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My Triberr friend Laurinda Shaver publish an interesting post "My assumptions questioned. Daily." regarding business plan's dilemmas.
I decided to get a deeper into how to build business plan – not any business plan but good one. First reaction: I can't do that, that's too complicated but the bigger problem was –> where should I start? How to embrace everything and not forget about important factors? And at the same time how not to lost yourself along the way?
Lets start from Wikipedia definition of business plan:
A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals.
Business Plan is a road-map to the future. Well written business plan is a dynamic, evolving, living document. Business Plan is one of the steps to entrepreneurship:
idea –> research –> business plan –> funding –> start up –> money
11 steps of typical business plan:
- title page –> don't forget to add contact details
- table of content
- business description, service/product description
- business model –> how will your company make money? Mission – your reason for being/Vision – what you strive to accomplish/Values – all principles that guide you
- market analysis + your competition + your customer –> you need to know who is your direct competitor and who is your client. Do you know what your customer want? Who is your customer? Where to reach them?
- marketing, target, sales strategy
- organization –> management strategy, operational plan (how, when, what, where will do)
- goals and objectives –> details regarding your goals. What do you expect to accomplish + how you will measure your goals.
- financial planning –> where you will get the money for your business? etc.
- action steps –> time frames
- executive summary –> it's your "business plan elevator speech". Just few pages of summary
We need a business plan to validate whether all the money, time and efforts we want to invest in our business will give us any return from investment. Well, I really would like to do such analysis before I start investing my money or time.
While creating business plan don't forget to ask yourself few questions:
- Why you?
- why your business?
- What benefits will your customer get choosing your business?
- What should your customer remember about your business?
- What is your image/brand?
- What kind of relationship do you want to build with your customer?
Every time when you think "business plan" think also SWOT analysis. What's SWOT? It's a strategic planning method used to evaluate:
- Strengths –> internal characteristics of the business or team that give it an advantage over others in the industry
- Weaknesses –> internal are characteristics that place the firm at a disadvantage relative to others
- Opportunities –> external chances to make greater sales or profits in the environment.
- Threats –> external elements in the environment that could cause trouble for the business.
involved in a project or in a business venture
SWOT Analysis youtube video (10min):
Few additional links you might find useful:
- business plan template at SCORE
- Business Owner's ToolKit –> total know-how for small businesses
- SWOT analysis –> MindTools and businessballs
- The U.S. Small Business Administration


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The Movies.com Review: '2 Guns' Surprises As a Bulletproof Bro-Down
Coasting on the charisma of its two leads -- Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, guys who, when they're not putting in a ton of acting effort, can each rely on a successfully honed set of movie star gestures -- 2 Guns is late-summer entertainment for half-watching and half-considering. To do more than that is to court brain freeze.
Bobby (Washington) and the '80s-monikered Stig (Wahlberg, whose character would, in a more perfect movie, sport Mel Gibson's Lethal Weapon mullet) are criminals who are secretly undercover cops -- Bobby for the DEA, Stig for the Navy -- both hiding their identities from the other. When plans to close in on a drug lord (Edward James Olmos) go askew after a bad cocaine deal and subsequent bank robbery, their secret identities become much less secret. But that's just the beginning.
What follows is a greatest-hits compilation of post-Shane Black/Quentin Tarantino moves, the kind that reach higher when they come directly from the source. The ensemble cast, including Paula Patton as a DEA agent with secrets, James Marsden as a brutal Navy higher-up and Bill Paxton as an even more brutal CIA guy, scatters itself in a zigzagging maze of hidden motives, alliances and agendas. Fans of this genre know in advance that nothing in the convoluted crisscross of crime dudeisms is really surprising. Instead, the surprises are found in the specific details, casually tossed off bits of weirdness and -- depending on individual viewers' sensitivity to senseless, sometimes sadistic violence couched in comedic quotes -- infuriating thorns in the side.
Everything else on display is content never to try too hard. It rips off what it wants from its predecessors and runs, confident that its stars will do the heavy lifting. The stars, meanwhile, know that this isn't heavy lifting at all. Liberated from the demands of serious film, they fall easily into buddy-cop/married-couple bitching and bantering, always well past the point of personal safety as exploding sets engulf them.
That's the privilege of crime comedy when it involves lone-wolf male leads, straight guys in a world of violence and minimal interaction with women (Patton's presence here almost doesn't count, since neither one of the men can truly have her). It's not about who the bad guys really are, who wins in the end or if justice is served. It's about pure alphas play-fighting and because of that they're allowed everything, tied to no one and harmed by nothing, not bullets, love, assault, fire or intimacy. Everything bounces off. It's as if the characters already know what the audience has set aside for the duration of the running time, that the guns aren't real and they can't be harmed, even as dozens and dozens of bodies fall around them like scorched insects. They're the guns, but you knew that already, too. Bummer that word didn't end with a "z." Kind of a missed opportunity.
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Are Rays Hitting Their Stride for the Final 50?
All season long some of us have been waiting for this kind of production. Since the days before Tampa Bay Rays 3B Evan Longoria grabbed the back of his leg, the Rays Republic have been awaiting this kind of warfare. From singles to massive Home Runs, the Rays again have found their focus, their offense that combined with their pitching cohesiveness to brings about solid and warranted victories.
8 out of their last 13 road battle have seen either Fernando Rodney chuck a arrow into the sky, or provided the optimal moment for this team to celebrate mid-infield with high-5's and handshakes galore. This is what happens when a team finally get back a fallen comrade and gets their sights set throughly for the final 50 game grind. That's right, 50 games left in the Rays 2012 regular season, with a hope that October dreams come true.
From this squad getting their bellies full with "meatloafing" (winning 2 out of 3) series wins to finally finding that home remedy to evoke victories, this team has positioned itself going into today's contest just 1 game out of the top spot for a American League Wild Card slot, and is within fighting range of the whole enchilada of another possible AL East banner being raised come April 2013. Tell me any of us felt that way as bombs burst in night air on July 4th while this team struggled to find cohesion and consistency.
Finally the Maddon mantra has again proven true as "Fortune Favors the Bold (or Bald)" as this team has stood tall in the face of injuries, potential trade chatter and unimaginable defensive blunders and gaffs to be in the right spot at the right time for a solid and concerted effort to topple their AL east rivals. Sitting currently with a 44 % chance of playoff champagne, this team has to continue to get their meaty goodness both at home and on the road mixed in with a few extra wins to bolster their post- season chances.
Right now the Rays are toe-to-toe with Oakland, Detroit, Baltimore and the Los Angeles Angels for a solid chance to walk into their third consecutive playoff spot, and fourth in 5 seasons. But it all begins now. 50 games, 50 chances to pull closer or fall to the back of the pack. Of those 50 contests, 29 of these contests will come against divisional leaders or Wild Card hopefuls. Plus in this 50 game hunt for October bliss, the Rays will play only 6 more games against the Yankees and 6 against the pesky Orioles. Of their final 50, the Rays will suit up against their AL East rivals in only half (25) of those contests.
Definitely the Rays might want to also channel a former Maddon Mantra from 2011 of "Finding Another Way" as they will have to garner additional victories against the likes of Seattle, Kansas City along with a slate of 16 contests against the unpredictable American League West foes.
The key to the Rays future seems to lie not only in their divisional slanted schedule in September, but in their rivalries against the West Coast opponents. Throw in 7 contests against the AL Central and you get the idea the Rays final AL East tallies might hold the key components to the Rays post-season recipe, but the rest of the American League could poison the "meaty" goodness with a few well-placed wins against the Rays.
6 games currently separate the Rays and Yankees with Baltimore still hanging on like that poster kitten, but destined to fall before the leaves turn colors. With the days of September coming closer the Rays engine is currently purring on all 8 cylinders and looking stronger every game. But it will only take a small back-step, a slip or even another key injury setback to again put haste and anxious thoughts into everyone's noggin.
Winning series, posting up impressive game stats is only part of the equation. In the end, possibly the Rays will have to win at least 37 of these final 50 games to again shower the Trop's fans with champagne and not have to re-visit another Game 162 moment or heartbreak.


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Richard W Bishop was killed in the battle at Plattsburg 1814.
Elisha Blinn Jr was killed by the cars in 1847.
April 4th 1855 adopted Helen Winn into the family.
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Because Elisha Blinn "was killed by the cars," I sought a newspaper article. This blurb from the Weekly Eagle in Vermont characterizes Mr T Blinn as unable to hear or speak. He was struck from behind by the train headed to Albany. It took a few hours for him to die. Perhaps this was his ride home. I wonder if he was alone and how his family found out that he had been in an accident.


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Fifth-starter competitors bouncing back nicely
Beckett, Maholm, Fife turn in solid efforts as each returns from injury
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- No. 2 starter Zack Greinke is sidelined, but the Dodgers had to like the first exhibition looks at their fifth, sixth and seventh starters on Sunday.
Josh Beckett, Paul Maholm and Stephen Fife -- each on a reduced throwing regime this spring because of various physical issues -- pitched two innings apiece against San Diego. Beckett and Maholm went scoreless, Fife allowed a run.
Beckett's first outing against opposing hitters was a significant step as he returns from serious surgery to remove a rib and address thoracic outlet syndrome, which cut short the career of Chris Carpenter.
"I didn't sleep good [Saturday] night, knowing I was facing competition and wondering, am I going to do something different?" Beckett said. "I was definitely nervous and everything, but it went good. Mentally, I had to slow myself down. I was ready 25 minutes before the game started. Right now the big thing is to get over the mental thing."
Beckett said he's been a little surprised with his smooth recovery considering that few pitchers have returned from the rib procedure.
"I feel like I put in the work but, yeah, I am [surprised]," he said. "Some of it is the stuff I did physically in the offseason. I didn't go to the beach. A lot of rehab for nine weeks after surgery, a couple weeks off, then back at it. It's paying off, but there's part of me that I can't get out of my head, when will it recur? I kept waiting for a fallback and didn't have one.
"Carpenter told me how invasive the surgery was. It is. They remove the rib from the spine. There was no position I was comfortable in and it takes a while to go away. It felt like somebody's got a knife in your back."
Manager Don Mattingly said Beckett warmed up sharp and took the command into the game. He struck out three and allowed one hit.
"He looked free and easy," said San Diego manager Bud Black. "He threw a couple breaking balls. He looked fine for the first outing."
Maholm, signed as camp opened for starting depth, allowed one hit in his first appearance after missing a session of throwing batting practice two weeks ago with mild elbow tenderness.
"It feels good," Maholm said of the elbow. "It felt good to get pitch sequences and face their top four in the lineup during the regular season."
Despite being a 10-game winner with Atlanta last year, Maholm tailed off with elbow problems in September, was left off the post-eason roster and settled for a one-year contract as a free agent.
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Maholm, a career starter, again declined to get drawn into a controversy over his role if Beckett is healthy and starting.
"My whole thing since I turned professional is to pitch well and let them make the decisions," he said.
Fife allowed one hit and one walk that led to the run. He has been on a reduced throwing schedule in hopes of preventing the shoulder bursitis that nagged him most of last season.
Before the game, pitching prospect Zach Lee threw two innings of a simulated game to hitters Matt Kemp, Carl Crawford and A.J. Ellis. It was the first time Lee faced hitters this spring after straining a lat muscle during the Young Guns minicamp in February.
Mattingly said there still was no announcement on the diagnosis of pitching prospect Ross Stripling, who is believed to have an elbow ligament injury. Mattingly said Stripling will probably get a second opinion before a course of treatment is chosen.


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Bad Lawyer Tricks, By John Steele
from the not-a-good-idea deptLast week, we wrote about a bunch of the members of Team Prenda submitting separate filings with Judge Otis Wright, who has been the most vocal in calling them out for their questionable legal shenanigans, trying (once again) to go on the offense and accuse their accusers. John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, Peter Hansmeier and Mark Lutz all filed motions claiming that the lawyers representing the John Doe defendant in the case, Morgan Pietz and Nick Ranallo, had failed to serve each of them with updated filings concerning the case. Incredibly, they tried to suggest that it was Pietz and Ranallo who were acting fraudulently and should be sanctioned. It's the classic John Steele move of "I know you are, but what am I" any time anyone calls him on his activities.
Pietz and Ranallo, having now been ridiculously accused of fraudulent activity, have hired another lawyer, Lawrence Heller, to represent them on this silly tangent, and Heller submitted quite a response, focused on John Steele's motion. The filings from the other three are dismissed in a footnote:
Mark Lutz, Paul Hansmeier and Peter Hansmeier have filed what they call "Notices to the Court," which are unsworn pleadings which attempt to evidence that they have not received certain pleadings since going pro se. Among numerous other defects, these "Notices" are neither verified, nor sworn under penalty of perjury and, to the extent they have any evidentiary value at all, should be struck or at least wholly ignored.But the arguments against Steele's filing are much more serious. As you may recall, this was actually Steele's second attempt at making this argument, with the first one getting rejected by Judge Wright in less than an hour. The claims that Steele and the others were somehow taken by surprise by the filings in this case and were unaware of them are hard to support, and Heller makes that point excessively clear. First, Heller points out that Steele's claim that Pietz and Ranallo had submitted "scores of papers" without serving him, and that those papers were "requests for relief" was entirely bogus. Steele was represented by counsel for quite some time, and after he went pro se (representing himself) Pietz and Ranallo had only filed two documents, both merely opposing specific motions from Team Prenda.
Furthermore, Heller points out that the only one actually violating the court's rules are the members of Team Prenda who failed to properly notify a change in contact information, leading to the lack of direct service. Most seriously, Heller says that the email "evidence" that Steele submitted with his filing, which he claims is "proof" that Pietz knew he wasn't serving Steele, has been doctored. And, finally, Heller points out that this all just seems par for the course for Team Prenda in playing word games rather than facing up to the fact that they're in deep trouble:
Although already sanctioned by this court, it is clear that neither Steele nor his contingent have learned their lesson. As frivolous as Steele's motion is, Pietz and Ranallo were compelled to retain outside counsel to defend it. Pietz and Ranallo should be compensated for having to respond to this baseless motion through the court's issuance, on its own initiatve, of an OSC re: Sanctions or, alternatively, through the court's setting of a hearing date for Pietz and Ranallo to have their Rule 11 sanctions motion heard...As for Steele's "evidence," Heller points out, as is clear from the email itself, that rather than an admission of a failure on the part of Pietz, Pietz's email is actually an attempt to stop Steele from avoiding service, by noting that Pietz is happy to send Steele copies of the filing, by whatever means are most appropriate -- and that this wouldn't have been an issue if Steele had properly kept everyone informed of his correct contact information, as is clearly required by the court. Separately, they point out that plenty of evidence, including some submitted by Steele himself has clearly established what his email address is, which is also where Pietz sent copies of the filings that Steele claims were never given to him.
It must be said: finally, enough is enough!
Moreover, Steele himself has submitted evidence to this Court definitively establishing that he maintains at least the email address: email@example.com. Specifically, in his "Amended" Motion For Reconsideration (ECF No. 205, pp. 6-7), Steele for, the first time attaches as Exhibit 1 the email which be omitted from the original Motion for Reconsideration (ECF No. 201), and which he swears, under penalty of perjury, that he received at the said email address. Steele's submission of the June 23rd email confirms that he does in fact have an email account he has used recently, and that he is therefore in violation of L.R. 41-6 and L.R. 83-2.4, for failing to provide that email address to the Court and to all parties. Similarly, Steele's Illinois ARDC page lists a phone number; so he has one of those too, which he has also neglected to provide to the Court or the parties. There can be little doubt that he also has a fax number he failed to disclose. In View of Steele's violations of the local rule designed to facilitate service of process, the instant motion is clearly brought in bad faith.And then we get to the funny stuff. The email "evidence" that Steele submitted to the court was an email that Pietz sent, but when he sent it, it bounced back, saying that there was no such email address. That leads to one of two possibilities, neither of which look good for Steele:
In view of Mr. Steele's sworn assertion that he actually did receive the June 23rd email from Pietz, it is thus surprising that the email in question, which was sent to immediately bounced back to sender from that address. (See Pietz Dec'l., Exhibit 1). In light of the bounce-back, there are only two possibilities: either Steele has somehow configured his Gmail account to automatically respond with false "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently" messages to all emails he receives, even though he actually does receive the messages; or (ii) as seems more probable, Steele did not receive the June 23rd email directly, but rather it was forwarded to him by one of his cronies who was also included on Pietz's email chain. A close look at the top of Steele's Exhibit A shows partial text remnants. Moreover, the email is of an abnormally small size. Both of these facts strongly suggest that a header has been cutoff at the top of the email to conceal how it was received. It seems apparent that Steele has purposefully omitted an email header, which would presumably show one of his co-conspirators forwarding the June 23rd message from Pietz to whatever new email address Steele is using nowadays.You get the feeling that John Steele is stupendously bad at chess, while simultaneously believing that he could beat Kasparov and Deep Blue in concurrent matches. The more he talks, each time believing he's found the magic "out," the deeper he seems to dig his own hole. This is a different kind of digging than, say, a Charles Carreon, who would just keep fighting. Steele acts as if he really thinks that he has the whole system beat, when the reality is each time he tries to "beat" the system, he's just piling up another potential problem for himself.
Since Steele's motion, as well as his sworn affidavit, tacitly rely upon the premise that he has not been in close contact with Paul Hansmeier, Paul Duffy, and counsel for Prenda Law, Inc., about the bond issue since going pro se, one can certainly understand why he may have been tempted to cut out the header showing him communicating with these people. In other words, in what would seem to be a truly staggering--and foolish--bit of chutzpah, Steele appears to have once again tried to slip a doctored document past this Court in the hopes of getting his way.
Further, given that the firstname.lastname@example.com email address was used by "someone" to register certain Internet domain names to "Alan Cooper" at a Phoenix residence where Steele's sister lived with Anthony Saltmarsh, there can be little question as to why Steele might have been tempted to discontinue using that account. Using that email address potentially links Steele to criminal identity theft activity. However, thanks to his recent filing. Mr. Steele has now sworn under penalty of perjury, that he has recently received email sent to email@example.com even though that may be perjury.
For example, there's also more evidence that Steele is making claims to the court that are not just bogus, but where Steele's own actions show that they are bogus:
However, through what may have been an inadvertent slip-up, there is compelling evidence that Steele was actually aware, or should have been aware of ECF No. 175 (Pietz's opposition to Duffy's motion to approve the initial bond) since at least June 14, 2013. On May 23, 2013, Paul Duffy filed his motion to have the bond he posted on behalf of all Prenda parties other than Gibbs approved by this Court (ECF No. 171). On June 3, 2013, Pietz filed a response asking that the bond be conditionally approved, subject to certain conditions, and subject to the posting ofan additional bond (ECF No. 175). It is this document, ECF No. 175, from early June, which Steele would later say he was denied an opportunity to respond to. On June 6, 2013, the Court entered the proposed order submitted with the response, conditionally approving the bond, as requested by Pietz (ECF No. 176). On June I 1, 2013, Prenda Law, Inc. through associate Philip Vineyard of the Kleindinst Firm, announced by email to all parties (including to email@example.com) that they would be appealing the Court's order on the bond (i.e., appealing ECF No. 176) and filing an emergency motion seeking relief from the Ninth Circuit on that issue. (Pietz Dec'l., Exhibit B.)Here's a basic tip: if you're going to claim to a court that you have no idea certain documents are being filed, probably don't (a) use the same email address that the very same documents were mailed to and (b) don't send the counsel you're accusing of not informing you of documents filed in the very case in question -- that you insist you're not paying attention to -- email evidence that you're not only very much paying attention, but actively involved in the drafting, review and approval of filings in the case.
By itself, the email from Philip Vineyard to Steele et al. Would have been sufficient to put Steele on notice of the fact that proceedings were underway in the District Court on the bond issue. See id. at pp. 1-2. The fact that Prenda was appealing the issue would also have put Steele on notice that the bond proceedings had not gone as his similarly situated counterparts may have hoped. However, that is not all that happens on the email thread.
On June 14, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Mr. Vineyard circulated to all parties what he styled a "pre-executed version of Prenda Law's emergency motion to the Ninth Circuit" on the bond issue. Id. at. p. 11
About a half hour later, at 10:20 AM, John Steele wrote back to Mr. Vineyard, copying Pietz, saying,"Philip,Vineyard then wrote back a few minutes later saying "Thanks, John. I shall amend the motion to reflect this." Both the "pre-execution" version Vineyard circulated, which Steele apparently reviewed and provided guidance on, as well as the final version ultimately filed with the Ninth Circuit, extensively discuss Pietz's opposition to Duffy's motion to the approve the bond (ECF No. 175). Clearly, Steele reviewed Vineyards motion on June 14, 2013, and Vineyard's motion discusses at length the opposition (i.e., ECF No. 175) to which Steele states he was denied an opportunity to respond because he was unaware of it. There can be no question that Steele had every opportunity to respond to Pietz's opposition, despite his false claims, which form the basis of his motion, to the contrary.
Great motion. On page 5, I want to take issue with the bottom of the page, right before footnote 23. No one that I am aware of (on our side) stated that Prenda or anyone else had a policy of demanding a settlement amount just low enough to avoid legal action. This is something the bad guys always claim." Id. at 14.
Further, Steele has known that there would be a dispute about the amount and conditions of the bond since at least May 20, 2013. See ECF No. 175-2, pp. 1-5 (meet and confer email from Pietz to Prenda parties, including to email@example.com, which was ignored by all of them, except for some nonsensical ramblings from Mr. Duffy).
In view of all this evidence, it seems that Steele was just about as "shocked" about the bond issue before this Court as Captain Renault was to find that gambling was going on at Rick's Cafe Americain.
In a footnote, the filing also notes that this is more evidence that Steele has a leading role in Team Prenda's legal strategy, despite his claims to have absolutely nothing to do with any of it:
This obviously begs the question of why counsel for Prenda Law, Inc., whose "sole principal" is supposedly Paul Duffy is taking their marching orders from Steele, a party with which Prenda likely has a conflict (particularly in view of Hansmeier's deposition testimony that obtaining the Alan Cooper signatures was all Steele's doing).This case just gets more and more and more entertaining.
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As a player in the late 1990s at the University of Dayton, Ready High School football coach Joel Cutler received an insight into preparation that he got to experience firsthand last year.
As a player in the late 1990s at the University of Dayton, Ready High School football coach Joel Cutler received an insight into preparation that he got to experience firsthand last year.
Although he's gone through two-a-days -- or when he was a college athlete, three-a-days -- every year since his freshman season at Jonathan Alder in 1990, Cutler said it's different experiencing that hectic time as a head coach.
After previously serving as an assistant at Upper Arlington from 1999-2011, Cutler is excited about his second opportunity to lead a team through two-a-day practices.
According to the OHSAA, the first day of official coaching, which includes two-a-days, is Aug. 5. Schools that begin classes Aug. 16 or earlier can begin full practices Aug. 1.
"My college coach, Mike Kelly, used to say that for every hour of practice there's four hours of preparation," Cutler said. "A lot of time and energy is spent making sure practice is ready. Organization is immense. (The) parents (of Ready players) will tell you that I have every single two-a-day mapped out up to five minutes. Every five minutes parents should know if their kid is in a water break or 'chalk talk.'
"Every 15 minutes we have a mandatory water break. The first week of two-a-days, we (start) real early to beat the heat. Our kids don't mind getting up at 5:30 or 6 (a.m.). The first week we'll go back-to-back and get done by 1 (p.m.) with the whole day."
Hilliard Davidson coach Brian White also takes pride in his staff's attention to detail when it comes to two-a-days, particularly in the area of safety.
According to a study released on the OHSAA website, heat illness is the leading cause of preventable death in high school athletes.
Because Davidson has had the same trainer since White took over as coach in 1999, he thinks his program always has placed a proper amount of emphasis on the subject.
It's an area, however, that he believes other schools have begun taking more seriously in recent years.
"We've always placed an importance on taking care of kids in the heat and I don't think we do it a lot differently than we've always done it," White said. "But things might be different for a lot of other people. People are taking more precautions than they have in the past and have started to adjust their practice schedule to the heat index."
While Cutler believes he and his staff have their program's safety precautions properly balanced, there are some aspects of the early days of official coaching that he plans to do slightly different this year.
"There's going to be a fine-tuning or a tweaking that we'll do for this year," Cutler said. "This year I'd rather execute a handful of things on a high level rather than do a lot of things in an average way."
Westerville Central coach John Magistro, who earned two state runner-up finishes and went 181-76 from 1984-2006 at Bellaire, thinks logistics are the biggest difference in two-a-day practices compared to when he started coaching.
The first day of school in Westerville is Aug. 14. Once teachers begin work Aug. 12, Magistro said having two-a-days will not be as practical because some of his assistants will have other responsibilities at school.
"When I first started, most of the games started the weekend of Labor Day and you were allowed so many days of two-a-days," he said. "Now Aug. 1 is when we can start two-a-days and they have five acclimation days. Our first scrimmage is Aug. 17, and you figure that you're not allowed to put on full pads until Aug. 6.
"Everybody does (two-a-days) a little differently. When teachers officially return to school ... Aug. 12, you're actually really only able to have one-a-day practices, whereas somebody in Cleveland might still be having two-a-days."


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DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife would like to remind Delaware motorists to remain alert for crossing roadways due to daylight savings time changes on Nov. 3.
DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife would like to remind Delaware motorists to remain alert for crossing roadways due to daylight savings time changes on Nov. 3.
The average white-tailed deer in Delaware weighs about 130 pounds, with larger bucks tipping the scales at 180 pounds or more. Hitting an animal that size can do serious and expensive damage to your vehicle. Such a collision may also cause injury to you or your passengers or trigger an accident involving you and other motorists.
In 2012, Delaware police departments logged a statewide total of more than 1,000 deer-vehicle crashes, which resulted in one fatality, 56 personal injuries and more than 900 property damage-only cases. For 2013 through September, 591 deer-related crashes have been reported, with no fatalities, 50 personal injuries and 541 property damage-only cases.
Here are some tips for motorists to keep in mind:
- Turn your headlights on at dawn and dusk and keep your eyes on the road, scanning the sides of the road as well as what's ahead of you. When there is no oncoming traffic, switch to high beams to better reflect the eyes of deer on or near the roadway. To reduce your risk of injury in a collision, always wear your seat-belt.
- Be especially aware of any distractions that might take your eyes off the road, even if only momentarily, such as cell phones, adjusting the radio, eating or passenger activities.
- Watch for deer crossing signs that mark commonly-traveled areas, and be aware that deer typically cross between areas of cover, such as woods or where roads divide agricultural fields from woods.
- Do not swerve to miss a deer – brake and stay in your lane. Losing control of your vehicle, crossing into another lane, hitting an oncoming vehicle or leaving the roadway and hitting another obstacle such as a tree or a pole is likely to be much more serious than hitting a deer.
- If you hit a deer, stop at the scene, get your car off the road if possible and call police. Do not touch the animal or get too close.


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Long Term Care
Lakewood Care Center provides residents access to acute and specialty care services on site. A Board Certified Geriatric Specialist serves as the full-time Medical Director, overseeing all patient care services.
This188-bed fully accredited long-term care center provides each resident with a fully furnished room and bath. A dedicated 20-bed Alzheimer's/Dementia Unit for female residents is located within the care center as well. Residents experience 24 hour nursing care.
Specialty services on-site include:
- Audiology
- Cardiology
- Chiropractic
- Dental
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Gynecology
- Mental Health Services
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pharmacy
- Physical Therapy
- Podiatry
- Pulmonology
- Sleep Lab
Lakewood Care Center also provides the amenities you expect. A beauty shop is staffed on site, exclusively for residents. Daily activities are planned to provide residents with a variety of social opportunities within the center and in the community. Some of these include:
Intergenerational Programs - designed to provide on-going social interaction and relationships with young children
Pets for Life - a pet therapy program which allows residents an opportunity to enjoy time with qualified pets on a regularly scheduled basis.


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7 Edible Gifts for Mom
This year, surprise her with something that's plain delicious.
William Greenberg Desserts Mother's Day Petits Fours
From a classic New York City-based bakery, these jewel-like treats, available in square or heart shapes, are handmade every day. Each cake is studded with dried fruit and enrobed in a thick layer of icing.
To buy: $42 for twelve, wmgreenbergdesserts.com.
Just Cook Spice Rubs
The best gifts are useful ones. These spice rubs take the guesswork out of seasoning, and are sure to become an invaluable part of Mom's kitchen arsenal. The easy to read jars stack for convenient storage and are available individually or in packs that feature a combo of the six different flavor profiles, such as Close to Curry Blend, Gimme Steak Blend, and Taco Night Blend.
To buy: $8.50 for one 3.2-ounce container, $24 for three 3.2-ounce containers, or $45 for all six containers, shop.justcookfoods.com.
Pique Tea Variety Pack
Forget old-fashioned tea bags, balls, and spoons. Meet tea crystals: organic loose-leaf tea that's brewed to just the right strength, and then crystalized. Akin to instant coffee (except that it's actually delicious), all this tea needs is hot water to be ready to drink. The powder comes in slim plastic packets, ideal for a busy mom on the go. Flavors include Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Jasmine, Sencha, and Mint Sencha.
To buy: $9.69 for one .3-ounce container (14 sachets), piquetea.com.
Amia Calva Khavyar
There are few things as festive as caviar smeared on a delicate wafer with a dollop of sour cream—plus champagne. The only problem is that caviar is normally worth its weight in gold. Enter this domestically (and sustainably) farmed option, which costs a fraction of the price of its imported cousins. The small black pearls pack intense salty flavor.
To buy: $24 for one 2-ounce container, khavyar.com.
Maille Collection les Jardins Secrets des Chefs
Ideal for slathering on sandwiches or whisking into vinaigrettes, this trio takes classic spicy mustard up a notch with brightly colored vegetable infused flavors, including carrot-shallot, olives and herbes de Provence, and beetroot-honey. The jars come packed in a pretty pastel box.
To buy: $45 for three 3.8-ounce containers, maille.com.
Belle Chevre Goat Cheesecake
From an Alabama-based goat cheese creamery, this 6-inch New York style cheesecake is made from fresh goat cheese, vanilla, and lemon zest. Rich but also airy, it's just the special treat to finish off Mother's Day brunch.
To buy: $34.95 for one 27-ounce cake, bellechevre.com.
Rachel's Ginger Beer Variety 4-Pack
Stock Mom's home bar with these fizzy gingery mixers. Made with ginger root, fresh lemon, and cane sugar, the soda comes in large glass growlers. Flavors include original ginger beer, blood orange, white peach, and pink guava. Gift them with handwritten drink recipe cards—think sangria, punch, or spritzers.
To buy: $78 for four 32-ounce growlers, rachelsgingerbeer.com.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Rays-ing the bar: Let the 'Sunshine' in
Feeling depressed? Think no one's got it worse than you? You need a little sunshine in your life– a Little Miss Sunshine, to be exact. This dysfunctional family road trip comedy wallows in hilarious misery for an hour and a half before miraculously showing there's hope for anyone.
Sure, that's the outline for a sitcom, but it's rare to find one this good in any medium. Directed by the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who have an extensive background in music videos, and written by Michael Arndt, whose lack of credits indicates the blood is still wet on his contract with the devil, this Sundance favorite keeps you weak from laughing and leaves you feeling exhilarated. What more could you want?
(Okay, it's summer. You could want gratuitous special effects and sh*t blowing up. Well, you won't get them here.)
To leave you the joy of discovery I'll just introduce the main characters as the movie does and set up the premise.
Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin), 7, is watching a tape of an old Miss America pageant and mimicking the winners' reactions. She will soon learn she's a finalist in the Little Miss Sunshine competition.
Olive's father, Richard (Greg Kinnear), is delivering a motivational speech about his nine-step "Refuse to Lose" program to a small, unenthusiastic audience. He's waiting to hear from his agent about a big book deal.
Olive's brother, Dwayne (Paul Dano), 15, a Nietzsche-reading nihilist, is working out in his room. He's vowed not to speak until he goes to the Air Force Academy and becomes a test pilot.
Their grandfather (Alan Arkin), Richard's father, who lives with them since being thrown out of a nursing home, is snorting heroin. ("When you're old you're crazy not to do it.")
Richard's wife, Sheryl (Toni Collette), a closet smoker, is picking up her gay brother, Frank (Steve Carell), from the hospital. "The number-one Proust scholar in the United States," he attempted suicide after losing his grad student boyfriend and his credibility to a rival, and also losing his job and home.
When these six sit down together at the dinner table, it's like one of those holiday movies about a dysfunctional family who get together once a year; the fact that they will be living together indefinitely makes it more like No Exit even if that's Sartre, not Proust or Nietzsche.
The house isn't big enough for them all, so they pile into a VW bus for the drive from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach for the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. They don't meet any chainsaw-wielding killers on the way, but everything else that can go wrong does.
The casting couldn't be better, with Kinnear taking top honors. If you've never thought about what it would be like to live with a motivational speaker, he'll leave you with recurring nightmares about it; but since he divides the world into winners and losers, it's almost touching when he realizes he's on the wrong side of his own equation.
"Luck," Richard preaches, "is the name losers give to their own failings." Cranky, raunchy Grandpa offers a more affirming philosophy: "A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try."
Watching this family actually become a family provides an uplifting finish to what's otherwise one of the funniest tragedies you've ever seen.


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HARTFORD, Conn. — Attorneys general from Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware sent letters Friday to 11 companies that make baby bottles and baby formula containers, asking they no longer use the chemical bisphenol A in their manufacturing because they said it was potentially harmful to infants.
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The Food & Drug Administration has tentatively concluded that BPA is safe based on a review of research, and some manufacturers have already said they would make BPA-free baby bottles.
But Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal criticized the FDA for declining to take action after a preliminary study last month drew a possible connection to BPA and risks of heart disease and diabetes.
"Unfortunately the federal agency, the Federal Food and Drug Administration, has been asleep at the switch, in fact resistant to respecting the scientific evidence that grave harm can result in use of this product," Blumenthal said.
Scientists are at odds about the risks of BPA. A preliminary study released last month by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that adults exposed to higher amounts of the chemical were more likely to report having heart disease and diabetes. The study doesn't provide proof, although its authors said the results deserve scientific follow-up.
Michael Herndon, an FDA spokesman, said Monday that the agency is continuing to evaluate its risk assessment.
More than 90 percent of Americans have traces of BPA in their bodies, but the FDA says the levels of exposure are too low to pose a health risk, even for infants and children. Other scientists, however, say BPA has been shown to affect the human body even at low levels.
The scientific debate about the chemical could last for years.
'Unconscionable and intolerable'
In the letters, Blumenthal cites studies that indicate BPA can attach to food in heated containers. "The preventable release of a toxic chemical directly into the food we eat is unconscionable and intolerable," he wrote.
Letters were sent Friday to baby bottle manufacturers Avent America Inc., Disney First Years, Gerber, Handicraft Co., Playtex Products Inc. and Evenflo Co., and formula makers Abbott, Mead Johnson, PBM Products, Nature's One and Wyeth.
"Unfortunately the FDA has refused to do anything about it," Blumenthal said Monday. "We're asking the 11 manufacturers to do so voluntarily."
Jay Highman, president and CEO of Nature's One, who said his company doesn't sell its products in containers that have the chemical, hadn't received the letter by Monday.
Highman said the containers for his company's dry formulas are BPA-free and only the plastic lids have small traces of substance. Because the lid is discarded before the formula heated in liquid, there is very little chance the chemical will migrate into it, he added.
"We look forward to responding to the letter when we receive it," Highman said.
Shannon Jenest, a spokesperson for Philips Avent, parent of Avent America, said the company has not seen the letter and plans to review it carefully upon receipt.
"Philips Avent offers an entire range of infant feeding products made from a variety of materials, including those which are BPA free," Jenest said. "We are committed to meeting the varying needs of our consumers and we will continue to evaluate our products with this in mind."
Going BPA-free
Several states are considering restricting BPA use, and some manufacturers have begun promoting BPA-free baby bottles. St. Louis-based Handicraft, maker of Dr. Brown's baby bottles, says on its Web site that its newest bottles do not contain BPA and urges consumers to check its products for symbols that identify bottles that don't contain the chemical. A message was left with the company seeking comment Monday.
Some U.S. stores, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Toys "R" Us, have already said they're phasing out products that contain BPA. The European Union has said BPA-containing products are safe, but Canada's government has proposed banning the sale of baby bottles with BPA as a precaution.
BPA is used in lightweight, durable plastics. Products include some baby bottles, sippy cups and reusable food and drink containers, such as reusable sports water bottles, Tupperware, compact discs, DVDs, eyeglass lenses and sports safety goggles and helmets.
BPA is also in epoxy resins used to make paints, adhesives and canned food liners.
Animal studies have linked BPA with breast, prostate and reproductive system abnormalities and some cancers, but experts disagree on whether it poses health risks for humans.
The FDA's advice for consumers who want to reduce exposure includes avoiding plastic containers imprinted with the recycling number '7,' as many of those contain BPA, and avoid warming food in such containers, the FDA said.
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Basketball coaches have this recurring nightmare that their team will play an entire game and never score. Nevada women's coach Jane Albright was living it.
Albright looked up at the scoreboard in the Thomas & Mack Center midway through the first half of their quarterfinal in the Mountain West tournament on Thursday afternoon and saw this:
San Diego State 19, Nevada 0.
"I asked our team, 'Are we going to show people if we're a No. 1 seed?'" SDSU coach Beth Burns said. "I think they answered."
The top-seeded Aztecs won 67-39 and sent another shudder through a conference that has now gone 16 straight games without someone beating them. In Friday's noon semifinal they get fifth-seeded New Mexico, a team they beat by 24 and 28 during the regular season.
How dominant were the 25-5 Aztecs? They missed 10 straight shots and had five turnovers during an 8-minute stretch late in the first half, and still won by 28.
"I think it's pretty obvious that our arms aren't long enough to box with them," said Albright, who starts a 6-foot-7 sophomore center with blue-dyed hair from the tiny African nation of Gabon. "We were in a little bit of shock."
Lopsided games tend to produce statistical anomalies. One belonged to SDSU point guard Chelsea Hopkins, who had already set the Mountain West tournament record with 12 assists (on 12 SDSU baskets) by halftime. She finished with a career-high 14, two shy of Crystal Lee's 23-year-old school record.
"I pride myself on being a pass-first point guard," said Hopkins, who has had four triple-doubles (points, rebounds, assists) this season. "But I really pride myself on kind of doing whatever it takes to win ... I take whatever the defense gives me."
The other statistical anomaly was points off turnovers created by SDSU's suffocating pressure.
"I should put my glasses on," Albright said, looking at the stat sheet, "but maybe I don't want to see that."
(It was 29-3.)
Nevada (8-23), which beat Air Force in Tuesday's play-in game, finally scored with 11:18 left in the first half on a free throw. It opened 0-of-9 shooting with six turnovers and three missed free throws. Its first basket came with 10:02 left.
The Wolf Pack managed to cut the margin to 12 early in the second half. But SDSU calmly went on a 19-6 run, and players on the end of the bench were taking off their sweats. The Wolf Pack shot just 29.6 percent and finished with 23 turnovers.
Courtney Clements and Erimma Amarikwa both had 15 points for the Aztecs. Backup forward Khristina Hunter had eight points (4-of-5 shooting) and nine rebounds in 16 minutes.
"I was just really proud of how hard we guarded," Burns said of the 19-0 start. "Then it was almost like, 'Now what do we do?'"


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After I made my Semi-Homemade Peanut-butter Cup Cake, I thought I needed to keep some of that semi-homemade goodness going. I love going homemade, whether it is full on or just part of the way. Either way I am creating something for my family, which I love. The other night I had a hangaring for some carrot cake, but I definitely didn't feel like baking a cake. I checked in my pantry and food storage to see what I had on hand. I came back with 1 box of carrot cake mix, applesauce, and raisins. Yep this would work just fine. I added the cake mix, 2/4 cup of applesauce, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, and 1 cup of raisins. I mixed everything in my mixer and then dropped spoonfuls onto my baking sheet. I baked them for 15 minutes. Once they were cooled, I topped each cookie with a dollop of icing. If you want to make your icing from scratch you could try out my butter-cream icing. It is really yummy.
Carrot Cake Cookies
1 box of carrot cake mix
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup oil
1 cup raisins
Mix all ingredients in your mixer. Spoon onto baking sheet.
Bake at 350' for 15 minutes. Once cooled add a dollop of icing.
Enjoy Lovelies!
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Welch for Congress
Steven Welch is running for Congress in PA's 7th Congressional District. He is a young entrepreneur, and is looking to run a new type of campaign. One of the goals is to engage new voters and participants in the political process, and having a contest to design his logo is one of these ideas.
This will be a political campaign, so all voters are the target, from age 18 to 108. The candidate is a young entrepreneur who has bold new ideas and is looking for a professional yet unique campaign logo.
The logo will be used for merchandise such as T-shirts and hats, put also bumper stickers, handouts, mailers and buttons.
The main requirement is that blue be one of the colors, and that it contains the words "Welch for Congress"
Below is his website to get a look and feel of the campaign to date.


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I'm back from vacation and I had a chance to take a mini break to recharge. I found these amazing articles on social media for the new year such as:
- 87% Of UK Businesses Will Invest More In Social Media In 2012 [REPORT]
- 12 Ways to Guest Post on the Greatest Group Marketing Blog in the World (Yes, I'm Biased)
- Hire A Journalist! (We did, and here's what we learned)
- How Restaurants Are Using Social Media to Their Advantage, Read more: http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2011/12/27/how-restaurants-are-using-social-media-to-their-advantage/#ixzz1hswQgWGm
- Ask Shama: Online Marketing Trends for 2012?


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Pete Rollins is planning a talk in Belfast in September to explain that The Apocalypse isn't coming – it's already happened.
Fundamentalist Christianity has long expressed a view of apocalypse as some future event that will consume the present world and replace it with a new one. Yet while this is a bloody and destructive vision, I will argue that it is inherently conservative in nature… For those who hold to such a vision are willing to imagine absolutely everything around them changing so that their present values and beliefs can remain utterly unchanged. In contrast I will argue that a Christian apocalypse describes something much more radical, namely an event that fundamentally ruptures and re-configures our longings, hopes and desires…
This resonates with me, although I'm waiting to see where Rollins will take it. If he has not forgotten his Greek, he will oblige us I hope with a vision of a true 'apocalypse' – not earth-scorching destruction but paradigm-shattering revelation.
I have made two attempts here to articulate my own growing sense that the Apocalypse is already history. In January I first hinted at my post-apocalyptic 'vision' when I called out the folly of Harold ("I did the math") Camping's predictions of a Day of Reckoning for May 21 of this year. But I've since elaborated a bit more of my view that puts us now almost a century past the end-times of a less-than-edifying 'Protestant-Catholic' Christian dispensation.


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Stripe It Rich with Melissa LeapmanWant to play with color? In this hands-on workshop, explore several interesting multicolor stitch patterns that are based on simple stripes. Using just one color per row, you'll create tuck stitches, drop stitches, and more. The techniques are easy, but the results are dramatic!
SuppliesSix homework swatches; 5mm/US 8 knitting needles; 4 or 5 shades of solid worsted weight yarn (try to include light, medium, and medium-dark colors for lots of choices in class); scissors; pencil.
HomeworkWith #4 (worsted-weight) yarn and 5mm/US 8 needles, work the following swatches.
Swatches 1 and 2: Cast on 19 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Slip sts onto holder.
Swatch 3: Cast on 23 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Slip sts onto holder.
Swatch 4: Cast on 19 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for 1". Then, purl across one row. Slip sts onto holder.
Swatch 5: Cast on 19 sts. Work k1, p1 rib for ½". Then, work 6 rows of Stockinette stitch, ending after a purl row. Slip sts onto holder.
Swatch 6: Cast on 19 sts. Knit 6 rows of Garter stitch (knitting all sts each row). Slip sts onto holder.


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Boston's Best Coffee Roasters
Boston's Best Coffee Roasters is a well established New England Coffee Roaster, in business since 1979. One of our primary functions is to provide roasted, flavored, whole bean and ground coffee to independent and chain foodservice establishments, including: restaurants, hotels, gourmet coffee shops & diners as well as convenience stores. Although we have an established logo that we wish to keep, our current "to go" cup is plain, drab and boring - to say the least. As our designated marketing and design person (only because I taught myself how to use Photoshop & Illustrator for fun) I have attempted and failed to create a new, more colorful look for our to go cup and I am now begging for assistance. Can you please help me to create an image that will work well in both an upscale gourmet coffee shop and in a convenience store environment - something that that is classy and understated, and not flashy and cute.
As stated above, our "to go" logo cup is used primarily by gourmet coffee shops and convenience stores. But can also be used in office buildings, restaurants or diners... anywhere someone might be able to purchase a cup of joe to go. Your design could literally end up in the hands of thousands of people!
Below I am attaching our current drab Boston's Best logo cup, along with several of my failed attempts at pleasing the powers that be! I am also attaching a cup that one of the bosses brought to me as an example of something he really likes (cup wanna be). Other than that... no one can really pinpoint what we want our cups to look like. Some feel that since we have been brown and cream for 10 years we should stay that way - others think we need more color. One of the bosses is partial to a gradient and blended look. We do need to stay with our current logo... the medallion can or could not be used as part of that logo. We do want to include the statement "Award Winning Coffee" and we do want to include the cup size (by oz.). We would like to see the design in the proportions for a 12 oz. or a 16 oz. paper cup.
Also, please visit http://www.bostonsbestcoffee.com. Please email me if you have any questions!


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Before blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favoured by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A self-taught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her pop culture obsessions on her sleeve, professing her love for such visual icons as Princess Di, Holly Hobbie, and Stevie Nicks.
Focusing on found objects such as stickers, greeting cards, magazine photos collected in collage framework, complete with song lyrics hand-lettered in cursive script and heartbreaking, melancholic water colors, Ahlers explores and exposes the social construction of roles, feminine and otherwise. Beginning with incipient childhood self-awareness and traversing high school status jockeying to adult social climbing, the cultural imagery that supports and informs personal identity is given uneasy new meanings and importance in Ahlers' visual remixes. With The Selves, the schizophrenic nature of an identity foraged from modern cultural sources is laid bare.


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Last June saw one of the rawest displays ever of the power wielded by the half-million-plus members of the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers.
After appalling revelations that a teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District had been spoon-feeding semen to young students, a bill was introduced to make it easier for districts to quickly dismiss sexual predators. This came after L.A. Unified officials concluded that teacher job-security rules were so strong that the district had no choice but to pay the teacher, Mark Berndt, $40,000 to get him to quit.
But the measure died in the Assembly's Education Committee after a bizarre union campaign that likened protecting students from perverts to an "un-American" assault on teachers. Now Education Committee Chairwoman Joan Buchanan, the Alamo Democrat whose vote killed last year's reform measure, has introduced her own version, with the support of the CTA, making its passage nearly certain.
Even though Buchanan's measure is somewhat weaker than last year's bill, this is a welcome development. Something is horribly out of whack if a school district has to pay off a depraved predator teacher to get him off the payroll.


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Artist Etienne Lavie had a lightbulb bursting idea: what if all the advertisements we see on a daily basis in the street, on trains and billboards and so forth were replaced with beautiful works of art? Instead of seeing a C-list celeb shilling a sugar drink or a traditionally beautiful faceless model selling strips of underwear fabric, you'd see paintings and murals. The world would look so much more awesome.
I really wish someone went ahead and did this in real life. It'd be street art with a classical twist. Or is it classic art on the streets? In Lavie's project, hilariously named OMG who stole my ads?, he only digitally replaced advertisements around Paris with famous artwork. It still looks like a world I would want to live in.
Actually, maybe we'll keep this genius to ourselves and out of the real world since I can already imagine advertising companies hijacking this idea and pasting art onto their billboards with QR codes and mysterious domains in an attempt to make us buy more jeans.


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The downstairs features a well appointed kitchen that is ready for you to cook great meals for your friends and family. Enjoy your meals, in the natural light of the beautiful dining nook that seats 6 adults comfortably with views of Flagg Mountain and Goat Peak in the distance. The downstairs also features a toasty propane fireplace, bedroom, full bathroom, and coat/boot room with all new washer and dryer to help you clean up after your adventures. While we generally appreciate going to a cabin to unplug, we do provide wireless internet, HDTV, and 4k BluRay DVD with a Bluetooth capable audio system for entertainment....what more could you want on vacation?
The upstairs features two larger bedrooms and a second full bathroom. All three bedrooms are furnished with very comfortable new queen beds with down comforters in the winter, and lighter bedding for summer. Many of our friends and guests remark that these mattresses are more comfortable than what they have at home. Let us know what you think!
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copyright. Permission was never received to use those names or the original map. Hence the shapes and now the revamp to a new map.hereje888 wrote:WidowMakers wrote:The name is changing because no one likes Centerscape and Midgard is more LOTR related than centerscape is now.hereje888 wrote:look, i like how the map looks, but i cant help wondering why the name changing...just a thought. i kinda liked the fact to be able to play in a lotr related map...
not surprised no one likes it. it's just a bunch of shapes.
what i mean is why take out middle earth? copyright reasons? lotr haters around? it could have been revamped....i actually like how the map looks right now (as midgard) but why change all the names?
and as for namechanging, what i meant was why change the real lotr names for letters-numbers (example: mordor became M-1,2,etc. why?) mordor now is doomfire mts (????) rohan became central forest...well..why not keep the original names?


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More than 180,000 protected areas—national parks, nature reserves and so on—now cover over 12% of the world's land area and 7.2% of coastal waters. They play an important role in reducing carbon emissions and helping people adapt to the impacts of climate change. These are the findings of a newly-published paper in the journal Solutions.
Protected areas conserve natural ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, mangroves and grasslands contributing to the two main responses to climate change: mitigation through carbon capture and storage, and adaptation such as protection against extreme weather and provision of clean water.
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An estimated 20% of GHG emissions come from deforestation and other forms of land use change.
At least 15% of the world's terrestrial carbon stock is stored in protected areas globally.
In the Russian Federation the protection of 1.63 million hectares of virgin taiga forests and peat soils in the Komi Republic means carbon storage estimated at 71.5 million tonnes.
In Bolivia, Mexico and Venezuela 25 million hectares of forest protected areas store over 4 billion tonnes of carbon, estimated to be worth US$ 39-87 billion.
Protected areas can help protect vulnerable communities and reduce the impact of disasters such as floods and hurricanes by allowing space for floodwaters to disperse and be absorbed by natural vegetation. Vegetation helps stabilize soil to reduce the power of landslides and avalanches while coral reefs, dunes and mangroves buffer coastlines against storms.
Protected areas also maintain the essential services that ecosystems provide, helping people cope with changes in water supplies, fisheries, health conditions and agricultural productivity caused by climate change.
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A locally-managed marine protected area network in Kimbe, Papua New Guinea focuses on climate change resilience to protect coral reefs, coastal habitats and food security.
In Trinidad and Tobago restoration of the Nariva wetlands recognizes their importance as a carbon sink, a high biodiversity ecosystem and a natural buffer against coastal storms.
The Muthurajawella protected area of Sri Lanka provides flood protection valued at over US$ 5 million a year.
In Australia, management of Melbourne's forested catchment is being adapted to secure water supplies.
In Switzerland 17% of forests are managed to stop avalanches, a service worth US$2-3.5 billion per year.
Increased coverage and connectivity and improved management of protected areas will increase the resilience of ecosystems to climate change and safeguard vital ecosystem services. Most countries have a protected area network but few value protected areas as integral parts of national and local climate response strategies, even though both the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) now recognize the importance of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change.
"Ecosystem-based approaches will be critical elements in national and local climate strategies, complementing reductions in energy use and investments in hard infrastructure and new technologies," says Trevor Sandwith, Director of IUCN's Global Protected Areas Programme.
"Additional financial support will be needed for the global protected area network to meet new challenges presented by climate change. National and international policy efforts must be better coordinated," he adds.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
After the War... Suburbia
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- Anonymous11:33 AM
Of particular interest in looking at the growth of the Suburban Neighbourhood at this time would be the creation and job-expansion of the North American Auto Industry.ReplyDelete
The two go hand-in-hand.
The largest employer in North America is the Auto Industry in all its various facets.
You could say that the auto made these new Communities possible, while at the same time offering the jobs for people to be able to live in them. A genious system... but with no eye for the future. All growth, no chance for things to settle down to an equilibrium.
The Auto industry is what drove the plastics and manufacturing industry with new technological developments so that the home of the future was possible.
North Americans are tied to this industry, and it made our present way of life possible.
I love these early Illustrations showing the 'future' of the '40s and '50s simply because of their optimism.
What a time! Jobs were being created faster than products. Products were being created faster than people.
And everyone thought they had a piece of the pie... In buying a brand-new modern house that their parent's could never have afforded that dream became a reality.
Only now we are awakening from this dream to see what a mess the system is... not because its inherintly flawed, but becuase we have all been too busy living the dream to wake up .
Boy, I want to live in the '50s... when I wouldn't have to think about this stuff.
And I honestly think there is a vast number of people that still do live like they are in the innocent '50s... just go to Walmart any time of the day they are open and see the buying frenzy continue!
Thanks for your insightful comment, anonymous! You anticipated my post for tomorrow, when I will show you some artwork related to the roads and cars that made the suburbs possible.ReplyDelete


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The British Columbia Genealogical Society now has a blog!
It went online December 10 with the "BCGS TOUR – Vancouver City Archives – April 12, 2012", and has continued with what is new in their library, and on December the 15 they celebrated the 40th anniversary of BCGS.
So keep posted on what is happening by going to their blog at http://www.bcgs.ca .


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The U.S. economy may technically have emerged from recession, but in most parts of the country, it's still just bumping along the bottom.
Just one state, Georgia, moved from the "moderating recession" to "recovery" category, according to the most recent data available in August from msnbc.com's Adversity Index, which was developed with Moody's Analytics. That means the economy in those states are growing again but still haven't expanded to levels seen before the recession hit. Just one state, North Dakota, moved from recovery to expansion.
As the strength of the national recovery weakened in the second half of the year, conditions worsened in eight metro areas that slipped back into recession. Eight more fell into a category that puts them "at risk" of recession. In nine metro areas, improved economic conditions moved them into the recovery category.
Until the national economy shows convincing signs of stronger growth, many regions will continue to struggle, according to Andrew Gledhill, an economist at Moody's Analytics.
"You're going to see some metro areas come in and some come back out of recovery," he said. "But we don't expect the overall recovery to take off until 2011."
As the mid-term election campaign wraps up, the weak economy is one of the biggest issues facing voters headed to the polls Tuesday.
High unemployment, a rising pace of home foreclosures, stagant wages and a housing market in the deepest trough in decades have helped convinced some 60 percent of likely voters that the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to the latest NBC/WSJ poll. Of those, more than 70 percent want to see Congress controlled by Republicans; just 19 percent of them want to see Democrats running Congress.
The uneven recovery from the worst recession in 60 years has also created big variations in local job markets, where national statistics mask a wide range of employment levels from one city or state to the next.
In areas hardest hit by the collapse of the housing industry, unemployment rates are substantially higher than average. The highest unemployment rates in the country, as of August — the latest data available — were in El Centro, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz., where three out of ten workers were out of a job. Statewide, the hardest hit are Nevada (where the jobless rate was a 14.4 percent), Michigan (13 percent), California, (12.4 percent) and Florida (11.9 percent.)
Those states are also deep in the throes of the mortgage mess. Falling home prices also continue to weigh on regional job markets — especially where families who owe the bank more than their home is worth can't afford to pay off the difference and move to another part of the country where employment prospects are better.
In contrast, areas that largely missed the housing boom, especially in the Midwest, have been spared the rise in unemployment that followed the bust. Regional economies that rely heavily on other industries, like agriculture or energy, are enjoying much higher levels of employment. The lowest unemployment rates in the country are in North Dakota (3.7 percent) South Dakota (4.4 percent) and Nebraska (4.6 percent).
At the metro level, of the 384 areas tracked by the Adversity Index, only five are in full-blown economic expansion, including College Station, Tex., home of Texas A&M University. Other college towns enjoying relatively strong job markets are Ithaca N.Y., Iowa City, Iowa, Jonesboro, Ark., and Morgantown, W.V.
The short list of cities with expanding economies also includes three metro areas that benefit from the presence of a relatively stable employer, the federal government: Jacksonville, N.C., home of Camp Lejune; Kennewick, Wash., site of the Hanford nuclear processing facility; and Lawton, Okla., near Ft. Sill.
But as states struggle to close large budget gaps brought on by the recession, the government has become a less reliable employer. Since mid-2008, a total of 400,000 state and local government jobs have been cut.
"That's is a drop of about 2 percent from the peak, and the count is still rising," said Geldhill. "Not since the early 1980s have there been cuts this steep."
Recent monthly jobs data have also been hurt by the expiration of hundreds of thousands of temporary Census jobs, which had boosted employment figures earlier this year. That's prompted many economists to focus on the private sector, which hasn't created enough jobs to make a dent in the unemployment rate.
Since hitting bottom late last year, private industry has added just 1 percent to the job numbers. That compares with a drop of more than 7 percent in private payrolls through the recession.
In metro areas considered "in recovery" by the Adversity Index, the private sector has recouped fewer than one in five lost jobs, according to Gedlhill.
"The private sector has yet to really take off," he said. "We dropped a long way and have barely made a dent into these large losses."
There have been a few hopeful signs of improvement. One job category that has picked up is temporary workers. If the economy continues to improve, some of those jobs could be made permanent.
"Often when businesses are just starting to recover, they're a lot more comfortable hiring temporary workers," said Gledhill. "So when people talk about leading indicators, temporary help is usually one of those leading indicators."
'Play' the index
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses the latest data to label each area in one of four categories: expanding, in recovery, at risk of recession or in recession.
You can follow the fortunes of each metro area in the nation on our interactive map, which gives details for each metro area and state for the past 15 years. Here are several ways to explore this month's Adversity Index:
- Our interactive map shows the economic health of every state and metro area. You can "play" the map on this page to watch the economy's ups and downs over 15 years, or select any state to see data for each metro area for each month.
- The updated index will be published every month at adversity.msnbc.com, where you can read all the articles in this series. There is a lag of about six weeks.
- An explainer tells how the Adversity Index assesses the economy. Many areas include multiple counties, and many cross state lines.
- This list shows which counties are within each metro area.


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Interns LIE!
Tonight, my CCU rotation came to an end. I had to say goodbye to the wonderful nurses, residents and fellows who made this rotation as great as it was and as magical to write about. Tomorrow, 7 am sharp, I embark on a new journey on the internal medicine floors. I will be head of a team encompassing one Attending, one Resident (me), two Interns (first year residents), one Sub-Intern/ fourth year med-student (from here on the "Sub-I"), and two third year med-students (a.k.a. "Students").
To serve the readership yet unfamiliar with the medical hierarchy that governs today's fine medical establishments I will now take the time to explain this ass-licking stepladder. The understanding of this is essential for our future relationship and so if you have any questions feel free to ask. I will list these from least kissed ass to practically dripping. I think the best way to explain will be to list primary goal of each, secondary goal (if applicable), friends and enemies. It is long; I am sorry for this, but essential for the upcoming month. Let us begin:
1- The Students/ Third Year Med-School Primary goal: To impress Attending and Resident with knowledge we were sure they never had. Secondary goals: To cloud a simple clinical scenario by suggesting that the patient has as many extremely rare diseases as possible, to name a disease the Resident hasn't heard of and to send out for as many of the most expensive blood tests we have as the Resident allows. Friend: The sub-I, as he is closer to the resident and gets the scoop on their performance thus far. Enemy: Interestingly enough, they are each other's enemy as they are always being judged comparatively to each other. This undercurrent of hate is masked very well and only Freudian understanding of the subconscious can uncover it.
2- The Sub-I Primary goal: Impress attending, Sub-I's need recommendation letters for match so they too can be taken advantage of by residency programs and government. Secondary goal: Discharge patients, less patients less work and try not to sound like Student by naming any rare disease. Friend: Intern and Resident, possibly third year but only if they agree to do his blood draws. Enemy: Patients with extremely rare diseases (makes Sub-I extremely uncomfortable as he now has to sound like Student).
3- Intern Primary goal: Discharge patients. Intern will do or say anything to achieve this goal as he/she is usually overworked and would love to have one less annoyance. Secondary goal: Anything that ends in less patients (I cannot stress this enough). Friend: Other interns, amazing bonus point if able to really swing Resident to his "point of view" (often wrong!). Enemies: Patients!!!!
4- Resident Primary goal: To impress Attending and Chief of Medicine while also keeping Intern happy, motivated and feeling that Resident is truly on his side. Secondary goal: Constantly remember that Interns LIE! Again, they do anything to get patients out and Resident must continually double check Intern behind Intern's back as INTERNS LIE! Friends: The Giants and other Residents. Enemies: Everyone on a certain level as Interns LIE, Sub-I wants information primarily for Student, Student wants to name rare disease and make Resident look bad. To counteract Student, Resident must immediately say "I don't know that but why don't you give us a presentation on this tomorrow morning" (Gotcha Ya Bastard!).
5- Attending Primary goal: Come for 2 hours in morning, teach, leave as fast as possible, keep name out of chart so no one knows who to sue later. No Secondary goal. Friend: All. Enemy: No one. Remain completely oblivious to the ass smooching going on a round you. Wipe ass off after morning round.
6- Chief of Medicine Primary Goal: Teach and run Medicine Department. Secondary goal: Absorb all ass kissing, taking it all in as one continuous lick that lasts for many years. Secondary goal: Try to remain seemingly very humble, once in while give a lecture which makes every resident in the room feel like he knows absolutely nothing/ give up his medical license and go back to medical school.
7- The Giants Retired Geniuses, all Ex-Chiefs of prestigious departments who don't want to stay home because their wives will drive them nuts. We all love them because they help us and they know wayyyyy too much. They're great!
This is the system within which we all operate. If there are any questions please feel free to ask. Tomorrow, I will do my best to avoid all questions and appease Intern to join my view of things. This will be my greatest chess match yet.


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Backups are important. People turn up on the mailing list frequently with problems that could've been avoided or solved much more easily with proper backups.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Doctors vs. Lawyers - Update
Here's the standings:
Under the occupations of "Attorney" or "Lawyer:"
Attorney - 34,306 contributions totalling $32,392,344.51
Lawyer - 2,682 contributions totalling $2,443,718.47
TOTAL: 36,988 contribution totalling $34,836,062.98
Under the occupations of "Physician" or "Doctor:"
Physician - 6,384 contributions totalling $4,204,323.07
Doctor - 440 contributions totalling 407,580.84
TOTAL: 6824 contributions totalling $4,611,903.91
Physicians are losing at a ratio of 7.5 to 1! Common guys, let's get on it!
4 comments:
- Dr. A said...
This is staggering, but I'm not surprised (unfortunately).
What's the ratio of lawyers/physicians that serve in the US Congress? Isn't it 534 to 1? Definitely difficult to change things when the people making the laws are lawyers....
- Mon Oct 29, 10:26:00 AM CDT
- Richard A Schoor MD FACS said...
Nice post, and depressing. One problem, I find, is that as a group physician interests are more fragmented than attorney interests. For example, a cardiologist, a urologist, and a radiologist all have different interests. Trial attorneys, a very large group, all have the same goal.
As physicians need to put aside our own provincial self-interests if we want to regain any political clout in both numbers and monies.
Again, nice post.
- Mon Oct 29, 09:10:00 PM CDT
Excellent analysis with just basic math. If only The NYTimes staff could use calculators.
Recall Mario Puzo in "The Godfather:" A lawyer can take more than 12 mob guys with machine guns.
Recall John Edwards' estimated worth: ~$50,000,000.00. Malpractice law can be such a strain .. not.
Recall: ~50% of presidential candidates are lawyers. And 100% are politicians. (Dr. Ron Paul, call your office.)
- Mon Nov 05, 10:14:00 AM CST
"One problem, I find, is that as a group physician interests are more fragmented than attorney interests. For example, a cardiologist, a urologist, and a radiologist all have different interests. Trial attorneys, a very large group, all have the same goal."
One problem I find is that the above is not accurate. Trial lawyers, ie. those who represent individuals who have been harmed by the negligence of others, are a tiny subset of lawyers overall. You'll find far more lawyers doing insurance defense, and many, many more working in areas such as commercial litigation for large firms with Fortune 500 clients, lobbying for business interests, or simply doing real estate transactions, wills and trusts, etc. Not to mention those who are just involved with criminal law, on both sides. Almost none of those care one bit about issues like tort reform (well, the insurance defense bar and commercial litigation bar does, but not for the plaintiffs) Lawyers are extremely fragmented as a group.
- Thu Sep 11, 01:23:00 PM CDT


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