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The trend of opting out of a large practice with rushed visits has come to Worcester. Dr. Sheila Trugman, who was previously the medical director of the Jewish Healthcare Center, has opened a concierge medical practice at The Willows at Worcester, a continuing care retirement community. She will focus on patients 50 and older.
Unlike a traditional medical practice, which can have as many as 3,000 patients, Dr. Trugman is limiting her practice to 200 clients, in order to provide them with optimal health care services, family meetings, hospital visits and, when needed, house calls. Dr. Trugman, who does not yet have an office staff, provides patients with the number to her cellphone, which she answers day and night.
Clients pay a membership fee to be part of the practice, which she calls �Tree of Life Healthcare.� The fee is typically $3,600, but Dr. Trugman is offering a discount for charter members who sign on in the next few months.
�I�m the first concierge doctor in Worcester,� Dr. Trugman said. �The nearest one is 25 miles away, in Natick.�
Dr. Trugman provided a full spectrum of family health care for many years, before becoming the medical director for the Jewish Healthcare Center; she was also the founding medical director of the Jewish Healthcare Hospice. She then worked as a geriatrician at Hebrew Senior Life in Boston and Dedham, providing long-term and palliative care.
As for the reason for starting a concierge practice, Dr. Trugman said the slower pace and deeper relationships she could establish appealed to her.
�And I decided I wanted to come back to Worcester,� she said. �And with this idea of concierge medicine, there is a partnership.�
Dr. Trugman said she accepts all kinds of health insurance; her concierge fee and the additional services she provides are not covered. She said she is available to provide counseling regarding end of life decisions, with family meetings in person or over the phone.
�I spend a lot of my time advocating for patients, whether at a hospital or with other doctors,� she said. �I also do real wellness and medical life planning. There is so much technology, but it�s not necessarily what�s right for someone.
�To really be an advocate for someone, you need to know them as people, and what their values are,� she said.
While Dr. Trugman�s concierge practice is the first in the city, it is not likely to be the last.
Concierge medicine has grown from just a few doctors in 1996 to more than 4,400 in 2012, according to the American Academy of Private Physicians, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fueling the growth of concierge-type medical practices.
�It�s definitely been growing rapidly,� said Tom Blue, AAPP�s executive director. �Growth is accelerating due to health care reform and the increasing financial difficulties for primary care physicians.�
Mr. Blue said that while much of concierge medicine�s growth is found in the western and southern states of California, Florida, Texas and Arizona, Massachusetts� health care reform is likely to push more doctors and patients to the model.
�Because of the supply shortage, more consumers are likely to seek out concierge medicine,� he said. �And I would expect to see a continuous stream of doctors choosing that option as well.�
Dr. Trugman, who is accepting new patients, can be reached at (508) 767-7931; her website is treeoflifehealthcare.com.


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July 7, 2013
By Charles Goldberg
AUBURN — Scott Fountain has made the transition from player personnel director on last year's Auburn football staff to a coaching position on Auburn's new football staff, and, gosh, are his ears burning.
He's heard the new coaching staff evaluate some of the ideas of the old coaching staff.
"You come in with a new staff and you keep one guy… and that guy gets beat up a little bit. I was that guy that got beat up a little bit," Fountain says with a smile.
It's not personal. It's football.
"These new guys are trying to evaluate everything. Was it the players? Was it 'this'? Was it 'that'?" Fountain said. "If they say things, it might bother you because you might have taken a lot of pride in something. At the same time, I always think there are a lot of ideas out there that can make you better. You have to be willing to adjust and change.
"I felt like I had an opportunity to be very helpful to the new staff, explaining the ropes here, how things work, the chain of command and the background of some of the kids on the team. I know in some ways I was helpful to them, but there are some times when you have to swallow your pride and go on."
Besides, Fountain wasn't a coach last season. He helped in the day-to-day adminstrative operation with a focus on recruiting.
Fountain is a football survivor, from being an undersized offensive lineman at Samford, to moving up the coaching ladder, to coaching with Gene Chizik to Iowa State, to moving to Auburn in an administrative role in 2009. That was his job for four years, and would be seemingly be his job in 2013 for Gus Malzahn as well — until Rich Bisaccia left for the NFL a few weeks after taking a job as Auburn assistant. A change here and there and Fountain was back on the field as Malzahn's tight ends and special teams coach.
"I made it known to him I wanted to coach on the field, which he knew from being here previously," Fountain said. "I was told if that opportunity came available I would. At the same time, I've never taken a job banking on 'what ifs'. I took this job knowing it was going to be an administrative job and hoping this would happen.
"If you work hard in life and do a good job, doors will open. That's what I tried to do."
Fountain said he appreciates the chance.
"It's been awesome," he said. "I haven't missed the administrative side at all. It's really been fun because it gives you a chance to get back into film study.
"I've always tried to stay in touch with the game. I took spring break to go meet with a couple of guys I have worked with at previous jobs or have respect for. It's fun to get back out and rekindle some of those relationships and also to get back to talking football, which is what I enjoy doing."
Charles Goldberg writes for AuburnTigers.com. Follow him on Twitter: Follow @AUGoldMine


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STERLING – A man shot three to five rounds from the back of a car near Avenue I and West Seventh Street around 5:11 p.m. Sunday in what appears to be a gang-related drive-by, police said in a news release Monday.
No injuries were reported.
According to police, witnesses said the car stopped in the 700 block of Avenue I, the shooter fired three to five rounds at a rear yard to the east, were several people were, then the car took off northbound. No one was injured, the release said.
The shooter was in the back of a gray or light blue Lincoln Town Car with a dark landau top with an "S" on the rear pillar, the release said.
He was Hispanic, 5-foot-4, 140 to 150 pounds. He was sitting behind the driver, a heavyset Hispanic man with a bald or shaved head, Sterling Police Detective J.D. Sanders said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Whiteside County Crimestoppers at 815-625-7867 or the Sterling Police Department at 815-632-6640.


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Talend Open Studio for Data Quality helps you to profile your data. The ergonomic interface allows you to define metrics (indicators) and collect statistics on your data in a few clicks. It comes with a set of regular expressions that helps you to identify bad data. You can create your own regular expressions and use them in data profiling analyses. A lot of options exist for each indicator, which change the behavior of the indicator so that it gives you more pertinent information. Data quality options on indicators alert you when your data quality is not what you expected.
DataCleaner is a data quality analysis tool that allows you to perform data profiling, validating, and minor ETL-like tasks. These activities help you administer and monitor your data quality in order to ensure that your data is useful and applicable to your business situation. It can be used for master data management (MDM) methodologies, data warehousing projects, statistical research, preparation for extract-transform-load activities, and more.
Wandora is a general purpose data extraction, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. Wandora has a graphical user interface, layered presentation of knowledge, several data storage options, rich data extraction, import and export capabilities, and an embedded HTTP server that enables dynamic publication of Topic Maps. Wandora is well suited for rapid ontology construction and knowledge mashups.
The TMHarvest library is based on TM4J and provides a convenient way to automatically generate topic maps from different data sources. A rules files with embedded templates (written in XML) defines from which data sources topic map constructs should be taken into account, as well how new or existent topics should be associated.
EZ Reusable Objects (EZRO) is a Web application that can be used by non-technical staff to manage content as "objects." Content objects containing text, video, and audio can be shared, modified, and re-styled to appear via a traditional Web site, an on-line course, an innovative "Coach," or as a community of interest site. It is highly scalable and can be used for public Web sites, secure environments, and private intra/extranets.
Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Piggydb is a Web application provided as a self-contained package that contains a Web server and database engine.
MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in Web documents instead of free text in the document body. The data acquisition system conforms to the Dublin Core metadata in HTML recommendations, and supports other application profiles, such as the UK e-Government Metadata Standard. It also indexes native RDF formats, including RSS 1.0. The system has five major components: a Web crawler, an HTML document validator and formatter, a set of custom indexers, an RDF storage and query system, and a public query interface, provided through a standard servlet container.
PIVIAU is a PHP/MySQL Web based gallery for pictures, videos, and audio that supports tags and EXIF. Albums and pictures have searchable tag, country, city, place, date, subject, and author. An RSS feed is available for every seach you can do, or for recent pictures. There is an AJAX-powered slideshow. Pictures are resized using PHP GD image functions. Videos are viewable a la Google Video using a video flash player. Audio (WAV and MP3) is supported via the embed HTML tag. EXIF is supported via PHP exif functions to extract the picture date.
Lobotomy involves many sub-projects oriented to experimentation about new design for human-computer interaction and, more generally, a new way for home computing. It involves a relational filesystem, a window manager, and many libraries, tools, and daemons to automatically extract and handle metadata.
Project35 is an application suite that allows users to generate data entry forms from XML schema. Application designers use a Configuration Tool to associate records and record fields defined in the schema with application properties that include features such as: validation services, controlled vocabulary services, general plugins, and various aspects of look-and-feel.
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Susan M. (Michalak) Duquette, of Northborough and Centerville, formerly of Shrewsbury, died Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at home with family gathered by her side after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 58.
Sue was born February 25, 1954 in Worcester a daughter of Barbara A. (Heron) Michalak and the late George S. Michalak who died December 10, 2012. She leaves her beloved husband of 42 years, John P. Duquette, and her five beautiful children, John J. Duquette and his wife Lorena of Shrewsbury, Jamie P. Duquette, Joseph D. Duquette and his wife Melissa, both of Worcester and Jeffrey P. Duquette and his wife Lindsay of Shrewsbury and daughter Juliann E. Duquette of Northborough. She also leaves her four cherished grandchildren, Florencia, Camdyn, Dillon and Nicole Duquette, all of Shrewsbury; her sister Diane L. Michalak, of Shrewsbury, many nephews and nieces and her beloved dog Lilly.
Susan lived most of her life in Shrewsbury and was a graduate of Shrewsbury High School, Class of 1972. She then earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester State College and later her Master's Degree in Computer Science. She taught one year in Northborough at the Melican Middle School and then for over 14 years as a teacher at Shrewsbury High School. During her tenure at Shrewsbury High School, she taught Mathematics for several years before helping spearhead the launch of the school's television production studio with her longtime friend, Bob Cornacchioli. Susan was a very special educator and maintained many long lasting relationships with her students throughout her life. In 1998 she retired from teaching in anticipation of the adoption of her youngest child and only daughter, Juliann. During this year of preparation she volunteered in the children's pediatric room at UMASS Medical Center. Shortly after Juliann's arrival, she moved to Northborough and later worked part-time as a realtor for Coldwell Banker Co. in Shrewsbury.
Sue loved their vacation home in Centerville, on Cape Cod. This house provided many of her fondest memories as it provided the perfect place for her family to come together. While at the Cape, her favorite spot was Dowses Beach, where she could enjoy a good book and play with her grandchildren. Also at the Cape, she especially enjoyed visiting the local country store and playground with her daughter Juliann and her grandchildren. Over the course of many years, Susan forged countless friendships including, Shrewsbury Youth Hockey moms, Montessori moms, neighborhood book club, Worcester Country Club golf group, The Healing Garden support group and S.H.S. retired teachers group.
Travelling was also a favorite pastime for Susan. Her adventures included trips to Switzerland with the Shrewsbury High School hockey team, Las Vegas, Hawaii and various islands in Caribbean. Her most special destinations were her annual trips to Disney World with family and to Del Ray Beach, FL to visit with friends Francine Cox and George Cassanelli. Her most unforgettable trip was to Argentina to meet her future daughter-in-law, Lorena, and granddaughter, Florencia.
Sue received amazing care and treatment throughout her twelve year battle with cancer under the direction and friendship of Dr. Richard Horner, team of nurses and the entire staff in the Breast Cancer Clinic at UMASS Medical. Her family will also be forever grateful for our "family angel", Jeanne Corrao, for the compassionate care she gave to Sue.
Family and friends will honor and remember Sue's life by gathering for calling hours at Heald & Chiampa Funeral Directors ~ The Sumner House, 5 Church Road, On the Common, Shrewsbury Center on Tuesday, February 26th from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. and again at 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday morning before leaving in procession to Saint Anne's Church, 130 Boston Turnpike, Shrewsbury, where her Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Burial will follow in Mountain View Cemetery.
Honor Sue's memory with a contribution to Why Me & Sherry's House, 1152 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602 or to The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden, 145 Bolton Road, Harvard, MA 01451
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Video Saurabh Narain and His Homemade Lego-Based Rubik's Cube Solver (Video) 43
Tim: Saurabh, what are you standing right behind here?
Saurabh: I'm standing right behind this LEGO Rubik's Cube Solver. What it does is, it solves the Rubik's cube in under 30 moves in less than 100 seconds. So here it is – right now it's scanning the cube and observing it. The special feature it has is it only scans five sides, for the last side it can just subtract from the nine and then get each one of those individual colors on the bottom. So it's scanning right now. Right now this IR sensor is also here, so it detects the cube when it's present or not. There's a turn-table here that turns the cube and the scan-arm that goes back and forth for the LED or color sensor to get the light and the color.
Tim: How long does this take to engineer?
Saurabh: This took about a month to build.
Tim: What was the reason to take this as a project?
Saurabh: Because I couldn't solve Rubik's cube, and I learned how to solve it. Then I looked up some different robots that could solve it. Then based on those I tried making my own and here it is.
Tim: The programming—was it a very difficult task?
Saurabh: Yeah, programming was a pretty difficult task. I have C files from David Gilday also. I've modified it a little bit and tweaked it to work with this robot here. And what it basically does is, it finds a Rubik's cube in any position and it's able to guess all this cores and the centerpieces of each cube. And also what it does is, it's able to solve the cube, even if it's already solved it will say 'solved'. And it has some intelligent software to also predict what's going to happen next with the cube. So it only has to scan it once not every time it makes a single move.
Tim: So, how about the physical manipulation aspect, how long did that take to figure out?
Saurabh: Oh it took some time. Because when I was tweaking the arm, sometimes it just wouldn't work and then I had to re-tweak it and re-modify, modify modify everything again. So say for this arm, once I tweaked one part the other part would stop working. So then it would take much more time to fix that part and then modify each and every one.
Tim: Have you actually destroyed or hurt any Rubik's cubes?
Saurabh: Yeah, actually, in fact here, I will show you. I had destroyed this Rubik's cube here, I was solving it and then it just fell off without solving it, but it's been destroyed, but I am finally going to glue that back on.
Tim: It seems like a tough thing to figure out exactly how much force it takes to do the twisting and to manipulate against the friction of the internals?
Saurabh: Yeah, yeah.
Tim: So, this is a silly question I guess, but I think I can ask it of you: What do you want to do when you grow up?
Saurabh: I definitely want to be a software or hardware engineer, so yeah.
Tim: So it seems like you're 90% there at this point, maybe 99% there?
Saurabh: Yeah.
Tim: What is your next target, do you have anything in mind?
Saurabh: Actually, I was working on a robot that's going to be solving a Rubik's cube of course, but it's going to be using four arms instead of just one here. So it will be able to solve Rubik's cubes much, much faster. It will also be much more productive and have more algorithms for it. This is going to have less algorithms because it only has a lower range of movement, so yeah.
Tim: So, how about the basis of the physical parts, is this Lego Mindstorms?
Saurabh: Yeah, this is actually Lego Mindstorms. It has one EV3 here on this side as you can see. And it has one IR sensor to detect if the cube is present or not, one color sensor to check each individual color of the cube, and three motors: one motor turns this arm here, the other motor turns the turn-table and it turns the turn-table; this arm turns the cube with this motor and this little medium motor—all it does, it goes back and forth. So if you can see here that's the arm turning it. And here's the medium motor and here is the turn-table and here is the scan-arm which goes over the cube and starts scanning it.
Tim: Now the thing about this is, if you have four arms, are you going to stay with Lego Mindstorms?
Saurabh: Yeah. It's a really easy base to work with -– you can take apart things easily. If you use metal parts and fuse them together, it'd be a lot of times that you actually defuse them and take them apart. So Lego Mindstorms is like a good base for me to build over.
Tim: What is your programming environment it is the Mindstorms?
Saurabh: It is the Mindstorms language, it's called EV3G. It's basically LabVIEW modified by LEGO and they gave the software, and I have the student edition of the software which allows me to do experiments and also to create programs.
Tim: If you're going to be making it more complex algorithmically, a more complex device, is that still going to be in the LEGO Mindstorms language or you're going to switch to a different environment.
Saurabh: Maybe ROBOTC. ROBOTC is another good software that I've been using for programming other types of robots, Tetrix space robots, where ROBOTC would be another thing I could use to program the robots.
Tim: And the code you've created to do this, do you release it to other people?
Saurabh: Actually, it's already been released but I've modified it. I haven't released my own modified version but maybe I will be doing that and also releasing my modified instructions too.
Tim: Good, that way a lot of people can benefit from it.
Saurabh: Yeah, yeah.
Tim: Right. Thanks for showing it here.
Saurabh: You're welcome.
Tim: Thanks very much.


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AAII Investor Guides
As a member of AAII, you are free to access any one of our guides at any time on AAII.com. These guides are updated throughout the year; recent guide updates include the Tax Guide and the Top Mutual Funds Guide. The Tax Guide was updated detailing changes in new tax legislation and the Top Funds Guide shows performance as of the end of 2012. To navigate to AAII Guides, click on the Getting Started tab at the top of the home page at AAII.com, then click on Investor Guides from the submenu. In total, 10 guides are available on the AAII website for members. Here, we highlight the AAII Tax Guide, the Top Mutual Funds Guide and the Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds.
AAII Tax Guide
New tax legislation was signed into law at the start of the New Year, approximately 2½ weeks after AAII sent the 2012 Tax Guide to the printer for the AAII Journal. The new law permanently extends some provisions of the prior tax law that had expired at the end of 2012 and establishes new rules for high income earners. AAII's online Tax Guide has been updated to include all the changes to tax laws made in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012; it is accessible at www.aaii.com/guides/taxguide (Figure 1). The Tax Guide provides tables charting the tax rates for capital gains, qualified dividends and income brackets; child tax credits; marriage penalty relief; and exemption amounts for alternative minimum tax (AMT) and estate taxes. Tables cover the tax years 2012 and 2013.
In addition to all of the data provided in the Tax Guide, a link to an interactive Tax Forecasting Worksheet is also available. The worksheet allows users to input income, adjustments and deductions and calculates an estimated balance due (or refund expected) for the tax years 2012 and 2013.
Top Mutual Funds Guide
Mutual funds are designed to help investors diversify their portfolios without having to spend the time on choosing and tracking individual stocks. Mutual funds are typically actively managed and usually have higher expense ratios than exchange-traded funds.
The mutual funds included in AAII's Top Mutual Funds Guide are all no-load and low-load funds that are readily available to individual investors. The guide covers 1,560 funds and can be found at www.aaii.com/guides/mfguide. Five performance tables are included: Table 1 lists the performance of common index benchmarks, Table 2 summarizes average performance and risk of fund categories, Table 3 compares the performance of the 50 most widely held funds (Figure 2), Table 4 lists the 50 best-performing funds of 2012 and Table 5 lists the 50 worst-performing funds of 2012. A unique risk-adjusted return table is also available.
In the individual fund listings, funds are grouped by category and listed alphabetically within each category. The listings provide information on a variety of return and risk data, portfolio composition, and fees and expenses. The listings can be viewed online or downloaded into Excel.
If you would like to request a copy of a fund prospectus and annual report, telephone numbers and website addresses of the fund families are also provided.
Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
In contrast to mutual funds, exchange-traded funds usually track an underlying index and many ETFs are not actively managed (some are). Typically, expense ratios for ETFs are lower than those for actively managed mutual funds. ETFs provide a great choice for investors looking for exposure to certain sectors or industries that are difficult for the individual investor to research.
Be sure to keep in mind your financial goals, diversification needs and risk tolerances when selecting an exchange-traded fund.
Once asset classes and categories are determined, the AAII ETF Guide can help you find appropriate exchange-traded funds. Most funds are named based on their underlying index (e.g., SPDR S&P 500 tracks the performance of the S&P 500 index). The construction of the underlying index has a significant impact on the fund's performance: For example, Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) has a far larger weighting in iShares S&P 500 Index (IVV), which tracks a capitalization-weighted index, than it does in Guggenheim S&P Equal Weight (RSP), which tracks an S&P 500 index that weights all components equally.
The ETF Guide found at www.aaii.com/guides/etf-guide covers nearly 1,500 funds. Again, funds are listed alphabetically by category, and you can view the lists online (Figure 3) or download an Excel spreadsheet.
In Case You Missed It: Recent Online Exclusive
A new CI Online Exclusive was posted to the Computerized Investing website since the last quarterly issue.
In February 2013, Joe Lan, CFA, wrote "Tax Preparation Services." He provides an in-depth review of three of the best tax preparation services available: TurboTax, H&R Block and TaxAct. These services are still available through a CD, but are each also available completely online, which is the most convenient and quickest way to file your taxes. The online exclusive details the strengths and weaknesses of each service and should help you choose a tax service during tax season.
To receive notifications of new postings at the Computerized Investing website, subscribe to the free CI Email. In addition to announcing newly posted content, the email reviews websites and shareware programs, reports on smartphone apps of interest to investors and discusses tech gadgets for the enthusiast in all of us.
Sign up for the weekly CI Email at www.aaii.com/email and look for it in your email inbox every Saturday.


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Come join the entire LittleBigPlanet community to set the official Guinness record for most user generated LittleBigPlanet levels in a 24 hour period.
Sackboy's wardrobe goes above and beyond with a new range of costumes from Beyond: Two Souls.
inFAMOUS: Second Son comes to PlayStation 4 on March 21st and Sackboy will be able to become a Conduit himself later this week! With this brand new costume based on inFAMOUS: Second Son protagonist, Delsin Rowe, Sockboy will be able to unleash his own special powers across LittleBigPlanet.
The LittleBigPlanet community were hard at work last week and a gathering of 24 creators came together to form two teams to each create a level in just 24 hours! Working in shifts, the two teams worked tirelessly throughout the entire day to create a pair of brand new levels for you to play.
Everyone's favorite messengers from the fantastical, papery world of Tearaway arrive to LittleBigPlanet this week to spread their message of courage, determination and companionship to Sackfolk all-around. These two new costumes will be available in the Tearaway Minipack when the PlayStation Store updates later this week and will give your Sackboy or Sackgirl the perfect outfits they need to deliver messages of goodwill to your friends!
We have a couple of celebrations occurring across the globe this week, so there's a trio of fun costumes being re-released on the PlayStation Store this week to help you celebrate these special occasions!
Christmas is such a wonderful time of year, and it really encourages our community to come out in full force and show off their creative spark by developing some very festive levels to help celebrate this special time of year.
The jolly man himself has now arrived on LittleBigPlanet to spread some festive cheer across the community. This FREE costume can now be picked up from the store, so head on over there today and surprise your friends when you next pop into their Pod!
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BATAVIA – It's hard for K. Hollis Jewelers owner Rob Hollis to forget the anniversary of the opening of the store, which he owns with his wife, Karen Hollis, or their wedding anniversary.
They opened the store April 5, 2005. On Friday, Hollis and his wife celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary.
"It so happens the store anniversary and our wedding anniversary coincide," Rob Hollis said.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, the store will celebrate its ninth anniversary at 147 S. Randall Road in Batavia. The event will feature raffle prizes every hour along with food and refreshments.
At 4 p.m., a grand prize of a $250 gift certificate will be given away.
K. Hollis Jewelers is located in the Windmill shopping center near Jewel-Osco. Information is available at the store's website, www.khollisjewelers.com.
The store celebrates its anniversary every year.
"It's all about thanking the customers," Rob Hollis said. "We've been really lucky. Our customer list is 15,000 now. That's a lot of people to thank."
The store has grown. In 2012, the store more than doubled in size, from 1,800 square feet to 4,100 square feet.
The expansion allowed the owners to spread out their merchandise and add more lines of jewelry.
Along with carrying new jewelry, K. Hollis also turns old jewelry into new items.
"We've been doing more of that these days," he said. "Karen is probably doing two or three of these a day. People might have an emotional attachment to a ring or another piece of jewelry. We just turn it into something new."
The store tries to serve its customers as best it can, Hollis said, adding, "we want to make sure you are getting what you want."


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Appraisal: "March of Dimes" Autographs, ca. 1955
In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Eric Silver visit beautiful Brookgreen Gardens to discuss early 20th-century female sculptors. Appraiser Debra Force discovers a Joseph Henry Sharp oil painting valued at $400,000, leaving the guest feeling as sunny as Myrtle Beach itself!
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Vermont-based master butcher Cole Ward delivers a comprehensive guide to whole-animal butchery that goes beyond conventional "do-it-yourself" books and takes readers inside the world of truly sustainable meat production. The Gourmet Butcher's Guide to Meat demystifies the process of getting meat to the table, and its wide scope will be welcome to those who not only wish to learn the rudiments of butchery, but also want to understand how meat animals are raised, slaughtered, and marketed in a holistic system that honors both animals and consumers.
Written in Cole's unique voice of humor and simplicity, the book celebrates the traditional art of culinary butchery, introducing readers to stand-out butchers in America and Europe as well as a diverse group of farmers committed to raising the very best animals with respect.
The many methods of raising and finishing meat animals are clearly and thoroughly explained and compared, and sensitive issues like hormone and antibiotic use in meat production are assessed. Readers will learn all the terminology associated with meat and butchery, as well as the complexities of meat grading, carcass yield, marbling scores, and issues with inspection.
Also included are recipes, a detailed glossary, and more information on:
• The real definition, work, and role of a culinary butcher;
• The history and tradition of butchery;
• Meat: selecting your breed, grading and aging, tenderness, storing; and reheating;
• How meat gets to the table: farmers, slaughtering methods, stress, and animal welfare, the role of meat inspectors, cut sheets, what's legally allowed/not allowed when purchasing meat for further processing, keeping integrity in the local meat movement;
• Understanding the commercial meat food chain and recognizing deceptive practices;
• Processing your own meat: what you'll need, tools, safety, prep;
• Beef: domestication, terminology, how cows work, raising methods (grass, grain, etc.), meat-safety issues, hormone growth implants, antibiotics and feed additives, carcass yield and marbling scores, and a partial list of beef breeds;
• Cutting up a beef forequarter and hindquarter;
• Pork: domestication, terminology, raising methods, grading and inspection, and a partial list of pork breeds;
• Cutting up a side of pork;
• Sheep: domestication, terminology, raising methods, and a partial list of meat breeds;
• Cutting up a whole lamb;
• Chicken: domestication, terminology, how to cut up a whole chicken;
• How to make sausages;
• Value-added products: what they are and how they can help increase your bottom line;
• Your own butcher shop: size, equipment, display, marketing;
• A better way of thinking about meat: a holistic overview and some conclusions.
History buffs will delight in the chapter that traces the roots of butchery from pre-history to modern times, and meat shoppers will welcome Cole's description of what goes on behind the scenes at meat markets large and small. And, of course, new or aspiring butchers will find a well-illustrated slideshow on CD (included in the back of the book) with over 800 images on cutting up a side of beef, a side of pork, and whole lamb and chicken in more detail than is offered in any other book on the subject. Sure to be the ultimate resource on the subject of gourmet butchery, this book will change the conversation and help bring back a traditional art that is in jeopardy, but increasingly important in the local-food and ecological-agriculture movement.
Library Journal-
"For old-world experience of the art of butchery, look no further than master butcher and lecturer Ward. His deep knowledge shines as he delves into nearly every aspect of butchery—from its role in ancient Egypt to profiles of individual farmers and shops to the controversy around ritual slaughter—before ever addressing how to carve up a carcass. While parts of this background are compelling, especially Ward's personal story, those looking for practical instructions will have a 100-page wait. Once there, however, readers are greeted with detailed, well-organized information on choosing and processing the best beef, pork, lamb, and chicken. A CD is included for most of the carving instruction. Sensitive readers be warned: like a well-seasoned piece of meat, Ward's language is mildly salty. VERDICT With artisan meat and home butchery growing in popularity among DIYers and urban homesteaders, this book is on trend. However, its detailed emphasis on theory and history make it better suited to the serious gourmet than to the casual foodie."
"Resolutely carnivorous, Ward amasses evidence confirming that humans have been meat eaters from early in their history. He passionately defends humane animal husbandry, maintaining that properly slaughtered and processed animals produce superior meat. Ward has little use for high-volume, big-business meat packers. Addressing beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, he inventories some of currently popular animal breeds whose flesh offers exceptional flavors. Ward explains how to break down an animal's primal cuts to produce roasts, steaks, and chops, and he offers some unique recipes for sausages. A bibliography gives sources for further exploration, and a CD supplements the book with step-by-step instructional photos."
"Cole Ward has done an extraordinary job of balancing the widely diverse components of meat production, marketing, and quality in this comprehensive and uniquely informative book. The author has taken every effort to present even the most contentious issues surrounding meat production from a balanced and accurate perspective. His thorough treatment of these issues provides the reader the opportunity to make a well-informed decision as a matter of personal choice, unencumbered by emotion or innuendo.
However, the real value of the book is in the articulate way Ward connects the reader to both the science and the artisanship of gourmet butchering. His comfortable style and incomparable knowledge of gourmet butchering make this a valuable resource for quality meat aficionados and a must read for chefs, butchers, and meat-lovers everywhere."--Mark Boggess, PhD, animal scientist and meat industry expert
"This comprehensive book is far more than a guide to cutting meat—it's for anyone who wants a better understanding of meat (and we all should). Engaging, informative, and, yes, fun!"--Nicolette Hahn Niman, rancher and author, Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms
"Is there a bible of meat? There is one now. Cole Ward's book demystifies the whole process of how animals are raised, slaughtered, and eventually make it to your plate. From learning about breeds to cutting up your own side of beef, you will be a more empowered meat eater once you read this book."--Rebecca Thistlethwaite, author, Farms with a Future
"After nearly forty years of concentrating, industrializing, and deskilling the livestock and meat industries, a few global meat companies have separated the eater from the farmer, land, communities, and animals that we depend on for food. Cole Ward helps restore the lost craftsmanship of meat production by sharing critical knowledge about where meat comes from and how it's produced, processed, and marketed. His book takes the reader on an important journey from animal husbandry through the fading art of butchery to recipes for preparing a healthy meal, all interwoven with explanatory pictures, notes, and interesting trivia."--Mike Callicrate, owner, Callicrate Cattle Company and Ranch Foods Direct


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All of them are cool. Except FF2@
Been lurking for a couple of weeks. Figured I would say hello.
Couple of questions . . . Why are there so many Patriot fans in this forum? Don't they have their own forums? If you are a Patriot fan, why would you join a Jet forum?
All of them are cool. Except FF2@
Thanks for the heads up.
Just was a little strange. I thought this forum was going to be full of win.
Call me Bisno, I am the newest member of JI. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
hello friends
i am great fan of jets. i am new in this forum. hope to enjoy a lot with you guys.
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Dammit! I never get to see these beautiful friendships. Why do they lie? WHY??


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Host Marcia Franklin and her guests explore the trend of "eating local." Guests include Janie Burns of Meadowlark Farm in Nampa, Dave Krick of Bittercreek Alehouse in Boise, Frank Muir of the Idaho Potato Commission, and Leah Clark of the Idaho Department of Agriculture's Idaho Preferred ® program.
Franklin and her guests discuss what the movement entails and ways that both consumers and food purveyors, including schools and restaurants, can get more of their food locally. Panelists also discuss challenges the local food movement faces in the state, including the lack of processing facilities, and whether 'eating local' can actually hurt the marketing of Idaho products, such as potatoes, outside of the state.
Idaho currently has more than 50 farmers' markets, and demand for locally grown food is growing. A recent study of farms in the Treasure Valley area showed that about 10%, or nearly 900 farms, sell directly to consumers, a 36% increase over each of the last five years. Still, according to the same study, conducted by Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis, more than 98% of food bought by Treasure Valley residents, at an estimated cost of $1.7 billion, comes from out-of-state.
See also the companion Outdoor Idaho: "Eating Local," which explores some of the growers, markets, processors, distributors, and consumers that make up the "local foods" eco-system in Idaho.


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It's Gonna Be Another Great Year…
Yanks Lose Opener, But I Am Still Happy
This is not sarcasm people. I really am still happy. Of course winning is more fun, but just the fact that I watched the Yankees last night has left me feeling giddy all day long. For the first time since November 4th, when I was sick with swine flu watching my Yanks win the World Series, I watched a Yankee game, took notes in my little book, and was at complete peace. And the first half of the game, that was insanely awesome! I think I may have jinxed the Yankees…about halfway through the game when we were winning like 5-1, I already had a title in mind for this post, expecting they would win. Now I can't use it because they lost…but whatever.
Maybe it wasn't because of me. I mean, I could have said it was because about halfway through the game, the Red Sox realized their new team that's "all about defense" and no offense wasn't going to cut it, so they decided to cheat at Fenway like they almost always do. But lucky for all you BoSox fans out there, I didn't say that. Oh wait…I did. I'm sorry 😛 I'm going to try and not throw insults around yet…it's still too early for all that jazz.
So the Red Sox beat my Yankees last night by the score of 9-7. My Yankees did a lot right, but somewhere it all fell apart. It happens…
Offensive Analysis: Well, one thing is for certain – the Yankee bats were not a concern last night. In the 2nd inning, Jorge Posada went deep off the Pesky Poll to give the Yanks a 1-0 lead, which was fun. But it got more fun! Curtis Granderson, whom I have yet to give a cute nickname, hit a solo homer to right-center field, going back-to-back with Jorge! 2-0! I was very impressed with Grandy last night.
Cute! I love this guy ♥
In the 4th, the Yankee bats sounded again. Robinson Cano, now batting 5th in the lineup,(brilliant decision, Girardi! I know it's early, but this move may be as influential as flip-flopping Jeet and Damon was last season!) crushed a leadoff double off the Monster. He came around to score on an RBI single by Brettiboo Gardner, bringing the score to 3-1. An RBI single by Jeter made it 4-1.
But here is the coolest part: With Nick Johnson (also lacking a nickname) up, Gardy on 3rd and Jeet on 1st, awesomeness happened! Jeter broke for 2nd base, and Victor Martinez stupidly threw the ball over there. Speedy little Brett Gardner then stole home! 5-1 Yanks! HAHAA!!! So Jacoby, you shouldn't feel too special or unique from when you did that off Andy Pettitte. You are not the only one with wheels. That double steal was the highlight of my night 🙂
Oh, Brettiboo….♥
The Yankees scored again twice in the 7th on an RBI groundout by Cano and an RBI single by Jorge to retake the lead they lost, bringing the score to 7-5. I was very pleased with the offense last night. The bats were not the reason why we lost.
Defensive Analysis: Defense was….partly why we lost. At the beginning of the game, my Yankees were flashing their leather left and right. Curtis Granderson made a lovely leaping catch at the wall in centerfield in the 2nd inning. In the 3rd, A-Rod made a heads-up play. After a leadoff walk by Mike Cameron, Marco Scutaro hit a bullet line-drive to Alex, who caught it on the fly. With that sexy cannon arm, A-Rod fired to Tex, and doubled-up Cameron at first for the 5-3 double play. Texy-wexy also made a gorgeous play of his own in the 4th on a Dustin Pedroia sharp grounder.
Granderson can fly!
The icky defense came in the 7th inning. After the lead was blown, Marte entered the game, and flung a wild pitch on the first one he threw. Later in the same inning, he threw a pitch that wasn't exactly on-target, but it was still in the strike zone. For some odd reason, Jorge missed the ball! And it rolled away…and
Pukilis I mean Youkilis (Virginia…you said you would refrain from insults…try and be civil…there are still at least 161 games left!) came in to score the go-ahead run.
Pitching Analysis: CC Sabathia, my adorable-hefty-lefty-ace-cute-"chubby"-pitcher took the hill last night. His first pitch was a strike – a nice fastball on the outer half to Ellsbury. He was pretty good through the first 5 innings, just allowing 2 runs, but it unraveled after that for my big boy. He got into a mess in the 6th, gave up a few runs, and left the game with the tying run on 3rd. David Robertson relieved him, and let the run come in on an RBI single by Beltre.
The 7th inning made me want to pull my hair out. Chan Ho Park made his Yankee debut, and I'm sorry but he epically failed. At that time, the Yankees had recaptured the lead, and the score was 7-5. Quickly, this was all erased. Scutaro singled, and then Park dished up the go-ahead 2-run homer to Pedroia. Chan Ho-couldn't-keep-it-in-the-Park was starting to piss me off.
-Excuse me, Virginia. If you are not going insulting the Red Sox tonight, what gives you the right to insult a Yankee…a nervous Yankee, on his debut? Very heartless of you.-
I'm sorry, conscience.
Then Park gave up a double to Puke-I mean-Youkilis. Then he left, and Marte came in, only to do his wild-pitch thing. THEN it was Joba's turn. He got out of the 7th, but gave up a run in the 8th. By that time, it was too late for my babies on the offense side to come back.
CC wasn't great last night, but the bullpen was a complete fail. Sorry guys!
So we lost…okay. It's happened before, it's not the end of the world. After all, the Yankees lost the first game last season and went ALL THE WAY! Remember: they are the Drama Club. They like to make things interesting. I like a little drama in my life…it can be exciting. The Yankees have a knack for creating drama in my life.
They also have a knack for sending me into cardiac arrest.
Guys, I like it drama, but I also like breathing. Just remember that 🙂
Yankees, you are all so sexy and watching you last night made me happy all over. I love you, boys. I hope you have enjoyed your off-day.
Let's kick some Boston butt, shall we? Make me proud! I LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! ♥♥♥
Ooh-la-laa…look at all my boys 😉
****ONE MORE THING**** Our friend EJ is blogging again. Make sure you check out his blog, at http://yankeesquad.mlblogs.com. It's always been one of my favorites. Gracias!


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Foothills District Framework Plan - 2011 Adopted
The Foothills District Framework Plan CAC Recommended Draft was presented to the Lake Oswego City Council on November 8, 2011. The report is available below. This large report can take considerable time to download, as does document marked all appendices. Alternatively, the plan, its chapters, and appendices can be downloaded individually and read by following the separate links listed below.


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STAWELL - The Stawell Orchid Society conducted their annnual Spring Orchid Show in the Stawell Entertainment Centre.
The show was once again an outstanding success with extremely high numbers of orchids being entered into the competition.
Grand champion winners this year were Joy and Bradley Scott.
They not only took out Grand Champion Orchid with a magnificent phalaenopsis - Grant City x Winter 'Kaala' x (New Glad x Dalin Beauty - they also won Reserve Champion with Paphiopedilum - delentii x delentii 'Dark Lip'.
This orchid also won Champion First Flowering Seedling and Champion Paphiopedilum of the show.
Other winners were, Champion Specimen of the show - Pauline and Ron Coppin; Champion Species of the show - Peter and Lois Williams; Champion Cymbidium of the show - Barbara and John Welsh; Champion Novelty-type Cymbidium of the show - Peter and Lois Williams; Champion Australian Native of the show - Peter and Lois Williams; Champion Cattleya of the show - Pat and Robert Turmine; Champion Any Other Genera of the show -Bernadette and Michael Matthews.


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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Methadone Maintenance Therapy
Addiction has been called the great 'eraser' because it takes so much out of one's lives, the friends, work, assets and eventually all pleasure. People in the end are using just to feel.
On the methadone programs patients began to keep appointments, care about their health and appearance, take pride in accomodation, and often return to work. For many methadone maintenance was a stepping stone to abstinence programs. (see "comment" regarding this.-WH) It was a community medicine program and the benefits for the community were as great as for the individual.
Heroin is a principal source of revenue for criminals, especially those in organized crime. The money doesn't go to churches or hospitals or schools. It supports those elements most actively antisocial. Increasingly heroin trade has been a source of revenue for terrorist organizations.
Individually a heroin addiction can cost $100 to $200 a day. Given that a rule of thumb for theft is that the thief only gets 10 cents on the dollar, those who steal to support a heroin addiction, need to steal $1000 to $2000 daily, 365 days of the year, meaning a cost to the community from crime of roughly $400, 000 to 800,000 a year. Once a person is in a methadone maintenance program even if they use a 'little' they are not a principal supporter of the criminal element. Freed from their dependence on the criminals and what the criminals want, patients on methadone maintenance can participate in programs, address psychiatric and physical health needs, get education, and job training.
Because of the spread of disease through IV use, especially sharing needles, and generally poor health care and association with criminals, methadone maintenance programs serve the community by dramatically reducing the spread of infectious disease.
As a psychiatrist I saw many individual patients on methadone maintenance observing their progression of horrendous chaotic lives back to something resembling normalcy. It was obvious that methadone was beneficial for these patients.
Later I formally trained in the use and history of methadone for my Addiction Medicine subspeciality examinations. As an addiction medicine specialist I saw heroin addicts but mostly worked with those whose illness was not so far progressed. They were able to enter abstinence based programs like narcotics anonymous whether or not they used methadone as part of that transitional process.
Finally I took the British Columbia Methadone training and preceptorship. I was most impressed with the course materials and course. The preceptorship was excellent and the College staff were extremely helpful. On one hand I thought I was very qualified when I entered this process but at the same time was amazed at the hands on information that simply isn't covered in courses or text books. I'm still learning. Working in a methadone maintenance clinic I see the improvement in peoples lives and admire the doctors, nurses, counsellors and staff for their committment to the health care.
When I've told people that I work in a methadone maintenance clinic I've been interested in the responses. First off, there's been that stigma that's attached first to the heroin users, and secondly those with illnesses associated with heroin use, hep c and HIV. Even though people who knew I worked in addictions somehow considered the 'methadone clinic' as a less 'savoury' place. Stigma that's attached to a disease is also attached to the caregivers.
When I left family medicine for psychiatry there was tremendous stigma. I remember being told "You're a top doctor. You were in a surgery residency. You don't need to work in psychiatry." When I subspecialized in addiction psychiatry I heard it all again, even from psychiatric colleagues. "You've got a great psychiatry practice, why would you want to make trouble for yourself by treating alcoholics and addicts." Finally, "what's a nice guy like you doing in a place like that" goes with the move to methadone.
For one, I like the other doctors who work here. I've known them for years through referrals and individually and they're the other end of the stereotypical 'cosmetic surgery' hollywood doctor. I'm in good company that is. But the patients are stigmatised. If health care is about helping people who are most unhealthy then this is where the rubber meets the road.
Gabor Mate wrote so well about some of the indivdual patients in his recent book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. "There but for the grace of God, go I." None of these people decided when they were born that they wanted to end up with a heroin addiction but they did. In the Methadone Maintenance Program they're taking action to get healthy and return to society. They're amazing survivors and their motivation is tremendous to see.
Others have asked me why methadone needs to be controlled. Only weeks ago friends told me about a young kid who was given methadone at a party. Because its such an unpredictable drug he died with his first 'hit'. It's a controlled substance because it's dangerous and we are taught very well to be very careful about iniating treatment. As doctors we work with a lot more dangerous drugs than methadone (heart meds, insulin, some psychiatric meds, etc.) and in our care methadone is properly administered with the least possible risk.
Diversion is where a drug goes out of the program where it is supposed to be used and ends up being sold on the street. Because of the danger of the drug all of the training and 'control' is in place to prevent it's misuse. Despite all of this, kids at parties get given methadone, possibly stolen, and die.
Most methadone is dispensed in pharmacies with the dispenser observing that the medication is taken on site. When people are well stabilized and have established their trustworthiness they are allowed to take a small supply, at most a few days, away with them to allow for weekends away for instance. This is where methadone can be stolen and diverted.
Methadone is also an amazing pain medication and used in cancer treatment for one. The patients receiving methadone for pain have more freedom with prescriptions and it is these patients whose methadone can also be diverted especially those endstage where friends, relatives or care givers can take the medication more easily.
All the checks there are for the best. The Health laws in this regard are really wisely considered.
People then ask if methadone doesn't interfere with people becoming abstinent from drugs and alcohol. It's not the 'first' line of treatment. Intake goes through trials at quitting in detail. The Intake sheets for assessing a person's appropriateness for methadone treatment are extremely well thought out and refined. There's none of the stupidity that went with "Reefer Madness". Medical doctors treating a medical illness with a medical treatment are doing so with the greatest concern for the individual and the most serious concern for the community. The agencies in place for the reinforcement of the protocols are doing their best too.
Methadone for so many is the last hope. The big book of Alcoholic's Anonymous was going to be called 'a way out'. Someone else had used the title so the book and organization became AA. For so many methadone is just that , a 'way out'. It may not be the last step but it's certainly a very commendable first step. It's certainly going in the right direction. And that alone says a whole lot for it.
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- Anonymous said...
Thanks for your insightful post.
I did want to point out one thing--something the vast majority of lay people, and many of those i n the field of addiction medicine, fail to recognize about MMT. It is commonly seen as a legal substitute for heroin--not "real" recovery, which must be demonstrated by total abstinence from drugs--but maybe a step in the right direction that helps to stabilize lives. It seems that you may perhaps share some of that bias--most do, as I mentioned.
However, what many fail to understand is the brain chemistry issues that follow long term opioid addiction--the cessation of the brain's endorphin production, for example. For some this is a short term cessation that will resume in time as they become abstinent. For others, it is permanent. These folks suffer from severe anhedonia, depression, exhaustion, irritability, etc when they become abstinent, and this is not relieved by time as with some. For this group, long term MMT is a medical rebalancing of the brain chemistry, allowing them to feel normal again and to function productively.
Relapse rates for those leaving MMT are about 90%--however, success rates for those who remain IN treatment are higher than with any other modality. Yet patients are driven from MMT every day by well meaning loved ones and even by clinic personnel who urge them to "get off that stuff" and "get into REAL recovery". This results most often in relapse and many times in tragedy. These patients are urged to attend 12 step groups, then rejected by these very groups as being in "active addiction" for being on methadone. The patients feel confused, their pride at doing well starts to decline, their shame at being on methadone, rather than being relieved by education, grows through ignorance and prejudice.
Please, help your patients to know that recovery is not about what medications one does or does not need, but instead, by the fruits of one's life--are they productive, responsible, reliable, honest, happy? The need for medication to rebalance brain chemistry is NOT the same as addictive abuse of a drug. Patients need to understand the difference between addiction and physical dependence, and to be empowered against myths like "trading one drug for another" and "liquid handcuffs".
I am a MMT patient in the USA. I have been on MMT nearly 6 years. Prior to that I spend almost 20 years addicted to Rx opiates. I went through 13 abstinence based rehabs, to no avail. Methadone saved my life, and returned me to a fully functional existence. I now attend the clinic once a month and receive 27 takehomes. This enables me to live a normal life, like anyone else on a long term chronic medication, rather than attending a crowded, noisy clinic for hours on a daily basis.
- March 17, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- haykind said...
I love your comment and thank you for adding it to this blog.
I know about the research you're referring to. It's really the same with thyroid replacement. We sometimes have to give people thyroid supplements but when we go to take them off the thyroid has shut down and may not start up again. This happens with lithium on occasion. Maybe if we could wait long enough the thyroid would 'reboot' but in reality we don't and it doesn't. The risk of heart disease and other consequences of untreated hypothyroidism simply make adding thyroid solution.
The same has held true for people with opiate treatment, a few, and this isn't just with methadone but also with opiates for pain relief.
Replacement therapy isn't really that 'new'. Insulin in diabetes is replacement therapy.
The other issue of what is "recovery' comes up with one of my closest friends and one of the most 'spiritual people' I know. He required opiate therapy for chronic central pain and I asked him how this affected his prayer life and connection with God. He said it didn't. I believe him. He's not 'abusing' opiates but taking 'medicine' as directed.
Dr. Ray Baker did methadone maintenance here and is a really fine Christian too so I discussed it with him as well. He was the one who told me about the people who literally had shut down their pleasure centres and needed lifetime replacement, I think we'll soon get goodfMRI and PET scan data on this. Davidson's lab has done cutting edge Amygdala research in the Wisconsin imaging lab so hopefully one day I'll have some up to date references. I'm planning on searching this out now that you're reminded me of it and hopefully will be able to add it on one day.
AA hasn't had this problem and lots of the mmt people have found a home there. It's more commonly an issue in the NA groups. I've even got some people on long term benzodiazepine "maintenance"after alcohol abstinence and they're doing just fine in AA. My alcoholic with severe pancreatic disorder who if he drinks will die smokes pot and I've written the letter for his 'maintenance' pot and encourage him to go to AA. He's still planning on stopping and I just tell him what ever keeps him from drinking I support. Abstinence is great but it's not the only way. Certainly that was the position of the first AA folk. But then AA only requires a 'desire not to drink'. So if MMT don't drink and want to do that program they're welcome and my patients who do had alcohol along their road. I've had the "pure" heroin addicts though and their first drug was heroin andthat's the only drug they've used.
It all makes "prevention" and 'early intervention" look attractive too.
Thanks again for your incredibly valuable comments.
- March 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Fawad Tariq said...
Maintenance pricing is a percentage of the SRP of the product for which maintenance is being purchased for the first twelve months typically around 20.Maintenance ProgramsMaintenance will always be quoted as a percentage of SRP rather than of netor purchase price. Purchasing twenty-four months of maintenance and support is a better option from a pricing standpoint,if you would like the longer term coverage. Pricing for maintenance terms beyond twenty-four months will be provided upon request.
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Retailers have used various techniques to analyze in-store buying behavior, such as surveys, video surveillance, and buyer reward programs. Some stores have been tapping into the technology in smartphones to track shoppers' actions. New York Times reporter Quentin Hardy discusses how they're doing this and what information they can gather.
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Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys
By: Linnea Crowther
4 years ago
Fifteen years ago today, the world lost one of its favorite singing cowboys: Roy Rogers.
When Roy Rogers began his career as a singer and actor in the 1930s, the golden era of the real-life cowboy was coming to an end. But on stage and screen, the cowboy was achieving new fame – and Roy Rogers became one of the most famous of them all.
Though Rogers was born in Cincinnati, he discovered the Wild West when he moved to California in his teens. He also discovered his calling there, while working as a fruit picker during the Great Depression and living in a campsite along with other temporary workers. Times were hard and the work was cruel, but Rogers discovered that everyone's spirits were raised when he played his guitar and sang in the evening as everyone sat around the campfire. He was inspired by the response and decided to pursue his fortune in music.
It's not a common career trajectory – from migrant fruit-picking to hit single in just four years – but it happened to Rogers. The band he became a part of, the Sons of the Pioneers, captured the attention of a public that was just beginning to immortalize the mythical cowboy in music and movies. Their early song, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," hit it big – and helped Rogers break into the movie biz.
In short order, Roy Rogers became a movie star. He was one of the great singing cowboys, those affable gentlemen of the silver screen who were as likely to burst into song while on horseback as they were to rope a calf or sling a gun. Along with Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, John Wayne (who, with dubbed vocals, wasn't a true singing cowboy – but John Wayne never let a little singing get in the way of a good cowboy movie), and his own equally famous spouse Dale Evans, Roy Rogers helped create a western archetype that survives today.
Rogers and Evans turned their big-screen success into a radio and TV phenomenon with the long-running favorite The Roy Rogers Show. The series featured cowboys and cowgirls in Wild West scenarios – but often with the surprising additions of contemporary touches like cars and telephones.
All these years later, the western movie is still popular, with recent favorites like The Lone Ranger and Django Unchained drawing crowds. We can thank Rogers and his contemporaries for jump-starting the genre.


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January was a somewhat dull month. On this last day of the month, the avgerage temperature at the Lexington official reporting station is 35.6F so far, which is a couple of degrees warmer than where we should be. Rainfall is 4.39" for the month, which is above average. Snowfall is only 0.5" which is well below average. So it looks like January is going to go down as a mild and wet month.
Looking toward February, I think we're going to see a big change. The storm system that brought severe weather to the entire region yesterday has ushered in a pattern change that will likely carry us through the next few weeks. You can expect wintry conditions this weekend with blustery winds and occasional snow showers througout the weekend. This cold air will stick around until probably Wednesday the 6th when another big storm system may try to form in the Plains and start it's trek toward the Ohio Valley. The GFS model shows that a repeat of what we saw yesterday is a possibility, with thunderstorms sweeping through the region on the following weekend, and then cold air returning around the 12th of the month.
The global teleconnections are all predicted to run slightly positive through these next couple of weeks. El Nino never materialized like we thought it was going to back in the late fall of 2012 and currently those conditions are running in the neutral phase. This all basically means that there are no strong signs for extremes in either direction for our weather in the eastern U.S. As a result, the official government outlooks for February 2013 are calling for average temperataures and average precipitation for us and I tend to agree. It'll be colder than what we saw in January, and we'll have an increased threat for storms and also snowfall throughout February.
In the winter time if you have a month that runs mild like January did, it is not uncommon at all to have the following month balance things out and run cold and more active. It's a good bet that we're about to see that unfold. By my count, the Anderson County schools have only had one snow day this year which is unusual. I think though that business is about to pick up weatherwise as we are now squarely in the middle of winter.
Before I go, I wanted to mention that yesterday's severe weather did spawn tornadoes in Kentucky. The closest one to Lawrenceburg was about 35 miles SSW of town, in Marion County. It is very important to always take tornado watches and severe thunderstorm watches seriously, and have a plan of action ready for your family in case you are placed under a warning. Severe weather DOES strike Kentucky in every month of the year.
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I have placed a previous post and have been advised to use a DB for this purpose - but I have a niggeling feeling that this can be done without a database. (see previous post (at bottom of this post) and answer to place in contect)
I am looking for a way to save poitions of divs permanently to a css file. To explain:
I have a Javascript that handles drag and drop of divs. Once the divs are dropped I will be using Ajax and Php to write the new positions to the CSS file.
I cant save this information in a cookie and ideally id like not to have to save it in my DB so is there a way I can write this value permanently to a CSS file so when anyone views the page it is in the order/position the artist has designated.
This is for an artist to position elements on there profile, and then for the "public" to view this profile in its new position. The "public" will not be logging, they will just be browsing the site.
I am finidng it a little difficult to get my head round.
Drag Drop and Save (Mysql) I think
Ok I am implementing a drag, drap and save engine from scratch on my new site. Basically users will be able to position elements on there profiles. And then people viewing the site will see these profiles in there different positions.
Site is going to support 300 ish artists and I also have an admin element that will be dragging and positioning elements on other pages.
Just to get my head around the implementation of this I wil be using JS and Php, now rather than saving the position information in cookies or sessions I need a way of saving the positions so that when website viewers (who just broswe and dont login) view the pages the positions that the artist have set are represented.
Now the way I see it I can save these values into the database and everytime a page is viewed then the database is called for position values.
Is there a better way to do this as we are expecting 2000+ traffic values a month and as mentioned there will be 300ish artists. I will be using a cahing system on the php which only changes after users have entered new values, otherwise calls the cached page.
Could I maybe use xml which is saved and refered to instead of weighing down the database.
Can Mysql handle this?
Can I somehow write new css files?
Please help as Im unsure as to how to do this
Could I maybe use xml which is saved and refered to instead of weighing down the database.
The amount of traffic you are mentioning will not cause any problems for the DB server unless you write some really bad queries or are indexing your tables poorly. If you only plan to serve the content as HTML then there is no point in using XML as it would add an unnessesary processing overhead.
Can Mysql handle this?
Sure no problem.
Can I somehow write new css files?
You can use PHP to create files.
write to a .css file.


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This is a product of the times. Player revenues are tied to overall revenues. They have grown commensurate with the expansion of the NFL's reach over the decades.
"Back when I first came in the league (in 1989), guys had offseason jobs. They worked at banks and real estate companies and all those things," said Head Coach John Fox.
In 1977, the Broncos' first Super Bowl season, training camp began on July 15 -- two months and three days before the regular-season opener. Thirteen years later -- Fox's second in the league -- camp began on July 16, 55 days before the regular-season opener, and 20 days before beginning their preseason against the Seattle Seahawks in Tokyo.
"The game has progressed, they're getting paid a lot more. They don't need second jobs. So they can put everything into this profession," said Fox.
His team put its all into this week, and some of the more notable performances -- in alphabetical order -- included:
1. Safety
2. Quarterback
4. Linebacker
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NWSB Insider and Seahawks blogger Brett Bivens brings us a good piece on the Seattle Seahawks today. Punter Jon Ryan is under the spotlight. Ryan has been one of the top ten most consistent punters in the NFL since joining the Seahawks. After college, Ryan was drafted by the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers, as both a receiver and punter. After two season in the CFL he had gained the attention of NFL scouts.
"Punting Canadian" – Seattle Seahawks punter Jon Ryan in the spotlight
November 10, 2012 By


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Zend Developer Zone: Using the Plurk API with PHP
Zend Developer Zone: Using the Plurk API with PHP
On the Zend Developer Zone there's a recent post looking at using the Plurk API in a PHP application (by Vikram Vaswani). Plurk is a micro-blogging service similar to Twitter.
While it's quite easy to connect a PHP application to Twitter (I've discussed it in detail in this Devzone article), there exist a number of other free micro-blogging sites that also expose open APIs. In this article, I'll introduce you to Plurk, which includes a JSON-based service API and also comes with a PHP library to simplify integration with Web applications.
He includes sample code showing how to connect to their API (with the help of the php-plurk-api) and work with the results. He shows how to search the service, get the latest "plurks", find the entries for a given user and create a simple form for uploading comments to your own Plurk account.
Source: http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16118
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But the Washington County Sheriff's office says they've never once had an incident involving a sex offender and a trick or treater and it's about keeping that same record, through education and good parenting
The one night when zombies, princess and superheroes all take to the streets, it's a child's favorite night and should be a parent's big concern.
"Trick of Treat isn't only a perfect time for a sex offender to strike," explains Sheriff's Office's Sgt. Patrice Tornes, "but anyone else whose thinking of committing any crime. What better time to not be recognized for yourself than on trick-or-treat."
The Washington County Sheriff's Office says it's not about scaring anyone from going door to door for candy but it is about getting parents to take the proper precautions and be aware.
"You know you think it's just going to be the smaller children but really our biggest age group of people that are offended are between 13 and 17 year old age groups so it's not just the smaller kids that need to be aware," explains Tornes.
Deputies say the best way to stay safe- host a party, but if you do choose to go trick-or-treating.. there's some homework that can be done.
All sex offenders and their addresses are listed for anyone to see. "There is no specific demographic for a sex offender," continues Tornes. "They can be anywhere and they are everywhere and they look just like you and I, there is nothing to distinguish them apart from anyone else."
Deputies say it's also important for trick-or-treaters to dress appropriately. The rest is common sense, talking with the little fairies and ghosts how they can stay safe themselves.
"You know see if can't get them into another group of children and at least have one adult in attendance," says Tornes, "even if they stand back, follow them in a car and of course the kids don't take kindly to it and realize it's in their best interest."
To find sex offenders in the Washington County area:
Washington County Sheriff's Office http://www.icrimewatch.net/index.php?AgencyID=55197
Attorney General http://www.icrimewatch.net/index.php?AgencyID=55149
Wood County : http://www.homefacts.com/offenders/West-Virginia/Wood-County.html
You can also call the Washington Co. Sheriff's Office at: 740-376-7070 #19 for any information as well.
Also authorities ask anyone who might feel threatened or know of sex offenders acting out of line or who have moved, to give the Sheriff's office an anonymous call. 740-376-7070


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High Tech, Low Life - Trailer
'High Tech, Low Life' follows two of China's first citizen-reporters as they document the underside of the country's rapid economic development. A search for truth and fame inspires young vegetable seller "Zola" to report on censored news stories from the cities, while retired businessman "Tiger Temple" makes sense of the past by chronicling the struggles of rural villagers.
Visit the Website: http://www.pbs.org/pov/
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UNDATED (WIFR) -- A new low for debt collection. Aaron's, a rent-to-own franchise is accused of installing spy software on laptops to ensure they get paid.
The Illinois Attorney General's Office says the software allowed them to remotely lock down a computer and record keystrokes and personal information. The company agreed to quit doing that, however, they will keep the tracking feature active in case a laptop is reported stolen.
There are Aaron's locations in Belvidere, DeKalb and Freeport.


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All in the Family
The oatmeal-loving minimalist Richard Chai is getting another shot at retail, thanks to a well-timed popup shop. This time, he's taking to his brother's rotating hipster depot DEN, with a few choice items from his recent Paris shows hitting the racks for the next few weeks.
As for the goods, it's a bit more dour than last time around, but that might just be a sign of the times. The pants are all heavily cuffed for a grittily urban effect—none of Thom Browne's nerd-chic here—with a few well-sewn jackets to complete the effect.
And apparently, like everyone else, he's holding onto his chucks.
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Construction workers continue to work on �punch list� items at the new Tahanto Regional Middle/High School.
�There is still a significant amount of work,� Superintendent of Schools Nadine Ekstrom told the regional school board Wednesday night, although 70 percent of the punch list has been completed.
She noted new building systems have to be tested, but �overall, we�re moving forward.�
Of the 4,000 original items, the list has been trimmed to less than 1,000, she said.
Construction workers continue to plug away after school hours, having also worked during the February school vacation week on many of the items.
Stonework is still being tested after a piece of one of the facade stones had fallen in December, Ekstrom said, to ensure the bluestone meets specifications and freeze and thaw standards. Once the building committee gets results, it will determine a course of action.
The old building is still being worked on as asbestos is being removed, a process that will continue for several more weeks, before a three-week demolition begins. That will be followed with construction of fields and additional parking, all headed to the August completion of the building and grounds projects.
Technology Coordinator Paul Mara noted �highs and lows� with the new building. He also detailed some of the specific issues, ranging from completing new systems to keeping old ones working.
Mara said he still expected a technology plan to be completed within a couple of months, while noting his frustration that it was sidetracked while the technology staff dealt with ongoing issues.
Those range from testing new systems to training people on using technology, from phone system to smart boards.
�We put a lot of heart and soul into it,� he said,� and in the end, �we always make it work.�
Ekstrom said a lot of the time is spent troubleshooting, adding the right equipment is necessary before the larger objectives behind the technology, from educational aspects to managerial aspects such as report cards, can be accomplished as envisioned.
The committee approved moving ahead with a co-op girls tennis team. The collaborative with Clinton High School has enough interest at Tahanto to move forward.
Principal Diane Tucceri said there is no funding, and parents understand they will have to provide transportation to Clinton.
The committee vote allows Tahanto Athletic Director Peter Maki and Clinton High School to apply to the MIAA for a co-op team.
In other business
�Ekstrom read her �Entry Plan Finding,� detailing numerous aspects of the school system and data she collected since she became superintendent in July. The findings and recommendations form a 40-page report encompassing the organization, budget and educational goals of the three Berlin and Boylston school districts.
Ekstrom said the full report would be posted under the superintendent�s corner portion of the school districts� website.
The report contained �the better part of a year�s work of research and observation,� Chairman Rebecca Dono Healy said, including �many things never consolidated in one report.�
�Students who participated in the Tahanto trip to Cape Cod National Seashore gave a presentation to the School Committee, complete with readings, sound effects and video of the trip, highlighting aspects each found noteworthy.
The trip combined disciplines such as literature, philosophy and biology. Students said they learned more than they would have learned, and remembered, if they had just read material in classroom. They praised the trip�s learning atmosphere and how it helped them learn and experience new material, interweaving various disciplines.
The committee approved another trip, one to France set for next February.


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There's an ugly secret lurking behind the legendary women's basketball program at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, according to a stunning lawsuit filed today that accuses the veteran head coach of physical, verbal and emotional abuse.
Ashley Cooper, a 20-year-old who spent two seasons as a scholarship player for the Crusaders, charges that longtime head coach Bill Gibbons struck and berated members of the team repeatedly and sometimes "in front of hundreds of witnesses" during games. She said complaints about the abuse were covered up and ignored.
In court papers filed in Manhattan, Cooper said that the college -- based in Worcester, Mass. -- turned a blind eye to abuse that was well known among team members. She accused the school's athletic director of being negligent in refusing to take any action. The abuse Cooper suffered forced her to transfer out of Holy Cross after two years, she said, and left her unable to play the game she loved since childhood at the collegiate level.
"I don't want this to happen to anyone else ever again," Cooper said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. "I want to stop it. I'm doing this for other people. I'm taking a stand for others, for every freshman that walks through the door."
Now attending New York University, Cooper, a standout player from Colts Neck, N.J., tearfully described Gibbons "screaming in my face" and other "abuse."
Gibbons' "actions constitute the worst type of bullying because not only is defendant Gibbons her coach and supervisor, but also he is someone she is supposed to respect," according to the lawsuit. Cooper was reduced to "fear of physical pain," the filing states.
Cooper alleges that Gibbons also "struck another female player on the back" during a March 2013 Patriot League Tournament game against Lehigh. "Following the Lehigh incident, the player's father verbally complained to" the athletic director, but the athletic director did nothing, Cooper alleges.
At one point, Gibbons -- who would act in an "outrageous manner in his yelling, ranting, screaming and hysterics" -- struck Cooper so hard he left a hand print that didn't go away immediately, according to court papers.
Opponents frequently consoled members of the Holy Cross team with comments like "your coach is crazy," Cooper alleges.
Reached today by phone at home, Gibbons hung up on ABC News reporters.
Soon after the lawsuit was filed, Holy Cross announced outside attorneys are being brought in to review the allegations.
In a statement to ABC News, the college said: "The physical, mental and emotional well-being of our students is our highest priority at Holy Cross. We just received the lawsuit and are in the process of reviewing it. Ms. Cooper had brought her concern to the college and we investigated at that time. The lawsuit we received today includes a series of new allegations and we will now bring in outside counsel to review them."
Richard Regan, who was the Holy Cross athletic director for 15 years until retiring earlier this year, did not responded to requests for comment from ABC News.
In the past, Regan has been publicly critical of poor behavior during intercollegiate sporting events. When he led an NCAA committee in 2012 that reprimanded New Mexico's men's soccer coach and the team's goalkeeper, Regan was quoted as saying "we believe the championship is discredited by the unsportsmanlike actions of these coaches and expect all coaches to conduct themselves in a manner befitting the championship."
The Holy Cross accusations come on the heels of news last week that Keith Brown, the women's basketball coach at Georgetown University, resigned amid allegations that he has consistently verbally abused his players.
Brown's resignation came after ABC News affiliate WJLA obtained audio of a Hoyas coach belittling and cursing out players who crossed him.
On the recordings, the coach could be heard shouting profanities at unidentified players on several occasions. At one point, he's heard telling a potentially injured player that she was a "dumb f---."
At Holy Cross, Gibbons has been head coach of the women's basketball team for nearly 30 years. He is a legend at the college in the suburbs of Boston, and only the sixth person to coach the women's basketball team. He is the winningest coach in the program's history.
In the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan because the plaintiff lives there and because of a number of connections that Holy Cross has to New York City, Cooper is seeking unspecified damages from Holy Cross. Among other things, she wants to be reimbursed for her tuition and expenses at NYU because her original plan was to earn her bachelor's degree at Holy Cross courtesy of the full basketball scholarship she was awarded.
"When I heard this story, as a former Division 1 athlete, lawyer and – most importantly – mother, I was outraged to learn that this was going on," said Cooper's lawyer, Elizabeth Eilender. "Most importantly, the college was doing nothing about it."


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The last one is the explanation from the prof which I do not understand.
I don't understand why the answer shouldnt be D (it's E)
To me, the set means "All elements that fall outside of A, plus all elements falling outside of R/V/R&V." Which would make the answer to the problem choice D Can someone translate into english what the set means, and possibly explain in another way why the answer is E?


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DeKALB – A laundromat could open on DeKalb's South Fourth Street within the next three or four months, with an attached bowling alley, arcade and restaurant to come next year, property owner Jim Mason said Monday.
Preliminary construction is underway, but Mason still needs building permits from the city for construction, heating and air conditioning, an electrician and plumber. The property, formerly a Sullivan's Foods store, will also include a bowling alley and restaurant collectively called Lapalooza Family Fun Center DeKalb.
Mason said a 13-lane bowling alley, which will include an arcade, isn't expected to open until next year. He said he still needs to finish the building blueprints for city officials to review. After that, the city's plan commission will meet to discuss zoning classifications and, pending DeKalb City Council approval, Mason can order the necessary equipment.
"This is not like building a house," Mason said. "It's a commercial deal. It's very complicated."
DeKalb City Planner Derek Hiland said Mason's Fourth Street property would be classified as planned commercial development if the City Council approves it because it involves various uses all under one roof. The Walmart at 2300 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, is an example of a planned commercial development, Hiland said.
If the City Council approves the property as a planned commercial development, the plans would all be grouped together as one ordinance, speeding the process to get everything approved. Mason purchased the building at 1401 S. Fourth St. in January.
The laundromat will have washers as large as 90 pounds and four washers that weigh 80 pounds. There will be about 70 washers, 120 dryers and five video gambling machines, Mason said. Beer and wine will be sold at the laundromat.
Drivers will be able to drop off and pick up clothes for customers, Mason said.
Mason also wants to have a drive-through lane where customers can pick up their clothes and even purchase a cup of Mace Coffee, Mason's own brand of coffee.
"I will make it so it's as good or better than Starbucks," he said. "The coffee, I hope, is bigger than Lapalooza itself."
There will also be five more video slot machines at the bowling alley, private rooms for parties, TVs and two brick-fired ovens that can produce 150 pizzas per hour, Mason said. A rotisserie cooker will make chicken, he said.
Fifth Third Bank will have an ATM on the north side of the property.
Mason said he also plans to offer a bowling competition called "Bowling for Cash." Bowlers will compete seven days a week for cash prizes of up to $1,000. Winners will be determined based off a formula that will depend on how much someone bowls, Mason said.
"The more you bowl, the better it is," he said.
The Lapalooza parking lot will hold up to 300 cars. There will also be WiFi and merchandise such as T-shirts for sale. Mason is also considering having pool tables.
Altogether, both the bowling alley and laundromat will be 30,000 square feet. Mason said there will be less than 50 employees.
Mason said he is working with four different consultants on the project.
"This is a big deal for the city," he said.
What's next
DeKalb businessman Jim Mason said a laundromat on South Fourth Street could open in three or four months. City officials are expected to vote on zoning classifications for the property after Mason receives a building permit.


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Today seems so hard. I can't believe my big boy has been gone a week :(
Thank you all so much for your kind words, they mean more than you know.
It's so hard to believe all the things that remind me of him. A cracked open door that should have been pushed open by him, him in my way while I change the sheets or put the clothes away, just so many things. I sure miss that big lug.


text: On Wednesday, May 8th, Eli's Cheesecake and the Chicago High School of Agricultural Sciences (CHSAS) participated in a Job Shadow Day. Students from CHSAS listened to presentations from Eli's Cheesecake's Operations, Marketing, and Research & Development departments and learned what each entails. After the presentations, the CHSAS students took a tour of the Bakery and learned how the famous Eli's Cheesecakes are made, followed by each student hand-decorating their own cheesecakes. The day ended with luncheon on the patio and each CHSAS student received a certificate of participation. Eli's Cheesecake is a proud corporate sponsor of CHSAS and is always happy to host students from CHSAS!