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<3 the striped tee
I would get them both. Lovely!
Oooo, I like those!
Super cute tees!
Love these tees. So simple but so stylish and they look comfy!
Fun patterns!
Loving that first one! And yes, I do get Shop It To Me emails --- love it!! Such a great idea.
indeed cute!
*kiss kiss*
~Tiptoe Butterfly~
Cute tops- I love the geometric one!
They do have some cute things!
Enter my giveaway for a chance to win a necklace from Jack & Ginger!
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these are so rad. they're so cute! i am checking out that store NOW.
I love stripes : ) Those shirts are cute!! going to head over and check out thank you!!! (NEEd some new clothes...for work that is ..or so i say) ; ) have a great monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really cute tees!
♥ Leia's Delights
Ohhh...love these!
Julie xo
these tees are nice, and look comfy too! hehe i need a topshop near me too, and a forever 21, and a h&m... we're so backwards here LOL
I love the last shirt!! xoxo
I love the last shirt!! xoxo
haha I just love how the blogging world just fuels my shoppping addiction even more...very cute tops :D
Great finds...I love them both! So very wearable :) xo Cat
Cute! Love the shirts you picked out. I must check out this lovely website.
I actually like Brooklyn Industrys.. you might also like Triple 5 soul =)
They're adorable and they look soooooo comfy!
They're adorable and they look soooooo comfy!
Oh cute tees!
For some reason I'm really, REALLY lovin' that first pocket T. It's so my style!! :-)
I've never heard of Brooklyn Industries, but I'm a new fan! I love that striped top. Hope you had a great weekend, Krystal!
I actually didn't line up to get a hug and now I wish I had! The line was really long and we were getting hungry. Haha. Maybe next weekend. :)
That store must be great, the t-shirts are so cute
I love the striped one... but I already live in v-necks. In fact, I am wearing one right now.
I am so smitten with those tees....Kisses darling:)
Very cute!
I saw that on her blog, too! Cool company! XO!
I should check them out....I heart dresses right now.
Love the stripes...thinking I might need to check this page out.
ps...you are one away from 200!! yahooooo!!!
no break-ins last night.
These look so comfy!
Very glad to be ur 200th follower because u and ur blog are both amazing! Like it!!
I am off to check them out, amazing...and I am loving your new shoes too.
It's funny because I have heard of Brooklyn Industries, but have never checked out any of their stuff. Really cute!
These clothes are right up my alley. I just love how comfy they look.
xo Marcie
lol, i missed your last post until now. too funny! i shall also join in support of your seven new friends. :P
cute, cute Ts!
Oh I love Brooklyn Industries and both of those shirts!
Glad u had a great weekend. Sometimes a little soreness is good :)
Nice tee's. How do you fancy a swap sometime, you have great taste so think it might be fun!
Daisy Dayz Home
i ADORE these designs. they're so fresh + lovely.
xo Alison
Get both of them-can't have enough comfy tee
I love Brooklyn Industries. They make some great pieces! Nice find.
Love Brooklyn industries. They have fantastic male t-shirts as well. Have a wonderful evening:)
These look SOOO comfortable. Those kinds of dress are my favorite; the pj like ones. =)
i love the second graphic t-shirt!
Absolutely adorable tee shirts!
Those are just the type of tee shirts that I love as well. I might have to wander that way myself. Wait, who am I kidding? I have daycare bills. I can't shop for myself for another 5 years.
I'm blog hopping today - Happy Monday!
oh no krystal!!! Don't give us new shopping sites to go to...ahhhhhh!!!!
P.S. my aunt just gave me an antique watch. I LOVE it!! It has little Egyptian beetles carved out it stone around it.
i always see the tote bags for Brooklyn Industries around NYC but have never actually checked it out, now I have to!
Just echoing the rest here...I love the tees, especially the geometric one--I always like to see new designs. Thanks for sharing!
These tees are so cute -- love them!
xo Josie
cute picks, i love the second one =)
...look closer
Thanks for the luck wishes! Hopefully it all goes smoothly...
love the striped one. And thanks for your comment. of course you like the expensive necklace!!!!
Ooooh yeah! I love the stripes on the first, and the sleeves on the second. Ok, I go check out this shop NOW! :)
Thanks for commenting on my new quatrefoil bracelets :-)))
I would love to send you some, wink!
Love the tshirt with the graphic design. I have a sweater right now with a graphic design on my Etsy site:http://www.etsy.com/listing/51861588/vintage-70s-short-sleeve-graphic-sweater
xx Emily
these are so cool and look so comfy... I could spend a whole day with one of this and then put another one to go to bed with :)
Oh my goodness, imagine my surprise when I'm catching up on blog reading and see a shoutout from you over here! Thanks, and glad to have introduced you to a great store!
these are the perfect tee's :)
ooh i love these! i live right by a brooklyn industries :-)


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Because bonding and grounding systems within a building are intended to have one electrical potential, coordination between electrical and telecommunications bonding and grounding systems is essential during design and installation. One way to coordinate these efforts is to follow industry-established codes and standards. But how do you know which ones to follow? This article presents a brief history and overview of the relevant codes and standards you should be familiar with as well as discusses recent developments that affect all designers and installers.
Of course, the first relevant code is the National Electrical Code (NEC), which addresses bonding and grounding as minimum requirements for life safety. While ensuring public safety is the highest priority, the industry began to realize in the late 1980s and early 1990s that the electrical grounding requirements, while protecting end-users, were not protecting the end-user's expensive electronic (IT) equipment.
The industry addressed this concern by developing standards. While similar to a code, which is adopted by local states and municipalities into law, the use of a standard is voluntary. However, it may become a requirement for any given project, if the owner or designer/engineer lists it as such in the construction documents.
One of the first standards to address bonding and grounding was IEEE 142, Recommended Practice for Grounding of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (the Green Book) when Chapter 5 was added in the 1991 edition – Electronic Equipment Grounding. This addition primarily featured improved bonding and grounding practices for the power systems serving information technology (IT) equipment.
The IEEE followed up with IEEE Standard 1100, Recommended Practice for Powering and Grounding Electronic Equipment (the Emerald Book) in 1992. IEEE 1100 expanded on the Green Book, explaining the issues with poor power quality, lightning, and other surges and different ground potentials on metallic data cabling.
In 1994, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) published ANSI/TIA/EIA-607, Commercial Building Grounding and Bonding Requirements for Telecommunications, which established the need for a dedicated telecommunications grounding and bonding system (see Main Components of a Telecommunications Grounding and Bonding System on page C27). This standard specified requirements for a ground reference (ground busbar) in each telecommunications space, including the telecommunications entrance room(s), telecommunications closets, and IT equipment rooms. It also established the bonding of telecommunications system pathways within the telecommunications spaces to the ground reference.
The ANSI/TIA/EIA standard was revised in 2002 to become ANSI-J-STD-607-A, Commercial Building Grounding (Earthing) and Bonding Requirements for Telecommunications. The standard was developed jointly by TIA/EIA Working Group 41.7.2 in close coordination with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) T1E1.5 and T1E1.7. The term "earthing" was used as the internationally accepted term for "grounding." The major changes from ANSI/TIA/EIA-607 were greater grounding busbar detail, the addition of tower and antenna bonding and grounding recommendations, work area and personal operator-type equipment position grounding and bonding recommendations, and harmonized international terminology (although terminology from the NEC was retained). Nevertheless, the standard only addressed the connections from the electrical ground to the busbar in each telecommunications space — the connection from the busbar to the equipment was still missing.
One of the glaring omissions from the standard was ensuring a quality installation. To address this issue, NECA and BICSI developed a joint standard, ANSI/NECA/BICSI-607, Standard for Telecommunications Bonding and Grounding Planning and Installation Methods for Commercial Buildings. Published in 2011, this standard provides limited planning information, but excels in eliciting installation requirements. For example, it clearly states how to ensure a bond to the busbar by using an antioxidant compound to the connection point using compression 2-hole lugs. From a planning perspective, the standard specifies bonding to a telecommunications rack and includes bonding and grounding information for data centers. However, one of the drawbacks is it was based upon ANSI-J-STD-607-A while the updated ANSI/TIA-607-B standard was in development and nearing publication.
ANSI/TIA-607-B, Generic Telecommunications Bonding and Grounding (Earthing) for Customer Premises is by far the most encompassing telecommunications standard for bonding and grounding. Its requirements are for "generic" premises rather than for just a commercial building, and its purpose is to enable and encourage the planning, design, and installation of generic telecommunications bonding and grounding systems within premises. This is to address the basic grounding and bonding requirements without prior knowledge of the specific telecommunication or IT system that will be installed. While primarily intended to provide direction for the design of new buildings, this standard may be used for existing building renovations or retrofits. Design requirements and choices are provided to enable the designer to make informed design decisions.
The ANSI/TIA-607-B standard covers regulatory requirements, an overview of a bonding and grounding system, the components involved, and design requirements. Additionally, performance and test requirements are covered, although simplistically. The TR-42.16 Subcommittee recognized this shortfall, and is already developing an addendum to this standard on:
- soil resistivity testing using a 4-point method,
- grounding electrode system design,
- grounding electrode system resistance testing including the fall of potential method and use of the clamp-on test meter.
Through these updates, there have been many changes to the components of a telecommunications bonding and grounding system. Busbar requirements were modified to be made of copper or copper alloys having a minimum of 95% conductivity when annealed, as specified by the International Annealed Copper Standard (IACS). While some manufacturers are offering a less expensive product made of other metals, copper is still the preferred material. Regardless of the material, the busbars must still be listed, and the dimensions of the telecommunications main grounding busbar (TMGB) and the telecommunications grounding busbar (TGB) have not changed. As for the connectors to these busbars, the surface of all bonding and grounding connectors used on a TMGB and TGB shall be of a material that provides an electrochemical potential of less than 300mV between connector and grounding busbar. Essentially, with these requirements, the standard is ensuring a well-performing bonding and grounding system.
Conductor sizing is still 2kcmil per linear foot of conductor length, but the maximum size is now 750kcmil (Table). The previous edition of this standard sized the TBB conductor up to 3/0 AWG. The standard also states that the grounding conductors shall not decrease in size as the grounding path moves closer to earth, and the size of the conductor is not intended to account for the reduction or control of electromagnetic interference (EMI). The sizing of this conductor affects the:
- BCT (bonding conductor for telecommunications)
- TBB (telecommunications bonding backbone)
- GE (ground equalizer)
- Supplementary bonding network (found in computer rooms)
- TEBC (telecommunications equipment bonding conductor)
- UBC (unit bonding conductor)
Design requirements for this standard include the entire system from the entrance point to the equipment in the rack within the telecommunications room. It also specifies that ANSI/NECA/BICSI-607 is to be used for bonding and grounding installation information. In order to limit the potential difference between telecommunications conduits or between telecommunications conduits and power conduits, the standard specifies that the telecommunications conduits shall be bonded to the TMGB/TGB.
Additionally, to achieve the objectives of potential equalization, ensure that cable runway/ladder sections are bonded together to the TMGB/TGB. When the electric panelboard serving that telecommunications room is located in the same room or space as the TMGB/TGB, that panelboard's alternating current equipment ground (ACEG) bus (when equipped) or the panelboard enclosure shall be bonded to the TMGB/TGB. A qualified electrician should install this bond.
Informative annexes included with this standard have information on grounding electrodes, towers and antennas, telecommunications electrical protection, electrical protection for operator-type equipment positions, and a cross reference of more commonly used terms.
For a designer of telecommunications bonding and grounding systems, the ANSI/TIA-607-B standard is the most encompassing standard to follow for premises buildings. Although there are many other guides (see Resources at a Glance below), standards are developed so that a consensus must be reached among industry expert volunteers. Although best practices may have valuable information, they typically have not been vetted among a large subset of industry experts.
What does this mean for the electrical contractor? For anyone with a telecom division, it's important to stay current on the telecommunications grounding standards. A well-designed system would include a telecommunications grounding detail and riser diagram (click here to see Figure), and specifications would list the most recent edition of the applicable standards.
For drawings and specifications that are silent — or that may reference outdated standards or conflicting guidelines — the contractor should ask the design team for clarification (during the bid window, if possible) as to what sizing to follow for the TBB, because a change in conductor size may greatly affect cost.
For electrical contractors subcontracting out the telecommunications work, the demarcation point for work between electrical and telecommunications contractors should be carefully coordinated. A recommended practice is for the electrical contractor to provide the grounding conductor and connection from the main electrical ground to the TMGB, as well as from an electrical panel in a telecommunications room to the grounding busbar in that room. The telecommunications contractor would then provide all of the grounding busbars and bonding conductors within and between the telecommunications rooms, as well as make all final connections to the TMGB, TGBs, and telecommunications infrastructure/equipment.
Peterworth works in the Information Technology Services - Networking & Telecommunications department at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at: [email protected].
SIDEBAR: Main Components of a Telecommunication Grounding and Bonding System
The Telecommunications Main Grounding Busbar (TMGB) is typically located in the telecommunications entrance facility — where the telecommunications cables enter the building and need to transition to indoor-rated cables per Sec. 800.48 of the NEC, which limits unlisted cables to 50 ft or less. This busbar is pre-drilled and made of copper with a minimum of 4-in.-wide by ¼-in. -hick material of varying length. It is to be connected to the main electrical ground with an appropriately sized copper conductor. The entrance protectors from the outside cables and conduits are to be connected to this TMGB, as well as any other telecommunications equipment co-located in the entrance facility. (It is common practice for the entrance facility to also be the main network room for IT equipment.)
In all other telecommunications rooms, there is to be a telecommunications grounding busbar (TGB), to be made of copper with pre-drilled holes and minimum dimensions of 2-in.-wide by ¼-in.-thick material of varying length. These are to be connected back to the TMGB through appropriately sized copper conductors that form the telecommunications bonding backbone (TBB), as shown in the Figure (click here to see Figure).
In each telecommunications room, the ladder rack, equipment rack, entrance (lightning) protectors for the telecommunications lines, and even IT equipment are connected back to the TMGB or TGB with a bonding conductor. If either building steel or the electrical panel is available in the telecommunications room, they need to be connected back to the TMGB or TGB as well, with a minimum of 6 AWG copper conductor or larger.
SIDEBAR: Resources at a Glance
There are many standards and guidelines a designer may choose to specify. Here are a list of several that may be referenced for more specific project and installation applications:
- ANSI/ATIS-0600334, Electrical Protection of Communications Towers and Associated Structures
- ATIS 0600318, Electrical Protection Applied to Telecommunications Network Plant at Entrances to Customer Structures or Buildings
- ATIS 0600321, Telecommunications – Electrical Protection for Network Operator-Type Equipment Positions
- ATIS-0600313, Electrical Protection for Telecommunications Central Offices and Similar Type Facilities
- EN 50310, Application of Equipotential Bonding and Earthing in Buildings with Information Technology Equipment
- MIL-HDBK-419A, Grounding, Bonding, and Shielding for Electronic Equipments and Facilities Basic Theory
- ANSI/IEEE 1100, 2005, Recommended Practice for Powering and Grounding Electronic Equipment
- ANSI/IEEE C2, 2007, National Electrical Safety Code (NESC)
- ANSI/ATIS 0600333, Grounding and Bonding of Telecommunications Equipment
- ANSI/ATIS 0600334, 2008, Electrical Protection of Communications Towers and Associated Structures
- ANSI/TIA/EIA-606-A, 2007, Administration Standard for the Telecommunications Infrastructure of Commercial Buildings
- FIPS PUBS 94, 1983, Guideline on Electrical Power for ADP Installations, 1983 (USA Federal Information Processing Standards Publications)
- ITU-T K.27, 1996, Bonding Configuration and Earthing Inside a Telecommunication Building


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This is a photograph of Benjamin Franklin's musical invention, the glass armonica or harmonica. The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia explains:
Franklin completed his glass armonica in 1761. (Its name is derived from the Italian word for harmony.) He didn't simply refine the idea of musical glasses, which were played much like children at the dinner table play them today, with notes being determined by the amount of water in the glass. Rather, Franklin made chords and lively melodies possible on his new instrumental invention.For about fifty years the armonica was an established instrument, inspiring compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, and others. Then it fell out of favor. Longtime players may have been poisoned by lead in the glass, associating the instrument with madness.
Working with a glassblower in London [Charles James], Franklin made a few dozen glass bowls, tuned to notes by their varying size and fitted one inside the next with cork. Each bowl was made with the correct size and thickness to give the desired pitch without being filled with any water. Franklin also painted them so that each bowl was color-coded to a different note. A hole was put through the center of the glass bowls, and an iron rod ran through the holes. The rod was attached to a wheel, which was turned by a foot pedal. Moistened fingers touched to the edge of the spinning glasses produced the musical sounds.
On Thursday, 9 July, at 7:00 P.M., the Newton Free Library will host a free public concert of armonica music by Boston's foremost player, Vera Meyer. She plans to dress in period costume and play a wide selection of pieces on her instrument, made by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner. Here's a profile of Vera at Bostonist, and a YouTube video of her playing in Harvard Square. There are also armonica recordings at Vera's MySpace page.


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(May 11, 2014) Version 4.3.8 with an important update to deal with large mosaics (under development until 4.3.9 is out)
(Jul 26, 2013) school13 version is released as 4.3.7.
(Apr 25, 2013) work on the school13 release has started. casacore-1.5.0 and carmafiller are now included, albeit still in 32bit mode.
(Sep 6, 2012) uvbflag fix for datasets with 0 channel windows (e.g. dual/full pol data). V1.18
(Aug 13, 2012) uvbflag fix for arrays not starting with antenna 1 (e.g. CARMA sci2). V1.17
(July 2, 2012) mosmem fixed for 64bit, fixed in version 1.5
(June 29, 2012) updated FWHM primary beams for OVRO and BIMA dishes, as per CARMA memo 52.
(June 27,2012) fits would not work on 64bit, now fixed in version 1.21
(June 16,2012) The MAC versions are confusing: the 10.5 build is 32bit, the 10.6 is currently broken (because we built on 64bit with a 32bit compiler), but the 10.7 is ok and just for 64bit. Hang on while this is being repaired.
(June 13,2012) We are preparing for the new 4.3.4 (school12) release of MIRIAD. This version is available in binary form for some Linux/Mac versions: [1]. Notable changes are:
- new WCSLIB from the ATNF group (4.13.4)
- better memory management on Mac 64-bit (notable if you have > 4GB)
- handling the new bfmask UV variable that CARMA now produces
- polarization calibration routines (xyauto)
- more advanced planet models for calibration (marstb, but talk to fluxcal team if you plan to use them)
- incoorporated the just released ds9 V7.0 with 3D capabilities
- enhanced MIS pipeline with many example scripts
- many many bugfixes and enhancements, some updates to manuals
Some of these make an incremental update tricky, we recommend a fresh reinstall.
Latest news on releases : miriad 4.3
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- Look at these Requirements to see if your computer is suitable for MIRIAD, then pick a method to install:
- miriad binary releases for those who are lucky to have the right architecture
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- MIRIAD MacPort easy install on Mac OS X using MacPorts (this is a new-style install not fully supported)
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[edit] Special Projects
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- PACS: some MIRIAD upgrade notes around PACS. Here is a drPACS teaser. But the N1333 project uses a clone of drPACS Scripts called MIS.
- python based scripts (e.g. hemosi)
- ruby based scripts - ATA
- hkmiriad: writing your program in C
- NEMOinMIRIAD Using NEMO in MIRIAD
[edit] Mailing lists
- email@example.com: a mailing list for users of MIRIAD
- miriad-users (majordomo) mailing list for users [not very active]
- miriad-dev mailing list for developers
[edit] User Tips
For some programs just the program documentation is not sufficient, here we assemble some tips and shortcuts
- mirds9 : viewing images with ds9
- velplotc : making position-velocity slices
- tvflag : flagging visibility data (the 8bit display problem)
- performance : tips to improve MIRIAD performance
[edit] Developer Miscellany
- Miriad Future a list of things we like to change/add to Miriad
- CARMA bugzilla, which also contains miriad (you will need to create an account).This is where you should file bugs. The is a list of known MIRIAD issues.
- Miriad Benchmarks might help you decide what to buy
- Miriad Meeting 28 October 2010 in Berkeley.
[edit] Various MIRIAD links
- CARMA, SMA, ATA and ATNF
- Tony Wong's weblog (link seems to be dead now)
- Miriad Party - pre-summerschool (feb 2007 at OVRO)
- CARMA Summer Schools: School2007, School2008, School2009, School2010, School2011
- CARMA Cookbook and MIRIAD/CARMA data issues
- carma data reduction links contain some user contributed recipes
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In the hottest summer of Kandahar, my family, including my uncles and grandparents, used to sit every evening in the yard chatting and eating dinner together. One night we were busy having dinner when an enormous explosion occurred in the neighboring house of one of the important warlords. "I saw the home next to ours burning," Mom said. Everyone started running to survive, because a portion of our house was also catching fire, with part a wall falling in the yard.
My uncle was hit on the back by pieces of fire. He was breathing the last moments of his life when my father, other uncles and grandpa rushed around him. Everyone was crying, shouting and calling, "Uncle, please wake up," but it was too late!
But where was two-and-a-half-year-old Zarghoona? She was in the yard crying deeply in pain, her face bleeding. I am that girl, Zarghoona. I was later taken to Pakistan for treatment when the doctors in Kandahar disappointedly discharged me from the hospital. But it was too late to recover my eye.
For a while, I couldn't remember whether I was born blind or got blinded. As I matured, I began to ask my parents, "why didn't you hold me when you were walking away to survive, so it wouldn't have happened to me?" They said nothing, only looked at me, quietly dropping tears.
I considered myself an incomplete person. I used to study hard but never dared to answer any of the questions asked by the teacher. I wanted to participate in school programs, to come up on the stage dancing, singing, or presenting a speech, but someone was calling me from inside: "Hey Zarghoona, Can you do this? No you can't do it." And I frequently suffered with pain in my eye.
I remember once crying deeply in my prayers and asking Almighty Allah: "O Allah I am tired of facing failures in my life due to this disability, it stops me every moment to step ahead toward success. It's better to die once rather than dying every day. O Allah, if you want me to be happy then please take my life away. I don't want to be alive any more, I want to die."
In 2001, the collapse of Taliban regime brought a ray of hope for a bright future along with socio-economical development in the lives of vulnerable and despaired Afghans. Millions of those Afghans, who had been suffering as refugees in Pakistan and Iran for more than two decades, started returning to their homeland, participating in the reconstruction of Afghanistan as one united nation. Likewise my family, which had been away from Afghanistan for twelve years, decided to return to our homeland.
When we returned to Kandahar, it was a heart-shaking situation for me seeing Afghans living in devastated shelters and in starvation, suffering from a series of hazardous communicable diseases. I saw girls going to school every day afraid of being blown up on the way by a suicide bombing, hiding book bags in their burqas away from the vicious view of those who were against women's education.
It was unbelievable meeting a 13-year-old girl, one of our relatives, who was recently married to a 45-year-old rich guy who was the owner of poppy fields and already had two other wives. Even though Sharifa was younger than most of her step-children, she seemed to agree with her life, accepting it as her destiny and a practice of her culture.
I couldn't stop crying seeing my friend who was going to be married in a week, but unfortunately her dreams never came true when her fiancé and his brother were killed in a bomb explosion in the provincial office in Kandahar.
I couldn't believe my eyes seeing a girl who got shot on her way to work, and no one tried to help her, instead saying abusively: "Oh, she got killed because she was working with foreigners."
I forgot my own pain and disappointments upon seeing a girl who was congenitally disabled in both legs and had stayed home for last 12 years.
Finally, I stopped dreaming about myself when I saw the situation of other girls and women in the ferocious environment of Kandahar. I started wishing to be able to help those innocent women rather than thinking and caring about myself. Life can be so beautiful and meaningful if we think positively and try our best to resolve our problems. Some aspects of life are really tough to tolerate but not impossible to find ways for a solution. We can make life difficult or wonderful for ourselves, and Allah always helps those who help themselves.
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Roddin' @ Random
You know that guy who has done everything? You break your arm and he tells you how he's broken 56 bones, including his back. Twice. You get a bit part in the crowd scene of a low-budget movie, meanwhile his career has included work on more than 4,000 television episodes and 310 feature films. He's driven a rocket car and outrun the police with Brock Yates and owned a NASCAR team. Oh, also, he directed Smokey and the Bandit. If there's anything you like in life, Hal Needham probably invented it, and he took a few minutes away from his golf game to tell us what makes a good car chase and why "The Bandit" must always be a Pontiac Trans Am.
HRM. What makes a great chase movie? Is it the stunts? The car? The driver?
HN. I think it's a combination of everything. In Smokey and the Bandit, I chose that Pontiac because when I saw that Trans Am, I said, "Burt's gonna look so good driving that thing." Also, it was a hot car. It had power and everything. There was only one thing I had to do with it in the movie where it didn't have enough power. The stuntman had to jump a bridge, but there was a big berm about 75 feet back to keep traffic from going too fast, and the car couldn't get up enough speed in that short distance. I took it to a NASCAR garage and put a big, powerful 850hp race engine in it, and then we got across!
HRM. Was it a Chevy engine?
HN. Yeah, it was a Chevy.
HRM. Do you know the old joke about the only way to make a Pontiac run good is to use a Chevy engine?
HN. [Laughs] Hadn't heard that. Use a Chevy, that's pretty good.
HRM. Are there any car movies you like that you didn't direct?
HN. Fast Five—I thought that was a great movie—they had some good stuff in there. I disagreed with them on one thing: they had lots of little short cuts. I like to bring the camera back so you can see the whole scene. Show the audience it can be done from a wide point of view. That's the best one I've seen lately. What else? I thought the McQueen thing, what was that, the one they did up in San Francisco…
HRM. Bullitt?
HN. Bullitt—I thought that was a good car-chase movie.
HRM. What about the original Gone in 60 Seconds? Dirty Mary Crazy Larry?
HN. OK, I didn't think Gone in 60 Seconds was very good. See, I could tell they were working on a budget, just hoping for the best. That's not the way I like to operate, but they had some good stuff in it. Dirty Mary, yeah I saw that! I thought that was pretty good car-chase movie. The story pretty much led 'em to go do as many car chases as they wanted to. You know, I'm spoiled. I think I do pretty much the best car-chase movies in the world, so it's hard for me to say, "Oh! That was wonderful," but you know, it was good, it was good.
HRM. How many Trans Ams did you use in the first Smokey movie, and did any survive?
HN. I had five. The one that jumped the bridge, that was the end of that one, but we kept a graveyard, to scavenge the parts off one for the others as we went along. In the last shot we had to film, Burt had to stop and get out of the car, and the movie was over, right? The remaining car wouldn't run. We had to push that thing so he could coast in frame and get out of the car. We tore 'em all up.
HRM. Did you use a mix of manual and auto cars? You can kind of hear it in different shots.
HN.Yeah, we did. For instance, when we made the jump, I had 'em change the transmission and put in a manual so we could get up to speed quicker. But most of the time, for all the highway stuff, I just used the automatic that was in it.
HRM. So is a manual car better for stunts than an automatic?
HN. I think so, personally, because that thing [an automatic] will shift just when you don't want it to, and if you have a manual you can say, OK, I need to be going X miles per hour and lock it in that gear, and you know you're going to be there.
HRM. What do you think is the best car for stunt driving?
HN. Depends on what you gotta do. If you just want something that's gonna go fast on the highway, get a Lamborghini, you know? Two-hundred-something mph. But if you're looking to do a lot of broadslides, 180s, things like that, go get yourself a standard car, a Chevy, a Pontiac, a Buick, a Ford, whatever it is, something standard, because we drive those more—we being stuntmen—we drive them more so we have a better understanding of them then we do a Lamborghini. In all my movies, I only had one Lamborghini. If you wreck a Lamborghini, you got trouble.
HRM. What other prep work do you do to a stunt car?
HN. More horsepower. After that, what I like to do is change the springs, the shocks. It depends on what I have to do with the car. It's like a race car. They tweak those things to little fractions of an inch. We're not that specific about it, but if I'm gonna drive one—gonna do a lot of high-speed turns and stuff like that—I wanna make sure I got good shocks, good tires, good springs, and get it all balanced, keep it flat.
"Even I like to see a good car-chase movie."
HRM. Do you prefer carburetors or fuel injection?
HN. All mine was carburetors. I didn't use any fuel injection, so I can't answer that because I haven't driven that many fuel-injected cars. I don't know how their response is, if it's as good or better than a carburetor, but the carburetor worked pretty good for me for some 30 years or so. So I guess I have to go with the carburetor.
HRM. Supercharger or turbocharger?
HN.Supercharger—they're instantaneous.
HRM. Do you feel that special effects have changed movie stunts?
HN. You talkin' about CGI? I hate it. I hate it. CGI, you can make a car fly if you want to, and we all know that's not possible. It's true in stunts in general, the things they do with stunts, with CGI, even the audience now is getting to the point where they're going boo, and they hate it. They like to be entertained with action, but they want it to be real. Real action. And CGI—I think is just the pits.
HRM. If you were going to redo Smokey, what would Bo Darville be driving?
HN. You know, with all the fans out there, if I didn't put him in a Trans Am Pontiac, they wouldn't go see it, I don't think. Everybody is so into that Trans Am. If we put him in a Camaro or something, you'd have to go out there and give 'em all smelling salts.
HRM. Who do you think is the best stunt driver working today?
HN. I think I was the best driver in Hollywood until a guy came along named Bobby Ore BobbyOreSports.com. He's down in Florida, he can make a car talk. He has better control than any stuntman I know. That doesn't mean there aren't drivers out there in the professional world, like…what do you call them, the drifters. They might could do some things that he can't, but damn, he's got good control.
HRM. Do you still follow land-speed racing? You were involved with the Budweiser rocket car, which broke the sound barrier in 1976.
HN. There's not much going on. The Brits came by and went faster than us, but they didn't do what we did. We started from a dead stop and went 739.666. They had a jet and got a running start, but they're suckin' hind tit because we was the first to break the sound barrier. [See end of article].
HRM. Do you think racing is more dangerous than stunt driving?
HN. Here's the thing with racing: If something goes wrong, it's a wrap—they're gonna be walkin' slow and singin' low behind the hearse. There's no safety. If something breaks, it's all over. I'm too old for that.
HRM. One of our Facebook fans wanted us to ask about the last jump in Hooper. How did you do it?
HN. It took us, well, wait, let me describe it first. It was such a long jump, 600 to 700 feet, and I wasn't about to put a man in that car. That was a drag car, a Pontiac drag car. We just painted it, and I put a couple of non-breathing dummies in it. It had a rocket on the back of it, but in order to guide it, I built troughs, like a long, long trough on either side.
HRM. Like a slot car?
HN. Yeah, a giant slot car! Then they tied the steering off so it wouldn't fight the troughs and sent it over there. If you're gonna do that kind of shot, where it's gonna be the killer of all jumps, I tried to make it look that way, but at the same time, I'm not gonna put someone in that car and take a chance on killin' him. When you get that spectacular, and it's not necessary to have a driver in there, why put 'em at risk?
HRM. Speaking of jumps, what do you think of the Dukes of Hazzard?
HN. Well, I think Dukes of Hazzard was a direct rip-off of all the things I did. I love the guys on it. John Schneider—he's a good friend. It was a good show. I liked it, it had a lot of car stuff in there, but I think they copied a lot of Smokey and the Bandit. After Smokey came out, there seemed to be a whole lot of car-chase series come out.
HRM. You directed the Cannonball Run movies, and you drove in the real Cannonball Run. What was that like?
HN. There's a lot about that in my book. I drove an ambulance with Brock Yates and his wife and another guy. At one point, at night, I sort of outdrove the lights; I came to a detour and was going way too fast. I threw it to the side and caught it and went around in a drift and corrected and went the other way, and when I finally straightened out—which was a miracle—there were three sets of eyes staring at me like owls and nobody said anything for a mile or two and finally Brock said, "Uh, turn right up here."
HRM. You know, a lot of our readers said they learned how to drive from watching your movies.
HN. Uh oh, we're in trouble.
Breaking the Sound Barrier?
The British ThrustSSC team broke the sound barrier on land in 1997. Hal Needham says he did it first, in 1979, in a rocket-powered three-wheeler with a missile on the side for added thrust. He says he ran 739.666 mph, faster than the speed of sound (731 mph). The issue is, it was done at Muroc Dry Lake and not timed by the FIA or SCTA. The team did the run in only one direction, and FIA records require a backup pass in the opposite direction within an hour of the first pass. By FIA standards, Needham is barely a sidenote.
Needham says the goal wasn't to set a record, only to be the first across the sound barrier. If you'd like to know more about the controversy, and read some snarky British quotes about the Needham team and his equally salty response, delve into the HOT ROD archives online at HOTROD.com/thehistoryof/land_speed_record_history/.


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Smoking doesn't just damage smokers and people who spend time with them. It also hurts the bottom line for companies that employ smokers.
According to a new study from Micah Berman at Ohio State, the average smoking private sector employee costs companies $5,800 more per year than one who has never smoked.
Annual cost estimates ranged from $2,885 to $10,125.
That's a pretty significant chunk of change. According to the study, on average there's about a $517 loss from increased absenteeism, a $462 loss of productivity related to nicotine addiction, a $3,077 loss due to smoke breaks, and $2,056 in extra health care costs.
The researchers were relatively conservative in their estimates, figuring five smoke breaks in an eight hour workday, three of which took place during assigned breaks.
This is a much higher estimate than a CDC study conducted a decade ago, which pegged the number at $3,400.
That's a big cost, particularly for companies with thousands of employees.
Employers aren't blind to these costs. Increasingly, their response is to discourage smoking, help people quit, force them to pay higher premiums, or even refuse to hire smokers.
Some employers don't like interfering with workers' lives, however, and others worry about scaring away talent.
Bioethecist Zeke Emmanuel (Chicago Mayor Rahm's brother) recently argued in the New England Journal of Medicine that declining to hire smokers is unethical because "it results in a failure to care for people, places an additional burden on already-disadvantaged populations, and preempts interventions that more effectively promote smoking cessation."
65% of Americans agree with him in opposing the practice.
We recently spoke to Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, who spearheaded an early effort to reduce, then eliminate smoking at the hospital system.
The clinic now nicotine tests prospective new employees, alongside a drug test, and doesn't hire those who test positive. They are offered smoking cessation support and the opportunity to re-test. They've managed to reduce employee smoking to just 6%, and along with other wellness efforts have significantly cut health care spending.
As for backlash and talent retention, it hasn't been a problem. Public outcry died out in about a week, and they haven't seen people up and quit.
"I don't think its an ethical issue at all," Cosgrove told us. "I think its a practical issue. And the practical issue is that we want to keep people healthy and as far as not hiring them is concerned, there's lots of places they can go and work."


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Interpublic Declares Common Stock Dividend
New York, NY - November 15, 2012 - Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) today announced that the company's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend on IPG common stock of $0.06 per share, payable on December 17, 2012 to holders of record at the close of business on December 3, 2012.
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About Interpublic
Interpublic is one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. Major global brands include Draftfcb, FutureBrand, GolinHarris International, Huge, Initiative, Jack Morton Worldwide, Lowe and Partners, MAGNAGLOBAL, McCann, Momentum, MRM Worldwide, Octagon, R/GA, UM and Weber Shandwick. Leading domestic brands include Campbell Ewald; Campbell Mithun; Carmichael Lynch; Deutsch, a Lowe and Partners Company; Gotham Inc.; Hill Holliday; ID Media; Mullen and The Martin Agency. For more information, please visit www.interpublic.com.
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Latest News
Oil man preaches energy independence
T. Boone Pickens may seem an odd one to preach the saving graces of alternative energy, given he made his billions running oil and gas companies and investing in companies such as ExxonMobil and Occidental Petroleum.
In a visit to Charlotte last week, he said some people have even suspected he's terminally ill.
"I haven't changed. I'm still an American," he said. He'd drill a new oil well "right now if I had a good place to drill it." But he firmly believes the country can't continue to depend on the 12 million barrels of oil it imports each day for its future. Alternative energy, he said, "has an opportunity now."
More North Carolinians than any other state's residents have signed onto his Pickens Pledge, he said, which asks the presidential candidates, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain, to enact his plan within the first 100 days in office if elected. His army, as Pickens calls it, has hit 158,000 in N.C. and includes Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan and Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole. His plan calls for investing in wind turbines and using natural gas for transportation fuel.
Pickens didn't have an explanation for why he his plan is more popular in the Tar Heel state.
He urged consumers not to be lulled by falling gas prices, which dropped 25 cents a gallon nationwide last week alone. It's false comfort, he says, because gas prices will rise in the future. Ticking off the reasons Americans need to change energy policy, he said: Since 1970, oil imports have grown from 24 percent to nearly 70 percent; Americans consume 25 percent of the world's oil but own 3 percent of the world's oil reserves.
Read the complete story at newsobserver.com


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Dickey and Blue Jays agree to terms, trade nearly done
The Toronto Blue Jays already have shown how valuable they think R.A. Dickey is. Now, the American League club and the National League Cy Young Award winner are closing in on determining what the 38-year-old knuckleballer is really worth.
According to multiple reports, Dickey and the Blue Jays have agreed to terms on a two-year, $25 million contract extension that will keep him in Toronto through 2015 and facilitate what's expected to become a six-player trade.
Dickey's extension would be the final piece of a proposed trade that would send at least two of Toronto's top prospects – catcher Travis d'Arnaud and pitcher Noah Syndegaard – and veteran catcher John Buck to the New York Mets for Dickey, catcher Josh Thole and perhaps a minor leaguer.
But the key is the extension for Dickey, who was scheduled to make $5 million in 2013, the final year of his current contract. ESPN is reporting that some of Dickey's extension will include a signing bonus payable immediately, to avoid anticipated higher tax rates.
He and the Mets had been discussing a two-year extension with the stumbling block Dickey's request for $13 million per season.
Now, it's likely to take more, with news of the impending deal and the loot given to other free-agent starters providing more leverage for Dickey. Upward of $15 million a season for two or three years is the range predicted by USA TODAY Sports in discussions with several veteran agents and front office executives not involved in the Dickey situation.
Hiroki Kuroda, a 16-game winner last season who like Dickey will be 38 next opening day, recently signed a one-year deal with the Yankees for $15 million. Anibal Sanchez, a combined 9-13 for Miami and Detroit but 10 years younger, signed with the Tigers for $80 million over five years.
The Blue Jays and Dickey also will take into consideration the higher tax rates in Canada. The currency exchange rate also can be a factor but the difference is minimal – the U.S. dollar currently worth 98.6 cents Canadian.
One way to sweeten the deal for Dickey would be to add an option year based on Dickey meeting an innings requirement in the final guaranteed season. Also, if the Blue Jays are concerned about Dickey's advanced age -- despite the relatively low wear-and-tear of throwing the knuckler -- they could boost the value for 2013 beyond that of 2014 and 2015.
If the two sides are unable to reach agreement on the extension, it is unclear whether the trade would be nixed or recast in a different form.


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Drive your phone while you drive your car!
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Drivers can make and receive calls on the road using only their voice through our simple Siri and Google integration. Just say "Launch Voice Control".
You can even hear and respond to messages simply by using your voice.
Move into the future with COMMUTE.
Use Your Voice to Make and Receive Calls
To activate the COMMUTE, all you have to do is say the hands-free trigger phrase "BlueAnt Speak to Me" and the COMMUTE will be ready for your voice commands.
To make a call, just say "Launch Voice Control" and the COMMUTE will activate your phone's voice dialling feature. *
When the phone rings you won't need to take your eyes off the road to know who is calling because the COMMUTE will read out the caller's name or number and ask you if you want to take the call. All you have to do is say "Answer" or "Ignore".
The BlueAnt COMMUTE makes it simpler and safer to communicate while driving by keeping your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel.
Hear Your Messages on the Go
The COMMUTE integrates with Siri or our Android application so that you can hear incoming text messages read aloud right on the COMMUTE. On the iPhone 4S, simply say "Launch Voice Control" followed by "Read My Messages" to have new messages read back to you. On Android* handsets you simply install our free application and it will automatically read the messages back through your connected COMMUTE.
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The COMMUTE features integrated A2DP streaming audio functionality, so you can listen to music or podcasts and hear turn-by-turn direction information from a GPS application on your phone.
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Users with Android* devices can further enhance their BlueAnt COMMUTE by installing the BlueAnt Android application. The application provides text message readout directly into the COMMUTE and includes help and support for your product.
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The COMMUTE also features embedded audio help that talks you through the setup and pairing process, and if you can't remember the voice commands you can ask the COMMUTE "What Can I Say?" and it will tell you the available options.
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Two days after Fergie rocked the world with her cover of "Sweet Child o' Mine" at the Super Bowl, Mr. Fergie drops a pair of movies on home video. Not a Josh Duhamel fan? There's all kinds of new stuff, from comedy to gore-fest to martial arts.
"For Colored Girls"
From Tyler Perry comes this adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1974 play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf," which offers several perspectives on the experiences of black women in America. Stars Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and Macy Gray. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer
"Hideaway" ("Le Refuge")
After the drug-related death of her wealthy boyfriend, a woman discovers that his family wants nothing to do with her—in fact they want her to have an abortion. While in hiding, she begins a relationship with his brother. Now on DVD, watch the trailer
"I Spit on Your Grave"
It's a remake of the notorious 1978 slasher film about a woman who retires to a cabin in the woods where she is savagely gang raped by some locals. One by one she seeks her horrifically bloody revenge. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch (very bloody) the trailer
PICK OF THE WEEK: "It's Kind of a Funny Story"
A dark indie comedy about a kid who begs his way into a psyche ward after struggling with suicidal thoughts. But he ends up in the adult wing, where he quickly realizes that maybe he didn't have it so bad. Features an impressive semi-dramatic turn by Zack Galifiankis and was written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck ("Half Nelson," "Sugar"). Now on Blu-ray and DVD, read our review watch the trailer
"Life as We Know It"
Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel are set up on a date by their best friends, but it's a disaster. So of course when those same friends die an untimely death, they leave their infant child in the joint care of Heigl and Duhamel. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer
"Middle Men"
Luke Wilson stars in this hyper-stylized movie based on the true-life story of the guys who essentially invented Internet porn, and by extension Internet commerce. A great story poorly told. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, read our review and watch the trailer
"Ong Bak 3"
The third installment from marital arts master Tony Jaa is here, picking up where #2 left off. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer
"Paranormal Activity 2"
A family installs security cameras throughout their home after a series of what they believe are break-ins. Keep an ey e on that baby, folks... Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer
"The Romantics"
A bunch of over-educated, self-absorbed college friends who reunite for a wedding between two corners of a once-legendary love triangle. Stars Josh Duhamel, Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and a bunch of other young'uns. Now on DVD, read our review and watch the trailer
"Tamara Drewe"
A modern retelling of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Maddening Crowd," it stars Gemma Arterton in this romantic comedy as a former ugly duckling who returns to her old hometown, where she sets heads turning. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer
"Wild Target"
Bill Nighy plays a hitman hired to kill Emily Blunt after she bilks Rupert Everett out of 900,000 pounds, but when he can't find the heart to pull the trigger, the pair must go on the run. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, read our review and watch the trailer
"You Again"
Kristen Bell stars as yet another ex-ugly duckling whose brother gets engaged to her old high school nemesis/tormentor, played by Odette Yustman. But it gets crazier as it turns out that Bell's and Yustman's mothers, played by Jamie Leigh Curtis and Sigourney Weaver, were archenemies a generation earlier. What're the odds? Now on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer


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Ethical Principles
IntroductionThe community life of Zen Center is an integral part of our practice and is based on the sixteen bodhisattva precepts. In order to help create a supportive, harmonious and safe environment within our sangha for everyone's practice, we have outlined the significant ways in which these precepts guide and inform our community life.
The sixteen Buddhist precepts are so intimate a part of Zen practice that they have traditionally been called the "blood vein" of the ancestral lineage. The precepts can be understood and interpreted at many levels. They can be understood as supports for the practice of awakening, as the arena of that practice, and as the expression of awakening itself. While Mahayana precepts are sometimes understood from relative and sometimes absolute points of view (for example, that the precepts are never fully accomplished or that they are always fulfilled), no Zen practice can exist without basing one's actions on the sixteen bodhisattva precepts.
We note, however, four caveats that will aid in understanding the intended scope of this statement. First, these principles have been developed in response to specific historical problems and concerns which have arisen in the sangha. As our community changes and evolves, it may be necessary to modify or add to these principles. Second, this statement does not attempt to cover questions of personal conduct that do not have a direct bearing on the community. Third, these principles are not intended to limit our understanding or to be a definitive reading of the precepts. Fourth, these principles do not supersede specific practice center guidelines; rather they are intended to complement and support them.


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HTC Vivid Android 4.0 update now available with dialer trick
AT&T and HTC may not be ready to push out the Android 4.0 update for the HTC Vivid quite yet, but forum members over at Android Central have figured out a way to manually trigger the update directly from the phone. If you own the AT&T HTC Vivid, simply type *#*#682#*#* in your phones dialer and you should notice an update notification appear within a few minutes.
The 314MB update comes packaged with HTC Sense 3.6 and should deliver that same functionality we saw with the HTC Velocity Ice Cream Sandwich update which was pushed out a few days ago.
As with the HTC Velocity and HTC Sensation, the Vivid's Android 4.0 update should be accompanied by a significant performance improvement. So what are you waiting for? Dial the special code from your HTC Vivid and let us know what you think of the new update.
Note: AT&T denies that the Android 4.0 update for the HTC vivid is currently being rolled out. We are not sure how long the manual dialer trick will work, but we wouldn't be surprised if AT&T put a stop to it.


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Cell Phone Use While Driving: A Pattern of Risk in Young Novice Drivers." Academic Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatology. 2018;6(5)."
Executive Function Capacities, Negative Driving Behaviour and Crashes in Young Drivers." Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017;14(11):1314."
Investigating Harmful and Helpful Effects of Watching Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why: Results of a Two-Wave U.S. Panel Survey." Soc Sci Med. 2019;232:489-498."
Medication Reduces Crash Risk Among Men With ADHD." Evidence Based Mental Health. 2014."
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Working Memory Development and Motor Vehicle Crashes in Young Drivers." JAMA Network Open . 2019."


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This time, he might mean it.
Vikings quarterback Brett Favre filed his retirement papers with the NFL, the league confirmed Monday, an indication that he may actually retire.
Then again, the paperwork doesn't mean anything -- Favre can still change his mind and play next season. So maybe not.
Favre is a sure-fire Hall of Fame quarterback. He's also maddeningly indecisive each off-season. He first announced his retirement in March 2008, then changed his mind four months later. Each year since, it's become an annual off-season game: Will Favre retire?
Last year, the New York Daily News even reported that he filed his retirement papers, saying, "This time, Brett Favre appears to be dead serious about staying retired." Apparently not.
Yet this is indisputable: Favre is one of the of the best quarterbacks in NFL history.
He started in 297 consecutive games from 1992 to 2010, an NFL record. In fact, his name dominates the NFL record book: He holds records for most career TDs, career passing yards, career passing attempts, career interceptions, career wins by a starting quarterback, most sacked and most fumbles.
He's been named league MVP three times and won one Super Bowl, with the Packers in 1997. He's also played for the Falcons, Jets and Vikings.
But he's coming off the worst season of his career, -- playing for the Vikings, he went 5-8 and threw 19 interceptions to 11 touchdowns. His passing rating, 69.9, was his worst ever.
"I know it's time, and that's OK," he said after his final game. "Again, I hold no regrets, and I can't think of too many players offhand that can walk away and say that. Individually and from a team standpoint, i twas way more than I ever dreamed of."
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Meloff notches goal and assist; Koch earns first career assist
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — After seven games away from home, Tennessee Tech returned triumphantly on Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Lipscomb in its final non-conference match of the season.
Andrea Meloff was the offensive catalyst for the Golden Eagles, distributing an assist on Tech's first goal and scoring off a rebound on the second.
Meloff's performance marked the first time this season a Tech player has scored a goal and notched an assist in the same game.
The Golden Eagles dominated possession for most of the afternoon and had numerous scoring opportunities throughout the game.
"It was great to get a win," said head coach Daniel Brizard. "The crowd was fantastic. It was a great home atmosphere and great to be at home after we've played seven games away. I think we played a great style. We knocked it around. Lipscomb fought for the whole 90, we had a little lapse there and let them in, but it's nice to get a win going into conference play."
Tech got on the board for the first time in the 16th minute when Meloff broke free on a run, then passed ahead to Ellie Iaciofano, who fired a shot that ricocheted off the left goalpost and into the net, giving the Golden Eagles a 1-0 advantage.
The goal was Iaciofano's second of the season while Meloff also picked up her second assist.
"Coming out with the first goal of the game felt good," Iaciofano said. "Andrea had a great pass, right place at the right time for me to finish it."
Lipscomb netted the equalizer just after halftime in the 45th minute when Alex Wagner scored on a free kick from several yards outside the box after a Tech foul.
Fourteen minutes later, the Golden Eagles regained the lead when Amanda Koch fired a shot that was deflected by Lipscomb goalkeeper Allison Brown. Meloff was there to boot in the rebound, however, scoring the final goal of the game.
Koch, a freshman, earned her first career assist and her first career points on the play. The goal was the first of Meloff's season.
Tech controlled the game from start to finish, firing 23 shots compared to seven for the Lady Bisons. The Golden Eagles earned an 8-4 advantage in shots on goal.
Tech goalkeeper Becca Toler finished with three saves while Brown collected six.
Iaciofano finished the match with four shots on goal while Meloff had two and Jacquie Watkins and Emily Homan added one apiece.
The Golden Eagles open Ohio Valley Conference play on Friday,
Sept. 23 at Eastern Illinois with a 3:30 p.m. match. The weekend
continues at SIU Edwardsville on Sunday, Sept. 25 with a 1 p.m.


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- Openthe lines of communication. Schedule meetings close to shift changes and use bulletinboards and e-mail to keep your people connected. Don't let workers on the overnightshift begin to think they're second-class citizens.
- Safetyconsiderations come first, but whenever possible, encourage your workers to nap. A short,20-minute nap midway through a shift can have a significant restorative effect that willkeep employees alert through the morning hours.
- Warnemployees about the dangers of caffeine abuse. Coffee has a half-life of seven hours andthe caffeine can stay in your system a full 24 hours. Tell your employees that afterroughly two cups, they're getting no additional boost, just jagged nerves and fitfulsleep when they finally do get home.
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