Invitational on Oct. 9 and the Evansville Invitational on Oct. 16, to wrap up the regular season.
The OVC meet is Saturday, Oct. 30, at Southern Hills. Tech is slated to run in the NCAA South Regional meet in Birmingham, Ala., on Nov. 13 with hopes of advancing to the national championships in Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 22.
"I am looking forward to the upcoming season," Cox said. "We have an extremely young women's team, so it will be fun to watch them grow over the years.
"Our men's team may be the best we have had in a long time," Cox added. "We lost some seniors last year, but have several good seniors this year, along with a couple of freshmen and sophomores who are going to help us a lot."
With experience competing at each of the venues on the 2010 schedule, Cox said his runners are anxious to undertake the challenges of the coming season.
"Everyone is training hard this summer and even though we
are still two months away, I can't wait for the season to
begin." Cox said.
Date / Meet / Site / Time
Sept. 4 at Sewanee Invitational / Sewanee, Tenn. / 10 a.m.
Sept. 18 at Western Kentucky Invitational / Bowling Green, Ky. / 9 a.m.
Oct. 1 host Tennessee Tech Invitational * / Cookeville / 3 p.m.
Oct. 9 at Furman Invitational / Greenville, S.C. / 8:30 a.m.
Oct. 16 at Evansville Invitational / Evansville, Ind. / 11 a.m.
Oct. 30 host OVC Championships * / Cookeville / 9 a.m.
Nov. 13 at NCAA South Regional / Birmingham, Ala. / 10 a.m.
Nov. 22 at NCAA National Championship / Terre Haute, Ind. / 11 a.m.
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Post subject: Roasting a turkey question
When I roast a turkey I coat the turkey with a mixture of olive oil with herbs.
When I put it on the roasting rack in the roasting pan then into a 500 degree oven for 30 minuits to start off the oil drips into the pan and smokes up the kitchen.
Has anyone else experienced this? What did you do? What would you recommend so this does not happen?
Thanks for your help
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Turn down the heat.
Herbs on the skin will generally burn at those temperatures.
If you're going to do a high roast turkey, don't put herbs and/or so much oil on the bird. Put the butter/herb/bacon particles UNDER the skin and OVER the breast portion.
If you're attempting to blast the turkey a little before jacking down the heat, try 400 to 425. Then turn it down to 300 or 325, depending on the size of the bird.
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:10 pm
Post subject: Do it at the end
It your goal is to get a nice brown finish, I would cook it at a lower temperature and the turn it up at the end. That will brown the proteins and sugars that have come out during cooking.
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I usually like to cook my bird at a high temp to start to seal the bird. I then cover it after it has browned and I finish cooking it at a lower temp.
To avoid the oil from burning in the bottom of the pan I usually put a bit of water and chicken stock in the pan. This also helps make a bit more gravy as well.
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Americas test kitchen did an interesting recipe for high roast chicken like you seem to be looking for (you might be able to find it at the website for free).
They put the herbs under the skin, along with butter. This way it flavors both the meat and the skin. Placing the herbs outside the skin won't do a good job of flavoring the meat (after all skin is designed to keep things out). This will prevent your herbs from burning.
If you place thinly slice potatoes tossed with a little oil into the bottom of the broiler pan, you won't have any smoke and you'll also have a tasty side dish when finished. The schmaltz adds great flavor to the potatos. They will stick like the dickens though, so cover the pan in foil and oil it good.
This will probably work fine for turkey. Somebody mentioned above to put broth in the bottom of the pan. This would stop the smoking, but unfortunatly, there will then be tons of moisture in the over which isn't conducive to a crisp skin.
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There has already been some good advice posted, but I'd like to add that if you'd like to start the roasting at 500-550 degrees, turn down the oven as soon as the bird goes in. The ambient temperature will be enough for the browning. Leaving it at 500 degrees for 30 minutes is akin to broiling it.
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To avoid the oil from burning in the bottom of the pan I usually put a bit of water and chicken stock in the pan. This also helps make a bit more gravy as well.
It also makes cleaning the pan ALOT easier.
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poultry cooking is completed when the interior is 70 C.
In days of yore, I used to have the butcher chop a turkey breast in half. A half a breast will just barely fit into the largest toaster oven. The lowest possible temperature for the baking scale, is just about 70 C.
I'd put it in, as I was leaving for work. It did take quite a while. Who cares, i was gonna be away at work for 8 hours anyway! You want to talk about juicy meat?
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The constellations Grus, the crane, and Phoenix, the firebird, stroll across the southern horizon in early evening for skywatchers in the southern half of the United States. This illustration shows the view from Dallas a couple of hours after sunset. The constellations are low and faint, so you need clear skies and an unobstructed horizon to see them.
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A couple of birds wade low across the southern sky tonight. They're best seen from the southern third of the country, although their upper bodies are visible as far north as New York.
The one that stands tallest is Grus, the crane. Because it's so far south, it wasn't well known to the cultures of western Europe. In fact, the constellation was first drawn in the late 1500s, by a pair of Dutch navigators.
Its stars were known in the Middle East, though, where Arabs considered it an extension of slightly higher Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish. In fact, the proper names for the crane's brightest stars come from Arabic names that refer not to a bird, but to the tail of the fish.
The brighter of the two is Al Nair — "the bright one of the fish's tail." It's hundreds of times brighter than the Sun, so it shines brightly in our sky even though it's more than a hundred light-years away. It's nearing the end of its "normal" lifetime, so it'll soon puff up to many times its current size, making it shine even brighter.
If you're south of about Denver, look for the crane strolling along the southern horizon in early evening, with its long neck extending well up into the sky. The constellation is below Fomalhaut, the brightest star in that region of the sky.
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ATLANTA – When Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay spoke Saturday to dozens of youth football officials about better protecting players, it wasn't just the health of the players at stake. The well-being of football might be on the line.
As information has surfaced about long-term dangers of head injuries, particularly when an injured person resumes contact too soon, youth player participation has dropped.
So when McKay, chairman of the NFL's rules-making competition committee, told youth football officials that they have to help the sport by teaching better techniques and paying more attention to safety, he was tending to the game's present and future.
"We have to set the right example, but I think we also have to educate through the lowest levels that we play football of the importance of awareness, the importance of (concussion) protocol," McKay said. "I think that starts with coaches and parents."
A decline in football participation isn't attributable entirely to injury news, but it didn't help a few months ago when President Barack Obama said in an interview with The New Republic, "I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football."
USA Football, the governing body for youth and amateur football in the U.S., is endowed by the NFL. USA Football staged Saturday's forum at Pace Academy, an Atlanta private school that began playing football in 2009.
USA Football's "Heads Up Football" — http://usafootball.com/headsup — is a pilot program designed to instruct coaches how to teach young players safe tackling techniques, among other initiatives — all with an eye on safety. All NFL teams are pushing it. Saturday's five-hour USA Football forum centered on Heads Up with other topics.
Some new nuances go against the old-school grain — no more setting a tackling target (a ball carrier's chest), no more wrapping up (instead going with a fork-lift motion), and using the front of the shoulder (not the top) for impact.
Former Falcons linebacker Buddy Curry (1980-'87), a USA Football master trainer, said: "It's tough to teach an old dog new tricks. The way we were taught, which was, 'Be tough, man up, suck it up,' is not the way to teach now. We're going to play tough, but we're going to play smart and safe."
A big part of the Heads Up Football plan calls for players to admit when they are injured, or tattle on teammates when they're knocked woozy. It also suggests that parents and players to be educated ahead of time about concussion symptoms and the recovery process, and that youth organizations employ a dedicated player safety coach.
A pair of former Falcons, wide receiver Brian Finneran and defensive back Coy Wire, are USA Football ambassadors and more than 70 former NFL players are involved in every NFL outpost). They all said that honesty and peer-to-peer accountability is critical.
"I had my share of concussions," said Finneran, now an Atlanta sports talk radio co-host. "I played with guys who were half knocked out, and I probably did it, too. Be aware, be involved. Guys think they're warriors."
Wire said he knew the risks of football, but sometimes played when he shouldn't have.
"Toughness is like a badge of honor, right?" Wire told youth officials. "I think one of the best ways that we can make this movement happen is to get kids involved. Help them understand that a head injury is different than any other injury.
"Get your kids to look at teammates as family, and get them helping. ... 'Hey coach, we need to check out Johnny.'"
Football-mad Georgia is not among states that have shown a significant drop in high school football participation.
California Interscholastic Federation data showed 103,088 playing high school football last fall versus 107,916 in 2007 — a 4 percent drop. Participation was down 6.9 percent last fall in Michigan, and 3.5 percent in Maryland according to different reports.
Even with McKay representing the NFL, and several dozen youth commissioners representing several hundred leagues around Georgia, a man in the middle sounded perhaps the loudest alarm.
Ralph Swearngin, executive director of the Georgia High School Association — which has more than 400 football-playing schools — said, "those in athletics have got to change the culture of our sport or we're going to lose our sport ... people are going to come in and make changes and ruin the sport."
On April 23, Georgia governor Nathan Deal signed into law the, "Return to Play" act requiring schools to provide to parents information on concussions and establish protocols for students with head injuries. Many states have similar legislation.
Ralph Clinton, president of the North Metro Football League that is comprised of about two dozen youth organizations and more than 100 teams on the north side of Atlanta, said that this summer every NMFL will adopt the, "Heads Up Football" program.
"Last year we had over 1,600 kids," Clinton said. "The Heads Up Football is very important to us because of the tackling. We strive to teach fundamentals. Heads Up is a good resource for teaching those coaches how to teach those kids how to play football."
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In my research into finding photos and information on historic buildings in Columbus, I have come across some interesting documents related to why some buildings were demolished. Take the Alfred E. Kelley House, which once stood at 282 E. Broad Street. Built over the course of about a year between 1837-1838, the house was a classic Greek Revival. Over the many years of its existence, the house functioned in multiple capacities, including as a school. During those other uses, the architecture was drastically altered, and by 1960, the year the house was proposed to be demolished to build the Christopher Inn, the historic nature had been "severely damaged". Still, the house had survived 122 years by then, and a history-minded group of people got together to try and save it with the intent of restoration and operating a period museum.
In early January 1962, the efforts to save the house during the previous year were detailed by one Dixie Sayre Miller, chairman of the Kelley House Committee, which had been formed on March 24th, 1961. The goal of the committee was as follows:
"Considering the time element and the importance of Kelley to the State**, the committee decided to ask the legislature for money for which to move the house intact. We, later, would seek private money with which to restore it."
The Committee had some powerful allies at the time. State Rep. Chris McNamara and John Vorys, former delegate to the UN, were both in leadership roles. Given this, even during a time when preservation efforts took a clear backseat to development, the Committee did meet with some initial success. The Kelley House legislative subcommittee was able to pass an appropriations bill in July 1961 for the amount of $95,000. The governor vetoed the bill, calling the appropriation "frivolous". In August, a member of the Committee, Lee Skilken, had the idea to solicit local contractors to volunteer in taking down the house in order for it to be moved. When the idea was presented to the property owners on September 5th, it was rejected because it could not be guaranteed that the property would be clear in time for construction to begin. Instead, the owners wanted a paid contractor to do the work so that the timeline could be met. The land had to be cleared by October 15th, 1961, and the Committee had to have the money to pay the contractor by September 15th.
Here is where the story becomes a bit shady and political. On September 6th, members of the committee went to the Governor for advice on how to proceed. He recommended that they go to the Emergency Board, which would be able to issue a grant towards the project. The Governor promised he would "not object, would not fight it and would not make a political issue of it".
On September 15th, the money deadline, the Committee had raised only $11,000 towards the $35,000 cost of the paid contractor. However, the following day, they caught a break. Another contractor came forward offering to take down the house for just $20,000 and would begin immediately. Further, even though the Committee did not have the full $20,000, the contractor trusted that the Committee would have raised the amount by the time the work was completed. I'm not sure if such deals would ever occur in today's environment, but they still happened 53 years ago.
Only 2 days after the contractor began to take down the house, the Emergency Board awarded a $20,000 grant to the Committee and the house was fully dismantled before the deadline of October 15th. Stonework and foundations of the house were moved to a holding site at Franklin Park, while interior detailing was stored "in a city building", all waiting for funding to be assembled and restored at a new site. This new site was listed as being in Wolfe Park on "East Broad at Nelson Road".
So, why isn't the Alfred E. Kelley house at Wolfe Park today? Two things happened after October 15th. First, the Governor lied. On the very day that the Committee was supposed to pay the contractor, they received a call stating that the Governor had deemed the Emergency Board grant unconstitutional and was withholding the money, despite being his recommendation that the Committee seek the grant from it in the first place. This also after a promise that he would not interfere or stand in the way. The Committee considered legal action, but decided a costly court process was not "advisable".
Without the $20,000, the Committee was only able to pay the contractor $6,000, who then threatened legal action for the full amount. Since the Committee had neglected to be incorporated, each member was personally responsible for a share of what was owed. By December 1961, the Committee had become incorporated and had managed to pay an additional $2,000, but still owed the majority of the contract.
That concluded the events through January 1962. After that time, there are mysteries that remain unknown (at least as far as I can tell). First, what happened to the Committee? Did it end up raising the amount to pay off the contractor or did they end up in court? Why had the Governor decided to prevent the Committee from getting the grant? Did he have a political axe to grind with members of the Committee? Finally, and far more importantly, what happened to the Kelley House? The materials were in storage in early 1962, but the house was never rebuilt. Were they destroyed? Did the contractor take possession of them if the Committee was unable to pay? Are they still sitting in some warehouse somewhere covered in half a century's worth of dust? We may never know, though I suspect that someone out there has the answers.
**Kelley helped save the state from bankruptcy during the Panic of 1837 by offering up his house, possessions and business interests as collateral.
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I guess research pays off, and now, at least part of the mystery is solved. As mentioned above, part of the house's remains, particularly the stone and brick portions, were stored at Franklin Park after the demolition in 1961. Five years later in 1966, these were moved to the Ohio Expositions Center at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. By then, the plans no longer called for putting the house back together and restoring it. Instead, the stone materials were planned to be incorporated into a new Ohio Historical Center in the late 1960s, presumably the one that sits adjacent to the fairgrounds today. But that plan also fell through. Today, the material is currently in the hands of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. This still leaves many questions unanswered, such as where the interior portions of the house ended up, why none of the material was reused in Columbus and how they ended up in Cleveland. Perhaps an email to the WRHS is in order.


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White will remain sidelined with a hamstring injury this week after the Falcons chose to rule him out for the matchup with Arizona. That should mean another big week of targets for Harry Douglas, who filled the void left by White and Julio Jones in the Week Seven victory over the Buccaneers. White did not practice at all this week and will try to get back on the field in Week Nine.
The Falcons will have running back Steven Jackson in the lineup, however. Jackson is listed as probable after practicing all week and is poised to make his first appearance since injuring his hamstring in Week Two.
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LONDON, ONTARIO – Team Ontario will put its winning streak on the line when it faces Team USA in the gold medal game of the 2008 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge on Friday at the John Labatt Centre (7:30 p.m. ET, TSN/RDS).
Team Ontario moved to 5-0 and reached the final with a 4-3 win over Team West in the first semi-final on Thursday. Peter Holland (Caledon, ON/Guelph, OHL), Taylor Hall (Kingston, ON/Windsor, OHL), Daniel Maggio (Lasalle, ON/Sudbury, OHL) and Casey Cizikas (Mississauga, ON/Mississauga, OHL) scored for Ontario. James Henry (Winnipeg, MB/Vancouver, WHL), Adam Hughesman (East St. Paul, MB/Tri-City, WHL) and Jason Gardiner (Winnipeg, MB/Tri-City, WHL) scored for Team West.
In the other semi-final on Thursday, Team USA defeated Team Pacific 3-2. Team USA led 2-0 until Chase Schaber (Red Deer, AB/Calgary, WHL) got Pacific on the board at 17:14 of the second. USA led 3-1 late in the third when Ryan Howse (Prince George, BC/Chilliwack, WHL) scored to make it 3-2, but that was as close as Pacific would get.
Ontario will try to become the first team to win all of its games at this event since 2001, when Team USA went 6-0 en route to the gold medal in New Glasgow and Truro, NS.
Team Ontario is looking for its sixth championship all-time at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. That record includes winning the split championship in 1998. Ontario's last championship came in 2004 in St. John's, NL.
Team USA seeks its third championship, having won back-to-back titles in 2001 (New Glasgow/Truro, NS) and 2002 (Selkirk/Stonewall, MB).
Friday's bronze medal game (1 p.m. ET) at the JLC will feature Team West and Team Pacific. These two teams met in the 2005 gold medal game, with West winning 3-1. Team Pacific is looking for its sixth medal since 2000. Pacific won bronze in 2000, then followed with silver medals in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005.
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My biggest frustration with the media is not that its coverage is distorted (I expect no less), but that because of these distortions I find it almost impossible to figure out how well or badly things actually are going in Iraq. Come to think of it, though, I doubt that the media would have the ability to help us figure that out even if it were to report events in good faith.
There are at least three largely objective ways to measure our progress in Iraq. One is the reconstruction effort — how many schools are open, how many bridges have been built, how much oil is being pumped, etc. The media almost never tells us any of this. I assume, therefore, that this effort is going well enough, although it is possible that our reporters just don't care enough to look into it.
Another measure is loss of American life. Following the capture of Saddam at the end of last year, that number dropped month after month. Then, with the April insurrections, it spiked. Now it seems to be in decline again. A third measure is how much of Iraq we control. We don't appear to control Fallujah, although it's not clear that the enemy controls it either. There are a few cities in the south that we don't control, but it seems that we are well on our way to reversing that.
A final possible measure is our standing with Iraqi public opinion. But the only way to measure that objectively is through polls, the reliability of which I question. The results I've seen, although not current, showed that we weren't doing badly in this regard.
So, if we try to look at our progress objectively, how are we doing? Reasonably well, it seems to me. The problem is that these measurements don't really tell us enough about the real situation to answer the ultimate question. In particular, they aren't very helpful in telling us how soon, or to what extent, we can withdraw without having the situation collapse. Their only virtue is that they are more reliable than the subjective reporting of the mainstream media.
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To break up with someone, date someone else, act like your going to get back with the first person, and then screwing that person over and sticking with the second person.
Nathan was making-out with Ashley, telling him how much she liked him again, and then double crossed him with her boyfriend Tyler
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Synonym for shart. To be double crossed is while trying to expell excess methane from your rectum, you accidently squirt a little pooh out. Double crossing usually happens at the most inconveniant time (see example). After a serious bout of the flu, food poisoning, or dysentary it would be wise not to fart in public.
On his first date with Anne, Bill tried to snap out an innocent little fart and was double crossed. Bill spent the next 20 minutes in the bathroom washing the double cross from his shorts.
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SCH Academy senior Libbie Maine has received the Girls' Inter-Ac Athletic Directors' Award for 2011-2012. This award is given to one outstanding female multi-sport student-athlete from each Inter-Ac school. The winners are outstanding multi-sport athletes that represent themselves, their team, their school, and the league with honor by exhibiting outstanding sportsmanship, leadership, and coachability.
"I am extremely honored to have received the Inter-Ac Athletic Directors' Award and am proud to represent my fellow students and teammates," said Maine, a Wyndmoor resident. "I feel very grateful to go to Springside because of the support my coaches, teachers, and the whole community have given me as a multi-sport athlete and student. This support has not only made my experience rewarding but also extremely fun!"
For four years, Maine has played varsity field hockey, squash, and lacrosse. She has been selected All-Inter-Ac in field hockey in 11th and 12th grade, squash in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade, and lacrosse in 10th and 11th, with this season yet to be determined.
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DonnaCriterion needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Criterion Partnership
Criterion Partnership was established 20 years ago.
We provide business psychology products and services to help organisations get the best from their people. This includes providing development solutions as well as recruitment tools which are all based around Occupational Psychology theory.
All of us have a passion for business psychology and the impact it can make on organisations and the people within them.We have a number of chartered Occupational Psychologists working with us.
We are based in the coastal town of Brighton in the UK which is known for its unique diverse culture and individualism. We have incorporated this into our current branding by featuring pictures of us in well known locations in Brighton (see website http://www.criterionpartnership.co.uk). The purpose of this was to reflect the fact that whilst we are trustworthy professionals and experts in the field of psychology there is also a human element to us and that we all have different interests and characters that contribute to making the company more interesting, diverse and flexible than our competitors.
There are 12 of us in the company making us small enough to offer agile and flexible solutions, and big enough and professional enough to provide the reliable, leading edge and innovative solutions that our clients want that will differentiate them from their competitors.
Our audience are:
HR professionals
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Recruitment professionals (internal and agencies)
Recruitment process outsourcers
Company Directors
Independent Business Psychologists
Independent HR consultants
Frontline Managers
Operations Managers/Directors
Both public and private sector from a range of geographical locations. We also target a wide range of sectors as business psychology can be used in any business. Our ideal targets would however be companies with the budget and capability to become long term customers.
Targets in internal organisations want to work with an organisation that they think will best provide the solution to their problems – an organisation that is reputable, professional, provides good value for money and will get them good ROI. Purchases can often be 'high risk' for our clients due to the cost and the fact that the work may be long term so they need to feel reassured.
We like to build strong and long term relationships with our clients and so want our logo to reassure them that we are the right people to have this relationship with.
We are looking to redesign our logo in order to bring it more into line with the rest of our branding. We feel the old logo is now outdated.
Specifically we would like the logo to communicate to them that we are:
- Experts
- Trustworthy
- Credible
- Professional
- Agile
- Delivering high standards
- Well established
- Individual characters with a hint of quirkiness
- Providers of leading edge solutions
We are trying to appeal to a large and broad demographic in regards of age, gender and location and so we need a logo that will in no way repel a particular category in this area. So nothing so abstract that it will put off the more traditional character, and nothing too plain that would repel more dynamic and modern organisations.
We would like to see a version of the logo reading just 'Criterion Partnership' and one of 'Criterion Partnership, Business Psychologists' so we can see how this looks - we are unsure at this stage if we want to use the 'Business Psychologists' as a mini strap line. An argument for including it would be to make it clear at first glance what our business does.
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Business Cards
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We will therefore need transparent versions as well as high and low res.
I have attached a fuller design brief.
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bigstrads wrote:Well, interesting day today.............I get a call from the sports marketing firm saying they want me to come in for a preliminary interview on Monday!!! so thats cool and Im excited about that.
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I would like to wish everyone in agriculture a healthy and prosperous 2009. Hopefully, it will be better — most assuredly it will be different — than 2008, with its hurricanes, roller coaster commodity and fuel prices and stock market woes. With the events of 2008 still fresh in our minds, here are some thoughts on the coming year.
Fertilizer prices — May they plunge as quickly as the Dow did in September.
Fuel prices — That we can fill our pickup trucks in 2009 without having to take out small business loans.
Cotton — Two words, runaway demand, would be music to the ears of cotton bulls.
Lending — Community and regional banks are on sound financial footing, and money for crop loans will be there. But lenders say they will be looking very closely at each producer's cash flow situation. A loan that won't cash flow won't be made. With many crops barely penciling out because of low prices and high input costs, something has to give.
Soybeans — That we find a home for each and every one of them harvested in 2009, because I have a feeling there could be a lot of them.
Ninja loans — One contribution to the stock market crash of 2008 was excessive writing of jokingly-called ninja loans, mortgage loans for people with essentially no income, job or assets. But it's no joke that we need a return to personal responsibility in America. Households making $45,000 a year simply can't afford half-million-dollar homes.
National Agricultural Statistics Service — A little Windex for their crystal ball? Even NASS admits its rice production estimate for the United States is probably too low. Why has it taken so long to confirm it?
Farmers — May they make a good crop … it's the only thing they have some control over each year.
Farming — That more people will realize that farming is hard work.
Organic farming — That more people will realize that organic farming is even harder — and riskier — work.
Ethanol — Let's get the switchgrass-to-ethanol show on the road in the Mid-South. We need technology, land, farmers and production plants.
Biodiesel — Is there a cheap oilseed out there we can grow in the winter?
The weather — Farmers praying for hurricanes because they need the rain is simply not going to cut it. This year, how about let's go back to having four distinct seasons. You remember don't you — fall, winter, spring and summer? We used to have those.
Weed resistance — Three things come to mind — new technology, stewardship of that technology, and when the heck is the industry going to release some new herbicides?
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Am Campus 1
3400 Klosterneuburg*
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* If your navigation system does not list this address, please type in the old address "Hauptstrasse 2, 3400 Maria Gugging" instead.
How to get to the Campus
From Vienna to IST Austria
By car
1. Leave Vienna city center via Donaukanal Bundesstrasse (B227) in the direction Nordbrücke.
2. Exit B227 before reaching Nordbrücke and take Klosterneuburger Bundesstrasse (B14) until you reach Klosterneuburg.
3a. Follow the IST Austria signs along the B14 from Klosterneuburg towards Tulln through Kierling until you reach Maria Gugging.
3b. Should you take the bypass road follow IST Austria sign at final roundabout and turn right onto B14 towards Tulln. Follow the B14 from Klosterneuburg through Kierling until you reach Maria Gugging.
4. Turn right at roundabout after place-name sign "Maria Gugging".
By public transport
1. Take U4 subway (green line) in the direction of Heiligenstadt until the last stop.
2. Take IST Shuttle Bus or Bus 400 to stop "IST Austria". The trip takes approx. 15 and 30 minutes, respectively.
From Vienna Airport to IST Austria
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Whole Foods Market is recalling a brand of cheese due to a possible risk of listeria contamination.
The Austin-based company is recalling Trois Comtois Morbier cheese in locations throughout the United States due to a recall by Trois Comtois in Poligny, France.
The cheese has the potential to be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, "an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,"the Food and Drug Administration said. "Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women."
The cheese comes in wheels that weigh approximately 11 lbs each, but are cut and wrapped in varying weights and are labeled with a Whole Foods Market scale label.
In Texas, the cheese was labeled as Morbier Raw Milk.
In other Whole Foods locations, the cheese was packaged under the following names:
Ohio, Virginia and Washington D.C.: Morbier AOC Le Trois
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin: Morbier Raw Milk French Cheese
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Hawaii, Arizona and southern California: Morbier Raw Milk
Northern California and the Reno Nevada store: Morbier Les Trois Comtois
To date, no illnesses have been reported to Whole Foods in connection with the cheese.
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Excellent question! Cardiac psychology is a specialization of psychology that focuses on helping cardiac patients cope with life and physical changes associated with heart disease. Cardiac psychologists can help every step of the way: prevention, pre-surgery, post-surgery, and rehabilitation. Please see our "Information for Patients" page for more information.
Your heart acts as a pump that constantly fills and empties blood. When the heart contracts it pumps blood to the rest of your body through arteries, veins, and capillaries. The heart has four chambers that work together to make your heart "beat". There are two upper chambers (the atria) and two lower chamber (the ventricles). Electrical pulses signal the heart to contract and relax. Sometimes our heartbeat becomes too fast (tachycardia) or too slow (bradycardia).
Occasionally, when our heart beats too quickly, it can progress into a dangerous arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation (VF). This happens when the ventricles beat out sync and start to quiver, instead of contracting and relaxing in a steady rhythm. During ventricular fibrillation the heart is not pumping blood efficiently and the body and brain are deprived of oxygen. This condition is life threatening and can lead to sudden cardiac arrest if it is not treated.
An Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) is a device that doctors surgically implant inside of your body to protect you from irregular heart rhythms. The ICD is working for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is like having the paramedics with you at all times. An ICD is an incredibly advanced piece of medical technology that is programmed specifically for you and your heart. If you are chosen to receive an ICD, you may have suffered from a cardiac episode in the past and your doctors want to best protect you from another in the future. Or, you may be at risk for experiencing a cardiac event in the future.
An ICD detects abnormal heart rhythms evident through tachycardia and bradycardia. It closely monitors and keeps track of whether or not the abnormal rhythms are corrected by the heart. If the heart is unable to restore a normal heartbeat by itself, the ICD sends the appropriate amount of electrical current needed to return the heart back to pumping effectively and efficiently. This is what is referred to as a "shock". In effect, the ICD shock "resets" your heart. The shock is delivered from the device (about the size of a stopwatch) via electrical leads anchored in the wall of the heart.


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It was one of those games where Laurel Hill boys basketball coach had to simply shake his head and give credit where credit was due. Paxton�s Dustin Geoghagan made his last appearance at the Laurel Hill gym Friday one to remember. The Bobcat senior guard hit eight 3-pointers on his way to a 32-point night against the Hoboes.
LAUREL HILL � It was one of those games where Laurel Hill boys basketball coach had to simply shake his head and give credit where credit was due.
Paxton�s Dustin Geoghagan made his last appearance at the Laurel Hill gym Friday one to remember. The Bobcat senior guard hit eight 3-pointers on his way to a 32-point night against the Hoboes.
�Dustin Geoghagan had one of those games he will remember the rest of his life with this being his senior year,� Zessin said. �I thought Dustin came out and played a heck of a game on the offensive end as far as shooting the ball. The kid couldn�t miss.
�We knew he was going to be able do that. We tried to prepare for that, but he was still knocking them down.�
Geoghagan was in fact a one-man gang as he scored half of Paxton�s points as the Bobcats took a 64-29 win in District 1-1A play.
As a team, Paxton (7-2, 3-2) hit 14 3-pointers and only four twos on the way to the big win.
Bobcat coach Jeff Bradley said it was good to see Geoghagan come out of what had been a shooting slump of sorts.
�The last few games he has really struggled,� Bradley said. �He hasn�t been off much. It�s just kind of been in and out for him. But he�s worked hard.
�He came out here tonight and it�s always a big game for him. It�s always been a big game for him to come over here and play. For us to come over here and play like we did tonight was huge for us.�
The first five minutes of the game was everything Laurel Hill and Paxton fans have come to expect from the rivalry.
Lane Strickland scored the first point of the game on a free throw to give Laurel Hill an early 1-0 lead. The Bobcats answered with a basket by Austin Carnley to move in front 2-1.
A Max Smith basket for the Hoboes with 3:33 left in the first quarter tied the game at 8-8. Laurel Hill moved in front 9-8 on a Tommy Calloway free throw. But back-to-back 3-pointers by Geoghagan and Grant Stewart to end the first quarter put the Bobcats in front for good.
Geoghagan�s big night started innocently enough. He did hit a pair of threes as the Bobcats jumped to a 14-9 lead after one quarter of play.
Geoghagan exploded for four more threes in the second quarter and had 20 at the half.
While the Bobcats relied on the outside game the Hoboes (2-5, 0-3) tried to work the ball inside to Strickland.
The plan worked to a certain degree as Strickland scored 11 points.
Trying to match inside play against a team that was red hot from 3-point range was to avail.
If it wasn�t Geoghagan hitting the long shot it was Grant Stewart, who finished the night with 15 points or Carnley, who had 13 points.
The Bobcats extended the five-point lead after the first period to a 34-15 lead at the half.
As the teams took the floor for the start of the second half the questions were whether the Hoboes could come back or if the Bobcats would be able to extend their lead.
Paxton led 41-24 after three and pulled away in the fourth quarter going on a 23-5 run to seal the game.
Strickland was the only Laurel Hill player in double figures. He was followed in scoring by Tommy Calloway�s nine points. No other Laurel Hill player had more than three points.
�We did some things well early,� Zessin said. �We hit some free throws in the first quarter and we were up and then we kind of got out of our game plan in the second quarter. Offensively we didn�t do some things right.
�It was an inside game versus an outside game. We were strictly trying to get it into Lane as best as possible and try to use our size. We are a team that struggles scoring at times and that�s going to be our Achilles heel this year.�
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He was so good at talking to people on TV that "The Simpsons" gently mocked his folksy, aw-shucks demeanor. But now it looks as if Huell Howser intends to fade away without comment.
Howser, the white-maned public TV host with the Southern accent who's famed for blurting out "That's amazing!" during interviews, has retired from making original episodes of his program "California's Gold," which travels around the state tracking down interesting people and places. The shows air on numerous statewide public TV stations, including KCET-TV Channel 28.
Speculation that the 67-year-old Howser is seriously ill has been circulating among local TV industry veterans in recent weeks, and insiders reported that he has not been seen for months at his Los Angeles office. On Tuesday the Sacramento Bee reported that Howser was retiring but added that he doesn't wish to make an official announcement.
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"Huell is retiring from filming new shows or making appearances (or interviews) but the show will continue to air in reruns for awhile," Ryan Morris, Howser's assistant, wrote in an email to The Times. "We have been gradually winding down all year but Huell has decided to stop, come December 31st."


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What Hong Kong Can Learn from Barcelona
The Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona.
Photo courtesy Fermín Vázquez
The Mercat dels Encants rises like a mirage in the heart of Barcelona, the city shifting and shimmering across its enormous mirrored canopy. Completed in 2014, the structure is part of a vast redevelopment of the area around the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, but it isn't a glitzy shopping mall: it's a new home for a ragtag flea market that has thrived on Barcelona's streets for more than a century. "You can feel its presence from a distance," says the market's architect, Fermín Vázquez.
Vázquez was in Hong Kong recently to discuss the importance of public space, something that Barcelona has long embraced, from the days when 19th urban planner Antonio Cerdá transformed the city with leafy avenues and spacious courtyards, to more recent efforts to reclaim road space for pedestrians and cyclists. "There's a genuine interest in the city," says Vázquez. "People in the government are aware that citizens judge their urban policies. They follow them with interest."
The picture in Hong Kong isn't as rosy. Whereas Barcelona invested 56.4 million euros in building a new home for the Mercat dels Encants, similar markets in Hong Kong languish under a government policy that supports their gradual eradication. Increasingly, though, local architects and designers are banding together with hawkers and community activists to help markets survive.
"It's definitely a cleansing of the streets," says designer Michael Leung, who recently obtained a licence to operate a hawker stall on Hamilton Street in Yau Ma Tei, which he has turned into a kind of consignment shop and community gathering space. Stall ownership is non-transferable, thanks to a late-1970s policy of slowly eliminating street hawking through attrition, but stall owners can sublet their spaces to licenced operators. "There are fewer and fewer hawkers," says Leung. "What's happening to Pang Jai, the fabric market, is a big example of that."
Pang Jai is the colloquial name for the Yen Chow Street Hawker Bazaar, a 40-year-old assembly of fabric hawkers that has been slated for demolition by the government, which plans to build public housing on the site. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has offered to relocate hawkers to a variety of other markets around town, but many of the tenants are resisting the move. "They say it would be the death of their fabric market community, which is understandable," says Leung. "It's a one-stop shop."


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DigiPoS needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 101 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Digipos Store Solutions:
- retail POS solutions provider
- hardware and software
- 16 offices worldwide with global offerings
- clients vary from small retailers to large high profile retailers
- innovation partners with multiple global tech companies
Business Plan for 2010 onwards is to spotlight Retail SaaS (Software as a Service) solution.
DigiPos wants to leverage website as:
i) a marketing vehicle and sales support
ii) a lead generation tool
iii) and a customer-service platform/extranet
DigiPos serves the international market so the website's audience will be Global:
IT and Non-IT Managers/Directors/Entrepreneurs
Prospective & Established Retail Clients
Resellers & Other Affiliate Partners
* Feel free to ask questions along the way*
Website design for one homepage AND one internal page
i) homepage: global .com site
ii) internal page: a product page or a case study showcase or feel free to be creative with which internal page to design
Colour theme is relatively open to creativity just keeping in mind it is B2B technology industry appropriate.
DigiPos needs a more stylish, user friendly interface.
Display product/service offerings in an organized fashion.
Highlight demo videos, social media buttons and news updates. Express upon impact "who we are, what we do and do well" without assuming visitor already knows.
Websites that spark interest in terms of design/layout are
http://www.grbrains.com and http://www.merixstudio.com
In terms of functionality: http://www.epicor.com & http://www.oracle.com
In terms of universal marketing theme: http://www.sap.com (and related country sites e.g. http://www.sap.ru, http://www.sap.co.uk, http://www.sap.in)
Please provide a layered RBG file in .PSD format AND .JPEG
Logo files have been attached in Adobe Illustrator format. Slight creative modifications of logo are welcomed, if your creative eye feels a 'freshen up' is necessary.
Potential for future projects for winning designer.