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Conference Call Business Etiquette
Some conference calls, for smaller business groups, consist of several people calling in to a conference-call line at one participant's business office. That person conferences everyone together by pressing the conference button for each addition. Other types of conference calls are monitored, meaning that all participants call a central number and are placed in the conference by speaking to an operator or by entering a password.
You should always identify yourself when you join a call, but do so with caution. On a monitored call, you may not be able to hear other speakers for a few seconds, so don't announce yourself immediately; if you do, you may step on another speaker.
Don't ever sit in complete silence on a call without announcing yourself. The other callers deserve to know everyone who is listening to them. Not announcing your presence is akin to hiding behind the curtains in the boardroom.
Try to identify yourself each time you speak during a conference call. That way, you can compensate for the lack of visual clues. And remember to be especially considerate about other people's contributions to the conference. Give each person enough time to finish what he or she is saying before you reply.
Most teleconferencing systems today have mute features. However, if the conference call is open to everyone, remember that every additional person on a phone call adds an extra layer of background noise. When you're on a conference call, put your phone on mute unless you're actually speaking. Don't forget to take yourself off mute when you have something to say. This rule is amazingly hard to remember.


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Read: Comfort
By Brett C. Hoover (Riverhead Books, 2011)
Don't let the fuzzy slippers on the cover fool you: Brett C. Hoover's book Comfort: An Atlas for the Body and Soul is less spa-getaway and more philosophical inquiry that delves into a pervasive, little-critiqued cultural value.
That's not to say Comfort is a heavy read. Hoover considers our homes, cars, food, and finances. He considers our relationships, lifestyle choices, spiritual attitudes, and responses to crises and transitions. He questions where we find comfort and what purpose that comfort achieves. "As a practical matter, we need to take a serious look at the real human costs and benefits of what we believe makes us comfortable," he writes.
Hoover, a Paulist priest, writes in an eminently pastoral tone, drawing on Catholic tradition while simultaneously invoking pop-culture references and reflecting on his experience growing up in suburban Southern California in the 1970s and '80s. The book's research includes academic and cultural studies as well as personal interviews. While these narratives offer breadth to the work, the more compelling material is the extensive historical, religious, economic, sociological, and scientific data he cites, as well as his own reflections.
Readers may be more likely to pick up the book after something particularly uncomfortable has happened to them, but this isn't Hoover's primary intended audience. He admits as much, recounting the response from the first person he told about his book idea: "My notion of a complicated and ambiguous comfort left him cold. To him comfort served essentially one purpose: peace and healing for people in pain and crisis."
But Hoover's notion of a complicated and ambiguous comfort is accurate and insightful in our culture today. The book is both a roadmap and a challenge for readers who want to contemplate the role of comfort in their own lives.
This article appeared in the January 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 1, page 51).

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Fresh Italian brunching
Cafe Sopra is probably one of my favourite brunch spots in Sydney. The chalkboard seasonal menu always has tempting choices and seems mostly reasonably priced for the quality. Timing your visit is crucial in avoiding a long wait for a table, especially on the weekend. Stuffed zucchini flower with 5 Italian cheeses ($4.95 each) comes at a price but they're bursting with flavour in a thin crispy batter. The Vitello tonnato ($18) is an interesting flavour combo but not quite for me this time around. Flavours are good in the Frittata with goats curd and basil ($14.50) although I wish they'd have the toast on the side rather than buried underneath the dish. Some thicker crusty sourdough would be more to my preference.
My Spaghettini with crab, chilli, & garlic ($29) could probably have done with a bigger kick of chilli and garlic to make it more noticeable for my liking and you can never have enough crab meat which was a bit on the sparse side in the dish. The pasta was cooked al dente as hoped though. I enjoyed the dressing in the Baby cos & cherry tomatoes with salad cream ($8.50). For dessert you can't go wrong with the Meringata with strawberry & chantilly cream ($14.50) aka Eton Mess, with its good combination of flavours. I didn't mind the Honey & rosemary semifreddo with baked plums ($14.50). The plums worked really well with the rosemary flavour and were nice and soft. The semifreddo was nice but I think I would have preferred a good vanilla bean ice cream with the plums. Torte di Verona with stewed blueberries ($14.50) had good flavour and the candied almond slivers worked really well in the dish giving it a bit of crunchy texture.
Other visits to Cafe Sopra:
• 21 Apr 2012 - Brunch
• 17 Sept 2009, 7 Apr 2012 - Brunch
• 22 Aug 2009 - Brunch
BABY ON BOARD: Noisy enough to muffle moderate baby cries, Fairly spacious, Need to make your way up stairs though which could be awkward for prams
|Fresh Sopra Juice ($6.50)
|Stuffed zucchini flower with 5 Italian cheeses ($4.95 each)
|Vitello tonnato ($18)
|Frittata with goats curd and basil ($14.50)
|Spaghettini with crab, chilli, & garlic ($29)
|Parmesan crumbed chicken scallopine with sopra coleslaw ($25)
|Baby cos & cherry tomatoes with salad cream ($8.50)
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|Honey & rosemary semifreddo with baked plums ($14.50)
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Exercise had a moderate effect on symptoms of depression in a meta-analysis, but the benefit diminished in an analysis limited to well-designed studies, investigators concluded.
When compared with no treatment or control interventions, exercise was associated with a treatment effect of -0.62, although many of the 35 trials included in the analysis had one or more biases or other faults.
An analysis limited to a half dozen methodologically sound studies yielded a treatment effect of -0.18, which was not statistically significant. Pooled data from trials that reported long-term follow-up showed a slightly larger effect of exercise, which was statistically significant.
Action Points
- Note that this Cochrane meta-analysis found a modest beneficial effect of exercise on depression.
- Be aware that the majority of studies included in the meta-analysis were methodologically flawed.
Trials that compared exercise with psychological or drug therapy showed no difference between treatment groups, Gillian E. Mead, MB BChir, MD, of the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, Scotland, reported in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
"Our review suggested that exercise might have a moderate-sized effect on depression, but because of the risks of bias in many of the trials, the effect of exercise may only be small," the authors concluded. "We cannot be certain what type and intensity of exercise may be effective and the optimum duration and frequency of a program of exercise. There are few data on whether any benefits persist after exercise has stopped.
"The evidence also suggests that exercise may be as effective as psychological or pharmacological treatments, but the number of trials reporting these comparisons and the number of participants randomized were both small."
Simon Rego, PsyD, director of psychology training at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, told MedPage Today that the "finding that exercise may be as effective as psychological or pharmacological treatments is an important one, given that both psychological and pharmacological treatments each have their cons.
"For example, antidepressants require good adherence to be effective and, given that they may have adverse side effects and there is typically a lag time between starting antidepressants and improvements in mood, some patients prefer an alternative treatment. And while the first-line psychological treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) do not have adverse side effects, they do require access to a psychologist with expertise in delivering the treatment and sustained motivation to comply with the homework assignments, and some patients prefer an alternative due to the perceived stigma of seeing a therapist," Rego wrote in an email.
But he cautioned that the studies included in the analysis were small and "when studies were restricted only to those trials in which participants with a clinical diagnosis of depression were included, a separate review found no evidence of an effect of exercise. Thus, more research is needed before considering exercise a first-line treatment for depression in adults."
John E. Lewis, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine, noted that since exercise has a number of well-documented benefits to physical health, an exercise intervention was worth considering in subsets of patients.
"If a patient does not want to take medication or has found medication to be ineffective and/or did not benefit from psychological therapy, then exercise may offer a closely effective alternative," Lewis wrote in an email. "Because many people suffer from treatment-resistant depression, exercise may provide an alternative for those patients in particular. Given the systemic and widely-recognized benefits of exercise, it makes sense that exercise could be an effective way to counteract the effects of depression. With virtually no risk of serious adverse event, exercise can be utilized without fear."
Depression most often is treated with antidepressants, psychological therapy, or a combination of the two. Drug therapy can cause side effects that some patients find unacceptable, adherence can be a problem, and the drugs often require several weeks to produce a noticeable effect on symptoms, the authors noted in the background to their analysis.
Moreover, some patients might prefer alternatives to drugs and psychotherapy. Interest in alternatives has led to evaluation of interventions such as music therapy, light therapy, acupuncture, relaxation, and exercise, among others.
Interest in exercise as a therapy for depression has evolved over several decades, the authors continued. England's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines for depression include a recommendation for structured, supervised exercise programs, practiced three times a week for 45 minutes to an hour. The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network has issued a similar recommendation for nonpharmacologic treatment of depression.
Mead and colleagues performed a review of exercise as defined by the American College of Sports Medicine: "planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness."
Investigators searched multiple databases for randomized trials of exercise interventions for depression in adults, as compared with no treatment or to a comparator intervention. They identified 39 trials involving 2,326 patients, and 37 of the studies were suitable to include in the meta-analysis.
Analysis of studies comparing exercise to no treatment or a control intervention yielded a standardized mean difference (SMD) between groups of -0.62 (95% CI -0.81-minus 0.42), indicating a moderate clinical effect. The authors found that the studies exhibited a moderate degree of heterogeneity.
Mead and colleagues performed a separate analysis of six trials (464 participants) that had adequate allocation concealment, intention-to-treat analysis, and blinded outcomes assessment. The pooled SMD for this subgroup of well-designed trials was -0.18 (-0.47-0.11), which did not achieve statistical significance.
Analysis of eight trials (377 participants) with long-term follow-up produced an SMD of -0.33 (95% CI -0.63-minus 0.03), indicating a small treatment effect.
Finally, the authors analyzed seven trials (189 participants) that compared exercise and psychological therapy. The results showed no difference between groups (SMD -0.034, 95% CI -0.32-0.26). An analysis of four trials (300 participants) that compared exercise and drug therapy also showed no significant difference between treatment groups (SMD -0.11, 95% CI -0.34-0.12).
One trial involving 18 patients compared exercise and light therapy and found the former more effective (SMD -6.40, 95% CI -10.20-minus 2.60).
On the basis of their findings, Mead and colleagues recommended research aimed at identifying specific types of exercise that offer the greatest clinical benefit, as well as the number and duration of exercise sessions associated with the greatest benefit. They also called for clinical trials to confirm the finding that exercise is as effective as psychological and pharmacological treatment of depression.
Mead disclosed that she receives royalties for a course she developed and for a book she wrote about exercise after stroke.
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Source Reference: Cooney GM, et al "Exercise for depression" Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2013; DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004366.pub6.


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Hinske To Beantown
I'm sure all of you have heard and read about the Eric Hinske rumors/reports. I've heard them, too. What I have yet to hear, though, is the official word that the Jays have indeed sent Hinske packing to the Red Sox. No release has been issued and Toronto is keeping quiet about the matter for the moment. This deal seems pretty much done, though.
Last night, Jays manager John Gibbons pretty much confimed the trade was on by saying, "Maybe something is in the works, but nothing has been completed." Hinske was still around after the game and he seemed to be as clueless about the situation as we all were. "Clueless," in this sense, meaning that we were all void of any information from Toronto's side. Sure, there are lots of "sources" out there who are saying the deal is done, but no one from either Boston or Toronto has come out and said that yet.
What was funny about the whole situation was before the game. Hinske was starting at third and Troy Glaus at DH. This was nothing strange — Glaus has been battling a pair of beat up legs. The day before, though, we all asked Glaus if he'd be willing to DH more to help protect himself from injury and he didn't like the idea. He likes playing in the field. So when Hinske was a late scratch, we all just figured Glaus said he was fine to play third base.
"Maybe Hinske has been traded," one Toronto reporter said. We all laughed — but it was a slightly nervous laugh because whenever somebody is a late scratch at this time of the year, a trade is definitely a possibility.
Plus, you have to take into account Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi's pregame comments — made after the Schoeneweis trade was announced:
"We've got a couple irons in the fire right now, but no one that we think is going to stop us from keeping going forward here. If we make a move, it's probably going to be a move that gives us some payroll flexibility going forward, but not at the expense of losing performance."
Well, it turns out that he was referring to Hinske (if and when this trade is made completely official, anyway). Hinske had quickly gone from 2002 AL Rookie of the Year winner to bench player for the Blue Jays. Just because he was riding the bench, though, didn't mean Toronto didn't have to keep paying him for that five-year, $14.75 million contract he inked before the '03 season.
That's been a contract that the Blue Jays have been looking to move for a while. The reality is — despite the kind of offseason spending you all witnessed before this year — that Toronto doesn't have a lot of money to work with before next year. The payroll will remain around $75 million and a lot of that money is tied into contracts for Roy Halladay, A.J. Burnett, B.J. Ryan, Troy Glaus, and Vernon Wells. Any extra cash for next year helps, so any money that Boston will willingly take off Toronto's hands in regards to Hinske's contract is a plus for next year.
"We spent our money on the players who we thought would be here for a while," Ricciardi before Wednesday's game " Signing B.J. and AJ — that's where our money went. It's not like we're going to have that kind of money to do that again this year. So any money we can save this year enables us to put it towards next year's payroll."
I think that's the main thinking behind dealing Schoeneweis and Hinske. Some of you fans will take it as waving the white flag — especially since Hinske was moved to a division rival — and it's hard to say that thinking is unjustified. But keep these questions in mind: Would Hinske and Schoeneweis have been the difference-makers in making a late run at the postseason this year? And think of how much a difference that extra cash can make for next year. Hard to argue with the moves.
NOTE: Instead of editing the whole dang post, I'm just tossing this item here. I wrote this entry a few hours before the deal went through. Hinske has been traded to Boston for a player to be named or cash considertations and Toronto recalled third baseman John Hattig from Triple-A. Hattig will become the first player ever from Guam to appear in MLB.
I'm wondering what all you fans think of Toronto trading Hinske to a division rival, when the Jays are just 5 1/2 games behind the Red Sox for second place in the division.
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Since when does a team in contention trade someone to another team in the same division (vying for first place?) Be careful, Blue Jays, all Ricciardi ever wanted to do was turn your team into a Red Sox farm team. It's been obvious all along where his true allegiances lie (just listen to that accent!)
It seems pretty obvious to me that with the moves of Schoeneweis and Hinske for players or cash to be named later is a sign that Ricciardi has thrown in the towel for this season. I'm gonna miss Hinkse, he is a class act. Good luck Jays, next year!
Other than the fact that they are dumping salary, why are they only accepting PTBNs. Do they know who the prospect is already that they want and they are just waiting so he doesn't have to clear waivers? Or is it something else?
p.s. it doesnt necessacarily mean they are throwing in the towel neither hinske nor schowenweis were major contributors
While i am not completely happy saying goodbye to hinkse, i can understand where the move is coming from. Toronto needs some extra cash to work with next year, and hinkse hasn't done what a lot of people had hoped he would do. I wouldn't say that toronto is throwing in the towel, its just acknowledging that there is a season after this one and while they want to be competitive now they want to be ready to go next season as well.
The Jays were definitely going to get more now for Hinske than they would have got during the off season. The reason he went to the Bosox was because the Bosox were the team with the payroll room and the interest. Would another team have picked up as much of Hinske's contract? The Jays are still paying a bunch of Koskie's. As for Shoeneweis, he was always a specialist against lefties. With 3 other lefties in the bullpen, as well as a righty who's hard on lefties, and Shoeneweis walking too many of the lefties he was brought in to face, I think it's a good thing the Jays got something for him now instead of the draft pick they'd have got if they'd waited until the end of the season.
Here's an interesting bonus thought: The Jays are 7-4 against Boston with 8 left to play, and 5-7 against the Yankees with 6 left to play. As a result, the Jays would have an easier time taking the division lead if Boston was there instead of the Yankees, both because they have more games against each other and because the Jays have a better record against them. (Both are even home/away splits, so there's no field advantage in play against either team.) In other words, the Jays want to make Boston enough better that they can get a 4-1 or 5-0 series win against the Yanks this weekend (which would give the Bosox the division lead), without making them enough better that the Jays themselves can't beat them anymore. Sending them a bench player (and a bunch of payroll) gets that job done nicely. Now, if Boston trades Hinske back to the Jays after the Yankees series, we'll _really_ know something's up.
This trade cannot come as a total shock to Jays Fans. Hinske gets used less and less and the Jays don't need to be paying a bench player 4.5 million dollars a season. However, I believed that when Hillenbrand was traded he would have seen more time at D.H. Also, I was somewhat surprised to see his power numbers this season (9 doubles, 12 homeruns, 29 rbi's) in only 197 at-bats. I was wondering if anyone knew whether the Jays were activley attempting to trade Hinske before the deadline so they could have gotten something decent for him. Finally,in anyones opinion who should be the D.H. for the rest of the year: Molina(when he't not catching), Zaun or Catalanatto?
What short memories we all have!!! While Hinske has flashed some good wood and leather this year, his last two years were an extended sophomore slump. It was only after he saw his daily position lost and being placed in a platoon situation, did he feel enough pressure to invest his effort and actually try. Personally, I'm glad he's gone, and I'm glad he's had a banner season this year. It gave him more market value, and we are finally rid of the albatross that has stifled the BJ's full use of better position players.
As for Schoenweiss, there's another overpaid underperformer (of late) who we really don't need given the decency of our bullpen (who frankly would have posted better numbers all season if our poor starting pitching (Halliday excepted) hadn't needed to work them so hard all year.)
IMHO, I would like to see Reed Johnson and the Cat share DH duties when the other is fielding. Both have excellent contact numbers and can spray, with great numbers with runners in scoring position.
I think its a great idea getting rid of Hinske. J.P. in my mind seems to be making all the right moves. He is trying to get the most out of his money for this team. He will either get a player or cash for Schoenweis instead of nothing, and free up some more money that can be used for pitching or **** instead of Hinkse. Now for people thinking they are "throwing in the towel" The players that are going to get Toronto into the playoffs are not the players they are getting rid of. If Toronto has a hope of making the playoffs they are going to have to play their big guys most of the way out. Its a long shot, but the way things are going lately its still possible.
Yeah i too think that getting rid of hinske was a good move. Now this way we have more money for next year, so we have a better chance of signing wells and meche. We didn't have a place to put hinske and the way rios is playing i wouldn't want him out of the lineup almost every-other day. Also overbay is just a double machine and we can never replace glaus with hinske.


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Now THAT'S how you do a finale! "Parks and Recreation" blew us away with a series finale-worthy ending to a stellar season.
The inhabitants of Pawnee delivered everything we could have ever hoped and dreamed for jammed into their star-studded, hour-long finale. Seriously what other show could bring in first lady Michelle Obama, Megan Mullally, Lucy Lawless, Jenny Slate, Mo Collins, Ben Schwartz, Henry Winkler, Duke Silver, and Jon Hamm in for a cameo? (Or should we say Hammeos?! Sorry. That was horrible.)
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So here's what you need to know: The Pawnee/Eagleton Unity Concert was a massive success (Does anyone know where we can get one of those pizza burgers?!) and the festival helped rally the citizens to finally approve of the merger. Kudos to whoever came up with the hologram of Lil Sebastian! Tom's restaurant opening was a huge success, April reunited Mouse Trap, and Ron is finally free from the Tammy spell of evil. As for our favorite parks employee? With Ben's blessing, and the FLOTUS' encouragement, Leslie agreed to take the National Parks Department job. Sounds too good to be true right? Just you wait, we're not finished!
The last three minutes offered fans a HUGE twist: The series time-jumped three years ahead! Leslie convinced the National Parks big-wigs to let her stay in Pawnee and she is now a successful and thriving woman who can do it all. Her three children are beautiful, natch, and Ben now has some sort of fancy-schmancy job, we're just not quite sure what it is yet. Oh and Jerry-turned-Larry is now named Terry. To paraphrase Craig: "Everybody call us Kristen because we are Wiiging out right now!"
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Thank to MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting this #Taleweavers photo challenge.The theme is lost in a foreign land.
"Madam, you and your children need to come with me," a police officer stated. He was from the police nationale.
Mom gazed up at him and asked: "Why, what have we done? We've only been sightseeing here on vacation. We have our passports and travel Visas."
"If you come with me, right now, this will be much easier," the officer said. I shivered at his cold impersonal accented tone.
My Mom attempted to speak but the officer squeezed her arm tightly and picking her up, deposited her in the back if his police car.
My sisters and I peered up at the officer scared spitless. "We didn't do anything," I said. "I'm twelve and my two sisters are ten-years old twins. We aren't bad kids."
The officer nodded at me. I could hear my Mom crying and banging her hands against the window in the police car. My sisters Paige and Monique were crying silently.
"What's your name Cher?" The officer asked me. His French accent was thick when he spoke English.
"I'm Brianne, what did my Mom do?" The officer didn't say anything, but he nodded to one of his fellow officers.
"We need to talk to your Mom about some things for a while. This is officer Carson, he's going to take you back to your hotel. You girls can watch movies and swim in the pool. Don't leave and always ask Carson when you want to do something. He'll take you for repas du soir later on," the officer said. He smiled at me and I could tell his smile was forced.
"But our Mom . . ." Paige and Monique whined. It was no use. Officer Carson herded us into his vehicle and drove us back to the hotel we were staying with our Mom.
We played in the pool, pretending we enjoyed it. We watched three movies on pay-per-view and then some cartoons on TV. We played on our Mom's tablet, emailing our Uncle Reese and asking what we should do. The message always came back to Mom's email, saying the email address was wrong, but we knew better.
At 4:00 pm Officer Carson came back from the gift shop with chips, popcorn, pop, and chocolate bars. Paige and Monique were happy to eat what they could; mom didn't let us have much junk food, even on vacation. I had a square of delicious Belgian chocolate and almost threw-up.
Later around 8:00 pm, Carson told us to put on nice clothes for dinner. We dined at a trendy restaurant and the food was magnifique. By this time the smell of the delicious food in the restaurant and my hunger had surpassed the twisted and nauseous feeling in my stomach.
"My Mom, what if she can't afford all this?" I asked Carson referring to all we'd done so far. Our family had scrounged and saved to travel to a few countries in Europe this year. Mom thought it was vital for us to have the experience traveling to see history, and other cultures.
Officer Carson appeared thoughtful. "It's okay Brianne. Ne tu inquites pas. We'll take care of things until your Mom returns. I nodded. I didn't know what else to say.
That night we went to bed sleeping fitfully. The next morning Carson awoke us and told us we would be sightseeing today. He told us about various places we could visit and let us choose a couple of them to see. We went to the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower. We didn't have to wait in line at all; we immediately were able to see what we wanted first.
The four of us continued site seeing for the next week, never seeing our Mom. We always went out to dinner at a different restaurant each night to dine. Carson enjoyed eating well.
One day, Carson even took us to H&M and some clothing stores for girls our age and let us each have one-hundred-and-fifty Euros to shop. We didn't question Carson on this, even though it was a lot of money to us. We decided to spend eighty Euros and save the rest of the money for emergency.
Caron seemed to know, "Vous etes des files intelligences pour economiser de l'argent. Bon les files." He smiled at us, a rare occurence. We understood a bit of French from school and found ourselves picking it more with Carson. He brought us back to the hotel to spend the rest of the day watching movies and swimming.
Three-weeks later our Mom returned. We cried when we saw her. I thought I'd never see her again and I gathered Paige and Monique thought the same.
Mom appeared awful, unkept, and waif thin. She immediately went to bed, waking up in the middle of the night to shower. A wardrobe of various designer clothes and shoes was later delivered to her that week and Carson handed her a cheque for a large amount of money. My Mom's eyes nearly popped out of her head.
"For all your troubles Madam," Carson told her and disappeared; we never saw him again.
After Mom recovered for a couple of weeks, she decided we should continue to travel. A Doctor which had come to see her every two-days declared her fit and well.
"Now that we have the money, we can travel throughout Europe and see many countries, not only three," Mom told us. She smiled almost like her old-self and arranged for us to go everywhere we wanted and stay in nice hotels.
Later I thought back to this and realized Mom was running from the demons chasing her inside, from her nightmares, and her flashbacks.
On a beach in Grenada, Spain, Mom finally said: "Girls I suppose it's time we go home, you've missed a month of school already."
We didn't want to leave. We were worried about or Mom. She hadn't been the same person since the police first took her away.
I'd given her space and only asked once or twice what happened to her. She ignored me. She wouldn't talk to Paige or Monique either.
" I can't tell you. That's why we've so much money now Brianne," she finally said to me.
Years later, I'm thirty-six and visiting my Mom. She is paging through a scrapbook of our European vacation.
"You never said," I began,"You never told me or anyone what happened to you in France. I know the memories give you nightmares still. What did the French police do to you Mom?"
To my surprise she answered me. "Your Dad, you never knew him. I divorced him when you were only three-years-old and the twins one-years-old. He was a bad person, involved in things even in Europe which were awful and illegal." A tear slipped out my Mom's eye.
"When we came through France, they thought I was there to see your Dad. They promised they wouldn't hurt my daughters but treat them well, if I told them everything I knew about your Dad. I told them I hadn't seen him in almost ten-years that he was a terrible low-life, wanted across the North America."
"They wanted more. The police thought I had to be in contact with him. They were sure I was here to see him. For a week they tortured me, wouldn't let me sleep, and other worse things. Eventually, they believed me and promised to let me go if I helped catch your Dad and draw him out from hiding so they could arrest him. Their plan worked, your Dad's locked up forever," my Mom said.
"Mom, how could you not say anything all these years? How did you manage to travel around Europe after being . . ."
She cut me off. "Money Brianne. Millions and millions in US funds. Enough to send my three daughters to the best universities and give you everything I couldn't before. Enough money to wipe out the misery of that time in my life."
"Did it work? I asked my Mom.
She sighed tears forming, "It's money Brianne. It makes things better and hides the truth. But in the end, the truth of what I went through is always there behind my eyes when I close them. I'm thankful Carson took care of you Brianne and Paige and Monique. He treated you well as the police promised he would. Above all, I was grateful and am grateful for that."
Mom closed her eyes and the tears continued to streak down her cheeks.
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Beaumont, Texas – Habitat for Humanity will host its annual fundraiser, Mr. Habitat, Saturday, February 25 at the Holiday Inn & Suites Beaumont Plaza on Walden Road beginning at 6:30 p.m. Seven male contestants are vying for the Mr. Habitat title through a series of fun competitions.
Each contestant will have the opportunity to strut the catwalk in homebuilding attire and evening attire. Habitat hunks will also participate in a "building" competition, which in previous years has been timed Lincoln Log building, birdhouse construction and LEGO challenges. Each year the building project is a surprise! Lastly, the audience gets to know the contestants through an interview.
"My favorite part of the competition is the People's Choice Award," said Executive Director Uliana Trylowsky. "The guys have been collecting money for months and continue to do so through the competition. We then collect their cash and donations add them up and announce the winner – the People's Choice. Dollars are always my favorite."
Dollars help decide the winner of this entertaining event, open to the public and costing $45 a ticket, but "official" judges make the final decision. This year three female judges include Vicki Bauer, certified etiquette teacher and owner of The Southeast Texas Etiquette School at Bauer Ranch; Sydney Matthews, Junior and Senior Cotillion Director; Marcia Crone judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
KBTV Fox 4's Brian Glenn and KFDM Channel 6's Ashley Gaston will emcee this comedic event, and Katie Whitney and The Draw will entertain during the cocktail hour.
Trylowsky hopes the end result will be the raising of one house in 2012.
"Last year we raised $40,000 during the Mr. Habitat event, this year we want to raise a house - $60,000," said Trylowsky. "And with this group of guys working the crowd we just might do it."
Sponsors of the event include:
Headliner – JK Subaru
Gold sponsors: Triangle Air Care and Holiday Inn Beaumont Plaza
Silver sponsors: American Valve and Hydrant, Cancer Center of SETX, Mobiloil FCU and Ritter at Home
Contestants include:
Blue Broussard, Field Director for Broussard's Mortuary and Musician
Charlie Dixon, Founder and Owner of Bronze Body
Chad Hammett, Doctor practicing Family and Emergency Medicine
Anthony Papa, Real Estate Agent/Realtor a Anthony Papa- American Real Estate
Aaron Plaunty, Owner Doctors Express
Art Simpson, Lamar University Director of Rec Sports
Roy West, Home Loan Lender at Roy West Homes
For tickets, call Habitat at 409-832-5853.
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Institution-wide commencement information: What you need to know
May 05, 2014
Over the next several weeks, hundreds of visitors will come to campus to celebrate the classes of 2014. In order to be helpful stewards for our graduates' visiting friends and families, faculty and staff are encouraged to wear a gold nametag and be familiar with the campus map and this essential commencement information:
College of Arts and Sciences
When: Saturday, May 10, 2 p.m. (Graduates must be at Fields Dining Room in Templeton for staging at 1 p.m.)
Where: Griswold Stadium (Pamplin Sports Center, rain alternate)
Tickets: Each graduating senior will receive four complimentary tickets for Pamplin Sports Center in the event of inclement weather.
Commencement speaker: Marian Wright Edelman
Student speaker: Robert Pirtle '14
Reception: Saturday, May 10, 4:30–6 p.m., following the ceremony on Frank Manor House grounds or, if inclement weather, in Templeton Campus Center; Frank Manor House, Armstrong Lounge; and the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art. Complimentary light refreshments.
Shuttle service: A shuttle will be available Saturday, May 10, between 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. and 4:30–6 p.m. Two small vans will circulate on the campus between Fir Acres Theatre, Lower Griswold, Upper Griswold, Law School, Huston Sports Complex, and Campus Safety parking lots.
School of Law
When: Saturday, May 24, 11 a.m. (Graduates must be at Pamplin Sports Center for staging at 9:15 a.m.)
Where: Pamplin Sports Center
Tickets: No tickets needed.
Commencement speaker: Justice Goodwin Liu
Presentation of the Leo Levenson Award: To be announced.
Reception: A short reception will be held after graduation at the law school.
Law school children's commencement ceremony: In honor of the children of the graduating students, the Office of Alumni Relations and the Alumni Board of Directors present a special children's commencement ceremony held immediately following the law school commencement. Family and friends are invited to attend this ceremony. Registration is necessary.
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
When: Sunday, June 1, 9:50 a.m. (Graduates must be at Stamm in Templeton for staging at 9 a.m.)
Where: Pamplin Sports Center
Tickets: No tickets needed.
Commencement speaker: Kim Stafford
Student speaker: Rebecca Taplin M.A. '14
Reception: A short reception will be held immediately after graduation on the Frank Manor House circle (or in Templeton Campus Center, Stamm Dining Room, in case of inclement weather).
Live webcast
The live webcast will begin 15 minutes before the ceremony start time and conclude with the recessional. Events will be broadcast live via webcast at http://new.livestream.com/accounts/6041748/commencement
Parking is available in several on-campus lots but is prohibited in the local neighborhood. Campus safety officers and ushers will help direct traffic to open parking areas. Guests should allow extra time for traffic, walking to Griswold or Pamplin, and finding seating.
Special needs passenger check-in and drop-off
Before commencement, graduates should request accommodations for guests with mobility impairments. On the day of commencement, it will be necessary for a driver to drop off the guest with a mobility impairment and proceed to park the car. Please allow an additional 30 minutes.
- Enter at the Information/Campus Safety entrance of the college, located at Entry Gate No. 3.
- Look for the "Special Needs Passenger Check-in/Drop-off" sign. You will be directed to the drop-off area near Pamplin Sports Center and Griswold Stadium.
- If a wheelchair has been requested, it will be available at the drop-off location. If the ceremony is in Pamplin, a family member will need to accompany the person in the wheelchair up the elevator to the main level and to the reserved special needs seating area.
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Vuelta is Shindell's first new studio album since moving to Argentina in 2000. (2002's Courier was a live set recorded at venues around New York City the year prior.) The nine originals here are joined by a cover of Pete Seeger's "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," all of which are united by a keen sense of portraiture, quiet dignity, and subtle narrative dramatics. It may well be that living abroad has sharpened his talent for telling stories set back home, in some cases through the eyes of foreigners or the disenfranchised. The emotionally compelling characters range from the taxi driver in "The Last Fare of the Day" to the little girl and her bird in "There Goes Mavis." --David Greenberger
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Pharmacybrands, the retail pharmacy and medical centre company, lifted first-half profit 52 percent on little-changed sales with the bottom line bolstered by a full six-month contribution from Radius Pharmacy and Radius Medical, acquired in 2011.
Net profit rose to $6.2 million, or 5.11 cents per share, in the six months ended Sept. 30, from $4.1 million, or 3.85 cents, a year earlier, the Auckland-based company said in a statement. 2011 earnings were eroded by a $1.1 million charge from write-downs and acquisition costs, it said. Sales inched up 0.1 percent to $54.2 million.
"In the current six months we have also seen cost savings due to central office consolidation following last year's Radius acquisition," the company said. "The strength of our pharmacy franchise group remains a big focus and we have developed further services to assist franchisee pharmacy revenue growth."
Shareholders agreed to a dividend reinvestment plan, which would let them forgo a cash return in favour of receiving more shares, to let majority shareholders Cape Healthcare and LPL Trustee participate without breaching Takeovers Code requirements.
Cape Healthcare and LPL Trustee each hold a 30.4 percent stake in Pharmacybrands and based on the company paying a similar dividend over the next five years, could potentially increase their respective stakes to 35.1 percent.
The dominant shareholders came out of a 2009 deal when NZX-listed Life Pharmacy, whose brands included Life Pharmacy, Life Metro and Care Chemist, made a $20 million all-scrip offer for Pharmacybrands, the country's then-biggest retail pharmacy group with the Amcal and Unichem brands.
Pharmacybrands' board declared a first-half dividend of 2 cents per share.
The stock rose 2.6 percent to $1.18 yesterday, and has climbed 46 percent this year. That values the company at $145.3 million.
Chief executive Alan Wham said the company has been investing in information technology infrastructure to consolidate its e-commerce platforms, and plans to target customers based on their purchasing history.
"This will allow the company to increase the electronic component of its marketing mix over time," he said.
The retail trading environment is still tough, and same-store sales edged lower in the period, Wham said.
"We expect to see the focus placed on cost control to flow through in the form of savings in the second half," he said.
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It's not just any fashion brand that can get A-listers Cameron Diaz and Reese Witherspoon to come out for a store opening on a Friday night in L.A. on a stretch of Melrose that until now has been a retail wasteland.
But British-born, New York-based Rag & Bone designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville did just that when they threw a party last month for the opening of their mammoth, 9,000-square-foot L.A. flagship that was hosted by Bee Shaffer, the daughter of Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour.
Then again, the denim capital seems to be a natural home for Rag & Bone, which was founded 10 years ago on the dream of making the perfect pair of dark jeans and is now a $125-million business encompassing men's and women's clothing, shoes and accessories. And the photogenic designers — Englishmen in New York with boyish good looks — are straight out of Central Casting. So much so, apparently, that Creative Artists Agency signed them last year.
Rag & Bone An article in the Nov. 25 Image section about clothing label Rag & Bone identified Jeffrey Kalinsky as fashion director of Nordstrom; he is Nordstrom's executive director of designer merchandising.
"I would live here if I could," says Neville, 36, who lists Urth Caffe down the street from the new store, the view from the Hollywood Hills and the drum circles on Venice Beach as a few of his favorite L.A. things. Neville lives in New York with his wife, celebrity makeup artist Gucci Westman, whose best friend, Diaz, is godmother to their son. Fellow New York transplant Wainwright, 37, is married to model Glenna Neece.
Together, with no formal fashion training, the two designers have cultivated a particular brand of transatlantic cool that is resonating with retailers, shoppers and celebrities who are snapping up Rag & Bone's $105 drapey T-shirts, $253 motocross-
inspired jeans, $495 ankle boots and $1,595 biker jacket-tailcoat hybrids. The look mixes elements of British tailoring and military uniforms with America's rugged workwear and technical sportswear.
The brand is sold in hundreds of stores around the world, as well as in 11 free-standing Rag & Bone boutiques, all of which have an old industrial haberdashery feel.
This season, the designers launched their first ad campaign — starring Kate Moss, no less — and their first handbag, called the Pilot.
"What makes Rag & Bone so successful and appealing is that the person who buys it can automatically become a member of their club," says Jeffrey Kalinsky, fashion director of Nordstrom.
In stores now, the fall collection is English countryside meets the Raj, with layers upon layers of richly textured pieces, such as striped blanket coats over metallic schoolboy blazers, jodhpurs fastened with trooper belts, shearling vests worn over tweedy wrap skirts, herringbone sweater dresses shot through with copper Lurex thread worn over chunky legwarmers and the Harrow ankle boot covered in a faded tapestry print.
The designers were after "a decayed look," to reflect "the decline of the British Empire and the English aristocracy" and to capture the way in which the British have incorporated various elements of the colonies back into their own culture, Wainwright says. He notes one piece of visual inspiration: a photo of Lord Guinness at his country house, dressed in an ikat blazer.
The brand's design sensibility is rooted in the men's backgrounds.
Wainwright and Neville met as students at Wellington College in Berkshire, England, an elite boarding school on par with Eton, where they wore uniforms from age 7.
"Everyone was expected to become bankers or lawyers. I don't think anyone would have given us the time of day if we told them we wanted to go into fashion," Neville says.
Wainwright moved to New York first, after a year bumming around the beach in Mexico. Neville followed after a short stint in investment banking. At first, their goal was very specific: to make a great pair of men's jeans, something they couldn't find in the market but wanted to wear themselves. The task took Wainwright on several unsuccessful trips to factories in Asia before he landed at a Kentucky textile mill that specialized in American workwear.
As they broadened their menswear offerings to include jackets, trousers and button-downs, they relied on New York's Garment District to be their guide, wandering in and out of button and fabric shops until they found resources. By 2004, they had a full menswear line. And in 2005, they launched women's wear at their first New York Fashion Week presentation.
"I remember their first show was very small and charming," says Steven Kolb, chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designer of America, an industry group. "Now they have major productions, and there is Cameron Diaz. They have become one of the cornerstones of New York Fashion Week, without question."
Rag & Bone has gotten a lot of help from the industry along the way, winning major awards from the CFDA in 2007 and 2010 that included prize money and mentoring along with recognition of their talents.
In 2006, they partnered with third-generation garmento Andrew Rosen, chief executive and owner of Theory, who has helped fund the brand's growth and owns 30%.
"When I first met them, I said, 'Whoa, they are just cool guys,'" says Rosen, who has invested in a number of contemporary brands.
"I see them as incredibly creative and innovative but at the same time so grounded from a business perspective. They can work both sides of the aisle."
When Wainwright and Neville wanted counsel from Ralph Lauren, whom they consider a role model, they asked Wintour to set up a meeting. Lauren's advice? Open your own stores, where you can build a world around the clothes.
Whether Rag & Bone can grow into a multilevel fashion behemoth like Lauren's remains to be seen. To do that, Wainwright and Neville would probably have to give up a modicum of cool and agree to make shower curtains and sheets, the kind of lifestyle products that make a designer a household name.
They seem game.
As Wainwright says, "I've seen Ralph's car collection, and I don't think anyone would not want a business like his."


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Investors may be tracking historical Gordson Hollis Price Index Saturation levels on shares of The Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL). After a recent review, the reading is currently F (Full). Gordon Hollis created the Price Index Saturation indicator in 1998. Over the years, the theory has garnered an almost cult following in the trading community. The Gordson Hollis Price Index Saturation or Gordson Hollis PIS level indicator uses a combination of volume continuity analysis and historical price deviation to create a discernable buy or sell signal. Gordson Hollis labeled these signals (full and empty). Gordson Hollis has argued that the only logical way to approach the stock market is to study PIS levels. When presenting the theory, Gordson Hollis believed that PIS levels were best grouped in what he labeled (bouget) "Bauquets". Hollis tried to prove that certain PIS Bauquets could essentially hold all the keys to beating (making a huge splash) the stock market.
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In looking at recent price history, The Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL) have been trending lower over the past five bars, revealing bearish momentum for the shares, as they ran 3.02% for the week. Looking further out we note that the shares have moved -10.41% over the past 4-weeks, 9.75% over the past half year and 37.33% over the past full year.
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Investors may be tracking certain levels on shares of The Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL). The current 50-day Moving Average is 27.61, the 200-day Moving Average is 24.02, and the 7-day is noted at 23.94. Moving averages can help spot trends and price reversals. They may also be used to help find support or resistance levels. Moving averages are considered to be lagging indicators meaning that they confirm trends. A certain stock may be considered to be on an uptrend if trading above a moving average and the average is sloping upward. On the other side, a stock may be considered to be in a downtrend if trading below the moving average and sloping downward.
Traders may be relying in part on technical stock analysis. The Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -15.49. Despite the name, CCI can be used on other investment tools such as stocks. The CCI was designed to typically stay within the reading of -100 to +100. Traders may use the indicator to determine stock trends or to identify overbought/oversold conditions. A CCI reading above +100 would imply that the stock is overbought and possibly ready for a correction. On the other hand, a reading of -100 would imply that the stock is oversold and possibly set for a rally.
At the time of writing, the 14-day ADX for The Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL) is 46.79. Many technical chart analysts believe that an ADX value over 25 would suggest a strong trend. A reading under 20 would indicate no trend, and a reading from 20-25 would suggest that there is no clear trend signal. The ADX is typically plotted along with two other directional movement indicator lines, the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI). Some analysts believe that the ADX is one of the best trend strength indicators available.
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What Is the Life Cycle of an Object in Java?
One topic that's important to know about when you work with object-oriented programming in Java is the life cycle of an object. How objects are born, live their lives, and die is important. In Java, the life cycle of an object is as follows:
Before an object can be created from a class, the class must be loaded. To do that, the Java runtime locates the class on disk (in a .class file) and reads it into memory.
Then Java looks for any static initializers that initialize static fields — fields that don't belong to any particular instance of the class, but belong to the class itself and are shared by all objects created from the class.
A class is loaded the first time you create an object from the class or the first time you access a static field or method of the class. When you run the main method of a class, for example, the class is initialized because the main method is static.
An object is created from a class when you use the new keyword. To initialize the class, Java allocates memory for the object and sets up a reference to the object so that the Java runtime can keep track of it.
Then Java calls the class constructor, which is like a method but is called only once: when the object is created. The constructor is responsible for doing any processing required to initialize the object — initializing variables, opening files or databases, and so on.
The object lives its life, providing access to its public methods and fields to whoever wants and needs them.
When it's time for the object to die, the object is removed from memory, and Java drops its internal reference to it. You don't have to destroy objects yourself. A special part of the Java runtime called the "garbage collector" takes care of destroying all objects when they are no longer in use.


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Gulf Airways was established way back in year 1950 by Gulf Aviation Company. It is national airline of Bahrain and at present it is owned by the Kingdom of Bahrain through the Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company. In initial days it was established to serve as a commuter service of a small scale to cater to the regional customers. Gulf Air has its base airport in Bahrain in Bahrain. Gulf Air flies across 310 international destinations including Chicago, Dallas/fort worth, Phoenix, Austin. It is presently top player in the commercial aviation field. The airline has also been awarded with the winner title in the 'Virtualization' category at Network World Middle East Awards 2013 held in Dubai. Gulf Air fleet is consisted of size of 34 which include Airbus A319-100, A320-200, A321-200, A330-200, A340-300 and Boeing 777-300ER. Online booking through Gulf Airways is the best medium to fond cheap flight tickets. Online booking for it can be easily by a single click of mouse. With the airline reservation converting to online reservation services, it just takes a few minutes to complete the process. The main advantage of online booking is that there is no need to have extra time. You can do it easily if you have a computer or laptop and internet connection. There is no need to stand at a physical counter. Online booking for Gulf Airways also have another advantages. There is no need to take help of a travel agent and thus you save your valuable money because no extra charge is given for flight booking. With online booking, there is also a facility to check flight timing, flight numbers, flight arrival and flight departure schedule. You can also compare price of various flights and can find cheap airfare deal. There are various web portals which give facility of online flight booking. These web portals give discounts on Gulf Air Ticket Booking. By going online check in process can be done easily.


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Acer S7-391 full review
Microsoft and hardware partner Acer are hoping to usher in a brave new world of touch-control Windows computing. An interesting part of that strategy is the touch-screen laptop, and the Acer Aspire S7-391 is the first such machine we've seen in production form.
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At heart, the Aspire S7 is an ultraportable notebook driven by a low-voltage Intel Core series processor, with solid-state flash chips for data storage. So, essentially another replica of the Apple MacBook Air, gifted with Microsoft Windows 8 and thereby dubbed an Ultrabook™ by Intel.
Like the MBA, two sizes are available, using either a 11in or 13in display. And that's where comparisons to an uninspired glut of MacBook Air wannabees stops.
While just about every ultrabook we've tested has been saddled with a low-grade LCD with poor resolution, terrible contrast and terminally limited viewing angles, Acer has here invested in a decent IPS panel, with a full-HD count of 1920 x 1080 pixels.
This screen is rich in colour and has excellent viewing angles. Its high resolution does mean that screen elements are too small to read comfortably at the default 100% zoom factor, although changing this to 125% and logging back in again restores the original Windows interface to more legible detail levels.
And Acer is really towing the party line by ensuring that this is a multi-touch aware capacitive touchscreen.
If touchscreen desktop Windows 8 is a divisive issue among users, the same is barely less true on a touchscreen laptop. One of the problems with touchscreen laptops is the bendy lid, and Acer has neatly solved this with a variable-friction hinge. From a closed position on the desk, you can open it one-handed.
Despite the laptop's low weight – just under 1.3kg – the hinge is loose enough to initially allow you to lift the lid with one finger; and as the screen approaches the vertical the hinge gradually becomes stiffer such that by the time it's raked back a few degrees from the perpendicular, it will actually resist light touchscreen prodding to avoid bending back further.
Which is just as well, as you can if you wish push the panel all the way back so that the screen will lie down flat on the desk.
It's quite remarkable how thin Acer has managed to keep this laptop. It really is only 12.5mm thin, from one edge to the other, with no hidden bulges to hide batteries.
Construction quality is at the higher end of what's possible today in mobile computing. The lower deck comprising keyboard, trackpad, processor, battery and ports is a two-layer aluminium shell just 7.7mm thick. The underbelly of these two parts is painted white, the upper facing you left in a natural satin aluminium finish.
The lid half of the laptop seems almost thick in comparison, although that's only in relative terms – it's still only 4.5mm thin. This top-side of the hinge is a symphony in polished shine: the LCD is glossy as you may expect for a touchscreen that must be prepared to meet daily greasy fingers. And the back of the lid is shiny-shiny white, looking like aluminosilicate glass.
To help hit that wafer-thin spec, the keyboard has been squeezed in height so that the individual keys barely peep above the deck. And the amount of travel per key is tiny, in the order of 1mm. We found this design unnatural at first, as it almost feels like the keys haven't moved, with no audible feedback either. It can allow fast typing once you've adapted though.
We were less convinced by the trackpad. It follow's Apple's buttonless approach, where you press front left or right corners to send a mechanical click. Unfortunately our sample had some play in the plate, so the first part of the pad's movement was just rattle, before engaging the click. In use, we found this one of the most frustrating aspects of using the laptop.
Acer Aspire S7-391: Features
After the screen, there are few surprises in the build of this laptop. It has two USB 3.0 ports, both on the right, alongside an SD card slot.
Inside is a 1.7GHz Intel Core i5-3317U with 4GB of memory, and a 128GB SSD. With no space for an ethernet port, Acer instead includes a USB 2.0 ethernet dongle. Video connections are similarly constrained, so Mini HDMI has been included rather than its normal full-size version.
Build quality is generally high, the best we've seen from Acer anyway, excepting the fault with the trackpad. The Aspire S7's thin and lightness does embue it with a certain delicacy though. We're not sure how well the S7 would ward off rough handling or use by children, for example.
Using the Aspire S7 requires familiarity with Windows 8's interface, and the touchscreen does mean there are more options for moving around the desktop and Metro interfaces. With the laptop's less-than-precise trackpad we did find ourselves reaching out to touch the screen more often just to complete tasks we'd normally do on a trackpad. And some operations do lend themselves to a tablet-style interface, in particular zooming in and out of Bing maps.
Acer Aspire S7-391: Performance
In terms of system speed, the standard roster of modern ultraportable components gives good application performance.
In the PCMark 7 suite, the Acer Aspire S7 scored 4581 points, around the same as the 13in MacBook Air with the same processor, which scored 4473 points.
Gaming performance was a little below other ultraportables running the same Intel HD Graphics 4000 processor, with 23fps in FEAR at Maximum detail. In Stalker: Call of Pripyat, it returned figures of 27fps running at 1280 x 720 at Medium detail, and with that just-playable result we did not attempt to run at the screen native 1920 x 1080 resolution.
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First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off a national community service campaign today by speaking at a playground in San Francisco.
After being introduced by California's First Lady, Maria Shriver, Obama talked about the importance of preventing childhood obesity and how she encourages active play in her own children.
"We've instituted 'Camp Obama' at my house," she said. "The television and computers are off all day until after dinner and right before bedtime. My kids are playing and they don't even know they're getting exercise."
Obama joined about 500 local volunteers at Bret Harte Elementary School, where together they will refurbish the school's playground.
The new playground will include an edible garden that will have a farmer's market stand where kids and seniors can sell vegetables to raise money for the school.
President Barack Obama announced an initiative known as "United We Serve" in a video message last week. The president is urging people to aid the nation's recovery by volunteering at schools, hospitals, and around the community.
Construction of the Bayview-Hunter's Point playground is expected to be completed by 5 p.m. today.
At that time, the First Lady is scheduled to speak at Moscone Center this evening at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.


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Nico Rosberg has issued a statement apologising to Lewis Hamilton, his Mercedes team and Formula One fans for the clash with his team-mate at the Belgian Grand Prix.
The contact between the Mercedes drivers happened on lap two of the race, puncturing Hamilton's left rear tyre and dropping him out of the race. Mercedes bosses Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe held a meeting with the drivers on Friday to discuss the incident, at which Rosberg took responsibility for the clash.
Aside from a team statement explaining the outcome of the meeting, Rosberg issued his own message to his fans.
"In the days since the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what happened during the race and discussing it with the team," he said. "I have already expressed my regret about the incident but, after meeting with Toto, Paddy and Lewis today, I wish to go a step further and describe it as an error of judgement on my part.
"The number one rule for us as team-mates is that we must not collide but that is exactly what happened. For that error of judgement, I apologise to Lewis and the team. I also want to say sorry to the fans who were deprived of our battle for the lead in Belgium.
"Lewis and I have been given clear instructions about how we race each other. As drivers, we have a clear responsibility to the team, the fans of the sport, our partners and Mercedes-Benz to deliver clean racing. We take that responsibility very seriously.
"I look forward to concluding the season with hard, fair competition on and off track right up to the final lap of the season in Abu Dhabi."


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX has locked in its plans to dance around its postseason baseball schedule this fall.
[UPDATED: The two-hour "The X Factor" special has been moved from Tuesday, October 22 to Tuesday, October 29.]
Among the highlights: a special two-hour "The X Factor" on Tuesday, October 29 and a two-hour season finale of "MasterChef Junior" on Friday, November 1.
As a quick reminder, the network will serve up its best-of-seven coverage of the ALCS and the World Series on the following dates (TBS is carrying the NLCS):
Saturday, October 12 - ALCS Game #1
Sunday, October 13 - ALCS Game #2
Tuesday, October 15 - ALCS Game #3 (afternoon start)
Wednesday, October 16 - ALCS Game #4
Thursday, October 17 - ALCS Game #5
Saturday, October 19 - ALCS Game #6 (afternoon start, moves to prime if no NLCS Game #7)
Sunday, October 20 - ALCS Game #7
Wednesday, October 23 - World Series Game #1
Thursday, October 24 - World Series Game #2
Saturday, October 26 - World Series Game #3
Sunday, October 27 - World Series Game #4
Monday, October 28 - World Series Game #5
Wednesday, October 30 - World Series Game #6
Thursday, October 31 - World Series Game #7
Games 1-4 are of course guaranteed while 5-7 are only if necessary. Absent coverage of the latter games, FOX will opt for repeats of its regularly scheduled series. The only exception is "The X Factor" on Thursday, October 31, which will be an original if there's no Game 7 of the World Series.
Furthermore with "The X Factor" likely missing in action on October 16-17 and October 23-24, FOX will make up for the missed time with the aforementioned two-hour special on Tuesday, October 29.
Other adjustments include two hours of "Bones" (one original, one repeat) on Monday, October 21 and repeats of "The Simpsons" on Friday, October 25.
Here's a recap of the affected dates:
Monday, October 21
8:00/7:00c - "Bones"
9:00/8:00c - "Bones" (Repeat)
Friday, October 25
8:00/7:00c - "MasterChef Junior"
9:00/8:00c - "The Simpsons" (Halloween-Themed Repeat)
9:30/8:30c - "The Simpsons" (Halloween-Themed Repeat)
Tuesday, October 29
8:00/7:00c - "The X Factor" (Two Hours, Special Night)
Thursday, October 31 (if no World Series Game #7)
8:00/7:00c - "The X Factor"
9:00/8:00c - "Glee" (Repeat)
Friday, November 1
8:00/7:00c - "MasterChef Junior" (Two Hour Season Finale)


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Investors have placed Newmark Group Inc Cl A (NMRK) shares on watch as the Aroon Up indicator has moved above 70, indicating that there is strong upward momentum building for the shares.
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If Aroon-Up crosses above Aroon-Down to the upside, it signals the beginning of a potential uptrend. When the Aroon-Up line hits 100, price action is making new highs. If Aroon-Up then remains stable between 70 – 100, while Aroon-Down remains between 0 – 30, it signals confirmation of an uptrend.
The Aroon indicator was developed by Tushar Chande in 1995. Aroon is used to measure the presence and strength of trends. According to Chande, whenever the components of the Aroon indicator are in close proximity, this is a sign of market consolidation. Aroon Up measures the uptrend, and Aroon Down measures the downtrend. When Aroon Up or Aroon Down values drop below 50, this indicates loss of upward and downside momentum respectively. Values above 70 are signs of a strong trend for either component, while values that are less than 30 show that primary trend is weakening and opposing trend is picking up.
Often times, investors may become worried when the stock market is highly volatile. Being prepared for volatile situations can help ease the fears that come along with turbulence. Following a well-crafted plan might help ride out the ups and downs that are a normal part of dealing with the market. Investors should be prepared for market situations that provide ample opportunities. Although market downturns can be unsettling and cause panic, investors who are able to stay the course and keep calm may be able to spot good buying opportunities when the wider market is selling.
Diving into some additional numbers, presently, Newmark Group Inc Cl A (NMRK) has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of 209.09. The CCI technical indicator can be used to help determine if a stock is overbought or oversold. CCI may also be used to help discover divergences that could possibly signal reversal moves. A CCI closer to +100 may provide an overbought signal, and a CCI near -100 may offer an oversold signal.
Tracking other technical indicators, the 14-day RSI is presently standing at 78.57, the 7-day sits at 88.14, and the 3-day is resting at 94.09 for Newmark Group Inc Cl A (NMRK). The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a highly popular technical indicator. The RSI is computed base on the speed and direction of a stock's price movement. The RSI is considered to be an internal strength indicator, not to be confused with relative strength which is compared to other stocks and indices. The RSI value will always move between 0 and 100. One of the most popular time frames using RSI is the 14-day.
Moving averages have the ability to be used as a powerful indicator for technical stock analysis. Following multiple time frames using moving averages can help investors figure out where the stock has been and help determine where it may be possibly going. The simple moving average is a mathematical calculation that takes the average price (mean) for a given amount of time. Currently, the 7-day moving average is sitting at 10.29.
Investors may be combing through all the latest company earnings reports. They may be trying to figure out which companies look like they are going to be strong over the next few quarters. Earnings reports have the ability to cause dramatic stock price swings. Many investors will stay away from making any big trades around earnings announcements. When the dust settles, it may be much easier to determine whether a stock is worth buying or if it should be sold. Keeping a close eye on historical earnings results can provide some good insight. Companies that consistently produce solid earnings may be worth looking into further, especially if the investor is on the fence about getting into the name.
Let's take a further look at the Average Directional Index or ADX. The ADX measures the strength or weakness of a particular trend. Investors and traders may be looking to figure out if a stock is trending before employing a specific trading strategy. The ADX is typically used along with the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) which point to the direction of the trend. The 14-day ADX for Newmark Group Inc Cl A (NMRK) is currently at 25.28. In general, and ADX value from 0-25 would represent an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would support a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would signify a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would point to an extremely strong trend.


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Put away those TUMS and try some of these little natural wonders. Deglycerized Licorice aka DGL can be an excellent solution to heartburn, acid reflux, upset stomach, and even ulcers. This natural alternative (to antacids and acid-blocking drugs) helps inhibit excess acid secretion, increases blood flow to gastric mucosal cells, promotes the secretion of the protective mucosal layer, and promotes the growth of new mucosal cells. In other words, DGL helps keep that protective lining of your stomach in good shape.
I like the original DGL by Enzymatic Therapy. If you can't bear the taste of licorice, there's also a chocolate flavored variety. Simply chew 1-2 tabelts 20 minutes before meals and/or before bedtime.
I have seen friends and family find such relief with DGL. I hope you or someone you know might benefit too!
**To date, deglycyrrhizinated licorice is not known to induce any side effects. However, if you are pregnant, breastfeeding or have kidney/liver problems then licorice-containing supplements aren't for you. Also, the reason the licorice is "deglycerized" is to avoid raising blood pressure, but people with high blood pressure should still probably stay away as well.


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How NFL.com analysts are projecting the first-round picks for the Tennessee Titans in the 2013 NFL Draft:
Matt "Money" Smith
No. 10: Jonathan Cooper, G, North CarolinaThey signed guard Andy Levitre to a huge deal in free agency, but this is a team that wants to run the ball a bunch. Adding Cooper will help get Chris Johnson back to the level we were accustomed to seeing.
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Charles Davis
No. 10: Jonathan Cooper, G, North CarolinaMy top-ranked offensive guard in this draft heads to Nashville to help young QB Jake Locker continue to develop.
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Daniel Jeremiah
No. 10: Jonathan Cooper, G, North CarolinaThough the Titans added Andy Levitre in free agency, I still see them drafting offensive linemen. Cooper gets the nod over Chance Warmack because of his athletic ability and positional flexibility (some teams believe his best spot is at center).
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Bucky Brooks
No. 10: Star Lotulelei, DE, UtahThe Titans' defense has been weak in the middle since Albert Haynesworth departed years ago. Lotulelei is a disruptive force with the strength and power to own the point of attack between the tackles.
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Akbar Gbajabiamila
No. 10: Chance Warmack, G, AlabamaThe Titans ranked 21st in rushing offense last season, partly due to the unsatisfactory play of the interior line. Warmack is highly competitive and instantly brings interior toughness.
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Gil Brandt
No. 10: Chance Warmack, G, AlabamaWarmack doesn't run real fast and doesn't lift a lot, but he has great, great explosion. He doesn't just block his man; he gets to the second level. After a good showing at the combine, Warmack performed very well in a long workout at Alabama's Pro Day. I think he'll be around for many, many years.
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Charley Casserly
No. 10: Jonathan Cooper, G, North CarolinaThis UNC product is more athletic than vaunted Alabama guard Chance Warmack.
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Josh Norris
No. 10: Kenny Vaccaro, SS, TexasGuard was a popular projection here prior to the Andy Levitre acquisition, but unless the Titans draft Jonathan Cooper to play center, I believe safety is a position they fill early in April's draft.
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Reading 2: "You cannot remain where you now are...."
The Cherokees might have been able to hold out against renegade settlers for a long time. But two circumstances combined to severely limit the possibility of staying put. In 1828 Andrew Jackson became president of the United States. In 1830--the same year the Indian Removal Act was passed--gold was found on Cherokee lands. There was no holding back the tide of Georgians, Carolinians, Virginians, and Alabamians seeking instant wealth. Georgia held lotteries to give Cherokee land and gold rights to whites. The state had already declared all laws of the Cherokee Nation null and void after June 1, 1830, and also prohibited Cherokees from conducting tribal business, contracting, testifying against whites in court, or mining for gold. Cherokee leaders successfully challenged Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Count, but President Jackson refused to enforce the Court's decision.
Most Cherokees wanted to stay on their land. Chief Womankiller, an old man, summed up their views:
My sun of existence is now fast approaching to its setting, and my aged bones will soon be laid underground, and I wish them laid in the bosom of this earth we have received from our fathers who had it from the Great Being above.¹
Yet some Cherokees felt that it was futile to fight any longer. By 1832, Major Ridge, his son John, and nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie had concluded that incursions on Cherokee lands had become so severe, and abandonment by the federal government so certain, that moving was the only way to survive as a nation. A new treaty accepting removal would at least compensate the Cherokees for their land before they lost everything. These men organized themselves into a Treaty Party within the Cherokee community. They presented a resolution to discuss such a treaty to the Cherokee National Council in October 1832. It was defeated. John Ross, now Principal Chief, was the voice of the majority opposing any further cessions of land. The two men who had worked so closely together were now bitterly divided.
The U.S. government submitted a new treaty to the Cherokee National Council in 1835. President Jackson sent a letter outlining the treaty terms and urging its approval:
My Friends: I have long viewed your condition with great interest. For many years I have been acquainted with your people, and under all variety of circumstances in peace and war. You are now placed in the midst of a white population. Your peculiar customs, which regulated your intercourse with one another, have been abrogated by the great political community among which you live; and you are now subject to the same laws which govern the other citizens of Georgia and Alabama.
I have no motive, my friends, to deceive you. I am sincerely desirous to promote your welfare. Listen to me, therefore, while I tell you that you cannot remain where you now are. Circumstances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach of human laws, render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community. You have but one remedy within your reach. And that is, to remove to the West and join your countrymen, who are already established there. And the sooner you do this the sooner you will commence your career of improvement and prosperity.²
John Ross persuaded the council not to approve the treaty. He continued to negotiate with the federal government, trying to strike a better bargain for the Cherokee people. Each side--the Treaty Party and Ross's supporters--accused the other of working for personal financial gain. Ross, however, had clearly won the passionate support of the majority of the Cherokee nation, and Cherokee resistance to removal continued.
In December 1835, the U.S. resubmitted the treaty to a meeting of 300 to 500 Cherokees at New Echota. Older now, Major Ridge spoke of his reasons for supporting the treaty:
I am one of the native sons of these wild woods. I have hunted the deer and turkey here, more than fifty years. I have fought your battles, have defended your truth and honesty, and fair trading. The Georgians have shown a grasping spirit lately; they have extended their laws, to which we are unaccustomed, which harass our braves and make the children suffer and cry. I know the Indians have an older title than theirs. We obtained the land from the living God above. They got their title from the British. Yet they are strong and we are weak. We are few, they are many. We cannot remain here in safety and comfort. I know we love the graves of our fathers. We can never forget these homes, but an unbending, iron necessity tells us we must leave them. I would willingly die to preserve them, but any forcible effort to keep them will cost us our lands, our lives and the lives of our children. There is but one path of safety, one road to future existence as a Nation. That path is open before you. Make a treaty of cession. Give up these lands and go over beyond the great Father of Waters.³
Twenty men, none of them elected officials of the tribe, signed the treaty, ceding all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the U.S. in exchange for $5 million and new homelands in Indian Territory. Major Ridge is reported to have said that he was signing his own death warrant.
The Treaty of New Echota was widely protested by Cherokees and by whites. The tribal members who opposed relocation considered Major Ridge and the others who signed the treaty traitors. After an intense debate, the U.S. Senate approved the Treaty of New Echota on May 17, 1836, by a margin of one vote. It was signed into law on May 23. As John Ross worked to negotiate a better treaty, the Cherokees tried to sustain some sort of normal life--even as white settlers carved up their lands and drove them from their homes. Removal had become inevitable. It was simply a matter now of how it would be accomplished.
Questions for Reading 2
1. Based on the quotations from Chief Womankiller and Major Ridge, how did the Cherokee feel about their land? Why did the majority of the Cherokees oppose the treaty?
2. In Andrew Jackson's letter of 1835 to the Cherokee council, he says that the tribal fathers were well-known to him "in peace and in war." What war is he referring to? What was his relationship to the Cherokees during that war? What is the tone of his letter? If needed, refer to Reading 1.
3. What points does Major Ridge make in his speech to the tribal council? Why was Ridge in favor of the treaty? Do you think he makes a persuasive case for approval?
4. Why was the Treaty of New Echota so widely criticized? The U.S. Constitution required that the treaty be ratified by the U.S. Senate. Under the Cherokee Constitution, treaties had to be approved by the Cherokee National Council. Did this occur with the treaty of 1835? Do you think the U.S. government had the right to enforce this treaty?
Reading 2 was adapted from Benjamin Levy,"Major Ridge House" (Floyd County, Georgia, National Historic Landmark documentation, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1973; James F. Corn, "Red Clay Council Ground" (Bradley County, Tennessee), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1972; and John Ehle, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation, (New York: Doubleday, 1988).
¹ Cherokee Phoenix (October 28, 1829); cited in Ehle, Trail of Tears, 224.


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Skin changes (photoaging) can occur from too much sun over
many years. Some of these changes include wrinkles, dryness, freckles, "liver
spots," easy bruising, skin growths, skin patches (actinic keratoses), and changes in skin color.
Photoaging is seen more in people who burn easily.
Normal skin
aging causes fine, shallow wrinkles. Photoaged skin creates wrinkles that are
deep and thick. Photoaging can be stopped by using sun protection measures.
Even after skin changes have started, the skin can repair itself if you limit
further sun exposure and avoid getting sunburned.
A monthly
self-examination of skin moles, blemishes, or birthmarks is important to notice
any skin changes that may lead to skin cancer. Check for the ABCDEs of skin cancer:
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