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I was interviewed by the Zenfolio Blog team recently, on the topic of color management, as it affects their customers. This has mostly to do with the concepts of display calibration, ambient light control, and creating and using printer profiles. Here's an excerpt:
"When two monitor displays are properly calibrated, shouldn't they be exactly the same in terms of the colors and, reasonably speaking, the brightness they produce for a given image? Many times two monitors made by different manufacturers will both be calibrated properly but look different from one another. How can this be?
A display calibrator matches displays for the way that calibrator "sees" them. Making calibrators react as similarly to the eye as possible is desirable. However, even two different people may see them a bit differently. That's why the SpyderTune function in Spyder4Elite is important. It lets the user visually tune side-by-side displays for the closest possible match, and continues to apply this correction to future calibrations."
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Aspyr's new iOS game, Sushi Mushi, combines a love of sushi with a love of mobile gaming, without the fear of dropping your iPhone into a side of soy sauce.
Sushi Mushi is a fast-paced timed puzzle game where you, an adorable monster character of your choosing, challenge your opponent, an adorable monster of the game's choosing, to a competition of matching up sushi rolls. You can either challenge a random opponent or can invite your friends through Facebook or your contact list. It's a cute and novel spin on the classic match-the-tiles type of game.
Each match consists of three 90-second rounds fought against your opponent where whoever has the most total points wins. You have one relatively simple task: match up the sushi to earn points. You can match up the rolls by two different ways, by color or, if you're looking for a slightly more difficult way, by shapes. The total points add up and eventually you'll earn your achievements and promotions for your little monsters, which start off with a white belt and then advance all the way to the rank of black belt.
Sound easy? It is. Within a few rounds, you realize that Sushi Mushi isn't a hard game, but it's fun, and there's actually some strategy to it. In no time you'll be foregoing the easy three-piece matches for the more challenging, and rewarding, 17-piece tsunamis. And although you'll hate to admit it, when the in-game music switches to its "time is almost up" tune, your eyes and finger will be left feverously darting across the screen in hopes of finding those remaining matching raw fish.

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Patricia Byrnes is an Associate Professor and Research Associate in the Center for State Policy and Leadership.
She has a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Dr. Byrnes was on the faculty of the School of Public Policy and Management at Ohio State University from 1990 to 1998.
She has conducted research for two federally funded research and development centers in Washington, DC. She has consulted with various state and local organizations on financial and performance management issues.
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Masson leads Women's British Open by two strokes
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) – Caroline Masson of Germany shot a 4-under 68 to double her lead to two strokes after the third round at the Women's British Open on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Masson made three birdies in the front nine and three on the back to hold off a late charge from Yani Tseng. The top-ranked Taiwenese player closed within a shot at one stage after picking up five strokes in as many holes, including an eagle.
"I was quite nervous at the start," said Masson, who has totaled 15-under 201. "I hit a poor tee shot at the first and then three-putted from 40 feet, but I settled down with a birdie at the next when I hit my 5-iron to 7 feet and holed it.
"I hit some really good shot out there today and really enjoyed it. The wind was a bit stronger and there were some tough pin positions."
Masson birdied No. 5 with a lay-up to 10 feet and the long No. 6 with an approach to 30 feet and two putts. At No. 11, she holed from 7 feet, then got up and down from a greenside bunker at the long 14th for another birdie.
Her last was at No. 17 but she dropped a shot at the next after hitting into another greenside bunker.
Masson will play the final round Sunday with Tseng, the 22-year-old prodigy who already has won four majors.
"It should be really enjoyable. Yani seems very nice and I'm sure I'll learn a lot playing alongside her," Masson said.
For Tseng it also will be a new experience.
"I have never seen her play," she said.
Catriona Matthew of Scotland leads the home challenge, but she is six shots off the pace after hitting a 68. Inbee Park of South Korea is also at 207 for a share of third place.
Another Korean, Na Yeon Choi, is alone in fifth on 208 after a 72. Brittany Lang, Sophie Gustafson and Se Re Pak share sixth place a shot further back.
The American challenge never materialized. Lang (69) rose from a share of 18th place but is one stroke worse off than at the start of the day. Paula Creamer (71) is at 6 under, and Brittany Lincicome (76) is 13 back after only being five behind overnight.
First-round leader Meena Lee, tied for second overnight, fell out of contention with an 80 to sit at 2 under.


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W-General wrote:I was not successful in getting a yamaguchi kappei autograph.
he did shout a inu yasha attack during the panel though (along with other stuff which I'll describe in my report)
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This story was originally published in The Gazette on Dec. 7, 1998.
Outside the window of the small restaurant where Kate and Anna McGarrigle have each ordered a creme de legumes soup and a salad to share, the rhythms of a Montreal November are palpable. Under gunmetal skies hinting at freezing rain, people march with purposeful briskness. Children run home to lunch. The local street character, a voluble rubber-faced fellow on a bicycle, chats with a passer-by in mid-intersection, large black dog stolidly by his side, cat in a carrying bag.
The restaurant, which unaccountably bears two different names (testament, perhaps, to Montreal's casual and continually evolving sense of identity), is in the dense urban neighbourhood of Outremont, around the corner from Kate's home.
Anna, who lives with her husband and two grown children an hour away in Alexandria, Ont., has driven in for the day. Kate's Outremont flat is clearly Anna's second home.
To observe that the two singing sisters, just 14 months separating them, are close is like observing that Siamese twins are joined.
"Anna!" exclaims Kate, the 52-year-old take-charge younger sister who retains the faintest trace of New York brassiness picked up during the brief period she lived there in the early 1970s. Her sister has ordered coffee. "How many have you had today?"
"Just one," says Anna in her quieter voice. "A little tiny cup."
"I don't believe it," responds Kate with resigned good humour.
The McGarrigles are on a brief break from the rigourous tour schedule that has zigzagged them across the continent, north-south, east-west, during the past six weeks. The tour is to promote the sisters' latest album, a startlingly original release called The McGarrigle Hour, which mimics an old-fashioned musical family get-together - with an extraordinarily accomplished family.
Kate's ex-husband, Loudon Wainwright III, is on hand, along with the couple's two children, 25-year-old Rufus Wainwright and 22-year-old Martha, both emerging artists in their own right. Anna's 19-year-old daughter, Lily Lanken, contributes, as well as Dane Lanken, Anna's basso profundo-voiced journalist husband. Emmylou Harris joins in on three songs (singing in respectable French on the Cajun Porte en Arriere), and Linda Ronstadt on one (an ethereal Gentle Annie, the Stephen Foster song that was father Frank McGarrigle's favourite).
Last month, Joe Breen of The Irish Times described the album as "an affectionate portrait of a family at song," wherein the sisters "infuse the proceedings with their trademark emotional intensity."
But emotion is only half their mesmerizing appeal. The rest lies shimmeringly in sound.
In the New York Times three weeks ago, Stephen Holden reviewed the Saturday-night concert the McGarrigles gave at New York's Town Hall - the same venue where Kate, who recently found the ticket stubs, went to see an emerging folk artist named Bob Dylan 36 years ago.
Along with Loudon Wainwright, who shared the stage with them, the McGarrigles, wrote Holden, "are virtually the only baby-boom folksingers left who continue to pour their lives into their songs without worrying about how they look. (They present) a moving portrait of a tribe of thorny, smart, gifted individuals muddling through life together, bonded by music and conveying a shared wisdom of the most convincing kind."
High praise for artists who remain stubbornly just beyond the spotlight of high-profile celebrity.
"We're not unhappy with that," says Anna, "though sometimes it would be nice to have a little bit more money." The sisters say they don't make enough to have such luxuries as a manager or road crew, so that they do all their own planning and, on tour, lug their own instruments. "But neither one of us is really terribly ambitious that way."
Says Kate: "I drive a Ford. I don't want a Mercedes. Having a lot of money - well, it can attract a certain kind of people that maybe we don't want to attract. This way, we're not vulnerable. People don't recognize us? That's fine with me."
Among the musical cognoscenti, however, the sisters are celebrated, even if some of the descriptions of them have gone slightly awry in the accuracy department. The Daily Telegraph's James Bennett calls the McGarrigles "French-Canadian sisters." Dublin's Breen credits their Irish-French background as the wellspring of their creative inspiration. New York's Holden describes their musical vocabulary as "a transcendent Americana."
The truth is, the McGarrigles are neither French-Canadian, nor French, nor Irish, nor American.
They are Montreal, pure and simple. Or - more accurately - Montreal, motley and mysterious.
To understand a little of the layered diversity of Montreal is to experience a little of the McGarrigles, from Anna's complex Heart Like A Wheel and Heartbeats Accelerating (both recorded by Linda Ronstadt) to Kate's luminous hymn to the restless soul, Talk to Me of Mendocino.
Kate and Anna are the natural product of a cosmopolitan, culturally rich city with a Gallic face and form that, especially in their younger days, also made generous room for a diverse and productive English-speaking community.
Born in Montreal, they moved with their parents and older sister Jane to the Laurentian village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts in 1946, when Kate was a baby. Their father, who suffered from emphysema, could breathe better in the country air and, being self-employed, could work just as well there. A community that was transforming itself into a ski resort, Saint-Sauveur, says Kate, was a surprisingly cosmopolitan mix of languages and cultures.
Speaking English at home (their mother, Gaby Latremouille, was part-francophone but had been raised mostly in English), the three girls attended French-language school, becoming fluently bilingual. They also took piano lessons from the village nuns for $4 a month.
For secondary studies, Anna and Kate came into the city and attended Town of Mount Royal Catholic High School, where Kate won the math prize, having been the only girl allowed into the boys' trigonometry class. She followed that with engineering studies at McGill, transferring into science after two years and earning a BSc. Anna, who took secretarial studies at the Mother House, the business school run by the sisters of the Congregation de Notre Dame, also studied at Montreal's prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Meanwhile, from early high school days, they had been singing - Kingston Trio covers at first, then obscure turn-of-the-century material from the American South - and began to appear regularly on the city's folk scene, from college shows at Loyola College to performances at a tiny Cote des Neiges coffeehouse that many consider the cradle of Montreal folk.
Before falling head over heels into a life of music, Anna worked half the year at secretarial jobs and created art the other half. Kate got a job in 1969 as a systems analyst in an office on Sherbrooke St. "I was there for, what, three weeks? And then Anna came over one day with a couple of friends, and she said, let's go to lunch. So we went to lunch, and I just never went back. I left my umbrella, a raincoat."
That was the Montreal that poured itself into the McGarrigles: a heady mix of two languages, different cultures, nuns, religion - and gender-separated schools, a strong sense of community, Sherbrooke St., the comfort of family (like so many in Quebec, English and French) composed of all kinds of wildly, wonderfully impure strands of laine - and an enthusiasm spawned by Expo 67, with its atmosphere of creative openness that made everything seem possible.
That, and the influence of the sisters' remarkable mother, another bedrock Montrealer/Montrealaise to the core.
"Gaby had her opinions," says Kate fondly. "She was very smart. And she had a wicked sense of humour."
Given half a chance, Kate and Anna will regale listeners with tales of the formidable and fun-loving woman who died in 1994 - of her attachment to leftist ideals, the offshoot of her father's union activism, and how she passed them along. They talk of her spirited friendship with the late May Carter, the fun-loving former head of the Sacred Heart nuns and sister of Toronto's more sober-sided Cardinal Emmett Carter. They talk with unabashed admiration of how their mother, as a young woman, taught a lesson to a lecherous boss with dishonourable intentions.
"He was a married man who kept a 'tootsie' in an apartment downtown," explains Kate, "but he was always coming on to Gaby, who was about 21, 22 at the time. At one point, she said, she opened her purse and gave him five bucks and said, 'Go on, (So-and-so), go on down to The Main. Have one on me.' She said he never bothered her again."
The McGarrigle Hour features a couple of songs devoted to the clan matriarch. Anna's daughter, Lily, sings Alice Blue Gown, a song of antique sweetness that her grandmother Gaby used to perform at parties in vaudevillian high camp. And Kate joins the Wainwrights - her son and daughter, as well as her ex-husband - in a memorably moving rendition of Irving Berlin's What'll I Do, which Rufus sang at Gaby's funeral to Jane's accompaniment.
But besides ethnic and linguistic environment and family influence, there is a third element to the McGarrigle mix. Montreal is an island city, literally and figuratively.
Surrounded by the waters of two rivers, it is also an island of French in a North American sea of English - or, depending on your state of defensiveness, a tiny anglo outpost in Quebec's vast francophone territory. In either language, there is an informing sense of apartness, a condition of insularity that has prevailed to some extent in the McGarrigles' career - because there is no getting around it: in big-market terms, the sisters' appeal is indisputably marginal.
"The McGarrigles," laughs Anna, "are the R. Murray Schafers of popular music."
"Our career happened by choice and by chance," admits Kate. "I think in order to have a career, you need a career plan: You get to this level, you get to that level, you have your nose job at this place, you have people who design your image. We never really had a particular plan."
They still don't, beyond continuing to do the creating and performing they have always loved.
Anna does confess to a few nagging concerns about aging.
"Sometimes I think, when we're out on the road, maybe we shouldn't be doing this. Maybe we should be letting some younger person be up on the stage."
"Well," muses Kate, "one thing music should be is sexy. That's its basis. And after a while, you stop being sexy. I mean, you're not out there to wow them." Maybe, she says, you shouldn't keep doing it if you're no longer seductive. "I don't know what kind of songs one can sing about then," says the woman who wrote I Eat Dinner, possibly the loneliest song about middle age ever composed. "Is there a market in the geriatric ward?"
Anna mentions the bitterness that infuses Grace Slick's recently published book about the unkind fate awaiting aging women in the music world. The sisters' conclusion seems to be that, while Slick has been pretty crass about it, there may be some justification for the bitterness.
"Whereas," says Anna, "we've just kind of hobbled along." They laugh, a spontaneous chorus of good-natured self-deprecation, though anyone else would be quick to observe that their hobbling has had a most sublime grace to it.
Outside, the local street character has gone his garrulous way. Kids hurry back to afternoon classes, their faces ruddy in the pre-winter chill. The traffic moves in a steady flow along nearby Park Ave.and pedestrians keep their heads down against the wind, marchers to the November-gray version of the city's distinctive rhythms.
Bundled up, Kate and Anna McGarrigle step outside and join the familiar urban chorus.


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Post-landscape 29 March - 22 April 2017
With the Whanganui River recently given the status of 'legal person', it is timely to consider art's enduring interest in exploring our relationship with nature, with the places where we live and our impact on the environment.
Vernon Tava (vernontava.com) has helpfully backgrounded the development of the concept of legal person status, for a river or land, as a means of overcoming the limitations imposed by viewing nature as property. While this is likely to be most useful in addressing environmental degradation the appointment of iwi interests, as the human face or guardian of the legal person, recognises broader claims, feelings, about water and land.
This exhibition presents, through painting, photography and moving image, three different ways contemporary artists engage with nature. Inevitably going beyond traditional representational landscape painting, they position us in the land rather than simply looking at it.
In a short experimental film, Cat Auburn and Estella Castle, New Zealand artists currently living in the UK, explore the legacy of one of Britain's most loved landscape paintings -- John Constable's The Hay Wain. Cat Auburn, who has had several shows in the gallery, works across a range of media, from film to sculpture and installation, to explore broad social and historical issues. In 2015 she completed a Master of Fine Arts (Distinction) at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. In 2016 she was the Tyneside Cinema artist in residence and in the past year has made two short films. Estella Castle also completed a Master of Fine Arts in the UK.
Rebecca Hasselman grew up on a South Island hill country station. Her paintings, distilled by distance and memory, quietly explore the expression of tūrangawaewae, connection to place, seeking to express the sense of being in that landscape. Rebecca completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury in 2014.
Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi) works with photography and moving image to investigate cultural perspectives on landscape and present a distinctly Maori take on land. In these hand-coloured photographs, developed when on an Indigenous Visual and Digital Arts residency at The Banff Centre in Canada last year, she examines her relationship to land in a place that is not her own. Bridget has a Master in Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, Massey University (2012). She has shown in New Zealand internationally her work was featured as part of the Transoceanic Video Exchange in 2016, a collaboration between RM (Auckland), Fresh Milk (Barbados) and Van Lagos (Nigeria).
Artist: Cat Auburn
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QArea began its community sponsorship with a well-known Joomla Group. This event once more proves the status of QArea Company.
Joomla is the content management systems. Popular worldwide. Its soft is utilized by common users, different sorts of businesses large organizations amongst them, all over the world. Joomla has over 2.7 % of the Web running. This CMS enables its users to build a rich variety of web-pages and web-enabled apps.
The decision of QArea was to support Joomlav financially and its project directly, for such monetary sponsorship, Joomla Company offers different kinds of recognition on its Web-page.
Which opportunities QArea will be given?
As an evaluating worldwide community, Joomla needs to share its sponsorship opportunities, that makes the community lead its development wider and to offer its services to huger audiences. The past year was a year of extra ordinal experience Joomla! Company. Joomla feels the powerful support and forceful expansion of the community's co-work.
OSM fiscally controls the Joomla! Project and tries to find the opportunities that let companies and individuals promote the project using financial resources. Achieving its target to insure financial stability to determine the backup of the community, the golden rule for sponsor program of Joomla:
The universal inside and outside of each sponsors distribution ought to be maintained by the non-commercial kind of Open Source Matters.
Besides all that, excluding commercially directed sponsorships, QArea becomes credible and memorable in Joomlas community. Also the sponsorship enables QArea Company to set on long-time relations with the community in more expressive way, providing different spheres of support. And the last, corporate sponsorship of this project will give QArea many bonuses in a variety of positions, not narrowed to the trafficked Joomla.org Web site.
For any information and business suggestions, please, contact the QArea Group company representatives.


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Hello! Happy Tuesday! Can't believe it's Tuesday already! :> The weekend was a waste for me as I spent Saturday and Sunday not feeling well! No fun but happy to report I am back at it! :> Currently as I type this post I am making turkey soup and working on cinnamon buns! If your wondering how come I am making turkey soup it's because my mom called us up on Sunday and said "come for dinner I had to pull the turkey out of the freezer since I need the room!" She sent me home with lots of leftovers! And cinnamon buns? Well I've never made them with yeast and I am needing a change from muffins and loafs! Plus who doesn't love cinnamon buns?
I was quite excited about the current Lily Pad Kissing Challenge as well it's one of my favorite techniques! So I had to play! Here's my card:
I kissed a leaf from Leaf Clusters with Envelope Pattern Background stamp both by Hero Arts together. I used shabby shutters distress ink with chocolate chip ink by SU. I tied some matching twine by the twinery and added a button. I made this card on Friday and left it sentiment less. I didn't know where to put it so I put the card aside, I considered leaving it sentimentless but it didn't feel finished. Today out of the blue it dawned on me to put a brown strip with the sentiment across. So off I went embossing in white the sentiment while Carter played the piano next to me, maybe a bit with his feet (I told him not to!) And there you go a card that I am happy with using my favorite technique!
Life is pretty good over here lately. Working on more wreaths since I figure if I am going to open up an etsy store I should have a decent inventory, no? Also have to go to the other side of the city to get boxes for shipping! :> It's gotten cold here once again. Been hearing a lot of people complain about wanting winter to end. I don't. I enjoy the excuse to stay home. I enjoy the less busy life I lead in the winter. I love being home making stuff and baking and cooking! And all that without feeling guilty that it's beautiful outside and I should be out and about with the kids! :> Well I am off to feed the family and kneed some dough!


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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Buckeye Love Caption Contest Winner
You guys came up with some great ones. Really funny stuff. From our very own IC, our favorite is...
Our other finalists were:
From reader Wholesome Goodness
"Ok, baby, let's roleplay -- you be Michigan..."
From Benny
"You had me at 'Hello...Fuck Michigan!'"
Check back for another caption contest coming soon.
11 comments:
- IC said...
Wow! I am thrilled and humbled to be named the winner of this caption contest.
I have a few people to thank. First, to my parents, who believed in a kid who had a dream to one day grow up and make adolescent and borderline-homophobic jokes on a satiric blog.
Thanks also to the Big Guy Upstairs. Glory and praise to the Lord for allowing me to win this competition and for smiting all those faithless losers with runner-up status.
And of course thanks to my manager, Irving Greenbaum. Irv, you're a real mensch.
I also want to thank my kids. Thanks for being so understanding while I missed your games and school events so I could work on this caption. Your tears and anger will go away, but this award will last forever. Daddy's coming home with a Zonie!
- February 21, 2006 12:34 PM
- IC said...
AND MY WIFE! Thanks to my wife, my soulmate, my world. I love you honey. We're celebrating tonight--I've already made reservations at Red Lobster, then we're going home and doing it with the TV off!
- February 21, 2006 12:37 PM
- Yost said...
- February 21, 2006 1:05 PM
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- February 21, 2006 3:39 PM
- Unknown said...
Practicing my "He deserved it" look, while carving IC into my forearms with a pocketknife so I never forget.
Solid post IC, lol.
- February 21, 2006 3:41 PM
- Yost said...
WG, LOL! Good stuff.
- February 21, 2006 5:11 PM
AJ Hawk is number #47, dumbass.
- May 09, 2006 12:38 AM
- Yost said...
Gee, I'll lose sleep over that mistake.
- May 09, 2006 12:39 AM
There's no mistake... it's just hard to make out the "47" through the windshield.
- July 13, 2006 4:09 PM
also, thats not an Ohio State jersey......
- August 03, 2006 10:52 AM
Married a great woman, but her family is full of annoying buckeyes.
Please point me to a good site that highlights all of the buckeye's criminal tendencies.
Want to have my rap down.
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Just got one. They work very well. I purchased mine after using a friends. Good bye grubby little hop bags.I special ordered a 6x16 with the center or side hanger option. Had it within 3 days. Great customer service from Arbor Fabricating in Ann Arbor, Mi.
I just purchased one of these in 300 micron. Anybody else tried one? I'm hoping it will be an upgrade over my aging hop bags. I also plan to use it to filter wort on its way from the mash tun to the kettle (something I was previously using hop bags for). They tended to catch a decent amount of fine grain particulate (even post-vorlauf).
I want to buy something similar to this. I like that you could use it as a spider and also as a filter for the mash tun, as well as to filter the wort going in to the fermenter. BTW I love this SS dry hopper for the keg :http://www.stainlessbrewing.com/Dry-Hopper-with-twist-cap_p_155.html
Not a pain to clean, huh? What about putting in your chiller? I use a hop bag here and there and love that it keeps the post boil trub to a minimum, but hate pulling the bag out to put my chiller in.


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With the warmer temperatures of spring rolling in, there's never been a better time to challenge any hangups you might have about one of the simplest and most affordable exercise options available: Running.
According to chiropractor and running specialist Aaron Case there are a variety of ways to build healthy habits and get over the hump of the first few runs.
When you're building your first running schedule, start by keeping your runs manageable. It's best to run three times a week, "and on top of that you can add stretching, strengthening, things to support the running," Case says.
For new runners, especially those who don't get much other exercise, Case recommends trying a run where you alternate between jogging and walking, jogging as little as 10 per cent of the time to get started. As your muscles build endurance you can tip the ratio towards jogging more than than walking.
Regardless of your ratio, there is no denying that the first runs will be tough for new runners. "There is some discomfort in running," Case explains. "Expect that at the beginning. But it eventually goes away."
That said, making sure to get your scheduled runs in each week is critical to seeing results. "A lot of people will run once and then they'll stop," says Case. But "if you don't capitalize on that and run again within a couple of days, you lose the advantage of the first run."
Once your body is more comfortable, begin to add distance or increase the ratio of jogging vs walking in your runs. Don't add more than 10 per cent to your route in a given week, so that your body can properly adjust to a new run before you add on.
By building your routes and intensity gradually, a moderate program can produce impressive results for new runners trying to run down some summer fitness, one step at a time.


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Alex Rodriguez will meet with federal investigators probing a Canadian doctor on Friday, according to reports.
The meeting is scheduled to take place in Buffalo and likely will include FBI agents and members of other federal agencies, a person familiar with the session told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because no public statements were authorized.
The scheduling of the meeting was first reported by The New York Times.
U.S. & World
Rodriguez said March 1 he had been contacted by investigators and intended to cooperate. The Yankees slugger was told from the outset that federal investigators view him as a witness in the case, the person said.
Dr. Anthony Galea said during a March 8 interview with the AP that he treated the New York Yankees third baseman last year and prescribed anti-inflammatories but never gave him or any other athlete human growth hormone.
Other major leaguers, including the Mets' Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran, have been contacted by federal investigators about Galea. Colorado closer Huston Street has said investigators might want to talk to him about the case. Reyes and Beltran have said they did not receive HGH from Galea.
Galea, who also has treated golfer Tiger Woods, was charged by Canadian authorities in December with selling an unapproved drug known as Actovegin. He also was charged with conspiracy to import an unapproved drug, conspiracy to export a drug and smuggling goods into Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Galea was arrested Oct. 15 after a search warrant was executed at the Institute of Sports Medicine Health and Wellness Centre near Toronto.
Vials and ampules containing HGH and Actovegin, a drug extracted from calf's blood, were found in a car driven by Mary Anne Catalano, according to the RCMP and U.S. federal court documents. Catalano told American authorities at the border in Buffalo that she knew the drugs were illegal and that she was transporting them for her employer.
Galea told the AP during the March 8 interview that Catalano was carrying only a minuscule amount of HGH and that it was for his own use.


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A group for hockey fans, networking, and discussion of ice hockey! NHL, Juniors, Olympics, nothing is off limits.
Members: 24
Latest Activity: Apr 28, 2014
Started by Mike Brownstein. Last reply by Mike Trevino Sep 9, 2012. 7 Replies 0 Likes
I thought I'd make the first thread a welcoming one. Just introduce yourself, and who your favorite teams are!I'm Mike and I'm a die-hard NHL fan, but I'm partial to the Columbus Blue Jackets.Continue
Kind of an upset St. Louis Blues fan here right now. Just like last year against the Kings, the Note gets swept after taking the first two games, this time against the Blackhawks.
This one's stinging right now. I'm over the loss but the sting still remains. I think we're going to have to do a lot of work over the summer.
Recently, while I was watching a hockey game in a public space, a man made the comment, "I've never seen a black woman who likes hockey!" I said, "Well, you've seen one now. And I don't 'like' hockey, I 'love' it!" And I guess being from Detroit might have something to do with it...
I am the Red Wings' number one fan, with the Rangers and Maple Leafs a close second and third. I'm joining this godless bunch because ever since moving to New York, I don't have any friends who like hockey, and it's lonely out here...
Rich, lifelong Rangers fan.
Hello! I am Natalie, and the Flyers are Awesome! Philly sports!! Woohoo!!
NHL games through Dec. 30 now called off because of the lockout. I cannot say this enough: BETTMAN. OUT. NOW!!!
And if you think all these lockouts (NHL, NBA, NFL, NFL officials) were a coincidence - think again! From Dave Zirin and his Edge of Sports column. He's possibly the best sportswriter you've never heard of: http://www.edgeofsports.com/2012-10-16-784/index.html
Best goal of the 2011 IIHF.
Link for game 6, 2012 Stanley Cup final, NJ vs LA
Interesting indeed, Gordon. SMH
For anyone who missed it, there was recently an AMA on r/hockey from a confirmed anonymous NHL exec regarding the lockout. Interesting read. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/120sc1/iaman_nhl_executive_am...
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Web application testing company Sauce Labs has introduced support for the popular Selenium 2 web app software testing framework as part of its cloud application testing service. Selenium 2 is the result of collaboration in the Selenium community to integrate the WebDriver automated testing project with the Selenium project.
With over four million downloads in just four years, the Selenium project continues to gather momentum. Advances in Selenium 2 allow Selenium to work more tightly with browsers, offering high-fidelity emulation of interactions, such as clicking and typing, so developers can ensure the performance of their web applications across the diverse base of browsers in use today.
"The focus of Selenium 2 has been our users. When your Selenium tests pass, you can be confident that your applications will work for your users," said Simon Stewart, original creator of WebDriver and senior software engineer in the test division at Google. "I'm extremely pleased to see Sauce Labs carry this attention to the user from the open source project to their Sauce OnDemand service. Also, it's extremely cool to have a video of each and every test that is run!"
Key advances in Selenium 2 include support for iPhone and Android testing — a built-in Android and iPhone emulator allows developers and QA teams to expand their use of Selenium and support the growing demand for mobile applications. There is also a new API — which means that in theory Selenium 2 should be more developer friendly and conceptually simpler because it directs users to focus on only two basic objects: WebDriver (browsers) and WebElements (anything on a web page) to construct tests.
"Selenium provides API libraries for most modern programming languages. In Selenium 2, every API library has been tailored to each programming language for easier usability. The new version 2 offering makes it feasible to test web applications without the overhead and workarounds that the first evolution of Selenium necessitated," said Julian Simpson, principal consultant at The Build Doctor. "Selenium 2 is a significant advancement for application testing because it moves beyond some of the previous challenges in Selenium 1's architecture and provides a stable base for enhancing the entire tool chain."


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For thirty years, Nancy Camden traveled the country selling her fabric art at juried art fairs, finding NPR from a laminated state-by-state station guide as she drove. Now, her curiosity and adventuresome spirit guide her in creating sound-rich human-interest stories for our Arts & More show. She graduated from Ball State University with majors in Art and Theatre.
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Cooking for one; yay or nay? I often here people say "I was too lazy to cook because it was just me", and I totally understand the reasoning, but sometimes it's kind of fun to cook just for yourself, don't you think? I admit that when I was a single girl living in Finland, I didn't often bother to cook in the same scale that I do now. It is of course more satisfying to be able to share the meal that you've cook with your family or friends, but I think there is something utterly enjoyable about cooking just for yourself as well.
I thought of this while making this mango and haloumi salad. I didn't have to cook dinner for my partner that night, but I just couldn't keep myself out of the kitchen. I wanted to create something easy and light so I put together this little salad. The sweetness of the mango, the saltiness of the haloumi and the vinegary balsamic are all perfect in balancing each other in this dish.
With these thoughts I wish you all a very enjoyable and relaxing weekend!
1 mango, washed and cheeks cut off
2 tbsp caramelised balsamic
250g (low-fat) haloumi cheese, cut into slices
1 tsp walnut oil
3 tbsp pine nuts, toasted
fresh lemon thyme
1/4 lemon, juiced
fresh rocket, to serve
Heat a grill pan on high. Brush the mango cheeks with caramelised balsamic vinegar. Place the mango cheeks and the haloumi on the pan and grill for a few minutes until soften. Set aside and drizzle the cheese with walnut oil. Assemble the mango cheeks on a plate with rocket and the cheese. Sprinkle with pine nuts and lemon thyme and drizzle with fresh lemon juice.


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Thursday, July 29, 2010
*Custom made Banner*
Posted by The Crackling Crows Banners at 8:19 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Oh I know...it is way to early to think of Christmas banners...
but this is going to be a special one :)
Posted by The Crackling Crows Banners at 9:38 PM 2 comments
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
*My Swap came in*
Yesterday, I received my wonderful Swap from my dear friend Nan Threadwork Primitives...
look at this lovely box she made me, I love the fabric she used...so prim...she designed it for me :) I feel so honored to
have something specialized with me business name from her...it is so neat!
I opened the box and found this wonderful prim looking heart she made me with the word
on it...I LOVE everything Nan...thank you for your wonderful
friendship and the awesome gifts :)
XSBFF Ivonne
Posted by The Crackling Crows Banners at 3:19 PM 9 comments
Sunday, July 25, 2010
*4 new Fall Banners on Ebay*
Posted by The Crackling Crows Banners at 10:53 PM 1 comments
*I'm devistated...*
...over the tragedy happened today in Duisburg, Germany!
Every year we are having a *Love Parade* with techno music...I think the Parade was in Berlin last year and this year it was in a different city called Duisburg.
People had to walk through a tunnel (about 300 meters) to go to the Parade...the Police had to stop people from coming to the Parade, there were too many people all ready, all of a sudden a stampede broke lose and killed 19 people...over 340 people were insured, a lot of them very severe!
I talked to my Mom, she lives in Germany, she told me they didn't stop the Parade for a while, because they were worried more people would panic...I think that was the right thing to do!
My heart goes out to all the families who lost a loved one in this tragedy...a very sad
day for Germany!
Posted by The Crackling Crows Banners at 12:16 AM 1 comments
Sunday, July 18, 2010
*3 New Fall Banners listed on Ebay*
I just listed this 3 new *Fall Banners* on Ebay...I tried
something new...I love the way they came out...I hope you
like them too :)
Posted by The Crackling Crows Banners at 10:09 PM 1 comments
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Today the Information Governance Alliance is pleased to announce the
publication of three short guides to informing and improving IG practice
across health and care. Publication of the guides follows extensive
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Not to overwhelm you, but you might find some of these helpful. From the SelectCourses Blog:
100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research
Twitter has exploded into a must-track resource for news, rants, consumer reports, public health, shopping deals and emerging trends. But if you're looking for something or someone specific, how can you expect to carve out a niche and listen in on just a single thread of conversation? Our list of 100 tips, tools and resources for Twitter research will help you keep it all together.
Directories and People
Expand your network and locate specific tweeters using these directories.
- Twitterholic: Find out who the most popular Twitter users are at any given moment.
- Social Brand Index: Use this directory to find competitors and potential clients on Twitter.
- WeFollow: This directory categorizers users by tagging.
- Twellow: Twellow is a popular people directory for Twitter users. Search by location, friends, followers, keyword or by category.
- Who Should I Follow?: Let this tool help you find new friends on Twitter.
- Tracking Twitter: Discover which Twitter feeds are the most popular in media, entertainment and consumer products.
- Just Tweet It: Find people to follow by clicking on industry categories like education, domainers, aviation, filmmakers and more.
- twibs: With twibs, you can look up businesses who tweet.
- twittervision: Find random tweeters whose conversations pop up on a Google map.
- Twemes: Twemes is another word for hashtags, and this site follows popular subject matter and keywords.
- Tweeter Tags: Declare your tweets by tagging yourself on this site. Then, find other like-minded users to follow and research.
- Twitter Fan Wiki: This research source finds conversations, non-person Twitterers, feature requests, fakers, media and more.
- TwitterPacks: Find people according to their "pack" or interest group, like coaching, baby boomers, or organizing experts.
- Twubble: With Twubble, you can find more friends and popular Twitter users.
- GovTwit: Find Twitter names for government agencies and people here.
Search for keywords, buzzed-about topics and more to direct your attention to the conversations that matter.
- Twitter Search: Twitter's official search page looks for keywords in current conversations.
- Tweet Scan: Search Twitter conversations by category or keyword.
- TwitterScoop: Find friends, search buzz-worthy topics, and more.
- Tweet Volume: Find out if the subjects you're searching for are popping up in Twitter conversations or are yesterday's news.
- Tweetmeme: Tweetmeme is a social bookmarking site for popular Twitter conversations.
- Twitterment: This simplified search engine brings up conversations for all kinds of keywords.
- Twitter Forge: Twitter Forge in TwitTown has 10 different directories and search tools.
- Tweet Congress: Use Tweet Congress to find tweets from Congressmen and women.
- LegalBirds: LegalBirds is a Twitter directory for the legal crowd.
- Geofollow: Add yourself, update your Twitter feed and search for others on this site.
- Twitterectory: Twitterectory features a search engine, tag cloud and directory of Twitter profiles.
Keep your notes, replies, surveys and research organized so that all your hard work isn't lost forever.
- Twhirl: This social software platform connects to Twitter, displays notifications of new messages, shortens URLs, cross-posts updates to other sites and more.
- Twitter Karma: Quickly paginate through your friends listing. Sort alphabetically or by another system so that it's easier to view your friends.
- Tweet Clouds: View your tweets as a word cloud.
- Twitter Notes: Take and tag notes from Twitter using this tool.
- My Tweeple: Better organize all your friends and followers with this tool.
- Foamee: Keep up with who owes who how many drinks with this tool.
- Twitterator: This script will help you stay organized while monitoring groups of people.
- GroupTweet: Privately tweet with your project group members using GroupTweet.
- Twickie: Archive and organize Twitter response threads here.
Add-ons and Tools
Add these tools to your Twitter experience to make researching and indexing even easier.
- Twitt Poll: Create polls to find out what your Twitter friends think on a particular subject.
- Twitter Answers: Send out questions into the Twittersphere to get answers and opinions from your followers.
- Twitter Snipe: Use this tool to auto follow users based on your niche.
- TwitPic: Use TwitPic to share, browse and upload photos to Twitter.
- Trazzler Buzz: Use this tool to research deals and news for travel, museums, music and more.
- Twit Bear: Keep up with all the replies regarding a particular conversation or subject matter.
- Google Search with Twitter integration: This script combines the best of Twitter and Google.
- TBuzz: When surfing the web, discover each site's tweet history.
- PicFog: Conduct a Twitter image search here.
- peekr: Check out Twitter backgrounds before opening up the whole page.
- Twitter Toolbar for Firefox: Download this toolbar to quickly access Twitter or your favorite Twitter feeds.
Let these guides help you become a master tweeter.
- Twitter as Target Market Research Tool: Find out how you can use Twitter to grow your business, attract clients and stand out.
- 33 Reasons to Use Twitter - a Guide to Finding Value in the Service!: Here you'll get tips for using Twitter for business and personal gain.
- The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter: Learn how to set up a profile, find things to tweet about, decide when to tweet and more.
- Mastering Twitter in 10 Minutes or Less (Version 2): Quickly learn how to navigate Twitter with this download.
- Using Twitter 'the Smart Way': Get tips on choosing a user name and staying organized here.
- How to Search Twitter - the Advanced Guide: This guide outlines the steps needed to effectively use Twitter's official search function.
- 6 Twitter Search Services Compared: This guide compares Twitter Search, Twazzup, Tweetzi, and other search tools.
- Twitter Research: Why and How to Do It: Twitip.com has tips for using Twitter for historical research and more.
- Using Twitter for Market Research: Grow your business by taking note of these research tips and tools.
Filters and Niche Search
Block out all the miscellaneous Twitter noise and use these tools to focus on the conversations and research you're interested in.
- bkkeepr: This tracker keeps up with reading lists and more.
- FoodFeed: If you only want to research tweets related to what people are eating, head to this feed.
- Localtweeps: Filter tweets by zip code using this tool.
- Commuter Feed: View traffic reports for Houston, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, LA, New York and other top metro areas.
- Twitter Job Search: Research job openings here.
- Twitter filter: This Greasemonkey script lets you filter out any kind of annoying tweets.
- Omnee: Filter your list of people to research or follow by first checking this site. Omnee categorizes users by the ones with the most social capital, most reach, least centralized, and more.
- Stop the tweet spam! Two ways to filter Twitter into Facebook: Streamline your updates and social media research here.
- TwitZap: Keep your Twitter page open and active without having to refresh it.
- Cursebird: Keep track of the latest posts that contain curse words.
Analytics is a vital part of any research project. These tools will help you get the stats on your account, other users' influence, trends, website popularity, and more.
- TwitterCounter: Get stats for other users here.
- TweetStats: View Twitter feed stats in bar graph form.
- TwitterSpy: Keep an eye on the most recent tweets coming from a particular location.
- TweetBeep: TweetBeep alerts you via email when preferred conversations and keywords are tweeted.
- MyTweetMap: This tool displays tweets by location on a Google Map.
- SiteVolume: Find out how often a phrase, word or website is tweeted about.
- Tweetburner: Track URLs as they appear on Twitter.
- Twist: Twist lets you compare the stats for keywords, topics and more.
- Twitalyzer: Use Twitalzyer to discover the influence of different Twitter users.
- Twitstat Mobile: Look up analytics from your mobile phone using this tool.
Track trends, follows, conversations and people using these tools.
- tweet140: This tool tracks the length of your tweets.
- Twitt(url)y: Track popular URLs that appear on Twitter to find out what people are talking about.
- Does Follow: Organically expand your network by following people your friends follow.
- twAITer: Schedule tweets for a future release and track your overall feed here.
- Friend or Follow: Quickly double check who's following you with this tool.
- Tracking Twitter: Track brands, celebrities, media and TV tweets using this tool.
- Twistori: Hover over an emotion like love, hate, think, believe, feel or wish and read the upcoming posts that incorporate that feeling.
- Tweetizen: Use Tweetizen to create groups and track stories and posts that are meaningful to you.
- Twitterfall: Filter trends or do a custom search to see upcoming posts in a free-fall format.
For better research through Twitter, follow these tips and suggestions.
- Tweet during peak hours: Many people are tuned in to Twitter during the work week and during work hours, so you'll have a better chance of reaching your subjects then.
- Use a Twitter management tool: Use a tool like TweetDeck to easily organize your groups, updates and more, so that your research doesn't get lost.
- Use Advanced Search: Try Twitter's Advanced Search tool to find people, places, dates and more.
- Follow the competition: Market researchers should follow their competition on Twitter to learn about any deals or tricks they have going on.
- Tweet about what's hot: Join buzzed-about conversations and stories and find a way to relate your project to the mix.
- Update your subjects: Keep your Twitter subjects up to date on your progress so that they know how they've helped you.
- Ask lots of questions: Keep asking questions through Twitter to get a broad range of responses from everyone who follows you.
- Use a variety of Twitter directories: You'll encounter some repetition, but by using several different Twitter directories, you'll also stumble across new people who can help you that you may have discounted at first.
- Follow experts: Follow the tweets of an expert in your field to get routed to sensible, quality information.
- Stay organized: It can be hard to keep up with all the tweets, replies and updates from everyone you're following, so use groups, alerts and other tools to organize it all.
- Put it all into context: Tweetree displays your Twitter stream as a tree with all replies organized by context.
- Use different accounts: Don't confuse your subjects or yourself by managing different research projects from a single account. Manage different accounts with a service like Hootsutie
- List your credentials: Don't freak people out by asking for their information without providing your own credentials.
- Post a photo and your real name: People will be more likely to help you out if you present a valid name and photo.
- Conduct surveys: Use survey tools to find out how your followers feel about a particular subject.
- Back up your Twitter: Use a service like Tweetake to make sure your research and


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Counter-surface finish properties
The surface properties of the cylinder bore and the piston rod have a great influence on the function and service life of the seal. Parameters for specifying a surface finish are defined by ISO 4287:1997. The most common surface roughness parameter specified is Ra (in units μm or μin.), i.e. the arithmetic mean deviation of the surface profile. This value does not, however, completely describe how the surface can be expected to affect the seal. The reason for this is that two surfaces with the same values of Ra but with different surface profile characteristics can lead to different lubrication film thickness, resulting in varying seal performance and level of wear.
The material ratio curve (Abbott-Firestone curve) provides more information about the surface profile characteristics. It describes the ratio of the material-filled length to the evaluation length at a given cutting depth expressed in percent (fig. 1). The slope at the beginning of the curve represents the peaks in the profile, which are causing initial wear on the seal. The slope at the end of the curve represents the valleys in the profile, which serve as lubricant reservoirs.
Table 1 shows some surface profiles. To ensure a surface finish with a suitable profile and characteristics for effective dynamic sealing, SKF recommends a defined combination of the following surface parameters:
- Ra – arithmetic mean roughness
- Rz – mean peak-to-valley height
- Rmax – maximum peak-to-valley height
- Rmr – material ratio at a given depth
SKF recommends evaluating Rmr at a cutting depth of 0,5 Rz based on cref = 0% (diagram 1).


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Can I Talk to You About Mohammed?
Muslims don't have a tradition of proselytizing. Sure, they conquered other societies and let them convert if they wanted to, but sending people out as missionaries wasn't really part of the program. Even now, Muslim societies with money tend to send that money to Muslim neighbors to strengthen whatever sect within the religion they support. In short, it's not very likely that a Saudi is going to knock on your door anytime soon and ask if you've had a chance to meet Allah.
In the US, we've taken a slightly different tack. Instead of breaking away from the missionary traditions of our European forefathers, we've taken it to all new heights. It's not enough that American churches feel compelled to send evangelical missionaries all over the world to teach and convert, they also do the same at home. And all too often these efforts are aimed at the most vulnerable among us: children.
It's not just churches. It's also role models like sports stars. When Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin go beyond sports and feel the need to bring Jesus up in every interview, it's a message to children. It's proselytizing. When Josh Hamilton has to tell people that Jesus saved him from the drugs, that's a message to children as well. And as far as I'm concerned, raping children's minds in this way is just as bad as what someone like Jerry Sandusky did.
There's a very simple solution to all this:
So, how about it people? How about we keep it in our pants? I won't show you mine if you don't show me yours.


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The California Department of Managed Health Care protects consumers' health care rights and ensures a stable health care delivery system.
Provides leadership and guidance to the employees of the Department of Managed Health Care while working with external stakeholders toward an accountable and viable managed health care delivery system that promotes healthier Californians.
Chief Deputy Director
Oversees the day-to-day operations, which include an aggressive approach to improving overall efficiencies and performance management.
Deputy Director for Communications and Planning
Ensures integrated and consistent communications throughout the Department and with external stakeholders.
Deputy Director of Health Policy and Stakeholder Relations
Fosters proactive and effective relations between the Department and its stakeholders, while serving as primary advisor to the Director on critical issues and providing strategic planning and policy direction on emerging issues and industry trends.
Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs
Analyzes proposed, pending and recently enacted legislation and advises the Department on any and all legislative matters.
General Counsel
Advises the Director and Chief Deputy Director on general legal matters and coordinates legal counsel among the Department's divisions.
Chief Medical Officer
Serves as the Department's chief clinical consultant on a wide variety of regulatory and legislative initiatives, and is responsible for the stewardship of clinical and provider network adequacy issues and the clinical integrity in Department programs.
The Help Center assists consumers with health care issues and ensures that managed care patients receive the medical care and services to which they are entitled.
Contact Center
The Contact Center receives, reviews, and processes all incoming correspondence and addresses consumer telephone inquiries. The Contact Center answers thousands of calls per month from consumers with questions about or problems with health care issues. The Contact Center's regular phone hours are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday excluding state holidays and weekends. Help Center clinical staff are available after hours for urgent calls from consumers with an imminent threat to their health. The Contact Center has bilingual staff and telephonic interpretation services in over 100 languages and a TDD device or use of the California Relay Service for those who are hearing impaired. The Contact Center also processes incoming written correspondence including applications for Independent Medical Review and complaint forms. The Contact Center is responsible for educating consumers regarding non-jurisdictional issues, medical group or health plan closures, community resource referrals and health plan contact information as well as mailing forms, applications and informational brochures. Contact Center staff collect basic data, including demographic information, on callers to track problems and trends.
Independent Medical Review and Complaint Branch
The Independent Medical Review and Complaint Branch (ICB) responds to consumers' disputes with their respective DMHC-regulated health plan through the Independent Medical Review (IMR) and standard complaint processes. The ICB reviews IMR applications to determine if the issue qualifies for an IMR. Issues that qualify for an IMR include; (1) health care services that are denied, delayed, or modified as not medically necessary; (2) health care services that are denied, delayed or modified as investigational or experimental; or (3) denials of reimbursement requests for urgent or emergency medical services. ICB staff utilizes on-site legal and clinical staff for assistance and direction with complex cases and clinical issues. Standard complaints not eligible for an IMR are generally reviewed and resolved within 30 days. Standard complaints reviewed and resolved include coverage benefit denials, quality of care concerns, access to care issues, coordination of care issues, and deductible/out-of-pocket maximum accumulations.
Legal Affairs and Policy Development Unit
The Help Center's Legal Affairs and Policy Development Unit (HC Legal) investigates and resolves the most complex consumer complaints the Help Center receives including those complaints involving unsettled legal, policy or health plan compliance issues. HC Legal typically resolves assigned complaints within 30 days and then communicates case findings to the consumer, health plan, and/or provider(s) in a letter. HC Legal refers all Help Center complaints involving health plan non-compliance issues to the DMHC's Offices of Enforcement, Plan Monitoring, Licensing, or Legal Services for further review.
In addition to its case handling and compliance functions, HC Legal also provides legal advice and counsel to the following groups: (1) Help Center and DMHC executive management on policies, laws, and regulations affecting the DMHC and the health care industry; (2) Help Center analysts and clinical staff concerning IMR and benefit coverage dispute cases through the Legal Liaison program; and (3) community-based organizations and consumer advocates with respect to the applicability of the Knox-Keene Act and implementing regulations as well as navigating health plan and DMHC consumer complaint processes.
Provider Complaint Unit
The Provider Complaint Unit is responsible for accepting provider complaints involving unfair payment patterns. The Provider Complaint Unit tracks and trends complaints and forwards to the Department's auditing groups trending claims payment issues which may be used in routine and non-routine financial audits of health plans and their delegated payors.
The Provider Complaint Unit is also responsible for coordinating two Independent Dispute Resolution Processes (IDRP) for emergency and non-emergency services, respectively.
The Emergency Services IDRP was established to afford non-contracted providers who deliver Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) required services a fast, fair and cost-effective way to resolve claim payment disputes with health plans or capitated providers concerning the "reasonable and customary" value of services rendered. The Emergency Services IDRP is voluntary and non-binding as to both providers and payors.
New legislation enacted in 2016 (AB 72) established the Non-Emergency Services IDRP. AB 72 protects consumers from surprise medical bills for non-emergency services rendered by a non-contracting provider at a contracted facility on or after July 1, 2017. AB 72 also takes consumers out of any ongoing billing disputes by creating a binding IDRP to allow non-contracting providers and payors to dispute the appropriate reimbursement amount for non-emergency services. DMHC has contracted with an independent dispute resolution organization for the AB 72 Non-Emergency Services IDRP, which begins processing disputes on September 1, 2017.
Clarify Support Team
The Clarify Support Team is responsible for the development, implementation, training and support of the Help Center database applications – principally the Help Center's Customer Relationship Management system, Clarify. Staff prepare reports and provide data regarding information available via the Help Center's database.
Management Support Services
Management Support Services is comprised of two branches: Business Services and Community Program and Special Projects. The Business Services branch is responsible for Help Center personnel, training, contracts, purchasing, facility and office management, and management reports. The Community Program and Special Projects branch is responsible for Consumer Outreach and Assistance program grants, the Disability Assistant program, the Help Center monthly report, and legislative analysis. Through the grant program, a network of community-based organizations provides direct, local assistance for consumers with their health plan eligibility and coverage issues.
The Office of Enforcement handles the litigation needs of the Department, representing the Department in actions to enforce the managed health care laws and in actions that are brought against the Department. Cases may be referred to this Office from the Help Center, the Office of Health Plan Oversight, the Office of Patient Advocate, and other divisions that review the activities of health care service plans for compliance with the managed health care laws. Employees of this Office conduct investigations, prepare pleadings and briefs, and appear in all courts of California. The Office has two divisions
Division of Health Plan Standards
The Division of Health Plan Standards is responsible for handling actions (cases) involving health plans' compliance with the non-financial requirements of the managed health care laws, including the quality, accessibility, and continuity of care and the denial of treatment and claims in enforcing the managed health care laws. Cases are received from other divisions as well as initiated upon receipt of information from other sources.
Division of Financial Solvency
The Division of Financial Solvency is responsible for handling actions involving compliance with the financial requirements of the law, including the reporting and solvency requirements.
The mission of the Office of Legal Services (OLS) is to help set standards of consistency, efficiency, and transparency for the managed health care marketplace. Our motto is "together we set the standard."
The OLS provides legal and policy advice to the Director, Chief Deputy Director, Assistant/Deputy Directors, and programs of the DMHC, and recommends and develops necessary and appropriate statutes and regulations to administer the Knox-Keene Act. Representing the Director and the DMHC before various public and private agencies and forums, the OLS also serves as primary contact to the legislative branch and liaison of intergovernmental affairs.
Designed to serve as a general legal office, the OLS maintains flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of the DMHC. During 2010, for example, the OLS was called upon to help implement federal health care reform laws at the state level. The OLS continues to play a key role in coordinating DMHC implementation of those federal laws on a continuous basis.
Legal services are provided by the OLS in connection with arbitrations, budget matters, ethical guidelines, information technology, internal procedures, interpretive opinions, legislation, litigation strategy, open meetings, personnel administration, public contracts, records management, rulemaking, and tort liability.
In addition, the OLS supports a Policy Council of DMHC management, advises the Financial Solvency Standards Board, and administers the Consumer Participation Program.
The management team of OLS consists of an Assistant Deputy Director serving as principal policy adviser to the Executive Staff and as OLS program manager, an Assistant Chief Counsel, and two Staff Managers.
Reorganized in 2010, OLS has two teams to perform its work: a Division of Law and Legislation is comprised of legal counsel and a Division of Legal Administration with analysts and administrative staff.
Provides a variety of administrative support services to the Department, including:
Maintains the accounting system and prepares the Department's year-end financial statements. Processes vendor payments, travel expense claims, revolving fund checks, revenue receipts, and payroll warrant releases.
Budget Office
Prepares the annual Governor's Budget, revenue and expenditure projections, office allotments and the annual assessments. Reviews budget change proposals and provides office consultation and training.
Business Management Services
Provides business services such as contracts, procurement, space planning, telecommunications, records management, safety and building security, central reception, mail service, inventory control and copy center services.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Provides EEO advisor services, EEO counseling, and EEO training. Coordinates the EEO discrimination and complaint process, upward mobility program, Americans with Disabilities Act program, and reasonable accommodation program.
Human Resources
Provides departmental personnel and payroll services, including: benefits, transactions, position control, classification and pay, examinations, labor relations, worker's compensation and supervisor consultations. Provides administrative and management support services to department staff, including administrative policy and procedures oversight.
Division of Application Support
Provides Webmaster and application development and support for the public Internet Web sites (DMHC and OPA), department Intranet (OTIS) and the department Web portals and other Web-based applications.
Provides project management and programming support to the following projects: FSSB, Financial Exam Reporting and the Help Center.
Provides Clear Basic and Crystal Reports programming and support for the HMO Call Center application.
Designs, develops, implements and supports Departmental Microsoft SQL databases and performs backup database administrator functions and assists in network and desktop support as needed.
Division of Support Services
Provides support services for and procurement of PC desktops, laptops and the associated suite of productivity software.
Staffs the IT Help Desk to respond to both PC administrators and Department employees for problem resolution.
Provides administration for databases and the Exchange/Outlook email application.
Maintains the Department's network, file and printer servers and application servers.
Ensures the security of data through the implementation of virus detection software and intruder detection.
Division of Financial Oversight
Monitors and evaluates the financial viability of health plans to ensure continued access to health care services for the enrollees/patients of California. This is accomplished by reviewing financial statements, analyzing financial arrangements and other information submitted as part of the licensing, material modification, and amendment process; and by performing routine and non-routine examinations.
Premium Rate Review
Reviews proposed health plan premium rate increases, analyzes the justification for such increases, educates the public to expand consumer understanding of how premium rates are established and promotes more accountability within the health care industry.
Division of Provider Solvency and Support
Monitors the financial stability of Risk Bearing Organizations through the analyses of financial data and corrective action plans. Investigates and provides meaningful and appropriate regulatory resolutions to claim payment disputes through identifying unfair payment practices and unfair billing patterns.
Works toward assuring that licensed health plans provide the delivery of preventive and other medically necessary health care services in an appropriately organized and financially stable managed health care setting.
The Office of Plan Monitoring monitors plan compliance with the law and evaluates access and the adequacy of plan networks.
Division of Plan Surveys
The Division is responsible for evaluating and promoting health plan regulatory compliance and quality improvement as related to health care delivery systems. The Division's public health and clinical professionals plan and conduct on-site evaluations of all licensed health plans at least every three years and issue reports to the public that discuss plan performance in the areas of health care accessibility, utilization management, quality improvement and member grievances/appeals.
Division of Provider Networks
The Division of Provider Networks reviews plan provider networks to ensure networks have the right types of providers necessary to deliver services promised under enrollees' contracts, meet geographic access requirements, meet provider to enrollee ratio requirements, and have a sufficient number of providers to offer appointments within timely access standards.
Call the DMHC Help Center
or submit an Independent Medical Review/Complaint Form
Need Help? Call the DMHC Help Center at
California Governor
Secretary, Health and Human Services Agency
Director, Department of Managed Health Care


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CRYSTAL LAKE – Tea party members, conservative bloggers and radio hosts are rallying in support of a Woodstock waitress who says she was fired from the Crystal Lake Outback Steakhouse for wearing a political bracelet and admitting tea party sentiments.
Twenty-three-year-old Megan Geller of Woodstock said that a couple dining at the restaurant in early October took offense to her bright yellow bracelet with the words "Don't Tread On Me" printed on it.
Outback's Chief Legal Officer Joseph Kadow said Geller was fired for her inattention to customers that evening.
"Megan Geller was not let go because of her tea party bracelet," Kadow said in a statement to the Northwest Herald. "On the night in question two separate tables complained about her lack of attention."
When the manager spoke to Geller about these complaints, she responded by yelling at him with a hostile attitude, and that led to her termination, Kadow said.
Geller says she told the diners her mother, Tonya Franklin, gave her the bracelet after Franklin received it at a tea party event. Those last three words incensed the couple, who then asked for the manager, Geller said.
Holding signs and waving American flags and yellow "Don't Tread On Me" banners, a weekend protest outside the restaurant was held against what demonstrators called a violation of Geller's free speech rights.
Conservative bloggers and radio hosts also have spread Geller's story.
"They stirred up the wrong hornet's nest and messed with the wrong mama," Franklin said at the protest Saturday. "When mamas get mad, mamas get to work."
Megan said she feigned ignorance when the customers questioned the bracelet's meaning.
"I didn't want to talk politics at work," she said.
Geller claims she wore the bracelet "for months" with no prior warning from restaurant management and was never asked to remove the bracelet.
"She was not fired because a customer complained about her bracelet," Kadow said. "That would have simply been handled by asking her to take off the bracelet."
Documents from the Illinois Department of Employment Security provided by Geller state that she was fired for misconduct, but she should not have been denied unemployment benefits.
"The evidence shows the claimant was discharged from [Outback Steakhouse] because they received a couple complaints from customers since she was wearing a bracelet with a political point of view," according to documents from the state agency. "Since the claimant's action, which resulted in her discharge was not deliberate or willful, the claimant is not ineligible for benefits."
Outback did not challenge Geller's unemployment claim, or submit any information regarding her claim, Kadow said.


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Meet Lori Moreland: new stadium organist for the White Sox.
Moreland takes over for Nancy Faust, who retired last season after 40 years and more than 3,000 games with the White Sox.
"I can't even believe I'm sitting here," Moreland said Tuesday from her organ booth behind home plate. "It's almost like a dream."
Moreland, 52, is a church organist by day at Our Lady of Knock in Calumet City. Now she's brushing up on her Eminems and Ushers.
Remember the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage in Calumet City?


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After getting nailed by a 95-mph fastball by David Price last night, hitting the wall in center making a tremendous, crucial catch to the end the fifth and fouling a few pitches off himself, Grandy gets the night off. Well earned, I say. I almost get the impression that anything shy of an iron spike through his skull, Grandy might have played.
C.C. turns 31 today, and hopefully celebrates it in a style similar to his last several, tremendous starts.
Below as per Chad Jennings at LoHud, the Yankees lineup:
Brett Gardner CF
Derek Jeter SS
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Jorge Posada DH
Russell Martin C
Eduardo Nunez 3B
Chris Dickerson LF
Good to see Gardner leading off. About time.
Enjoy the game, everyone. I am off to dinner later, and finishing a hellacious spate of writing overnight. I cannot wait.
Get that series win, guys.