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kellykaz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 137 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
Be True to You Life Coaching
I am a Martha Beck certified life coach, credentialed teacher, and Mom of two boys. I coach Moms to help them feel good about all the choices they are making for themselves and their families. If you know about archetypes, I am a caregiver, ruler and sage. When I coach I ask questions and use tools to help clients find their own answers. I am a great listener and and am able to see what is really bothering my client. I am very non-judgemental. I am very sensitive, but will be tough if I feel the client needs it. I am always trying to challenge myself and want to help clients do the same for themselves.
Moms from 25 - 55
These Moms are doing well but want to do better. The main issues they are dealing with are life balance, parenting, self care, career, weight loss, and keeping organized. These Moms are having trouble managing it all and often feel guilty that they are not doing enough or making the right choices. They are educated and mostly middle to upper middle class. They had careers before having children. Their children are their priority, yet they want to continue to keep a sense of self.
Most of my clients come from referrals. They will be coming to my website for more information about me and what I do.
I am looking for a logo that I will use on my website, business card, and handouts I give during presentations.
I am looking for a logo that is simple and clean. I do not want anything too bold or overwhelming. I am looking for something that is inviting, safe and trustworthy. I want a logo that shows me as a compassionate guide who will help clients create better lives.
You can look at my website http://www.kellykaz.com to get a sense of me. I do like the colors I used, yet am open to other colors.
Please no stock photos or clip art.
The files I will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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Around my neck this I wear,
Image: family album
Look at me, swinging high into the air,
And this is how the pages look within my album, which is really more of an altered journal using bits and pieces of vintage ephemera. If you would like to see the beginning of this project, go here Come Fly With Me
Left page: "scrap lifted" a concept from Betsy Samarco, design team member, Jenny Bowlin Blog
I created the faux vintage flashcards with my "OLW" The little crystal blossoms are vintage, aren't they sweet?
Right page: Was struggling with Ali's promt to include a full page self portrat when I remembered this black & white photo of me as a little girl and thought it would be perfect to capture my "OLW" FLY...
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When a connoisseur of Swedish antiques moves into a foursquare American Colonial, the result is a home as sunny and serene as it is elegant.
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Golden Hours
A rare, mid-eighteenth-century giltwood clock, made in Stockholm, is set against faux paneling created with shades of paint. The glassware is eighteenth-century American and Swedish; the nineteenth-century landscape is Swedish.
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Centuries of Style
The centerpiece of the living room is a Gustavian sofa, which has been upholstered in plain linen. The cocktail table, the leather rocking chair, and the lamp on the small Swedish side table are all mid-twentieth-century pieces by Danish designer Poul Henningsen. The simple, roll-up window shades are the same kind used in Swedish manor houses, but these are made from a sheer fabric.
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Pared to Perfection
The living room walls and mantel were painted slightly different variations of the same color -- white with a touch of gray. The painting is a 1911 portrait of Swedish boys in school uniforms, and the statues came from a rustic church in southern Sweden. The candlesticks are an ingenious nineteenth-century English design with weighted bases that let the candles project in front of the mantel.
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Light-filled Entry
Even Magic (seated on a Gustavian chair in the entry) and Country, the family's poodles, add to the home's graphic and spare color scheme. The Gustavian console is carved giltwood with a faux-marble top.
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Baroque Beauty
The second-floor landing features a large baroque cabinet from Sweden, which retains its original paint. Its heavy glass cupboard top was lost in U.S. Customs.
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Eccentric Details
The baroque Swedish desk in a guest bedroom has idiosyncratic hardware and slightly crude joinery and carving that intrigued Jill Dienst. The small side cabinet is rococo, and the lamp is Danish.
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Vibrant Vessels
Eighteenth- and twentieth-century glass and ceramics brighten a guest bedroom.
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Sterling Steeds
Victorian sterling-silver-mounted horse-hoof bibelots, remembrances of beloved steeds past that were transformed into inkwells and candlesticks.
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Pink Parlor
The pink room, a small parlor off the entry, features an early-baroque spark screen. The mirror is Danish rococo, and the crystal chandelier it reflects is Gustavian. The brass propellers are Daniel's contribution.
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Modern Methods
The kitchen, renovated by the previous owner, was the one room that Jill left almost untouched. The counters are mahogany, the table is on casters, and the chairs are by Arne Jacobsen.
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Remnants of the Past
In the pink room, gray wainscoting and bare floors soften the vivid color of the walls, which are adorned with an asymmetrical array of small paintings, sea fans, and a framed collection of starfish. The Gustavian settee is upholstered in linen, the stool is from the mid-nineteenth century, and the side chair is baroque. A mid-twentieth-century Danish lamp stands on a rococo side table with Victorian decanters.
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Linen and Light
A baroque wing chair is upholstered in gray linen; the chest is baroque, and the lamp is by Poul Henningsen.
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Fit for a Queen
The eighteenth-century gilded crown in the master bedroom gave Jill the idea of emulating the bed of Queen Hedvig Eleonora at Drottningholm Palace, in Sweden.
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Royal Materials
Jill's version uses mouse-gray velvet for the headboard and skirt and a double-faced linen for the drapes.
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Swedish Dreams
In their daughter's room, a nineteenth-century bed has been reupholstered in a heavy velvet. The French nineteenth-century chair gives Magic easy access to the bed. Even the toy horses have provenance: They are Dala horses, a traditional motif of Dalarna, Sweden. The carved chest is German.
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Essie Faye Orpurt, 80, Wabash, died at 11:04 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Miller's Merry Manor West, Wabash.
She was born Oct. 11, 1932 in Morehead, Ky., to Melvin and Hazel (Binion) Dehart. Essie married Carl David Orpurt in Wabash, on Nov. 30, 1963; he died Nov. 12, 1985. She worked at General Tire in Wabash and also Helping Hands for several years. She was a member of the St. Bernard Catholic Church. She enjoyed gardening and flowers. Essie was one of 12 children, and she became a maternal figure to many of her younger siblings and nieces.
She is survived by two sons, Michael (Melissa) Orpurt, Wabash, and Kevin R. (Kimberly Quigley) Orpurt, Knoxville, Tenn.; nine grandchildren, Samantha Powell, Sara Hawley, Christopher Orpurt and Rachel Orpurt, all of Wabash, Sarah Orpurt, Rebecca Orpurt, Megan Quigley, J.P. Quigley, and Jack Quigley, all of Knoxville; one great grandson, Cayden Amburgey, Wabash; three sisters, Monnie Collins, West Liberty, Ky., Mary (Bill) Music, Florida, and Gay (Tony) Yoheman, Hendersonville, N.C.; two brothers, Paul Dehart and Ernie Dehart, both of Wabash. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Edgar Dehart, Gary Dehart, and Thomas Dehart and three sisters, Marie James, Jewel Walker, and Fern Flanary.
Funeral services will be held at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 188 W. Sinclair Street, Wabash on Friday, April 12, 2013 at 2 p.m. with Father Sextus Don officiating. Burial will be in Falls Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call 4-7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 11 at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service 1241 Manchester Ave. Wabash, Indiana. There will be a rosary service at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
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The odometer on our long-term A5 just turned over 12,000 miles. I've now probably put more miles on this car than any other outside my own personal ride. She and I have been all over the Golden State together. I've had her on all my favorite roads, and we even discovered a few new ones.
The car's novelty, visually speaking, doesn't seem to have worn off. It still gets looks wherever you take it. Initially I attributed this to the fact that it was still new to the market and that a lot of people probably weren't sure what it was exactly. Months later, that still sorta might be the case, but then again it could be that the A5 is just a flat-out gorgeous design. Mr. da'Silva knocked this one out of the park.
I've also become a fan of the LED running lights, not only on this car but across the Audi model range. Some say they've become played out, but they're dead wrong. It's become one of the most recognizable styling cues in the automotive kingdom and one that you can see coming from a mile or two away, day or night. What other car make can you instantly identify from that kind of distance? In terms of expanding brand awareness, it's huge. And whether you like 'em or you don't, it's hard to deny they attract eyeballs like so many moths. And the car becomes that much more noticeable.
So I've been doing a lot of driving, some of it pretty hard driving. Other than the one instance when I ran over a rock and blew a tire-which admittedly wasn't the car's fault-the A5 has held up like a tank. The MMI system has gone down twice under my watch where it just stopped working. But given a chance to reboot-basically shutting the car down and restarting it again-in each case it came right back up. Just a minor electronic glitch, one that hasn't turned itself into an issue, so no big deal.
My only real gripe with the car-and it isn't really a gripe with this car per se, so bear with me-is the way we specced it. Someone else was put in charge of placing the order, and I'd have done it a little differently. I'd have likely skipped the Bang & Olufsen sound system and gone for the S-line package instead for the better seats and steering wheel, the bigger 19-inch "Y-design" wheels, and the better summer tires.
But that's just me. I will admit that the B&O system is a nice diversion on long drives, especially when you've got your own tunes on playback using the iPod jack inside the glove compartment or have your favorite station tuned on the satellite radio.
Rumor has it the 3.2-liter V6 is on its way out of service. This wasn't an option when we ordered ours, but the A5 is now available with the 2.0-liter turbo engine. Were we to order this car all over again, that's the power unit we'd go for. It just makes more sense. Yeah, it's got less horsepower than the V6, but the benefits are many. First among them is the fact that a 2.0 TFSI-equipped car is cheaper, nearly five grand less than the V6 when each is specified to Audi's Premium Plus trim. According to EPA estimates, the 2.0-liter turbo is more fuel-efficient than the big-displacement 3.2. But most critically, the 2.0 TFSI has more peak torque-258 versus 243 lb-ft; it's available lower in the rpm range-1500 rpm versus 3000; and it peaks for longer, the maximum 258 lb-ft available all the way to 4200 rpm.
But as I said, I've had this car on all my favorite mountain roads and then some, and it has stood up to everything I threw at it (or threw it at). Our 12-month loan will likely be at an end before then, but here's hoping we get to spend another 12,000 miles together.


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Crazy Eights With Room for Nine in Race for South Dakota U.S. Senate Seat
Interest is into the stratosphere for the soon to be vacated seat currently held by Tim Johnson.
The Tea Party takes on an Independent label and a virtual unknown walks out of West River to join the fracas that is the race for South Dakota's U.S. Senate seat.
Tuesday, April 29 was deadline day for Independents to file their petitions to be on the ballot for the November elections. Those affiliated with a political party had to file by March 25. Former Republican South Dakota Legislator Gordon Howie of Rapid City will be on the ballot for the U.S. Senate seat in November. His petitions were certified by Secretary of State Jason Gant.
A late breaking development first told by David Montgomery of the Argus Leader finds one final Independent could be approved as soon as tomorrow. Clayton Walker who hails from Black Hawk turned in signatures just before the deadline.
Eight candidates are currently racing for a six-year team in the Senior Chamber. Five Republicans will face a primary on June 3. The winner of the primary will then join the remaining three candidates for the general election on November 4.


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The Markets Now: Stocks Rise, Hewlett-Packard Surges 10%
WebMD and VeriFone also rose Friday.
Stocks rose after two days of declines. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) surged 10.12% to $18.8 after first-quarter earnings fell but beat Wall Street expectations, earning $1.2 billion or $0.63 per share compared to $1.5 billion or $0.73 per share a year ago. Revenue also dropped by 6% to $28 billion from $30 billion a year earlier.
It is predicted that the economy in the eurozone will shrink for the second year, European Union economists say. The eurozone is expected to shrink 0.3% this year, down from November's outlook of 0.1% growth. But it is also predicted that the economy will improve later this year.
The Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) rose 0.41% to 13937.76 and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) moved up 0.39% to 1508.28. The Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) ascended 13 points to 3144.82.
ING (NYSE:ING) named a new CEO, Ralph Hamers, who will succeed Jan Hommen. Hamers was the head of ING's Belgian banking business. Shares rose 1.72% to $8.30.
In other executive shakeup news, Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU) picked an ex-Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD) executive, Michael Combes, as its new CEO. Its stock declined 2.59% to $1.43.
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) shares fell 6.18% to $45.95 after it reported a rise in fourth-quarter earnings. Its revenue increased 11% to $1.47 billion, slightly below analyst expectations of $1.49 billion. The clothing retailer brought in a profit of $157 million or $1.95 per share, up from 45.8 million or $0.52 per share a year ago.
Boeing (NYSE:BA) stock edged up 0.68% to $76.53 after executive Ray Connor called for many design changes to ensure batteries will not light on fire. Connor said Boeing plans to design planes for better protection against overheating batteries. The plane's crew would also be instructed to better monitor battery and power units for safety purposes.
AIG (NYSE:AIG) reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $4 billion yesterday as Hurricane Sandy took a toll on the insurer. Shares rose 2.39% to $38.17.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) earned $5.61 billion from continuing operations in the fourth quarter, up from $5.19 billion last year and revenue rose 3.9% to $127.92 billion. Wal-Mart forecasted 2013 earnings earnings per share of $5.20 to $5.40. Its stock fell 0.40% to $69.98.
Wireless network equipment manufacturer Aruba Networks (NASDAQ:ARUN) surged 20.16% after it reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $0.22 per share, above analyst expectations of $0.19 per share.
One-fifth of Novartis' (NYSE:NVS) shareholders voted against the company's new compensation system, arguing that the CEO's pay component is too high. Shares moved up 0.38% to $68.98.
WebMD Health (NASDAQ:WBMD) reported fourth-quarter revenue that beat expectations, at $132 million, but reported a quarterly loss of $0.12 per share. Analysts had estimated a loss of $0.04. Shares climbed to $19.90, up 22.09%.
A.P. Moller-Maersk (PINK:AMKBF) reported a net profit of $981 million in the fourth quarter, exceeding analyst expectations. The shipping conglomerate gave a negative outlook for their industry in 2013, however, citing a decrease oil production volumes and ownership of oil assets. The stock is down 1.16% at 44,480.000 DKK.
A European committee voted against approval of VIVUS Inc.'s (NASDAQ:VVUS) weight loss drug. Shares declined 4.81% to $12.26.
VeriFone (NYSE:PAY) rose 4.33% to $19.03 despite falling yesterday due to downgrades to Neutral from JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Piper Jaffray.
Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) which went public in May of last year, released its fourth-quarter earnings report yesterday. The results missed expectations, bringing in a $182 million profit compared to $254 million a year ago. Shares inched up 0.89% to $34.10 after falling yesterday.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its new Chromebook Pixel notebook, priced at $1,299, which is meant to challenge the MacBook Air. Its stock rose 0.10% to $734.56.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) applied for a new patent for the much-discussed iWatch. Shares moved up 0.61% to $448.71.
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Jen Boynton needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 104 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Triple Pundit is a news site dedicated to news about sustainable businesses, those that have a social or environmental mission in addition to a financial one (think Clif Bar, Patagonia, Seventh Generation).
Our audience is entrepreneurs, MBA students and corporate change agents (people who are working from within to improve their company's environmental and social track record). The audience swings young, hip, and entrepreneurial, but isn't exclusively in that bucket.
We don't want something too uptight and businessy because we want to send the message that our site is approachable and our community is easy to join and a fun place to hang out. However, the winning logo will also be professional and appropriate for a business audience.
We want something a bit more memorable and iconic than the current design, but we do like the simplicity of what we already have.
Please stick to the blue and grey color palette of the current design (http://www.triplepundit.com/) (twitter.com/triplepundit), and the bold graphics and solid lines that will work well for web work, electronic media, and swag.
-Your design should either feature the words 'Triple Pundit' or '3p' (if we're happy with our results here, we'll contract with the winning designer to design a complimentary version of the other phrase)
-Also up for grabs: you can include the words "people, planet, profit" or images that evoke those words if you wish.
Thanks for considering this project, have fun!
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Glee Club Helps Van Cleave Celebrate 100thby Howard W. Hewitt • October 28, 2004 Share:
The Wabash College Glee Club helped Crawfordsville Lane House resident Autumn Van Cleave celebrate her 100th birthday Oct. 28.
Mrs. Van Cleave is the widow of the late A.W. Van Cleave, a 1924 Wabash graduate. Van Cleave was a member of the Glee Club while attending Wabash.
Phil Coons '67 and his brother Steve Coons '63 were on hand to help celebrate their aunt's birthday.
The Glee Club, under the direction of Richard Bowen, sang for Mrs. Van Cleave and other Lane House residents. The residents then helped celebrate the 100th birthday with cake and ice cream.
In the photo, Steve Coons presents his aunt with a Sagamore of the Wabash Award from Indiana Governor Joe Kernan.


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To celebrate going back to school, Teaching with Historic Places highlights on the web the following lesson plans that consider important aspects of the history of education and educational facilities. Based on historical sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, these lessons were created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators. The lessons are free and ready for immediate classroom use by students in history and social studies classes.
• Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America (121)
Learn about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. (Monroe Elementary School [now Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site] is a unit of the National Park Service/Robert Russa Moton High School, Sumner and Monroe Elementary Schools, Howard High School, and John Philip Sousa Middle School are National Historic Landmarks.)
• Boston's Arnold Arboretum: A Place for Study and Recreation (56)
Discover how the first arboretum in the United States became part of the burgeoning urban park movement in the second half of the 19th century. (National Historic Landmark)
• Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright (50)
Discover how and why industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie chose libraries to be among his greatest benefactions to the U.S., and assess the impact of libraries on American society.
• From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans
Understand the magnitude of the struggle involved in securing equal educational opportunities for African Americans and examine how Prudence Crandall challenged the prevailing attitude toward educating African Americans in New England prior to the Civil War. (Little Rock Central High School is a National Park and National Historic Landmark/Prudence Crandall Museum is a National Historic Landmark.)
• The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities (80)
Examine this one-room school in Nebraska and consider the important role it played in the community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (National Park)
• Glen Echo Park: Center for Education and Recreation (24)
Trace the evolution of this Maryland site from a chapter of the Chautauqua movement, to an amusement park, to a national park. (National Park)
• Growing into Public Service: William Howard Taft's Boyhood Home (15)
Visit the home of the only man to serve the country both as president and chief justice, and meet the rest of his public service-oriented family. (National Park/National Historic Landmark)
• Iron Hill School: An African-American One-Room School (58)
Discover how an early 20th-century philanthropist reformed Delaware's education system for African-American children.
• New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration (104)
Learn about the U.S. Supreme Court case that forced the integration of public schools and meet the individuals who experienced segregation, fought to dismantle the institution, and integrated the public school system of New Kent County, Virginia. (National Historic Landmark)
• The Rosenwald Schools: Progressive Era Philanthropy in the Segregated South (159)
Discover how community activism and a partnership between a white businessman and a leading black educator built 5,000 schools for African American students in the early 20th century.
• Separate But Equal? South Carolina's Fight Over School Segregation (158)
Discover South Carolina's 1951 "separate but equal" school building program and learn about the Briggs v. Elliott case, one of the lawsuits combined with Brown v. Board of Education.
• Thomas Jefferson's Plan for the University of Virginia: Lessons from the Lawn (92)
Learn about the multifaceted intellect of Thomas Jefferson and how he fused his abilities as an architect, educational and political theorist, and politician to create a revolutionary new setting for higher education in the new American republic. (National Historic Landmark/UNESCO World Heritage Site)
• The United States Air Force Academy: Founding a Proud Tradition (114)
Learn how the expansion of military air power in the first half of the 20th century led to the establishment of the United States Air Force and the Air Force Academy. (National Historic Landmark)


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ending a practice that was intended to reduce emergency room crowding did not make things worse, and may have prompted improvements at nine Boston hospitals, according to a new study.
U.S. emergency departments have been diverting patients since the late 1990s, sending ambulances to other hospitals when conditions are crowded - despite evidence that sending seriously ill or injured patients away delays their treatment.
Massachusetts put an end to the practice in 2009, instituting the first statewide ban on ambulance diversion after years of urging from the state public health department.
"People were afraid, we've been using diversion for so long, they were afraid that once they no longer had this tool they could have worse crowding problems," lead author Dr. Laura Burke, an emergency room physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, told Reuters Health.
To test that theory, she and her colleagues analyzed data from nine Boston area hospitals before and after the ban.
They found that after the ban, admitted patients stayed in the ER for an average of three hours, nine minutes, down from three hours and 25 minutes pre-ban.
Ambulances also got in and out of the hospital two minutes quicker, in an average of 24 minutes instead of 26, according to the results published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
The length of time the average patient stays in the ER is considered a reliable measure of hospital crowding. The researchers speculate that wait times for patients and ambulances probably improved under the diversion ban because hospitals made other efficiency changes in anticipation of the change.
A similar study in western Massachusetts also found no negative effect from the diversion ban in a more rural area of the state.
"For people who think about diversion as a solution, this debunks that myth," Dr. Jesse Pines, director of the Center for Health Care Quality at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., told Reuters Health.
According to Burke, doctors and nurses who work in the ER have known for some time that hospitals rely too heavily on diversion, which produces little benefit, instead of focusing on other measures like flexible ER staffing to combat overcrowding.
Diversion can actually be harmful to patients in critical condition or those who are taken to a hospital that doesn't have their medical records, according to Pines. Previous studies have linked ambulance diversion to more heart attack deaths, for example.
"When you're having a heart attack, you don't want to wait," Pines said.
A quarter of the emergency rooms open 20 years ago are now closed, and people who visit the ER are sicker, older and tend to stay longer than they did two decades ago - making crowding a growing problem, Pines pointed out.
Crowded ERs mean long wait times for patients who may be critically ill, and that more people leave before being treated out of frustration.
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act takes effect, a surge in the number of insured people will likely mean a spike in ER visits, making crowding even worse, Pines said.
"It's not good care for patients to be sitting in an emergency department for hours to days instead of being taken to the inpatient units," Burke said.
This study and others suggest the solution is not to let fewer patients into the hospital by controlling when and where ambulances can go, but to get patients released or moved to other areas of the hospital more quickly, she said.
"The way to do it is to have a better-run emergency department," Pines said.
That can include using space in emergency room hallways, moving patients to the inpatient wards to free up more beds and reorganizing emergency staff to accommodate busier times, as the Boston hospitals did in anticipation of the ban.
Each hospital approached the ban differently. One installed real time updating electronic dashboards showing which beds were occupied, another elected a "bed czar" to oversee expediting admitted and discharged patients and a third hospital established a "surge pod" of 10 extra beds in the inpatient ward to take overflow patients from the ER.
Pines and Burke agreed that organizational measures like these within hospitals are the key to solving overcrowding.
"You shouldn't just ban diversion and do nothing else," Burke said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/11ghavR Annals of Emergency Medicine, online January 25, 2013.


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This book is for intermediate and advanced Buddhist practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding by joining practice with study of traditional ideas. It introduces the reader to contemplations that investigate a series of views of reality as they evolved in the Buddhist tradition. These views are explained in plain English, with contemporary metaphors and examples to bring out their meaning for modern Buddhists. Quotations from both historical and living meditation masters and scholars are presented as examples of key principles. Topics include
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Sal Castro, a veteran Los Angeles Unified School District teacher who played a central role in the 1968 "blowouts," when more than 1,000 students in predominantly Latino high schools walked out of their classrooms to protest inequalities in education, died in his sleep Monday after a long bout with cancer. He was 79.
Castro died at his home in the Silver Lake district, seven months after he was found to have stage 4 thyroid cancer, said his wife, Charlotte Lerchenmuller.
In March 1968, Castro was a social studies teacher at Lincoln High School near downtown when he helped instigate the protests that became a seminal event in the development of the Chicano movement. Students at five high schools — Belmont, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt and Garfield — abandoned their campuses in a dramatic bid to remedy overcrowded and run-down schools, soaring dropout rates, poorly trained teachers, and counselors who steered Latino students into auto shop instead of college-prep classes.
The conditions were so poor, he told The Times 20 years later, it was "like American education forgot the Latino kid."
The protests, which lasted several days and spread to 15 schools, resulted in the arrests of 13 people on conspiracy charges. Castro was among the 13 who were jailed but eventually exonerated.
Fired after the walkouts, he fought successfully to be reinstated to his teaching position but was transferred several times to schools that had largely non-Latino enrollments.
Broad public recognition of his contributions to the struggle for education equality came decades after the protests, when his story was told in films, including "Walkout," the 2006 HBO movie directed by Edward James Olmos.
"For Latinos in Los Angeles," Supervisor Gloria Molina said in a statement Monday, "Sal Castro was as influential and inspirational as United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez was nationally — an example of the power of organizing who personified the possibility of overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds."
The son of Mexican immigrants, Castro was born in Boyle Heights on Oct. 25, 1933, and spent some of his early childhood in Mexico, where he learned to read in Spanish.
When he returned to Los Angeles for second grade, his teacher made him sit in a corner because he was the only student who could not speak English. Instead of accepting the stigma, "I started thinking, these teachers … should be able to understand me," he said in a 1988 interview with The Times. "I didn't think I was dumb — I thought they were dumb."
He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1952, was drafted into the Army and served in the Korean War. After completing his service, he attended Los Angeles City College and majored in business at Cal State L.A., graduating in 1961.
That year, he also earned a credential to teach secondary school and taught junior high in Pasadena before landing a position at Belmont High. He soon began pressing for change. He urged Mexican American students to run for student government offices, causing a ruckus when he encouraged them to give campaign speeches in Spanish.
In 1963, he founded the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference, a nonprofit organization that trained future leaders at annual workshops held until 2009, when it lost its funding.
Transferred to Lincoln High after the incident at Belmont, he worked with students and recent graduates to present a list of demands to the school board aimed at improving academic opportunities and fixing dilapidated classrooms.
Tensions came to a head on March 5, 1968, after administrators at Wilson High abruptly canceled a student production of "Barefoot in the Park" that they said was too risque. Word of the action spread quickly, and soon Latino students were leaving classrooms across the district, joined by Castro and others outside the schools, including college students and members of the militant Brown Beret.
Among the participants were some future politicians and activists, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who walked out from Cathedral High, and filmmaker Moctesuma Esparza, who was indicted for his leadership role in the walkouts and decades later was executive producer of the HBO film on the protests.
Castro was jailed for five days after the walkouts and lost his job, but he was rehired after weeks of protests by Eastside parents. Months after the protests, 40 teachers at Lincoln High asked to be transferred if the district allowed Castro to return.
After a long period of "freeway therapy," when he was bounced around to different schools and made a substitute teacher, he landed back at Belmont, where he taught and counseled hundreds of students from 1973 until his retirement in 2004.
Many of his students became educators, including several who are principals, Lerchenmuller said.
In 2010, district officials honored the outspoken educator by dedicating a school to him, Salvador B. Castro Middle School, which shares Belmont's campus.
Although Castro continued to lament high dropout rates and other problems, he discouraged students who wanted to launch new walkouts, arguing that staying in school was more important.
"Here's the protest: any kid with a book," he said, gesturing at the youthful crowd attending a 2008 symposium on Chicano activism at Cal State San Bernardino. "That's the only way we can move forward, through education."
In addition to his wife, Castro is survived by two sons, Gilbert and Jimi; and two grandsons. Services will be announced.


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Got a distraught phone call from the wife, couldn't understand what she was saying, something about someone dying and can I come home. I gathered it to be one of our four pets.
Canceled a couple of meetings, and rushed home to find our boy cat Boogie dead on the kitchen floor. Apparently she was heating up some lunch, heard a "whump" and turned around in time to see him convulse and go still. He wasn't on the counter, so I can only surmise he had a seizure and launched a bit into the air just before passing. I double checked for breathing and motility, but he was gone. (and stinky...he had released a bit).
Wrapped him in one of his favorite blankets, put that in my old PS3 box (a perfect fit) and buried him in the garden out back. Poor little guy. He has had issues since we got him 10 years ago, including mega-colon (paid $3k to have his colon removed back in 02) and at least one major seizure (from which he recovered gracefully after a few hours). He hated my oldest brother, but had generally become a very laid-back loving cat in the last few years. He is survived by his actual sibling, Disco (girl cat) and his two step-siblings, Mylee and Diver (girl and boy dog, respectively).
You'll be missed, little guy. Glad you went quick and didn't suffer.
Got a distraught phone call from the wife, couldn't understand what she was saying, something about someone dying and can I come home. I gathered it to be one of our four pets.
Been a while since we've had an RIP [Pet] thread. Adios Boogie. Btw, awesome name for a cat.
That is sad. I always boggle at the idea of spending thousands on 'pet repairs' but I guess that is why I don't have any. If I did, I would get too attached.
Aw. My sympathies. Good on you for sticking with him through the years and I'm glad that it wasn't a protracted exit.
My condolences to you and your family Frennzy.
Rip Boogie.
RIP Boogie
This quote is about dogs, just interpolate to cats.
Awww, boo. Hug Disco extra and hopefully she understands where Boogie went. Hug your wife, too!
Poor cat. Hopefully it was quick from his point of view. RIP Boogie. Sorry Frennzy.
RIP Boogie. Sorry to hear it frenzzy
Sorry to hear about your loss. One of my cats recently passed just as suddenly, so I definitely feel your pain. You have my condolences.
My condolences, man. I've lost pets ... I know how it can be.
RIP Boogie, Hugs Frennzy and try to remember the crazy cat antics Boogie got up to. Sure he'd be all purry and stuff knowing you're happy thinking of them.
Sorry for your loss. You gave your kitty a good life.
So sorry to hear that. RIP kitteh.


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In celebration for the IYC 2011 Notesmaster aims to promote the fascinating and useful science of chemistry to our member teachers and students. We hope to raise the profile of chemistry while encouraging greater participation in the creation and dissemination of chemistry related learning material throughout the Caribbean.
I. Our objectives for the IYC 2011 will focus on addressing the following areas:
- Increasing the interest of young people in chemistry
- Generating enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry
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- Increase the interest of young people in chemistry (ongoing activity with increased promotion throughout 2011) - Already we have Caribbean teachers creating content and posting it in an open domain on Notesmaster for others to freely use. We have already started a drive to encourage greater participation of science teachers to create engaging material and even record practical experiments which show the application of chemistry in everyday life. What we have already found is that teachers by extension involve their students. Teachers at the secondary level in Jamaica and Trinidad have also highlighted the popularity of engaging content such as 3D chemistry molecules, especially among male students.
- Generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry (ongoing activity with increased promotion throughout 2011) - Using multimedia technology is a strong catalyst for sparking curiosity and building enthusiasm especially among young people. Teachers and professionals in the field of chemistry could contribute content to Notesmaster under the following themes (or any other relevant themes):
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(CNN) — Equipment failure and human error likely caused the propane tank cylinders to explode at a central Florida refilling plant late Monday, a fire official said Tuesday.
The blasts at the Blue Rhino plant in Tavares injured eight plant workers.
Residents nearby saw a pulsating glow in the sky. One Tavares resident Norma Haygood told CNN affiliate WESH it felt like "bombs going off."
The fire is out and authorities are investigating the cause, according to Tavares Fire Chief Richard Keith.
There had been earlier reports of 15 missing workers, but everyone known to be there has been accounted for, Keith said. Some had fled the scene; some drove themselves to hospitals.
Keith, who lives a few miles away from the fire, said he "knew it was bad right off the bat."
"It truly sounded like a car hit our house," Keith said.
There were 53,000 20-pound cylinders of propane at the facility — more than a million pounds in all, said John Herrell, a spokesman for the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Firefighters immediately set up a half-mile evacuation area around the plant. The nearest homes — about 50 of them — are about three-quarters of a mile away, Herrell said. And they began pouring water onto the facility.
Trucks parked at the plant went up in fireballs as the cylinders they were carrying exploded. The nighttime sky flickered in hues of orange.
"You could see the explosions from across the lake," said Ashley McCormick, a resident in nearby Mount Dora. "They were very intense."
By 2 a.m., about three hours after the explosions began, fire crews finally gained a handle on the situation.
Fortunately, all 15 of the missing workers were found safe. .
No residents were hurt.
"The fact that there are no fatalities is a blessing," said John Drury, the city administrator of Tavares, a community of some 14,000 people about 30 miles northwest of Orlando. "This was a big deal, and a lot of people responded quickly."
Now, the focus shifts to what caused the blasts.
The Blue Rhino facility refills propane tanks used in gas grills. The company's tank exchange service allows customers to trade in an empty tank for a full one at retail locations.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Blue Rhino in 2011 over a "serious" safety violation involving tools and equipment. It is not clear whether safety violations had anything to do with the fire.


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If you, like good king Wenceslaus in the song, look out on the Feast of Stephen -- that's 26 December, but we'll get back to that -- you might think Christmas is over. Already on the evening news on Christmas day the local stations are posting Christmas tree pick up sites and times. Some decorations hang around for a week to give a festive atmosphere to New Year's Eve and Day, then come down. On 2 January, Valentine's Day candy is in the stores.
That fits with the world's Christmas season. The church has a little different season going on. December is largely taken up with Advent. The idea is preparation there too, but not as in buying presents and food. It's about a preparation of repentance for celebrating three three related things: 1) the coming in the flesh of God as Jesus who will die to save us from our sins, 2) the coming of faith in him into our hearts, 3) the coming of Jesus again in glory to judge the living and the dead on the Last Day.
For which reason the colour of Advent is purple, the colour of royalty and also of repentance. His coming in history, in our hearts and his return are not prepared for by buying stuff.
Christmas Is Not Just One Day!
The church's celebration of Christmas does not begin with December and end on Christmas with New Year's tacked on. It begins on Christmas and continues for several days! Our Christmas manger scenes often have the "humble" shepherds and the "important" visitors -- called Magi, Wise Men, or Kings most often -- all there. But as the story reads, the Three Kings were not there at Christmas! They arrived twelve days later, 6 January, which we celebrate as Epiphany. These twelve days from Christmas through Epiphany are the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Now how did that happen? No-body knows. The thing is, Epiphany is a much older feast than Christmas, yet is now largely forgotten by most, lost in the shuffle by many, and celebrated by a few. Now how did THAT happen?
The Original Christmas.
Well, it looks like this. By the late fourth century after Christ, 6 January as the Epiphany existed. The earliest known reference dates from 361, and in those days the references indicate not just the appearance of the Three Kings -- epiphany is an English form of a Greek word meaning "appearance" or "manifestation" -- but rather the appearance or manifestation, the epiphany, of God, including his birth!
It's not that there wasn't Christmas, it's that this is "Christmas", as well as a celebration all the other events of the young Jesus up to and including his Baptism and his first public miracle at the wedding in Cana. A very big day!
Developments In The Western Church.
In the Western Church, these events began to be spun off from Epiphany. By the sixth century 25 December had become the celebration of his birth. His baptism began to be celebrated after Epiphany, so Epiphany itself in the West fairly early on narrowed its focus to the arrival of the Three Kings (Magi, etc.), who, not being Jews but Gentiles, give it the significance of the appearance or manifestation of the Messiah to the Gentiles.
I'm of English descent, but I was adopted by people of Irish descent, and my Dad, as I was growing up in the pre-Vatican II RCC, always referred to Epiphany as "Little Christmas", an Irish custom from when 6 January in the pre-Gregorian calendar was also Christmas. In later life I was to find out this is one echo of all the stuff mentioned above. Growing up, decorations were always left up through Epiphany, and there was one more "Christmas" gift. I did the same in my house. And I'll post about Los Tres Reyes (Spanish for The Three Kings) on 6 January, having been culturally adopted by the Puerto Rican contingent at university.
Developments In The Eastern Church.
This did not happen in the Eastern Church, where it retained its original character much longer, with many places much later adopting 25 December as the feast of his birth but keeping the celebration of his baptism on Epiphany, and in a few places still keeping the Nativity on this day. And there's the added complication that 6 January in the older (Julian, as in Julius Caesar) calendar still used liturgically by the Eastern Church is 19 January in the Gregorian (as in Pope Gregory) calendar used in the West and now pretty much world wide as a convention.
In the Eastern Church the day is more commonly called the Theophany -- divine appearance or divine manifestation -- and is considered the third most important feast in the church's observance, Easter (Pascha) being first and Pentecost second. There ain't no Twelve Days of Christmas for our brethren in the Eastern Church, it's a Western thing, but on the other hand Theophany is more in line with the original of what we in the West call Epiphany, if we remember it to call it anything at all.
And Then Came Vatican II, Oy.
And to complicate it further, after a millennium and one half of usage, the Roman church, ever at the ready to tinker with the very tradition it says it conserves, decided at its last council, Vatican II in the 1960s, to make it a moveable feast, not on 6 January but on the Sunday after the first Saturday in January. So, if you listen to the Roman church (and if you do, quit!) there ain't no Twelve Days of Christmas in the West now either! Nice going, guys.
For us confessional Lutherans -- those who seek to hold to the catholic, as distinct from the Catholic, faith and church -- while our latest service book, Lutheran Service Book, is infected with the latest Roman virus (please support research that a cure may be found in our time!) Epiphany has survived as 6 January.
So What's This Feast of Stephen Thing?
"Good King Wenceslaus looked out, on the Feast of Stephen". Getting back to that, you think Epiphany got lost in the shuffle, what about this Feast of Stephen? It's 26 December, the day after Christmas. Why? Well, the Stephen remembered on this day is the first recorded martyr for the Christian faith, in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. It is the custom in the church to commemorate someone not on the day of his earthly birth but the day of his birth to eternal life -- generally called death in the world -- but in a case like Stephen the date is not known. When that happens a date will be chosen for some other reason associated with the person. For Stephen, the first person known to have been born to eternal life by martyrdom for his faith is celebrated right after the earthly birth of him who came to make eternal life available to us.
So Who's This Wenceslaus, Why Is He Good and Why Is He Looking Out?
Wow, has this guy got a story. Right here, call it ironic, coincidence, or one of those divine consistencies that look like loose ends until you know what they are, but he ended up being a martyr for the Christian faith just like the first one, Stephen, on whose feast he looked out.
Here's a short version of the rest. Wenceslaus, also Wenceslas, is English for his name Vaclav. He was functionally king of Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic, also since 2 May 2016 officially known by its short name, Czechia. But, as he was backed by the German Holy Roman Empire, his title was not actually king but duke, which is just below a king. Duke comes from the Latin dux, which means leader, and was first the title of military officers without a particular rank and then the title of those who ran a province just under the head of state.
"King" actually Duke Wenceslaus had this position first via the Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans Henry the Fowler/Heinrich der Vogler. But then via his son Otto I, who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 2 February 962 by Pope, aka bishop of Rome, John XII, who then turned on Otto. So Otto went back to Rome and had a layman elected pope instead as Leo VII. Otto was kinda used to naming bishops and abbots himself. Then, when John staged a comeback but died and left Benedict V on the papal throne, Otto went back to Rome yet again to get rid of Benedict and make them promise to quit electing popes without the Emperor's (his) OK! There's some "hermeneutic of continuity" for ya, to paraphrase another Pope Benedict, XVI; "apostolic succession" in action. Otto was the first clear Holy Roman Emperor since Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus, Charles the Great, Karl der Grosse), who had been crowned by the bishop of Rome Leo III on Christmas in 800 the first Imperator Augustus in the West since the Fall of Rome on 4 September 476 .
Wenceslaus being backed by such a power did not sit well with some Bohemians, including in his own family, all of them caught between changing religions along with their entire social order. Which is why he's called "good" -- he stayed with the Christian faith of his grandmother who raised him, St Ludmilla, who was herself converted by Saints Cyril and Methodius no less, the "Apostles to the Slavs". His brother Boleslaus (Boleslav) though stayed with the native Bohemian religion of their mother Drahomira, who had Ludmilla killed. Boleslav didn't like the Germans or their state-run Christian church. The martyrdom happened when Boleslav arranged to have Vaclav killed, then took the throne. But, he ended up having to work with the Germans anyway and then his son, also named Boleslav, became Christian and took over from him and established the bishop's seat in Prague!
The irony, coincidence, or divine consistency continues to our time. This man Vaclav who in his own time was killed for selling out to the Germans and their power and new religion is now the patron saint of the Czech Republic, which in 2000 established his feast day of 28 September as Czech Statehood Day, a national holiday.
Yeah, that's a short version. Oh, and what was he doing looking out on the Feast of Stephen? Checking things out after he woke up. But the rest of the story isn't told in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" song. That was first published in England in 1780. Despite recent speculation, there is no evidence the gifts were code words for Catholic catechesis under persecution. Lyrical peculiarities come from its being an adaptation of a French song. It was introduced in the US in 1910, as part of the Christmas programme at Downer in Milwaukee, now part of Lawrence University.
The rest of the story is told in the carol by John Mason Neale, same guy who wrote O Come, O Come Emmanuel based on the O Antiphons posted about earlier. Small world, huh? Or another of those consistencies. Ain't it great when loose ends become consistencies!
Anyway, good Duke Vaclav spotted a guy scrounging for food and asked his page where the guy lived. He then set out with his page to bring the man and his family some aid. The page started faltering due to the cold and snow, but when he followed in Vaclav's footsteps found the ground warm to his feet. Now how's that for being, uh, ablaze!
We Still Got 'em, The Twelve Days of Christmas!!
Guess what, you can still follow in the good duke's footsteps. Neale's carol concludes:
Therefore, Christian men, be sure, wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing.
So let's get on with the Twelve Days of Christmas like, give him his due, Good King Wenceslaus!
NOW is when all the fun and festivities are supposed to happen! LEAVE those decorations up, right on up through Twelfth Night! That's the night of 5-6 January, in case you weren't counting, and yes, it's that from which the title of Shakespeare's great play is taken. So far, Twelfth Night has not been retitled First Sunday After The First Saturday In January Eve, though who knows, sillier revisionism happens all the time in the RCC and we ape it sometimes. Maybe even GIVE A GIFT to someone special for Epiphany, which in some places is the gift giving day, not Christmas, just as God gave himself to us and the Three Kings brought gifts to him. BAKE A CAKE; that's how Kings Cake started and still is done in some places. HAVE FRIENDS OVER -- you get the idea!
And like good king Wenceslaus, DO SOMETHING TO HELP SOMEONE IN NEED! If you don't know someone in need, ask your pastor, he will. You don't have to live in a country that has Boxing Day to box up something helpful and give it to someone in need. This custom began because boxes for collection of stuff for the poor were collected in mediaeval times at churches for distribution on the feast of Stephen, inspired by good Duke Vaclav's act of charity.
Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing.
The appearance or manifestation of God is just too big to contain in one day!!
And therefore the church doesn't, but extends the celebration of God's coming among us over twelve days, so don't let the world, or, sadly, some entities called church, take a bit of it away from you!
Textual Note: I am most honoured that The Lutheran Witness asked if they could print this post as an article in the December 2010 issue. That article is not the same as this post, but was based on the 2009 blog version of this post by their excellent editorial staff. The print version was approved by me, and you can read it online. Generally I revise the annual posts in my Blogoral Calendar somewhat from year to year, so this year's post is not the exact text of the printed version.
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Craig Romney, son of Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney, participated in a Q-and-A session with about 100 Liberty University Helms School of Government students Thursday afternoon.
Romney studied communications at Brigham Young University and currently works in real estate in San Diego, Calif.
Questions ranged from his views on the United States' support of Israel, hot topics in the 2012 presidential election, the impact of the Hispanic community, the importance of a value system and faith for political leaders, and the importance of civic duty as college students begin a career in government.
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A challenging start for the Huskies
As a former player under Jim Calhoun and in his second stint on the UConn coaching staff, Glen Miller has seen his share of first practices.
Saturday's opening workout was particularly grueling.
"It was tough, really tough," Miller said.
The day started with walk-on tryouts at 8 a.m. Practice began at 9:30 a.m. in Guyer Gym, with players wearing gray t-shirts, a first-day tradition. The workout ended three and a half hours later in Gampel Pavilion.
"I like the intensity, that's one good thing," coach Kevin Ollie said. "When they came over (to Gampel), I told them it was second half but I think it was overtime. We did a lot in Guyer and they fought through it. I was proud of them today."
Freshmen Terrence Samuel, Amida Brimah and Kentan Facey, transfer Lasan Kromah and Rodney Purvis, a transfer sitting out this season, all experienced their first UConn workout.
"I was impressed with their work ethic but they've got a long way to go for them to even touch the court," Ollie said of the freshmen.
UConn's veterans set a good example for their younger teammates.
"First day is always intense," sophomore Omar Calhoun said. "Coach Ollie, he's always going after it, so we went hard. We've just got to rest our bodies and get ready for tomorrow."
In recruiting news, Rakim Lubin, a 6-foot-7 forward from Gadsden, Ala., made a verbal commitment today during his visit to UConn, according to @OntheRadarHoops on Twitter. He watched practice from the Gampel Pavilion stands.
Lubin transferred to Buford High School after attending Gadsden High.
Some interesting tidbits from practice:
-- Brimah missed about the last 10 minutes of practice after hurting his left shoulder during the box-out drill.
The injury happened when Napier and Brimah collided when chasing down a loose ball along the baseline. Brimah hit the floor hard, landing face-first, and stayed down for a few minutes. Team trainer James Doran checked out Brimah who eventually walked off the court.
Miller expects that Brimah will be okay.
"James will evaluate him tomorrow and check his range of motion," Miller said. "He should be all right."
-- The coaching staff paid attention to every detail, even standing on the basketball court corners to prevent the Huskies from cutting in while running laps.
"You can't do anything lackadaisical," Samuel said.
-- It was a running joke that Jim Calhoun never knew a walk-on's name until he handed him his jersey on Senior Night.
It is too early for Ollie to know their names just yet. But he expects them to play with roughly same intensity as the scholarship players. He made a point to introduce himself to a walk-on during the box-out drill.
"I don't know what you are doing, or what your name is yet, but you've got to pick it up," Ollie said.
-- Expect to hear Ollie say the following on a regular basis this season: "We've got to hit first."
Ollie wants his players to initiate contact in any rebounding situation. UConn ranked near the bottom of the Big East last season in rebounding.
-- Samuel, a 6-foot-4, 190-pound guard from Brooklyn, said he's added muscle since arriving at UConn.
He likes how he looks.
"I believe I did," Samuel said of adding muscle. "Every time I go in the dorm, I look in the mirror.
-- Calhoun, who had off-season hip surgery, is ahead of schedule in his recovery. He participated in Saturday's workout. He said that he should be ready to go for the season opener.
-- Senior Tyler Olander, who remains suspended indefinitely, did not practice.
-- No update on Facey's eligibility status. He hasn't heard anything from the NCAA.
"I'm still waiting on that," Facey said. "Hopefully, everything works out in my favor."
-- The coaching staff is in unfamiliar territory with the extended practice time before the season opener on Nov. 8. UConn also will be playing in the new American Athletic Conference.
The Huskies are allowed 20 hours per week for practice.
"You have to approach it differently," Miller said. "You have to have more days off. I like it because it allows you to get more in early."
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