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- Yanks brace for challenge of hot-hitting Pujols
- Yankees keep winning streak in perspective
- Bombers bits
ANAHEIM -- Brett Gardner and David Robertson inched one step closer to coming off the disabled list on Monday, working out at the Yankees' Minor League complex in Tampa, Fla..".
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The introduction of the new ERP-system operated as a driver for acquiring a PLM solution.
” In the past, the designer made drawings of the parts for production and DXF files for cutting. Now the drawings produced by the designers are created into the necessary file formats automatically. This reduces the risk of errors significantly. When parts are added to the assembly within Inventor, a bill of material is created to Sovelia automatically. The drawings made in the design phase are managed in Autodesk Vault and after the design is completed the product is approved for production in Sovelia. This is to ensure that the BOM’s and items are transferred to the ERP in a controlled way.
Metos Group manufactures and markets professional kitchen equipment from the brands Metos, Hackman and Wexiödisk. Metos is the market leader in the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as in the Benelux countries. Metos is a member in the ALI group, which is Europe’s leading manufacturer of professional kitchen equipment. Metos offers kitchen solutions thought out from start to finish. The planning starts from
the recipes and kitchen design, and Metos’ in-house made and trading products are used in the implementation. After sales take care of maintenance and spare parts.
” Our production is largely traditional sheet metal manufacturing, which is associated with the control electronics and the connection of the electricity to the entity, says Tero Kähärä, Product Design Manager at Metos Oy Ab
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Dancing Queen debuts at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre proudly welcomes a Cabaret Company production written and directed by the boundary bursting founder of Buddies, Sky Gilbert. If that wasn’t enough in itself, the show is being choreographed by outrageous and outlandish Keith Cole.
A beautiful young man moves to the big city. There, he falls in love with an older man, while at the same time another man falls in love with him. Dancing Queen plays on gay culture’s fear of aging to ask scandalous questions about sex, love and monogamy. Buddies founding Artistic Director, Sky Gilbert, collaborates with notorious performance artist Keith Cole to tell the story of an inter-generational love triangle through dance and theatre.
Mini Review
Dancing Queen looks at a variety of gay relationships, from the lighthearted crush to the stereotypical one night stands, challenging the foundations of what is deemed “normal”. Bouncing back and forth between the thumping club anthems of today and the symphonic dream like sequences of yore, we follow the intertwined and entangled character development of three separate individuals. An aging 40 something picks up a twinkish 20 something at a bar for a random encounter, that leaves the twink wanting more than just sex. While at the same time a younger writer contacts an older writer in hopes of finding a mentor to critique his latest work, then finds the elder falling in love with him and can’t offer the same reciprocal feelings in return. As Act II begins, we start to see these three characters as one entity, close yet distant.
Gilbert does a great job of keeping the pace flowing with plenty of humour. It’s easy to feel empathy with each character as they deal with their emotions, most everyone having been in similar situations in the past, no doubt. The interlude vignettes act as great scene changers, and the period piece routines are choreographed wonderfully in 1920′s English attire, a time when boys would be boys and men would be men. Cole does a great job of keeping things comical, and the quick custom changes come off flawless. The ending is somewhat perplexing, but as one attendee remarked, “That’s just Sky”.
Running Time: Two Hours with a Fifteen Minute Break
Featuring Nick Green, Ryan Kelly and David-Benjamin Tomlinson
Set and Lighting Designer Andy Moro
Costume Designer Sheree Tams
Running from April 18 to 29, 2012
Tickets available at Buddies box office or online at totix.ca, priced from PWYC to $30.00
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street
Toronto, M4Y 1B4 | View Location map
Box Office: 416-975-8555
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This 2005 presentation on using nuclear fusion for propulsion in space within 20 years of the start of a development program mentions John Slough's work and the graphics match what is being used by Helion Energy.
Star Thrust experiment page (1000 to 1 million ISP) This work was in the 1990s. Helion Energy development of a Field Reversed Configuration would also enable Star Thrust propulsion development. above. and the ions are not). It is also necessary that the electrons be highly collisionless.
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Beijing is located on the west coast of Pacific, Beijing stands at the northern tip of North China Plain. Tian'anmen Square in the cnter of Beijing is situated at 39O56' North Latitude and 116O20' East Longitude.
Humid Continental Climate
Beijing, also known as Peking, is the capital and the second largest city of China. The total area of Beijing is approximately 16,800 sq km, and has over 7.23 million people, 3 million of which are temporary residents. The temporary residents are comprised of business persons, teachers and students.
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Amongst all the social media websites and apps that have come out over the years we have yet to see one that caters specifically to the sports fan, and allows the fan to communicate with other fans in real time, until now, enter Gate F.
The people at Gate F have created an app that allows sports fans and friends to interact with each other. You can check into games on the app and in real time chat with friends and fans watching the same game from all cross the country.
Best part about the app? It’s free.
You can also check in at your favorite local pub or sports bar, even add your “Man-Cave” to the list of places you watch games from. So as you and your buddies follow your career’s across the country, you can all chat and interact with each other as if you were still watching the games together.
But the app itself allows you to do more than just chat with fans and friends you also get rewarded for your participation in the app. Those rewards you accumulate lead to real life prizes all sports fans want such as ticket discounts, drink/food/apparel discounts at Gate F’s partnership venues.
My favorite prize by far is the free pair of tickets to your favorite team’s games. I was privileged enough to be a beta tester for the app and test it as they developed it. That’s the prize I strive towards and am saving my reward points for.
In addition to the interactive nature of the app, it also keeps you up to date on the latest news from all the teams you care about from all the leagues.
I’ve enjoyed the app and thoroughly enjoyed playing on it and can’t wait to see the community of users expand. There is also a mobile website you can visit in conjunction with the app that will help you download it.
The app itself is not scheduled to be formally released until January 12th but you can visit the iTunes store and download it now. Also make sure to visit their Facebook page and like it as well.
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Another look at Tercio Creativo’s IndieGoGo backer’s bust
By Polar_Bear
In Crowdfunding
Aug 8th, 2012
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There really was no better way to title this post…
Tercio Creativo gives us another look at the bust they’re working on for their IndieGoGo campaign backers.
From the update:
More advances in our bust for the Indiegogo campaign. It isn’t ready yet, but it’s much more similar to the Guard now.
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2012.
- My favorite name on the list is the 78th ranked forward (#128 overall), Nathan Walker from the Czech Republic via Australia. Walker could become a singular sports celebrity in his native Australia if he is drafted in June.
- The first Canadian forward is Brendan Gaunce, ranked 10th amongst forwards (#20 overall). After Gaunce, it's Philip Di Giuseppe, ranked 14th (#27 overall) then Tanner Pearson, ranked 16th (#33 overall). I can't recall a weaker draft class for Canadians up front.
- Even with the weak class, Canada still makes up 37 of the top 80. The United States is second with 15, Sweden and Russia tie for third with 8, and the Czechs have 6 in the top 80.
- The OHL leads the way in originating leagues with 21 of the top 80. The WHL is second with 15, the USHL and QMJHL tie for third with 9.
- This might be the year (albeit temporary) that the USHL overtakes the QMJHL as the third Major Junior League in the world. The USHL has the same number of forwards in the top 80 as the QMJHL and the USHL has recently produced more high-end defenders as well. 3 of the USHL's top 9 forwards are imports (one player from Canada, Latvia and Russia), five of the QMJHL's top 9 forwards are imports (3 players from the Czech Republic and 2 from Russia).
- The Czechs have to be ecstatic with this draft class. They've got two sure-fire first round picks in Faksa and Hertl and a possible third in Frk. Hyka is a bottom of the second, top of the third pick and Beran and Volek could go at the bottom of the third or top of the fourth. If 6 Czech players come off of the board in the first 100 picks, there may be a revival underway in the Czech Republic.
Any chance the Oilers could draft Erik Karlsson in round three, then surreptitiously exchange their Karlsson for Ottawa's in the middle of the night?
Just a thought. Sometimes you have to think outside the box.
I see reinhart might slip down! I will take a canadian with heart over any euro with talent !
funny how the draft still works your best picks are the kids 6 foot or taller over 2oo lbs, a point a game and over 100 minutes in penalties ,you want the agressive players which means you wouldn't want a Sedin ! ever. just take a look at that formula the last 20 draft years and see for yourself!
you certainly dont want to draft a wall flower like nugent hopkins or hall as #1 overall they are not competitive enough in the physical department, this is why both spent a large portion of the seaon on the injury reserve . oilers would have been better of f addressing their holes on defense by picking larson but the oilers got greedy and drafted another soft player who may not last 5 years in this league.
@digits
Wow. Simply wow. Nugent-Hopkins and Hall both suffered freak injuries and all of a sudden they're "wall flowers"? RNH has underrated physical abilities (see him laying several hits on Dallas' Morrow this year, to name but one), but that's not his game. Hall is a bull in a china shop - might not hit a lot but is absolutely fearless.
Besides, since when is being physical more important than actually being able to play hockey? If that were the case then Derek Dorsett should win the Hart this year. RNH is an absolute wizard and will only get better, and Hall is a gritty emotional goal scorer who, again, will only get better. Hall's style might lead to more injuries, yes, but so did Forsberg's and no-one called him soft.
I think you would fit in quite well with the Oiler's scouting department circa 2002-2006. Draft big players with lots of PIMs over players who can impact the game in ways that matter (see: taking MAP and JFJ over Parise).
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New From Volvo – Volvo Truck Finder App an extension of Volvo Trucks’ truck finder website, allowing users to locate used trucks from across the globe.
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“This new app means people can now search for vehicles from mobile devices and call the dealership right there and then.”
The Volvo truck finder app is available as a free download from the Apple App store and Google Play.
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2012-13 New York Islanders Season Preview - Still Stranded
Scott Reynolds
September 11 2012 09:53AM
In order to answer that question, I think we need to first take a look at how the team performed last season. Were they unlucky to finish in last place, or were they there on (de)merit? One way to get a quick read on that is by looking at their goal differential.
It was -55.
So that's not promising. On the bright side, when you've done that poorly, it's easy to find one or two things that absolutely need to be improved. So let's take a quick look at the team's goal differential by game state:
Power Play: 2011-12 Islanders +40; 2011-12 Avg +40.8
Penalty Kill: 2011-12 Islanders -42; 2011-12 Avg -40.8;
Even Strength: 2011-12 Islanders -53; 2011-12 Avg Even
The biggest problem is pretty clear. The Islanders were about average on special teams but were horrendous at even strength. Of course, sometimes teams look bad because of poor possession metrics, while other times they look bad because of poor percentages. As you might expect, the Islanders weren't great at either, but it's really the percentages that were getting them down. The team's share of all shots taken at even strength was a quite respectable 49.5%. The Fenwick and Corsi rates were quite a bit lower (48.7% and 47.6% respectively), so there's still substantial work to do, but the big problem was goaltending:
Overall EV Save Percentage: .909
Evgeni Nabokov EV Save Percentage: .917
Everybody Else EV Save Percentage: .901
In a situation like this, you'd hope that the team would be playing Nabokov - who's a few points below average himself - almost exclusively. That didn't happen. Nabokov faced 978 shots at even strength in 2011-12, slightly fewer than the rest of the group combined (1065). Over the last four seasons, Nabokov has an EV save percentage of .921 on 4,449 shots, which is right around average. If the Islanders were able to keep him around and bring in another 1A goalie they'd be in pretty good shape, or at least a few steps above terrible.
A respectable back-up is an obvious area of need, and one that isn't particularly difficult to fill, so that would have been near the top of my summer list. Garth Snow, it seems, didn't agree. The Islanders haven't signed anyone to pair with Nabokov and will likely go with either Anders Nilsson or Kevin Poulin. It's not impossible that this turns out well, but it's not a good bet.
Defense And Forwards
What about the other positions? I thought one good way to do this was to start by looking at ten-game segments in an effort to find out what went right when this team was playing well:
Keep in mind that each point on the graph is a ten-game segment so that the first point is games 1-10, the second is games 2-11 and so on. As we all know, teams tend to do better with these shooting metrics when they're behind, so I was looking for a ten-game segment in which all three of these possession metrics were above 50% and in which the Islanders had a winning record.
Unsurprisingly, the very top of the chart is one such occasion. From December 29th to January 17th, the Islanders earned 55.5% of the shots, 53.4% of the Fenwick events, and 51.7% of the Corsi events, posted a goal differential of +5 (all situations except the shootout) and a a record of 6-4. As you'd expect, they played more at home than they did on the road over this time (the same 6-4 split), which reflects the fact that the team did better overall by these metrics at home (50.3%, 49.2% and 48.1% compared to 48.7%, 48.3% and 47.1%).
During this stretch of games, the Islanders weren't particularly diligent about match-ups, but the pairing of Travis Hamonic and Andrew MacDonald generally played the toughest opposition and came out ahead, while Mark Streit was dominant against lesser minutes. That wasn't always the case this season, but that's a core that the Islanders should probably count on.
The top six also performed quite well, and again, that was leaning towards playing tough competition with a mix of players that will be around for a while. Generally, the Isles had Tavares, Moulson, and Okposo in one group with Nielsen, Parenteau, and Rolston in the other. Unsurprisingly, those were also the best possession performers on the season as a whole. These players were dominant in this section, and that's what made them tough to beat. But that won't always be the case. In order to be good consistently, the Islanders need some depth, which is where problems arise.
Even in this segment of ten games where the team was playing very well, the depth players don't look very good. Let's look at the defense first:
Mark Streit was able to carry Milan Jurcina to a good result, but the rest of the depth players were hammered. Most of those players are stop-gap veterans, so this isn't really a major concern for the rebuilding squad. The results are similar up front, but with the added concern that many of the players who are struggling are young players that the Islanders are hoping will develop into important contributors going forward:
The fall-off is huge. To some degree, this kind of thing is going to be true of all teams, but there are a few players here who are of particular concern. Michael Grabner regressed some after a terrific season in 2010-11 (it wasn't entirely surprising given that he shot a career-best 14.9% in 2010-11). Josh Bailey had his fourth consecutive rookie season, again strugging to establish himself as more than simply a young player with promise. There have certainly been spots available for him if he could step up and grab one, but he's been beat out by older players (Grabner in 2010-11 and Parenteau last season) consistently. At this point, I think it's fair to be concerned about the former first rounder.
Then there's Nino Niederreiter, who had one of the toughest rookie seasons imaginable. Like most teenagers, Niederreiter was overwhelmed when he arrived in the NHL, and he struggled with possession as much as the rest of New York's bottom six forwards, but when you add rotten luck to the equation, it just looks ugly. Niederreiter's five-on-five PDO number of 89.8 was actually the worst in the entire league among forwards who played at least forty games. One half of the PDO equation is on-ice shooting percentage: Niederreiter's was less than 1%.
That, my friends, is how you end up with a -29 rating in just 55 games. There are a lot of players Niederreiter's age who might benefit from a half-season lockout, and he's definitely one of them.
All that said, there are some encouraging things here too. John Tavares, in particular, is an excellent player. He got a zone-start push at evens, but he also spent a lot of time against the other team's best players. In that situation, he managed his first (near) point per game season. At 22, he's still likely going to get even better. He's the franchise.
If I was Garth Snow, I'd be looking to lock up this core and add depth via free agency to build around that franchise player. A lot of the work toward the first half of that goal had already been done the year before. The most important part (signing Tavares) happened in 2011 at a very reasonable ticket. Kyle Okposo, and Matt Moulson were also signed in 2011, as was Michael Grabner. Snow furthered that goal in 2012 when he re-signed Frans Nielsen before the trade deadline on a contract that looks very good for the team.
He was unable to come to terms with P-A Parenteau who left for Colorado as an unrestricted free agent, which is tough loss and shows what kind of fiscal pressures the team is under. If the Islanders were spending to the cap, there's no doubt that Parenteau stays, but with the team hovering at the floor, they simply couldn't afford to make him the team's second highest-paid forward and still have the room to address their other issues.
More of the Same
One problem: they didn't really address the team's other issues. The acquisition of Lubomir Visnovsky was fantastic, and should help enormously. Visnovsky is getting older, but was a contender for the Norris trophy as recently as 2010-11. Picking him up for a second round choice at the draft was a wonderful start and looked like a harbinger of things to come.
But that was it for additional proven depth on defense aside from Matt Carkner, and the forward additions were even more sparse. The Islanders made one very reasonable bet on Brad Boyes having a bounce-back season, but didn't add much of anything beyond that. Even the Visnovsky trade may all be for naught if he is successful in his attempt to void the transaction (though that seems unlikely).
So why didn't they do more? Is the issue money? We can begin to answer that question by looking at where the Islanders are spending. I like to use a guideline to help me through this process, so we'll start with that:
Top 3 Forwards – 27.5%
Middle 6 Forwards – 20.0%
Top 4 Defenders – 27.5%
Goaltending – 10.0%
Bottom 8 Players – 15.0%
Next we'll fill in the chart using the players that the Islanders currently have under contract, assuming that the team cares more about salaries than cap numbers (another reason that the Visnovsky trade was so good) and that they were planning to spend about 80% of the current floor ($43.4M):
Top 3 Forwards – Tavares, Moulson, Okposo – 9.00M or 20.7%
Middle 6 Forwards – Nielsen, Grabner, Boyes, Reasoner, Bailey, Niederreiter 8.60M or 19.8%
Top 4 Defenders – Visnovky, Streit, Hamonic, MacDonald – 8.55M or 19.7%
Goaltending – Nabokov, DiPietro, Poulin – 7.86M or 18.1%
Bottom 8 Players – Joensuu, Boulton, Ullstrom, McDonald, Carkner, de Haan, Wishart, Yashin (BO) – 7.97M or 18.4%
Now, I didn't include any of the performance bonuses here. Between that and the inevitable injuries (and therefore injury replacements), the Islanders will actually end up spending a little bit more. On the other hand, this model includes $6.7M being spent on Rick DiPietro and Alexei Yashin. It's unbelievable how much bad contracts hurt a team trying to make things work on a tight budget.
With another $6.7M to spend, the Islanders could make significant improvements to their depth at every position, which would likely be enough to make them contenders for the playoffs and for a really excellent season if their bets all came up roses. With what they've actually got, they'll need most things to break right just to be in the playoff hunt.
Fair enough, though the Isles' D corp. in theory should be bolstered by the fact that 3 of their top D prospects are ready (Matt Donovan, Calvin deHaan and to a much lesser extent, Aaron Ness). Unfortunately, the signing of Carkner means that probably only one of these guys will start with the team.
On offense, on minor quibble: Grabner regressed for sure (most importantly, his amount of shots on goal dropped), though he did play against tough opposition.
And your lines are messed up - Parenteau mainly played with Tavares and moulson for half the year, with the third partner then rotating, and Nielsen generally played with Grabner.
Finally, doesn't writing this feel like you're writing about the oilers? :-P
@garik16
As an Oilers fan watching the Isles struggle really hammers home the value of committing to last-place finishes.
The Islanders have been treading water the last three seasons despite being one of the worst teams in the league over that period. Had they drafted 2nd overall instead of 4th and 5th, they could (theoretically) boast Seguin, Landeskog, and Murray to their pool of young talent, but instead Neiderreiter, Strome, and Reinhart are a step below their draft peers selected two or three spots ahead.
The biggest difference, IMO, between the Pittsburgh / Chicago / Washington re-builds, and the Islanders, Blue Jackets, Panthers, and Wild infinibuilds, is the the former really hit rock bottom, enabling them to draft elite talent that transformed the core of the team. For the latter they've continuously drafted 'good' players like Voracek, Strome, Gudbrandson, Granlund, etc who take longer time to mature into impact players if they ever do at all. The Panthers and Wild have, or will improve based on their GM's bringing in high quality free agents, rather than relying solely on the young talent. Sadly, the Islanders are probably the least attractive destination in the NHL for UFA's, and will be until they develop something of a competitive team or construct a new rink.
Garth Snow could've helped himself by moving up in the draft or delaying gratification by avoiding signing Streit or Nabokov, but unless Strome or Neiderreiter become impact players on their Entry-level contracts this team probably only ahead of Columbus in terms of time until contention becomes realistic.
I knew for sure that the lines during that ten-game segment didn't reflect the season generally just looking at the overall zone start numbers, which definitely don't show Parenteau and Neilsen in the same light, and Grabner did come in for Rolston in the last couple of games. But it is interesting that when the Islanders were playing their best hockey, they used a (slightly) different set-up in their top six than what they were using at other times in the year.
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WordPress is by a wide margin the world’s favourite open-source content management system. Millions of new WordPress websites are joining the web every day, with some of the world’s biggest businesses having turned to WordPress as their primary CMS for powering their online operations.
Which makes it all the more surprising that WordPress continues to be looked down on by some, who continue to believe it just isn’t up there with rival platforms. They insist that WordPress websites naturally have higher bounce rates that those built using alternative platforms and packages, which is in every sense of the word complete and utter nonsense.
Bite the Bullet
The simple fact of the matter is that if your WordPress has a high bounce rate, it’s all your fault. Or at least the root cause of the problem is something that you have control over, which in turn means it is something you can seek to fix.
There are literally thousands of reasons why visitors leave websites in a hurry – some being more common than others. Analytics can tell you what they’re bouncing from and for how long, which can in turn provide you with a basic platform upon which to work.
But in terms of universally applicable advice, the following tips are guaranteed to ensure that your WordPress site bounce rates remain as low as possible:
1 – Don’t Make it Look Like a WordPress Site
First of all, given the fact that WordPress is still looked down on in some circles (with no justification), it can be advisable to make sure you create a site that doesn’t look like a ‘typical’ WordPress site. There are certain themes, plugins and general overall design strategies that are common across millions of WordPress sites – the key being to make your website look, feel and operate differently. This can ensure that your visitors are won over by the quality of the site from the word go, rather than just basing their opinions around the fact that it was built with WordPress.
2 – Content Quality
If your site’s content is up to par, your visitors will stick around – it really is as simple as that. But along with quality, you also need to ensure that your site has a purpose and something of value to offer. Or in other words what are you offering that they cannot find in about a thousand other sites doing the same as you? Of course this isn’t just a consideration for WordPress sites, but should be thought about carefully no matter what type of site you run or the line or work you are in – what’s your USP?
3 – Focus on Site Speed
Are WordPress sites naturally slower than their rivals? Sluggish during peak times? No…not even a bit. The speed of your site will play a huge role in the kinds of bounce rates you can accept and is something that is 100% in your control. If your WordPress is running at a snail’s pace, it’s usually due to one of the following reasons:
- You have too many plugins installed that you don’t really need and they are slowing things down dramatically.
- You don’t have too many plugins installed, but the ones you are using are poor quality and are likewise making your site run slower than it might.
- Your overall approach to site design is off the mark and you have created a site that’s too complex, data-hungry or generally inefficient.
- Your chosen web hosting package and/or service provider simply aren’t up to par and your site is suffering as a result.
In all such instances, the necessary fixes are relatively painless to make and are guaranteed to add up to a big difference.
4 – Mobile Focus
You’ve chosen to go for a responsive theme, but can you honestly say it delivers the goods flawlessly for mobile users? There’s a big difference between a site that looks and feels immaculate via mobile and one that simply can be accessed via mobile. Assuming that a huge chunk of your traffic comes by way of mobile devices…which it probably does…you could be losing would-be conversions simply by not presenting mobile traffic with the kind of experience they expect.
5 – Ad Placement
Last but not least, one of the worst things you can do if you hope to be taken seriously and improve conversion rates is to allow huge chunks of your site to be taken over by ads, banners and marketing materials. Why? Well, quite simply because if you are a reputable brand with something great to offer and the highest regard for your visitors, you shouldn’t need (or want) to advertise a ton of external products and services, just to pick up further advertising revenues. These kinds of sites smack of spam and amateur-hour, so don’t become another example of one.
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Sometimes, and seemingly out of nowhere, an idea for a new project will hit me. I can be in the middle of just about anything and there it is, floating in the front of my brain. I’ve learned that when this happens, I need write it down and maybe even sketch it because you never know when the next idea will take over. These ideas don’t always result in anything beyond a few words scratched on a post-it or a sketch on a scrap piece of paper but this one did.
Tropical Breeze a new scarf pattern that I’m excited to share with you. When I first started envisioning this pattern I wanted something extremely light and airy to be worn throughout on the spring and summer.
I wanted a scarf that could be worn with shorts and a t-shirt. I don’t know about you, but I wear scarves almost daily – all year ’round. Since the weight of this piece was really important to me, I knit this up in a lace weight yarn on a size 5 and incorporated some lace work to keep it open and airy. Tropical Breeze also features a lacework loop at one end to run the scarf through. This results in the scarf being about 1/2 the length of a normal scarf and therefore lighter!
Tropical Breeze will officially be released next Monday for sale on Ravelry but to celebrate it and the tropical weather we’re having this week, the first 5 to leave a comment will be emailed a free copy TODAY. The early bird gets the worm (or so I tell myself this when I wake up at 5am each morning to go work out).
Ready…..set……GO!
Thanks for modeling for me Kate!
Well, isn’t that cute! I love light knits to wear in warm weather. Love the color you chose too!
Love it and the colorway. Looks great for the springtime.
Ooh I love a new nice and knit pattern!! Perfect for springtime
love it katie! can’t wait to knit it! — i getting it either way :)
Maybe this will become my next project. :)
I love it! I’ve beenlooking for a spring knit…this may be it!
I know I’m below the cut off but I just wanted to tell you how pretty that scarf is. I don’t usually admire such things but that is a lovely one. Congrats on your new patterns!
Kara, that turned out so pretty. I like the idea that it is not too bulky and yet would dress up an outfit!
this pattern looks like a fun summer knit:) I need a summer project to work on!.
Very cute – love the looped end – perfect for warmer weather wear!
Nice! Very nice!
This is beautiful. I wish to make something like this soon. Thank you for being an inspiration to budding crocheters like me!
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remshd(1M) remshd(1M)
NAME [Toc] [Back]
remshd - remote shell server
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
/usr/lbin/remshd [-lmns]
In Kerberos V5 Network Authentication Environments [Toc] [Back]
/usr/lbin/remshd [-clmnKkRr]
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
The remshd command is the server for the rcp, rdist and remsh
commands, rcmd() and the rcmd_af() function in case of IPv6 systems
(see rcp(1), rdist(1), remsh(1), rcmd(3N)), and rcmd_af(3N).
remshd allows two kinds of authentication methods:
1. Authentication based on privileged port numbers where the
client's source port must be in the range 512 through 1023.
In this case remshd assumes it is operating in normal or
non-secure environment.
2. Authentication based on Kerberos V5. In this case remshd
assumes that it is operating in a Kerberos V5 Network
Authentication, i.e., secure environment.
The inetd daemon invokes remshd if a service request is received at
ports indicated by shell or kshell services specified in /etc/services
(see inetd(1M) and services(4)). Service requests arriving at the
kshell port assume a secure environment and expect Kerberos
authentication to take place.
To start remshd from the inetd daemon in a non-secure environment, the
configuration file /etc/inetd.conf must contain an entry as follows:
shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd
In a secure environment, /etc/inetd.conf must contain an entry:
kshell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd -K
The above configuration line will start remshd in IPv4 mode. To run
remshd in IPv6 mode, the following line must be present in the
/etc/inetd.conf file:
shell stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd
Note: For IPv6 applications, the protocol tcp has to be changed
to tcp6. See the inetd.conf(4) manpage for more information.
To prevent non-secure access, the entry for shell should be commented
out in /etc/inetd.conf. Any non-Kerberos access will be denied since
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the entry for the port indicated by shell has now been removed or
commented out. In such a situation, a generic error message,
rcmd: connect hostname: Connection refused
is displayed. See DIAGNOSTICS for more details.
Note: By commenting out the entry for the port, access by other
clients such as rdist will also be prevented.
Options [Toc] [Back]
remshd recognizes the following options.
-l This option can be used to forbid authentication based on
the user's .rhosts file unless the user is a superuser.
-n This option can be used to disable transport-level keepalive
messages. Otherwise, the messages are enabled. The
keep-alive messages allow sessions to be timed out if the
client crashes or becomes unreachable.
-m With this option enabled, remshd returns immediately after
its child process gets killed; it does not wait for all its
sub child processes to die. This in turn makes remsh not to
wait even when the sub child processes are running remotely.
As a result, remsh will not appear hung. It is recommended
that users do not use -m option, if they want remshd to wait
until the completion of all the sub child processes.
Otherwise, the user may not get an expected result. This
option is applicable only to remsh with a secondary socket
connection.
-s This option is used in multi-homed NIS systems. It disables
remshd from doing a reverse lookup of the client's IP
address; see gethostbyname(3N). It can be used to
circumvent an NIS limitation with multi-homed hosts.
In a secure environment, remshd will recognize the following
additional options:
-c Ignore checksum verification. This option is used to
achieve interoperability between clients and servers using
different checksum calculation methods. For example, the
checksum calculation in a application developed with
Kerberos V5 Beta 4 API is different from the calculation in
a Kerberos V5-1.0 application.
-K Authorization based on Kerberos V5 must succeed or access
will be rejected (see sis(5) for details on authorization).
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-R Authentication based on privileged port numbers and
authorization of the remote user through equivalent accounts
must succeed. For more information on equivalent accounts,
see hosts.equiv(4).
-r.
-k Either one of the following must succeed. The order in
which the authorization checks are done is as specified
below.
1. Authorization based on Kerberos V5.
2. Authentication based on privileged port numbers and
authorization of the remote user through equivalent
accounts.
Note: The -k option is ignored when used with -K, and the -r
option is ignored when used with -R. The default option is
-K.
Operation [Toc] [Back]
When remshd receives a service request, it responds with the following
protocol:
1. The server checks the client's source port. If the port is
not a privileged port, i.e., in the range 512 through 1023,
and remshd is operating in a non-secure environment, the
connection is terminated. In a secure environment, the
action taken depends on the command line options:
-R The source port must be a privileged port otherwise the
connection is terminated.
-r If the source port is not a privileged port then
authorization based on Kerberos must succeed or the
connection is terminated.
-k The source port must be a privileged port if Kerberos
authorization fails.
-K No action is taken.
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2. The server reads characters from the connection up to a null
(\0) byte. It interprets the resulting string as an ASCII
number, base 10.
3. If the number is non-zero, it is interpreted as the port
number of a secondary stream to be used for standard error.
A second connection is then created to the specified port on
the client's host. (The source port of this second
connection will also be checked as specified in item 1.) If
the first character sent is a null (\0), no secondary
connection is made, and the standard error from the command
is sent to the primary stream. If the secondary connection
has been made, remshd interprets bytes it receives on that
socket as signal numbers and passes them to the command as
signals. See signal(2).
4. The server checks the client's source address and requests
the corresponding host name (see named(1M),
gethostbyaddr(3N), and hosts(4)). If it cannot determine
the hostname, it uses the dot-notation representation of the
host address.
5. In a secure environment, remshd performs authentication
based on Kerberos V5. See sis(5) for details.
6. The server reads the client's host account name from the
first connection. This is a null-terminated sequence not
exceeding 16 characters.
7. The server reads the server's host account name from the
first connection. This is a null-terminated sequence not
exceeding 16 characters.
8. The server reads a command to be passed to the shell from
the first connection. The command length is limited by the
maximum size of the system's argument list.
9. remshd then validates the user as follows (all actions take
place on the host remshd runs on):
a. It looks up the user account name (retrieved in step 6)
in the password file. If it finds it, it performs a
chdir() to either the user's home directory, if there
is one, or to "/."
b. If either the lookup or chdir() fails, the connection
is terminated (see chdir(2)).
c. The connection is also terminated if
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+ the account accessed is administratively locked.
The account can be locked by entering a character
in the password field that is not part of the set
of digits (such as *). The characters used to
represent "digits" are `.' for 0, / for 1, 0
through 9 for 2 through 11, `A through Z' for 12
through 37, and `a through z' for 38 through 63.
(See also passwd(4)).
+ in a non-secure environment, the account accessed
is protected by a password and, either the
password expired or the account on the client's
host is not equivalent to the account accessed.
+ in a secure environment, the command line options
decide whether connection is to be terminated.
-K if Kerberos authorization does not succeed
the connection is terminated (see sis(5) for
details on authorization).
-R if the client's host is not equivalent to the
account accessed, the connection is
terminated.
-r if the account is not equivalent to the
account accessed, then Kerberos authorization
has to succeed or the connection is
terminated.
-k if Kerberos authorization fails, then the
account has to be equivalent or the
connection is terminated. For more
information on equivalent accounts, see
hosts.equiv(4).
10. A null byte is returned on the primary connection and the
command line is passed to the normal login shell of the user
with that shell's -c option. The shell inherits the network
connections established by remshd and assumes the normal
user and group permissions of the user.
remshd uses the following path when executing the specified
command:
/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/local/bin
11. If a secondary socket has been set up, remshd normally exits
when command standard error and secondary socket standard
error have both been closed. If no secondary socket was set
up, remshd has called an exec(2) function, launched the
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command process, and is no longer present.
SECURITY FEATURES [Toc] [Back]
For a detailed information on all the configuration parameters that
affect remshd, refer to the security(4) man page. remshd supports the
following configuration parameters in the /etc/default/security file:
+ NOLOGIN
+ UMASK
DIAGNOSTICS [Toc] [Back]
All diagnostic messages are returned on the connection associated with
standard error after which any network connections are closed. An
error is indicated by a leading byte with a value of 1 (0 is returned
in step 9 above upon successful completion of all the steps before the
command execution).
Malformed from address [Toc] [Back]
The first socket connection does not use a reserved port or the
client's host address is not an Internet address.
Can't get stderr port
Unable to complete the connection of the secondary socket used
for error communication.
Second port not reserved [Toc] [Back]
The secondary socket connection does not use a reserved port.
Locuser too long [Toc] [Back]
The name of the user account on the client's host is longer than
16 characters.
Remuser too long [Toc] [Back]
The name of the user on the server's host is longer than 16
characters.
Command too long [Toc] [Back]
The command line passed exceeds the size of the argument list (as
configured into the system).
Login incorrect [Toc] [Back]
No password file entry existed for the user name on the server's
host, or the authentication procedure described above in step 8
failed.
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No remote directory [Toc] [Back]
The chdir command to the home directory or "/" on the server's
host failed.
Can't make pipe
The pipe needed for the standard error output wasn't created.
No more processes [Toc] [Back]
The server was unable to fork a process to handle the incoming
connection.
Next step: Wait a period of time and try again. If this message
persists, the server's host may have runaway processes that are
using all the entries in the process table.
system call: message
Error in executing the named system call. The message specifies
the cause of the failure.
shellname: ...
The user's login shell could not be started. This message is
returned on the connection associated with the standard error,
and is not preceded by a leading byte with a value of 1. Other
messages can be returned by the remote command when it executes.
rcmd: connect : <hostname>: Connection refused.
This generic message could be due to a number of reasons. One of
the reasons could be because the entry for shell service is not
present in /etc/inetd.conf. This entry may have been removed or
commented out to prevent non-secure access.
Kerberos specific errors are listed in sis(5).
WARNINGS [Toc] [Back]
The integrity of each host and the connecting medium is assumed if the
"privileged port" authentication procedure is used in a non-secure
environment or if the command line options -R or -r are used in a
secure environment. Although both these methods provide insecure
access, they are useful in an "open" environment.
Note that all the information, including any passwords, are passed
unencrypted between the two hosts when remshd is invoked in a nonsecure
environment.
remshd ignores SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT, and SIGTERM, so these signal
numbers can safely be sent to remote commands via the secondary socket
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provided by remshd. Other signal numbers may cause remshd to kill
itself.
AUTHOR [Toc] [Back]
remshd was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES [Toc] [Back]
$HOME/.rhosts User's private equivalence list
/etc/hosts.equiv List of equivalent hosts
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
remsh(1), inetd(1M), named(1M), rcmd(3N), rcmd_af(3N), hosts(4),
hosts.equiv(4), inetd.conf(4), inetd.sec(4), security(4), services(4),
sis(5).
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Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 4:14 pm
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NJ Colleges And Universities Ramp Up Security Efforts [AUDIO]
Governor Christie recently signed a bill that requires each of New Jersey’s 66 colleges and universities to file a five year campus security plan with state health, homeleand security and higher education officials.
Monmouth University President Paul Gaffney, who chairs the Campus Safety & Security Council, says it would better prepare schools for any potential disaster or emergency.
“A single shooter on a campus like the Virginia Tech scenario, a chemical spill, a fire, a robbery, a disease, a weather event like a Hurricane or big storm.”
The bill builds upon recommendations made by the New Jersey Campus Security Task Force, which was created in the wake of the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech shootings that left 33 people dead.
The New Jersey College and University Public Safety Association also started a peer review assessment, in which each college would answer a number of questions about its campus public safety operations and provide copies of documents to certain authorities.
“The checklist is about 140 questions developed by experts in the law enforcement, safety and mental health area and I think we are one of the only states in the nation currently doing this. Its great to look at one school and see what plans they have in place and then take notes at the next school to see what they are doing differently. We really learn a lot from each other and this peer review is becoming a model for the country” said Gaffney.
Schools will conduct periodic drills and plans must be reviewed and re-approved every five years.
In a 2010 published list of the most dangerous campuses in the country, more than a dozen New Jersey schools were on it including Princeton University, Ramapo College, and Rowan University.
“Any time we can take another step forward in terms of safety, is always a good thing” said Gaffney.
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According to Think with Google, 3 in 4 customers who find local information in search results helpful are more likely to visit that business. Around 65 percent of smartphone users agree that when conducting a search on their smartphones, they look for the most relevant information regardless of the company providing the information. It’s important to focus on the key moments that can help inspire people prior to buying your product or service (content marketing, social media, developing personas, data and reputation management).
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A 10-year-oldCaliforniagirl CyFi (nick name) has found a zero-day exploit in number of iOS and Android games, independent researchers also confirmed it as a new class of vulnerability. CyFi told that she loved to play farm-style games, but mostly of these games are so time-consuming and boring, as users have to wait for very longer period of time to harvest the grown crops and re-grow the crops to get the points, so to get revenge of her frustration she discovered a new flaw to get the most out of the games without any waiting.
CyFi told that most of the farm-style games are time-dependent. Therefore, by changing the time on her device, she reduced the waiting time and got instant crop growth. However, she told that some time-dependent games block that flaw using different tricks, but she also found some other ways to overcome these tricks by using different methods, either by disconnecting the phone’s Wi-Fi or only increasing the time in small increments repeatedly.
The further details about this vulnerability will be revealed at DefCon Kids conference this weekend.
Golden Rule of Security: Never trust the client.
If developers are using the client clock as trusted input then they are opening their application to manipulation. Obviously compensation needs to be made for offline play (disabling wireless for example) but once connection is re-established it should sync and validate a journal of offline activity and use that to update the server state of the player’s game. Blindly trusting the client is a great way to get hacked.
To be fair, I’d hardly call her a hacker.
She stumbled on a cheat for a handful of games, something we all knew about for years and she’s news?!?
I figured out that having a piss in your tumble dryer is a really bad idea, can i haz own article?
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APPLE display without getting in the way of the screen.
The display is flexible and made out of sapphire, the second hardest transparent material, behind diamond.
Apple is presenting the watch as a timepiece, communications tool and a health and fitness device all in one.
The rear of the device has four lenses which detect pulse rate. The watch includes a gyroscope and accelerometer so that the watch can provide a daily picture of your level of activity and reward fitness goals.
There will be six different straps available, ranging from something glamorous to wear out to something a bit more suited for exercise.
Much like the iPhone, apps are going to be a key feature of the Apple Watch. Apple showed off transport and hotel apps that allow you to check in from your wrist and a BMW app that will let you see where you parked your car and direct you back to it.
Apple Maps is on board too, giving you directions straight from your wrist. The watch will even vibrate to indicate when you need to turn left or right at a corner.
There was no word on expected battery life, but interestingly, the Apple Watch will use a wireless charger with magsafe tech to replenish its juice.
As expected, an iPhone 5 or later is required to use the Apple Watch, with no support for Android or other mobile phones. Prices start at $349 USD and will be on sale from early 2015.
This is pretty neat 🙂
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Once-comatose Oak Forest boy on (safer?) road to recovery
BY SUSAN DEMAR LAFFERTY [email protected] June 22, 2012 9:54PM
Alex Fitzgerald was hit bt a car along 151st in Oak Forest. He has regular therapy and will need additional surgery. Efforts are underway to improve this road which passes by three schools and a baseball field. | Larry Ruehl~Sun-Times Media
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The gray T-shirt Alex Fitzgerald wore simply said, “Impossible is nothing.”
If not for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish logo on it, one easily could take it as being the 12-year-old’s own personal motto.
The fact he was standing in front of Jack Hille School on 151st Street in Oak Forest one day last week seemed impossible eight weeks ago.
“It’s a miracle for sure,” said his mother, Lisa Fitzgerald. “He had the worst type of injury — 60 (percent) to 70 percent succumb to such injuries.”
As a nurse, she was painfully aware of her son’s condition. She is also amazed that he has recovered so well after being struck by a car April 20 in front of the school. He suffered multiple injuries — a traumatic brain injury, fractures to his face, head, collarbone and leg — and was in a coma for nearly three weeks.
All his bones have healed. The blood clots in his arm have dissolved. In August, he’ll return to Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn for surgery to replace a portion of his skull. In the meantime, he wears a colorful helmet to protect his head.
“He improves every day. He’s doing great. It’s amazing to see the power of prayer,” Lisa Fitzgerald said.
Nearby, an electronic sign at Jack Hille School beats out a simple, heartfelt message in red letters on behalf of the whole community: “Get well soon Alex.”
Alex was able to return to his Oak Forest home June 8, but continues with therapy and hopes to return to the school in a few months for his eighth-grade year.
Before he does, school and city officials say, there will be safety improvements in place in front of the school — at the crosswalks on 151st Street — to prevent another accident.
The push for safety
School officials had tried for more than seven years to get better lighting and traffic control along this stretch, and now it seems like they, too, have accomplished a seemingly impossible feat.
After Alex’s accident — the second in the past two years resulting in students being injured — parents, school and city officials launched a campaign, garnering nearly 2,000 signatures on a petition and more than 160 letters, to secure improvements to this well-traveled and somewhat dark Cook County-maintained roadway.
They want pedestrian signals installed at the crosswalks immediately east and west of the school to stop traffic when pedestrians are crossing.
Oak Forest city administrator Troy Ishler said he has met with ComEd, and streetlights will be brighter by the end of June. Streetlights at Condado Drive and Oxford Drive will be upgraded from 250- to 400-watt lights at the crosswalks. A new light with an extended arm will be installed between Oxford Drive and Hille School, he said.
Cook County Highway Department Supt. John Yonen did a traffic analysis of the entire corridor and said he initially found that pavement markings were faded, some signs were not visible, and lighting was not as bright as it could be — all “short-term fixes,” he said.
Long-term fixes — traffic control devices and changes to the speed limit — are part of the traffic study the county did in the 151st Street corridor while school was still in session, Yonen said.
“We are looking at the entire corridor, studying the best remedies. Signals do not always solve the problem,” he said.
Forest Ridge School District 142 Supt. Margaret Longo said she expects improvements to be in place before students return to school after summer break. She recently received a letter from Yonen, saying he wants to meet with her, Oak Forest Mayor Hank Kuspa and Cook County Commissioner Joan Murphy to discuss the findings of a traffic analysis and recommended improvements.
The school is a popular place for after-school programs and community events.
“A lot of residents in that neighborhood depend on that crosswalk to get to the schools, the park and the ballfields,” Kuspa said. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that we need improvements here.”
Kuspa said he was on the school board seven or eight years ago when it petitioned the county to improve the crosswalk.
Within a half-mile stretch, there are three schools: the Southwest Cook County Cooperative Association for Special Education, Jack Hille School and Oak Forest High School. The posted speed limit is 35 mph. The only traffic light is at Central Avenue.
“We’re not going to stop until this intersection is safe for all of our kids,” Kuspa said.
“Everyone is coming together,” Longo said. “I never want another child to go through what Alex went through.”
‘How can this be?’
Alex — soon to be 13 — said he remembers attending the school play that Friday night in April, but does not recall leaving the school and getting hit by the car.
Before he arrived at the hospital emergency room, he was in a deep coma, not likely to wake up, his mother said.
“I was in a state of shock and disbelief. ‘How can this be?’ For weeks, I was living it, but I couldn’t believe it,” she said.
Throughout this ordeal, Lisa Fitzgerald said, the family kept a constant vigil by Alex’s bedside, gaining strength from God, family, friends and the people of the community — many of whom she does not even know personally.
Alex finally woke up May 8. His speech initially was slow and he had to learn to walk and write again.
Every time his therapists and doctors gave him a goal, he met it, his mom said.
His brain was able to retain and learn new information. She knew Alex was “back” when a visitor blew him a kiss and he “caught” it. And then he “really began talking” on Mother’s Day, she said.
She holds no ill feelings toward the driver of the car — a 26-year-old Oak Forest woman charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian — and urged her to visit Alex in the hospital, which she did.
“It was truly an accident,” Lisa Fitzgerald said, admitting Alex did not look both ways before crossing the street that night.
She never had any qualms about him crossing 151st Street. He did it every day on his way to and from school — but with a crossing guard.
As Alex and his mother stood that one day last week by the crosswalk at 151st Street and Condado Drive, immediately west of the school, a group of younger kids walked by and greeted him with a casual wave and a “Hi, Alex.”
He’s a bit of a celebrity in the area, but according to his mom, he doesn’t realize why he is such a big deal. He just wants his therapy to be over, to get back to school and play sports — although contact sports won’t be allowed for at least a year.
“I can’t say, ‘Why him?’ There has to be a lesson here,” she said.
The street is being fixed, so hopefully, this will not happen again, and even kids who don’t know Alex are being more careful about crossing the street, she said. She hopes to encourage parents whose children have traumatic brain injuries.
“The community really impressed me,” she said. “There were so many little things that meant so much.”
Students had a lemonade stand to raise money, residents tied ribbons on their trees and delivered meals to their home, and churches began prayer chains, she said.
“I knew we had good people here. I didn’t need proof,” Lisa Fitzgerald said. “I’m so relieved and so grateful.”
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Nintendo's Wii U may not be selling as well as the company hoped, or even as well as the original Wii, but at least the company is still making money on its consoles.
Though the Wii U was technically the first next generation console to arrive on the market, it still has a long way to go in matching the various optional digital media provided by competitors like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Despite the inclusion of Netflix and Hulu Plus as streaming entertainment providers, integration with Nintendo TVii (the real draw of those services on the Wii U) has yet to take hold.
Generally speaking, the Wii U has lagged far behind when it comes to apps, and consumers were dealt another disappointment this week when Nintendo delayed the integration of TiVo and Google Maps.
Same old song and dance
Delays aren't uncommon when launching new hardware, and consumers were pretty forgiving of Nintendo when the much ballyhooed Nintendo TVii missed the Wii U's launch.
Making matter worse though, when TVii finally did arrive in December, it lacked the Netflix and TiVo integration Nintendo said would make the software the go-to for living rooms around the world.
Even then, users didn't throw up their arms in exasperation, as Nintendo assured such functionality would arrive by the end of January.
Now, with January coming to a close, Nintendo has again changed its tune, claiming Netflix and TiVo shouldn't be expected in the U.S. until the ambiguous "early 2013." The company had specifically pegged Jan. 2013 as the release point for TiVo.
Wii U owners could have attempted to use Google Maps to find the missing apps, but surprise, surprise, that application was also met with a delay this week.
Where are the apps?
In early December, Nintendo announced plans for a Google Maps app that was built from the ground up to work specifically with the GamePad.
When zoomed into Street View, the accelerometer in the GamePad would allow users to view the surrounding area at a full 360 degrees.
Wednesday, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed Google Maps wouldn't arrive on time, and instead wouldn't be available until sometime during the first quarter of 2013.
Had Nintendo not predicted a January release for its Google Maps and TiVo integration, it's likely users wouldn't be all that upset neither option was available on the Wii U yet.
However, these delays are the latest in a growing list of missed promises when it comes to the Wii U.
With potential new consoles from Sony and Microsoft seemingly around the corner, Nintendo is fast running out of time to get its act together.
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Last Saturday, I went to Spotlight for a look at the big sale. I found some gorgeous green duchess satin and black lace. One of my friends has a cute skirt that was black lace over white satin and so I was inspired to make my own version but with a colour I very rarely wear. Having made the decision to purchase the fabric, I then decided I needed a new pattern the skirt, as the patterns I had at home wouldn't suit what I wanted. So I had a look through the pattern section and found the perfect pattern from vogue. And it was on sale!! Clearly it was meant to be! At least until I got to the counter anyway. Once at the counter, it was a different story. They didn't have the pattern I wanted. AGAIN. This is not the first time I have tried to buy a pattern at Spotlight Geelong and they don't have it. I am now of the opinion that they don't stock patterns at my local store. They never have the ones that I want in the sizes I want. Nor are they helpful in trying to get the pattern in. Apparently they don't do interstore transfers and don't know when they get deliveries and even if they will get more in. I was quite disappointed when I left.
I had a look at the other patterns and was not overly impressed. So I called the store in the next suburb to see if they had it. They were so helpful and even though they didn't have any in stock, they offered to order it in. They also did a search of the other stores and were able to tell me that the Ballarat store had it in stock. Talk about great customer service!!! Even after all of that, they transferred me to the Ballarat store and I was able to put the pattern on hold. So on Sunday, I toddled off to Ballarat to pick up my pattern.
I re-cut, re-based everything and resewed the darts and was quite happy with it all. I even managed to put the zip in without any problems. Things were going well. Or at least a lot more smoothly. I decided it was time to sew the three panels together. I sewed the skirt together and tried it on. Only to notice that it was too big despite having cut the correct size for my measurements and having taken a bit off in when I was sewing the seams. I also wasn't happy with the inside as I had had to zigzag stitch everything to prevent the material fraying. Normally, I would just use an over locker to neaten it all up, but as I had no over locker I needed to use another technique to stop the fraying. I originally thought that I could French seam it all, but after I had completed the French seam on seam joining the two back panels, I realised that the fabric was too thick and was going to cause the seams to be too bulky. So I zigzag stitched the seams. It looked so messy. Call me spoilt, but I love how neat the over locker makes everything and how much more professional it looks as well.
I put the skirt aside for the rest if the week and decided to wait until I had an over locker again. Trev agreed that I should buy one. Once I had obtained his blessing, I called the two stores in Geelong that sell Janomes and got some prices. I found the Janome MyLock 644D that was within my price range a while on sale. It had a good reputation and is suppose to be easy to thread, plus it came with some free lessons on how to use it, cotton, a pair of dress makers scissors and the first 12 month service free. Sold to the girl who can't stand zigzagging her garments!
Anyway back to the skirt-Mum came around Saturday afternoon and helped me to fit the skirt and put the waistband in. I then had the pleasure of hand sewing the hem and putting a hook and eye above the zip, before being all done! Hooray! Another finished project!
New Skills
Skills learnt included working with lace on a slippery surface and how to get everything to sit flat. This required me to learn how to baste, the best method I found was doing it by hand as everything sat much flatter than when I did basted it using the machine. Putting in darts with the lace was also a new one, but was made easier since I had put in all the darts before I realised I had made a mistake and had to unpick them all. To make it easier, I put in some long stitches through the middle of the dart before I sewed the dart to ensure that I caught the lace when sewing it. Then pulled the stitches out once the darts had been completed.
The Facts
Fabric: Mint green duchess satin $7.65 per meter (on sale), black lace also $7.65 per meter and on sale from Spotlight
Pattern: Vogue easy options 6383. Pattern was about $14.90 and will definitely be made again as I want to try a couple of the other views.
Notions: 7″ zip $1, hook and eye 10 cents
Time to complete: 6 or 7 hours
First worn: At work today
Wear again? Sure will! Its a nice skirt for work.
Total Price: about $17.00 (not including pattern price)
That skirt looks awesome Bridget... You are getting really Good at it
Beautiful skirt Bridge! Yay my skirt inspired your skirt :)
Thanks Michelle and Courtney!
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, a huge chunk of potential site visitors. Businesses shouldn’t view mobile web design as a foreign challenge to their site’s design, but as a helpful companion.
Five Mobile Design Considerations
1.Your Site is Now an Application – For all intents and purposes your website is a mobile application. Users will access it and expect it to function easily and a lot like a mobile application in an app store. In fact, you may want to sit down with your team and determine the value of a dedicated mobile app for your website that directs traffic back to your main site.
2.If Your Site Isn’t Mobile-Ready, Recalibrate – Some businesses with an older site might resist this idea that their site should be mobile-centric. What often happens is that these same businesses design their mobile site to match their older website, and not the other way around. But even the largest companies with the most massive site structures are seeing the value of re-calibrating site design for mobile. In fact, it was recently announced that Facebook intends to make the user experience seamless for their users regardless of the device. Your business needs to follow their lead to stay competitive.
3.Design Your Mobile Site Around Conversions – The only reason you would even want to design a mobile site is to reach more users/customers/subscribers. Design your mobile site or app in a way that nudges your customers through your conversion funnel.
4.Mobile Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Complex – Actually, the opposite is true. Mobile design should be a lot simpler than your main website. There are many ways to accomplish this, but you can start by not trying to fill every white space with content. It also helps to use smaller files to prevent extended load times that tend to drive users away.
5.Make Your Mobile Site Respond – Lastly, your mobile site needs to be responsive. This is a big trend that has taken shape in the last few years. Responsive design functions on the reality that no two users will access your site from the same device. This means that your site must scale to fit a laptop, desktop, tablet PC, smartphone and just about any other type of computing device used to access your website.
You’re Probably Running Out of Excuses, but That’s OK
At this point in the game, if you’re resistant to the idea of mobile design you’re only hurting your business. Remember that statistic at the beginning of this post? Over 10% of web users are accessing your website with a mobile device. That means out of every 1000 site visitors, you’re alienating over 100 potential customers. Mobile design isn’t about being hip or following a web design trend. It’s really about making it easy for people to find you from wherever they are in the world.
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Bands Needed for Northborough Summer Concert Series
The Northborough Community Affairs Committee is now accepting band submissions for our 2013 Free Summer Concert Series. Please submit your band information to [email protected]. We are a family friendly concert series and look for bands that will entertain people of all ages. Thank you!
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In his jeep car he reached the bar named pramoda, head to lucky office and open door
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Sanskar: hai lu……………. (lucky was making out with a girl)
Lucky; aaari knock yaar
Sanskar face was full red
: y knock this is office not bedroom. Sorry rago
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Rago (the girl)
; I know. But ur bhai is out of control
Lucky: when I have hot wife like u
, control surrender baby
Sanskar: yaaar get a room
Lucky and Rago: get lost hahaha
Lucky: really Sanskar
u gotta find a girl and marry, only then u ll understand
Sanskar got sad face
: no girl worth after her, beside who need marry while no one girl can handle my condition
.
Rago got sad face also
: maybe u need to let go Sanskar and take risks. Im going to waiters.(then she left)
Lucky; y mention it Sanskar
Sanskar: sorry laksh
.. I really didn’t mean to, she just refuse to b out of me
.
Laksh: we were children Sanskar,
there were noth……
Sanskar: laaaksh
!!! Y u call me?
Lucky give long sight
: we got a job
Sanskar: who is the client?
Lucky: u wont believe, RAJ malotra
Sanskar: u mean raj malotra the drug dealer of delhi, kalkata, and mombay.
Lucky: with his flesh and blood
Sanskar ;Name of target?
Lucky: Not yet know, we ll know at his home 8 pm.
Sanskar: His home?
He needs us
, he come
Lucky: Sanskar it raj malotra
Sanskar: Trust me, tell him we preserved a cabin for him at 7 pm, he ll come
Lucky; Ok
Sanskar: Does rago know?
Lucky; Sure if its raj malotra it ll take three of us.
Sanskar: Very good
By the time of 7 . Raj malotra arrived with two beautiful women and 4 bodyguards who awaits him outside paramoda bar.
Raj is a man in age of 47, wearing black Indian suit. With him one woman 37 age whose hair is red, white s*xy knee dress and showing her full back and expensive jewelry. Other woman rather to be called a girl, age 20, black long hair, bubbly eyes and black night kurta barely showing her top back, glittery scarf and shown arms.
Laksh and ragini welcomed them at door and lead them to their carbine through the bar that was busy and music full in the place.
Sanskar waited them in the cabine wearing jeans with red shirt and jeans light jacket
Sanskar: welcome mr. raj
Raj: welcome mr. …….
Sanskar with evil smile
; Sanky, and those r lucky and rago my partners, please have a seat
Ragini knew raj was decreasing from Sanskar so she said: welcome, mr.raj. those must be ur wife and daughter na
???!(laksh give her elbow knock
, but she didn’t care
)
Raj face was between anger and evil
: no. (pointing to red hair) this is shivrani, my escort from long time, (the woman gave glare gaze since it mean she is old), (pointing to the girl) this is my 24 hours secretary
in everything, name swany
Girl replayed in challenge: SWARA!
Laksh ragini and Sanskar was shocked
Ragini: excuse me!
Swara: my name is swara,
not swany.
Raj pressed swara arm toughly
but she kept calm. Sanskar notice that and smile
Sanskar: so to business. Target?
Raj: Ram goshal
Laksh: The lawyer?!
Raj: Indeed
Ragini: What u want from him?
Raj: I want him dead
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The fall lineup of RecSports fitness classes has started and intramural registration has begun. Check out northcentralcardinals.com/recsports for details. Current students, faculty and staff are welcome to participate in all RecSports activities.
With the start of fall term, it’s time to think about joining fitness classes and signing up for intramurals. Both are open to all students, faculty and staff. Fitness classes are free and and there’s no registration, except for indoor cycling and weight training. Intramurals require registration with a $20 refundable deposit. Northcentralcardinals.com/recsports is your portal for more information.).
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Family Dollar Store is located in the Suburban Plaza Shopping Center off N. Decatur Road. This chain discount store offers items for the kitchen, bathroom, entertainment room and more. There is also a selection of clothing, furniture and decor. Make sure to check out the Web site for printable coupons and all the latest deals.
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Courtesy of Edgewood College, Sports Information Department
MAD.
To earn the award, teams are required to have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the 2008-09 academic year. The Edgewood College women's team recorded a team grade point average of 3.36 last year, while the men's team scored a 3.26 average. Head Coach Tim Alexander has coached both squads simultaneously for the last 17 seasons.
This season marks the third consecutive NSCAA Team Academic Award for the women's soccer program and the second in a row for the men's team. Nationwide, 331 women's teams and 143 men's teams were honored by the NSCAA.
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With John McCain's appointment of Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate, the spotlight has been shone on Alaska, so I thought the time right to bring up one of my favourite quiz questions.
A great quiz question is to ask:
1) which American State is the most Northern
2) which American State is the most Eastern
3) which American State is the most Southern
4) which American State is the most Western
Virtually everyone plumps for Alaska as the most northern, California or Florida as the most Southern, Maine as the most Eastern and California or Hawaii (if being smart) as the most Western.
In fact the answer to Northern, Eastern and Western is the same - Alaska. Northern and Western, people will normally believe, but Eastern? It's all due to Alaska's Aleutian Islands which stretch right up to the edge of the Western Hemisphere at the 180º line of Longitude, thus making Alaska the most western state in the country; but they also stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere, and up the edge of the Russian Federation, making it the most Eastern state as well. The most Southern US State is Hawaii.
Just as interesting is if you just count the contiguous American States; then:
The most Northern State is Minnesota
The most Eastern State is Maine
The most Southern State is Florida
The most Western State is Washington State
Tomorrow I may blog about where the geographic centre of America is, or I may not...
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Zen-like Brey Having A Blast
The Notre Dame men’s basketball team was in 20-point hole in the first half of Saturday’s game at Villanova. Though far from the sharp group that had rattled off seven consecutive Big East Conference games, head coach Mike Brey’s team showed no signs of surrender. There were no sagging chins, no fingers pointed and no face-melting tirades near the bench from Brey.
It’s simply not Brey’s style, nor has it been in his 12 years guiding the Fighting Irish. He’s matured from his early days in the profession, he says, and typically the players he and the University attract are cerebral and coachable.
The operative word for Brey this season has been “loose.” After all, the Irish, picked ninth in the conference preseason poll, have nothing to lose. At 19-8 overall and 11-3 in league play, the new theme for the 23-rd ranked Irish, as Brey put it, is “fun.”
“I don’t know if I’ve had more fun with a group,” he said Monday. “That’s saying a lot after last year, because last year’s group was men and a little bit different feel because of how old they were. The students [this year] that they were, and that they let us teach back in November and December when we weren’t very good, was really a key.”
That’s why Brey, who said he had a motivational speech cued for weeks that he hadn’t needed to use, didn’t scorch the locker room at halftime in Philadelphia.
“Yeah, but it wasn’t one [that was] overly emotional,” he said. “It was just kind of confronting them on ... kind of looking around at the first half — it was kind of the first time I’ve seen us glide a little bit since we got this started. Quite frankly I expected it sooner. They reacted really well. By the end of it I was talking about a methodical comeback — four-minute segments.
“When we get it to five minutes in game situations, that’s when we’ve been great. It was kind of the tone you were ready to talk about; it just hadn’t really presented itself until the first half the other night.”
Notre Dame hammered away and ended up with a 74-70 victory in overtime for program-record-tying eighth consecutive league victory. And in a timeout in the extra period, it was obvious just how much Brey trusts the young pupils that have matured in a short amount of time, when he used to relay on veteran voices in senior-dominated lineups.
Atkins took over. Brey listened.
“I think that was the plan when we empowered him making him a captain right around Christmas,” Brey said. “We just felt with [Tim Abromaitis] down we kind of needed to bring this along as fast as possible. I think it was going to come naturally anyways, but I felt let’s make the endorsement now.
“Our huddles are group discussions many times. You know that scene in a movie where the teacher says, ‘Talk amongst yourselves.’ There’s a little bit of that. I really value their feedback. It gives me a little bit of a vibe listening sometimes to where we’re at and what we’re doing and what they talked about out on the court. Certainly I think Scott Martin is almost like an assistant coach at this point in his career. But Eric really has a great feel for our system, the guys he plays with; he’s really bright.”
It keeps Brey’s veins from popping out and his face from turning purple. It makes his job fun.
“I’m sure when I was a younger coach I was a little more excited and a little more anxious, but I think overall my demeanor has been to be poised on the sideline, even though inside you may be doing back flips,” Brey said. “When you’re guys look over, they don’t see a maniac. They see a calming influence.
“I’m going to be loose the rest of my career because I can be. I’m being loose the rest of the way. If I can’t be loose here I’ll go be loose somewhere else at this point in my career. I think it’s important for them to look over and see some poise and some calm and some control. I think you pick your spots when you show some energy. There’s no question that Eric Atkins’ calm and poise, and Scott Martin’s poise has gotten contagious with some other guys on the team.”
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Reba Mcentire is a role model for young starsNovember 9th, 2010 - 12:00 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Los Angeles, Nov 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) She may have won just one award in her singing career but country music icon Reba Mcentire has played great roles in the lives of many of the current country musicians around. She received her sole award in 1986 when she won the CMA’s entertainer of the year award.
However at the age of 55 years, Reba is still performing and she currently have the real chance to add to her award tally. She has been nominated for the female vocalist of the year awards at the upcoming awards on Wednesday. Most of the singers she inspired are also amongst the list of award nominees. They include Miranda Lambert, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. These artists name Reba as a model they looked up to when they were starting their careers.
Interestingly when Reba picked her solo award, Lambert was just 3 years and Scott had just been born and was just few months old. Reba has not lost any of her vibrancy to advanced age. She is set to released her latest album-the 34th- a day before the awards come off on Wednesday. The new album is “All The Women I Am”.
Lambert described Reba perfectly when she said that, “I think Reba has really shown what a woman’s career should look like. She’s just a mogul. She works so hard and she looks better than she ever has and her music’s great still, it fits in no matter what.”
Lambert has nine nominations and she leads the pack of nominees.
- Reba McEntire Gains "Female Vocalist Of The Year" Nomination At CMA Awards - Sep 02, 2010
- Country Music Awards: Lady Antebellum Nominated In Six Categories - Nov 06, 2010
- Lady Antebellum Bags Two Awards At The CMA Awards 2010 - Nov 11, 2010
- 'All The Women I Am' Delves Deep Into The Life Of Reba McEntire - Nov 10, 2010
- Reba McEntire Woos Audience At the CMA 2010 - Nov 12, 2010
- Faith Hill launches her comeback single 'Come Home' - Nov 10, 2011
- CMA Awards 2010 Highlights - Nov 11, 2010
- Reba McEntire Sings Beyonce Knowles Hit 'If I Were A Boy' At The CMA Awards - Nov 11, 2010
- Brad Paisley To Host CMA Awards 2010 For The Third Time - Nov 04, 2010
- Miranda Lambert Shines At Country Music Awards - Nov 11, 2010
- George Strait's "The Breath You Take" Leaves CMA Audience Teary - Nov 11, 2010
- CMA Awards 2010: Miranda Lambert And Lady Antebellum Lead Nomination List - Nov 04, 2010
- The Winners Of CMA Awards Walked The Red Carpet With Glory - Nov 11, 2010
- CMA 2009 rocked by Barbara Mandrell & Reba McEntire - Nov 12, 2009
- Miranda Lambert Takes Home Album Of The Year At ACM Awards - Apr 19, 2010
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A 'Magical' Night In South Bend
If you prematurely turned off your television set or left Purcell Pavilion before the end of regulation early Saturday night, you probably learned a hard lesson about faith. The No. 25 Notre Dame men’s basketball team certainly believes after watching junior Jerian Grant walk on water for 45 seconds and a cast of reserves fight to extend and eventually finish off a five-overtime thriller against Louisville.
“I've been coaching for a long time," Irish coach Mike Brey said, "and you can count on one hand the ones where you go, 'That's magical.
."
By now you already know that the 104-101 victory was both the longest regular-season game in the history of the Big East Conference and the longest contest in Notre Dame (19-5, 7-5 Big East) hoops annals. It was the fifth NCAA Division I game to go to five overtimes since the 1996-97 season and the seventh time in the last 11 meetings the two teams went to at least one extra stanza. All four of Grant’s field goals came in the final minute of regulation, when he poured in three triples and a three-point play for 12 of his 19 points. It's a tone-setting win for the final stretch, which includes seven more Big East contests to build Notre Dame's NCAA Tournament resume.
But here are a few more interesting tidbits from the epic showdown that likely solidified many more visits from ESPN College GameDay in future years:
• Many Notre Dame students began camping out at Purcell Friday night to be party of the GameDay telecast throughout the day Saturday. By the time they left at roughly 1 a.m. Sunday, they had spent the better part of a weekend to be counted among the 9,149 people in attendance.
• John Gaffney officiated the 2p.m. DePaul-Marquette game earlier in the day in Milwaukee (an 89-78 Marquette win) before heading to South Bend for what turned out to be a 65-minute contest between the Irish and Cardinals. We can’t say for certain, but that’s surely a record for a referee — 105 game minutes on the clock in the same day.
• In his eight previous games dating back to the 65-58 home loss to Connecticut on Jan. 12, Irish senior center Garrick Sherman was 0-for-7 from the field in 29 combined minutes. He played 22 Saturday — all in the overtimes — and was 7-for-10 from the field en route to 17 points.
• What got lost in both team’s poor shooting efforts from the field and the foul line in regulation was the spectacular job Notre Dame did defensively against one of the best point guards in the country. Senior Peyton Siva, who ranks third in the Big East with six assists per game is averaging 9.1 points per contest after helping guide the Cardinals to a Big East tournament title and a run to the Final Four last season, was limited to just two points and four assists. He was scoreless in Louisville’s 24-point first half — the lowest-scoring half by a Notre Dame Big East opponent since South Florida scored 19 in the second half of last season's league tournament quarterfinal contest (a 57-53 Irish overtime win).
• Junior point guard Eric Atkins matched a Notre Dame record by playing 60 minutes, tying Chris Thomas, who played 60 minutes in Notre Dame’s four-overtime win at Georgetown (116-111) on Feb. 9, 2002.
• With three starters out of the game for most of the bonus time, sophomore guard Pat Connaughton ended the long night with 16 points and 14 rebounds for his first double-double of the season and second of his career.
• Fans had a chance to rush the court twice over the marathon day, the first time coming before noon when a student hit a half-court shot worth $18,000.
• At the team hotel Friday night, Brey showed a collection of film clips of famous boxing knockouts, topped off by Muhammad Ali standing over a motionless opponent on the canvas. The film was given to Brey by former Notre Dame student and current professional fighter Mike Lee.
"A lot of people, when they think about Notre Dame, they think about 3-point shooters and not really toughness,” Grant said. “Coach gave us the boxing gloves and was like, 'Here, show them how tough you guys are.'"
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Actress Kajal Aggarwal makes ramp debutAugust 2nd, 2011 - 2:07 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS) on Day two.,” Kajal told reporters here.
So was she nervous walking the ramp for the first time?
“Although this was my first time on the ramp, I wasn’t nervous. I was just really excited,” she said.
“I wish I could rehearse, but I flew down from Chennai today .”
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'Hero' dad kills man who allegedly abused his daughter6/12/2012
The father from Shiner, Texas, who beat to death a man he reportedly caught sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter is being hailed by some as a hero. The alleged abuser had been invited to the family's house on Saturday for a social gathering, and the girl was attacked inside the home while relatives were outside tending to the horses. "He got what he deserved," one resident told CNN, while Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon added, "You have a right to defend your daughter. He acted in defense of a third person." The father has not been charged; neither man has been publicly identified.
What would you have done if you were the dad in this
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Imitation best form of flattery: Farah Khan on plagiarismAugust 17th, 2011 - 3:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Plagiarism is not usually taken kindly, but jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has a different take on this. An Indore based designer has reportedly copied her designs, but Farah is not only amused, she is also keeping the copycat’s name under wraps.
“Heard that a novice designer from Indore has plagirised my work. All I can say is I’m flattered as “imitation is d best form of flattery”,” Farah tweeted on micro-blogging site Twitter.
However Farah, daughter of yesteryears star Sanjay Khan, didn’t reveal the name of the designer as she feels this will give her undue importance.
“I will not name her as she will gain importance through my body of work. As people don’t care how they achieve fame, be it infamously as well,” posted the designer who received the Best Jewellery Designer of the Year Award at the Retail Jeweller India Awards.
“But amused I definitely am. Pray that god gives her talent to sustain her profession in the long run. Ha ha & not the plagirising type,” she further posted.
Pop singer Beyonce Knowles and tennis star Serena Williams have been spotted wearing Farah’s designs.
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Obama declares Christmas Eve a holiday, but only if you work for him12/22/2012
Did a petition on the White House website calling for government workers to get Christmas Eve off actually work? A call for President Obama to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and give government workers the day off successfully surpassed the 25,000-signature mark required for an official response. And in the response, the president issued an executive order declaring, "All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed" on Dec. 24. Nice! But did the pres plan on this all along? A petition to start work on a Death Star has more than 30,000 signatures, but it doesn't look like anything's in the works yet. [Source]
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Mum takes son to police for one pound theftAugust 17th, 2011 - 1:07 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 16 (IANS) A woman in Britain handed over her 14-year-old son to the police after watching him on CCTV stealing a chewing gum packet worth one pound (over $1.5).
The boy, from Sale town of Manchester, was dragged to the Stretford police station by his mother to confess his crime, Daily Express reported.
The teenager admitted stealing the gum from Sainsbury’s in Manchester city centre.
Prosecutor Jo Ingle told Manchester magistrates: “Several images were taken of people running out of the shop. His mum saw them and took him to Stretford police station.”
Dominic Walker, defending, said: “His mother and father were, quite frankly, disgusted.
“He’s not in trouble at school, he realises what he’s done and realises the effect it has had.”
Stating he had limited sentencing powers because the boy was under 15, District Judge Khalid Qureshi said: “I can’t send him to prison because parliament says I can’t.”
The boy pleaded guilty and was awarded a nine-month referral order besides being told to pay 85 pounds.
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Well, well, after five years, we’re now at the final season of Damages. And you know what, it promises to be the best season yet. Everyone’s favorite dynamic and relationship on this series deals with the intricacies and complexities between Ellen (Rose Byrne) and Patty (Glenn Close), and the writers have cleverly manipulated this season for both of our leading ladies to go against each other, one on one, both personally and professionally (where it really counts). And, apparently, by series’ end Ellen will have paid the ultimate price.
That’s right, in the flash forward, it appears that Ellen has fallen from a building and wound up dead stories below. Now, this being Damages, not everything is at it seems. Then again, this being Damages, Ellen could very well be dead. Either way, I think Michael’s quote from last season — which went a little like, “Everyone in your life either leaves you or ends up dead” — is quite fitting. The sad truth is that no matter how much Ellen tries to separate herself from Patty, she just cannot seem to do it. Sure, she wants to go head to head with her, but ultimately it’s to prove her worth to Patty…not just to beat her. She has some sort of sick addiction with pleasing her, masquerading as ruining her life. Why not just go to the police, even if it won’t accomplish much? Ellen should heed her own advice, lest she wants to end up familyless and alone (as she pointed out last season). In the end, however, she could very well find that sticking with Patty in any capacity means receiving your eternal reward.
Ellen decides to take a case, by forgoing her character witness against Patty, given to her by Channing McClaren (Ryan Phillipe), who runs a WikiLeakes-esque organiation. He was given information that a huge financial bank was practicing insider trading, given to him by employee of said financiers Naomi Walling (Jenna Elfman). However, the day the insider trading secrets go public, so do Naomi’s personal emails — not only airing all of her dirty laundry, but thereby confirming she was the leak and ruining her career and reputation. McClaren wants Ellen to defend him for an oncoming lawsuit and Patty wants to sue McClaren on Naomi’s behalf…there’s just one little problem: Naomi’s not interested.
Seeing that Jenna Elfman was all over the marketing for this season (and I’m sure we see her in flashbacks) allowed for the huge shocker that she was actually killed off in the first episode, staged to look like a suicide. But who killed her — was it Patty, who wanted the case and would be able to move forward if she died?; was it McClaren, who perhaps stupidly thought shutting her up would end the suit?; or was it her former boss, wanting revenge for ruining him? Aside from the flash forward mystery, and the fact that McClaren doesn’t know how her personal files were leaked, this is one of the most intriguing whodunits thus far. In fact, this may be the most mysterious season yet, while still feeling traditional Damages style.
Coupled with the main attraction, the tension between Patty and Ellen, season 5 looks off to a fantastic start. And, just personally, the season-long case is the most interesting one of the series (as opposed to season 4′s High Star case that got a bit muddled).
There’s no other way to say this: a lot of this season will obviously rely on whether or not Hewes versus Parsons will live up to everything fans want it to be and whether or not the WikiLeaks case can help be a launchpad for it, but color me hopeful — because I’m very excited and intrigued, indeed.
Note: From now on, Lindsay will be doing the Damages reviews. I was asked to fill in for the premiere. Can’t wait to read her take on things!
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For GROW to succeed, it was imperative that the concerns of staff were effectively addressed, and that attitudes that deliberately perpetuated an exaggerated power imbalance between service users and staff were transformed.
A communication plan was established using our organisational communication methods and dedicated events (e.g. staff conference, ‘away days’) to engage, inform, and persuade staff.
Issues and solutions were debated and training provided to clarify new approaches that staff were being asked to adopt.
These communication methods also provided opportunities for staff to offer feedback, so that emerging issues could be tackled and progress assessed.
Key messages were agreed at the corporate management level and disseminated through a range of communication methods, such as
The three key messages were:
Change the culture of the organisation from one of ‘us and them’ to one where homeless people become an integral part of the organisation
Improve our services by employing homeless people who have expertise and skills and who can act as positive role models for our service users
Train up homeless people to meet and, in time, raise the standards of a highly professional organisation, for example through traineeships and volunteering opportunities
Part of what is required to achieve a culture change such as this is a responsive and adaptable organisation at all levels. Thames Reach’s senior management provided quick responses to new challenges; some front-line staff were impressively innovative and created new solutions to unforeseen problems; and many staff were very willing to take risks.
Much effort was put into informing, training and challenging staff to embrace the project aims. However, pockets of resistance still existed and a number of individuals were adamant that the concept of service user employment was flawed and no amount of effort would bring about success. Thames Reach worked hard to address this resistance positively.
Throughout the duration of the GROW project, service user employment within Thames Reach was kept high on the organisational agenda.
Thames Reach employed a project manager who had pre-existing positive relationships with many staff and service users in the organisation. She is well respected and able to communicate with Board members and service users alike. She spent time at the start of the project fostering goodwill and used champions to help spread positive messages about GROW.
In addition, providing a large number of opportunities for staff to be directly involved in the development and delivery of the project has helped significantly to build interest, ownership and goodwill. The number of Thames Reach staff with direct involvement in the project increased from just under one third (6-month point) to 85% (18-month point).
Keeping staff abreast of the project’s progress and achievements through the publication of good news stories and regular briefings has also kept investment high.
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District BOUDH of ORISSA State. Utilisation
Certificate for the Year 2009-2010
Certified that a sum of Rs 340 lakhs (Rec_pay -> Receipt_centre)
(Rs Rupees Three Crore Forty Lakh Only ) was received by the District BOUDH as
Grants-in- Aid during 2010-2011 from the Govt. of India vide
Ministry of.......................'s letter No. & Date given on
the margin under NFFWP (*)/NREGA and Rs. 37.78(Rec_pay -> Receipt_state) From the State
Government vide letter No.:...................dated..........................Further
a sum of Rs 1084.5784 (Rec_pay -> Opening Balance)(Rs Rupees Ten Crore Eighty Four Lakh Fifty Seven Thousand Eight Hundreds Forty Only only) being unspent
balance of the previous year 2008-2009 was allowed to
be brought forward for utilization, during the current year 2009-2010 The
miscellaneous receipt of the agency during the 2009-2010 year were
Rs 6.76977 lakh.(Rec_pay -> Interst+MISC)
It is also certified that out of the above mentioned total funds
of Rs 1469.12817 (Rs Rupees Fourteen Crore Sixty Nine Lakh Twelve Thousand Eight Hundreds Seventeen Only)
a sum of Rs 1160.18225(Rec_pay -> Advances(payment side)) (Rs Rupees Eleven Crore Sixty Lakh Eighteen Thousand Two Hundreds Twenty Five Only)
has been utilized by the District during 2009-2010 for
the purpose for which it was sanctioned out of which, an amount
of Rs 11.13158 (Rec_pay -> Adminstrative+audit+misc(payment side)) ( Rupees Eleven Lakh Thirteen Thousand One Hundreds Fifty Eight Only) has been utilized on
Administrative Contingency permissible under
the NREGA. It is further certified that the unspent balance of Rs 271.96918(Rec_pay -> Closing Balance) ,(Rs Rupees Two Crore Seventy One Lakh Ninety Six Thousand Nine Hundreds Eighteen Only)
remaining at the end of the year will be utilised for the
programme during the next year.
3. Certified that I have satisfied myself that the conditions on
which funds was sanctioned have been duly
fulfilled/are being fulfilled and that I have exercised following
checks to see that the money has been
actually utilised district-wise for the purpose for which it was
sanctioned:
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Ireland’s newly elected Prime Minister Leo Varadkar is a gay person of colour, the son of an Indian immigrant father. His politics might sadly not be that different to what’s gone before, but he is already being seen as an emblem of a new Ireland.
It’s two years now since Ireland voted by more than 60 percent to accept marriage equality. However, a much bigger change has been the ethnic changes in the country since the end of the 1990s.
I grew up in a Dublin that was dirty, smoggy and run down, marred by high unemployment and drug addiction. Temple Bar was a warren of alleyways and tiny little shops. And it was almost exclusively pale skinned.
Not totally, my optician was married to a woman from Jamaica and they had kids. However, ethnic diversity in Dublin was pretty much statistically irrelevant and that was even more true in the rest of Ireland.
In the 1980s, many Irish – particularly working class Dubliners – identified with the sentiment expressed in the 1991 musical drama The Commitments, that we were the “Blacks of Europe” – a heavily indebted post-colonial country producing thousands of migrants who were often treated as badly in their destination countries as other migrants.
I remember the news reports of the way Irish people were treated in Britain during the Troubles – the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, people being harassed in airports. On and on it went.
That all changed in the years up to 1998. The Troubles were ending, Ireland suddenly had a booming economy, net migration had been turning positive over a few years as emigrants returned home. 1998 saw the biggest change as Ireland suddenly found itself receiving hundreds of asylum claims – mainly from Nigeria and Romania.
For the Nigerians in particular, Irish priests had told them for years how great Catholic Ireland was. Now Ireland had an economy that could support newcomers. The Chinese community came next, followed by huge numbers of Polish and other Eastern Europeans after 2004.
Irish people adapted to having money and being treated as equals on the world stage. It was Champagne all round. Temple Bar was cobbled and turned into a tourism hub. Ireland was a country with a growing economy that somewhat masked how the government was mismanaging a changing population.
Asylum seekers weren’t allowed to work and the government paid landlords by the bed to set up hostels. I was living in Phibsboro and there was an asylum hostel a few doors down with a ridiculous number of people living there. The owners had filled the building with bunk beds. Within a few years, the landlord had made so much money that they bought the house next door and expanded the hostel.
This meant that the cost of dealing with asylum seekers was unnecessarily high and large numbers were concentrated in particular areas. Yet, when I did anti-racist door-to-door leafleting in Phibsboro
in 2000, the response of the local community was exclusively positive – recognising that all the problems with the asylum system were the fault of the government, not the asylum seekers.
In the year 2000/2001, as Ireland was preparing to take a seat on the United Nations Security Council, the Irish government was urged by other former colonies to take a leading role on their behalf – tyin
g into the politics of the time and the creation of the G77 alternative to the G7/8. Sadly, world politics changed again in September 2001 and, even if the government of the day was willing, it never happened.
Instead, Ireland aligned with the US war effort, allowing US war-planes to use Shannon Airport for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
In 2004, the government put a deeply controversial referendum to the Irish people – to deny some born in Ireland citizenship – which saw a horrible campaign imagining pregnant Nigerian women getting on planes to Ireland so they could give birth to an Irish citizen. Sadly, the referendum passed with a huge majority – the Irish population wasn’t ready to come to terms with an increasingly multicultural society.
Since 2008, though, things have changed again. The economic boom ended – unemployment came back, as did emigration. In the last year, Brexit and the decline in the value of the UK pound has already caused damage to the Irish economy and is very likely to cause more.
The children of the new arrivals from the start of the millennium are reaching adulthood. As they assert their Irish identity, Irish society will be forced to recognise that things have utterly changed.
Much of Irish identity was created during the colonial period of the late 19th century, when people tried to recreate an Irish culture, and was solidified in the violent birth of the country. This defensive anti-colonialism endured through the difficult first decades of Irish independence. However, things have changed and the insular and exclusive anti-colonial version of Irish identity has had its day.
Improved hate crime legislation would be a start that Leo Varadkar’s government could enact very quickly so that he’s becomes more than just a representation of the new Ireland, but makes real difference for the better in a changed country.
*Donnacha DeLong is a journalist and former president of the National Union of Journalists (2011-2012). He is currently a member of the union's National Executive Committee. Follow him on Twitter @donnachadelong.
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Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the 'back. . . .
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.
Choose any four consecutive even numbers. Multiply the two middle
numbers together. Multiply the first and last numbers. Now subtract
your second answer from the first. Try it with your own. . . .
If you would like a new CD you would probably go into a shop and buy one using coins or notes. (You might need to do a bit of saving first!) However, this way of paying for the things you want did. . . .
Replace the letters with numbers to make the addition work out
correctly. R E A D + T H I S = P A G E
Read this article to find out the mathematical method for working out what day of the week each particular date fell on back as far as 1700.
A brief article written for pupils about mathematical symbols.
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Area students currently attending Texas A&M University may be eligible to apply for one of seven $300 scholarships offered by the Greater New Orleans Aggie Moms Club.
Students must be attending Texas A&M, be in good standing with the university and reside within the boundaries of East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Ascension, Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes, the news release said.
Applications must be emailed to [email protected] no later than Nov. 25. Students must provide their name, university address and phone number, college attending and a short statement of qualifications for the receipt of scholarship funds.
The Greater New Orleans Aggie Moms Club is the local chapter of the Federation of Texas A&M Mothers’ Club.
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What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to
one million?
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Delight your friends with this cunning trick! Can you explain how
it works?
Find the values of the nine letters in the sum: FOOT + BALL = GAME
Choose any three by three square of dates on a calendar page.
Circle any number on the top row, put a line through the other
numbers that are in the same row and column as your circled number.
Repeat. . . .
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and
multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the
difference between these products. Why??
This challenging activity involves finding different ways to distribute fifteen items among four sets, when the sets must include three, four, five and six items.
This challenge extends the Plants investigation so now four or more children are involved.
What are the missing numbers in the pyramids?
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
This article gives you a few ideas for understanding the Got It! game and how you might find a winning strategy.
How is it possible to predict the card?
Can you be the first to complete a row of three?
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both
sides once you've made the pieces?
Crosses can be drawn on number grids of various sizes. What do you
notice when you add opposite ends?
Can you find six numbers to go in the Daisy from which you can make
all the numbers from 1 to a number bigger than 25?
This article explains how to make your own magic square to mark a special occasion with the special date of your choice on the top line.
Use the numbers in the box below to make the base of a top-heavy
pyramid whose top number is 200.
There are exactly 3 ways to add 4 odd numbers to get 10. Find all
the ways of adding 8 odd numbers to get 20. To be sure of getting
all the solutions you will need to be systematic. What about. . . .
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the
dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of
three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for??
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Pick any ten
numbers from the bags above so that their total is 37..
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or
subtract consecutive negative numbers?
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BY AMANDA GRIEME aka “PRUDENCE” of “Dear Prudence”
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
In response to shared stories about coincidence by New Jersey Newsroom contributors Karina and Audrey, Gloria Loring wrote to share in the excitement and intrigue. “I wrote my book because I had a series of extraordinary coincidences occur. And they keep happening!”
Recording artist of the #1 hit song Friends and Lovers; co-composer and singer of TV theme Facts Of Life; an audience favorite as famed “Liz Chandler” on Days Of Our Lives, and mother of R&B singing sensation Robin Thicke, Gloria Loring believes! Her latest memoir aptly entitled “Coincidence is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous,” details a series of extraordinary coincidences that transformed her life. Gloria offers prescriptive insight into how each of us can use coincidence for the highest good.
“My sister Peggy spent her last weeks with cancer at my home, until it was clear that I had to get her to the hospital. As we drove, I sent a prayer –
‘She’s so frail, please give us a gentle doctor when we get to ER.’
Upon arrival, the admitting staff triaged my sister to an examining room. As a nurse took Peggy`s vitals, a handsome man entered the room.
‘Hello, Peggy. I’m Dr. Mestres.’ Then he turned to me and asked, ‘And you are?’
‘Her sister, Gloria.’
He tilted his head slightly. ‘What`s your last name?’
‘Loring. Gloria Loring.’
‘Gloria,’ he said with a smile, ‘… it`s Ricardo Mestres, from Disney.’
He told Peggy the story of how he and I raised money for diabetes research so many years ago, and that at forty-eight he quit his position at Disney Studios to go to medical school.
I remembered Ricardo for his patience and good humor, and those virtues were put to good use with my sister. Peggy not only received a gentle doctor, she got one who was an old friend of mine.
Disney movies are known for everything working out beautifully in the end, and so it was with my sister`s last days. She passed peacefully, attended by family, friends, and a ‘Disney’ coincidence.” – Gloria Loring
Please check out Gloria’s new book, available at Amazon.com:
More about Gloria and her endeavors at the following addresses:
C.S. Lewis once said, “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” Perhaps you have had a miraculous “incident” in your life! I want to read it, and will randomly choose a story to publish each week to share with newjerseynewsroom.com readers. Please email your stories to [email protected]
Amanda Grieme is a former English/Creative Writing Educator and most importantly, mother. She LIVES with Bipolar Disorder choosing writing and radio as her catharsis and creative medium to help others. Her life experience with mental illness, self-medication and ten years as an educator lends invaluable, often quirky life advice. Please check out her debut novel, radio show and other endeavors:
Host of “Dear Prudence” Radio – Life Advice to Help You Cope
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Detroit could see the Audi unveiling the h-tron quattro concept image
The Ingolstadt-based automaker delivered during the Frankfurt Motor Show the e-tron quattro prototype and now the rumor mill has chewed up another concept for the upcoming North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
We’re reporting about the introduction of the all new h-tron quattro concept, which should count as the forerunner for the 2018 Q6, with the sole difference from the previously named e-tron quattro concept being the different eco powertrain – electricity this time around will come courtesy of a fuel cell assembly. We already know the previous e-tron quattro concept used a battery-electric powertrain that mated a high capacity lithium-ion battery pack to three electric motors – which together delivered a total power of 429 hp (435 PS / 320 kW), with an overboost function lifting the figures to 496 hp (503 PS / 370 kW) and over 590 lb-ft (800 Nm) of torque.
Using all that power would deliver a 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) sprint in 4.6 seconds and the top speed was electronically-governed at 130 mph (210 km/h). The range would also be consistent despite the high-power credentials – more than 311 miles (500 km) on a single charge. Audi has been implicated for quite some time in hydrogen power research and we’re hoping to see small differences compared to the e-tron – maybe the same three electric motors would be fueled by the hydrogen stack to provide similar power. Anyways, the main issue here is how carmakers will deal with the split technology practice – while gasoline and diesel stations are housed in a single unit we’re not really imagining charging ports sitting next to hydrogen filling boxes anytime soon.
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UW nurse creates sweet dreams for geriatric patients without medication
By Robin Hocevar
Early in her career on the night shift at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Fawn Havarangsi-Nawaphan, BSN, RN, encountered a patient who, on the eve of her surgery, kept telling the staff to "look at her bling." Everyone admired the 2-carat diamond ring. As a matter of course, the nurse on duty removed the ring and other jewelry at night for preparation.
Havarangsi-Nawaphan was making her rounds and noticed the patient was tossing and turning and having some difficulty falling asleep. She approached the bedside and asked the woman how she could help. The two reviewed the patient's typical bedtime routine and discovered the act of twisting the ring, an anniversary present from the woman's husband, lulled her to sleep at night. Havarangsi-Nawaphan immediately retrieved the bauble and the patient was dozing off within minutes.
"This was one of my most important cases," she recalled. "When we spend time with the patient, she will tell you what it takes for her to fall asleep."
This is just one illustration of Havarangsi-Nawaphan's hands-on approach to patient relations. In 2005, she utilized her skills in communicating with patients for a nurse residency research project, which has since been adopted as an evidence-based practice in the facility's medical geriatrics unit.
While brainstorming for a research topic, Havarangsi-Nawaphan approached Linda Walton, MSN, RN, clinical nurse manager of the unit, for advice on a topic.
"Fawn was already working nights as part of her nurse residency, so she had interaction with patients and other nurses. Instead of just making a poster, we wanted to create a reference tool nurses would be able to use in their practice," Walton said.
As sleep is frequently a problem for elderly patients, the two hypothesized that improving the quality of sleep for elderly patients could lead to faster healing. The team recognized patients functioning on an efficient night's sleep were able to bring more energy to learn about their prognosis and recovery. In addition, fatigued patients are more likely to cancel X-rays or other necessary procedures because of their tired state and are always at a greater risk of taking a fall. Given her easy rapport with elderly patients, Havarangsi-Nawaphan was excited to discover nonmedicated interactions would induce a good night's sleep for her patients.
The Natural Path to Slumberland
One of the most important elements of the project was the idea of providing quality rest without the assistance of sleep enhancement pills. Maria Brenny-Fitzpatrick, MSN, FNP,C, APNP, explained the background of this idea.
"When elderly patients complained about not getting enough sleep, the nursing staff usually prescribed Ambien as a matter of course. The problem is that sleeping pills tend to cause memory loss in a patient population already having memory problems. There has never been a lot of assessment about sleep in the elderly and Fawn wanted to find a nondrug solution," she said.
Additionally, many of the medications the elderly population may be taking for other health problems can contribute to disturbed sleep. Antidepressents such as bupropion, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and venlafaxine; beta-blockers; bronchodilators; corticosteroids; neurologic drugs like phenytonin; CNS stimulants such as caffeine, cocaine and theophylline; decongestants like pseudoephedrine; cimetidine; and cardiovascular drugs such as furosemide, methyldopa and propranolol can act as barriers to a healthy night's sleep.
The irony of this is that the elderly patient population with the most obstacles to sleep is the population needing it the most. A cross-sectional survey of 1,526 adults ages 64Ð99 conducted by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in 2000 found insomnia, not psychoactive medication, was associated the most with falls. Havarangsi-Nawaphan realized she had to find alternative ways to facilitate rest for her geriatric patients.
Simulating Home Sweet Home
When Havarangsi-Nawaphan set out to change the notion it's impossible to get a good night's sleep in a hospital, her first step was to record vital signs and learn about each patient's sleep history.
"Since elderly people almost always have sleeping problems, we needed to do everything we could to parallel their sleep patterns at home. So, I'd always ask their typical sleep and rise time, medications taken for sleep, time taken to fall asleep, the number and duration of nighttime awakenings, daytime naps and tiredness, and then take a subjective assessment of sleep quality. One of the best things is to learn bedtime routines by asking if they normally drink tea before bedtime and if noise bothers them," she explained. Family members are included in these discussions, as people who share sleeping space often can provide valuable information on the patient's sleep habits.
Benefits of these sleep assessment conversations were twofold, said Havarangsi-Nawaphan. Obviously, the discussions helped nurses increase awareness of the normal bedtime routines so they could take steps to maintain normalcy during the hospital stay. Nurses also were pleasantly surprised to discover how appreciative patients were of the extra personalized attention.
In simple terms, she said, "I found out early that, if I show them respect, patients respect the nurses more and are more cooperative."
Tailoring Hospital Stays
Armed with patient sleep history data, Havarangsi-Nawaphan manipulated the unit's environment to parallel patient sleep patterns. Her research showed the need for noise reduction was widespread. Patients reported the few "common-sense" measures Havarangsi-Nawaphan applied yielded hours of additional shut-eye.
It didn't require special noise cancellation technology to reduce sound in the unit. Rather, she posted signs to remind staff and visitors to speak quietly, especially between the hours of 11 p.m.-7 a.m.; closed doors to patient rooms; placed phones and IV pump machines on lower volumes; turned off equipment that wasn't being used; placed pagers on vibration mode, offered earplugs to patients; and moved group conferences to a staff meeting room.
During one study on noise reduction, Havarangsi-Nawaphan was shocked to find staff conversations in the hall had the noise equivalent of running a vacuum cleaner for the elderly patients. "In our unit, when staff members see a co-worker for the first time in a week or so, they're excited in their speech," Walton said. "Fawn presented an educational seminar and used the vacuum example. It really drove home the message much easier than if she'd said 'we're talking too loud.'"
Havarangsi-Nawaphan also found the staff itself was interrupting patients' sleep. After hearing numerous patients complain about such interruptions, she tried to streamline their care by formulating nursing care plans to provide longer uninterrupted sleep periods, delaying or eliminating unnecessary nursing procedures when the patient is sleeping and using her best nursing judgment to determine if it's necessary to wake a patient to take vital signs. Of course, it's not always possible to abstain from waking patients for some element of care, so Havarangsi-Nawaphan communicated the plan of care to patients before bedtime to avoid upsetting them when they're awakened.
Fixing what was wrong in the hospital atmosphere was only half of what it would take to ensure a solid 8-hour rest for elderly patients. The second part of the equation involved developing an aura of relaxation. To that end, Havarangsi-Nawaphan borrowed some practices common to any luxury day spa.
For instance, aromatherapy has proved to induce sleep, so she dotted tissues with lavender and placed them near a patient's pillow. Other popular nonpharmacological interventions include providing warm blankets, back rubs and decaffeinated tea or warm milk. Nurses offer eye masks to patients and adjust the room's lighting to each individual's preference. Finally, Havarangsi-Nawaphan frequently turned on the university's classical music station to let patients drift off to soothing sounds.
Involved Nurses = Rested Patients
Though the medical staff was enthusiastic to implement the shift away from medicating patients complaining of insomnia, the patients themselves were another story. Nurses encountered hundreds of patients who would say the only thing that would work for them is medication.
Havarangsi-Nawaphan discovered the best response is to listen to the patient's reasoning for wanting medication and then ask them to try her way. If the nonmedicated interventions do not work within a few hours, she'd promise to get them medicine. Within the 3-4 hour trial period, every single patient had fallen asleep.
With a laugh, Havarangsi-Nawaphan recalled the number of patients who protested her methodology. Many times, she'd leave the room to get blankets or tea and return moments later to find the patient asleep.
"This has taught me geriatric patients are a lot like little kids. If they feel like you care about them, they'll want to sleep," she said.
Robin Hocevar is a regional editor
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October 24, 2016
9/9
The approval of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir as Epclusa, a pan-genotypic regimen, will eliminate the need for genotype testing prior to treatment and could reduce treatment errors, said Vargas. Now that all genotypes are fairly well covered by available direct-acting antivirals, the next treatment challenge to address will be those small numbers of patients who fail treatment, he continued. All of the direct-acting antivirals approved today have at least a 95% cure rate, which means some patients will need to be re-treated.
Gilead Sciences, the makers of Epclusa, are planning to combine it with a new experimental drug called voxilaprevir, and this combination might one day be an option for patients who don't respond to currently available treatments, Vargas said. Moreover, Epclusa is essentially a stepping-stone in Gilead's plans for a future three-drug regimen that is pan-genotypic and does not include ribavirin, said Korenblat.
Merck, the makers of elbasvir/grazoprevir (Zepatier), are also testing the combination of elbasvir/grazoprevir and a "nuc" drug that will fill the same role as Gilead's sofosbuvir, the backbone of Harvoni and Epclusa. Overall, Vargas is impressed with the breakneck pace of drug development in hepatitis C. "I never would have imagined that we would be at this very nice space this early," he said. "The future is shaping itself very nicely."
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Welcome to ArtSlant.com. In the ArtSlant world, you will find all sorts of art, art people and art places. In fact we're all about ART. We invite you to cruise around the neighborhood. Learn the streets. Find the landmarks. Meet the locals... and have a peek at our upcoming events. There's never a dull moment.
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Today’s post will be a link post, because I don’t have photoshop on the computer I’m using, and I forgot my other computer at home. Clearly my Friday is already off to a great start. I’m sure at some point all of you have felt my pain so without further… View Post
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Summer is almost here, and we all know that means lots of birthdays and other holidays. How do you handle them? I handle them by planning ahead and knowing my favorite places to shop. Please note: This is a sponsored post. That means I was compensated for my time but… View Post
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for Lincoln
Earth heart
The prime consonant
Curled on my chest,
A bald pulse—
Your mother’s milk in the folds of your neck,
Your stomach as round as a cantaloupe.
Now your long skeleton,
Marrowed with kindness,
Carries the world—
Running through fog—
The Pacific you hear
As the mechanics of love,
Its green rumble
Always in need of repair.
But I haven’t forgotten
Your rosebud ear
Against my chest,
Your toothless yawning,
Your coal-black eyes,
Your urgent grip on my finger:
You are our settlement
Beside life’s lake, Lincoln—
Always fulfilling
The promise of home.
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BRUNSWICK — A bomb threat forced the closing Friday of Brunswick High School.
The shutdown was originally attributed by school officials to “a building malfunction,” but Superintendent Paul Perzanoski confirmed later in the morning that officials were investigating a bomb threat.
Perzanoski said the threat was received Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m. and the decision was made to cancel school after the police investigation began.
Two Maine State Police bomb-sniffing dogs searched the school this morning. As of 11:25 a.m., no bomb had been found, Perzanoski said.
A message on the high school answering machine Friday morning said the school will be closed until further notice. Perzanoski said he expected it to reopen Monday.
A decision regarding Friday’s after-school athletics and activities had not yet been made, he said.
Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected].
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CUMBERLAND—Every foe of the Greely girls’ soccer team focuses on slowing the Rangers’ dynamic scoring tandem of senior Audrey Parolin and junior Sammi Toorish.
As it turns out, Greely goes quite a bit deeper.
Monday evening, the Rangers hosted longtime rival Falmouth in a showdown of two of the state’s best squads, but this one was all Greely.
After the Yachtsmen grabbed the lead with a goal in the eighth minute, the Rangers controlled possession for most of the remainder of the game.
Greely tied the score midway through the first half, went ahead to stay when Toorish set up Parolin in the 56th minute, then put it away late with three more tallies.
The Rangers improved to 7-1 and dropped Falmouth to 5-1-1.
“We know it’s a long game,” Toorish said. “Eighty minutes is a long time. Going down early isn’t the best thing in the world, but we’re a strong team and we knew we could come back. We had to stay composed. Possession is our strength.”
Falmouth won the Class B state title a year ago and has impressed in 2011, winning five times (the most recent a 1-0 overtime decision at Yarmouth Saturday) and tying once.
Greely, meanwhile, lost to Thornton Academy in the semifinals for the second straight season in 2010, but has also dazzled in the early going, winning six of its first seven, falling only at Cape Elizabeth. The Rangers were coming off a 5-1 home triumph over Yarmouth.
Historically, these two teams produce goals and drama when they go head-to-head. Since the start of the 2001 season, heading into Monday night, the Yachtsmen held a 12-5 advantage, with three ties, a disparity built largely behind a six-game win streak in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons.
Last fall, Falmouth eked out a 1-0 win in Cumberland before Greely beat the Yachtsmen for the first time since 2005, 5-0, in Falmouth.
Monday proved to be another offensive explosion for the Rangers, even if they started sluggishly.
Greely did hint at things to come in the third minute when Toorish’s pretty through ball to junior Julia Mitiguy was just long and Yachtsmen junior goalkeeper Caroline Lucas booted it away.
Falmouth grabbed a 1-0 lead with 32:06 to play in the 40-minute first half.
Junior Alex Bernier, the hero of the Yarmouth win, sent a ball into the box. Junior Cassie Darrow beat a defender to the bouncing ball and headed it past Rangers junior goalkeeper Caton Beaulieu.
But instead of giving the Yachtsmen a boost, the goal served to awaken the sleeping Greely giant.
In the 11th minute, a through-ball from senior Sara Schad was cleared by Lucas. Two minutes later, Toorish fed Parolin, but her tough angle shot was saved by a sprawling Lucas.
With 19:24 left before halftime, the Rangers struck and Schad was rewarded for her hard work. Racing after a long pass from freshman Kristina Volta, Schad broke in on goal, shot and after Lucas deflected the ball to her right, Schad corralled the rebound and guided the ball into the open net to make it 1-1.
“It was sort of a through ball,” Schad said. “I had a long touch and shot it toward the net, the keeper deflected it away and I finished it.
“Things picked up as the game went on. We kind of had a rough first five or 10 minutes. More like 15. That’s the first time since our loss at Cape a few weeks ago that we’ve been down. It shook us up a little bit. We weren’t used to it. We wanted to come out and win this. The goal really woke us up. We got subs in, reorganized things and came back out harder. “
Greely pushed for the go-ahead goal, but couldn’t get it by halftime.
With 18:30 left in the half, Toorish’s cross was barely handled by Lucas. In the 24th minute, a left-footed shot from senior captain Libby Thomas went wide. Three minutes later, Toorish had a free kick, but Lucas made an easy save. With 9:54 to go before halftime, Toorish took a pass on a short corner kick and fed the ball on goal. Thomas raced in to head it, but couldn’t quite get there and the shot scooted wide.
With just 11 seconds remaining, Falmouth almost retook the lead when junior Caitlin Bucksbaum got loose for a shot, but Beaulieu made the stop.
“In the first half, I think we came out, I wouldn’t say scared, but we were scattered,” said Parolin. “There were a lot of long balls we don’t usually do. After the goal, we possessed and played our game.”
“The first couple minutes were not good,” added Greely coach Michael Kennedy. “It was a good test for us. I’m actually glad they scored that goal. One of the things we have to work on a little bit is having someone hit us. We don’t necessarily turn up our aggression and assertiveness. I think the goal woke us up a bit and after that, we controlled the game.”
The second half would be all Rangers.
Greely had a couple chances early as Toorish was high on a long shot and Parolin (off a Toorish feed after a nice 50-50 ball win by Volta on the sideline) was just wide with a left-footed shot.
With 25:42 to go, Bucksbaum shot high for the Yachtsmen and less than a minute later, sophomore Mary Catherine Kowalski fired a low shot that Bealieu bobbled before saving.
Then, with 24:06 to go, the Rangers went ahead to stay.
The terrific twosome of Toorish and Parolin got the job done as Toorish took a pass up top and found herself with some room. Her initial inclination was to attempt a shot, but instead she saw Parolin was in perfect position and tapped a through ball to the tri-captain, who finished with her left foot for a 2-1 advantage.
“Usually, I take a shot, but sometimes, your teammate’s in a better spot and you’re comfortable giving the ball to them,” Toorish said. “I know Audrey’s a great player. I know she can put them away. It’s not about the glory. You have to give it to your teammate if they have a better chance of scoring. It’s a numbers game. As soon as I saw her, I saw she had more space and I knew it was hers.”
Five minutes later, with 19:11 showing, Toorish would get in the scoring column, lofting a free kick from the left side over Lucas’ head for a 3-1 lead.
“On the side, I usually to try to bend it a little bit because it throws keepers off sometimes since they’re usually looking for you to go far post,” Toorish said. “When it looks like it’s going far post and it bends back to the middle, a lot of keepers can’t deal with it.”
Greely wasn’t done.
With 6 minutes to play, Volta again set up a goal, this time passing to Mitiguy, who finished to make it 4-1.
“Kristina’s an incredible athlete,” Schad said. “She’s so fast. She’s stepped right in and isn’t afraid to get the ball and run and score.”
“Kristina has been a little nervous in games, but she’s really coming into her own,” Toorish said. “She’s a great utility player. She can play multiple positions. She can use both feet. It’s great for our offense.”
“Kristina’s getting better every game,” Kennedy added. “She had a fantastic summer. I had to cool my jets a little because she’s like a daughter to me. She’s blossomed as a player and a young lady. She’s the fastest person on a team with a lot of speed. She makes things happen for us. I’m glad she got on the board in a big game. When I put her in, something good happens.”
Volta said that she’s happy to be a part of a strong team with solid role models.
“It was a fun game to play,” Volta said. “(The upperclassmen are) really nice. They help a lot. They’re really supportive. I feel like I’ve learned a lot from them. I didn’t think I’d play this much. It’s great. We’re all pretty equal up top. We’ve definitely improved a lot.”
In the 75th minute, Schad scored again, taking a pass from Toorish, and the lead was up to 5-1.
“Sammi hit it over the top,” Schad said. “We’ve worked on diagonal runs from the strikers. I just took a few touches and shot it lefty, hoping it would go in. It worked out really well. Our goal for each game is to have three goals. Having five exceeded that. It’s good to have everyone scoring.”
“Sara played very well tonight,” Kennedy said. “She leads by example. She always gives 100 percent and works hard. She’s a positive role model. As she goes, we typically go. She and Libby are our quiet, unsung heroes. They have engines that never stop. They have the intangibles you need on a team.”
The Rangers ran out the clock from there and celebrated their emphatic victory.
“When I was a freshman and sophomore, we couldn’t even beat (Falmouth) and every game was a bloodbath,” Parolin said. “Last year, we beat them 5-0 and that was probably the highlight of my high school season. Tonight, beating them by four is amazing. It feels really good.”
“I didn’t expect to beat them 5-1,” Kennedy said. “That’s a good team. We possessed the ball the way I want. We’ve worked on some new things offensively. Three of the five goals came from things we work on in practice. We’re starting to get it. To score 10 and give up two in the past two games is the exciting part. I’m proud of them.”
Four different players scored goals and Toorish and Volta each had two assists.
Now that’s balance.
“This is what I was hoping would happen,” said Parolin. “A lot of people have man-marked me and Sammi or double-teamed Sammi. We have other players who are outstanding and they’re starting to shine. You can see that from the number of people who scored tonight.”
“The great thing about this year is I think teams get preoccupied with Audrey and I,” said Toorish. “We have five other players who can score goals.”
“We are incredibly deep,” Kennedy added. “I would say we have our three starting strikers and behind them are three strikers who could start on any varsity team in the state. If you look at our production, we’re very balanced across. Sammi probably has seven or eight goals, then it goes, six, six, five, five, four. It allows us to keep throwing waves of attacks at the other team. We’re going to wear teams down. The Libby, (junior) Gabby (Morris), Sammi thing in the middle really works. We possess everything through them and our strikers are dangerous.”
Falmouth took its first loss in stride.
“Greely’s a fantastic team,” said first-year Yachtsmen coach Wally LeBlanc. “We knew that. We hoped to play intelligent defensive ball and look for counterattacks. I felt that as the game went on, Greely got more confident and we got a little hesitant. I think the game plan wasn’t good enough. There’s room for improvement. We didn’t figure out how to deal with their ball possession. I felt like when they saw a weakness in us, they picked it up a step. They had intelligent runs off the ball. Their passes found those runs. Two or three times they got the ball behind us and that’s really difficult to defense. The way to stop that is to have more intelligent marking up top and we just couldn’t figure that out.
“I welcome adversity. Our tough opponents make us better. It reveals our weaknesses and allows us to work on them. I’m not thrilled with the loss, but I’m OK with the loss to use it as a learning tool.”
Greely goes to Falmouth Friday for a rematch and expects a tougher test.
“It was a hard-fought game tonight and I’m excited to see how we play on (Falmouth’s turf field),” Parolin said. “It’s going to be interesting.”
“We look forward to playing them again Friday,” Schad said. “It’s always a good game.”
“It will be a big game,” Toorish said. “We’ve had 10 goals in our two games (against Falmouth), so they’ll be looking for us.”
“Friday’s going to be interesting,” Kennedy added. “If we come out flat like we did tonight, we’ll be in trouble. We have to be focused. It’ll be fun though. We love playing these games. The girls are laid back and love to play and train together. I hope it continues.”
First, the Yachtsmen (third in the latest Western Class B Heal Points standings) host Fryeburg Wednesday. Falmouth also has tests remaining against visiting Yarmouth and at York and Cape Elizabeth.
The Rangers (fourth, but due to move up in Western A) host Gray-New Gloucester Wednesday. They also play at Fryeburg and North Yarmouth Academy and host Lake Region and Cape Elizabeth to close out the regular season.
“We have a great defensive line and they cover for each other well,” Toorish said. “We’re going to be a force to be reckoned with in the playoffs.”
“There’s always room to improve,” Parolin said. “We’ve worked on our offense and different ways to move the ball around. We’re starting to really connect up top, but there’s always room to get better.”
“We’re pretty happy with where we are now, but we’ll try to keep improving as a team,” said Schad. “We need to make sure we take it one game at a time and work at practice. We can’t get overconfident.”
“We always are going to strive to get better,” Kennedy added. “Offensively, I’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to how we play. We need more consistency. We don’t lack for confidence, but we’re not cocky. Sometimes we kind of go out and start games wanting to string together 15 passes in the middle of the field instead of being attack-minded. We have to continue to improve defensively. We’re doing a good job, but we can always do better.”
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Brothers and sisters of kids with special needs have their own set of needs - an important fact for parents to address in order to raise a healthy family. Here, two New York City families tell their story, and experts in the field share their insights and advice.
From a very early age, eight-year-old Drew Beasley sensed that his brother was different from other children. He was right.
His brother Jack, 13, is hearing impaired, has a speech and language disorder, ADHD, and a muscular disorder. He is slow to speak and has a hard time forming words. To counteract the muscle disorder, he wears leg braces, but he still has problems with simple tasks like opening water bottles with twist-off tops.
"Drew has always been keenly aware that Jack struggles with many things, but he takes it very much in stride by assisting Jack with a task and moving on," says Suzanne Peters, the boys' mother. "Drew often says, 'Some people communicate with their mouths, some don't. Some people walk with their legs, some don't. We are all different.' "
Drew is also fiercely protective of his older brother and, especially recently, has struggled with knowing that other children and even some adults make fun of Jack's disabilities. When someone bullies, teases, or makes fun of Jack, Drew becomes withdrawn, sad, and introspective. His parents have tried to turn each encounter into a life lesson, such as discussing how an adult who draws attention to Jack's disabilities might simply be having a bad day.
"Sometimes, I worry that Drew grew up too fast," says Peters, who raises her children on the Upper West Side. "He has a maturity about him that is unusual for eight-year-old boys; however, he also possesses a patient and empathetic nature." Irene Belaga, Ph.D., a New York City psychologist, says this is normal. Siblings of children with special needs who adapt well to the situation are often more patient, accepting, compassionate, and helpful than their peers. They are also more likely to be supportive, empathetic, dependable, and loyal.
Adapting to the disability, however, can be difficult. That was the case for Bridget Petrie and her children, who live in Brooklyn. Shawn, the youngest of three children, has autism. His brother, who is 16, has adapted well. He researches the disease and tries to understand it as much as possible. His sister, Alexandra, has struggled a little more.
Her reaction isn't uncommon. Many children experience conflicting feelings throughout their lives because of their relationship with a special needs sibling. They may feel worried about their sibling; jealous of the attention their sibling receives; scared they will lose their sibling; resentful of having to explain, support or take care of their sibling; pressured to be or do what their sibling cannot; and guilty for negative feelings or for not having the same problems.
In the early stages, Alexandra's parents were consumed with finding the best treatment possible and setting up a schedule of therapy and medical appointments for Shawn.
"Siblings of special needs children may feel ignored by parents, given the extra time required to care for the special needs child," Belaga says. "Siblings may also feel insecure and guilty about their feelings - anger, jealousy and hatred - towards their sibling."
Even now, the disease is complex and hard for Alexandra, age 8, to grasp. Recently, Shawn, who is 7, has had a hard time controlling his emotions. He often hits himself or bangs his head when he's frustrated. If other people are nearby, he may lash out at them. His sister is often the one who gets the brunt of his anger.
"Alexandra just doesn't understand it," Petrie says. "She'll say, 'Why did Shawn hit me? Why is he hurting himself?' It's difficult to explain that he does that because he has a hard time using his words."
When children face tough periods in their sibling relationship, Belaga encourages parents to organize creative tasks for them to enjoy together to strengthen their bond and promote empathy. Drew and Jack often bond over video games, which both boys excel at playing. Parents should make sure to spend alone time with each child and recognize the healthy child's positive attributes, special interests and hobbies.
"Ultimately, what's important is to develop an environment at school and in the home which promotes a clear understanding of the disability, distinctions between the needs and desires of the two siblings, and an open forum in which to explore insecurities and difficulties as they arise," Belaga says.
Both families rely on sibling support groups at Aaron Academy and the Rebecca School, respectively, where Jack and Shawn are students. These groups allow siblings to talk about the difficulties they experience with those who are in the same situation. Social workers at the schools can also recommend individual therapists for siblings to work with.
"It's a safe place for them to talk about their feelings, especially because several of the other children often feel guilty saying something to a parent," Peters says. "We are so lucky to live in New York City with all the resources that are out there. Sometimes it's a struggle, but as long as the community is open, we can make it work."
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DoNanza: a hot new search engine geared SPECIFICALLY towards finding work at home jobs. See my little project board up at the right? -> yes, over there! All of those jobs are work from home opportunities that pay you real money. So check out the job board and see what you want to do and make some money dang it! Also, here is a wonderful post from DoNanza on the growth expectations of freelance work at home.
There is no doubt that freelancing will continue to bloom in the coming years as more and more jobs are being outsourced and the virtual world continues to revolutionize. The catch, however, lies in the known fact that freelancing can’t offer long-term security. What can we do to counteract such risks? Read on and find out how the secret of achieving constant stream of freelance jobs are just right at your fingertips.
Have a Signature
Admit it—finding your first freelance job is as difficult as keeping existing ones. Sooner or later, income-generating assignments will end and you will be left to look for another project. This is a cycle and a fact that you should learn to accept from the time you have decided to plunge into the waters of freelancing. Don’t fret over it because there’s simply nothing you can do about it. Instead, have your previous clients come back to you for more projects (or even referrals) by keeping a signature of your work. Simply put, deliver quality and on time outputs, so you will be remembered and become a first choice whenever a need comes up.
Build and keep a network
Most freelancers are independent and this is one of the trickiest aspects of doing freelance jobs. The solitary of working-home-alone sometimes tends to cut you off from your social network. You need not worry though as you are not alone. There are plenty of freelancers around the globe who are almost already tied on their desk in their home offices doing freelance work. Meet them up by signing up with social networking websites such as facebook, twitter and a lot more. Not only will you be able to end your loneliness and keep your sanity, but your chances of finding freelance jobs are also increased through them.
Improve your visibility over the web
Online presence is crucial for freelancers. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you invest in a website that will showcase your services as soon as you can. This will not only improve your visibility over the web, but will also take part in your signature-building campaign. Additionally, it will also help to sign up to three or more job market platform websites such as oDesk and Elance. Create a professional profile and build a value provider reputation on these sites to enjoy a less time chasing, more time working freelance career.
Achieving constant stream of freelance jobs is not that difficult at all if you will take some time to come up with an action plan that will guide you through the rough times of freelancing. As mentioned earlier, everything is already right at your fingertips; you have your computer! Visit us at and completely eliminate dry days from your freelance job calendar.
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LOl…I have a twitter/FB share button top right! I don't think Blogger has the "like" button!
Dude.. where is your 'like' button?
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Most camps send a shopping list which can be filled at any number of locations.Lester’s, which specializes in children’s clothing, has locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island, and their sales help is specially trained to fill camp orders.Toby Luken, who has been running the camp department at the Lester’s on the Upper East Side for three years, advises setting aside at least two hours for a camp appointment.The stores have towels, sheets, flashlights, autograph pillows and, this year, personalized cork boards, to help fill camp lists.
Stocking up on camp items adds to the excitement.But what do you do if your child is worried about going away? According to Christopher Thurber, Ph.D., in an article for CAMP, a publication of the American Camp Association (ACA), homesickness is normal. “In study after study, researchers found that 95 percent of boys and girls who were spending at least two weeks at overnight camp felt some degree of homesickness. Children at day camp may also feel pangs of homesickness, but less frequently,” advises Dr. Thurber.
The good news is that homesickness is typically mild, and dealing with such feelings builds confidence. “Overcoming a bout of homesickness and enjoying time away from home nurtures children’s independence and prepares them for the future. The fact that second-year campers are usually less homesick than first-year campers is evidence of this powerful growth,” Dr. Thurber points out.
He also advises parents to make the positive point: If there’s something about home children miss, that means there’s something about home they love — and that’s a wonderful thing. “Sometimes just knowing that what they feel is a reflection of love makes campers feel much better.”
Dr. Thurber offers these tips for positive camp preparation:
—Make camp decisions together.
—Arrange lots of practice time away from home.
—Share your optimism, not your anxiety.
—Never ever make a pick-up deal.
And if a homesick letter arrives, he advises parents to pass on the following “Anti-Homesickness Strategies”:
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“Homesickness,” Dr. Thurber adds, “is part of normal development. Our job should be to coach children through the experience, not to avoid the topic altogether.”
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THE ROSES ARE IN FULL BLOOM ON POP WHEN "SCHITT'S CREEK" RETURNS FOR SEASON THREE ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11
Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy Are Back as
the Riches-To-Rags Rose Family in 13-Episode New Season
LOS ANGELES - Nov. 14, 2016 - No "Rose" is without a thorn in SCHITT'S CREEK, as the critically lauded scripted comedy returns on Pop for season three on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 8:00 PM, ET/PT.. The third season will include 13 half-hour episodes. Viewers can catch-up on past seasons at poptv.com, video-on-demand through cable and satellite TV providers and on Amazon Prime.
"I'm totally psyched about our upcoming third season which, I feel, is our strongest yet - our funniest and most emotionally satisfying 13 shows to date," said Eugene Levy.
"SCHITT'S CREEK has emerged as both a critics' darling and a fan favorite, and we're thrilled to bring back our most-watched Pop original series to kick off the new year," said Justin Rosenblatt, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Pop. "The third season, dare I say it, is the best yet - featuring one of the best ensemble casts in television in a brilliantly written comedy that is heart-warming, clever and funny." (#MoneyCantBuyYouHappiness).."
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Guidelines for working during pregnancy:
The controversy over video display terminals::
- take frequent work breaks
- use detachable keyboards and adjustable chairs and tables
- use non-reflective glass on the screen, adjust the screen lighting and contrast, and install indirect lighting
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Live Steam trains are 'model' trains that actually run on steam! Yes, they are real steam engines in miniature. (well, there are also diesel and electric trains too).
Generally, these trains start with G gage (LGB) on the small side, and go to 15 inch gage on the high side. Above 15 inch, they are generally considered to be 'real' narrow gage trains.
Most people in the hobby build/maintain their own engines (well, the 'diesel' engines are often bought pre-made), which tends to make this hobby very related to the metalworking hobby
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Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital Physician Offers Tips on Halloween Safety
NEW YORK (Aug 8, 2006)
Halloween is approaching, and many parents may wonder if trick-or-treating is safe. Dr. Meridith Sonnett, director of pediatric emergency services at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, suggests that with a few precautions, Halloween can be a happy and safe occasion for all. Dr. Sonnett suggests that trick-or-treating or collecting donations for organizations like UNICEF or the Red Cross be limited to familiar neighborhoods and neighbors. "It's important not to create too much fear in your children when you speak to them about Halloween safety," says Dr. Sonnett. "But it's also essential that they understand that precautions must be taken." The following are 10 tips that every parent should remember:
- Always go trick-or-treating with your children.
- Do not let your children eat any candy before they get home and you examine it.
- Make sure your children throw away any unwrapped foods.
- Make sure costumes are made of non-flammable material and are short enough so that your children don't trip.
- If they are wearing masks, make sure the eye holes your children wear reflectors.
- If your children are going on dark streets, have them take a flashlight. If they are going in apartment buildings, accompany them inside.
- Instruct your children on proper street crossing safety.
- Do not let your children enter a stranger's home or apartment – have them ask for the treats while waiting outside the door.
- Office of Public Affairs
- Phone: (212) 821-0560.
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Contest Coming Soon!
It’s been a while since we had a contest. I’ve already selected which prizes will be offered based on a Twitter survey ran a while back. As a result, I found some prize ideas I think everyone will like.
It’s been a while since we had a contest. I’ve already selected which prizes will be offered based on a Twitter survey ran a while back. As a result, I found some prize ideas I think everyone will like.
We’ve added a “premium content” section to the site. While the articles don’t require any form of payment, they do require a subscription to our weekly newsletter. It’s our way of thanking our loyal readers for making TGG as popular as it is.
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A huge thanks to our subscribers and returning visitors. We appreciate all of you!
A couple authors from Gun News Daily have contrinuted guest posts to TGG. I decided to do the same for them. I did a write-up on a program being implemented in Baltimore, called Gun Bail.
Two gun ranges in Utah – the Cache Valley Public Shooting Range and the Lee Kay Public Shooting Range – are offering discounts this month if you show up with a receipt proving you’ve purchased a firearm within 30 days of your visit. Shotgun shooters get half off a day of shooting, and all other visitors get a free day of shooting.
Gun popular shooting rifle in 5.45×39 caliber that grew into every shooters comfort has come to a temporary halt.
If you’re wanting one, find out why you’d better get one ASAP!
Nordic Components announces the NCT4, an entirely new, innovative handguard system for short-barreled, suppressed AR-15s.
Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) proudly introduces the Silent-SR ISB for the 10/22 Takedown platform.
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Successful beyond most people's wildest dreams, Media Molecule's 2008 PlayStation 3 title LittleBigPlanet caught many - including industry commentators and gamers alike - by surprise. Its charming mix of adorable characters, approachable gameplay, and intuitive content-creation tools formed a robust and extensive user community immediately upon its release. It has since been followed up with a PSP version and a full-blown sequel on the PS3, each of which has helped expand on the features and improved on the experience. This new Vita version, however, looks set to finally realise the real potential of the concept...
Before we talk about what's different, let's touch off all the stuff that's the same. For a start, that incredibly compelling theme tune is back, jangling away happily in the background while you take your little Sackboy (Sack Person?) out exploring the game's various modes. The general gameplay of the physics-based platform game at the core of the title, of course, remains the same - it even retains the three different "planes" of gameplay from the PS3, rather than the two that the PSP was limited to (i.e. you can move into or out of the screen - see the trailers below to see the mechanic in action).
The new stuff permeates every aspect of the game, with new developer Double Eleven keen to ensure the title heavily leverages the new interface capabilities of the PlayStation Vita platform. Right from the level-select interface itself, you can touch, slide, swipe, shake, and otherwise find your way around without having to resort to the physical buttons. The normal controls are there too, of course, but should you want to fire a slingshot or shove something out of the way, just do it the way you intuitively feel you should be able to - chances are it will work just fine.
There are loads of other nifty, interactive elements too - one example we saw showed the piano built into the background of a level was playable simply by tapping away on the screen, while numerous obstacles and interactive elements could be tapped forward or backward, just by using the appropriate front or back touch-sensitive panel. If you're worried about whether you'll be able to tell what you're doing when using the back touch panel, the team at Double Eleven have opted to draw an on-screen icon that shows where (relatively speaking) your hidden fingers are touching at any particular time.
While these new interface mechanics feel like a natural "of course!" component of the gameplay, it's not until the level creation that you really grasp just how perfectly intuitive, interactive controls work in the content creation space. Whether it's swiping to draw a smooth curve for your level, painting new objects with your finger, defining the sweep of an animation, or in some other way creating or positioning something, it's incredibly easy to understand how to do it. You can also leverage the built-in camera to capture real-world objects for inclusion in your levels - with almost no limits as to what you can achieve. If you can think of it, you can probably do it - wherever you happen to be when the urge strikes you. Check it out:
The game is literally packed full of features, with loads of unique content, the ability to use your PS3-purchased DLC (at no extra cost) and much more. You can even share levels (including acquiring new ones) over the 3G connection, should you plump for the deluxe version of the console.
We came away from our hands-on and demonstration session with the game gushing about it. This really is shaping up to be the ultimate version of the create / play / share experience. It's very LBP and, for fans of that franchise, this game alone could prove justification for buying the Vita itself. If you have any interest in this series, you need to keep a close eye on this one.
Look for our full review once the title becomes available in early 2012 (no firm release dates have been set).
The Good: Heavily leverages the Vita
The Bad: No Stephen Fry?
The Ugly: *imagination not included
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Press Start: Where did the PlayStation Vita go wrong?
On paper, Sony’s PlayStation Vita looks like an awesome handheld. It’s specs resemble a slightly under powered PlayStation 3 and it’s one of the first handheld gaming devices to truly blur the lines between what a portable gaming device is actually capable of.
So why is it struggling and getting consistently outsold by Nintendo’s 3DS? The PlayStation Vita currently has an installed base of 4.1 million units and the 3DS has amounted 27.9 million units sold. Also, when both the 3Ds and the Vita were first released, critics heralded the device and scoffed at the 3DS’ outdated technical specification.
Just like with the battle between the PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS years ago, most gamers predicted that Nintendo’s handheld would ultimately fail at the might of Sony’s technically impressive high-end device.
When it comes to consoles, whether they are portable or designed for your living room, most of the time, it’s all about the games. And right now, the PlayStation Vita’s library is very sparse, especially when compared to the 3Ds’.
Months ago I took an in-depth look at the Vita when it first hit store shelves and back then, one of its main issues was the fact that it didn’t really have that system selling title that new gaming devices often need to succeed in the sales department. Sure, there was Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and today there is the relatively underwhelming Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation and Little Big Planet, but other than that, there isn’t much coming out on the horizon.
Also, the one title many gamers were pinning the Vita’s immediate hope on was Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. It ended up bombing and disappointing both Call of Duty fans and critics alike. It also has an average review score of 32 on Metacritic. Sony’s decision to utilize an expensive proprietary memory format has also held the system back.
The Vita is a feature rich console and its back touch screen gives developers the opportunity to create unique gameplay experiences that can only work on the Vita. Titles that feature Vita, PlayStation 3 cross play like PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, have the right idea. Also, having the ability to pick up a console game and play it on the go, is a great concept and really shows off the Vita’s unique capabilities as a handheld device.
What the Vita needs to do is prove that a powerful dedicated handheld device, with dual joysticks, is a necessary gaming device that all video game players should own. Its price point also isn’t helping its cause very much. At $250 for the handheld and usually between $29.99 and $39.99 per game, it’s difficult to convince the $1 Apple App Store iPhone/iPad gaming crowd, that purchasing and playing a PlayStation Vita is actually worth their time. Still, the 3DS and the Vita offer deep gaming experiences that Apple and Android devices really just can’t compete with.
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Even in the first-party game department, Vita owners really don’t have much to look forward to in the future beyond Sly Copper: Thieves In Time and titles like Killzone: Mercenary. In Killzone’s case, it doesn’t even have an official release date yet. Third-party developers seem to have all but completely abandoned the Vita. Where are the killer system selling titles?
This could be because Sony is putting all of their efforts into getting the PlayStation 4 ready for its predicted launch sometime this coming fall though. Either way, right now, the PlayStation Vita seems like it’s dying and at this year’s E3, Sony really needs to show that it still has something to offer. Until then, my Vita will continue sitting in a box on my desk collecting dust.
Are you currently a PlayStation Vita owner who’s loving the handheld? Or are you still on the fence about the Vita like me? Let me know in the comments section.
Every Friday, Patrick O’Rourke’s new column Press Start will tackle a new issue in the gaming industry and analyse it from an opinionated angle.
Follow me on Twitter: @Patrick_ORourke.
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Richard Leach's 7 Stars of Jazz has a style reminiscent of the Alex Welsh Band,This then is the basis of Richard Leach's 7 Stars of Jazz, not to be a direct ‘tribute’ band to Alex Welsh but a band that plays with a similar energy and skill plus the ability to entertain an audience with a variety of musical styles.
Band Personnel:
Richard Leach ~ Trombone
Gary Wood - Cornet
Chris Pearce ~ Clarinet
Ian Riley ~ Piano
Ian Parry ~ Guitar/Banjo
John Fellows ~ Bass
Graham Smith ~ Drums
Richard Leach
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Here are a few highlights from last week’s track meet at Castlemont:
Girls 100m
- Tech’s NyErin Buckley- won 1st place vs. Skyline, Castlemont, Oakland High & Fremont.
- Tech’s Autumn Randall- won 2nd place.
- Tech won 3rd – (unknown new runner, Tech doesn’t have a team roster).
Girls 4X100m Relay
- Tech Girls Relay team – won 1st place against Skyline, Castlemont, Oakland High & Fremont.
Girls High Jump
- Autumn Randall- won 1st place.
Boys 100m (1st Heat)
- Mack – won 1st place.
- Tech’s James Lewis -won 2nd place.
- Skyline – won 3rd place.
Boys 200m (1st Heat)
- Skyline- won 1st place
- Skyline- won 2nd place
- Tech’s Brandon Oliver-won 3rdplace
Girls 400m
- Tech’s Lin -won 2nd place
- Tech’s Kona -won 3rd place
Girls 4X400m Relay
- Tech’s Girls -won 2nd place.
Boys 100m (2nd Heat)
- Mack -won 1st place
- Mack -won 2nd place
- Tech’s Brandon Oliver-won 3rd pl
Boys 200m (2nd Heat)
- Mack- won 1st place
- Mack- won 2nd place
- Tech’s James Lewis – won 3rd place
Boys 400m
- Mack -won 1st place
- Tech’s Adam- won 2nd place
- Fremont -won 3rd place
Boys 800m
- Tech’s Adam won 3rd place
*Teammates that were greatly missed due to absence or injuries: Jacob Bavoso – sprinter, Raven Sanders -hurdler, Malik G.- hurdler & sprinter, Britney Williams -sprinter and Simon – 1400m & 3200m.
*We apologize for students names that are not listed but Tech’s track team does not have a roster. Hopefully next year we will receive one.
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