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Henry Ford
American captain of industry and a business magnate
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles.
There are more people who surrender, than those who fail.
- 1910s
- I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
- Interview in Chicago Tribune (25 May 1916)
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Remarks from the witness stand, to a court in Mount Clemens, Michigan (July 1919), as quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1948) by Edmund Fuller, p. 162
- International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews … the Jew is the threat.
- Henry Ford, quoted in New York World, 1919, as cited in: Martin Allen (2002). Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies. p. 55-56
- 1920s
- So, while the people are indeed supreme over the written Constitution, the spiritual constitution is supreme over them. The French Revolutionists wrote constitutions too—every drunken writer among them tossed off a constitution. Where are they? All vanished. Why? Because they were not in harmony with the constitution of the universe. The power of the Constitution is not dependent on any Government, but on its inherent rightness and practicability.
- Henry Ford (1922). Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent. p. 323; as cited in: William A. Levinson, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther. The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Universal Code for World-Class Success. CRC Press, 2013. p. xxix
- History is bunk. What difference does it make how many times the ancient Greeks flew their kites?
- History is Bunk, Says Henry Ford, Special to The New York Times, New York Times, October October 29, 1921. p. 1
- I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to take a trip in a dirigible. Bring one out here some time, won't you, Doctor Eckener, and give me a ride?
- Raymond J. Brown. "Henry Ford Says, 'There Is Always Room for More'," in: Popular Science, Vol. 106, nr. 2 (Feb 1925), p. 37
- I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realised that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men's minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.
- Interview in the San Francisco Examiner (26 August 1928)
- There's just one thing that's permanent in this world, and that's change. And when a man gets too old to change, why, then, he dies. And after that, who knows? Do we go on somewhere else? We'd all like to think so; it seems sometimes as though something inside us was telling us that we do. But if we do live on, then one thing is sure: The fellows who are afraid all the time that they may lose what they've got will lose out over there just the way they lose out here. And the big prizes will keep right on going to the fellows who do their duty and have faith. That's all there is to happiness, according to my way of thinking—just doing your duty and having faith.
- Interview with Bruce Barton, "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again," The American Magazine, April 1921
- Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, or arrogant, or greedy, the money brings it out; that's all.
- Interview with Bruce Barton, "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again," The American Magazine, April 1921
- But to do for the world more than the world does for you--that is Success.
- Ford News, March 1926
- 1930s
- The provision of a whole new system of electric generation emancipated industry from the leather belt and line shaft, for it eventually became possible to provide each tool with its own electric motor. This may seem only a detail of minor importance. In fact, modern industry could not be carried out with the belt and line shaft for a number of reasons. The motor enabled machinery to be arranged in the order of the work, and that alone has probably doubled the efficiency of industry, for it has cut out a tremendous amount of useless handling and hauling. The belt and line shaft were also tremendously wasteful – so wasteful indeed that no factory could be really large, for even the longest line shaft was small according to modern requirements. Also high speed tools were impossible under the old conditions – neither the pulleys nor the belts could stand modern speeds. Without high speed tools and the finer steels which they brought about, there could be nothing of what we call modern industry.
- Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther (1930). Edison as I Know Him. Cosmopolitan Book Company. p. 15
- Through all the years that I have been in business I have never yet found our business bad as a result of any outside force. It has always been due to some defect in our own company, and whenever we located and repaired that defect our business became good again - regardless of what anyone else might be doing. And it will always be found that this country has nationally bad business when business men are drifting, and that business is good when men take hold of their own affairs, put leadership into them, and push forward in spite of obstacles. Only disaster can result when the fundamental principles of business are disregarded and what looks like the easiest way is taken. These fundamentals, as I see them, are:
- (1) To make an ever increasingly large quantity of goods of the best possible quality, to make them in the best and most economical fashion, and to force them out onto the market.
- (2) To strive always for higher quality and lower prices as well as lower costs.
- (3) To raise wages gradually but continuously B and never to cut them.
- (4) To get the goods to the consumer in the most economical manner so that the benefits of low cost production may reach him.
- These fundamentals are all summed up in the single word 'service'... The service starts with discovering what people need and then supplying that need according to the principles that have just been given.
- Henry Ford in: Justus George Frederick (1930), A Philosophy of Production: A Symposium, p. 32; as cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003) Fifty Key Figures in Management. p. 196
- The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
- Quoted in The Zanesville Sunday Times-Signal [Zanesville, Ohio] (15 March 1931): On reasons for the Great Depression
- Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.
- February 11, 1934; quoted in: Peter Collier, David Horowitz (2001). The Fords: An American Epic. p. 108
- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- As quoted in The High School Teacher, Vol. XI (1935), p. 60
- What we need is some financial engineers.
- Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1936
- A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
My Life and Work (1922)Edit
Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther (1922), My Life and Work, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
- We have only started on our development of our country — we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface. The progress has been wonderful enough — but when we compare what we have done with what there is to do, then our past accomplishments are as nothing. When we consider that more power is used merely in ploughing the soil than is used in all the industrial establishments of the country put together, an inkling comes of how much opportunity there b ahead. And now, with so many countries of the world in ferment and with so much unrest everywhere, is an excellent time to suggest something of the things that may be done — in the light of what has been done.
When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.
- p. 1; as cited in: William A. Levinson, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther. The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Universal Code for World-Class Success. CRC Press, 2013. p. xxvii
- I am not a reformer. I think there is entirely too much attempt at reforming in the world and that we pay too much attention to reformers. We have two kinds of reformers. Both are nuisances. The man who calls himself a reformer wants to smash things. He is the sort of man who would tear up a whole shirt because the collar button did not fit the buttonhole. It would never occur to him to enlarge the buttonhole. This sort of reformer never under any circumstances knows what he is doing. Experience and reform do not go together. A reformer cannot keep his zeal at white heat in the presence of a fact. He must discard all facts.
- p. 2
- The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men 's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.
- p. 9
- As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.
- p. 10
- Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
- pp. 19–20. Quoted in Samuel Crowther, "Henry Ford's Problem," The Magazine of Business, vol. 52 (1927), p. 182
- Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
- p. 72. Chapter IV, : Remark about the Model T in 1909; this has often been paraphrased, e.g.: "You can have any color as long as it's black."
- I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.
- p. 73. Chapter IV.
- The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiated can do with it.
- p. 110. Chapter XII.
- Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.
- p. 157
- Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
- If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Attributed from posthumous publicationsEdit
- You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- As quoted in News Journal [Mansfield, Ohio] (3 August 1965)
- When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.
- As quoted in Alfa Romeo. I creatori della Leggenda (1990) by Griffith Borgeson
- You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
- As quoted in Wisdom & Inspiration for the Spirit and Soul (2004) by Nancy Toussaint, p. 85
- There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years.
- As quoted in Biopolymers, Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials I (2003) by Stephen R. Fahnestock, Alexander Steinbüchel, p. 395
About Henry FordEdit
- Industrialist Henry Ford hated jazz. He thought it was a Jewish conspiracy to use black music to get good white people into booze, cigarettes and sex.
- Samantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, (Feb. 7, 2018); as qtd. in Tracy Brown, "Samantha Bee reminds us that everything you know and love from your childhood is racist", (Feb. 8, 2018).
- He draws upon his subconscious mind.
- Thomas Edison, as quoted in The Living Age, Vol. 312 (1922), p. 742
- If there is any certainty as to what a businessman is, he is assuredly the things Ford was not.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, as quoted in Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (1997) by Daniel Gross, p. 79
- I regard Ford as my inspiration.
- Adolf Hitler, attributed in Bill McGraw, "Forced Labor and Ford: History of Nazi Labor Stares Ford in the Face", Detroit Free Press, 21 December 1999, p. B1; as cited in Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, p. 71 & footnote p. 275.
- "Progress" is for the convinced ochlocrats a consoling Utopia of madly increased comfort and technicism. This charming but dull vision was always the pseudoreligious consolation of millions of ecstatic believers in ochlocracy and in the relative perfection and wisdom of Mr. and Mrs. Averageman. Utopias in general are surrogates for heaven; they give a meager solace to the individual that his sufferings and endeavors may enable future generations to enter the chiliastic paradise. Communism works in a similar way. Its millennium is almost the same as that of ochlocracy. The Millennium of Lenin, the Millennium of Bellamy, the Millennium as represented in H. G. Wells's, "Of Things to Come," the Millennium of Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford — they are all basically the same; they often differ in their means to attain it but they all agree in the point of technical perfection and the classless or at least totally homogeneous society without grudge or envy.
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn writing under the pen name Francis Stewart Campbell (1943), Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, pp. 35-36
- It will take a hundred years to tell whether he helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn't leave us where he found us.
- Will Rogers, as quoted in Henry Ford and Grass-roots America (1972) by Reynold M. Wik, p. 195
- It is perhaps well enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Variant: If the American people knew the corruption in our money system there would be revolution before morning.
- Attributed to Henry Ford by Charles Binderup (March 19, 1937), Congressional Record—House vol. 81, p. 2528. The quote is preceded by "It was Henry Ford who said, in substance, this," indicating that it was a paraphrase rather than an actual quote. Ford wrote at length in My Life and Work (1923) against the dominance of finance over industry, including a remark in Chapter XII, quoted above, which is very similar to the attributed statement.
- If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
- Patrick Vlaskovits, "Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote," in Harvard Business Review, August 29, 2011.
- My best friend is one who brings out the best in me
- Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
- Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian.
- Possibly said by Hugh Allen, printed in Reader's Digest (Jan. 1967)


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Arvest loan manager in Fayetteville, Ark. is an active small business proponent.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arvest Bank's Eileen Jennings has been named a member of Rural Missouri Inc. (RMI).
RMI is a community development corporation based in Jefferson City, Mo., that has announced plans to partner with banks in 10 Arkansas counties to provide SBA 504 loans. The 504 program offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration provides financing for major fixed assets such as equipment and real estate.
RMI has delivered SBA 504 loans for more than 30 years, leveraging more than $1.7 billion in financing and creating more than 19,000 jobs, according to the company.
Jennings was elected at RMI's annual membership meeting April 27-28. Additionally, she will serve on RMI's Jefferson City, Mo. Loan Review Committee.
Jennings is a senior vice president and area loan manager for Arvest in Fayetteville. She began her career at Arvest in 2004 and has held numerous positions. In addition to launching an internal education effort aimed at helping bankers better understand commercial customers, Jennings was named the 2016 Commercial Banker of the Year by the Central Arkansas Chapter of The Risk Management Association. She also is a board member for Northwest Arkansas Land Trust.
Eileen is a true champion for small businesses. Her commitment to seeing them succeed is remarkable, and she will do a fantastic job for Rural Missouri Inc.
Submitted questions will be answered by an Arvest banker and may appear on the Arvest Blog.
All Arvest banks are Equal Housing Lenders and Member FDIC.
Investment products and services are provided by Arvest Investments, Inc., doing business as Arvest Asset Management, member FINRA/SIPC, an SEC registered investment adviser and a subsidiary of Arvest Bank. Trust services are provided by Arvest Bank. Insurance products are made available through Arvest Insurance, Inc., which is registered as an insurance agency. Insurance products are marketed through Arvest Insurance, Inc., but are underwritten by insurance companies.
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I performed a clean boot on my IdeaPad Z400 Touch due to some problems i encountered. After this, I noticed that the dust removal option in the Energy Management is missing. How I can get it back?
My laptop is running Windows 8 64 bit.
Try re-installing the Energy Management software/driver for Windows 8 for your model. The link below provides the software needed:
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Cambodian nightmare brought to dance
A TRIP TO Cambodia inspired Minh Tran '89 to create Forgotten Memories, a unique dance performance based on the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, which killed an estimated 1.5 million people.
As a dancer and choreographer, Tran (pictured at left with Jae Dieg and Jennifer Hong-Berdine in a production of Forgotten Memories) has embraced a broad range of Asian cultures in his dance and that of Portland's Minh Tran & Company. Tran, originally from Vietnam, started the professional dance group in 1997. The company is known for its mesmerizing combination of traditional Asian and contemporary Western techniques.
Forgotten Memories blurs the boundaries between dancers and audience as the performers portray the Cambodians' pain and fear along with survival and healing. Minh Tran & company will perform Forgotten Memories November 2 and 3 at 7:30 and 9 p.m. (two shows each night) at Imago Theater, 17 SE Eighth Ave. For more information and tickets, visit www.mtdance.org.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
DAVID MAMET'S PULITZER Prize-winning dark comedy exposes a dog-eat-dog world where a few, small-time, real estate salesmen scramble for their fair share of the American Dream. The Lincoln Hall performance of Glengarry Glen Ross opens at 7:30 p.m., Friday, November 9, and continues November 10, 14-17. A 2 p.m. matinee is schedule November 11 and a low-cost preview is at 7:30 p.m. on November 8. Tickets may be purchased at the PSU Box Office, 503-725-3307, or through Ticketmaster.
New works
Origin: A Novel
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W.W. Norton, 2007
Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily
by Jeffrey Cole '84
Lexington Books, 2007
Hume: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Angela Coventry (philosophy faculty)
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007
Hate Mail
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Ink & Paper Group, 2007
Truth and Reconciliation
Recording by Darrell Grant (music faculty)
Origin Records, 2007
The People's Voice: A Populist Cultural History of Modern America
by David Horowitz (History faculty)
Sloan Publishing, 2007
Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
edited by Liz Nakazawa
PSU Ooligan Press, 2007
The Portland Red Guide: Sites & Stories of Our Radical Past
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PSU Ooligan Press, 2007
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Global roaming option all but confirmed in DROID RAZR ICS update
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A few days back we had reported that certain Verizon handsets could possibly gain the ability to travel abroad with the new ICS update soon to be released. Now, we have a screenshot from a leaked ICS build for the DROID RAZR that displays the option to go global. I think it might be safe to assume this news can now be removed from the rumor pile. I'm sure there are many RAZR owners that would make use of this welcome addition along with the many other improvements that will come with ICS. This feature couldn't have come at a better time with summer vacation season right at our doorstep so be sure keep a lookout for ICS and happy travels!
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text: More and more people are using videogames as a medium through which to support charities. As reported by Wired, Give8-Bit is a YouTube channel designed to act as a hub for highlighting videogame-powered charitable campaigns and documenting their impact. Come watch the launch video of game developers who are doing nice things, and of Ian Livingstone in a choir.


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newbeg07 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 10 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
SFC Design Group needs a professional and unique logo to be somewhat different than our very basic text based logo. http://www.sfcdesigns.com
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SFC Design Group http://www.sfcdesigns.com specializes in Outdoors websites and needs a logo and business card design for the president.
The logo could feature a small piece of unique art. We do a lot of fishing sites so water drops or a fish and such would be relevant, however I would like to see techy variations also.
The business card will be very simple yet very high tech looking and clean. Maybe a black background.
Our tagline would be "Strategic Web Solutions"
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MINNEAPOLIS -- As a youngster growing up in the Boston metropolitan area suburb of Weston, Mass., Justin Bellinger was exposed to a wide variety of sports. He wrestled and played soccer before reaching high school; his father, David, was a football player at Northeastern University in Boston; his mother, Lisa, also a Northeastern U. grad, was a runner.
Bellinger wasn't tempted by those other low hanging fruits on the tree. He was destined to spend his teenage years on ball fields from coast to coast while developing into one of the top baseball prospects in the high school class of 2014.
"Baseball, since I was young, has always been my strong point," Bellinger said Friday afternoon. "I thought about (continuing on with) wrestling, but the injuries that can happen with that is not so good for baseball, so I stopped doing that. Baseball has always been my strong point."
Bellinger was at the Metrodome Thursday through Saturday performing in front of at least 400 scouts and college coaches at this year's Perfect Game National Showcase, an elite event that this week is showcasing more than 300 of the country's most outstanding prospects in the 2014 class. There is no question Bellinger deserved to be here.
He came into this week ranked the nation's No. 13 overall prospect and No. 1-ranked first baseman (he is ranked 1-1 in the state of Massachusetts). Bellinger has a prototypical big-league first baseman's build in the mold of the Twins' Justin Morneau -- 6-foot-5, 237 pounds with a sweet and powerful left-handed swing.
Bellinger showed off that left-handed swing during the National's first BP session early Thursday afternoon. On three of his first swings he deposited balls neatly in the Metrodome's upper deck in right field, bombs that would have made Morneau proud.
"This has been awesome; it's been a lot of fun," Bellinger said. "After coming to the (PG) Junior National (Showcase) last year and the National this year, it's just a lot of fun. It's always good to play with the top kids and it's pretty awesome. The competition that you play against is what sets (the PG National) apart. You're playing against the top (prospects) and it's like the very best (showcase) you can go to."
Perhaps incredibly, Bellinger is already a veteran of 27 Perfect Game events with another summer of play still in front of him. He is an alumnus of both the 2011 and 2012 PG Junior National Showcase and has played in nearly 20 PG WWBA tournaments. He was also at the 17u Perfect Game World Series with the EvoShield Canes and the 16u PG World Series with the So Cal National Travel Team last year.
"I enjoy playing in all the tournaments; it's always fun because most of the tournaments I've been in with Perfect Game it seems like we always make it to the final four, or something around there," Bellinger said. "It's always a lot of fun trying to win the championship; it's always fun just trying to win something. I'm really looking forward to this summer playing in the 17u (PG WWBA) and the (PG WBBA) World Championship in Jupiter."
Bellinger will play this summer with the EvoShield Canes 17u National Team, a national powerhouse under the direction of Jeff Petty. He played with the Canes in last year's PG WWBA 16u National Championship in Marietta, Ga.; 17u Perfect Game World Series in Goodyear, Ariz.; and at the PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla.
"They're really, really good to play with," Bellinger said. "They take care of their players and the coaches are really good coaches and they're a very good organization."
It's been a long but satisfying journey as Bellinger -- usually accompanied by his father, David -- has criss-crossed the country to attend showcases and play in tournaments in front of the national scouting community. David Bellinger has enjoyed the education he's received on the road.
"I'm a football player and he's a baseball player," David said. "It's been very interesting learning another sport to the detail and to the degree that he plays; there's a lot of stuff we've learned together. It's been amazing watching him turn into the player that he is. He works very hard -- one of the rules we have in the house is that he has to work three times as hard as every other player in the country because he's from the Northeast -- and it's been amazing meeting a lot of the people, a lot of the coaches, a lot of the scouts. It's been amazing learning what they know ... so, yeah, it's been a pretty amazing ride."
The whole "growing up in the Northeast" issue is one Bellinger seems slightly conflicted about. He attends St. Sebastians High School in Weston and said his baseball experience there with head coach Mike Schell has been a good one. He also admits that he doesn't face the day-to-day, high-level competition that his brethren in the warm-weather states face, but also points out that he has gone against 2010 PG All-American and Vanderbilt right-hander Tyler Beede from Auburn, Mass. ( a first-round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011 who didn't sign) and left-handed Princeton recruit Keelan Smithers from Framingham, Mass.
"Everybody always says, 'In the Northeast, you don't get to play as much, you don't get to do as much' but every day of the week I'm practicing for four hours after school just doing everything I need to do," Bellinger said. "We've got plenty of indoor places to do the same stuff as everybody else. ... I'm not missing out on anything; I've played just as much as everybody else."
Former St. Louis Cardinals farmhand Oliver Marmol serves as Bellinger's hitting instructor during the offseason, and he has had an impact on the young prospect. Marmol is currently the field manager for the State College (Pa.) Spikes, the Cardinals affiliate in the Class A Short-Season New York-Penn League.
"My practices in the offseason -- what I do is top-notch," Bellinger said. "Working with (Marmol) and my training in the offseason is so good that I feel like when I come to these (PG events) I'm just ready to go and it's always like, over the years, I'm just constantly getting ready for the next big thing."
David Bellinger said that when Justin was playing as a first-grader he was already exhibiting a knack for the game that escaped most 6-year-olds. Other parents -- at the time more knowledgeable about baseball than David -- who were watching their own children play approached David and told him, referring to Justin, "You've got something here that's very special."
David took those words to heart and decided it was time to offer some guidance to his young son.
"(I worked with him) by taking some of the experiences that I had playing football and using those with him in baseball, and getting the right coaches to see him and the right coaches to train with him," David Bellinger said. "He works with Ollie Marmol, and (Marmol) teaches him his hitting and the eye-vision training program that he does. It's been interesting to make sure that he's had the best coaching he needs for him to develop."
One coach who has watched Bellinger's development since the eighth grade is Schell, the head coach at St. Sebastians. Like everyone else who has come into contact with Bellinger, Schell is most impressed with his drive and determination.
"He just works to get better," Schell told boston.com (a website operated by the Boston Globe) in April. "It's in the classroom, in his community, he's a good teammate. He just gets it. It's an overall approach that you have to have. It's not just in one area of life ... he's just been great in all regards, and he continues to get better."
Bellinger has always been a little tall for his age, and his dad said he is just now starting fill out. He actually struggled slightly against kids who were smaller but had already grown into their bodies.
"They were able to do a little of this, a little of that and they were a little faster here, a little faster there, but he kept working," David Bellinger said. "He works all year long and doesn't take time off in the offseason. It's been very gratifying to see someone who spends the time to perfect his skill be able to get to the level he's at now."
Bellinger, who carries a 4.0 GPA, has committed to head coach Tim Corbin and the elite NCAA Division I Vanderbilt Commodores program, and even the story of that commitment involves Bellinger showing great promise at a young age.
As an eighth-grader, he was playing for a team that was up against one of Canes Baseball's many youth teams, and he smacked a home run off the Canes pitcher. As Bellinger relates the story, that was when the Canes' Petty first began his pursuit of Bellinger -- although he didn't play his first game for the Canes until last summer -- and there was also a side benefit of that home run: coaches from Vanderbilt were in attendance at that particular game.
"That really started the whole process with them," Bellinger said. "After visiting their school and talking with their coaches -- Coach Corbin is one of the best coaches in all of college baseball and I really, really like him -- it was just a perfect match for me.
"And the academics are there -- (Vanderbilt is) one of the top schools and that's a no-brainer -- but the coaches were the main thing for me. They're awesome."
Baseball has long been Bellinger's strong point, to use his words, with wrestling, soccer and dad's beloved football buried well into his past. His immediate future will involve nothing but books and baseball.
"I'm just going to keep training the same way with Ollie (Marmol) and my coaches, just training as hard as I can getting ready for the (2104) draft, and play the high school season and enjoy that," he said. "I'll have fun and get ready for the years to come."


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(Based on the meeting of the Committee in Atlanta, Georgia on August 21, 1976)
The Committee, appointed by President Roberts, had its first meeting in Atlanta for 2½ hours on Saturday morning, August 21. The following members were present: Richard Homburger, Konrad Kubin, Murray Wells, Gary John Previts, Hanns-Martin Schoenfeld, Robert Raymond, Williard Stone, Charles Lamden and Hugh Hughes.
Several other members of the Committee sent their regrets in not being able to attend the meeting and stated that they would be happy to respond to inquiries and challenges.
A lengthy discussion was held on the following agenda topics, which topics had been circulated to the members of the Committee a short time before the meeting in Atlanta. Other topics will un-doubtedly be submitted to the Committee by members of the Acad-emy in the months ahead.
(1) The Committee discussed at length an appraisal of the activi-ties and accomplishments in the past three years of the Academy. The editor of the newsletter was commended most generously for his enormous effort and dedication to the task of bringing out the quar-terly newsletter in the past. There was high expression of praise for the quality and size of the newsletter. It was suggested that when the journal of the Academy is available for distribution, per-haps every six months, that the newsletter be issued in alternate quarters, so that the membership would receive at least one item regularly every three months. The newsletter is all too valuable an item to drop from the activities of the Academy. Expression of much praise was also made regarding the working paper series. These have already attained international reputation and there are many calls by scholars and students of accounting history for the valuable resource background available in the working papers. It was urged that the working paper series be continued. One sug-


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Overview of Hostel
Located near the centre of this town on the shores of Lago Argentino in southern Argentina, the hostel is an ideal base for trips to the stunning Perito Moreno Glacier.
Accommodation is in 2-6 bedded rooms and facilities include internet access, laundry, kitchen, restaurant and bike hire.
From Buenos Aires, by plane through Aerolineas Argentinas, LAN. (3hrs). Otherwise: fly to Rio Gallegos (4hrs) and then bus to El Calafate (4hrs). We recommend inquiring with the airlines (Aerolineas Argentinas, LAN) about routes and schedules.
From Buenos Aires, by bus: to Rio Gallegos, then transfer to El Calafate (estimated time: 38hrs).
From Puerto Natales, Chile by bus: leaves mornings, arrives in Calafate by noon (est. duration: 5hrs). There are also 2 flights a day with Aerovias DAP, a small Chilean airline.
From Punta Arenas: bus to Puerto Natales, once there inquire about buses to El Calafate (very easy to find). Or: bus to Rio Gallegos and transfer to El Calafate.
From Bariloche you have the following options:
direct flight to El Calafate with SW airlines, or via Buenos Aires.
cross over to Puerto Montt (Chile) and fly to Punta Arenas then bus to El Calafate.
catch ferry boat (ask for Navimag) to Puerto Natales (4-day journey), then bus to El Calafate.
charter minibus services on Route 40 (3 days when available). Ask at Albergue Alaska and Preiko's Youth Hostel in Bariloche or us. This is a great tour!.
bus to Comodoro Rivadavia, transfer to Rio Gallegos, and then to El Calafate.
From Trelew / Puerto Madryn: Direct flights to El Calafate or plane or bus to Rio Gallegos, then bus to Calafate.
From Ushuaia: fly with SW, Aerolineas Argentinas or other airlines to El Calafate or Rio Gallegos (from the latter, take bus to El Calafate).
From Ro Gallegos: many buses (4hrs/ 300kms) they leave from bus station with a stop at the Rio Gallegos's airport to go on to El Calafate.
If you're driving from Buenos Aires 35-hour drive approx. We recommend the following route: Exit BUE via the new freeway to Cauelas, then Route 3. When you get to Azul, take Route 76 for the next 75 km, then Route 51 all the way to Baha Blanca. From there, Route 22 to Rio Colorado. Fill up your tank, then continue a few km to the Route 251 intersection, going south towards San Antonio Oeste (you'll pass Gral. Conesa). Then continue on to Route 3 to Rio Gallegos and Calafate (in case you don't want to drive on gravel), otherwise take a shortcut via Provincial Route 9 ('la cortada') right after passing Comandante Luis Piedra Buena (before Rio Gallegos) to El Calafate. You'll save 230 km this way, although your speed average will be low due to curves and gravel roads. If you're driving from other points, we suggest you study a good road map. The road from Rio Gallegos to Calafate is in bad shape now, slow down !.
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Should we tithe off our gross or net income?
Question: "Should we tithe off our gross or net income?"
Answer: The tithe is an Old Testament concept. The tithe was a requirement of the law in which all Israelites were to give 10% of everything they earned—or the crops and animals they grew—to the Tabernacle / Temple (Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:26; Deuteronomy 14:24; 2 Chronicles 31:5). Believers in Christ are not commanded to give 10% of their income. Each and every Christian should diligently pray and seek God's wisdom as to how much he or she should give (James 1:5). Many people believe that the Old Testament tithe is a good principle for believers to follow. Giving 10% of your income back to God demonstrates your thankfulness to Him for what He has provided and helps you to remember to rely on God instead of on riches.
The Bible does not specifically say whether we should give 10% off our gross or net income. The Old Testament teaches the principle of firstfruits (Exodus 23:16; 34:22; Leviticus 2:12-14; 2 Chronicles 31:5). Old Testament believers gave from the best of their crops, not the leftovers. The same principle should apply to our giving today. Again, a believer should give what he believes God would have him give. It all goes back to the attitude of the heart. Are we giving out of reverence for God or out of selfishness for our own wealth? "Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians 9:7).
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More than a third of credit card users say they are either unaware of or do not completely understand the benefits associated with their cards, according to the J.D. Power 2013 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study. The study shows 59% of consumers said they completely understand their card rewards, a decrease from 66% in 2012.
Jim Miller, senior director of banking services at J.D. Power, characterized the statistics in a news release:
"Customers who use their card's benefits spend an average of $400 more per month on their card, compared with those who are aware of benefits but do not use them, so clearly this is an area of importance to card issuers."
The study also found a majority — 53% — of consumers did not completely understand the terms of their credit cards. Of that group, 73% said they were unclear about interest rates and 31% said they didn't understand late payment fees.
Satisfaction Increases
J.D. Power has measured customer satisfaction with credit cards since 2007, analyzing six components: interaction; credit card terms; billing and payment; rewards; benefits and services; and problem resolution.
For the fourth consecutive year, the study shows an improvement in satisfaction with a score of 767 on a 1,000-point scale. The score in 2012 was 755.
In terms of the highest-scoring providers, American Express maintained its 7-year streak in the top spot with 816 points, as a result of its strength in rewards and benefits and services, the release said.
Discover is second with 812 points, and Chase is third with 783 points.
Taking advantage of credit card rewards and benefits provides great value to consumers. Things like car rental insurance are some of the top credit card perks that you may not be able to get with other types of plastic such as prepaid cards or debit cards.
Understanding how a credit card's programs work can help consumers spend more effectively, and matching a card to a consumer's financial needs is the first step.
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Pioneer Elementary School would like to congratulate the following fourth grade students who participated in the Colorado Elementary All-State Choir on Jan. 25, 2014: Mario Bonilla Nevarez, Emma Christensen, Kristen Frasco, Shaelei Marquez, Daisy Meraz, and Diana Serna! The ensemble, comprised of 280 participants, was established in 2011 to "provide opportunities for elementary students from across Colorado to join voices in a large ensemble and sing renowned choral literature under the baton of nationally recognized clinicians." (ceasc.org )
The six Fort Morgan participants spent much of December and January preparing and memorizing music in order to attend the all-day event at Cheyenne Mountain High School, and were then bused to the prestigious Broadmoor Hotel International Hall in Colorado Springs for final performance. Under the direction of Sandy R. Holland, who directs the Charlotte, North Carolina's Children's Chorale, the students performed the following musical selections in the All-State Presto Choir:
Dancing and Singing Lully/Liebergen
O, Colored Earth Steve Heitzeg
Ani ma'amin Caldwell and Ivory
Three Quotes by Mark Twain Andrea Ramsey
John Henry Rollo Dilworth
Prior to the performance of these pieces, the Elementary All-State Vivace choir sang two combined pieces with the Elementary All-State Presto Choir, including "A Child of Song," by Herring/Beck and "Oye," by Jim Papoulis.
"I am so very proud of my 2014 All-State Choir kids," said Mrs. Stream, the Pioneer music teacher following the event. She went on to say, "I am positive these individuals will never forget such a grand and memorable experience. I would like to thank Ernie Marquez for serving as our primary event chaperone… He is a truly phenomenal parent and music advocate! I also owe a debt of gratitude to the parents for supporting their talented young musicians and making the long trek to Colorado Springs for the weekend/day."


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The 2010 PKRA Fuerteventura Kiteboarding Super Grand Slam will be without a doubt a memorable event.
This year Fuerteventura will be celebrating 25 years of hosting World Cup events, which dates back to 1986 with the PBA Windsurfing World Cup.
In addition to the Speed, Freestyle and Race disciplines being held in Fuerteventura, the Professional Kiteboard Riders Association will be testing a new high-tech discipline called the Sky-Masters.
With the help of a modern device called the Shadowbox, it will enable our crew to record and accurately measure high altitudes jumps performed by competitors during this new unique discipline.
The PKRA has established a growing partnership with Shadowbox Inc., the only manufacturer of a tough, fully waterproof data-recording device capable of recording speed, location, acceleration, jump height, jump distance, hang time, G-forces, rotation degrees, spin rates and much more.
Throughout the remainder of the year we will work closely with Shadowbox Inc. to develop a user-friendly wireless device capable of displaying real time jump heights to spectators on the beach and live webcast to online viewers at home.
Once the testing is successfully complete, we will incorporate the Sky- Masters as an official PKRA competition discipline.
Due to the legendary Fuerteventura strong winds it will be the perfect location for the Sky-Masters to be tested and developed, allowing for a new competition format to our lineup.
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This procedure explains how to log in to cPanel's WebHost Manager on your VPS or dedicated server for the first time and includes some post-installation steps. You only need to perform these steps once.
To Set Up Your WebHost Manager for the First Time
- Open a Web browser and go to:
https://[[ipaddress]]:2087/Where [[ipaddress]] is the IP address for your dedicated server.
- When the WebHost Manager login prompt displays, enter root as your user name. Enter the password you defined when you set up your dedicated server account. Click OK.
- When you log in for the first time, WebHost Manager walks you through a wizard to help you set up your server. Under the Welcome to Web Host Manager section on the left, click Next.
- The End-User License Agreement for cPanel displays on the right. Review the license agreement and click I Agree.
- The Edit Setup page displays. In the Server Contact E-Mail Address section, enter an administrative email address for this server.
- In the Main Shared Virtual Host IP section, enter the default IP address for your server. Typically, this is the same IP you used to connect to your WebHost Manager.
- In the Hostname section, enter the primary domain name for your server. This needs to be a fully qualified domain name that you own. For example, "coolexample.com."
- Under the Primary Nameserver and Secondary Nameserver sections, type ns1.yourdomainnamehere.com and ns2.yourdomainnamehere.com, where "yourdomainnamehere.com" is the primary domain for your server. For example, ns1.coolexample.com and ns2.coolexample.com.
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It's a powerful tool, one that can truly further your business and bring in customers, but it can hurt you just as quickly. Like any tool, in and of itself, it can only take you so far; it performs based on the skill of its user. That's why its crucial that you make sure you have the right people in charge of your social media marketing, because it can turn on you in a heartbeat.
Social media is often times the face of our company. We build our brands on Facebook and Twitter, amassing followers and fans, and sometimes forget that they have an equal voice. Sure, we can market and entice to our heart's content, but they can come right back at us if they have any complaints. Mishandle these complaints, and you've just made a fool of yourself in front of your targeted audience. I've seen good companies take deep cuts because they've had the wrong person running their social media...sometimes it's so bad, there's no stopping the bleeding.
An amazing example of this happened just last year. A man, lets call him Richard, ran PR for a company, lets call it ABC Marketing. A customer complained about a shipping delay on a product, and Richard's response was brusque to say the least. They started to exchange messages, but now media and social outlets were being included in the dialogue by way of email Cc, Facebook posts and Twitter hashtags. The customer was being difficult, annoying, and petulant...but sometimes customers are all those things and worse. The problem is that Richard began giving it right back, and then escalated it by saying this:
"I Don't have my controller so I'm gonna cry to the world … Really ?? Hey take that free time and do something more productive. All you had to do was check the like everyone else , people have inquired but you're the douchiest of them all
The backlash was incredible. Orders were cancelled, Richard was fired from ABC Marketing and ABC Marketing was fired by the manufacturer. The company's Twitter and Facebook pages exploded with negative press to the point that they were forced to change their name. It has been about six months and people are still putting out the fires started by one man's grotesque mishandling of PR and the resulting social media backlash.
Use this as an example (admittedly an extreme one). Don't argue with customers online. Even if you're right, hell even if you're polite, you still come off looking bad. If the argument can't be helped, be concise and reasonable even in the face of vitriol and assault. Try to direct the discussion to a phone call or other private venue. Email is better, but don't be fooled into thinking it's totally secure. Sure, Facebook and Twitter are immediately public, but it's a simple matter to capture an email exchange and post it on social media for the world to see. You need to consider every word you put on the web, because (ideally) your message will be seen by innumerable people.
That's the crux of the issue. You want your message seen by people, and not just any people, but potential customers. You build your network and if everything goes according to plan, every post you make is seen by your target demographic. If you perform well, you'll gain goodwill. But if you make a mistake, that same group of people you've been courting and cultivating will view you in a whole new light.
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Social media is a knife without a handle--a powerful tool, a remarkable tool--but one that can cut you if you don't take it seriously.
Original article about the dangers of social media posted on Wikimotive's Blog titled Social Media: A Knife Without a Handle
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Thanks for all the positive feedback!
Great post Mr Martell, once againg reminding us all in the auto world even remotely involved with Social Media on behalf of our employers how easy it can be to have a mole hill quickly grow into a mountain, if only common sense were just a bit more common! Thanks for the words of wisdom! :)
Tim, thank you for such a poignant reminder of why people need to acquire some basic PR skills if they are going to represent a dealership, or any company on the social web. I have seen many similar examples, some almost as bad, but specific to the auto industry. For example, I have seen dealership managers respond to negative DealerRater posts with public replies that basically stated "I knew we never should have sold you a car!". This of course, was a true statement, but ends up hurting the dealership far more than the customer's negative review. In almost all cases, anything negative posted by a customer about a dealership should be immediately and publicly responded to with a sincere apology and a statement that the dealership management would like to work directly with the customer to make things right and resolve the specific issues... Always restate the customer's complaint in your own words to show people that your dealership genuinely listens and the response is NOT a template... Keep in mind that a dealership's response is not REALLY for the customer who posted the complaint, but is really intended to show the hundreds or thousands of prospective customers who see the post, that the dealership not only cares, but is responsive to customer concerns, wherever they are expressed.
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The 'Little Pink Pill' is Now Available, Will It Help Your Sex Life?
Flibanserin, the first and only medication available for use in reproductive aged women with low libido, becomes commercially available this week after a rocky and controversial road that led to its FDA approval Aug. 18. The view on the medication whose brand name is Addyi (pronounced ADD-EE) ranges from a historical achievement in women's health care to an epic failure of commercialized medical propaganda. Despite the lengthy debate that has surrounded flibanserin, what most people want to know is whether it will help their sex life or not now that it is here.
First Things First
While sexual concerns can be difficult to discuss for many women and their partners, it is important to acknowledge that sex and intimacy are some of the great extraordinary experiences of being human. When sex goes badly, which statistically it does for 43 percent of US women, the consequences can devastate a relationship and personal health. One of the biggest applauds I have for the FDA is their statement of recognition that female sexual dysfunction is an unmet clinical need.
Sexuality is Mind-Body but Not-Body?
Sexuality is usually complicated, and problems with sex such as loss of libido are multifactorial for most women. Antagonists to flibanserin cite psychosocial contributions such as relationship discord, body image, or history of sexual abuse to be the most pinnacle causes of a woman who may complain of problematic lack of sexual desire, and that sex is always a mind-body phenomenon. While these factors often implicitly correlate to loss of sexual interest for a woman, they don't always, and you cannot advocate that women's sexuality is all inclusive of her mind, body, and spirit — and assert simultaneously that a biochemical contribution which flibanserin is designed to address in the brain to improve satisfying sexual experiences does not exist.
The Biochemistry of Sex
Antidepressant medications that alter brain biochemistry are notorious for having sexual side effects which can be prevalent up to 92 percent of the time, and are known to decrease sexual interest, disrupt arousal, and truncate orgasm in some women. Ironically, flibanserin was originally studied as an antidepressant, and while the exact mechanism of how a medication can impair or improve sexual interest is unknown, it should not be difficult to consider that if biochemical tinkering can crush sexual function, it may also be capable of improving it.
Efficacy Data Dance
Flibanserin is a pill taken once nightly, and has been critiqued as showing only modest increases in sexual desire, with improvements in sexually satisfying events rising 0.4 to 1 per month compared with placebo. However just because flibanserin has lackluster efficacy data, that does not mean it is ineffective, and even small improvements in sexual function can be life altering for a woman struggling with disabling intimate problems. If only one percent of women with low libido were to improve their sexual function with use of flibanserin, that equates to 160,000 women, or the population of Tempe, Arizona.
Blue Sky Side Effects
Flibanserin has side effects and the sky is blue. All medications have pro and con profiles, and for flibanserin the most common consequences of use include fatigue, dizziness, sleepiness, and a rare but precipitous drop in blood pressure. Women may not drink alcohol while taking this medication. Providers who will prescribe it and pharmacies that will dispense flibanserin must be approved through what is called a Risk Evaluation and Management Strategy, or REMS, which means they are educated on advising women on how to take flibanserin safely. While a REMS program is arguably overkill compared to numerous higher risk, common prescriptions which do not require a REMS, it is an excellent opportunity for clinicians who have a background in sexuality to be the main applicants since they are far more qualified to assess proper candidates for treatment as well as continue to endorse holistic measures alongside flibanserin. Women who are interested in trying flibanserin should only obtain it from sexuality trained professionals.
The Proof is in the Sexy Pudding
If flibanserin is worthless, the marketplace will bury it in a shallow grave quickly. Women will stop paying for it, and conscientious medical providers will stop prescribing it. Yet 8,500 women taking flibanserin were studied, over a 1,000 of them for one year, and the data suggests it will help some. Women deserve to be educated on their options, because sexual health is worth fighting for.
Changing the World, One Orgasm at a Time
We simply cannot overlook how astronomical of an achievement it is to even have a mediocre medication approved for female sexual dysfunction. Women's sexuality has been ignored by medicine for most of history. At least now we have something to fight over.
The controversy about flibanserin is in fact magnificent, and frankly, the entire point. We must talk openly about sexuality and sexual concerns to improve them, personally for one woman at a time, but also uniformly to embrace female sexuality as a vastly larger societal allowance.
A satisfying sexual life is far more than the restoration of sexual dysfunction, it's a thriving, multi-dimensional, ever-evolving weave of psychology, relationships, life circumstances, and, yes, you can include a milieu of biochemistry and neurotransmitter pools.
Is a pill ever going to replace the vastly complicated arenas that fuse into our sexual experience? Of course not — it's absurd and lazy minded for anyone to suggest that is even being proposed. But it is necessary and inherently responsible to allow for all possible puzzle pieces to be utilized through the ever evolving navigation of sensuality, intimacy, and erotic fulfillment.
So will flibanserin make your sex life better? Maybe. But considering the conversation about it valuable as well as its use as merely one tool among many options to improve sex & intimacy would be the better bet. Ultimately, we "desire" sex that is meaningful, erotic, and dynamic. The journey of seeking sexual vitality deserves every key, crowbar, heathen kick, graceful acrobatics, or little pink pill that lends its part to the process, no matter how small or big, for the opportunity to discover and embrace a sexual aliveness.
NOTE: Dr. McKenzie has no affiliation with flibanserin.


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Baby Lemur Twinsies Have Mama's Eyes
Double the cuteness! In addition to lengthy black-and-white tails, one of the most striking things about lemurs is their yellow-brown eyes with big pupils. This proud mama is Susen —don't mind her glare, we've interrupted dinner — toting her two new lil ones born on Mar. 17 in Dresden, Germany. I've gathered some fun facts about Ring-Tailed Lemurs so see more cute pictures, learn something, and start now.


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Carlsbad school trustees voted Friday night to cut about 20 percent of the district's teaching staff to help bridge a $6.4 million gap in its operating budget for the coming school year.
Nearly 160 teachers will receive pink slips unless the school district and the Carlsbad Unified Teachers' Association agree on pay concessions before March 15, when the state requires districts to send preliminary layoff notices to employees.
Those layoffs become official in the middle of May.
About 60 elementary school teaching jobs were cut Friday night, along with the Carlsbad Unified School District's sole librarian, six art teachers, eight science teachers and eight math teachers. Art, science, English, music, physical education and world language jobs were also shaved from the budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
In front of trustees and a standing-room-only crowd at the district's headquarters Friday evening, teachers union President Sally Estep told district officials and trustees that they needed to look elsewhere before they started balancing the budget with teacher cuts.
"Teachers are the classroom," she said. "It's not the four walls. It's not the smartboards. It's not the books."
Estep also said she took issue with comments made by trustees at their last board meeting that implied the union did not want to negotiate any sort of salary or benefits cuts to help balance the district's $82 million budget.
Two other speakers, including Mary Martin, a teacher at Aviara Oaks Middle School, asked trustees to reconsider the cost of opening and running Sage Creek High School, the district's second high school set to open in August 2013.
Trustees already have cut $200,000 from the startup budget for the school.
Stalling construction of Sage Creek would save the district about $290,000 for the coming fiscal year, said Devin Vodicka, the district's assistant superintendent of business services.
Trustee Elisa Williamson noted that the savings would not be enough to salvage "a couple of teaching jobs," a remark that drew gasps from the crowd full of parents and teachers.
She later apologized but added that she felt she had to make the cuts to keep the district under local control.
"We're doing this because we don't want to be taken over by the state," she said.
In addition to the layoffs, the district has cut several million dollars through reducing administrative costs, travel and conference costs, school discretionary accounts and employee compensation.


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|Sugar-Free Chai Tea
Fresh ginger and spices steeped with tea and milk for a cold-weather comfort drink.
How the cup holds the tea
Pat Schneider, poet,
from The Patience of Ordinary Things
"Oooh. Something smells good!" I just love to hear those words, so much that some times I put a cinnamon stick on the stove to simmer, just for the aroma – and the reaction.
(LANGUAGE POLICE Think of all the English words we have that describe our olfactory sensations, aroma, yes, but also scent, smell, stench, fragrance and odor. My books on word usage make little distinction except that aroma is the word most closely tied to food. Perhaps, methinks, aroma is in the nose of the be-smeller.)
Right, back to the chai tea, first made for my cookie swap back in December. I made it a day ahead and honestly, was unimpressed. But the next day, I reheated it anyway – and lo, when my fellow cookie-bakers were arriving if I didn't hear those much-sought words, "Oooh. Something smells good!"
We all loved the stuff. Ever since, I've kept a jug in the fridge, ready for rewarming a cup at a time. It feels New Year resolution-ish, what with milk and all. Try it first without a sweetener, letting the spices themselves subtly sweeten the milk.
Time to table: 1 -1/4 hours but best if flavors meld for 24 hours
Makes about 8 cups
- 8 cups water
- One piece of fresh ginger, about 3 inches long, washed and sliced thin cross-wise
- 2 cinnamon sticks, broken in half
- 2 pieces star anise
- 16 whole cloves
- 20 cardamom whole seeds
- 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
- 3 tea bags (see TIPS)
- 3 cups skim milk
- Honey, agave, maple syrup to taste (optional)
In a large pot, combine the water, ginger and spices. Cover, bring to a boil and let simmer for 30 minutes. (Even with the pot covered, a good third of the water will evaporate.) Turn off the heat. Pour liquid through a strainer and discard the ginger and spices. Rinse out the pot with hot water, pour the liquid back in. Add the tea bags, cover and let steep for 15 minutes. Remove the tea bags. Add the milk. If serving right away, reheat the liquid but do not boil. Pour into hot mugs (see TIPS). If needed, sweeten to taste. If not serving right away, let cool, then transfer to a carafe and refrigerate. Rewarm to serve, sweetening to taste if needed.
Staying Warm from the Inside Out
Recipe Favorites over the Holidays
As much as I love trying new recipes, I also love returning to old favorites. These are recipes remade over the holidays, ones I heartily recommend.
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