text:
Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
The Question: What do Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, SoBe, AMP Energy Drink, Propel, Mug, and Aquafina have in common with your Sales Team?
The answer: They are all Brands within a Brand! It doesn't matter to PepsiCo, the parent company, whether your Sales Manager grabs a Mountain Dew or an AMP Energy drink on their way to the dealership. Some people "Do the Dew" and others prefer to get "AMPED UP," PepsiCo has a brand for both and makes a sale either way…
As a dealership you are PepsiCo and your Sales team members are your brands within your brand. How well are you marketing YOUR BRANDS to assure that you get a shot at every sale?
Consumers do a surprising amount of research before making a vehicle purchase. They research the vehicle they are interested in, they research the dealer they are interested in purchasing from, but would it surprise you to know that they now research the sales team member that they want to work with before coming to the dealership? It's true. Nothing about the internet era changed the fact that this is a people business so it shouldn't really surprise us that the people that represent you to the consumer have become a very real part of your online marketing effort. People will always buy from people, not a business, right?
One very important thing however, HAS changed... An effective greeting may no longer occur on the lot; the greeting may occur ONLINE!
If you want to be truly competitive in the research phase of the buying cycle and improve your lead-to-appointment ratio, your Salesperson's online greeting needs to be as polished as their lot greeting. Here are a couple thoughts to help you effectively market your brands within your brand.
Remember, some customers want to "Do the Dew" and others are really craving a quality bottle of water. If you are helping your staff to be the brand within your brand you can be all things to all people!
PS. Here is a GREAT example of this concept in action from a store that is North of the Border. Click on any of their sales team members on their DealerRater Page:
Views: 882
I love the individual employee pages. Unfortunately my dealership is not certified.
Michal Lusk - I am with you... The individual employee pages in DealerRater are a very powerful asset when used properly, and too few DR Certified dealers take advantage of them.
It is just interesting to me to see how few U.S. certified dealers even make use of the staff pages feature in DealerRater. It is a fantastic tool for so many uses. After loading a photo and bio for each employee in DealerRater, I crafted signatures in our CRM for each sales person, sales manager, BDC employee, finance manager, and service advisor that contained their photo, job title, contact info, and a link to their DealerRater page. But I suspect that most dealerships don't have a person who has that sort of function, so it just doesn't get done.
Thanks Michal. It is interesting! We hold basic training webinars three times a week and now have an internal team taking care of 90% of the setup of individual pages etc. That comment wasn't really planned by the way. I get in trouble when I go off script and start speaking from the heart... ;)
Not sure what it is, but I see more cool stuff coming from the Canadians lately. Maybe it's the climate? ;)
Here is an example of a Cool Canadian leveraging his digital why buy book on Twitter:
Great webinar, Ryan! Thanks for sharing the link. Your comment about Canadian dealers making better use of DealerRater's certified features than U.S. dealers is interesting. I suspect that most dealerships just don't have anyone who can implement the features and train the staff on how to make good use of them.
Thanks Tom. I'm really passionate about this. It makes me angry that some of the people that I call friends are lumped into second class citizen status by a Gallup poll.
I want to believe that the efforts of "sales professionals that happen to sell cars" can eventually supersede the negative perception of "car salespeople." Credible consumer stories vetted and authenticated through a 3rd party have an extremely high trust factor and consumers are seeking out the content... We haven't shared this number as much as we should, but DealerRater is averaging 1.4 million eyeballs on our content through various distribution channels each month. The tide has simply got to turn.
If I can't have that I want my friends to be cleaning the clocks of those "car salespeople" referenced in that Gallup poll. Promoting your personal "Why Buy Book" digitally to win appointments and sales is the equivalent of bringing a machine gun to a knife fight. Actually, that may not be a strong enough analogy. It's more like winning a fight the other guy didn't even know he was in!
Here's the link:
Ryan, I would like to show you a series of videos taken in 2007, with the permission of the dealerships GM and salesperson, detailing how a sale is conducted at the dealership from on lot greeting to delivery. This was unscripted and no influence from GM and salesperson. I was given full access. Each dealer can do a much better video now but it just goes to show that what you're saying about a brand within a brand is true. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94FF2212E37A4A04&feature...
Ryan, a great presentation. I was wishing all of our sales staff was watching it. I will send you an email asking for a copy of it! Thank you!
Ryan, thank you. I signed on. Looking forward to it!
ADM Friends, I'm holding a webinar at the request of a few DealerRater certified stores next week and have some open slots. The webinar is going to expound on some of the themes of this post so I thought I'd open up the registration for anyone here that is interested.
Your unsold prospects research the car they want to buy and the dealer they may want to buy from, but would it surprise you to know that they research the salesperson too? The "meet and greet" no longer happens on the lot; the "Meet and Greet" happens ONLINE!
This market update will give you and your sales team critical insights into the mind of today's unsold prospect as well as four real world strategies you can implement today to better use the reviews you are currently collecting at NO cost.
Please join me Dec 5th for what is certain to be a a lively and informative discussion... Becoming the Brand Within the Brand. Click here for the registration link.
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of selling in a forum so I want to be really clear about this webinar... I created the content and strategies I'm going to discuss with DealerRater's staff pages in mind. The webinar WILL feature the staff pages we offer at no charge with certification. If you are a DealerRater certified store this will be PERFECT for you. If you don't work at a DealerRater Certified store you may be able to adopt some of these strategies, but I don't want you to be surprised to see a heavy focus on DealerRater tools if you join.
PS. AJ, How much are the royalty fees on the phrase "It's the about the people, people!"? ;) It's hard to talk about this topic without mentioning you!
© 2020 Created by Ralph Paglia. Powered by


text:
San Diego-based Sony subsid Sony Online Entertainment has reported a suspected hack of credit card data concerning 12,700 customers. It has shuttered online service temporarily.
Breach reportedly occurred on April 16 and 17, when hackers accessed personal info from nearly 24.6 million SOE accounts, as well as info from a 2007 database, including 12,700 non-U.S. credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates and 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain.
Sony earlier shut down its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services in reponse to a hack of info from 77 million customers, but at a Sunday press conference in Tokyo, Sony game division chief Kazuo Hira said Sony would restart most services, beginning with online games for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation portable, this week with tougher security measures in place.
SOE will offer 30 days of free subscription time to customers, and compensate them for lost service.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Hughes replaces Ponting in Tests for Australia
Phil Hughes was Thursday handed another chance to resurrect his Australian career after being recalled as a replacement for Ricky Ponting in next week's first Test against Sri Lanka.
Phillip Hughes, who has played for his country 17 times as an opener but not since against New Zealand in December 2011, was preferred ahead of Rob Quiney and Usman Khawaja to fill the void left by the retired Ponting.
Ponting, the second-highest Test run-scorer of all-time behind India's Sachin Tendulkar, played his final and record-equalling 168th Test for Australia against South Africa in Perth, which finished on Monday.
Hughes, 24, has satisfied selectors that he has overcome technical issues which made him vulnerable to the rising ball and which led to his axing in the past.
"It is actually really special this time," Hughes told reporters ahead of the first Test in Hobart starting on December 14.
"The sacrifices that I have made in the last 12 months have been quite big. I knew I had to do them ... so to me, I can go in there with a fresh mind."
Skipper Michael Clarke has still to decide on his batting order against Sri Lanka, but the opening pair of David Warner and Ed Cowan are expected to remain leaving Hughes seen as coming in at number three.
Chief selector John Inverarity revealed that the panel opted against throwing Hughes in against the strong South African pace attack and gave Quiney his chance in the first two Tests before he was dropped for a lack of runs.
"We did feel that throwing him (Hughes) in against the world No.1 with their attack was probably not the ideal set of circumstances for him," Inverarity said in announcing the squad.
Inverarity is confident the left-hander has now made the necessary tweaks to his game to succeed at the highest level.
"We look to Phil Hughes to be one of our players for the future - a real long-term player," he said.
"I think Phil's in a very good place at the moment. His technique, if you watched him closely 12 months ago and now, his scoring range is very different.
"He's scoring through the leg-side, off his pads much better, driving on the on-side and pulling short balls, which wasn't the case 12 months ago.
"So I think he's developed his game and it's much harder now for bowlers, in a sense, to corner him."
Hughes said he would bat anywhere, believing in his technical changes honed in a year of personal sacrifice which involved a stint in English county cricket with Worcestershire and a move from New South Wales to South Australia.
"I had to change a couple of things but I feel comfortable ... I have had chances before but I'm grateful for this one and I just hope I can really get in there and cement my spot," he said.
Selectors also recalled pace bowlers Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus for the December 14-18 Hobart Test for injured quicks John Hastings (back) and Josh Hazlewood (foot) from the side that lost to the Proteas by 309 runs in Perth.
Australia - Michael Clarke (capt), Shane Watson, David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phil Hughes, Mike Hussey, Matthew Wade, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nathan Lyon.
Sign up for all the latest news, top galleries and trending videos from Mid-day.comSubscribe


text:
|more useful options
Re^3: thoughts on perl languageby tobyink (Canon)
|on Nov 10, 2012 at 23:18 UTC ( #1003289=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
I'm not entirely sure where you get the number 370 from. This website claims to have a list of 620 available to its subscribers, and I imagine that even that it not exhaustive.
It's not about sheer numbers though. Most verbs are regular, obviously. However many of the irregular verbs also happen to be very commonly used. Take a look at this list. It's the 10 most common verbs in the English language:
How many are irregular? How about all of them! Only 7 of the top 25 English verbs are regular.
Compare that to, say, German, which happens to be one of English's closest neighbours linguistically. In German there's only one truly irregular verb, sein (to be). Other than that, all verbs fall into two categories, strong and weak, which each have their own (different, but predictable) conjugation rules. Of the top ten German verbs, one is irregular, eight are strong, and one is weak.
Three forms to a verb? Regular ones have four (look, looks, looking, looked). Irregular ones have X forms, where X is a number perhaps less, perhaps more, or perhaps equal to four.
There are plenty of weird things in English other than spelling. How about...
perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
In Section Meditations


text:
For middle-income retirees, health care and the costs associated with it are a major theme in their retirement. A survey released July 11 by Bankers Life and Casualty Co. Center for a Secure Retirement asked retirees what they had learned since they've retired, and health care-related issues were a big surprise.
More than half of retirees said health care cost more than they expected in retirement, and 33% said their prescriptions were more expensive. However, it seems many retirees underestimated the cost of basic expenses overall. Forty-one percent said groceries cost more than they thought they would and 38% said transportation costs were higher than expected.
Retirees seem to have a pretty fair assessment of their tax burden, however. Just 2% said they were paying more in taxes than they thought they would when they retired.
Although 55% of retirees said they were paying more for health care than they thought they would be, almost a quarter said they were surprised by how healthy they are. Unfortunately, the second most common surprise retirees said they encountered after retiring was unexpected health issues (18%).
While traveling was most often cited as retirees' top goal, other goals demonstrate that health and wellness is top-of-mind. Twenty-one percent of retirees said improving their health was a top goal, and 15% said they would like to lose weight or get physically fit. Improving their financial security ranked No. 10.
The survey was conducted in April by The Blackstone Group for Bankers Life and Casualty. The firm surveyed 300 retirees between 55 and 75 with an annual household income between $25,000 and $75,000.
The current survey,"Listening to Middle-Income Americans: Health and Happiness," is part of a larger series on middle-income retirees. An earlier survey, released in June, focused on advice retirees would give younger generations.
The most important piece of advice current retirees would give to younger generations was to save for the future. Nearly 40% said saving was the most important thing young people could do. However, other tips were more philosophical. The second and third most common tips retirees said they would pass on were to be happy and to live life to the fullest.
Regarding retirement specifically, retirees again stressed the importance of saving. Almost all respondents said young people should start saving early, and 84% said they should contribute to their employer's retirement plan. Just 37% suggested younger generations should get professional advice when planning for retirement.
Other advice included investing conservatively (39%), living frugally (30%) and working for as long as possible (22%).
The high value retirees place on saving is no surprise, considering the topic they wish they knew more about is how to make their money last. One-quarter said they wanted more information about maximizing their returns. Of their top 10 concerns, though, four were regarding health or health-related issues. Health insurance and Medicare was the second most common topic retirees wanted to know more about. Healthy aging was No. 5, followed by health care and health care costs.


text:
Here are the steps:
- Get everything off the floors, out of the pantry, and off the kitchen counters.
- Sand them. We do this to get the finish off, and make them smooth.
- Put stain on.
- Put three coats of polyurethane on (sanding, vacuuming, and tack clothing in between coats.)
We will use 3 or 4 different grades of sandpaper.
On Saturday we did almost the entire floor once, then we went to the Browns' barn to spend the night since we go there for worship on Sunday morning and it was too dusty to sleep in our house.


text:
Dennis Beach,OSB
Br. Dennis Beach, OSB - Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint John's University. Br. Dennis professed solemn vows in 1982. He earned his BA summa cum laude in English from Saint John's University in 1978 and his PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 1998. He has taught at Saint John's University since 1995 and has also taught at Pennsylvania State University and Saint John's Preparatory School. Br. Dennis is a member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. He has been active as a faculty resident at Saint John's University, as chair of the Justice and Peace Committee of Saint John's Abbey and with Latino-Latin American issues both near Saint John's and in Central America.


text:
Thanks to the feedback we received regarding the future of the Newsletter, several changes have been made to reflect the wishes of the community. The GoMe Newsletter has been expanded into the GoMe Newspaper. We concentrated the news onto the front pages, included a comic strip, a monthly column from the Guild of Archivists, and added more articles of interest. So without further ado may we presented the all new, and with a little bit of the old, GoMe September Newspaper which is now ready to download, in PDF format.
After reading the Newspaper, write back and tell us which articles are your favorites. General comments about the Newspaper are welcomed also.
It's only through your responses that the GoMe Newspaper will better fit your needs, so please do not hesitate to let us know."
Also can we remind folks about our free Newspaper subscription service? It is easy, just click here, sign up and receive your next copy, direct into your Inbox, KI numbers not required.
A Guild of Messengers Publication
GoMe September Newspaper
This category is for foreign languages. Feel free to contact us.
1 Beitrag •Seite 1 von 1
1 Beitrag •Seite 1 von 1


text:
Im working with success based thinking programs! " Think and get rich" Napoleon Hill! Laws of attraction!
Im in the middle! Ive made great progress, then I pull back and start sabotaging! I go back to being 8 years old and not deal with the present reality! I go back to the world of the 8 year old! and I see it as a safe place! Im still in denial or the 8 year old is seeing things as innocent when the past is actually dangerous or not safe; or I was never accepted! One of the biggest problems or confessions; I am seeing the past as accepting when I should not! meaning; it was not! the truth has been found out! Im not ready to accept that truth! it takes away everything I thought was safe! So, I go back to being an 8 year old and seeing things as naive!
I see myself at an old friends house! I see myself in his basement; his fathers work shop! it feels safe and it feels like home; I almost lived their! it was like home! I felt it was home! However, in reality, I did not know what others thought of me! in reality, they did not want me around ; any of them; they felt invaded! I was not wanted at any level! Ive decided that the evidence suggest the mother of the house, when I was young; she decided it would be a good idea for her son to have a friend around because he had all sisters and it would be good for him to be around another boy for socialization! I never knew this! I thought I was simply accepted! I was wrong! these were upper middle class people; rich!
I lived on the outskirts of this rich neighborhood! I was not from that neighborhood; it started on the other side of the street on a new block! I was not from any background! I was not rich! I was on the edge of this neighborhood! and I went to the schools of these neighborhoods! but I was not like the other kids and did not know it! I was not being taken care of like they were; I was not being taught success based thinking and or, no one was checking my grades or interests! I was completely socially neglected! no one cared about my future! As a small boy; this was OK! I would deal with it next year! but next year did not come! soon, I felt behind in school! I was not invited to smarter classes and teachers! I was put back in the dumb kid classes; I was brilliant! non of this made any sense! I could not understand! And my friends from the rich neighborhood started to zoom past me academically! I was immature! I was a 4 year old when I was 9 years Old! I had built my life on Television programs and other peoples parents!
I naturally compared myself to other children and thought my parents were just like everyone elses! but they weren't! something was wrong!
My friends; the upper middle class; non of these people were really my friends; but I did not know! I have memories of them and feeling safe around them with my guard down, and Im so sorry for this! for I was in a false situation! I was never liked or loved or wanted! I was hated with contempt! no one wanted me in their house holds! I meant nothing to them! and they wanted me gone! worse; my friends did not want me either! but; they were in between studying and I was coming over to their house to play ball! so; I was good for something! not much! I was being used! my value of a human being meant nothing because they didnt need me! The fact Im a human being meant nothing them; I was a stranger hanging around them! and I was the last to know! and I was not invited! They wanted me gone!
So; after finding out I was never wanted and I made a big mistake knowing these people; I certainly do not want to think about those people or the pain they brought me when a child; in the past! later, they treated me like a second class citizen and I got the message! and the message was " leave and dont come back"! they wanted to see me as a retard with no intelligence or expressive opinion or abstract intelligence! I would have never associated with these people if I knew what they were! I didnt know! I simply had no idea! I was just a child!
The point is; I go back to those memories of associating with them; the upper middle class kids and their homes! I see myself at their tables, at their wood working shop in the basement or outside with my friend in the backyard looking at the stars and its all bad! its bad because its fake! their hearts were never with me! Im assuming the mother allowed me to come over a few times because no one was taking care of me when I was at home! but I dont think they wanted me at their house living! I never knew! Now I know!
The point is; I go back to these memories and see them as an innocent 8 year old! I know these things are not what my 8 year old is trying to make them out to be! He wants to see things as supper sweet and nice and kind and heavenly! and thats how I saw it when I was between 5 and 8 years old! Now; I know better!
Im trying to make the change from focusing on these past events as nice to a thing of horror! because; they were horrible! I was spending my time with people that were lying to me! I had no friends! I should have been out of their house and lives as fast as possible! Im trying to change my thinking to reality! and I have to get rid of the past! Im attempting to get rid of a past that was bad, and I keep trying to see it as good; it was never good! and Im tired of having to make it into something it is not! Im tired of having such a " need" to keep the truth a lie! Im looking to come from the past to the present! one cannot push this! it causes mental breakdowns!
In the mean time; I wait and work on my goals and dreams! and Im in the middle of shoveling that spiritual tunnel through that mountain! It gets lonely and scared! I get lonely and isolated in my problems! if and when I come through this mountain, Ive got another life waiting for me! it hurts a great deal to let go of the past! many ghosts I loved from the past, and many dreams I had from a child I wanted to live! I did not have a chance! I would like to change this! and its possible! its taking time!
Limiting beliefs!
Ive got tough beliefs Im working through! things are working out for me! its working! its slow! I would like to get a bit further! what does this mean! it means; I would like to spend more time on the positive side of creating my reality and less on the negative " this is it" reality, where nothing changes from present reality! Im a bit on the negative; enough to hurt and feel frustrated!
I am getting better! Ive got thorns in my side! So; I keep writing an going to 12step meetings and working with God and the laws of attraction!


text:
1. Overview
Passwords are a critical aspect of computer security forming the front line of protection for user accounts. A poorly chosen password can result in the compromise of Marquette University's entire network. As such, all Marquette University students and employees (including contractors and vendors with access to Marquette University systems) are responsible for taking the appropriate steps, as outlined below, to select and secure their passwords.
2. Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to establish a standard for creation of strong passwords, the protection of those passwords, and the frequency of change.
3. Scope
The scope of this policy includes all users who have or are responsible for an account (or any form of access that supports or requires a password) on any system that resides at any Marquette University facility, has access to the Marquette University network, or stores any non-public Marquette University information.
4. Policy
4.1. General
Under no circumstances should a user divulge their password to another person.
- All system-level passwords (e.g., root, enable, NT admin, application administration accounts, etc.) must be changed on at least a semi-annual basis.
- All production system-level passwords must be part of the IT Services administered global password management database.
- All user-level passwords (e.g., email, web, desktop computer, etc.) must
- Maximum password age of 180 days
- Exhibit complexity by
- Not contain all or part of the user's account name
- Contain characters from three of the following four categories:
- Uppercase characters (A through Z)
- Lowercase characters (a through z)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)
- Maintain a password history of 12 passwords and not allow reuse
- Must be a minimum of 8 characters
- Be locked out if more than 5 unsuccessful attempted logons
- PeopleSoft and Oracle E-Business suite will have automatic log-offs after a predetermined period of inactivity; username and password will be required for re-authentication.
- User accounts that have system-level privileges granted through group memberships or programs such as "sudo" must have a unique password from all other accounts held by that user.
- Username and password combinations must not be inserted into email messages or other forms of electronic communication unless the message is encrypted.
- Where SNMP is used, the community strings must be defined as something other than the standard defaults of "public," "private" and "system" and must be different from the passwords used to log in interactively. A keyed hash must be used where available (e.g., SNMPv2).
- All temporary passwords must be changed at first logon.
- If an account or password is suspected to have been compromised, report the incident to IT Services and immediately change all of the associated passwords.
- Automated password guessing may be performed on a periodic or random basis by IT Services Management or its delegates. If a password is guessed during one of these scans, the user will be required to change it.
4.2. Application Development Standards
- Application developers must ensure their programs contain the following security precautions. Applications:
- should support authentication of individual users, not groups.
- should not store passwords in clear text or in any easily reversible form.
- should provide for some sort of role management, such that one user can take over the functions of another without having to know the other's password.
- should support TACACS+ , RADIUS and/or X.509 with LDAP security retrieval, wherever possible.
4.3. Use of Passwords and Passphrases for Remote Access Users
Access to the Marquette University Networks via remote access is to be controlled using either a one-time password authentication or a public/private key system with a strong passphrase.
5. Enforcement
Any employee found to have violated this policy may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.
6. Definitions
Terms Definitions
Application Administration Account
Any account that is for the administration of an application (e.g., Oracle database administrator, ISSU administrator).
Staff list (restricted to campus)
Students: Apply for student jobs


text:
Blog | Media | Shop
November 15, 2016
One reason members love K-Kids: immersive learning. It's something the club offers that the school day often cannot. By engaging in fundraising, serving and advocacy projects in ways that are playful and relatable, K-Kids members develop a deeper understanding of the "why" behind the service they do.
What is our project goal?
What items will be needed or used to meet our goal?
How can we raise money using those (or similar) items?
Could our club assist a particular organization?
Which organizations can we help?
What is our club capable of?
What books are available that relate to the project goal?
What visual resources (videos, movies, magazines) relate to the
project goal?
What can our club do to educate others? Who would benefit
from hearing about our experience?
K-Kids around the country rocked Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF this year. Now it's time to celebrate the moms and babies your club protected. Announce your accomplishment to the school. Recognize your club members' contribution to eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus with a certificate or a thank you card. Share your stories and photos with us at email@example.com, Facebook and Twitter—or mail your letters, drawings and photos to the campaign office.
The Eliminate Project: Campaign Office
Kiwanis Children's Fund
P.O. Box 6457 - Dept #286
Indianapolis, IN 46206 USA
ATTN: Trick-or-Treat
Congratulations to the Keystone Heights Elementary K-Kids club in the Kiwanis Florida District for winning October's Best Bulletin Board Design contest. The club's faculty advisor will soon be collecting the club's prize, a free $100 shopping spree from Kiwanis.org/warehouse (formerly Kiwanis.DollarDays.com). Check out the winning entry.
Vote now for November's Best T-shirt Design contest!
Exploring ideas. Being creative. That's what K-Kids members experienced when they participated in the best t-shirt design contest. Check out the entries to see which one is your favorite and vote for it! Help the entry get even more votes by sharing it on social media and asking friends and family to vote for it, too! The winning club will receive a Kiwanis Marketplace $100 shopping spree through Kiwanis.org/warehouse (formerly Kiwanis.DollarDays.com).
Coming up - January's contest: Best poster for a cause (entries accepted January 1-13)
What are your club members passionate about? How do they want to make your school, community and the world a better place? Work with your club members to develop an advocacy campaign that educates others about a cause. Maybe it's helping provide clean water in third world countries—or homelessness in your own community. Whatever it is, ask club members to design posters as part of an advocacy campaign. One person from the club can design the poster, or it can be a group effort. As long as the club is educating others about a cause, that's all that matters. Visit the 2016–17 Contest Information page to learn more.
And see what else is coming up. Encourage your club to choose the contests they like best. And then plan ahead!
The last two months of the year are often the busiest for many clubs. Take advantage of opportunities to make club projects bigger and better by joining up with your local Kiwanis family members.
Here are five ideas for K-Kids:
1. Invite the officers from the Kiwanis club that sponsors your K-Kids
club to attend a club meeting as honorary guests.
2. Collaborate with the club's sponsoring Kiwanis club members in a
hands-on service project.
3. Ask the club's sponsoring Kiwanis club for time to present K-Kids
club updates at their board meeting.
4. Locate a new Kiwanis club near you, and introduce yourself.
5. Ask a new Kiwanis club or the sponsoring Kiwanis club to
introduce your club to other SLP clubs they sponsor.
Here are five ways Kiwanis clubs can engage with their local SLP clubs
(K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Club, Circle K, Aktion Club):
1. Sponsor a new SLP club.
2. Pair a Kiwanis member with another Kiwanis family member to
become pen pals.
3. Write encouraging notes and messages to members of other
4. Host a fundraiser for The Eliminate Project with another club.
5. Create a Kiwanis family memento, such as a banner, wooden K,
display board or anything else that club members can think of.
No matter what project you decide to do this November, be sure to check out K-Kids on Facebook and Twitter to find out how other clubs around the world are celebrating Kiwanis Family Month. And help spread the word about K-Kids:
Show your personal pride by downloading and posting this
'Proud K-Kids advisor' image on your social media accounts.
Along with the image, share why you love K-Kids and how
long you've served in your role. Encourage other K-Kids
volunteers to do the same.
If your K-Kids club has its own social media account, consider
downloading a 'My Family Rocks' image or the
'Kiwanis Family Month' Facebook cover photo.
Tell parents that they can download and post this
'Proud parent of a K-Kid' image on their social media accounts.
According to a recent study, the mind wanders (i.e., thinks about something other than what one is actually doing) 42% of the time. That could mean pleasant thoughts, but it's usually about negative, worrisome things—and the same negative thoughts over and over. Learning to break this pattern makes a huge impact on an individual's happiness.
Noticing the activity of the mind and how the mind wanders, then bringing the mind back to the current moment.
Sense experience.
The ability to identify our emotions when we feel particular things in our senses. Example: My heart is pounding, my breathing is speeding up, my stomach feels queasy, this is what fear feels like. I'm scared. I'll take deep breaths to calm myself.
The ability to "be with" the experience without overidentifying with it—or pushing it away. Members learn to find balance and neutrality within a situation, however intense it may be.
Read through the mindfulness activities and try a few with K-Kids members before and after their service projects. Each activity will take only five minutes—or fewer. These activities are offered by Mindful Schools and Project Happiness. These organizations develop curriculum based on Neuroscience, Positive Psychology and Mindfulness.
Before for the event
Conduct these activities before a K-Kids event to open club members to a mindful, meaningful experience.
Introduction: Why Mindfulness – why we're trying these activities.
Guide: Why Mindfulness discussion sheet
Activity 1: Explaining mindful bodies
Guide: Mindful body description
Worksheet: Mindful body (from Mindful Schools)
Activity 2: Self check-in
Guide: Conducting a self check-in
Worksheet: Emotions – (from Mindful Schools)
Activity: Mindful breathing
Guide: Mindful breathing script - (from Project Happiness)
Worksheet: Anchor words and breathing– (from Mindful Schools)
Activity: Mindful listening
Guide: Mindful listening - (from Project Happiness)
Worksheet: Mindful listening - (from Mindful Schools) After the event
Help K-Kids members process the emotions they experienced after the event by doing these activities.
Activity: Body scan
Guide: Body scan – (from Project Happiness)
Worksheet: Body awareness – (from Mindful Schools)
Activity: Reflection
Guide/Worksheet: K-Kids reflection questions
Activity: Sending kind thoughts
Guide: Sending kind thoughts
Worksheet: Sending kind thoughts to others - (from Mindful Schools)
Activity: Encouraging mindfulness in all you do
Guide: Encouraging Mindfulness in all you do
Handout: What K-Kids do
All the Mindful Leadership Activities in one booklet.
Kiwanis Key Club
A Key Club International program of
Kiwanis International
© 2011 Kiwanis International
All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy Site Map


text:
Stop getting yourself in a spin. View our range of superb swivel chairs and you'll soon find the perfect one for your home. Tilt, swivel and relax to your heart's content on one of our leather or fabric swivel armchairs, an ideal addition to any living room or home office.
Try using one of our tools below
Snuggle up in incredible comfort on the cool and contemporary Legend fabric swivel chair. Roomy and luxurious, it encloses you cosily with its curved back and pampers you with its soft blown fibre back cushion and foam flex with supersoft foam topper seat cushion.
With its bold and curvaceous contours and striking laid-back silhouette, the Salvador leather swivel armchair really is one of a kind.
Distinctive and stylish, the oversized Ronda fabric swivel armchair is designed to cocoon you and a friend in cosy comfort.
While the East River Elegance medium back chair is intended for a home office, it looks just as stylish in a contemporary living space thanks to its mid-century modern aesthetic.
• Pocket sprung seat for indulgent comfort
• Luxurious 100% leather upholstery
• Sleek and ultra-modern design
Enjoy a truly comfortable place to unwind and relax, without compromising on space.
The Ketty accent swivel chair is a masterpiece of sleek Italian design, so it's no surprise that it comes from the highly renowned design house of Nicoletti Home. The style is simple yet highly impactful, with the chair's sweeping arms curving right around in homage to the 'tub' style.
The Muscat swivel recliner armchair is compact, contemporary, stylish and perfect for relaxing after a long day.
With ample room for two – if you're willing to share, of course – the Ronda leather swivel chair makes quite the style statement.
By subscribing to our newsletter, you will receive the latest news and offers by email.
You can unsubscribe at any time, see email for terms and conditions.
We have also emailed this code to you
The browser you are using does not support our magic.
To continue browsing Furniture Village, please install the latest version of any of the browsers listed below.


text:
The world is full of morons, the internet even more so, but it's nice to know that amidst all the idiots and trolls leaving stupid and offensive comments on websites, there are professionals who take the craft seriously.
Like Ken M here, whose dumb comments aren't trying to upset or inflame anybody. They're just the oddball writings of an internet comedian, confusing the hell out of innocent bystanders.
Ken, who also writes as "The Troll" on Collegehumor, "is an internet commenter who brings a uniquely moronic perspective to the issues of the day. Fueled by a winning combination of ignorance and confidence, Ken's insights range from the painfully dumb to the soul-crushingly stupid."
Horsey Surprise [Tumblr, via Laughing Squid]


text:
Why I Usually Avoid the NewsPosted 2009.11.18 18.21 in Pointless Blather by
Listening to the news… I already posted some random inspirations it led me to this morning. Between some reports I heard yesterday and some more reports I heard today, put them together and this is what you get:
- The H1N1 flu shot is now available for nearly everyone in the GTA today, and tomorrow will be fully available across the GTA.
- This is because the testing is done and they have concluded the swine flu shot is safer than the normal flu shot.
- So far over 2,500,000 people in Canada have received the H1N1 flu shot this year.
- So far over 30 people have been hospitalized due to serious complications from / reactions to the H1N1 flu shot this year.
- So far this year, only one person has dropped dead due to serious compications from / reactions to the H1N1 flu shot.
So the H1N1 flue shot has a 1 in 2.5 million chance of killing you within a few minutes of having it. And better than a 1 in 83,000 chance of making you seriously sick.
You have less chance of winning the lottery than you do of dropping dead from the H1N1 flu shot. In fact, you could die 5 times from the flu shot before winning the lottery just once. And people still buy lottery tickets. And are lining up to get flu shots.
And this is 'safer than the regular flu shot'. I don't know the figures but I wonder how many people per million die every year from the regular flu shot?
See, this is why I don't like needles.
My strategy is, once everyone else has had their flu shot, I will be safe since nobody else will be able to infect me with it.
And incase you're wondering – these aren't madeup numbers, these were from some guy at the Ministry of Health giving a press release – he's pleased with the performance of the vaccine. The same guy who is pleased with the performance is the one who said that only one guy was killed by it, that only some 30 or 35 people were hospitalized by it (I think the exact number was 36). He also mentioned that if you are going to react to it, this usually happens in the first few minutes so it's ok since you'll be right where the medical people are already at.


text:
$ 822.00
- Colors: Charcoal, Teal, Bright Pink, Aqua, Coral, Emerald, Light Gray
- Adding a twist to the traditional style of timeless construction, the radiant rugs of the Zahra collection for Surya will surely fashion a flawless, and unique look for your space. Hand knotted in 100% wool, each of these perfect pieces are shaved down to fashion a low pile design, and highlighted in trend worthy coloring to craft a look that effortlessly embodies vibrant charm from room to room within any home decor.
- Construction: Hand Knotted
- Shape: Rectangle
- Specific Materials: 100% Wool
- Product Care: However, to ensure for a more lasting quality, steps must be taken during care and cleaning to protect the durability of your polished piece. High powered vacuums, more often than not, pull out of the back of rugs, causing sprouts and a generally unattractive appearance to a once flawless rug. To counter this effect, place your vacuum starting at the edge of the rug, using a low setting and high elevation, or if possible, use hand held attachments when cleaning. As well, over time, the fibers within your piece will unavoidably begin to weaken. When this occurs, regularly, yarn will poke out from the edges of your rugs, and in order to prevent pulling, it is crucial that you do not simply pull the yarn out, but rather, cut these weak fibers using scissors to maintain the impeccable quality of your Surya rug. As well, if spills occur, it is crucial that you immediately tend to the area, blotting it with a towel to remove the moisture and to prevent any stain from setting.


text:
Skip to main content
Antietam Radio Association
Toggle navigation
The Great Hagerstown Hamfest
ARA Annual Christmas Dinner
ARA Breakfast
ARRL Field Day
Annual Alsatia Mummers' Parade
JFK Ultra Marathon
License Exam Testing Session
Pre-Meeting Social
Club Information
ARA Bylaws
Club Information
Club Officers
ARA Meeting Info
Life Members
Nets - Repeaters
Membership Application
Photo Galleries
Club Members
Field Day 2017
Field Day 2016
TV31 Repeater Site
JFK Ultra Marathon
Emergency Prepardness
Christmas 2003
Field Day 2003
Field Day 2002
VE Tech Session 2002
Winterfest 2002
Christmas 2000
November Monthly Breakfast Cancelled
In response to the latest Covid-19 news, the ARA determined that it was prudent to cancel the traditional monthly breakfast.
December's breakfast fate has not yet been determined.
User account
Create new account
User account
Primary tabs
Create new account
(active tab)
Log in
Request new password
E-mail address
Create new account


text:
Wood & Stains:
View our available our wood types and finishes
Specialty Techniques Explained
Standard lead time is 3 months from the time of order to delivery. This is an estimate and can vary by season and builder workload.
Side Chair: 19.5"w x 17"d x 42"h
Arm Chair: 25.5"w x 17"d x 42"w
Stationary Bar Stool: 19.5"w x 17"d x 16.5"h
Swivel Bar Stool: 19.5"w x 17"d x 16.5"h
You can select any of our standard upholstery, leather and faux leathers. View the complete collection here: Heartland Fabrics
Or you can select our premium fabrics offered through Greenhouse fabrics. These will be available for an additional cost. Greenhouse Fabric Collection. If you are interested in a Greenhouse fabric, please contact us for pricing.
Just like our furniture, our samples are crafted by hand with sophistication and accuracy. We offer a full variety of options to ensure the best design fit for you and your space. Our finishing process offers a near unlimited amount of opportunity to transform your space into exactly how you imagine it.
For more info, and high quality images, view our Stain Guide.
Lead Time
Standard lead time is 3 months from the time of order to delivery. This is an estimate and can vary by season and builder workload.
$299 Curbside and $499 Inside delivery with assembly
To find out more about our shipping and delivery, please visit our Delivery Options page.
Need Assistance?
We want you to confident in your purchase, which means we are here to answer any question, no matter how small. Through our exceptional customer service we will make your experience with us a positive one, every step of the way.


text:
European countries establish eID systems, while often debating the privacy benefits anonymous credential systems provide. Are these advanced systems feasible and efficient enough on a standard eID card?
Anonymous credential systems are a powerful primitive to establish privacy for the users as well as security guarantees for issuers and service providers. At IBM Research, we established the first anonymous credential system on a standard Java Card. The credential system was autonomous, that is, did not rely on help from the terminal, used strong key-sizes and was quite fast.
In fact, we realized the credential system on an eID specimen with some years old off-the-shelf hardware underneath.


text:
Mustang MonthlyFeatured Vehicles
1968 Mustang Fastback Bullitt Replica - Bullitt Proof Positive
Mustangs Plus Builds A One-Off Tribute To The Movie Legend -But Don't Call It A Mustang
DURING ONE OF our visits to Mustangs Plus in Stockton, California, Dave Bramlett pointed out a Highland Green Mustang fastback in the shop. Spotting the Torq-Thrust wheels, mouthy grille, blacked out gas cap, and other Bullitt nuances, I thought to myself, "Okay, here's another Bullitt replica." I liked the idea, but we've seen quite a few of them since the movie's 30th anniversary's madness in 1998 when it seemed everyone, including Ford, was building Bullitt tributes.
Dave picked up on my lackluster emotions and said, "Actually, it's not a Mustang." He invited me to study the car closely but nothing caught my attention. When he pointed out the Dynacorn manufacturer's plate, it occurred to me I was looking at a brand-new Dynacorn fastback, not a Ford Mustang.
Dave and his brother, Ron, have seen their share of Bullet replicas and decided to do something different by starting with a reproduction '68 fastback body from Dynacorn. When Ron and Dave presented Terry Simpson at The Restomod Shop with the body, they offered him a blank canvass, limiting Terry to only the Bullitt theme.
Terry and his staff massaged the Dynacorn body to strict standards and laid down PPG DBC basecoat/clearcoat in Highland Green. There are no sidescoops, spoilers, or Eleanor front end. The whole idea behind the monochromed movie cars was no flash and glitter because that's not what Lt. Frank Bullitt would have wanted.
There are a lot of small-block Bullitt replicas out there but Ron and Dave weren't having any part of that. The real Bullitt Mustangs were 390 powered, so the Bramletts wanted real displacement power to go with the Bullitt look, ordering up a 428ci FE big-block. It's not a seismographic ground pounder, but instead more of what the 390 Bullitt cars were to begin with-stock, with obnoxious exhaust systems sporting glasspack mufflers, only Ron and Dave went with turbo mufflers.
In the tunnel is a Tremec TKO 600 five-speed trailed by a 4.11 Traction-Lok differential in a 9-inch case. Because the 428 is basically stock with Edelbrock Performer induction and a flat-tappet camshaft, it makes for an exceptional driver.
Underneath, you'll find a Grab-A-Trak suspension system married to Stainless Steel front disc brakes. In back are conventional drum brakes, which do an outstanding job of complementing the power front discs because there's actually more braking surface area in a drum.
Frank Bullitt would have appreciated the TMI Sports Seats with side bolsters and lumbar support. Beneath the carpet is Quiet Ride Solutions' sound deadening designed to shut out road noise. Outside, it looks like 1968. Inside, it's quiet like a 2010 Mustang. The Classic Instruments cluster has easy-to-read Mint gauges. Custom Autosound set Mustangs Plus up with a USA-5 sound system that includes AM/FM stereo, cassette tape, and CD player.
All things said, the Bramletts ended up with a nice tribute to the Bullitt legacy-although Dave still says it's not a Mustang.


text:
The Serious Eats Book: On Sale November 1!
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.
Now Available At...
On the Serious Eats calendar, you'll see a big, fat star on November 1st. Why? That's when the Serious Eats book comes out—and we can't wait to share it with all of you.
That's right—it's almost time for Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are to hit bookstores (and e-bookstores!) near you. What's on the menu for these 368 pages? Well! We're glad you asked.
What's Inside?
The short answer: One, long, impassioned search for our favorite eats from across the country—from food trucks to fine dining and everywhere in between. The best pies and sliders and brisket and croissants and fried chicken we know. 50 recipes developed by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. Predictably mouthwatering photos from Robyn Lee. Tales from the road. Introductions to many of the fine folks making this fine food. Our theories on oatmeal and American cheese, pizza ovens and sandwich construction. And much, much more.
There will be a few classic Serious Eats gems you've seen before between these covers—I mean, how could the Hamburger Fatty Melt not make it into our book? But the vast majority of the photos, recipes, and content are brand new.
Each chapter will be about different foods you know and love and read about every day on Serious Eats—burgers and pizza and sweets, of course, as well as sandwiches, breakfast, barbecue, fried foods, farmers' markets, and street food.
Let's take our sandwich chapter. You'll find our guide to sandwiches all across America, from Beef on Weck to Italian beef, from spuckies to Cubans. You'll read about 15 sandwiches across this country that blew our minds. Then there's our survey of New Orleans po' boys (does any city have as rich a sandwich culture as New Orleans?). You'll read about our favorite old-guard purveyors of tortas and lobster rolls and Philly roast pork—and about cheffy shops that put their own spin on a classic. You'll meet five of our favorite delis across America. There are recipes, of course, from a pork belly banh mi to a Reuben with homemade corned beef. You'll lose yourself in the photos on every page. And, of course, you'll hear from the Serious Eats community, with comments sprinkled throughout this (and every) chapter.
Ah, it's facts you want? It's 368 full-color pages, in a glossy, gift-worthy, hefty-but-portable paperback. It's listed at $27.99 (though, as always, likely cheaper at major retailers). There will be a simultaneous e-book that'll look every bit as beautiful. It's published by our good friends and partners in this whole delicious adventure, Clarkson Potter of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House. And it's out November 1st—just in time for all your end-of-year gift-giving—in stores everywhere. (Available for pre-order at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Indiebound.)
How Did You Write It?
When we first started talking about the Serious Eats book nearly two years ago, the task seemed daunting. But between the collective knowledge of the Serious Eats editors, overlord Ed Levine's extensive eating travels, our huge net of contributors across the country, our food writer and blogger friends in every corner of America, and our Serious Eats community members, we had a lot of intel to start with.
So where do you go, armed with those thousands of recommendations from hundreds of sources? You hit the road, of course.
Most travelers are constricted by the number of meals in a day. You can hit up three spots, maybe four or five if you get snacks in there, but that's about all, right?
Our days started to look more like 8 eateries. 12. 15. We're pretty sure our record is my single day in Salt Lake City, where I ate at 22 establishments in 16 hours. (I don't recommend this.) Workdays started to look like a 4:00am wakeup call; an early morning flight from NYC to Denver ("But Ed, we really do have to stop back in Colorado before the sandwich chapter's done..."); a 10-hour swing through Denver, Boulder, and Sedalia, Co.; a speedy drive to the airport; and a flight out to San Francisco before the day was done.
JetBlue happened to offer their All You Can Jet deal just six weeks before our manuscript was due, when we were starting to panic about all the states we wanted to visit or, often, re-visit; for a shockingly reasonable sum, a traveler could take any JetBlue flight she wanted for an entire month.
This really changes the way that you look at a country. We'd never thought a day trip to New Orleans from NYC made much sense, but armed with our passes, how could we not? Ed, Erin, Robyn and I jetted out one fine Tuesday morning, landed before 9:00am local time, met food writer and incomparable tour guide Pableaux Johnson, knocked off 2 fried chicken places, a beignet stop, a gumbo detour, 2 snowball places, and, oh yeah, 24 po' boys (and a few drive-through daiquiris) before we ran through security to make our 5:00pm flight.
So over the course of a year, often thanks to the gracious hospitality of friends, family, and SE contributors, we crossed the country to find you the best in American regional eats. Here's a map of some of the burgers mentioned in Chapter 3—in Detroit and New Jersey, Atlanta and Seattle, and everywhere in between.
When you read about our favorite doughnuts or fried clams or hot links, know that we've been there, on the ground, in our never-ending search for the delicious.
Eat It Up
Get excited, Serious Eaters! As you can tell, we're itching for this book to get out there, and we hope you are, too.
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


text:
Visit the feature site at SciFi Stream!
Official discussion threads for every episode
What Lies Below (213)
December 28th, 2012, 08:04 AM
Immortality (313)
March 29th, 2012, 08:46 AM
Letters of Transit (419)
April 11th, 2013, 01:25 PM
An Enemy of Fate (513)
September 23rd, 2013, 03:08 AM
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules


text: Not really feeling the facial hair on Kanye at all. Maybe he is hoping that some sponsor will see him as a worthwhile figure to endorse their shaving products or razors or something. This was him back stage at the VMA Awards last night in Los Angeles where all sorts of odd things took place, Brit getting 3 VMAs, T Pain making his entrance on the back of an elephant, Fatman Scoop turning up in his draws, the list goes on and on.


text:
Natural & eco friendly paints, finishes & ancillaries for interiors
The one thing that a paint or finish needs to do is work, this should be the case with all paints and stains but often inferior or cheaper products fail, equally the wrong choice of product can also fail. We have worked with a number of globally recognised manufacturers to offer a compact range of proven performance paints, stains and associated products all designed and tested to give superior protection without chemical, toxic or unwelcome ingredients.
Many of these products are suitable for those with intolerances or allergies. Our manufacturers offer a wide range of products focussed on human health and low environmental impact. Most of our products have ultra-low levels of VOC's, most naturally occurring and below permissible levels, there are some products that are VOC Free.
In line with our policy of full disclosure, and to help you decide what's right for you, you will find detailed information, certifications and declarations on the contents of all our products on the accompanying product data sheets. If in doubt about the suitability of any of our products please call.
Our manufacturers:
Livos were the world's first manufacturer of commercial natural paints; Livos manufacture natural paints, oils, varnishes, maintenance and cleaning products. Livos impose strict environmental, ecological and sustainable criteria on everything they do, their products are healthy, environmentally friendly and made from natural and renewable raw materials – good for you, good for the environment, good for the climate.
Over 30 years of research, experience and innovation makes Livos the oldest continuous industrial manufacturer of ecological paints and oils worldwide. Made without harmful chemicals, Livos products contain only biologically and environmentally responsible ingredients, grown without the use of pesticides. Livos products are never tested on animals. Livos use pure and odourless raw materials
A full declaration (declaration of all ingredients) is a Livos standard since 1984. This full transparency towards customers made Livos a pioneer in the paint industry. The Full Declaration is part of the Livos holistic approach, in particular for people with allergies but also simply for good health.
Livos also produce a wide range of their products in their 'Neutral' range designed for the chemically sensitised and allergic.
Livos Classic Range:
- interior wood
- exterior wood
- metal
- plaster
- walls (all types)
- cleaning and care
Livos Neutral – for the allergic or chemically sensitive:
- Solid wood, floors and furniture
- Cabinet interiors
- Stone
- Mineral surfaces
Corical is made by Arte Constructo which was started in 1989, since then the company has built up a large expertise in the use of lime in construction; the product range includes the development of darker pigments always considered an issue with lime based (or natural) paints. Now the range included dark hues of umber, red, green and even blue these are additions to the lighter and more pastel finishes. The Corical range is truly versatile for use inside and out.
Arte Constructo have a well defined and environmentally sound approach for over a decade they have used the term bio-ecological architecture to describe a way of understanding the built environment which makes everyone aware of the need to protect a healthy and viable planet for future generations, their approach to natural, recyclable and low polluting materials has been mainly targeted at specifiers and architects.
In line with National and Community legislation, Arte Constructo have led the way implementing strict quality controls well within these environmental parameters both in the production cycle and in the products themselves, minimising harmful effects whilst ensuring the maximum level of recycling.
- Exterior render / masonry / brick
- Interior plaster / masonry / brick
Founded in 1894, by Ludwig Beek have been involved in the production of pure active silicification mineral paints based on water and glass, the breakthrough formulation was to create a paint with an inseparable bond between the coating and micro porous substrate, Ludwig Beek achieved this with a pure crystalline finish mineral paint system suited to historic buildings for both interior and exterior use. The original formula is still used today in the manufacture of Beek Pure Crystalline Finish Mineral Paint a highly durable, UV stable yet breathable paint available in a wide range of colours
Beeks has stood for top quality lime and soluble water paints suited for use on historical building materials for more than 120 years. Proven on critical substrates of listed buildings, on which synthetic resin bonded systems frequently fail.
The capillary-active coatings have ideal open porosity, and are therefore extremely valuable in building physics terms. Thanks to silicification (The act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated, hardening and bonding to you and me!) they form an inseparable mineral unit with the render or plaster substrate, they do not tend to flake and crucially do not form a vapour-tight high-tension outer skin. This open porosity is a key component of any structure designed to breathe. The high alkalinity of the coatings has a mould resistant and anti bacterial effect. Beek paints are pure mineral paints that only contain natural ingredients. They are free from synthetic solvents, plasticisers and biocides.
- Exterior render / masonry any mineral surface
- Internal plaster / any mineral surface
St Astier
In 1833 Louis Vicat, still considered today one of the greatest authorities in hydraulic limes, surveyed the limestone quarries at St. Astier situated in the Perigord area of Dordogne where archaeological evidence shows that lime was produced in Roman times. Vicat concluded that the material was appropriate for the production of natural hydraulic lime. Industrial production begun in 1851. Today, St. Astier's production capacity is over 100.000 tons per year.
The deposits extend between Montaceix and Neuvic sur l'Isle (approx. 10 km) and the layer is over one hundred meters thick. It was formed during the Upper Cretaceous period (approx. 75 million years ago) by marine sediment (mostly crustacean and corals). The sea in the basin was not subject to severe currents and this allowed the formation of a uniform and undisturbed layer of calcareous rock infiltrated mainly by silica with only insignificant traces of other elements. This characteristic of the rock is unique in Europe and is the reason why the St. Astier products are so reliable.
The composition of this calcareous rock infiltrated mostly by silica makes all the difference between producing materials with constant characteristics or being unsure of the final qualities as is commonly experienced when argillaceous or less pure limestone deposits are exploited
St Astier Natural Hydraulic Limes (NHL) and derivative products have been produced by the same families since 1851. The mineralogical characteristics of the raw materials, the manufacturing process and the quality controls are such that users are assured of the constant performance of the products
- Exterior render / masonry
- Interior plaster / masonry / brick
- gypsum plasters / plasterboard
- Cement board
- Lining paper
- Untreated timber


text:
FREE Express Post On Orders $100+ AUSTRALIA WIDE
You have no items in your shopping cart.
Add some to cart or login
Givoni - Sleepwear
Please note, these size charts are to be used as a guide only. Feel free to contact us with any further questions regarding sizes on live chat here.
Be the first to review this product
* Required Fields


text:
The Affordable Care Act is officially Constitutional. It is time for the naysayers to move on.
Of course, we know that they won't. Not because they don't like health care, or affordable health insurance, or even mandates. But because not liking ObamaCare is a political rallying cry. It simply stokes the opposition. For no other reason, the opposition will hate ObamaCare and the Supreme Court decision on Thursday.
"We know that the act will help all people be more engaged to make better, more informed health decisions, and that's a good thing," says Leslie Kelly Hall, senior vice president of policy at Healthwise. She also serves in several capacities for the Health and Human Services committees in Washington DC.
People, we live in a society. There are laws. The government tells you to pay taxes. The police department says you can't go through a red light. God says you cannot kill people. We live under mandates of what we can and cannot do, based on the good of society. You cannot run a red light because you might cause a traffic accident. You cannot avoid paying taxes because who will pay a soldiers salary? Who will keep your public school open? ObamaCare is the age old debate about whether everything should be private, or whether there is room for the common wealth.
While the mandate under the Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, it is far from a bad one. The market will not crash because of this.
Over time, Americans will be required to have health insurance. This means the whopping 50+ million Americans who have no health insurance, and therefore do not go to the doctor, will be required under the law to get some.
The number of uninsured has increased over the past decade, largely due to the struggling economy and resulting weak job market. Adults have experienced a larger increase in their uninsured rate compared to children. This difference is largely due to limited eligibility for public coverage among adults. Health insurance makes a difference in whether and when people get necessary medical care, where they get their care, and ultimately, how healthy people are. The consequences of reduced access to care over time can be serious, including preventable hospitalizations, poor overall health, disability, and premature death.
See: The Uninsured American: A Primer -- Kaiser Family Foundation, Oct. 2011.
I don't know all the minute details of the tax penalties the government will implement against those who do not have health insurance, but I do know one thing. The health insurance companies absolutely love this law. They just got a guaranteed customer base of at least 50 million. And guess what? Premiums will come down because of it. Under ObamaCare, your monthly health insurance premiums will now be affordable. I have no idea how people can claim that health insurers will suffer.
I live in Massachusetts. And here in Massachusetts, we live under the predecessor of ObamaCare -- the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Act, signed into law by former governor Mitt Romney in 2006. Under RomneyCare, as Rick Santorum supporters called it during the primaries, 98 percent of the state's residents have affordable health insurance. Meanwhile, Massachusetts has not gone broke. It's unemployment level is 6 percent this month, falling from 6.3 percent in April and better than the national average of 8.3 percent. No one is even considering overturning the 2006 law, sources from Blue Cross Blue Shield told me earlier this year. Mike Widmer, president of the non-partisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Association, told me the same thing when I was covering the New Hampshire primaries for Forbes. Companies are not going belly up because of RomneyCare. Private insurers operate in the state along side the non-profit health insurers like Harvard Pilgrim and Blue Cross Blue Shield. There have not been massive layoffs in the industry because of the law.
Over the five full fiscal years since the law's enactment, the state has spent $91 million a year, well within the budgeted expectations. RomneyCare is not a budget buster, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says.
As a result of the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Act, I actually think that Mitt Romney would make a fine President, despite what Jesse "the Mind" Ventura told me in a phone call a few weeks ago, something about magic underpants. But I digress.
Romney happily signed the bill into law in 2006. He didn't want to raise taxes on small businesses. The state legislature overruled him. Romney and the Democrats worked together on this law, despite the obstacles Romney put in their way. Their goals, however, were the same: let's forget about healthcare costs for now and just make sure people have access to healthcare through affordable health insurance. The reason people don't have access to healthcare is because they can't afford health insurance. If you can't afford health insurance, you don't go to the doctors. In Massachusetts, everyone can afford health insurance. And with the mandate, there are more people on board. More people on policies. More people on policies means more money for insurers, but it also means more money for the state to dish out to the poor and self employed who qualify for state care under MassHealth. Still, no muni bond investors in the state of Mass worried about not receiving their coupon payments twice a year, or their principal back.
Healthcare costs in the state are not coming down, of course. They are still rising. But just as the price of a new Mercedes Benz and Audi go up every year, so do legal costs, doctor salaries, and equipment costs at Massachusetts' world class hospitals.
A friend of mine, whom I drive to Mass General Hospital for chemotherapy once in a while, told me that the average chemo cocktail costs around $15,000. Imagine that, once a week. Cancer causes health care costs to rise, too, not just poor people with gunshot wounds.
My daughter has a mild form of epilepsy. If not for RomneyCare, I could never have afforded her treatments, month long at one point in 2010. She was taken care of at Boston Children's Hospital. The Rolls Royce of Children's Hospitals. That's why it is expensive; it's a Rolls. It's the best. The question is...do you believe Americans should have access to the best, or even some modicum of good, or do you think that they should not simply because health insurance premiums are prohibitive? One way to make health insurance costs drop is to give health insurers access to more clients...guaranteed. If that's socialism, it's not much different than the state-support of capitalism that we have seen in the U.S. and worldwide since Ayn Rand wrote "Atlas Shrugged".
Another note..."Atlas Shrugged"...is fiction. We are dealing with reality.
When I left my job at Dow Jones in Brazil and returned to the U.S., I had one month of Aetna Global health insurance. The reality of that monthly bill came out to $1,100. I cancelled it immediately. I couldn't afford it. Luckily, I live in Massachusetts. RomneyCare, I can afford.
Thank you Massachusetts Congress and thank you Mitt Romney for allowing me to afford taking my child to a hospital.
I don't care what people say about Romney and his magic underpants. If it wasn't for him, my daughters would be uninsured. So would I. Thank you, Mitt Romney.
Now, if I was a radical, I could reject the mandate and pay over $2,000 a year on my tax bill. Having health insurance, in my case and due to my income threshold, makes more sense. ObamaCare will be the same.
According to the fact checkers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the minimum tax assessment will be $695 per person and no more than $2,085 per family when the law goes into full effect in 2016. The amount can be higher depending on income. But there are exemptions for low-income persons and others. Find me a health insurance company that will charge you just $2,085 a year for health insurance. I dare you to find one that will charge you $4,000. In fact, if Americans could find one that's not purely emergency medical that charged them just $4,000 annually, we wouldn't have this high uninsured body count.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts: "For most Americans the amount due will be far less than the price of insurance, and, by statute, it can never be more." Chief Justice Roberts is no liberal. But he upheld almost every single part of the Obama health care law, and wrote the majority opinion himself.
Why do I have a feeling that the Chief Justice is being bombarded with radical hate mail right now? Don't open your mailbox, Mr. Roberts. Get a police robot to do it.
More facts from Fact Check.org, run by Annenberg: big government is not coming to knock your door down if you don't get insurance and don't pay the tax fee on your tax return. The law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from seeking to put anybody in jail or seizing their property for simple refusal to pay the tax. The law says specifically that taxpayers "shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty" for failure to pay, and also that the IRS cannot file a tax lien or levy bank accounts.
So there. If you don't want health insurance, then take it up with the IRS.
Why would you?
Only a radical would.
ObamaCare is affordable health insurance. ObamaCare is through private insurers, not just government insurers. ObamaCare is Constitutional. Get over it.
But they won't. The opposition will repeatedly make this an issue. It's meat. As Americans grow bored with gay marriage and even abortion to some extent, ObamaCare and big government is as good a war call as any in an election year.
Immediately after the Supreme Court said that the Affordable Care Act was within Constitutional law, the Christian Coalition president Roberta Combs had this to say: "Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's decision has completely unshackled the federal government of virtually any remaining limits on federal power over states and private individuals so long as Congress defines it as a 'tax'. This was not what our Founding Fathers intended. We call on Congress to repeal Obamacare and work to enact real reform that makes health care more affordable and available by empowering consumers and expanding the free market – not government."
So maybe the government can fight medical tech companies and tell them to stop making their minimally invasive surgical equipment so damn good and go back to cheap saws and ice packs?
This is not a Christian group. This is an anti-tax political group fronting for the Republican Party on hot button issues of the day. WWJD, my foot. They are not interested in your healthcare or what you pay for health insurance. They are interested in political narratives. Anyone who believes that zero taxes are the answer to all our problems will be hard pressed to find examples of how zero taxes have helped societies, anywhere. And, we are still a society, like it or not. We are still a Pride. And the human jungle has rules. You cannot kill people. You cannot run a red light with a drink in your hand and think a wink and a smile is going to keep you free from a ticket.
As Mark Karlin, editor of the Buzzflash blog wrote yesterday, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now uncontested law, is not Obamacare. For many millions and millions, it is a lifeline."
I've spent 20 years as a reporter for the best in the business, including as a Brazil-based staffer for WSJ. Since 2011, I focus on business and investing in the big…
I've spent 20 years as a reporter for the best in the business, including as a Brazil-based staffer for WSJ. Since 2011, I focus on business and investing in the big emerging markets exclusively for Forbes. My work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Nation, Salon and USA Today. Occasional BBC guest. Former holder of the FINRA Series 7 and 66. Doesn't follow the herd.


text:
Last night on Bravo's Work of Art, the reality series commissioned a pack of artists to redesign the book covers of a few genre classics, from Frankenstein to the Time Machine. A few interpretations were just brilliant. Take a look!
The reality show Work of Art follows the same procedure as past shows of this type: Contestants are given a challenge. If they're not up to snuff they're told that their art "didn't work" for the judges. Then they promptly pack their brushes etc. and go. While there was a bit of squabbling on set about the commercialism of this particular task, we love it when big companies, such as Penguin books, give new artists a chance.
Personally, we thought Miles' wirey burned DNA strand take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was the best, and looked the most like a book cover we'd pick up. But John's H. G. Wells' Time Machine interpretation was pretty inventive as well, and I guess Miles can't win all of the competitions. We've collected the best of the genre entries in this gallery.


text:
Nowadays, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have succeeded in extending its practicality by including users with different training levels, due to the rise of web applications, increasingly focused on the end user and with enriched graphical interfaces. The purpose of this study is to provide decision elements to web GIS project analysts for choosing a client-side technology, according to the requirements of a particular project.
Web mapping clients are pieces of software (applications, libraries, frameworks) that either provide or extend a web-based mapping component to view and interact with maps from remote sources on the Internet. There are several Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects that make development, customization and management easier for these sorts of applications. Some of them use pure client-side technology whereas the vast majority rely on server-side features allowing advanced tasks to be performed. Such tasks involve security matters, user and group administration, advanced printing capabilities, spatial analysis support and customization of graphic user interface items and functionalities, among others.
This comparison deals with all of these projects from a basic perspective, as web clients that allow standard geographic data to be accessed and viewed. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has promoted the use of standards for web map services, which have helped to establish a common framework to access and display spatial data on the Internet (Web Map Service, Web Feature Service, Web Coverage Service), discover it (Catalog Service for the Web), present it by means of styles (Style Layer Descriptor), filter it (Filter encoding), store it, transport it (Geography Markup Language and Keyhole Markup Language) and process it (Web Processing Service). The Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) are the mainly used services for web mapping purposes, therefore, support for one of them is a must for a client to be included here.
Below is a graph showing the relation between FOSS web mapping clients.
Most projects revolve around two paradigms: UMN MapServer and OpenLayers. Clients using UMN MapServer as a basis were created years ago taking advantage of the features that this client provides: map scale, map reference, basic navigation tools, identification of geographic objects and its Application Programming Interface (API) called MapScript, which has been implemented in different programming languages such as PHP, Python, Java, Perl and Ruby, and continues being improved by adding features such as advanced labeling and bar and pie graphs generation. On the other hand, the new generation of clients use OpenLayers due to its optimal performance in rendering tasks on the web and to the wide variety of data sources it supports. Different companies contribute to its development and projects like MapBuilder have ended to accelerate its progress, which have become it a state-of-the-art library for building web mapping applications.
There are clients who do not have relied on others but have been created independently, as the case of Geomajas, iGeoPortal, Mapbender, TimeMap, MiraMon, Geoide, worldKit and Flamingo. Some clients optionally use UMN MapServer by means of MapScript (AppForMap, GeoMOOSE and msCross) and others allow to choose an additional way to render their maps with OpenLayers (AppForMap, Mapbender and i3Geo) and Flamingo (i3Geo).
It should be noted that there is a growing number of projects using Flash/Flex for building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) such as Flamingo, worldKit, OpenScales and Geoide, providing a new experience for users intending to interact with maps on-line.
The comparison is based on free and open source software projects with capability to access OGC web services, showing a variety of parameters such as: license, origin country, internationalization, commercial support, supported programming languages and metadata management, among others.
The comparison is presented in three parts to facilitate its reading:
- General description: Gives an introduction about each project.
- Technical features: Presents some technical data of each project.
- Links of interest: Includes a screenshot showing the client's Graphical User Interface (GUI) and links for accessing useful pages and live demonstrations.
CONVENTIONS: Advantage, Disadvantage.
Officially abandoned client.
Client without recent version (over a year without a new version).
- Italian client GisClient added.
- Other client's data updated.
RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended to use a web browser such as Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera or K-Meleon, in which correct arrangement of the tables has been proved.
|[1] BSD compatible.
[2] GPL compatible.
[3] See: http://www.mapserver.org/copyright.html#license
[4] Very quickly support from USA, Netherlands, Brazil and Italy.
[5] Developed by Martin Hűgh.
[6] City of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
[7] Developed by Xavier Pons.
[8] Developed by Armin Burger.
[9] Incomplete documentation.
[10] The only available documentation is related to the installation process.
[11] The documentation is not complete for all the three languages.
[12] The user interface is in spanish and in latvian as well.
[13] Incipient documentation.
[14] Currently there are translations to several languages: swedish, spanish, bulgarian, pole, italian, french, czech and slovene, among others.
[15] The user interface has been translated to 20 languages.
[16] OSGeo doesn't support it as an official project, but hosts their mailing list and Trac.
[17] The copyright will be transferred to OSGeo.
[18] There is an incubator application since 2007, but the answer is unknown. More information: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/147
|[1] When MapGuide Open Source is present, Fusion is able to use a PHP API.
[2] The WFS only works for points.
[3] Supports the GetCapabilities, GetFeatureOfInterest and GetObservation requests of the SOS specification. Recently, support has been added for the WMTS specification.
[4] As a server supports additionally the WCS and SOS services.
[5] Takes this feature from OpenLayers.
[6] In the last version was introduced an example with OSM but with no tiles.
[7] Supports a large number of map sources based on tiles.
[8] It only supports the TMS Global Geodetic profile.
[9] Runs through a Java applet.
[10] Camptocamp SA has added support for the GetDomain and GetRecords requests of the CSW specification to OpenLayers.
[11] It has a search component that uses either a thesaurus or the CSW specification.
[12] The HS – RS company offers it as a component of its solution for geoportals.
[13] Currently there is a proposal to build a metadata catalogue client using GeoNetwork. (See: https://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Proposals/Catalogue and http://www.camptocamp.com/fr/blog/2009/06/732/)
[14] Supports the GetDomain and GetRecords requests of the CSW specification.
[15] They will be available in a couple of months.
[16] It has a mailing list for users and developers.
[17] It does not have its own mailing lists, they are from the Deegree project.
[18] It has mailing lists for: Users, developers, commits, announcements, tilecache and trac, among others.
[19] There is a Google group for developers.
[20] It has a mailing list in german.
There is plenty of FOSS projects to build web mapping clients, some of them very professional allowing a comprehensive management of information and receiving support from OGC because they involve efficiently a whole community, others, result of individual efforts that satisfy basic needs. Some have been disappearing because of duplicated efforts and others have been based on previous developments to expand its functional scopes.
- The GisClient data was collected directly from its website and then validated through its developers group.
- Empty cells indicate unknown information.
I appreciate suggestions made by members of the OSGeo local chapter of the Spanish speaking community (Capítulo Local de la comunidad hispanohablante de OSGeo), Jorge Sanz, Lorenzo Becchi and Evaristo Gestoso, by Paolo Cavallini from Faunalia and by the GeoTux user Mavka, which have enriched the comparison.
Due to the constant innovation in this kind of projects, I expect to keep the comparison updated every six (6) months.
You can collaborate
If you find out a mistake in the comparison, please let me know and I will fix it. If you know any other web mapping client and you would like to see it in the comparison, write me to study it and add it.
This article is under license "Attribution 2.5 Colombia", look it at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/co/deed.en
- Official website of each project (See Part 3, Links of interest)
- Emanuel Schütze. Current state of technology and potential of smart map browsing in web browsers. Germany. June 2007. Available at: http://www.smartmapbrowsing.org/html/index_en.html
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Official website: http://osgeo.org
- CSS for tables: http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/index.php
- Flags of the world: http://www.33ff.com


text:
Reproductions may have room for improvement.
By Kerry Pierce
Pages: 58-63
From the October 2006 issue #157
Buy this issue now
Furniture reproductions are never exactly like the originals on which they're based. In some cases, that's because the skill and artistry of the reproducer don't measure up to the skill and artistry of the original craftsman. In other cases, it's because the reproducer consciously made the decision to vary from the original, substituting, for example, curly maple for cherry or machine-cut dovetails for hand-cut dovetails. In other cases, it's because the reproducer decided that the original could be improved on in some way.
The last is true of my version of this delightful little blanket chest from the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, which is located outside Harrodsburg, Ky.
The original was appealing in several ways: diminutive size, charming country-style details and solid joinery. But it also had some problems. Instead of the chest bottom's edges being let into grooves cut on the inside surfaces of the four sides of the case, the bottom of the original was simply nailed inside the case with the result that, when the solid-wood bottom underwent inevitable shrinkage across its width, gaps appeared on either side, visible when you look into the case from above. Also, the material was, I believe, simply too thick for this relatively dainty form. The material of the original was dressed to a chunky 7/8″, a thickness that would have been more appropriate for this chest's bigger, full-sized brothers.
From the October 2006 issue #157
Buy this issue now
Here are some supplies and tools we find essential in our everyday work around the shop. We may receive a commission from sales referred by our links; however, we have carefully selected these products for their usefulness and quality.


text:
|Stackable Cage with medium footprint
|DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
|Stackable Cage with medium footprint
|Both top and bottom wedges are available in medium and large footprints to allow the surgeon to restore natural kyphosis or lordosis. Ridges in A/P and M/L directions provide for an interlocking interface, as well as resisting pullout, migration, and rotation. Adjustable height. Optional interface screws . Radiolucent , Polyaxial Technology-Moss Miami Magnum system, optimizes screw placement. Broad stable surface area maximizes stability without interfering with fusion. Single or double cavity design. 20 or 30 degree angled surfaces. Tantalum marker beads allow radiographic location and orientation of implant.
|The Stackable Cage System provides anterior column support for single or multilevel corpectomies or total vertebrectomies from T1 to L5. The system consists of one or more Peek Carbon Fiber Polymer cages that are stacked to a desired height, accommodating various patient needs. The Peek Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer material emulates the biomechanical properties of human cortical bone, optimizing the likelihood of a sound arthrodesis. Single or double cavity. Available with T1 to L5 interface.
| DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
Customer Service: (800) 366-8143
Web site: http://www.jnjgateway.com/home.jhtml?loc=USENG&page=viewContent&contentId=09008b9880772d01


text:
Spring Training brings new reality for Baker
Longtime manager reluctantly on sidelines as baseball begins anew
Pitchers and catchers have checked in for Spring Training. The remaining position players will be arriving at the spring camps in Arizona and Florida this week. Everybody is ready to get back to work.
Well, most everybody.
Dusty Baker isn't, although it was not his choice.
Baker is at home in Sacramento. For just the third time since 1967, when he was a senior in high school, Baker won't be a Spring Training participant.
"Right now, it's not a big deal," said Baker. "It's been like any other offseason, except I haven't packed yet."
He knows the emotions will change, though.
"The season hasn't started yet," Baker said. "We'll see how things are in the next month or so. But right now, it hasn't hit me yet."
It's not like Baker is oblivious to his situation. He is a baseball lifer, and right now he's not part of the game. He's been through it before, spending a year outside the game after he retired as a player following the 1986 season, and then, in 2007, when he spent a year working for ESPN between managerial jobs with the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati.
Baker would like to think he will get another managerial opportunity, which is why when the Reds initially suggested he announce his retirement, Baker declined, resulting in him being dismissed.
"I'm not ready for that," he said.
While Baker isn't ready to make the decision himself, others might decide for him. He made inquiries about jobs that opened during the offseason in Washington, Seattle and Detroit, but never got a return call, "not even a 'No thank you,'" he said.
Baker, however, is a positive guy, and he looks at the bright side.
"Maybe the break is good for me," he said. "Maybe it's good to step back for a bit. Maybe it will prolong my life by 10 years. I'll take that."
The man is 16th on the all-time managerial wins list with 1,671 over a 20-year managerial career. His .526 winning percentage might rank 77th, but he is right ahead of Hall of Fame managers such as Tommy Lasorda, Bill McKechnie, Clark Griffith and Dick Williams.
But there is a health question.
Baker, who turns 65 on June 15, was hospitalized in September 2012 with an irregular heartbeat and a mini stroke. Even though he rejoined the Reds for the postseason that year and managed them again in 2013, that health incident remains a cloud over Baker. The Reds did tailor his contract for last season in a way that would have reduced his salary if he missed time with the heart problem.
There was never a moment of concern until the '13 campaign ended. Then the Reds decided to not re-hire hitting coach Brook Jacoby, and Baker lobbied for his return. Turned out neither Jacoby nor Baker is back.
Baker's resume is impressive, and includes back-to-back 90-win seasons and postseason appearances both times in 2012-13, although the latter season ended with a loss to Pittsburgh in the National League Wild Card Game. That came a year after a five-game loss to San Francisco in the '12 NL Division Series, in which the Reds won the first two games at AT&T Park before dropping three in a row.
Baker took his team to the postseason in seven of his 20 years as a manager, winning five division titles and claiming two Wild Card spots. In his first managerial season, 1993, the San Francisco Giants won 103 games but finished second to Atlanta in the NL West, which many feel was the final impetus for baseball to add an additional playoff team. Those Giants joined the 1980 Baltimore Orioles as the only teams to win 100 games and not advance to the postseason since the advent of divisional play in 1969.
But Baker also knows there are times in life where changes are made because, well, changes are made.
"It might have been time to leave Cincinnati," Baker said in a very matter-of-fact way. "We reach those points at different times in life. ... It was a point where nothing I did was right."
He's been there before.
Baker managed the Giants for 10 years, taking them to the postseason four times. Yet he wasn't brought back in 2003, even though he had led San Francisco to only its second World Series berth in 42 seasons in 2002. He managed the Cubs to the NL Central title in 2003, but saw them eliminated by the Marlins in a seven-game NL Championship Series remembered for Steve Bartman. And in his six years with the Reds, they made three postseason appearances.
Baker is looking for one more shot, but at times he sounds like he wonders if he doesn't fit into the new-breed executives because of his age. He is, after all, a strong personality, and did grow up in a different era of baseball, before the term "sabermetrics" became a catchword in baseball.
"That's one thing I've heard, 'I'm not into sabermetrics,'" he said. "I was using statistical analysis 20 years ago. We had other names for it, like matchups, but they've always been a part of the game."
And it seems like Baker has always been a part of the game, too.
Right now, however, he's missing.


text:
A simple novel of the late nineteenth century, crowded with good mountain lore. The story is a coming of age tale centering on a twenty-year old mountain girl's attempts to avoid the situations and errors that have made her parents' lives so unhappy. Many of the scenes take place around Asheville, but the action later shifts to Massachusetts.
Check this title's availability and access an online copy through the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.


text:
« F÷regÕendeFortsõtt »
Tappan Presi. Issie 19-1932
The Book of PROVERBS.
M E have here another book, and another author, namely, Solomon,
the wisest of men, who had uncommon abilities, and large experience. It contains excellent maxime for the conduct of life. The word proverb signifies a ruling speech, or observation, that ought to have great weight with mankind ; a short sententious speech, of great excellency and importance : and such among the ancients being chiefly similes and comparisons, in which one thing looked to another for the better illustration of it, it became in common use 10 signify any wise, important maxim. The first nine chapters are more connected than the rest, and contain a commendation of and exhortation to true wisdom ; which is the fear of God. The remaining chapters contain directions how to govern ourselves in all circumstances and relations in life. Other parts of scripture are like a rich mine, where the firec. ious ore runs along in one continued vein ; but this book is like a heap of pearls, which, though they are loose and unstrung, are not therefore the less valuable,
THE proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 1 To know wisdom and instruction ; to perceive the words
of understanding ; to make men know when good advice is given,
and how to give it to others ; or to teach them to avoid errors, and 3 to correct those they have fallen into ; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity ; that is, to make
them good in every circumstance, condition, and relation in life ; 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion ; they are designed 10 teach caution and sagacity ?
the unexperienced, but they are not intended for them alone, there 5 is that in them which may improve the wisest. A wise (man) · will hear, and will increase learning ; and a man of understand6 ing shall attain unto wise counsels : To understand a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings ; to understand the meaning of parables, figures, and other ways of instruction.
The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge : [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. This verse is a key io the whole book. By wisdom, he does not mean common sagacity, car. mal policy, or great learning, but true religion ; and by fools hera,


text:
Fire Door Keep Closed Sign
Fire Door Sign
FDSCPrice From: Ex VAT £1.00 Inc VAT £1.20
Upload Artwork
We prefer your high resolution artwork as a pdf, eps, Jpeg or Tiff if possible. We also accept Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign files.
Create an Account
Speed up your check out experience by creating an online account.
Shop with Confidence
JHM Butt & Co work hard in providing a safe and secure online shopping experience. Please note that we do not store your credit card details or...
JHM Butt & Company Ltd
Station Road
Bawtry, Doncaster
Tel: 01302 710868
Fax: 01302 719481
Email: email@example.com