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In the last couple of years, the stock market has not been performing very good compared in the what they call the Golden Era of Equities, circa 2012 and 2013.
But then, it's not a moment of celebration every day, especially not in the stock market and circa 2014. Everything kicked back in momentum as Duterte's term was approaching.
Since stocks were almost idle on those times, we decided to flip ICT and EEI before the Holidays of 2016.
One of the things I always do during Holidays is buy more stocks. Stocks like to dip before the Holidays and they go down before the year ends, come back up slowly as the new year started.
Having read some catalyst reports and market briefings, we took the positive outlook for Duterte's term following the BBP and TP of the stocks we flip.
We cannot complain waiting for 18 months even if we did not know we would reap the money in 18 months.
20K money earned from ICT and EEI, even my favorite mutual fund did not reach a 42.64% and 53.17% gain yet. Not very much yet.
How We Got 20K Investing ICT and EEI
Following the BBP and TP, you would come close to this as well if you have invested ICT and EEI in 18 months. We did not less the few fees here.
Patience is one of best attitudes that I admire. Surprisingly, patience makes money, too." – Fehl Dungo
Yeah, you can quote me on that one. 🙂


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The data sets are ready to go, and this blog post marks the beginning of the third phase of the KPI assessment process, the Test Run. Congratulations on now finishing the first two phases (Project Plan and Data Retrieval). The first aspect of the test run is to do the initial run through. Here you will be using data from various data sets that you prepared during the data retrieval process. You will need to identify the needed data for each KPI. The initial run through will relay heavily on the use of business rules. A business rule is made up of formulas and procedures to complete a calculation. We have all been using business rules to solve things our entire life. Remember the math problem about installing a fence?
Area and perimeter. Those are the first two formulas that I remember learning in school. Applying the formula was empowering. Being able to take numbers and generate another new value almost seemed like magic. It was also quite satisfying to solve a word problem that included certain pieces of information and then was prompted to find the solution. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are like word problems. A more accurate label would be "word opportunities" that once explored will lead to a higher level of insight. Word problems that involved the concepts of area and perimeter were based on formulaic concepts that were specific to different families of shapes. Each of these shape families had specific business rules associated with how the values of area and perimeter are determined for them. Each KPI will have one or more business rules associated with them that outlines how the actual indicator is calculated.
At the time of KPI development, best practice would involve the identification of the data needed to measure the KPI, the availability of that data, where the data will be housed, and a business rule that explains how to complete the calculation. If all of these elements are in place and you have discussed them with your team, you are ready to run your initial analysis procedure (and you can skip ahead to the last paragraph.) It is very common that getting the KPIs developed, agreed to, and data collection protocols developed and documented at the beginning of the year is a heavy lift and getting to develop the analysis business rules is left to another time. In order to move forward in the analytic process, that time has come.
To begin the exploration of business rule construction, lets begin with an example KPI to work with. We will use our fictional company, Reusable Cup Coffee (see blog post #3 entitled, Be Part of a Team). One of Reusable's KPIs for the 2017 performance year was the following:
Beginning in the second quarter of 2017, all stores will have trained all team members on how to make the Squared Latte, such that 90% of store staff achieve the employment level of barista associate.
A couple of notes about the example KPI:
Table 1: KPI Broken into parts with corresponding purpose to each part
Now that the KPI has been broken into parts and a purpose of each part is stated, we can add one more column to the table that provides a data source description for the applicable parts of the KPI.
Table 2: Table 1 with additional column, Data Source Description
When reviewing Table 2, the right most column labeled "Data Source Description" has a note specific to the corresponding part for the KPI. When developing the business rule, begin with the algorithm. For this KPI:
KPI Value (%)= (Number of Employees with "Barista Associate" as job title/Total Number of Store Employees) X (100)
Simplified: KPI % = (B/A) X 100
KPI Value (%) meets KPI target in > 89%.
After the algorithm has been reviewed, construct the data calculation set by implementing business rules. The data calculation set is the data that is necessary to answer the question. The following business rules will be used to create this calculation data set for our example KPI:
==Beginning of Business Rules
Let's run through these business rules and try it out.
Once business rules have been developed for each KPI, you are all set to conduct the initial run through of calculating the KPI values. Don't worry if you get weird looking results or encounter errors during the initial run through. Any of these special cases will be discussed a greater length in the next blog post.
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- packed up the car
- drove East
- left New Mexico
- kept going East
- stopped in Oklahoma for the night
- drove East some more the next day
- passed an awesome billboard
- spent 20 minutes in Tennessee
- and stopped in Tupelo, MS for the night
- Wednesday we pushed further East
- and finally arrived in Georgia!!
Now my sewing takes place down here with my mother-in-law (that's her hand quilting set up.
Hopefully I'll be around a bit more as we get into a routine.
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I've driven that route, we went from California to North Carolina. Wonderful for you to be back home.ReplyDelete
Wow, that's some road trip. Glad you made it safely, good luck with the unpacking!ReplyDelete
Haven driven that route rather Arkansas to North Carolina many times!!! Have fun in GA we miss being in Southeast so much!ReplyDelete
hey- you're in my neck of the woods! where at in GA are you?ReplyDelete
what a trip- i couldn't of done that- being a car that long....WOW!
Welcome back!ReplyDelete
Ooh, I've done a bunch of bits of that trip :o) Glad you made it there okay, have fun getting set up!ReplyDelete
wow - great drive - and what an awesome hand quilting frame !ReplyDelete
too far away.. too far away.. but i am really glad for you, if this is what makes you happy!! :-)ReplyDelete
What a journey, what incredible blue skies.ReplyDelete
And I love the new blog! I'm a Google Reader, so this is all new to me. Love it!ReplyDelete
Yippee! Home sweet home! Hope all is well and I am LOVING that billboard. For reals!ReplyDelete
I have a very easy method of canning peaches. Let me know when you are interested and I can teach you over computer or phone, which ever works for you!ReplyDelete


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Food List for Blood Type O
Blood type diets focus on how specific foods effect people with different blood types. Dr. D'Adamo, creator of the Geno Type Diet, researched the origins of each human blood type and constructed eating plans to optimize health and help dieters lose excess weight. The Type-O diet focuses on the needs of individuals with type O blood 2. Diets have also been created for those with types A, B and AB as well.
History of Type O Blood
As primitive hunter-gather explorers, Type Os have hyper-reactive immune responses and are prone to digestive sensitivities. Type Os also tend to store calories as fat and may have trouble with appetite regulation and maintaining an active metabolism.
Dr. Michael Lam suggests Type-O dieters incorporate beef, lamb, vela and venison into their diet. Fish like cod, herring and mackerel are also recommended.
Type Os respond well to oils, according to Dr. D'Adamo. The most beneficial are olive and flaxseed oils, but canola and sesame oil are allowed as well. Corn, peanut and cottonseed oils should be avoided.
Type Os should limit their consumption of dairy and eggs. Butter, yogurt and lean cheeses are allowed, but should be consumed only in moderation. Dr. D'Adamo advises that Type Os of African origin should avoid dairy and eggs altogether.
Beans, though high in fiber and protein, are not recommended for Type Os. Dr. Lam states that these foods make muscle tissue less acidic and may even block the metabolism of other nutrients. If beans are included in the diet, Type Os should choose pinto beans or black-eyed peas.
The most beneficial vegetables for Type-O dieters include:
- artichoke
- garlic
- kale
- leeks
- onions
- red peppers pumpkin
- sweet potatoes
Eggplants and potatoes are not recommended because it is believed that they contribute to arthritis. Corn is not recommended, as it adversely affects insulin regulation.
Plums, prunes, figs and limited amounts of grapefruit are the only fruits type Os should eat. Highly acidic fruits like oranges and strawberries may irritate the stomach lining. Melons and cantaloupes tend to have high mold counts, which may lead to allergy problems.
Type Os should drink plenty of water, seltzer water, club soda and tea. Beer and wine are fine in moderation. However, coffee, distilled liquors and black teas should be avoided.
Dr. Michael Lam suggests Type-O dieters incorporate beef, lamb, vela and venison into their diet. Beans, though high in fiber and protein, are not recommended for Type Os. If beans are included in the diet, Type Os should choose pinto beans or black-eyed peas.
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A former Pennsylvania politician is denying charges that he molested a 103-year-old nursing home resident and says he was just showing affection to a woman he's related to through marriage.
William Spingler spoke to The Philadelphia Inquirer regarding the case despite his defense attorney's objections.
Spingler, who served as commissioner of both Radnor Township and Delaware County, has been charged with three counts of indecent assault on a person with a mental disability.
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The 75-year-old disputed the charges in his first public remarks since his arrest last month, saying that he respects and loves the woman-- who is his mother-in-law.
Spingler says that he frequently hugged and kissed the woman, who has dementia, during his near-daily visits at Wayne Nursing Home.
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We are pleased to introduce the latest addition to the Parmco cooking range: 8 NEW stoves with a large 70 Litre oven capacity! These stoves are no short of space for a family roast dinner or any other large dish. The stoves come in a variety of colours to give your kitchen a classy finish. An electric oven with a combination of a gas or ceramic cooktop gives you the option of mixing and matching not to mention the gas oven and gas cooktop (only in stainless steel).
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Clemens Sedmak holds a joint appointment in the Keough School of Global Affairs and the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. He is a professor of social ethics and advisor in Catholic social tradition.
Born in Austria in 1971, Clemens Sedmak has undertaken studies in philosophy, theology, social theory and development theory at the University of Innsbruck, the ETH Zurich, at Maryknoll (New York) and the University of Linz. After having completed doctorates in philosophy, theology and social theory, Clemens Sedmak spent two years in Chicago as a research fellow and took up a Chair for Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Salzburg in 2001, a position he held till 2005 when he came to King's College London as FD Maurice Professor for Moral Theology and Social Theology. Since 2005, Clemens Sedmak has been Director of the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research at the University of Salzburg, and since 2008 President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Ethics in Salzburg. Clemens Sedmak has been visiting professor at the Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, at the University of Jena in Germany, the Vienna Business University, and at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Clemens Sedmak is married with three children.


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The Bahamas with Mariner of the Seas
3 days from/to Port Canaveral (Orlando, FL), departure 10/04/2020
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- Date: Fri 10/04/20
- Port: Port Canaveral (Orlando, FL) / USA
- Depart: 16:00
- Date: Sat 11/04/20
- Port: Nassau / Bahamas
- Arrive: 08:30
- Depart: 21:30
- Date: Sun 12/04/20
- Port: Coco Cay / Bahamas
- Arrive: 07:00
- Depart: 17:00
- Date: Mon 13/04/20
- Port: Port Canaveral (Orlando, FL) / USA
- Arrive: 07:00
Itinerary - Weather and ship encounters
Traveled Distance: 1,007.66 km/544.09 nm
Itinerary may be subject to change at any time.
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- Category
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- Inside
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- Outside
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- Inside Comfort
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- Balcony
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- Junior Suite w/ Balcony
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- Balcony Comfort
- 904
- Outside Comfort
- 927
- Suite
- 1,161
- Suite w/ Balcony
- 1,414
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Included in the cruise price:
- All meals on board
- Baggage transport on embarkation and debarkation
- Entertainment program on board
- Insolvency insurance for tour operator
- Some beverages (water, ice tea, lemonade and coffee)
- Taxes and port charges
- Use of most onboard facilities
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Only by 28th January: Book this cruise and receive the following onboard credit:- Interior/oceanview stateroom: 25 USD per stateroom
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- Suite: 75 USD per suite
How it works: Choose the fare "incl. onboard credit" in the booking progress. The offer is already included in the displayed prices.
Limited offer, subject to availability and change. Only for new bookings by 28th January 2020. Combinable with onboard bookings.
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Outward and return journey
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Earliest flight departure: 13:00 h
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Outward journey
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Honoring its history, UIC John Marshall Law School upholds, through its varied juris doctor and graduate degree programs, a tradition of diversity, innovation, access and opportunity, and consistently provides an education that combines the understanding of both the theory and the practice of law.
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John Marshall (1755–1835), a federalist from Virginia, was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. From 1801–1835, he led the U.S. Supreme Court and helped transform it into a powerful bastion of judicial review. In a series of seminal decisions, Marshall's Court set forth fundamental doctrines of constitutional law intended to preserve the separation of powers and core principles essential in a democratic republic. Marshall's genius was in his implicit recognition of the promise of the Constitution and the role of law in a constitutional democracy.
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Throughout its history, UIC John Marshall Law School has upheld a tradition of diversity, innovation, and opportunity and has consistently provided an education that combines an understanding of the theory, the philosophy, and the practice of law. Founded in 1899, The John Marshall Law School is proud to be recognized as a dynamic independent law school, promoting excellence in all aspects of legal education.
Due to their belief that the study of law is critical to the health of our democratic society, our founders made it their guiding principle to offer working professionals from all walks of life the opportunity and access to study law. Today, the law school remains true to those principles, and those of our namesake, in our efforts to continue redefining the opportunities of today's candidates and tomorrow's practitioners.
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For more history on the law school, read our Centennial History of The John Marshall Law School
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City's first Biannual Free Dump Day on November 4, 2017, from 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
And then, one day...
I'd been looking at my tired, 58-year-old face in the mirror and wondering if there wouldn't be something I could do to perk my skin up a little. The facial I had at the spa this year was wonderful, but it only lasts about a day. So when the ad for this amazing Retinolla cream showed up in my Facebook feed, I got curious and clicked.
It was only $7.95 for each little jar, one was a moisturiser, the other an eye cream. For $16, how could I go wrong? I thought it was worth checking out.
I filled in my info on the website, and a few days later, I received my little package. What the heck? If I liked it, I would get some more.
A couple of weeks later I was checking my bank account online and to my horror, noticed an almost $400 charge on my credit card. Whaaat?? When I saw it was the company that sold me the Retinolla, I was furious! I looked everywhere for some way to contact them and finally found a phone number, buried in an email they sent. I called right away. "You are the 3rd person in line to talk to one of our representatives," the automated answer said. I waited, my furore rising even more.
When a live person finally came on the line, it was all I could do to keep myself from screaming at her. What the hell is this $400 charge on my Visa? I paid for your product! Why are you charging me again, and why $400?? I was beside myself by this time.
She spoke English well, but had an accent. I wasn't sure what country the number was from, but I knew it wasn't North America. She calmly explained that I had passed the 14 day limit on the product and was being charged the full amount. The full amount? No where did it say there was another charge coming. Oh well, yes it does on our website. Right. The conversation continued until she finally told me that they could give me a small refund on the product. By this time, I knew I was beat and I accepted. I felt like such a complete and total sucker. We will cancel your account, she said.
Yes, that's right. So let me tell you how this works:
When you do a Google search for Retinolla, the ad comes up at the top of your results. Today's price was even better than what I "paid"!
Only $4.95 for the kit! What a bargain!
When you go to the website, it's full of the usual "before and after" pictures. But of course there's a VERY LIMITED supply of the product and a countdown clock, so you know you'd better hurry and buy it NOW! I filled in my info and credit card, etc. They wanted to sell me more...on $7.95 for this too! It was hard to see how to bypass and go straight to the checkout, but I finally figured it out before they suckered me into buying more.
That attempt to trick me into buying more should have been my first warning sign, but I must have been brain dead that day. The other thing I didn't do was read the fine print. Another huge mistake.
Because if I had read it, I would have seen this:
"Risk-free trial offer: By ordering our special trial Retinolla Beauty Kit, you agree to enroll in our AutoRefill Program. You will be charged applicable shipping and handling fees upon placing the order and will then have 14 days to try our products and return them if you are not completely satisfied. If you choose to keep the kit, you will be charged the full cost of C$179.95. We will then automatically send you a replenishment of the products you have ordered according to our common replenishment guidelines (normally, every 30 calendar days). Your card will be charged C$129.87 accordingly upon dispatch of the replenishment package. AutoRefill can be cancelled at any time by simply logging into your account."
Only the font was this small. And buried in between all kinds of other "info" that you probably wouldn't bother reading at the bottom of the page. Well, at least I didn't. That's also where you find out that the company is in Prague.
I did some research and found lots of complaints from others out there too. You think you're spending a few bucks, and then you're charged more. At least I wasn't alone in my stupidity. In the UK, for instance, they actually advertised it as a "free sample". So people were shocked to be charged anything at all. The clue would have been when you had to enter your credit card info for something that was "free". But because they were advertising the $7.95, I was not suspicious entering my credit card.
The auto-refill really got to me though. I had no idea I was creating an "account", I thought I was simply putting in my address for delivery purposes. They know what they're doing, these scammers.
When they sent me the email cancelling my account and offering the small refund, I had to promise I wouldn't take any legal action. Yeah. There you go.
In the end, two little jars of this stuff (and they are little), cost me $256.
I was utterly embarrassed at myself because I thought I was smarter than that. In fact, I really had to think about posting this at the risk of embarrassing myself even more. But I think it's important to give fair warning to any of you out there who are the least bit tempted to purchase something on line.
Read the small print, they always tell you.
Oh, and I still look 58.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
The Heart of the Matter - Part Two
Minutes later, the guy called me back and when I said hello I could hear a woman crying in the background. He started to yell at me, telling me never to call him again. I was completely confused until I heard the woman crying out "Who is she? Why do you always do this to me?" Suddenly it occurred to me that she thought I was his mistress or something. I tried to explain why I had hung up, but he just kept yelling at me. My heart started pounding, I didn't know what to do, I was freaking out.
And then I woke up.
Who knows where the dream came from, but the pounding of my heart part, that was real. Oh no, not this again.
The palpitations occur every couple of days, sometimes just for a second or two, sometimes for an hour or so. But the "big" one hits me every couple of months. And this was a big one. The palpitations become more severe, and then it turns into the flutter. Atrial Flutter. My heart races sometimes up to twice its normal speed, sometimes for hours. The other night, I calculated it was about six hours...from 1:30am when I woke up with it, until about 7:30am.
Some of you might remember a blog post I wrote a couple of years back called The Heart of the Matter, about my experience in the emergency ward. That was a particularly bad episode of atrial flutter, but at the time I didn't know what it was. Since then, I've become quite educated about it.
The more common form of this malady is Atrial Fibrillation, or a-fib as sufferers like to call it. A-fib is an abnormal beating of the heart, very much like palpitations, that also goes on for long periods. There are a lot of causes, some people live with it for many years, others go on medications, and yet others get a procedure called a catheter ablation, which I will describe later.
I get a-fib too, and most of the time it's relatively mild. But when I get the flutters, I'm down and out for as long as its around. If I stand up, I get dizzy because my heart isn't pumping properly, so I have to lie in bed and wait it out. I'm lucky, because eventually it stops on its own. The longest I've had it for is 11 hours, usually it's somewhere between 5 and 7 hours. But some with this condition have to go into emergency every time it happens to have their heart slowed down intravenously because it won't stop. That's what happened to me on my first emergency visit.
Palpitations never used to bother me because I read somewhere that they were normal, and certainly a normal part of menopause. But I remember an incident about four years ago when I went to visit my Dad in the care facility. He was in pretty bad shape that day, and I was more than a little stressed. That's when the palpitations started, and this time they didn't stop for several hours. That's the first time I was alarmed enough to realize something else was wrong. But when they went away, I didn't experience them again for awhile and just forgot about it.
Then it happened again a few more times, enough for me to ask my doctor about it. Not long after is when I had my emergency visit and was referred to a cardiologist.
It took about four months to get in to see the cardiologist the first time. I was told it could take up to a year, so I was prepared to wait, and I assumed that there were probably a lot of people out there with conditions worse than mine who would naturally be first in line. When I finally got in to see him, the cardiologist described what I had. "First of all, it won't kill you!" he said, adding that it was probably caused by my high blood pressure, which had been unchecked for years, and told me that I had to go on blood thinners right away because of the possibility of a stroke. He said that I could also go on beta blockers to slow my heart down, or have a catheter ablation performed. At the time, I guess I was a bit overwhelmed, so I took his prescription for the blood thinner and told him I needed to think about it.
I've been lucky because I've always been a healthy person, so the whole notion of a heart condition threw me a little! The cardiologist sent some literature home with me, so I read all about it. My high blood pressure did some damage over the years, and as a result, a few little cells begin to beat out of time with the rest of the heart every now and then, causing the feeling of palpitations. It's like a short circuit that upsets the normal rhythm of the heart.
At first I thought I could live with it or maybe just take the beta blockers. Once I found out that beta blockers would make me FATTER THAN I ALREADY AM because they slow down your heart and also your metabolism, I gave up that idea. And after a few more episodes, I decided maybe the catheter ablation would be the way to go.
My doctor sent in a requisition for another visit to the cardiologist, and a couple of days later, the cardiologist office called just to check on some tests I'd had. And then I hunkered down and waited. And waited. It was almost a year after that, when I had two really bad episodes only two weeks apart, that I decided to check up on my appointment. And wouldn't you know? I was not on the waiting list. They had my doctor's request, but somehow I got lost in the shuffle. $*@#!
Two months after that, I finally got my second appointment and I cut right to the chase. Was I a candidate for this ablation procedure? Yes I was, he said. Thank goodness.
A catheter ablation is day surgery and involves inserting a catheter through a vein in your groin, all the way up into your heart. They search for the cells that are misfiring and basically just freeze or burn them. It takes 3 to 4 hours, has a 95% success rate for atrial flutter and will also reduce my incidences of a-fib by about 50%. My surgery is schedule for May 18th.
I ended my first blog about this with a list of things I've learned. Well, I've learned so much more since then! Here's my new list:
1. Don't go anywhere near beta blockers.
2. Don't assume they're going to call you when they say they are. Holy crap, I've had to follow up on EVERYTHING so far!
3. Beta blockers are bad.
4. Wine did not cause my condition. Thank GOD.
5. I'm lucky that my heart can be fixed, thank goodness for my otherwise good health!
6. Beta bad.
7. Not every surgery has an 18 month waiting period. Yay!
8. I will be able to drive a car AND use my driver on the links 48 hours after surgery, but no heavy lifting. Who wants to be my caddy?? :-)
9. I'm forever grateful for a medical system that doesn't charge me a small fortune to be repaired.
Stay tuned for Part Three, my post-surgery analysis.
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Phillies Minor League review: July 16-22
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Pitcher: RHP Austin Hyatt, Reading. 2-0, 13 2/3 innings, 9 hits, 1 run, 3 walks, 13 strikeouts. Has won 3 of his last 4 starts. Hyatt began his season in AAA, where he went 2-6 with a 5.47 ERA and was moved to AA on June 2. With Reading, he is 4-3 with a 4.64 for 10 starts. He owns a 33-20 record in three-plus Minor League seasons. Hyatt was named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week by MiLB.com. The 26-year-old was selected in the 15th round of 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Alabama and signed by Mike Stauffer.
Player: SS Edgar Duran, Clearwater. Duran hit .444 in 6 games. Three of his 8 hits were doubles, while 2 were home runs. Duran also drove in 6 runs, scored 6 runs and stole 2 bases. He went 6-for-12 in his last 3 games and is hitting .323 in his last 10. For the season, the shortstop is hitting .262 in 86 games, has hit 3 homers, and recorded 28 RBI. Duran was named the Florida State League Player of the Week by MiLB.com. The 20-year-old was signed as an amateur free agent in 2007 by Sal Agostinelli and Jesus Mendez.
Lehigh Valley IronPigs, International League North Division, 2-5, 3rd place.
Designated hitter Hector Luna batted .483 in 7 games. He collected an organization-high 14 hits, and hit 3 home runs and 7 RBIs. Left fielder Domonic Brown hit .364 in 6 games. He also hit 2 doubles and 5 home runs. Brown's hitting .306 in last 10, but re-aggravated his right knee attempting a diving catch on Sunday and left the game, ending a 5-game hitting streak. Infielder Kevin Fransden leads the International League in hits (114) and doubles (34). Tyler Cloyd (9-1) won on Monday, giving up 1 run spanning 6 2/3 innings. Clay earned a no decision on Saturday, when he gave up 3 runs in 6 innings. The IronPig's other win went to Matt Wright (1-1) on Thursday. B.J. Rosenberg started the game, lasted 4 innings, and gave up 5 hits while striking out 5.
Reading Phillies, Eastern League Eastern Division,3-4, 3rd place.
Reading began the week with an 11-2, 15-hit romp on Monday, then followed it by getting shut out 3 straight games. The Phillies ended a 29-inning scoreless streak with 8-3 win on Saturday. The team ended the week losing, 13-12, in 12 innings after leading by five runs going into the bottom of the ninth at Trenton. Catcher Sebastian Valle hit .370, and had a club-high 10 hits, including 2 doubles. He hit his 10th and 11th home runs. Valle also drove in six runs and ended the week on a 6-game hitting streak. Third baseman Cody Asche hit .321 in 7 games with 9 hits. He also led club with 5 runs scored. Left fielder D'Arby Myers had a 4-hit game on Sunday. First baseman Darin Ruf hit his 17th home run, tops in the organization. Mario Hollands (2-4) lost, 1-0, on Thursday, after allowing a sixth-inning solo home run. He only surrendered 2 hits in 7 innings, and retired 15 batters in a row at one point. Jonathan Pettibone (8-7) ended a personal 2-game losing streak on Friday. He pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings, while striking out seven. Tyler Knigge gave up 3 runs in that game, the first runs he's allowed since May 29 (19 2/3 innings). In the fateful ninth the next day, he gave up a home run, the first he's allowed all season, which spans 39 appearances and 49 innings.
Clearwater Threshers, Florida State League North Division, 3-2, 2nd place, 2nd half
Right fielder Anthony Hewitt scored 5 runs and had 8 hits, including his 10th double, third triple and 10th homer run of the season. He also collected his 12th steal. Hewitt finished the week on a 7-game hitting streak. Catcher Cameron Rupp hit his ninth home run. First baseman Jim Murphy had 2 RBI, giving him 61, which matches Reading's Ruf for the organization high. Murphy's 28 doubles leads the FSL. Left hander Jesse Biddle went 1-0 in two starts. He pitched 13 innings, allowed three earned runs and struck out 14. Lefty Austin Wright (8-4) won on Tuesday, as he gave up two hits, had seven strikeouts and didn't give up a run in six innings. Right hander Brody Colvin (5-5), lost, 2-1, on Thursday after giving up two runs in seven innings. He and Biddle are each 2-1, with a 3.04 in July. Four pitchers have topped 100 innings: Lefty Adam Morgan, 101 (111 strikeouts); Wright, 102 2/3 (96 strikeouts), Biddle, 101 (104 strikeouts) and Colvin, 100 2/3 (90 strikeouts). Right hander Perci Garner has tossed 97 2/3 innings
Lakewood BlueClaws, South Atlantic League North Division,2-4, started the week with a 3-game losing streak; 3rd place
First baseman Chris Duffy, "slumped" while hitting .286 and three home runs. Duffy drove in organization-high 8 runs and hit two home runs. Five of those eight RBIs came in Monday's game. Right fileder Kelly Dugan hit .429 with three doubles. Catcher Josh Ludy has hit safely in 12 of last 13 games after starting his pro career 0-5 after two games. Right-handed reliever Kenny Giles (3-3) won on Friday. He pitched 3 innings, and had 7 strikeouts. Left hander Lino Martinez (5-4) won the first game on Sunday.
Williamsport Crosscutters, New York-Penn League Pinckney Division, 2-5, 6th place
First baseman Chris Serritella hit his 5th homer, and now has batted in a club-high 24 RBIs. Left fielder Larry Greene, had two doubles among his seven hits. He's hitting .306 in the past 10 games. Shortstop Roman Quinn tripled in each of his first 3 games, he now has a club-high five this season. Quinn also stole 3 bases, giving him 13 in 17 attempts. Infielder Cameron Perkins went 4-for-9, with 4 RBI in the first two games of the week. Righty Chris Nichols was 2-0 in 2 appearances. He didn't give up a run in six innings, surrendered three hits and struck out five. Right hander Geoff Broussard recorded his second save. Kevin Brady earned a no decision in his four-inning start.
Gulf Coast League Phillies, North Division,4-3, 4th place
Outfielder Andrew Pullin hit .455 in 7 games, he had 10 hits and batted in five runs. Pullin ended the week on a seven-game hitting streak; he is hitting .438 in past 10 gamesm and leads the club with .359 batting average. First baseman William Carmona, hit .423 during the week, had a club-high 11 hits. His nine-game hitting streak ended Thursday. Carmona has recorded a hit in 11 of last 12 games. Pullin and Carmona hit back-to-back homers on Saturday, it was the first pro home run for each. Righty Manaure Martinez earned a no decision on Tuesday, after giving up one run on two hits in five innings. It was Martinez's fourth straight start in which he's allowed one run. Left hander Franklyn Vargas (3-1) won on Friday after pitching five innings of no-hit baseball. Righty Felix Santos (3-1) won on Tuesday; opponents are hitting .133 against him in the past nine games. Santos has pitched 10.1 innings, while giving up one hit ans striking out 10. Luis Morales (1-4) won his first game in the team's second game on Wednesday. Andrew Anderson (1-0) also got his first pro win on Sunday.


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Reflections on a DIY approach to addressing the access needs of neurodiverse artists In August 2016, I published a simple "ACE cheatsheet" that I had developed to help make sense of the Arts Council England's Grants For The Arts application… Continue Reading →
Here are 2 useful documents that could revolutionise writing your ACE Grants for the Arts applications!!! A handy 'overview' document (for brainstorming / planning / tracking progress) and a set of the current questions, colour coded to use with the overview to write your drafts on… You can thank me later!
Over the last few months, I have been supporting a number of neurodiverse artists to make ACE Grants For The Arts applications. As someone who is relatively neurotypical, this has made me increasingly aware of the problematic nature of application processes / systems of gatekeeping put in place to select which arts projects receive funding. Here's my first attempt to write about some of the things I have learned…
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Record temperatures in Denver
It's hard to believe that just a few days ago it was 50 degrees. Right now we're in the middle of a record-breaking cold spell: I don't think yesterday got above 5 degrees, and today was perhaps 10 at the most. Overnight lows have been below zero.
Here's an excerpt from a Denver Post article about the below zero temperatures:
The temperature in Denver dipped to a record 19 below zero at about 2:30 a.m. Monday, breaking the previous Dec. 15 record of minus 6 set in 1951.
My dad heard that this temperature was recorded at Denver International Airport, on the edge of the plains to the east of Denver, which tend to get colder temperatures and harsher weather than the city itself. Still, the overnight low in our area was most definitely below zero!
When I went to visit Panama today, he was warm under his blanket, but his armpits (where you usually check to see whether a horse is warm enough) were cooler than they normally would be. I can only imagine how cold he would be without that blanket on!
Another article today discussed how to protect pets during freezing temperatures. I'm glad they ran the article, because so many people (for some reason) don't realize how vulnerable outdoor cats and dogs can be to the cold.
Of course, the article doesn't mention taking care of horses — too uncommon! But my advice would be this: Even if you don't normally blanket your horse, consider it during abnormally cold weather. It may not be a matter of life and death, but it'll definitely make your horse comfortable... and if you're like me, it'll make you feel better, too!
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