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Re: Woodworking business?LUCKIEST Jan 25, 2012 2:56 PM (in response to timberdoodle)
Welcome Larry
Where are you located??
I would be happy to help you with your business plan.
Re: Woodworking business?timberdoodle Jan 26, 2012 8:13 AM (in response to LUCKIEST)
Southwest Michigan.. mr luckiest
Re: Woodworking business?CorpCons08 Jan 26, 2012 8:41 AM (in response to timberdoodle)
It is difficult to say what is selling and what isn't selling at your competition, because a lot of it has to do with their sales people, pricing, availability, quality, etc. Starting with a successful business plan as LUCKIEST is suggesting is the best way to insure that you beat your competition out. You may also want to look into hiring a consultant to help manage the startup and development of your business, especially taking you into an emerging market.
Re: Woodworking business?Moderator_PaulR Jan 26, 2012 9:16 AM (in response to timberdoodle)
Hello Larry,
One of the things Dan mentioned I think would be a key to the puzzle, quality. You are going to find the big box stores sell a lot of stuff made from particle board with thin outer wood covering and other low quality items that are quick to mass produce. To make a name for yourself you need to produce the highest quality items so people want to buy from you because they know your stuff won't fall apart. It's good to have a friendly sales team but I would say quality is a huge thing you should focus on.
Re: Woodworking business?CorpCons08 Jan 26, 2012 9:28 AM (in response to Moderator_PaulR)
I agree with Paul here. You would even be surprised at how far someone is willing to travel to purchase these higher quality items. Companies have been trying to save money by purchasing lower quality materials, and for that reason, their manufactured products have been of a lower quality. One of the many reasons why they made this move is because they were manufacturing the products before orders were being made. This was leaving them with higher expenses with not a lot of movement taking place to pay those expenses. An idea I would throw at you would be having a website or catalog where customers can place orders for items they like, or having one sample of each type of product (with the option to modify it to their liking) and then manufacturing it. This will cut down on manufacturing costs and prevent you from being stuck with a lot of inventory that isn't being moved.
Re: Woodworking business?timberdoodle Feb 3, 2012 11:22 AM (in response to CorpCons08)
sorry for the delay in getting back here, i have seen some web sites that are set up like you mentioned where one can basically order there piece as they want it.. and i like that approach. i do have a good friend that is doing some advising which they do for a living so he is qualified:) i have always strived for quality and understand the value of it but i am in a depressed area economically and i in my past i havnt been the SALESMAN just the worker bee:) and to get my mind set right its been a struggle to stand up and say i am good and that my product is as well.. but i am coming around ..after many years of being trained to be the worker not the owner who gets the praise and the complaints sometimes to.. its been a tuff road but i am getting there..i have the equipment and i have the resources and suppliers to get what i dont have.. now i need to get the clients and sales..just as a broad question here do you folks see the woodworking business as a fade or is it actually going to become stronger because of the trend for some to buy local or American rather than foreign mass produced lesser quality products?
Re: Woodworking business?Moderator_JoleK Feb 3, 2012 1:25 PM (in response to timberdoodle)
Great to hear feedback ,Larry. You clearly are evolving positively! Keep us updated.
Re: Woodworking business?CorpCons08 Feb 3, 2012 11:18 PM (in response to timberdoodle)
Honestly, I feel the woodworking business is not just a fad. This is something that has been unsuccessfully replaced by technological advances, and in my opinion, that's a good thing. Quality work, good quality product, and beautiful end results is going to drive business no matter the area you are in. Customers are looking for this! Especially business clients. (which is where I feel you are going to find some success) When business clients open a new location and are looking to furnish it, they are more than likely not going to their local retailer looking at the prefab pieces. They are giving their business to the quality workshop in the area that they know will produce quality pieces that won't need to be replaced after 6mos. They also are great sources of reference to other clients, and will also be continued customers themselves if satisfied by the product. Most people are not looking for foreign mass produced lesser quality products, even in the recession. I think you have a good opportunity and am looking forward to hearing from you some more.
Re: Woodworking business?timberdoodle Feb 8, 2012 1:20 PM (in response to CorpCons08)
ok you mention, SALES looking to be new business's being the buyers of the products. now most business want there products yesterday:) quality and hand made products dont come that way.. so now we are possibly looking to have help making these quick turn arounds. so one needs to look for quality workers that will be responsible and that enters in to another world.. as of now i am a one man show in my vision.. so in order to accomplish your clientel.. what would be your suggestions. i was looking at being able to make these products as the client wants, and have some sort of order it your way and here are the choices.. but i do have the ability to make original pieces that are more artsy lets say for lack of a better term.. i like to use my imagination and let my inner self show threw in my creations at times when the time allows. so the short of it ... where would you say i should look into getting the sales for this new business i am setting up..and what products would you say are the ones to look into?
Re: Woodworking business?Moderator_JoleK Feb 4, 2012 9:36 AM (in response to timberdoodle)
Woodworking and furniture making is an ancient craft. It has never been a fad. Everyone appreciates quality wood products. I agree with Dan on the concept of " build it and they will come" .
Re: Woodworking business?timberdoodle Feb 8, 2012 1:23 PM (in response to Moderator_JoleK)
ok whats your suggestion for getting me and my work out for others to see rather than family and freinds? so that i can have the chance to make new sales and let the possible buyers see me and my work?
in todays world, how does one make the choice of product in the wood working business that will sustain a small business, when one has to compete with the big box stores and the commercial shops.
i am in the process of making a business plan and some of the answers needed arent coming as smoothly as i had anticipated.. i have experince in the businees in a small shop setup. cabinet making and have made some high end furniture, as well as been in the construction field for many years prior. so what help or suggestions can you folks offer. is there a place where one can check out the market in the close proximty to see what is selling and what isnt.. ?


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Roseville-based Lanzo Cos. Inc. is heir to $30 million of Detroit sewer lining contracts previously awarded to the now-bankrupt Lakeshore TolTest Corp., but a competitor claims Detroit officials were in no position to make the new award.
Detroit-based Inland Waters Pollution Control Inc. brought a second bid protest this week to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, claiming it acted out of turn at a May 28 meeting by awarding two three-year, $15 million contracts to Lanzo. The contracts are for sewer lining and repairs on Detroit's east and west sides.
Inland is still appealing the original bidder selection process in which DWSD tapped Lakeshore to the Detroit City Council. Inland contends Detroit can take no further action on those contracts while its protest is pending.
"Pulling the award of the contracts to LTC and awarding the contracts to Lanzo does not address or resolve these significant issues raised in Inland's bid protest with respect to LTC … ," Inland's second protest states.
"The bidding, evaluation and award process for the contracts needs to be re-initiated with internal controls in place to prevent further eroding of the integrity of the process."
The department awarded two $30 million contracts April 23 to Lakeshore TolTest and then assigned those contracts from that company to Lakeshore Global Corp., a separate company formed by former LTC Chairman and CEO Avinash Rachmale.
Inland and Detroit-based Blaze Contracting Inc. protested that decision, but Lakeshore TolTest filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation May 2. The DWSD later decided both contracts were void. It denied the protests, but Inland appealed and awaits a hearing before a committee of the City Council on June 16.
The department later lowered its allowance for each contract to $15 million "to accommodate our current financial constraints" and granted new awards to Lanzo, deemed the next-best bidder, on May 28.
Inland notes that the contracts were not on the department Board of Water Commissioners' agenda that day and Lanzo is not a Detroit-based business. It also contends that the entire bidder review "is seriously flawed," that one of the board members is committed to seeing that Inland gets no future DWSD business and that the board should have taken no further action until its protest is resolved.
William Wolfson, chief administrative and compliance officer and general counsel for the DWSD, contends the department can re-award its contracts because Inland was protesting the award to Lakeshore, which is now moot.
"Procurement policy states that if a protest is filed, 'the DWSD Director shall immediately halt the processing of the relevant contract award.' In this case, Inland protested the award of the contract to Lakeshore TolTest," Wolfson stated in a response to a query from Inland's attorney this week. "No further action is being taken with respect to that award."
But Michael Jacobson, attorney for Inland at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC in Southfield, said the company was protesting the department's own process, not Lakeshore per se.
"They (LTC) may be the manifestation of sickness, or the symptoms, but the cause of the illness is process," he said. "The procurement policy makes it clear that until there's a decision by City Council, there should not be any award on these contracts. To me, it looks like the only course of action is to halt the process."
Lanzo attorney Peter Cavanaugh of Royal Oak-based Cavanaugh & Quesada PLC said in an email to Crain's this week that the Board of Water Commissioners conducted "an extensive review of all the bidder's experience and qualifications … (and) found Lanzo to be the highest qualified bidder.
"The Board's decision to award these contracts to Lanzo reflects sound public policy and is consistent with best contracting practices."
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Price pitches into 9th, Rays beat Reds 2-1
David Price wished he had one pitch back.
The left-hander took a shutout into the ninth inning Friday night before giving up a homer to Joey Votto, and the Tampa Bay Rays wound up holding on for a 2-1 victory over the Reds, their first in Cincinnati.
The teams have a brief and lopsided interleague history. The Reds had won eight of their nine previous games, with Tampa Bay's only win coming at Tropicana Field on June 28, 2011, on Evan Longoria's game-ending homer.
This one had all the drama at the end.
"Never had a doubt," Price said.
Longoria singled home a run in the first inning and Matt Joyce connected in the third against Johnny Cueto (0-2) as the Rays finally got a victory in their second visit to Great American Ball Park. They also visited in 2005 and got swept while giving up 34 runs in three games.
Price (2-0) allowed four hits and one walk, losing his shutout when Votto hit an opposite-field drive with one out. He left a pitch over the outside part of the plate, costing him a chance at his third career shutout.
"That stinks," said Price, who threw 114 pitches. "I definitely wanted to finish that game."
Grant Balfour relieved, got Ryan Ludwick on a called third strike, then walked the next two batters and threw a wild pitch that let them advance to second and third. He pitched around Devin Mesoraco, who has been hitting well since his return from the disabled list, and got pinch-hitter Brayan Pena to take a called third strike.
"He (Mesoraco) is hot right now and I'm going to be smart," said Balfour, who is 3 for 3 in save chances. "I played the odds and rolled the dice there.
Despite the teams' limited history, they have one close connection. First-year Reds manager Bryan Price pitched for Joe Maddon when the Rays manager ran the Double-A Midland Angels in the 1980s. Price joked before the game that they got to know each other during Maddon's trips to the mound in the third and fourth innings to replace him.
No early exits in this one. Both starters hung in there against struggling offenses. Tampa Bay has scored a total of eight runs in its last five games. The Reds have scored only 28 runs overall, the second-fewest in the National League.
Both were wasteful again.
Cueto needed 26 pitches to get through the first inning, when he walked two with only one out. Longoria singled home a run, but that's all the Rays could manage. Joyce led off the third inning with a homer that landed way up in the right-field seats for his team-high second of the season.
"In the first inning, I didn't feel like I was ready," Cueto said. "I felt slow. I was a little down on myself. After that, everything clicked in and I was all right."
Tampa Bay had chances for a lot more. The Rays stranded four runners in scoring position in the first five innings against Cueto, who gave up five hits and walked four over seven innings.
The Reds wasted leadoff doubles by Mesoraco in the third and Brandon Phillips in the fourth. Phillips had two of Cincinnati's hits off Price.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Traders are shrugging off the partial shutdown of U.S. government operations, sending stock futures higher.
Investors may be seeing the opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap Tuesday, with seven of the past eight trading days ending in negative territory on the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 32 points to 15,078. S&P futures have tacked on 4.2 points to 1,678.50. Nasdaq futures are up 8.75 points to 3,217.75.
While tourists will be unable to visit the Statue of Liberty, which is part of the National Parks system, the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street, just over a mile away, are up and running.
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Make no mistake; thoughts become things. If a pitcher thinks, "don't walk this guy" or "that pitch was a strike" and allows that thought to occupy his mind, the thought will lead to that reality. As a result, your focus will be not on the execution of the next pitch but on the emotion from the distracting thought. This takes focus away from the task at hand and any pitch thrown without trust, confidence and conviction will not lead to a positive result.
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"On our way back to IL from ATL we listened to 90%. I saw Will pull out his phone and start taking notes. He then began to hit the pause button to finish his note as not to miss anything that was to come. I asked him what were some things that he got from his first run with this book. He said the "Little Man", the "Stop Sign", "Breathe", and "Anchor Statements; specifically the Boat & Anchor analogy". Mr. Tewks is doing incredible work and I saw it with my son Will. It has been the single best development piece of Will's 14U season."
"Tewks talked about different things as far as the mental side of the game, and building that relationship with him I had a trust where I could go and bounce things off of him. He's a no BS guy. I knew he wouldn't pussyfoot around with me. I knew if I asked him a question, he would give me an honest answer, both on the pitching side and on the mental side. I knew I would get that from him."
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"He's got more instant credibility and more to offer if a player or staff is so inclined to engage with him because of his long career in baseball. As we know, pitching is the loneliest thing you can do."
"What Bob brings to the table, Bob did it. He was there. He had his career," Ravizza says. "When Bob talks about the mental game, I listen, because he's walked the walk. I really have so much respect for him."
"I've worked with other people, but the stuff we put in place in Boston is what I'm still using today," Miller says. "It's a very important part of my success, or turnaround. It's something I take very seriously and I think it's had a big impact on my pitching."
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This should be simple enough to understand and easy to implement.
You have cities (which can be located at some x,y position and do not move around).
You have roads (link between nearby cities to form a non-directed mesh).
You have resources (probably three different types, let's say: Red, Green and Blue).
Cities have a maximum number of slots (100) for resource storage, and they start with an initial quota of equal amounts (e.g. 20R, 20G, 20B).
Each round select a random city, then select a random neighbour connected by a road.
The first city selects a parcel of recources on offer to trade with the other; the second city offers some different parcel in return; the first city either approves the deal or refuses. Also, the deal cannot go ahead if it violates storage limits (i.e. more than 100 resources landing in one city).
Cities can also consume, which requires one item of each resource, and increases the score for that player. Highest score at the end of the game wins.
Finally, cities have a production capability where they can convert any one unit of a particular resource into two units of a different resource. Each city can only handle one specific transformation, but over the whole map various transformations are possible. For example, City A may have the capability to transform 1R into 2B while City B can transform 1B into 2R, so between them they can produce any amount of R and B up to their available space limit, providing they trade effectively between each other.
That's basically the whole game. If the maps are randomly generated then some cities will have an advantage, but over many games that can average out. Possibly each player can have multiple cities, but I would argue for a separate AI instance for each city without means of communication. Cities know their own production capabilities, but they don't know what the other cities can do, but they could infer it from price.
The game lends itself easily to visualisation, and should be easy to gather statistics, etc. It makes a change in style from earlier game AI so no one will have stock code they can deploy. Also, you might get sponsorship from a bank... get some of your bailout money returned to you.


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ADRIC 3: The systematic review combined evidence from the studies which have investigated adverse drug reactions in children and described methods used for identifying these ADRs. The systematic review paper has been published in PLoS ONE (Click here to go to the publication)
ADRIC-QUAL: This study explored families' and clinicians' experiences of paediatric adverse drug reactions with a view to improve communication between families and clinicians when a suspected ADR has occurred. The findings of parents' ADR experiences have been published in PLoS ONE (Click here to go to the publication) and the results of parents participation in the yellow card scheme has been published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (Click here to go to the publication). Further publications of additional study findings are pending.
ADRIC 5: This study uses the findings from the first four studies to produce tools that will help to both identify and communicate ADRs. The Liverpool Causality Assessment Tool (LCAT) was developed and the paper was published in PLoS ONE (Click here to go to the publication). Child and parent information leaflets are currently being developed. The LCAT e-learning package is under development before being validated.
The impact of this programme will be invaluable as awareness of adverse drug reactions will be raised, leading to the production of national guidelines for prevention. This understanding will ultimately result in much improved safety in prescribing medicines for children and young people.
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Crews cleanup after Bikes, Blues & BBQ
Fayetteville streets are much quieter and cleaner and getting back to normal now that the thousands of bikes in town for Bikes, Blues and BBQ are long gone.
Sunday, crews spent the day cleaning up after the event. One of the men in charge of the cleanup, Danny Spears, said crews actually got started about four hours ahead of schedule.
They stayed busy all day Sunday packing up equipment, tearing down tents and picking up trash.
Spears said cleanup would not have gone quicker without the help of volunteers from one local high school who traded books and pencils for brooms and trash bags.
"I'm out here with Lincoln Booster Club. They're out here helping us clean up, we couldn't do it without them. We're really glad to have them here," said Spears, Solid Waste and Cleanup.
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FACETIME- Pill cure? UVA doc sees Mel's fix
Two years ago, Dr. Bankole (pronounced bank-o-lay) Johnson, the 46-year-old chair of UVA's department of psychiatric medicine, turned down an interview request from Playboy. "At the time," he laughs, "I was worried about the impression it would make. But now I think it might be a good idea. We might get more patients."
Indeed, Johnson's bold comments about such sexy research— that a pill could cure alcoholism— have attracted attention, particularly recent interviews in which Johnson seemed to give a pass to anti-Semitic spewer Mel Gibson.
Alcoholics "don't understand what they're saying," Johnson was quoted in the L.A. Times, "and they don't mean what they're saying."
But in the same article, another neurobiologist argued, "Alcohol doesn't create the ability to say things like 'Jews are controlling the world.'"
Is it the alcohol talking, or the alcoholic? That's a question Johnson hopes to answer.
"My path to America was very odd," says Johnson in a proper British accent, sitting behind a big bowl of gourmet chocolates and sipping coffee in his UVA office.
Born in Nigeria and educated in Britain, the addiction expert was invited to the U.S. in the late 1980s during Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign. The popular and often satirized anti-drug initiative ended with Bill Clinton's election, but Johnson decided to stay, accepting a position at the University of Texas in Houston to pursue the challenge he had set for himself as a British doctoral student: finding a pharmaceutical cure for alcoholism.
Ironically, considering the cause that brought him to America, Johnson says people just can't say no to drugs, that brain processes are too powerful and too natural to resist.
"Without the potential for addiction, there would be no potential for survival," says Johnson. "The same pathways important for addiction are the same for maintaining survival by promoting feeding, sexual behavior, and learning."
Johnson, who came to UVA two years ago, says that humans, rats, and even flies show similar behaviors and withdrawal symptoms– all animals are susceptible to addiction. "It must have been implanted there by the creator for a vital purpose," he says.
While Johnson hasn't figured out the purpose, he has shown ways to reduce the cravings. Researching a drug called topiramate, Johnson discovered that people who took the drug were six times more likely to quit drinking than those receiving a placebo. He's also studying ondansetron, which reduces cocaine dependence. Next up? A study on that scourge of the Blue Ridge: methamphetamine.
Obviously, Johnson's research challenges the abstinence approach characterized by "Just Say No" and Alcoholics Anonymous. And while he doesn't dismiss such programs, he thinks they could be more efficient.
"There's no evidence that big therapy is much better than little therapy," he says, wondering why "talk therapy"– the backbone of psychological counseling– couldn't be shorter, more focused, and calibrated for effectiveness the way drugs are.
If Johnson's drug research is successful, might the 12 steps that recovering addicts have been negotiating for decades become a footnote in medical history?
"Cravings are just part it," says Phoebe Fliokas, a substance abuse counselor with Blue Ridge First Step. "We've had alcoholics relapse who didn't have cravings. It's about changing life patterns and learning new behaviors."
Fliokas says she favors new drugs to fight addiction, but thinks an integrative approach is necessary. "We've found that programs like AA and NA work best for people who go through here... in terms of relapsing."
For Johnson, however, relapses will be prevented when the need for the drug is eliminated, and he foresees a day when research yields a vaccine for alcohol, cocaine, and cigarette addiction. "It would make these destructive drugs useless," he says, "because it would stop the pleasure it gives to the brain."
Speaking of pleasure, what's with the big bowl of chocolates?
Johnson laughs. "I want to make sure that everyone who comes to my office leaves with a sweet experience," he says. "Besides, this is the only legal mood enhancer I can offer at the University."
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Evolution Hoax
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Adnan Oktar: Turkey will be Great Turkey. I underline that; not 99% but 100%. It will be the leader of the Turkish-Islamic world. The whole world will see this in the next 10-20 years. I am here, you are here, everyone is here, and it is evident, by Allah's leave. There is no other way. This is the destiny of mankind, insha'Allah, and this is how it will be... Therefore, Turkey will be the leader of both Muslims and Christians and Jews, insha'Allah. It is the leader, and it will become the leader. And it will bring them all peace, security and justice. Turkey is already in effect doing that. It is doing it in Bosnia, and Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere. Wherever the Turkish Army goes it is greeted with love. But this will be widened much more. Because our nation is very affectionate and delights in love and friendship. It will give others to eat and drink rather than eat and drink itself. If they have one good bed they will give it to their guest rather than taking it for themselves.


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How to meet Great Britain's Olympians this Sunday
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| Former international hockey player passes away
| Great Britain Hockey is looking to appoint a new president.
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GRAND RAPIDS November 14, 2016– Any residents needing food assistance this month can stop by New Life Church of God in Christ, 1072 Jefferson SE in Grand Rapids on Thursday, November 17, to pick up several pounds of fresh produce and baked goods. The food truck, sponsored by west Michigan union members, will open to the public at 4pm.
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The trucks– provided by local unions, individual donors, Feeding America West Michigan and Heart of West Michigan United Way– hold 5,000 pounds of produce, baked goods and other food items. For a complete 2016 schedule of the food trucks, click here.
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Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A.) is a student organization that promotes higher education, culture, and history. M.E.Ch.A. was founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of indigenous people. We believe that political involvement and education is the avenue for change in our society. Each word in M.E.Ch.A. symbolizes a great concept in terms of "La Causa". - MOVIMIENTO means that the organization is dedicated to the movement to gain self-determination for our people. - ESTUDIANTIL identifies the organization as a student group for we are part of our Raza's future. - At the heart of the name is the use of the identity: CHICANA/O. At first seen as a negative word, now taken for a badge of honor. In adopting their new identity, the students committed themselves to return to the barrios, colonias, or campos and together, struggle against the forces that oppress our gente. It represents similar experiences that connect us. - Lastly, the affirmation that we are Indigenous people to this land by placing our movement in AZTLAN, the homeland of all peoples from Anahuak. "M.E.Ch.A. must bring to the mind of every young Chicana and Chicano that the liberation of her/his people from prejudice and oppression is in her/his hands and this responsibility is greater than personal achievement and more meaningful than degrees, especially if they are earned at the expense of her/his identity and cultural integrity. M.E.Ch.A., then, is more than a name; it is a spirit of unity, of sisterhood and brotherhood, and a resolve to undertake a struggle for liberation in society where justice is but a word. M.E.Ch.A. is a means to an end." (El Plan de Santa Barbara) At CSU Channel Islands, M.E.Ch.A. is dedicated to keeping our cultural traditions and values of brotherhood/sisterhood along with unity through our Dia de Los Muertos Honoring in the Fall semester and our annual Raza Youth Conference in the Spring semester. M.E.Ch.A. is also a key organizer for the CSU Channel Islands newest tradition, Raza Graduation. Everyone is welcome to our events and organization!
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Valentine's Day fell on Tuesday, but there's still some love in the air.
For many of us, golf was love at first sight. For others, it may have taken some time.
Regardless, we asked our PGA.com Facebook friends to share with us what it was that started their love affair with this awesome, maddening and incredible game that we all love.
So, what made you fall in love with golf?
We received loads of great feedback and it was extremely difficult for us to narrow the list.
Here goes nothing:
9. The focus it requires. If you're going to play well, you really do need to forget about everything else, right?
Facebook fan quote:
"I love the focus it takes to play the game well... everything leaves my head for 4 1/2 hours when I am trying to put that little white ball in that very little hole." -- Robert Soldwish
8. The sights, smells and sounds. The smell of the freshly cut grass, the sound of a crisply struck iron shot... Ahhh...
Facebook fan quote:
"It was the smell of a new leather glove and the sound metal spikes made on the concrete. Crazy but true." -- Ronnie Castillo
"The views and the sounds of golf: the birds and the wind." -- Don Arrington
7. Pulling off a shot. Even those of us who are lousy at the game -- this writer included -- occasionally impress ourselves by hitting the shot we imagined.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I was 7 years old at junior camp and told to aim at the mower that was, 'out of range,' and I nailed it. Been in love ever since." -- Jason Walke
"The possibility of the perfect shot." -- Mike Joiner
"That moment just shortly after you have crushed it and you look up to see your ball headed right at that flag. Your eyes widen, your heart beats a little faster, you get that butterflies feeling in your stomach, and for a dash of a moment, you actually think it may go in. Between the point that you made contact and the point the ball lands, all your problems and all your worries disappear. Total suspension. That's the same exact feeling that one has when they are thinking about the person with whom one is in love." -- José Coqui Donis
"The thrill of hitting a good shot. Always hitting poor shots all the time was always frustrating, but those four or so shots a round that were perfect just kept me hooked." -- Matt Enright
6. Always enjoyed watching, but finally played. Enough said, right?
Facebook fan quotes:
"I am not really sure; I admired it from afar when I was young. In elementary school I did a small biographical type book report for Tiger Woods and dressed like him. I did not actually play a round until I was 22 years old and I could not get enough of it. I never lose my temper even when I falter. As soon as I hit that first flush iron, that long putt, my first chip in birdie I was struck for LIFE!" -- Rafael Moto Soto
5. It's a sport for life. Unlike most other sports, you're never too old to play golf.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I played softball until I was over 30, and then took up golf. Immediately I was hooked, I could hit a moving ball anywhere I wanted to on a softball field and yet a perfectly still golf ball was challenging me, my patience, and my competitiveness. I love the game and wish I would have played it as a kid!" -- Andrea Forsythe Dunn
"I thought I was done participating in sports. Played basketball most of my life. A friend convinced me to start playing golf and I fell in love day one. I love the game, the camaraderie and the honor. I love how friendly golfers are to each other. It's a wonderful game." -- Adolphus Drain
"I realized that getting hit with lacrosse balls for 20 years wasn't fun anymore, thus took up golf! Loved it ever since." -- Benjamin Yingling
"I'm good at every sport I've ever played, this is the most difficult sport, makes me want to get better." -- A.j. Heafey
"The ability to compete after I was through playing baseball." -- Michael Maddalena
4. It's peaceful. A beautiful setting with the sounds of nature -- it's a lot better than an office building with the sounds of ringing phones, right?
Facebook fan quote:
"I fell in love with golf, and remain in love, because there is no other place or thing you can do that comes close to the peacefulness of being outside, free of the noise of traffic, people talking, taking phone calls, etc. It's nothing but quality time with quality human beings in (most times) the awesome outdoors and nothing but beautiful green, lush landscape and the sounds of nature. WITHOUT noise pollution, no matter what anyone scores, there's no such thing as a bad day when you're golfing." -- Christopher Brown
3. A particular player. Just like any sport, we all have our heroes that draw us to the game.
Facebook fan quote:
"I fell in love with golf because of Tiger Woods. The first time I saw him on TV, I was young then, there was just something about him. I found myself wanting to know about him and golf all the time. With years I'm getting worse. I just love golf because of him." -- Mampati Sojenqa
"Watching Seve Ballesteros many years ago at Royal Dublin and Portmarnock in the Irish Open... magic golf." -- Dermot Whiston
"Faldo, Woosnam, Langer, Olazabal, Norman, Torrance, Lyle and of course the late, great Seve Ballesteros!!! A golden age for golf!" -- Pablo Dillon
"Larry Mize's chip on 11, 1987 Masters!" -- Casey Powell
"Greg Norman... hands down." -- Brad Tozer
2. Attending a tournament. When you see the talent on display at a tournament, you'll certainly walk away intrigued.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Going to The Masters every year since I was 2." -- Jason Newsome
"When I went to my first PGA tournament at the Memorial in Dublin, Ohio." -- Susan Kelleher
"When my late husband took our then 3-year-old to the Shell Houston Open. I watched them in awe. They were in love with the game. I saw their eyes light up when Phil and Lee came by. I understood the way they felt bow That's when I fell in love with golf." -- Paula Munoz Guzman
"Growing up in Carmel and walking on the Pebble Beach Golf Course! Though I haven't played it yet! The place is majestic! It's a special thing when you can walk in the footsteps of so many legends! I was blessed to be there at the U.S. Open on 18 as Tom Watson walked up to the green with tears in his eyes... And that brought tears to my eyes... I knew I was in love with game." -- Wes Westcott
1. It reminds you of special times spent with your family. Whether it was a grandparent, a parent, many of us have that loved one to thank for our love of the game.
Facebook fan quotes:
"My Grandfather, he took me golfing when I was 8 at a course on cape cod. There was a hole with a pond just in front of the tee that required a 130 yard carry to get over and he couldn't quite make it so he always teed off with a floating golf ball. He'd hit it just short of the other side then retrieve it with his scooper then drop a regular ball and take a shot penalty. I just loved how he refused to donate a ball to that pond and I have never forgotten it and have gotten many good laughs over that story." -- Eric Bronsveld
"Three to five hours of uninterrupted time with my father and grandmother. I use it now as I bring my own children to the golf course with me." -- Jim Bennett
"When I was 8 years old in 1967, my mother and father divorced. My mom got a job as the General Manager at Fox Hollow Golf Course. She would pick me up from school, bring me to the course and have me hit golf balls, clean the carts, etc while she worked. As we all know, your Mom is the true Valentine of every son! So she got me hooked into golf and mainly it was a way for my Mom and me to stay close with each other." -- Stephen Patten
"My Father taught me and we played together for many years until his passing. Some of my best memories of Dad were when we played, 'cow pasture pool,' as he called it. Miss you, Irvin Mitchell." -- Doug Mitchell
"Growing up golfing with my dad and playing with all his golfing buddies every time I came home on leave when I was active duty. Made my first visit to Pebble Beach this past weekend and would have loved to have shared the experience with my dad. I use a ball marker with his name on it... doesn't help my putting cause I realized my dad couldn't putt either." -- Tom Schipper
"My Dad introduced me to the game when I was 5, it was, 'Our Thing.' Because of his heart condition, it was one of the only sports he could play. He's gone now... But I flash back to our time on the course every time I tee it up." -- Brent Fawcett
"A couple things. It's fun. The rush of making a good shot and either getting it super close or getting it in. Plus, and most importantly, the time I get to spend with my dad while we play." -- Patrick Jason Mullins
"My dad was a teacher and we all spent the entire summer playing golf. I'll never forget those times." -- Robert Leonard
"My father got me started when I was really young, and loved the game ever since. Thanks dad!" -- Nate Rasmusson
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Who has the worst "worst, by far" copyright laws in the world? According to a pair of consumer groups, the winner is—wait for it—the UK.
Yes, the country that brought us copyright, modern parliamentary democracy, chocolate Hobnobs, and both Shakespeare and Simon Cowell was rated the absolute worst of sixteen countries surveyed when it came to copyright. The abysmal rating came from the Open Rights Group and Consumer Focus, which dinged the UK for its lack of a broad "fair use" right and the continued existence of rules that prohibit (among other things) legally ripping a CD to one's computer or iPod.
Countries surveyed included China, Australia, Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, and the US, but the UK's consumer unfriendliness (read the country-specific report) can be seen in the fact that it has no copyright exemption for parody or satire. It also assigns the copyright in most government documents to the Crown, unlike the US government, which places its material in the public domain.
Many of these items were identified as problems by the hugely important Gowers Review back in 2006, but have still not been acted upon. Andrew Gowers, a newspaper editor, recommended that the UK's "fair dealing" laws get a major upgrade and that private ripping of legally purchased CDs be made legal; neither has yet happened.
To some rightsholders, of course, the "bad news" actually looks like "good news," since it gives them even more power to control their material. Consumers widely ignore rules such as the ban on CD ripping, and people aren't prosecuted for doing so, but this sort of copyright overreach simply damages public respect for law and copyrights so long as it remains on the books.
From the consumer point of view, things may get worse, quickly. The European Parliament, pushed by record labels and rock stars like Bono and Sir Cliff Richard, is considering an extension on musical copyrights to 95 years per song.
The Gowers Review said that the current 50-year copyright was plenty of time, but the UK government is pushing for an extension to 70 years. It won't go along with the full 95-year term, however, and has been holding up the legislation in Europe on the grounds that it goes too far. The European Parliament could hold a full vote on the plan next week.


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UK Internet providers have now banded together to challenge anti-P2P law firms who try to turn thousands of IP addresses into customer names—and a London court will hear their objections to the entire process.
The ISPs were burned last month when a massive e-mail leak from the top anti-P2P firm in the UK, ACS Law, exposed their own spreadsheets of customer names matched to the pornographic films they allegedly downloaded. The revelation of this embarrassing (and unproven) behavior was compounded by the fact that several of the ISPs were taking no security precautions, instead e-mailing their Excel spreadsheets unencrypted and without passwords.
PlusNet's Chief Operation Officer Richard Fletcher apologized last week to customers. "We are investigating how we came to be sending unencrypted data as we have robust systems for managing data," he said. But the blame, in his view, lies largely elsewhere: "We are extremely angry with ACS Law for allowing this to happen."
PlusNet, along with other ISPs like BSkyB, showed up in a London court yesterday to challenge the newest "Norwich Pharmacal Order" (NRO). NROs allow companies like ACS Law and rival firm Gallant Macmillan to take their lists of allegedly infringing IP addresses to ISPs and ask for a lookup; the orders function much like subpoenas in similar US cases.
ISPs generally go along with NROs, but not anymore. Several of them have now asked Special Master Winegarten, the UK legal official who grants many of these NROs, to hold a detailed hearing on how the data is collected and how it is protected. Winegarten agreed yesterday, giving the ISPs three months to prepare their case for a January 2011 hearing on the matter. Until then, it appears that no new NROs related to file-sharing will be forthcoming.
PlusNet's Fletcher was at the hearing. In a post to PlusNet users, Fletcher said he was "pleased that the court has agreed to an adjournment so that our concerns can be examined by the court; this will then act as a precedent/test case for the future."
He's not opposed to rightsholders protecting their copyrights, but he does want "to ensure broadband subscribers are adequately protected so that rights holders can pursue their claims for copyright infringement without causing unnecessary worry to innocent people."
The means the January hearing may take a deep dive into the way that IP addresses are collected by P2P detection firm; the UK in particular has been flooded with complaints from people who say they are totally innocent.
Whether or not it leads to better data collection practices, ISP resistance to turning over subscriber names is sure to increase—and that could eat into the profits of the law firms engaged in what is largely a numbers game. This is bad news for Andrew Crossley and his employees at ACS Law—as his own cash flow projections show, he needs to keep pumping out the settlement letters to keep the revenue flowing in. Not being able to turn IP addresses into cash-generating leads for at least three more months can't be good for business.


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We've all heard that there's no free lunch. But do investors understand that if they're dining on champagne and caviar on a burger-and-fries budget today, they will be looking at peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or bread and water, in the future?
That appears to be the lesson of Hussman Funds manager John Hussman's latest shareholder newsletter called "Eating the Future," commenting on today's high securities prices.
"Every security on earth works like this. The higher the price you pay for a given set of expected future cash flows, the lower your prospective future rate of return. Higher prices essentially take from future prospective returns and add to past returns. Conversely, lower prices take from past returns and add to future prospective returns," Hussman (left) writes.
The former finance professor points out that investors buying 10-year Treasury debt today are procuring for themselves a meager 1.7% nominal annual return; 30-year bond investors are buying a 2.9% annual return; benchmark corporate bond investors are buying a 2.8% annual return; and S&P 500 stock investors are purchasing, based on Hussman Funds estimates of long-term cash flow projections, a nominal return of 4.1%. "The elevated prices of financial assets have already eaten the future," he says.
Hussman makes a crucial distinction between changes in asset prices and wealth. Rising 10-year bond prices, for example, don't increase wealth. "Regardless of today's price, someone will have to hold that security until it delivers $100 a decade from now—no more, no less," he writes. "Economic wealth is only created by the generation of additional goods and services…that actually emerge in the future."
Hussman offers a stock-market illustration of this point as well:
"If a dentist in Poughkeepsie buys a single share of Apple a dime higher than the last guy did, nearly $100 million of market capitalization is suddenly created. Nobody suddenly pumped $100 million into the stock market. One person just paid up a little. All of that is the reason we insist on valuing securities based on the long-term stream of cash flows that we actually expect to be delivered into the hands of investors over time, not based on ephemeral measures like Wall Street's estimates of next year's earnings."
So while a greater fool may be willing to buy your security for a higher price, "this does not mean that real output will be more plentiful in the future."
To the contrary, Hussman argues that on an aggregate basis, today's overconsumption of securities is eating into our future, as evidenced by the low cash flows expected from today's securities prices. He asks:
"Are bond market investors actually 'wealthier' as a result of all of the [central bank] manipulation of asset prices? No. To the contrary, they are poorer. In aggregate, the real wealth of fixed-income investors has been assaulted" by expected inflation or higher long-term interest rates in the later years of this decade.
Hussman adds that inflation, the dread of bondholders, has historically been unkind to stock owners as well because it leads to increased wage and interest costs, and will likely shrink profit margins significantly below present levels, which he says are 70% above historical norms.
The lugubrious portfolio manager, who believes the U.S. economy is currently in an as-yet unrecognized recession, offers hope to individual investors who can still sell to the greater fools in the market, but gloom for the masses.
"Unfortunately," he concludes, "the tragedy of the commons is that behavior that can be followed by a single individual is not always behavior that can be followed by all individuals taken together."
Read It's the 'Warped' Financial System, Stupid: Hussman on AdvisorOne.


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Cleveland Volcano experienced yet another explosion on Friday morning – its twentieth since Christmas.
Cleveland is one of the Aleutian Islands' most active volcanoes. It's been on watch for the better part of the past two years, and in June it blew ash 35,000 feet high.
Today's explosion was small by comparison and didn't produce a visible ash cloud, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Since there isn't any real-time monitoring equipment on Cleveland, the explosion was detected using infrasound and seismic equipment on nearby volcanoes.
Cleveland lies on uninhabited Chuginadak Island, about 115 miles away from Unalaska and 900 miles from Anchorage. While there isn't a population center near the volcano, it does lie below a major international flight path and could cause major air traffic problems in the event of a serious eruption.


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If you're thinking about going through fertility treatments, you might need to do it multiple times to actually conceive. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that women in their 30s and 40s who had fertility treatments were as likely to deliver babies as women who conceived naturally — it just sometimes takes repeated cycles of the the fertility procedure. Researchers looked at all IVF cycles together, rather than the live birth rate after one treatment cycle. By adding those together, they found that there is hope for women undergoing multiple treatments.
The study looked at 246,740 women who went through assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment between 2004 and 2009. Of the women, 57 percent of them gave birth through treatment and 30 percent of all ART cycles resulted in a live birth. Researchers took into account factors like age and quality of embryos.
For women under 31 who went through ART, the birth rate was 42 percent for the first cycle and the by the fourth cycle, the rate was 66-83 percent. For women 43 and older, the birth rate using her own embryos was 4 percent for the fourth cycle and 7-15 percent for the fourth cycle. If older women used donor eggs, they would have a significantly greater chance of having a live birth. Researchers said the the chances of conceiving naturally are 45 percent for the first month, 65 percent at the six-month mark and 85 percent at a year.
Would you undergo multiple fertility treatments? What do you think of these findings?


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