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To encourage a shared love of reading, for the last two years I organized a One Book, One School and this year I attempted a Donalyn Miller inspired 40 Book Challenge. There are a number of formats that you could use for something like this, including something like a One Book, One Community program.
The purpose of the One Book, One School was two fold: I wanted it to be something enjoyable that would encourage a love of shared reading, and I wanted the school community to be able to have a common point of reference for discussion. As a result, I have budgeted the last few years to use a portion of book fair funds to purchase a copy of the selected book for each adult in the building. For this program I like to purchase our books from a locally owned book store, The Blue Marble.
The 40 Book Challenge came about as a result of seeing a significant drop off in reading during the 4th grade year. I also felt I needed to do a better job of reading new books, and so this seemed like a great way to try to connect with kids and encourage them to read. I used a Google Form to help me keep track of student data, and while the first year of the 40 Book Challenge did not see as much participation as I would have hoped, the data collected will help in making future decisions.
Resources/More Information
- Donalyn Miller - the Book Whisperer - order her books from Amazon!
- Our First One Book, One School - details about how I got started
- New This Year, 40 Book Challenge - post from the beginning of the school year and the plans
- Canva - my go to graphic design tool
- Google forms - I suggest creating a Google+ Account for your Library and storing all of your Google Docs, YouTube videos etc in that account. See the video below to help you see how you can set up the form for the challenge:
- PowToon - great tool for creating videos, use it with Audacity or Garageband to create longer voice overs and upload to the site
- Smore - great for creating fast web based newsletters and fliers that can be embedded in other pages
- Smore Page for Because of Winn Dixie Teacher Guide and Student Info
- Smore page for One and Only Ivan Teacher Guide and Student Info


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I don't see any CSM.
This is no longer an issue for me, but as an academic exercise and in the spirit of feedback, I tried the conversion again with chgdtype.tbs and it was unsuccessful again.
As I previously reported, my conversion was successful and working.
Without making any BIOS changes, I restored a full disk image from when the disk was GPT. It worked fine.
Still with no BIOS changes, I went through the chgdtype.tbs conversion again. The result: a blank screen with a blinking cursor when trying to boot after the conversion was complete.
Again with no BIOS changes, I restored a full disk image of the previously successfully converted disk. Result: Fully working system.
There seems to be either something wrong with chgdtype.tbs or the way I'm using it.
All my conversions, both successful and unsuccessful have been GPT to MBR. I further converted the successful conversion from MBR to EMBR as part of BIBM installation.


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Man robbed at SunTrust Bank in Burlington
Police are looking for suspects after a man was robbed at a bank parking lot Friday afternoon.
The incident was reported around 12:25 p.m. at the SunTrust Bank at 2221 Maple Ave.
A man told Burlington police he was walking towrd the bank when a man went up to him from behind and took a bank bag containing an undisclosed amount of money.
The victim struggled with the suspect while trying to get the bag back, but his efforts weren't successful, police said.
The man got into a silver Toyota Corolla driven by a woman, police said. The victim wasn't injured.
The car, reported stolen from Durham, was found abandoned about a block away.
The suspect was described as a black man standing about 5'10" tall with a medium build and having short hair. The woman was described as being black with shoulder-length braids and red stripes.
Anyone with information on the incident or possible suspects is asked to call Crimestoppers at (336) 229-7100 or Burlington Police at 229-3500.


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Documents accompanying the will can include a date of death. If you are unable to easily locate a death certificate, probate records are another source to try to uncover a date of death. Remember that a date of death recorded on a death certificate is a primary source, while a date of death recorded in the estate file is secondary information at the most.
I used this resource in hopes of uncovering more information about a pair of siblings, Mary and George Hawkins, born in the late 1880s in Brooklyn. Fortunately, all four of their grandparents have records in this collection. Their maternal grandparents, Georgianna and Smith Nostrand, could be considered collateral lines, but I find such lines to be worth researching for at least a few generations. Georgianna's records were most interesting. We were provided with a date of death of 15 May 1917, which will greatly assist in locating a death certificate and obituary. The witnesses to the will were what intrigued me. Marguerite Stewart, formerly Hawkins, was one witness. This provided a married name and made Marguerite easier to trace. The other witness was Walter Phelps. He was a cousin of Marguerite, but on the Hawkins side, not the Nostrand side. So why did Walter bear witness? We do not know. He may have simply been available when Georgianna was creating her will. Or his signature could indicate a deeper relationship among these families that has not yet been uncovered. It is something to bear in mind as research continues on these lines.
|Portion of estate papers of Georgianna Nostrand, 1917.
|1900 federal census
Georgianna and Smith Nostrand with their daughter and her family
914 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn
|Miniature family tree diagram illustrating relationship between testator, Georgianna Nostrand,
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This week, random.org handed me Mama Kat writing prompt number one: Write a short story prompted by your favorite song. I'm kind of glad.
The One
Each item in the shop had the aura of "vintage." He picked up a ring whose heart-shaped stone reminded him of the mood rings that had been popular in the mid-70's and still surfaced occasionally as a fad among the kids he taught drama to.
The shop owner said the ring had arrived as part of a "catch-all" basket full of costume jewelry that had not sold at a recent estate sale. It wasn't worth anything monetarily, but something about it spoke to him.
When he showed the ring to his granddaughter later that day, she slipped it on, half as a joke.
"Ha ha – I am going out with Jake tonight – maybe I'll tell him my 'other boyfriend' gave it to me to throw would-be suitors off track," laughed Tierney.
"Where did you learn such an old-fashioned word as 'suitors'?" asked Jed.
"I am old-fashioned that way. I still believe in 'the one,'" said Tierney.
"You'll find him. You'll know."
As Tierney and Jake snuggled on the porch swing later that evening, he mused out loud about how their lives would change when college started in the fall. "We'll see each other at Thanksgiving break – that's not so far off."
Tierney joked, "I wonder if you'll even be returning my calls once you get sucked into campus life," and mentally started looking ahead to the long run she and her running partner Dave had planned on Saturday. These long runs were the highlight of her weekends, and an important part of her training regimen.
When Saturday arrived, she and Dave eased into a rhythm around mile three, waving at the other runners fitting in their mileage. "I can't wait to run cross country at Eastern Carolina," he mused.
As Tierney considered the distance between Boise and Eastern Carolina, she realized that words were leaving her mouth way ahead of any commands her brain's thought/traffic control might intend. "So will you be here for Thanksgiving?"
"Probably not," said Dave. "I think Jocelyn plans to come out and see me," he mused as he offered Tierney a hand to climb a ridged area on the trail that had gotten slippery with the recent rain. As he squeezed her hand, she realized that the ring her grandfather had shown her was still there, digging in as he tightened his grip. She also realized that she liked the way her hand fit in his.
Tierney's pulse rate did something hinky, something completely unrelated to the change in the trail's elevation. Why on earth would her heart choose now to skip one beat?
As she arrived home, cooled down, rehydrated and began her shower, Tierney glanced again at the silly ring that her grandfather had bought a few days prior.
A ring with a history she would never know. One heart that may have represented unspoken connections between couples before she was born.
She had held hands with Jake a hundred times. Only once with Dave.
In one clasp, her heart had returned a call.
A call from Dave.
This is the song behind the story.


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I think this was a great article mate keep it up, but there are up and coming good swing bowlers. Ashish Nehra of India is a genuine swing bowler. He has impressed in the NatWest Series and is a real potential star for India.
Its a shame that Damien Fleming has been relegated so to speak to FC level and been denyed a ACB Central Contract. He is such a fine bowler, better than Brad Williams and Stuart Clarke.


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Amazing content makes for extraordinary customer experiences but manual processes impact creativity and efficiency. Quark Brand Manager is a unified content and brand platform that radically changes how global marketing teams create and publish content. By building reusable content components, content is freed from documents, enabling automatic assembly and updating of brand-compliant marketing collateral for every channel - including mobile. Unlock your content to drive superior customer experiences - everywhere.
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With a proliferation of channels to communicate through, the production process and costs to deliver multi-channel marketing campaigns can be mind-boggling. The primary reason for this is highly inefficient processes that were built for single-channel print-based workflows. By unlocking marketing content from proprietary documents and file formats, marketing writers can create media-independent content components (Smart Content) that can easily be packaged for different campaigns, collaterals, audiences and channels. No more copy and paste and no more content duplication.
Unique to Quark Brand Manager, dynamic templates enable marketing teams to automatically assemble collateral for different brands, products, campaigns and media types by combining reusable content components and brand resources. A simple wizard is used to generate multiple variations based on user input. This includes creation of print, PDF, HTML5 and other formats, eliminating manual production processes and ensuring brand consistency.
Marketers need to continually refine messaging in order to maximize results. One of the major issues with changing marketing content or engaging in a complete rebrand is the time and cost required to update all of the impacted marketing materials. Quark Brand Manager eliminates these headaches. Your content and brand resources are managed independently, so you are free to refresh content, colors, logos, taglines and more at anytime, and the changes can ripple through to every impacted marketing asset - automatically.
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Deliver marketing content directly to your field sales team and branch offices using a secure, internal, branded app. Include optimized interactive experiences with animation and video as well as more traditional files such as PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint presentations. Access control limits who receives which content, the user is notified when any content is updated and they can download files for offline use.
With Quark Brand Manager access to any element of a marketing deliverable can be controlled. A regional marketing team may have access to switch out images to ones that are culturally sensitive to their local market whereas a brand or field sales rep may only have permission to customize their contact details. This three-layer approach combined with granular access controls provides organizations with the ultimate control and flexibility to maximize sales and marketing effectiveness.
Eliminate the error-prone PDF and email review and approval cycles that delay campaigns and time to market. Built-in review and approval workflows enable content creators, designers, reviewers, legal and compliance experts to work collaboratively. Participants can annotate, approve, reject and delegate based on their role in the workflow and, as required, push marketing deliverables to a configurable extended review for branding, legal and creative services.
All creative resources including templates, textual content, graphics and even colors, fonts, logos, images and styling rules are stored and managed centrally. Each resource is reused across multiple templates and is referenced versus being imported. This reduces by a factor of thousands the number of instances of a resource that exist across the globe. It ensures consistency and compliance at all times as well as maximum efficiency in updating existing marketing when any resource changes. All resources can be attached to a workflow to allow automated review/approval based on triggers such as the content changing or a new publishing request.
Designed specifically with marketing in mind, you can configure user roles and connect these to workflow positions, authoring modes and resources. For example, a particular user or group of users may have access to create and edit content in the early stages of a campaign but only to review and comment in the later stages. Resource pools control access to marketing assets such as graphics, content, design templates, logos and more.
Marketing has become extremely high-tech with dependencies on multiple marketing platforms necessary to deliver marketing campaigns and programs. This includes marketing automation platforms for email, social media tools, marketing resource management, Web content management and more. The glue that typically connects all of these systems is copying and pasting content. By integrating Quark Brand Manager with your existing marketing systems, you can draw on a unified content and brand platform to drive all of your marketing efficiently.
Quark's industry leading layout and graphics technology is deployed natively as a cloud service. So you can apply the full range of professional layout and print capabilities required to deliver consistent global branding. This includes support for spot inks (including PANTONE Matching System), configurable PDF output, precision typography, color management, advanced image controls and more. What's more, the same document can be output on demand using different color management profiles to ensure accurate color for each print device. Optionally access a nationwide network of print providers or integrate directly with your preferred print provider.
The underlying engine supports hyphenation and output for more than 35 languages including Cyrillic fonts and Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean layouts. Work with East Asian typographical concepts such as vertical story text, hanging characters, phonetic text reading (rubi), character grids and more. Quark Brand Manager delivers a global content and brand platform.
Quark Brand Manager is deployed as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution running on Microsoft Azure. That means it's easy to setup and deploy and leverages a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Microsoft delivers a 99.95% monthly SLA with built-in network load balancing and resiliency to hardware failure. All of which means you have access to your content and brand through a reliable platform, available 24/7 using any modern Web browser from anywhere in the world.
When some vendors say cloud they mean subscription pricing or desktop software deployed on a Web server. When we say cloud we mean everything has been architected and developed from the ground up for cloud deployment. Quark Brand Manager uses cloud services to provide distributed access to the resources that you need and high fidelity rendering from the closest possible Azure datacenter to wherever you are in the world. Whether you need a single rendering engine to generate a marketing brochure in France or a hundred rendering engines working simultaneously to deliver a complex campaign across geographies, Quark Brand Manager takes care of it, whenever and wherever you need it - automatically.
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While marketing results are what count, how you get there matters too. Quark Brand Manager has been shown to increase marketing efficiency by up to 80% through the elimination of many manual processes such as copy and paste, duplicate content creation, the manual production of collateral variations, PDF mark-up and time-intensive email review and approval. If you want your organization to have best-in-class marketing efficiency, Quark Brand Manager delivers.
Empower regional marketing teams with the ability to self-serve marketing for their geographies within approved corporate guidelines. By reducing the long cycle times that typically characterize execution of global marketing programs, campaigns and product launches, you can get to market faster and have everyone spend less time on localization processes.
With a single source of truth for your content and brand, you can be assured that the correct versions of content such as legal text or partner logos, are being used across all of your marketing. What's more, the Web-based user interface and access controls enable other departments outside of marketing to easily participate in review and approval processes.
Ensuring a large, distributed sales team is using the latest and greatest marketing content and collateral can be challenging. It can also be extremely costly as print materials sit languishing in warehouses because they're rapidly out of date. Not only does Quark Brand Manager enable the sales team to self-serve and customize sales enablement materials on demand, the optional mobile sales enablement app enables sales reps to access interactive sales tools directly on their tablet or smartphone. Make your sales team more efficient and effective.
Brand and content are now inextricably linked. A strong and consistent brand can increase customer loyalty, reduce price sensitivity and build a defendable market share. With Quark Brand Manager you can oversee your content and brand across geographies, product lines and marketing channels. What's more, as content and brand resources are referenced rather than replicated in all marketing, you can respond with agility to market dynamics whether that be as simple as refining content for a target persona or a complete global brand refresh.
"We needed a central publishing platform that could simplify the production of thousands of documents that adhere to our new brand architecture. We set out to find a platform that enabled three essential elements: template creation, brand asset management and automated digital publishing. The solution from Quark has enabled us to streamline the process of producing and publishing customer communications without compromising our brand."
"We offer tailored marketing management, automation solutions and services to suit many clients including such brands as Ford, eBay and Cirque du Soleil. Our goal was to develop a leading edge marketing management automation solution and Quark Brand Manager provides the flexibility, scalability and global reach to achieve this."
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"For years our content has been trapped in proprietary file formats such as PDFs. The explosion in content marketing and media channels has created a huge strain on our global marketing team due to inefficient processes. Quark Brand Manager is changing how we create and deliver content so we can have marketing processes built for the 21st century."
No. Quark Brand Manager is a cloud-based tool so you don't need any additional hardware or IT support to run it. You access the functionality through a Web browser. Copywriters, marketing approvers, agencies, regional marketing and even other departments can participate in the process to create, manage, review, approve and publish marketing content.
Using the mobile sales enablement app, any designated employee can access marketing collateral and sales resources directly using their mobile device. Users can download sales resources for offline use on their tablet and if any of the assets are updated, the user is notified when a new version is available.
Quark Brand Manager has advanced layout and graphics engines that support all major file formats including jpegs, PNGs, EPS, Illustrator and Photoshop to name a few. You can technically store any type of marketing asset in the Quark Brand Manager cloud to make it available globally. For the design templates that are used for the output of collateral, you can create your layouts using either QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. These designs are converted into Quark Brand Manager templates where any variable elements, and user access to change those elements during the workflow, are configured.
Almost any item that can be printed can be a part of your Quark Brand Manager library, from product datasheets, brochures, and advertisements to direct marketing, customer welcome kits and business cards. If you can design it, Quark Brand Manager can manage and publish it.
We designed the system to make it fast and easy. This means that anyone who has browsed an online catalog, ordered a product online, or filled out an online form will be able to begin using Quark Brand Manager immediately.
Quark Brand Manager keeps all of your marketing assets in resource pools. These resource pools are assigned to specific user-roles and can vary throughout the workflow. Additionally, the design templates can be configured to support different authoring-modes. As an example, the creative team within corporate marketing may have permission to make changes to colors and logos (but not legal text), regional marketing may have permission to localize specific text and graphics, and sales reps and branch offices may only have permission to customize their contact details. Whatever your branding guidelines, Quark Brand Manager is flexible enough to support and manage them in real-time in the cloud.
Yes. You can set up your Account with separate sections for different geographies, teams, and requirements. For example, you may create a section for your U.S. teams that need 8.5" x 11" paper sizes and use one set of materials, and another section for your European teams that require an A4 paper size and may only use a portion of the templates your U.S. teams use.
Yes, the underlying Quark Brand Manager technology supports 35+ different languages including East Asian typographic and layout features.
Quark Brand Manager is turnkey, however many clients choose to integrate it with existing content management, marketing resource management and marketing automation platforms in order to ensure it's a unified content and brand platform serving all of their marketing channels.
The solution is hosted using the Microsoft Azure cloud and global data centers.
Yes. It can be licensed by agencies to use on behalf of their clients, or more typically the client would license and manage the system and provide access to it for their various agencies around the world.
Field sales teams can access any file types the marketing team chooses to make available in the system. Typically organizations limit the types of files provided to those that are supported by the tablet or smartphone device used to access the content. For example, the Apple iPad supports rendering PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint files, Excel spreadsheets, images, videos and Web content. In addition, you can create highly interactive app content that will also be rendered within the app.
The solution can be integrated with existing Web content management systems (most typical approach) and is able to render HTML or XML to feed to these systems. Additionally, the solution can output App Studio Web App content to provide an app-like experience within any modern Web browser on desktop and laptop computers.
The first step in any deployment is to work with the client to understand their content and publishing requirements and ensure that the system is configured to maximize client efficiency. Quark has an experienced professional services team that provides consulting services, training and implementation support.
Quark is a global organization with offices around the world. Many of Quark's existing marketing clients are global organizations, each with their own unique needs, each of which is supported by Quark's distributed sales, service and support organizations.
Quark offers a variety of support programs that fill most standard business needs, for example 5x8 during local business hours. Should special support requirements exist, Quark provides customized support plans to meet each client's needs.
Quark has hundreds of thousands of customers around the globe spanning a wide range of industries and applications. The company has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software development, deployment and support.
Quark has been offering software solutions to marketing teams and agencies since its inception more than 30 years ago. In recent years this has been more specifically focused on enterprise solutions for global marketing teams as needs have moved from simple page layout requirements to marketing asset management, publishing automation, Smart Content creation and digital and mobile delivery.
Quark has an active partner community and has organized its relationships around strategy, technology, solutions and resellers. For more information on Quark's partner program, please see the Quark partner page on our website.
Quark Brand Manager is a unified content and brand platform that radically changes how global marketing teams create and publish content. Download this Info Sheet to learn more about the benefits and capabilities of this groundbreaking solution.
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Static content that is centrally created is no longer being consumed. In today's multi-channel world, consumers and knowledge workers are looking for relevant, customized materials that capture their attention in their preferred medium. Download Making the Case for Brand Management today and see how a brand management solution can significantly reduce the costs to create, review, approve and deliver your marketing materials.
Quark Brand Manager High-Level Overview
Quark Brand Manager is a highly secure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud-based offering that is developed and tested using industry best practices for ensuring the security of our client's data. The solution is deployed and hosted on Windows Azure™, Microsoft's® world-class cloud platform. By deploying to Windows Azure, Quark® can take advantage of Microsoft's data centers that are managed and operated by Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS). Microsoft's Azure data centers are built to comply with key industry standards, such as ISO/IEC 27001:2005 and SAS 70 Type I/II, for security and reliability.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a combination of technical & content techniques that ensures a Website maintains its highest prominence in search engine returns pages (SERPs). By following sound protocols & principals, it is presumed that a site will rank higher in SERPs than a site that does not. These techniques include how a Website is organized, coded and how often it's updated.
Often, SEO requires the assistance of a professional designer to ensure that all SEO requirements are met to maximize a Website's prominence. Also, unethical techniques used to 'fool' search engines into raising a site's ranking can result in the site being 'blacklisted' & severely affecting its traffic volume.
Why Is It Important?
Search Engines are a critical path to your Website. The primary reason for this is that buyers and sourcing professionals continually point to them as one of the first tools they utilize to identify new suppliers while they're in the discovery stages of the sourcing cycle. For this reason alone, adhering to sound SEO principles must be included in any shop's successful marketing strategy. But because you're a contract manufacturer, volume of traffic isn't as important as its quality. Getting 1,000s of visitors to your site is meaningless – even if you have the resources to quote that many jobs and manage that many relationships, that volume would seriously stretch a shop's resources too thin. Also, driving more traffic to your Website without ensuring the content a prospect finds is there is useful to them is like inviting visitors to an empty shop. SEO doesn't have to be confusing, or complicated. But for contract manufacturers, content plays an even more critical role to differentiate ones business from the many supply options offered to buyers in this critical stage. A combination of strong, useful content coupled with sound, reasonable SEO techniques are the best solution for a discrete parts manufacturer or job shop – this approach won't break your budget or resources, and still give you the opportunity to encourage more prospects to take the next step and contact you.
Key Elements & Considerations:
Your Website's content is what will influence prospects, and that content will also directly impact SEO
Linking to your Website from as many manufacturing-relevant directories, online marketplaces, forums and blogs is good for SEO
The same SEO requirements are just as important for the profiles you set up for your business on other sites. The content you add to them is important, and so are the SEO principles and techniques the owner of the site that houses your profile utilizes. Ask if they optimize for search engines as part of your due diligence
Wordpress as a platform is built organically with strong SEO features and elements. Using Wordpress for your Website's foundation or for a blog as an addition to it makes sense economically and for effectiveness
Here are a few basic SEO primers for you to consider as you build or tune up your Website:
45 Experts on the Biggest Mistakes SMBs Make with SEO and Internet Marketing (and How to Avoid Them)
20 Essential Search Engine Optimization Tips for Small Business Owners
Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (A bit more advanced but thorough; downloadable PDF from Google)


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As the temperatures drop, many people's thoughts turn to wood crackling in a fireplace.
But homeowners who haven't maintained their chimneys may find that they must change the fuel for their winter traditions.
November 2010 updates to the Palo Alto building codes puts the city of Palo Alto in compliance with Bay Area Air Quality Control Management District requirements aimed at reducing wood-smoke air pollution. The codes prohibit one-for-one replacement of a damaged wood-burning fireplace or the construction of a new one.
"You can't build a new one, but you can keep an existing wood-burning fireplace in operational shape," Larry Perlin, chief building official, said.
Serious deterioration often goes unnoticed or unrepaired until a new homeowner inspects the property, according to local chimney professionals.
"We're still repairing chimneys damaged in the '89 earthquake," John Klein, owner of Redwood City-based Mr. Chimney Cricket, said.
In addition to structural damage from earthquakes, TV antennas, strong winds and cracks caused by exposure to sun and rain, Palo Alto fireplaces often have damaged firebricks in the back wall of the firebox, repairmen said. The bricks settle or deteriorate after being subjected to hot fires and eventually fall apart, leaving regular brick in direct contact with heat.
"Behind those firebricks are regular bricks, which will transfer heat to the wood behind it. It puts the homeowner at risk for house fires," Klein said.
Even a sound fireplace poses dangers for a home if it isn't properly cleaned, so homeowners might lose a lot more than their existing fireplace.
"These fires are 2,000 to 3,000 degrees in temperature and produce creosote, which is highly flammable. As it cools down traveling up the chimney, it goes from smoke to solid and begins to line the chimney. It can light like a match-head," he said.
Those who'd like to keep a safe and legal wood-burning fireplace need to have it regularly maintained.
"My rule of thumb is that after two years of heavy use without cleaning, you should have your chimney cleaned and inspected," he said.
In his 35 years in the field, Klein said that he hasn't often found serious damage during routine cleanings. Many chimneys only need a cleaning or minor repairs to maintain safe operation. During a recent inspection, he unjammed a half-open damper that had been keeping a Palo Alto house heat-inefficient and prone to smoky rooms on the special occasions that call for a warm hearth.
Palo Alto homeowners who in the course of regular maintenance find that their chimney needs repairs need to apply for a city permit.
"If an existing chimney were not up to code, there would be a trigger point: If the repairs being done didn't involve bringing it up to code, then part of the permit would require updating the chimney," Perlin said.
This doesn't mean that any wood-burning fireplace can be maintained indefinitely.
"If the integrity of the chimney structure itself has been compromised, as in if the back wall physically sways or if the chimney rocks at roof level, then repairs aren't a good idea," Klein said.
Homeowners who can't maintain a wood-burning fireplace because of building codes or environmental concerns can resort to other heating options, local fireplace salesmen said.
The traditional alternatives are several varieties of gas fireplace, according to Alan Karcinich, general manager at San Carlos-based Energy House with more than 30 years in the trade.
A gas line that goes to the fireplace is necessary for each, which can be installed by a licensed plumber.
But these can only be done if there is no major structural damage beyond cracking.
A gas log set can reproduce the look but neither the feel nor the warmth of the crackling fires of yesteryear for around $500, Karcinich said.
It consists of ceramic logs set above grate with a gas insert and uses "ember wool" to emulate the look of glowing embers beneath and beside logs, Drew Stancliffe of San Carlos ABA Hearth and Home explained.
"It's decorative heating appliance and is below a certain efficiency rating. Decorative heating appliances use a lot of gas but don't produce much heat," Stancliffe said.
Gas inserts, though much more expensive at around $12,000, have their own liner and flue systems, Stancliffe said. Old cracks in the existing liner would need to be repaired prior to installation, though.
Behind a fixed-glass front, gas-fueled flames go around ceramic logs, stones or glass, producing greater heat then a gas log set provides.
"Gas logs go into an existing fireplace and all that you're doing is changing the type of fuel that it's using," Stancliffe said.
Homeowners seeking gas-alternatives for their heating needs can still legally install EPA wood-burning fireplaces as well as a novel option, alcohol-burning stoves.
These space-heating stoves can be placed in any fireplace, even one with a damaged chimney. As the only byproducts of burning alcohol are water and carbon dioxide, the chimney can be closed off with a filling material.
Darlene McDermont replaced her fireplace with two wood-burning stoves from a Mountain View shop during a green remodel of the Palo Alto home she shares with husband Tom.
She said she enjoys the blue flames, the heat they produce, and the fact that they don't contribute to air pollution.
"They're great space heaters. I don't miss burning wood."
While the idea of replacing a traditional fireplace may alienate traditionalists, no mandatory phase-out is currently in the works, and even local chimney repairmen validate city efforts to comply with environmental regulations.
"Building codes get better when they need to get better, and stronger air standards make the air cleaner for everyone," Klein said.


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Question: I've started seeing a problem where periodically the scheduled DBCC job fails and I get 823 errors in the error log. I also see errors from the file system too. Is this an I/O subsystem problem?
Answer: These errors are not caused by I/O subsystem issues, although outwardly they seem to be.
Under the covers all of the DBCC CHECK commands create a hidden database snapshot. When the database snapshot is created, any active transactions in the database are effectively rolled back into the database snapshot (not affecting the real transactions, of course) so that the database snapshot is transactionally consistent. Also, while the database snapshot exists, any data file pages in the real database that are going to change need to be copied into the database snapshot before they change so that their state at the time the database snapshot was created is preserved.
These two factors mean that there is the potential for the database snapshot to grow very large – potentially up to the size of the real database. If that happens, there is the possibility that the database snapshot may exceed the size that NTFS can cope with and error 665 will result, as below:
The operating system returned error 665(The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation) to SQL Server during a write at offset 0x000005bd3dc000 in file 'Test.mdf:MSSQL_DBCC8'
This error comes from Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 will give error 1450. You can read more about this in this blog post from Product Support. You may see a variety of SQL Server errors too – including 823, 7928, 1823, and 3314. Check to make sure that the 823 errors are referencing a file with a name like 'MSSQL_DBCC' (the database snapshot files) rather than one of the real database data files. If the latter then you have a real I/O subsystem problem.
If you're seeing these errors when you're running your consistency checking job at a time when there shouldn't be any user activity, the likely cause is that the consistency checking job has overlapped with another job that is causing a lot of activity in the database – maybe a data loading job or routine index maintenance.
We had one case recently that was caused by the index maintenance job running much longer than it should have been. When the database snapshot was created for the DBCC command, an entire index rebuild of a very large clustered index had to be rolled back, leading to the database snapshot size exceeding the NTFS limit and failing.
In this case, rather than relying on expected maintenance job run times, create a system where a potentially long-running job kicks off a job that cannot overlap with it – i.e. an index maintenance job that starts the consistency checking job.


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Suu Kyi Sidelined by Illness and Suspending Campaign
Suu Kyi, a democratic leader hoping to win election in the Myanmar district of Kawhmu, has announced her intention to suspend the campaign and recover from exhaustion.
In a statement released by her party, the National League for Democracy, it was announced that Suu Kyi was suffering from low blood pressure and exhaustion and needed a four or five day break from campaigning. She has traveled throughout Myanmar hoping to spread awareness of her democratic message.
Myanmar is currently led by a military regime. Suu Kyi is hoping to change that with help from the National League for Democracy. The elections being held in the country this weekend are the first since 2010, when the military took power. The NLD has not participated in elections since 1990.
"She is very weak and needs an IV drip," Han Thar Myint told the Associated Press. "She is not in critical condition but is very fragile at the moment and needs to rest."
Kyi gained much public adoration for her willingness to speak out against the oppressive Myanmar regime. She was active in spreading the democratic message even though she spent 15 years under house arrest. That only helped her cause, and Kyi was released in 2010.
United States President Barack Obama said in 2010 that Kyi's release was "long overdue." He has supported Kyi's efforts for democracy, and said she "is a hero of [his]. Whether Aung San Suu Kyi is living in the prison of her house, or the prison of her country, does not change the fact that she, and the political opposition she represents, has been systematically silenced, incarcerated, and deprived of any opportunity to engage in political processes."
After her release, Kyi spoke to the crowds gathered outside her door.
"I have to give you the first political lesson since my release. We haven't seen each other for so long, so we have many things to talk about. If you have any words for me, please come to the NLD headquarters tomorrow and we can talk then," she said.
"There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk. People must work in unison. Only then can we achieve our goal."


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An Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit can save your life!
An Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit is the mastermind process of domestic violence expert Susan Murphy Milano that combines video taping of the victims actual words attesting to the abuse coupled with creative witnessed and notarized legal documents that successfully satisfy legal hurdles often faced in these intimate partner violence and stalking cases. Susan has worked countless hours to move mountains in the way an abuse situation is handled.It combines past history of abuse, testimony,documentation, and evidence in a all in one video to support your statements of abuse as well as satisfy the courts.
The EAA was born out of the Stacey Peterson case. It was created to make sure if you disappear your fears and words do not. Stacey's case reminds us we need the words of the victim otherwise even if everyone knows it is the abuser they get away with it. Proof is needed. Murphy-Milano says, "Had either Kathleen Savio or Stacy Peterson prepared an EAA, there would be no question of a prompt arrest. The EAA also gives law enforcement and investigators information about the alleged perpetrator allowing the victim to speak from the grave on her own behalf, should that be necessary. Think of the millions saved in taxpayer dollars!"
Susan has worked with prosecutors and victims all over the world. Since her creation not one of the people she has worked with has been killed. That in itself is a miracle since the U.S. Surgeon general finds domestic violence as the leading cause of health problems in our country. One in every three women will be victimized.
The EAA is easy to use, very detailed and walks the victim through the steps needed to cross any line drawn in prosecutions case. It contains the evidence and statements necessary to prosecute should the victim be harmed.
Until now the response when you are abused has been:
- victims are told to report (but action is only taken if you can show evidence of the abuse).
- Victims are told to go to a shelter.
- Victims are told to get a restraining order (but usually only granted if there is evidence of the abuse)
- Victims are told to move away (but leaving behind careers, family, and assets).
- Victims are told to stay with someone else.
- Victims are told stalking is hard to prove and stalking laws are often weak and poorly defined.
Now the solution is at your hands easily downloaded and process detailed. The EAA is now available on Apple products for download. It is simple, and I tried it myself. With the ease of an App, a victim can download the app and be guided through the process of creating the E.A.A. on a Smart Phone. Any Smart Phone with a camera will be able to video tape the recorded testimony of her abuse experiences. The person will simply fill out the E.A.A. documentation pages, and the pages will be notarized and instructions for where thecompleted documents are sent will direct the victim through the completion process. Utilizing cloud technology, the E.A.A. is stored safely in a forensically secured database.
It was released on July 4th, 2012. How fitting the day for freedom is the day the app becomes available. After 20 years of working on Intimate partner violence she sees her dream come true.All information on the EAA can be found on Susan's website at: www.documenttheabuse.com. Please check out her latest book now available by download, Time's Up: A Guide on How to Safely Leave an Abusive and Stalking Relationships. Susan Murphy Milano is a true hero to millions and her newest creation can and will save lives. If you are in dangerous situation call local authorities and seek help. Always document everything. It can change the outcome.
This is an example of an Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit for individuals who perceive they are at risk. By creating a file like this and giving it to specific people, any later events could be answered. A video like this could solve a crime later on. For more information visit www.documenttheabuse.com or Susan Murphy Milano's Journal.
Take care and STAY SAFE!
My Letter to Michelle Obama by Amy J. Matthews…
Dear Mrs. Obama:
I am writing to you today because I respect you very much, and I know how important both the issues of Domestic Violence and the right of everyone to have Affordable Health Care are to you.
I want to introduce you to an amazing woman and advocate Susan Murphy- Milano. Susan is currently dying of Cancer due to the lack of Health Insurance. Everywhere she applied for help turned her down and she was informed that she did not qualify for their services. I know you agree that there is something terribly wrong when a country as great as ours can let this happen to anyone, yet alone someone who has devoted her entire life to saving the lives of others and without once thinking about what it could mean to her own.
Susan grew up in Chicago, the daughter of a 30-year veteran Chicago Police Detective and Violent Crimes Investigator Phillip Murphy. Susan's father murdered her mother in 1989 and then turned the gun on himself committing suicide. His intent was to kill his daughter as well. On the way to the house to try to save her mother something made her take an unexpected turn on the way. This decision is the only reason Susan is alive today. Had she taken her normal route Susan would not be with us now! Susan lived a life of trying to keep her mother alive her entire life and after her mother was murdered she devoted her entire life to saving others.
This most amazing woman is now on her last days after putting up a good fight. I am writing you today because I know you care. I know you care about the women and children in this country, the state of our health care, and every person's God given human right. It is not just women and children that Susan has saved; there is no gender bias when it comes to abuses towards another.
Susan is the leading expert on Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence, and at the time when she discovered she had Cancer she was already in stage 4. This all happened just as her lifelong dreams were coming true. Susan is the women who mentored Rev. Neil Schori , Stacy Peterson's Pastor and taught him everything he knows about Intimate Partner violence. Together they created The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit which is a legal document that can be used in court as legal testimony even if the victim is murdered or missing.
This tragic news about Susan came just as her lifelong work was getting known. Susan was getting invitations from law enforcement agencies all over the country to come and train Law Enforcement and first responders what to look for when they answer a call, or respond to a crime scene. She was preparing to start working at a University where she was given Carte Blanche and offered full use of the Universities resources to help her with her work. She did not apply to work at this University they came to her asking her to please come and head this project. Susan was offered her own Television Show which was scheduled to air this winter. Again she was approached by the producers she did not seek them they sought Susan. These are just a few of the triumphs that have a major impact in the field of Intimate Partner Violence! Susan was now in high demand all over the country. But her work was suddenly halted in its prime due to her health.
Susan had a good chance to recover had she had the treatment she needed. This is a disgrace and an embarrassment for this Country which I know you and the President both agree. I am so sorry that the President's Health plan has been fought against and has not been put into place. This is something that may have saved not only the life of this amazing woman but could have saved countless other people both through Susan's work and the health plan combined.
This is what Susan said when she made the announcement about her Cancer:
"My dreams and hard work are now becoming reality.
In early fall there will be a national announcement about the Intimate Partner Violence Institute with two major universities.
A national conference and training hosted by the Naperville Christian Church is scheduled for the first week of October on the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit for law enforcement, prosecutors and first responders.
The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit APP will be at the Apple Store on Monday July, 2, 2012.
Holding My Hand Through Hell will be released nationwide October 1, 2012.
Everything will still happen as scheduled".
Susan Murphy Milano June 27 2012
Please check out these links and Google her name for more on Susan. I know you will love her as much as I do and as the countless women she has saved
Susan's Cancer blog Conquering Cancer which she started to try to change the way society looks and Cancer treatment
Susan's Main Blog Susan Murphy Milano's Journal to educate the public on Intimate Partner Violence
Document the Abuse website for the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit
Susan's latest book "Holding My Hand Through Hell" is about her life and what it was like for her growing up in an abusive home. She wrote this book for the purpose of helping others who are living the same hell that Susan grew up living in. After reading this book people will know why Susan is the who she is.
Chicago Tribune article and interview with The Rev. Neil Schori.
Listen here to Rev. Schori interview after the trial of Drew Peterson
Susan Murphy Milano and her work in Chicago. Please watch this video and you will see the great work she has done in the past!
Thank you for taking the time to read this and listen to the interviews.
I would like to invite you to the Facebook prayer page for Susan. You will be in awe of the outpouring of prayers and thoughts of people whose lives were changed just by knowing her.
God Bless you and The President for all the work that has been done and is being done to make our lives better.
Amy J. Matthews
"FEMALES & GUNS", Myths=Excuses / Facts=Reality
Even though I have shot guns since I was in junior high school, had a concealed carry permit in my lifetime and I support the Right To Bear Arms; I do not support the myth, "I own a gun and that is the best possible method of self-defense. If someone attacks me, I can use it to protect myself."
Let's take a look at why not……the facts/reality of such myth. First, I say congratulations! I have heard this comment from females and males on behalf of the women in their lives with a cavalier attitude – all thinking/feeling that if owning a gun is the only sufficient method of personal safety/self-defense. Weapons are advantageous and necessary when situations demand their use. Our military are not equipped with bottles of pepper spray, really loud whistles and table knives. Our soldiers are armed with top-of-the line deadly weapons in order to fulfill their duties to be able to fight defensively during wartime. Good common sense.
Supporting the right to bear arms comes in when you wake up in the middle of the night, you hear a strange noise, having a gun safely in your night stand is a good thing. You will probably have enough time to make a 911 call; get your weapon, gather up enough courage to head toward the direction of the noise and attempt to intimidate and stall him until the police arrive. A gun is a handy when it is used with KNOWLEDGE, GOOD JUDGMENT AND RESPECT. Most important…….it's best IF you have time to use it.
Realistically, when you are attacked by an assailant, it happens without warning. You are not given the smallest margin of time to prepare your defense. I don't care what your weapon of choice is you will not be given the time necessary to pull it out and use it. If you are unexpectedly pushed or ambushed to the ground, even if you have your weapon in your pocketbook, it's not going to help the situation. When faced with predicaments the call for immediate personal safety training/self-defense, only two thing are readily available – your MIND AND BODY. That's all you have.
Guns are useful in certain situations or as a means of intimidation; the odds of being able to access a weapon in enough time so that it retains its benefits are pretty damn slim. A gun in your safety box or save at your home won't help you when someone attacks you while you are jogging in the park.
Learn how to use yourself as a weapon and you might not have to worry about owning a gun. This same principle applies to any weapons – including pepper spray, Mace or knives.
Food for thought…….why do you think our military and law enforcement are taught "hand-to-hand combat" extensively in training? Simple answer…….they may not have enough time to draw their weapons to defend themselves in an altercation. They must know how to protect and defend themselves "realistically" with their minds and bodies rather than depending on their weapon.
So, why wouldn't you do everything in your power to learn how to use your mind and body "realistically" to defend yourself?
Take care and STAY SAFE!
Warning Signs of Teen Dating Violence…
Warning signs to watch out for teen dating violence include: sudden loss of interest in activities, low grades, changes in appetite, changes in sleep patterns, loss of regular friends and drastic changes in clothing.
Often victims will wear long sleeves, long pants and scarves to hide bruises and marks. If you as a parent suspect that your teen is in an abusive relationship, encourage zero tolerance for inappropriate dating behaviors.
If you suspect that your teen is being violent to their dating partner, talk to them. Let the teen know that love is about respect. Sometimes it is difficult to realize that your child is being mean or violent. Do not allow aggressive behavior in the home. Talk to the teen about emotional abuse and how it is unacceptable in any relationship. You could say something like, "It bothers me when you yell at so-and-so." Express concern and talk to the teen about appropriate behavior. You may even want to seek professional help for your teen.
Teen dating violence is a problem that parents can help prevent. Talk to teens about the different types of violence. Be alert for warning signs and let the teens know that you care. Most of all, show teens the appropriate way to behave by being respectful and caring towards other people.
Encouraging teens to have healthy relationships before they begin dating is important. Be aware and keep the lines of communication open with teens about their relationships.
Signs of an abusive relationship
There are many signs of an abusive relationship. The most telling sign is fear of your partner. If you feel like you have to walk on eggshells around your partner—constantly watching what you say and do in order to avoid a blow-up—chances are your relationship is unhealthy and abusive. Other signs that you may be in an abusive relationship include a partner who belittles you or tries to control you, and feelings of self-loathing, helplessness, and desperation.
To determine whether your teen relationship is abusive, ask her/him to answer the questions below. The more "yes" answers, the more likely it is that your teen may be in an abusive relationship.
Your Inner Thoughts and Feelings
Do you:
- feel afraid of your partner much of the time?
- avoid certain topics out of fear of angering your partner?
- feel that you can't do anything right for your partner?
- believe that you deserve to be hurt or mistreated?
- wonder if you're the one who is crazy?
- feel emotionally numb or helpless?
Your Partner's Belittling Behavior
Does your partner:
- humiliate or yell at you?
- criticize you and put you down?
- treat you so badly that you're embarrassed for your friends and family to see?
- ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments?
- blame you for his/her own abusive behavior?
- see you a property or a sex object, rather than a person?
Your Partner's Violent Behavior or Threats
Does your partner:
- have a bad and unpredictable temper?
- hurt you, or threaten to hurt or kill you?
- threaten to commit suicide if you break up with him/her?
- force you to have sex?
- destroy your belongings?
Your Partner's Controlling Behavior
Does your partner:
- act excessively jealous and possessive?
- control where you go and what you do?
- keeps you from seeing your friends or family?
- constantly checking up on you?
- excessive texting or calling you?
If your teen is afraid for her/his safety or has been assaulted by her/his partner please dial 911 or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-787-3224.
Take care and STAY SAFE!
HOLDING MY HAND THROUGH HELL by Susan Murphy Milano
- Paperback: 286 pages
- Publisher: Ice Cube Press
- Foreword by Diane Fanning, Award winning true crime author of Mommy's Little Girl
This poignant well-written book tells the story of a police officer's family and a daughter's quest for justice long after the heart-wrenching murder of her mother. Susan Murphy Milano embraces a legacy of unconditional love and faith to triumph over a life plagued with unspeakable abuse and pain.
Based on a true story, told with the flow of a novel, spiced with frank wisdom and with, Holding My Hand Through Hell encourages the reader to immerse themselves into this family s life and is an inspiration to become an advocate for change in this world we all share.
Holding My Hand Through Hell will incite discussion, debate, and heightened awareness about hope, survival, abuse, murder, and its impact on our society. In the end, it will leave readers both applauding this woman as well as wondering how she escaped, sometimes at the eleventh hour. Twenty years later, she has realized that God must have been holding her hand through hell, delivering her from the evils of her life in order to save others.
"Raw and riveting Holding My Hand Through Hell starts fast and never lets up. In this powerful memoir, author Susan Murphy Milano throws open her personal closet so that we see what drives this woman to tirelessly champion voiceless victims and the people who love them"…… Steve Jackson, NY Times best-selling author.
About Susan Murphy-Milano
SUSAN MURPHY MILANO is a specialist in intimate partner violence and works nationally with domestic violence programs, law enforcement and prosecutors providing technical and consulting services in "high risk" domestic violence and stalking related cases. Her principal objective is to intervene before a victim is seriously injured or killed. Utilizing a procedure which she devised, the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit© Murphy Milano's clients are all still alive.
SUSAN MURPHY MILANO is the author of DEFENDING OUR LIVES (Doubleday 1996), MOVING OUT, MOVING ON (Kind Living Press 2008), and TIME'S UP (Dog Ear Publishing 2010) which guide those in abusive relationships to a place of freedom and safety.
Susan's quest for justice was instrumental in the passage of the Illinois Stalking Law and the Lauternberg Act. She has been prominently featured in newspapers, magazines, radio and television including: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Radio, ABC'S 20/20, Justice Files, E-True Hollywood, CNN, Sunday Today Show Profile, Women's Day, Family Circle, US News and World Report to name only a few. She has frequently participated in guest media commentary panels on major news programs.
To learn more about Susan and her work, please visit the following sites:
Holding My Hand Through Hell
Book Tour Stops:
Thursday, October 4: Official Launch from Heartland Fall Forum with Jillian Maas Backman and Ice Cube Press Publisher, Steve Semken on radio show, Change Already!
Friday, October 5: Writing is a Crime, Diane Fanning (wrote the foreword)
Saturday, October 6: Shattered Lives with Donna R. Gore LISTEN LIVE
Monday, October 8: Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie, Heidi Hiatt
Tuesday, October 9: NeilSchori.Com Pastor Neil Schori
Wednesday, October 10: Losing Austin, Finding Myself, Anita Sullivan
Thursday, October 11: Safe Relationships Magazine, Sandra L. Brown, MA
Friday, October 12: Statement Analysis: Peter Hyatt
Monday, October 15: HopeForHealing.Org and GayleCrabtree.Com, Gayle Crabtree
Tuesday, October 16: Crime Wire with Dennis Griffin LISTEN LIVE
Wednesday, October 17: Justice Cafe
Thursday, October 18: Danielle Pierre
Friday, October 19: Washington Times, Paula Carrasquillo
Monday, October 22: PamelaChapman.Biz Pamela Chapman
Tuesday, October 23: The Roth Show Blog, Dr. Laurie Roth
Wednesday, October 24: AnnyJacoby.Com, Anny Jacoby
Thursday, October 25: Amy Elk, Voice Over Actress, and Justice for Nique, Amy Elk
Friday, October 26: Doc Bonn Blog, Dr. Scott Bonn
Monday, October 29: Cynthia Caron
Tuesday, October 30: DonnaGore.Com, Donna R. Gore "LadyJustice"
Thursday, November 1: Crime, She Writes, Cathy Scott
Friday, November 2: BurlBarer.Net, Burl Barer
Monday, November 5: Survivors Justice, Patricia McKnight


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Life Fitness had an 11 percent increase in net sales in fourth quarter 2010 and a 9 percent increase in net sales in 2010, compared to the same periods a year ago, according to financials released today by Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, IL.
Brunswick's fitness segment is comprised of the Life Fitness Division, which designs, manufactures and sells Life Fitness and Hammer Strength fitness equipment.
Fitness segment sales in fourth quarter 2010 totaled $162 million, up from $146.4 million in fourth quarter 2009. International sales, which represented 47 percent of total segment sales in the quarter, decreased by one percent.
Net sales for 2010 were $541.9 million compared to $496.8 million in 2009.
For the quarter, the Life Fitness Division reported operating earnings of $24.4 million (including restructuring charges of $0.1 million), which compares to $20.5 million (including restructuring charges of $0.5 million) in the year-ago quarter.
For 2010, operating earnings were $59.6 million compared to $33.5 million in 2009.
Domestic commercial and consumer equipment sales increased during the fourth quarter. Improved operating earnings in the fourth quarter of 2010, when compared with 2009, reflect higher sales and increased fixed-cost absorption.
Overall, Brunswick had net sales of $728.8 million in fourth quarter 2010 (up 11 percent from the year-ago quarter) and 2010 net sales of $3.4 billion, an increase of 23 percent versus 2009. Operating loss improved by $113.5 million from fourth quarter 2009 while operating earnings for 2010 improved by $586.8 million from 2009.
Life Fitness also announced that 15-year company veteran Frank van de Ven will assume the role of vice president for the company's international business unit. He had overseen that unit in an interim capacity since April 2010. Van de Ven has held various positions in the business and marketing side of Life Fitness, including vice president of the company's Europe, Middle East and Asia region.


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MentalVelocity necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
RVSplash is a software-as-a-service offering that makes it simple for RV dealerships to manage a full-featured site with all the trimmings (inventory management, vehicle photo uploads, search engine optimization, specials, export feeds to other sites, etc.) with near-total control of the site's look and feel - and do it without knowing the first thing about how to build a Website!
In short, RVSplash is the tool they need to make a splash on the Web and sell their vehicles!
A few examples of websites that could be hosted on the RVSplash service (just so you can get an idea):
RVSplash is targeted at owners and managers of small to mid-sized RV dealerships.
* They are usually male
* They are generally not very technically savvy - they can use a website, but they aren't writing HTML or running Photoshop.
* They are very busy, and don't have time to devote a lot of thought to their websites. They don't want to be bothered with technical details.
You have a good bit of latitude on this logo design. However, here are a few pointers:
1. Simple is better. (It should be able to be embroidered on a baseball cap or polo shirt and be legible from a few feet away.)
2. Don't use more than a few colors
3. No pastel colors
4. Having at least the shape of an RV incorporated into the logo would be a good thing, but not absolutely required. (UPDATE: No one has done this yet - if done well, this would increase your chances of winning!)
5. "RVSplash" should be written just as seen here, with the first three letters capitalized and with no spaces. If you want to separate "RV" from "Splash" with color or font changes, be my guest!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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When the age-old mid-life crisis comes, what to do but change your life?
That's what Rob Wood did.
After a career spent in manufacturing, quality control, business management and the stock market, tapping into his artistic/creative side had not been part of his journey.
That changed, however, when he began writing a book two years ago.
As part of his bucket list, Wood had committed to penning a novel. The only problem was that with what he calls a bad case of ADD, it was difficult for him to stay in one place long enough to write. On trips to the beach from Atlanta, he might write a chapter at Bud & Alley's, a chapter while sitting on the dock, and other places. Finally, he came down for three months and forced himself to focus long enough to finish.
Wood says his book � "The Kingfish Way" � is about a 42-year-old man who loses his job and goes on a journey to find himself. The man goes from living an egotistical life in the first half to a purpose-driven life, with his journey ending at a place much like Seaside.
"The whole book is a little about moving to the second half our lives, and it's an awakening," he said. "The first half is about making money, but in the second half if we don't deal with it, we settle for a life of mediocrity. It's a search for our purpose and if we find it the second half can be an enormous adventure."
Is the book autobiographical, and has Wood found his purpose for the second half?
Wood laughs at the question.
"My purpose, I think, is to remind people that we really need to live until we die. We're not spectators in the game," he said. "I had gotten into whenever I got bored, I would move on. I wanted excitement and to do something bold and scary at the same time. But that doesn't happen. My purpose is to inspire through humor."
Wood said he has gotten good reviews and positive feedback so far from those who have read the book and 1,500 copies have sold.
"People say it's a huge wake-up call," he said.
Writing the book got his creative side going, said Wood, so, what came next happened accidentally.
One day Wood noticed a bit of left-over paint in his garage. Rather than toss it out, he took it out to the front lawn and began throwing the paint in splatters to get his creative juices flowing. He didn't know at the time that he was following Jackson Pollack's style.
Wood threw those first attempts at creating artwork away, but more have followed.
"I'm told my work is abstract impressionism," he says. "But I know very little about it."
He's learning, though, as he has started reading about art and watching videos.
Wood still doesn't use a brush and continues to create by slinging paint from a paddle or stick. His artwork is selling and he has shows coming up next in Atlanta. At this time, none are scheduled in this area.
Wood takes his book to his art shows, which has helped its sales.
In this area, "The Kingfish Way" is available at Amazon, Sundog Books in Seaside, Big Mama's Gallery in Seagrove, The Hidden Lantern at Rosemary Beach, and Grayt Coffee House in Grayton. Big Mama's has a few pieces of his artwork but he mostly sells from his website at http://thekingfishway.com/.
Wood's next project is another "philosophy" book, he said, but he won't divulge details.


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By Malene Birger is offering affordable luxury with an artistic angle to contemporary classics created with love. The hallmarks of the brand may be its clean lines, sharp tailoring and bold details, but what really makes it resonate with women everywhere is the fact that the pieces are so easy-to-wear while still looking modern and relevant.
Every season, timeless styles are updated with handcrafted details or incredible fabrics. It's all about impeccable quality and elegant silhouettes with a fashion edge and reasonably priced, allowing to update any wardrobes time and time again.
The brand is based on a deep desire to encourage women to choose the kind of life they truly want to live.