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You get a fountain of answers when asking nutrition experts whether we need to drink the oft-advised eight glasses of water each day: Eight is enough or not enough or more than enough or not even the right question. So, how much water should i drink?
"The research question has been raised whether there is actually scientific evidence for drinking eight to 10 glasses of water each day," said JoAnn Hattner, a clinical nutrition professor at Stanford University.
The best answer about how much water to drink... eight glasses? A resounding, "It depends."
For instance, a good number of nutritionists suggest we need a varying amount of water based on body weight. A common recommendation is to divide your weight in half and that's the number of ounces you need each day.
Sports nutritionists will chime in, "Not so fast." They recommend adding back 10 ounces for every half hour of daily exercise. That totals to 85 ounces a day for a 130-pound woman who takes an hour-long yoga or Pilates class. If she skips the class, then roughly a half-gallon of water will suffice.
Nutritionists agree the body needs water and fluids for optimal health. Making a point to drink water throughout the day will produce such happy results as feeling more energetic and less hungry. Water flushes toxins out of the body and keeps your organs functioning at peak levels.
To be more savvy about water consumption is to be a sipper rather than a guzzler. Here's the problem with guzzling: If you drink too much fluid at once—say, two or three glasses in the morning—you can overload the kidneys without actually hydrating the body.
A healthier strategy is to consume eight ounces every one to two hours (a particularly good idea if you are constipated). Hydration through sipping helps the body do things like deliver an adequate blood supply to the skin.
"It's always better to space it out," confirmed Monique Ryan, a Chicago-area nutritionist based in Evanston.
One major bonus of spacing out your water intake: Fewer bathroom runs.
There is no exact healthy number of bathroom breaks in a day; it varies as much as our names or even fingerprints. But going more than three hours without a bathroom break during daytime hours likely means you are not drinking enough water.
On the other hand, awaking to urinate twice or more during sleep indicates you need to seek a health practitioner's attention. Overnight frequency, especially at younger adult ages, is not to be taken lightly.
Things are more fluid
While eight glasses of water to drink daily has been a standard goal for decades—some people "credit" the tally from the popular Dr. Stillman Diet of the 1970s—a new and welcome wrinkle is the range of beverages that nutritionists now count toward your daily hydration total.
"What's really changed is that caffeine is not considered as severely dehydrating," said Ryan, author of the book Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes (Velo Press). "Caffeinated drinks can count as about half water."
That means your 16-ounce morning coffee can count as one of the recommended eight to 10 cups of water. Or half of your soda is equal to six ounces of water. It appears caffeine itself is not the diuretic agent once believed, though it does prompt most people to urinate more frequently. The result is 50 percent fluid loss.
One caveat: Some people, if they are honest about it, likely lose most of that coffee and then some to agitated bladders. They may find that drinking espresso without the milk of a latte or water of an Americano-style cuts down on personal fluid loss.
In any case, Ryan was quick to add that this reversal of thinking is "not a directive to drink caffeine."
And certainly no practitioner recommends the excess sugar (10 teaspoons per 12-ounce serving) of regular soda or additives of diet soda.
Some consumers say they prefer soda to water because soda is colder and more refreshing than a room-temperature bottled water. One idea is to look for the newer water bottles with cores that can be frozen and then inserted to keep the water cool all day. While conclusive research proves elusive, preliminary studies show people who drink cold water will burn an extra hundred calories or so compared to individuals who consume the same amount of room-temperature water.
Carbonated drinks often hit the spot, but rather than pushing the cola button on a vending machine, consider a sparkling water with a splash of juice or fresh-squeezed lemon, lime or orange.
Equal to water
Jackie Berning, assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and nutritionist for several Denver-area professional sports teams, said she tells her athlete-clients that beverages such as juice, milk, soy milk and herbal teas can match water, ounce for hydrating ounce. She and other nutritionists mention provisos about juice (drink 100 percent varieties, consume only 6 to 8 ounces daily because of high caloric content, don't use it to quench thirst) and various milks (require more work in the digestive tract than water).
A notable exception is beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks, which don't count in the hydrating column. Research shows alcohol blocks a hormone that otherwise helps the body stay hydrated. In fact, a frequent suggestion is to consume a full glass of water for every alcoholic serving.
Ryan cautioned that consuming alcohol after exercise may also inhibit muscle recovery.
So much for the post-workout beer? Your choice, but you might reconsider having more than one.
Ultimately, each of us needs to get in the flow of our personal health and energy levels.
"You are the best judge of whether you are getting enough fluids in your day," Hattner said. "It's more than monitoring your thirst, [which actually becomes less reliable as a hydration alert in adulthood, compared to grade-school and teenage years]. If you are feeling lethargic, it may well be from lack of hydration."
Let's all drink to that, whether it adds up to eight glasses of water each day or not.
Andrew Mulholland never drinks his water from a soft pliable plastic bottle if he can help it.


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We are well into "Ordeal Season". Lodges all over America are conducting Ordeal weekends for new Arrowmen and those that are converting their membership to Brotherhood.
In this process we test (Ordeal) those that have been chosen by their peers as worthy of membership in Scoutings Society of Honored Campers.
During the ordeal the candidates are asked to deprive themselves of certain things they take for granted for. In doing this they set aside comfort and selfishness for the good of others.
This teaches the candidate that there are things in this world that are more important than selfish needs and comfort. It also demonstrates that a Cheerful spirit can accomplish anything when the heart and mind are willing.
Cheerfully the candidates work to better Scout camps. They work hard and in the end see the results of their labor. It is especially nice to go back to a camp that they worked and see the look of pride on their faces as they explain that they were the ones that made it better.
Not to be boastful, but pride in doing a job that benefited the whole Scout camp.
This test of Cheerful Service is then asked to be brought back to their Troops so that they can serve those that had chosen them. This sometimes can be the hardest task, but again, with a Cheerful spirit and a willing heart and mind, this too can become a reality.
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The incident reportedly took place last Wednesday at the couple's home in Weston, outside of Miami. There aren't many details, other than the fact that Merling was accused of striking his girlfriend — who is two months pregnant with the couple's second child — in the area of the face and neck. Merling had a court appearance on Thursday in which he was charged with "aggravated battery on a person he should have known was pregnant."
The NFL has racked up a very nasty record of violent incidents involving players and their pregnant wives or girlfriends. The city of Miami has some background with this sort of crime — call it the Randy McMichael Experience, so named after the Dolphins tight end who was arrested back in 2004 for striking his wife, Cawanna, while she was pregnant. In that one, McMichael came home late after a night out drinking with the fellas, something that apparently didn't make Cawanna happy. When McMichael went into the bathroom to puke up his booze, she reportedly screamed at him and started whacking him across the head. McMichael responded, depending on whom you believe, either by pushing her to the ground or by whacking her himself.
The McMichael case is far from the only pregnant-battery instance involving an NFL player. The most notorious, of course, is the Rae Carruth case, in which the former Panthers wideout had his eight-months-pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams, killed in a murder-for-hire deal. Other pregnant-whacking incidents have involved the likes of receiver Jerome Mathis (charged with choking his common-law wife in 2008, when he was with the Texans), former Bucs running back Lionel Gates (accused in March 2007 of busting a pregnant woman's apartment door down and assaulting her following an argument over paternity allegations), and Lions safety Kalvin Pearson (charged in 2008 with choking his girlfriend in her SUV).
Merling has had a rough spring. In April, he saw the Dolphins draft a player at his position in the first round (Jared Odrick of Penn State), and it was only last week that Miami papers were talking about what a critical offseason this was going to be for his career. Give him 88 points, and expect NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to slap him with a suspension if there's anything to these charges.
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Well, it's about time. It seems like it's been forever since a former member of the legendary Portland Jail Blazer squad has gotten in trouble for something.
One of the most infamous members of that team was forward Zach Randolph, perhaps best-known for being accused of waking up a drunken woman by jamming his cock in her ass. Randolph, who currently plays for the Memphis Grizzlies, has been implicated in a drug bust in Indianapolis, where police are saying that a man arrested on suspicion of dealing marijuana was caught in Randolph's Cadillac Escalade. According to the Indianapolis Star, a detective described Randolph as a "financier" for known drug dealers in the Indianapolis area.
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It's not really adventure since it's pretty much always the same places you visit. It's a fairly small, closed world, the main emphasis is on problem solving (going back and forth), so I'm not sure where it would fit into the poll. I suppose you could class it into Adventure but I don't think it's accurate. I just feel the poll is missing a couple choices but it's not a big deal, 99% of all game genres are represented already.I haven't played that, but doesn't that go in the adventure category, since it is a point and click? I don't think of survival as a gameplay genre (which is what the poll is), I think of it as more of a trope genre like horror, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, etc.
You forgot to add a category for puzzle games such as Biosys (survival/adventure/puzzle).
What you described as not adventure though is precisely what Myst is, which was categorized as adventure. I don't necessarily agree with the games nor definitions of the polls, particuarly the genres I'd like to develope. Interactive Story Games use to be categorized as adventure games, whereas Myst was more of a puzzle game (think of it like a series of puzzle games all mixed into one). The other issue is JRPGs vs Western RPGs. By this definition in the poll, Final Fantasy 1 would be a Western RPG, and some Ultima and Wizadry games would be JRPG's, even though they inspired many aspects of what is considered classical JRPG fare and are western RPGs. JRPG's are more of an evolution in terms of technology and story based on early western RPGs, whereas western RPGs today are more of an evolution in gameplay.
That being said, the one game I'd love to take the gameplay of an use it for future games is The Last Express. (I guess it would fall under the category of an interactive story game). It sold poorly, but I feel it was just way too ahead of it's time. I mean, how many real-time interactive stories can you name? Not an action adventure game, as there was very little action; it was mostly just story telling. But imagine the gameplay put towards a mystery game, or a horror game, where you have a real time limit, and have a low possibility of ever experiecing the same game twice?


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Salsa is awesome stuff! It tastes great and is good for you... it contains lycopene which has been shown to combat prostate cancers. It contains other nutrients and it tastes like something that is bad for you. It can be a little high in sodium depending on brand but otherwise a great thing to enjoy for a little zesty snack.
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The problem is the CHIPS. I give myself two or three of the biggest chips I can find in the bag. I use them as scoops and enjoy a good amount of fresh salsa, not the kind that is over in the chip aisle but the ones over with the taboules and hummus etc.
I indulge in the salsa but stick to the three chips. When they are eaten I am done. Funny how tiny of a bite I can take, and how fast the salsa goes down.
The bag of chips however lasts forever so I had to get a chip clip so they stay fresh for that long. Used to be the other way around - chips gone, salsa still there.
Salsa also makes egg white omelets taste great too - I use the verde salsa a lot on my egg white omelets. A slice or two of Canadian bacon (low fat, high protein, no carbs). If you must have bread, which I do not, then try a half of a Joseph's low carb protein pita toasted with some Smart Balance fake butter spray on it. Crisp and tasty.
I found that for me the bread was just a habit and once you focus on the main dish the urge for the bread goes away especially with salads. A sprinkle of slivered almonds on a salad kills the bread urge for me completely.
Once you re-condition the body you can have reasonable portions of anything but that first two weeks training your body (and mind) to not rely on those foods that bloat our fat cells is very important.
It's amazing how the body gets used to not having things and in fact you tend to prefer the way you feel when you only consumed the good stuff - if you hang in there long enough to condition your body that way. Amazing how fast the pounds drop off when you get to that mode of low carb / high protein eating as well.
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"You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas. It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night." David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy is credited with coining the term that has defined the objectives of ad agency creative departments for more than 50 years ago. The "Big Idea" was a concept or story or tagline or execution that that could define a brand, capture the attention and imagination of a mass audience,and motivate consumers to buy. If it was truly big it could endure for years (Think Melts In Your Mouth Not In Your Hands, or Please Don't Squeeze the Charmin, (bad, but big) or even Tastes Great, Less Filling).Depending on who was applying the term BIs weren't necessarily creative, just familiar.George Lois, one of the great creatives from the 1960′s and beyond, the man behind DDB's original VW campaign, has been a one-man spokesperson for the virtue of the big ideas for three decades.Lois believed that the Big Idea was all that mattered in advertising.A big idea can change popular culture. (VW and the small car)It can transform our language. (I want my MTV)It can start a business. (Tommy Hilfiger)It can turn the world upside down. (Not sure about that one)As a result, George spent his entire career "creating vivid human images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act."All good stuff no doubt. But today we have to ask just how much easier it was, not necessarily to come up with a Big Idea, but for that idea itself to accomplish all of the above when there was such limited media and content competing for attention.Historically, most big advertising ideas have been made-up stories, taglines, and campaigns that tell you something memorable about a brand or product.It's as if the role of advertising were to invent a story about a product rather than invent a product that had a story.The former is traditional advertising, the latter is Silicon Valley and perhaps a few of the newer, more innovative agencies that build things not just say things.In "traditional" advertising, there were different kinds of Big Ideas. They shared certain characteristics. They explained, illuminated and differentiated with memorable images or lines. They offered a fresh and surprising (at the time) solution to a communication challenge. The possessed a strong, singular concept. And if they weren't outrageous, at least they were unexpected for the category.Some of advertising's Big Ideas included:
Marlboro: A Big Idea That Was Totally Contrived
There's the Marlboro Man. If ever a story about a product were totally invented, Marlboro was it.
NPR : The Marlboro Man, Present at the CreationOct 21, 2002 … He's handsome and rugged. He lives in a world of galloping horses, open spaces and blood red sunsets. He's the…
BMW: A Big Idea That Captures The Essence Of The Product
In the 1980′s BMW's The Ultimate Driving Machine was a "Big Idea" from the ad agency Amirati and Puris. Unlike Marlboro, however, it released the truth about the product rather than invent something entirely make believe.
Lutz's resume includes reviving BMW with "Ultimate Driving Machine …Aug 19, 2009 … Ammirati & Puris came up with the tag line, "The Ultimate Driving … it says Lutz hired an ad agency that pe…
Apple: A Big Idea That Created A Vision
Perhaps one of the really great "Big Idea" ad campaigns of the last 20 years was Apple's Think Different. Created by Jobs and his agency partner Lee Clow at then Chiat Day (now TBWA Chiat Day), Think Different expressed Apple's beliefs, its soul, and the vision of Steve Jobs who has just returned to the company after having been forced out years earlier.The reason for the campaign was to solidify the base — the core loyalists — who believed in Apple and Job. At the time, however, Apple had lousy products and nothing great in the pipeline. And so this was an important placeholder that gave a glimpse of greatness to come. It articulated avision for the company, its employees and those tenacious loyalists.
Think Different – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOn at least six separate occasions, the Apple homepage featured images of notable figures not originally part of the campaign …
Are marketers really going soft? – Edward BochesDec 7, 2012 … @edwardboches Think Different wasn't a slogan. Steve Jobs said it was a tool that helped create change within Apple…
Product and marketing lessons from Apple … – Edward BochesApr 2, 2010 … Design, products, marketing, vision and other lessons from Apple.
Apple: A Bid Idea That Framed The Competition
The Mac PC campaign was another Big Idea ad campaign. The premise, the message, the execution, the characters, the copywriting and the extendability of the campaign made it so.
MasterCard: A Big Idea That Gave A Brand Its Soul
Another big idea campaign — focused, enduring, ownable — was Mastercard's Priceless in the 90′s. So familiar it became the subject of numerous parodies. Some quite funny. See the third spot below.
The first Priceless ad script:"Two tickets: $28. Two hot dogs, two popcorns, two sodas: $18. One autographed baseball: $45. Real conversation with 11-year-old son: Priceless."Man, that was a long time ago if two tickets to an MLB game cost $28.00.
Below, a parody.
CNN called it a game changing idea.
The power of an idea (from CNN Money)
From 1987 to 1997, MasterCard (Research) maxed out five advertising campaigns – and failed to narrow the gap with Visa. So when the company decided to get a new ad agency, it looked like desperation. To McCann Erickson, it looked like opportunity.
McCann assigned a core creative team of three – Joyce King Thomas, Jeroen Bours, and Jonathan Cranin – to prepare a pitch. The trio, who had been working together for two years, conferred with the strategy team and brainstormed intensively for a month. "We were very comfortable working together, so we debated everything freely," says Thomas, now McCann's chief creative officer in New York City.
The breakthrough came to Cranin in the shower: the tag line "some things money can't buy" to anchor the ad. Back at the office, Thomas caught the spark and began crafting a spot around it. Inspiration struck two weeks later, as Thomas and Bours batted around ideas over coffee and bagels on a Sunday morning.
The first ad would be set at a baseball game, feature a list of ordinary transactions, and lead to the setup: "Priceless." Recalls Thomas: "We knew we had it."
MasterCard agreed, even after a different spot tested better in research. "Intuitively, we knew the insights made it more than just another ad," says chief marketing officer Larry Flanagan, then head of U.S. advertising. Gut feeling proved right. Since 1997, MasterCard has added new U.S. credit cards at more than twice Visa's rate.
And the award-winning campaign's versatile format and simple appeal have also made it a global winner: Spots have been tweaked for audiences in 105 countries and 48 languages." – By Eugenia Levenson in article called Six Teams that Changed the World.
California Milk Board: A Big Idea That Reframed The Familiar
Got Milk is another "big idea" ad campaign that worked a bit differently. It framed a familiar and taken-for-granted product in a new way: deprivation. Getting you to think about the product not as a healthy beverage but as a necessary accompaniment to foods you love.
E-Trade: A Big Idea That Found An Execution
More recently, we continue to see traditional advertising campaigns that can be considered "big ideas," though this one — unlike Marlboro (which tries to imbue the product and user with certain qualities), or The Ultimate Driving Machine (which is a label for the product), or Think Different (which is about a brand belief), or Priceless (which is about an emotional benefit the brand wants to associate with) — is a big idea that is really nothing more than a creative executional device. Granted it is brilliantly done, well written, and clearly has endurance (it's one of David Ogilvy's early criteria), but it as pure an advertising idea as could be. Makes you think that big ideas can still work.
Creative Director Tor Myhren tells the story behind the E-Trade Baby.
Today, however, we have a lot of debate about the value of a big idea. With fragmented media, the challenge of buying attention, the need to connect with people in different places and different times, on their terms, perhaps the big idea is over-rated.
"The big idea is dead. There are no more big ideas. Creative leaders should go for getting lots and lots of small ideas out there. Stop beating yourself up searching for the one big idea. Get lots of ideas out there and then let the people you interact with feed those ideas and they will make it big."
So says Kevin Roberts Saatchi & Saatchi CEO
He also suggested a lot of other aspects of advertising are dead, too.
"Marketing is dead" says Saatchi & Saatchi CEO | The DrumApr 25, 2012 … "Marketing is dead" says Saatchi & Saatchi CEO … Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide…
This, of course, is a cliche. Many of us have been writing about the virtue of small ideas for a long time. (You know that by the time a holding company CEO starts touting a message it's been in the marketplace for years.)Many of these posts go back to 2009. But perhaps it's not so much that the Big Idea is no longer needed, it's that we need many more different kinds of ideas because we can't reach the masses with one, in one place, not even in a SuperBowl commercial.So if Coke's big idea is Happiness, it has Polar Bear TV spots, but also Internet connected machines that create experiences and yield content.If Zappos's big idea is (coincidence) Happiness, it has service that delivers on, boxes that declare it, advertising that captures it and fun viral events that demonstrate it.And if Nike's Big Idea is Achieve Your Potential (Just Do It), they not only have advertising, they create products and utility like Nike + and Fuel Band.Some of those below.
Others, too argue that The Big Idea, if not dead, can no longer be an advertising idea. A tagline or a campaign won't do it. It's more likely that new Big Ideas are rooted in technology and the building of something.
Bigger Big Ideas / By Nick Parish / Contagious MagazineThe evolution of the Ad Agency has always lagged, and new types of companies continue to add value in its stead. The Philosophers, the Te…
And even culturally, beyond the advertising industry, the end of the Big Idea is up for debate.
The Elusive Big Idea – NYTimes.comAug 13, 2011 … We are drowning in information, with no time or desire to process it. … for "the end of ideology," "the medium is th…
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We live in the much vaunted Age of Information. Courtesy of the Internet, we seem to have immediate access to anything that anyone could ever want to know. We are certainly the most informed generation in history, at least quantitatively. There are trillions upon trillions of bytes out there in the ether — so much to gather and to think about.'
And that's just the point. In the past, we collected information not simply to know things. That was only the beginning. We also collected information to convert it into something larger than facts and ultimately more useful — into ideas that made sense of the information. We sought not just to apprehend the world but to truly comprehend it, which is the primary function of ideas. Great ideas explain the world and one another to us.
Marx pointed out the relationship between the means of production and our social and political systems. Freud taught us to explore our minds as a way of understanding our emotions and behaviors. Einstein rewrote physics. More recently, McLuhan theorized about the nature of modern communication and its effect on modern life. These ideas enabled us to get our minds around our existence and attempt to answer the big, daunting questions of our lives.
But if information was once grist for ideas, over the last decade it has become competition for them. We are like the farmer who has too much wheat to make flour. We are inundated with so much information that we wouldn't have time to process it even if we wanted to, and most of us don't want to.
The collection itself is exhausting: what each of our friends is doing at that particular moment and then the next moment and the next one; who Jennifer Aniston is dating right now; which video is going viral on YouTube this hour; what Princess Letizia or Kate Middleton is wearing that day. In effect, we are living within the nimbus of an informational Gresham's law in which trivial information pushes out significant information, but it is also an ideational Gresham's law in which information, trivial or not, pushes out ideas.
We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. It keeps us in the loop, keeps us connected to our friends and our cohort. Ideas are too airy, too impractical, too much work for too little reward. Few talk ideas. Everyone talks information, usually personal information. Where are you going? What are you doing? Whom are you seeing? These are today's big questions.
But, if the Big Idea is so dead, culturally and advertising wise, how do you explain this? Old Spice (or we could put Dove here, or the Guardian, or any number of other brands that are still creating huge, game-changing impact with advertising.
Old Spice: A Big Idea That Personifies A Brand
Old Spice combines instant, personal and creative … – Edward BochesJul 13, 2010 … It was only a year ago that most ad agencies turned their noses up at the mere mention of Twitter. (The comments are g…
Maybe we should re-write the definition of the Big Idea
Let's for a moment argue that what made the Big Idea big was that it became omnipresent. That it reached the masses. That it was embodied in a single tagline (Just Do It) or image (Marlboro man) that lived for many years across many media. That it was primarily a message. Designed or conceived only to get you to notice a brand or product, pay attention to it, perhaps like it and hopefully buy it. If everyone saw the ad at the same time you did, and approved of its message or embraced the concept, you, as a consumer had permission to buy that product. It was OK.Those days may be gone. The Internet, technology and the proliferation of media may have changed it. The fact that our attention can rarely be bought, even if we watch a lot of TV and video, that it has to be earned, that it turns to multiple screens and platforms to focus and that it quickly moves on certainly suggests we need new kinds of ideas.No, we don't need digital ideas. (Watch out for that label.) What we need are ideas for a digital world.We need ideas that are interesting, shareable, useable, customizable. Consumers, if not also producers, are at the least a powerful distribution channel.The real challenge is that we need amazing ideas no matter what size they are. Which means we need our small ideas to be big — if big means something that catches your attention (even a utility has to be noticed before it gets used), fills a genuine need; makes you feel great about using (or reading or engaging); and whose brilliance inspires you to pass it on.Encouraging small, individual ideas is great. But we can't let small ideas free us from striving for great ideas.Big can be small, cheap and underproduced. Think Shocking Barack from a few years ago,Big can be an event seen by no one until the video of it goes viral. TNT Square.Big can be a clever solution to a marketing challenge. Skype in the Classroom.Big can be a mobile shopping experience. Tesco in Korea.Big can be a novel way to leverage an event. Jet Blue's Election Protection.Big can be connecting the web to a robot. Nike Chalkbot.Big can be a single TV spot that represents a brand's actual behavior. The Guardian.Big can be a one=shot event, granted huge and expensive and outrageous helps. Think Red Bull.
There are only two kinds of ideas.Duke Ellington said there were only two kinds of music. Good and bad. We could possibly end this debate entirely with an agreement that there are only two kinds of ideas. Good and bad.Once good ideas were big, clever, fresh, original, memorable, motivating and enduring.Today perhaps all that's changes is that they are useful, shareable and participatory. They may be one shots. They may be home made. They may be campaigns. They may be supported by millions. Or thousands.But one thing is sure. Whether they're big is no longer up to the creator. It's up to the user.


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An esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), also called an upper endoscopy, is an outpatient procedure that is used to examine your esophagus, stomach and the first part of your small intestine (called the duodenum). Your physician may recommend an EGD if you experience heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), dysphagia (food sticking in your esophagus) or bleeding from the upper GI tract.During the EGD procedure, your physician will pass an endoscope, or a long flexible tube that includes a light and tiny video camera at one end, through your mouth and guide it down into your esophagus, stomach and duodenum so that he/she can view these organs. Depending on what your physician sees, he/she may take a piece of tissue for a biopsy or perform a treatment procedure with special instruments attached to the endoscope. Some of these treatments are: dilation of an esophageal stricture (stretching a narrowing of the esophagus with a tube), stopping a bleeding ulcer in the stomach or duodenum, or taking a biopsy of the tissue in the esophagus to examine it for evidence of Barrett's esophagus.
Your physician will give you specific instructions, but generally you must not eat or drink anything for six to eight hours before your test. Tell your physician about any medications you are taking. Prior to the test, an intravenous (IV) line will be inserted into your arm. You will be placed on a monitor that checks your heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen level. You will receive a type of medication called sedation through your IV line to make you comfortable, sleepy, less anxious and will help to diminish gagging.
Your gastroenterologist will pass the endoscope through your mouth into the back of your throat and ask you to swallow. The scope will then be passed down into your esophagus, stomach and duodenum. Using the endoscope, your physician or gastroenterologist will see a magnified picture of the lining of your upper gastrointestinal tract on a video monitor. He/she may take tissue samples for a biopsy or perform any treatment necessary. A typical EGD takes about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on whether there are any abnormalities, biopsies taken or therapies performed.
After your EGD, a nurse will monitor you until you are fully awake. Because of the sedation, you will need to have someone drive you home. You will be able to eat and drink when you return home. Your physician will call you with the results.
A colonoscopy is an outpatient procedure that your physician performs to examine the lining of the colon. A colonoscopy helps find ulcers, colon polyps, tumors and areas of inflammation or bleeding. Your physician uses a thin, flexible tube, called a colonscope, to look at the colon. During a colonoscopy, tissue samples are collected and abnormal growths can be taken out. A colonoscopy can also be used as a screening test to check for cancer or precancerous growths in the colon or rectum.The American Cancer Society recommends that men and women have their first colonoscopy at age 50. If you have a personal or family history of colorectal cancer, polyps or long-standing ulcerative colitis, your physician may recommend you have a colonoscopy before age 50.\
Colonoscopies are generally well-tolerated by patients. On the day before the procedure, your physician will recommend you follow some dietary restrictions and use a colon cleansing method (drinking a cleansing solution or taking oral laxatives). Your colon must be completely clean for the test to be accurate. Before your appointment, check with your physician about any medications you are taking, including aspirin, anti-coagulants, arthritis medications or iron products. Also let him/her know if you have any allergies to medications.
You should plan to arrive at the Hospital 2 to3 hours in advance for preparation, the procedure and recovery. Because your gastroenterologist will sedate you for your procedure, you cannot drive for at least 24 hours after the procedure.While you are lying on your side, your physician will insert a thin flexible tube into your anus and slowly advance it into your rectum and colon. The tube contains fiberoptics that will enable your physician to view the inside of your digestive tract in color on a television monitor. During a colonoscopy, your physician will look for polyps, internal bleeding or other abnormalities. Using special instruments attached to the scope, he/she can remove polyps, take tissue samples for a biopsy or stop internal bleeding.
A nurse will monitor you until your sedation wears off. You may have some cramping or bloating afterward. You must have someone drive you home. You should be able to eat when you return home. If your physician removed tissue for a biopsy or any polyps, he/she will notify you of your results.
Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) is a procedure that allows for diagnosis and staging of many cancers including lung, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, bile duct and rectum. In addition, EUS evaluates diseases of the lymph nodes of the chest, abdomen and pelvis, as well as masses in the liver. Orange Regional began using this technology in October 2011, with more than 200 procedures performed by December 2011.EUS is a minimally invasive procedure that provides an extremely detailed ultrasound evaluation of the anatomy around the upper and lower GI tract. Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) biopsy of lesions in the chest, abdomen and pelvis are also possible with this technology. This state-of-the-art advancement allows for rapid visual evaluation and diagnostic biopsies of primary tumors and metastatic disease to allow patients to confidently move forward with appropriate surgical, chemotherapeutic or radiation therapies. EUS/FNA complements, and in many cases replaces, previously used imaging studies and procedures that are either more invasive or less sensitive. Accurate staging diagnoses made by EUS/FNA are extremely critical in providing optimal cancer care.
After midnight, patients must not eat or drink anything, even water. Tell our staff about any medications you are taking and whether you are allergic to medications or latex. Since you will receive sedation, you cannot drive for 24 hours.
Your throat may be sprayed with a local anesthetic and sedation will be given to help you relax. An endoscope, or long thin tube, will then be passed through your mouth and down into your esophagus, stomach and duodenum (part of the small intestine).This special endoscope contains a light source, a special camera and ultrasound technology that produce sound waves to create visual images of your digestive tract. Special instruments may be used to obtain tissue samples.
A nurse will monitor you until your sedation wears off. Your throat may be sore and you may feel bloated because of air or water introduced during the exam. You must have someone drive you home. Your physician will notify you of the results.
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is used to diagnose and treat abnormalities of the ducts of the gallbladder, pancreas and liver. These ducts act as drainage channels for these organs and are sometimes called bile ducts or biliary ducts. During this procedure, a flexible tube with a camera and other tools on its end (endoscope) is inserted through the mouth and into the small intestine, near the pancreas. ERCP can collect images from the area, as well as take a small biopsy with a brush.
Your physician will give you specific instructions; however, in general, patients must not eat or drink anything, even water, after midnight. Your stomach must be completely empty. Tell your physician r about any medications you are taking and whether you are allergic to medications, latex or intravenous contrast material. Since you will receive sedation, you must not drive yourself.
ERCP may be performed as an outpatient procedure, or you may spend one night in the hospital. You will be given sedation. You may also be given antibiotics before the procedure. While you are lying on one side on an X-ray table, your physician will pass an endoscope, a thin lighted tube, through your mouth and then down into your esophagus, stomach and duodenum (part of the small intestine). When he/she comes to the opening to the ducts from the liver and pancreas, he/she will pass a narrow plastic catheter (thin tube) through the endoscope and into the ducts. A contrast dye will be injected through the catheter and into the ducts and X-rays will be taken. You may feel some bloating because of air that is introduced during the procedure.Your physician may perform a procedure during your ERCP. Treatments may include:
A nurse will monitor you until the sedation wears off. Your throat may be sore, and you may feel bloated or pass gas because of air introduced during the procedure. You must have someone drive you home. You should be able to resume your normal diet when you return home. Your doctor will notify you with the results.
Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) is a minimally invasive procedure designed to help surgeons and pulmonologists accurately stage lung cancers and diagnose other thoracic disorders. Orange Regional introduced this innovative technology as part of our lung cancer program in 2011, enhancing our ability to stage cancer and provide an accurate treatment plan without an invasive incision.
This procedure utilizes a specialized bronchoscope that incorporates an ultrasound probe allowing the surgeon to visualize lymph nodes in the chest. A critical step in formulating a treatment plan for the patient is determining whether these lymph nodes contain cancer cells. The scope has a transbronchial needle that is passed through the wall of the airway guided by the ultrasound image to obtain tissues samples of the target lymph nodes. A pathologist accompanies the surgeon in the operating room to provide an instant and accurate assessment of the tissue samples.
This procedure replaces mediastinoscopy, which is also performed to biopsy these lymph nodes, however it requires a small incision at the base of the neck to insert a scope.
In addition diagnosis and staging of lung cancer with this procedure, other disorders, such as lymphoma and sarcodosis, can be easily detected in the chest without the need for an incision.
In 2011, Orange Regional became the first hospital in Orange County to offer Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) Therapy using the HALO System. RFA is a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure that is highly effective in treating Barrett's esophagus. a pre-cancerous condition affecting the lining of the esophagus that is commonly caused by gastroesophageal reflux (GERD). This RFA system uses an endoscope to deliver high-frequency radio waves to destroy damaged tissue in the esophagus. It is performed in an outpatient setting with moderate sedation.
707 East Main StreetMiddletown, NY 10940DirectionsGastrointestinal procedures are performed in our Surgery and Procedure Center at the Main Campus of Orange Regional Medical Center, located on the first floor, and may be accessed by entering at the Main Entrance. The Surgery and Procedure Center contains 12 operating rooms, procedure rooms for cardiac catheterizations, endoscopy and interventional radiology, patient pre- and post-operative recovery and a waiting reception area.
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What is the maximum effective (killing) range of #6 shot for a gobbler head shot ?
Reason I ask is because I had a nice bird that stopped at about 50 yards last Saturday and I didn't think he was going to come any closer, so I put the cross-hairs mid-ways between the top of his head and bottom of his neck and the shot knocked him down on the ground and he flopped a couple of times and was back up on his feet and was walking away (not running) and was about 70 to 80 yards away before I could get back on him, so I did not shoot again.
I can't believe that some of the shot did not hit him in the head area, unless he just happened to lower his head just as I let the shot go.
So my question is, is it possible that some of the shot hit his head but did not have enough force to kill him at that range ????


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Embodying the lush elegance of cool-climate California winegrowing, Migration's exploration of the great Burgundian varietals began in Anderson Valley where Duckhorn Wine Company cultivates four estate Pinot Noir vineyards, spanning 207 vine acres. Shaped by the valley's cool nights, fog-shrouded mornings and mild, sunny afternoons, this world-class fruit became the core of Migration's stylistic identity — producing sophisticated wines with abundant fruit and bright acidity.
Building on what Migration had already achieved with Pinot Noir, making Chardonnay in a similar style became a natural next step. In 2008, Migration produced its first Chardonnay, using fruit from elite vineyard sources in the Russian River Valley. Representing the first Chardonnay in Duckhorn Wine Company's 30-year history, this highly anticipated wine was released in the spring of 2010, and along with the Anderson Valley Pinot Noir, will form the cornerstone of the Migration portfolio.
Today, guided by winemaker Neil Bernardi — a cool-climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay specialist — Migration has taken flight. Defined by the idea of movement, Migration is dedicated to going beyond its original home and exploring Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from California's finest cool-climate appellations. "Traditionally at Duckhorn Wine Company," says Neil, "the character of a particular wine is deeply connected to a specific place or region. Migration offers a different paradigm. We are starting with a clearly defined style and exploring how that style can be expressed in different winegrowing regions, which is a fascinating prospect." View all Migration Wines
About North CoastView a map of North Coast wineries
Beyond Napa and Sonoma in the north you find a couple of other counties producing great wine. Among these are Mendocino and Lake County. The northernmost California winegrowing regions, these two counties are right above Napa and Sonoma, geographically. Yet, wine-wise they are very different – both from their southern neighbors and from each other.
Notable FactsMendocino has a high amount of organic vintners and vines. The first winery to settle here was Fetzer, which practices organic viticulture and holds some of the most vineyard land in the area. Mendocino has many pockets of micro-climates while Lake County, being smaller in size, is less diverse climactically. As for the grapes, Chardonnay is the most popular in both counties, but there are also some excellent Sauvignon Blancs, particularly in the Lake County. In red wine, Zinfandel leads the way, followed by Rhone Blends and Petite Sirah. The reds in both counties are complex and sumptuous. Anderson Valley is a sub-AVA of Mendicino and is quite well known for its excellent cool climate, producing the delicious Roederer Estate sparkling wines and some wonderful cool-climate Syrah.
About California
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


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Tor des Geants, day three
Perloz to Rifugio Coda, round trip: 10.4 miles
Total climbing: 5,954
Total time: 4:37
Your pics are absolutely beautiful!ReplyDelete
I have to confess that seeing your pictures and reading the reports have made me miss TdG in a way that I never expected. Luckily a short little 4-mile run yesterday evening righted that by letting me know how little recovered I am from PTL.
Beat is doing amazing out there. I think he may have been built for the Alps! Just saw that he made it to Gressoney. He really has passed the toughest parts of the course...except that super-steep scree descent...oh yeah...and the final climb over 3000m. Still, he's on the home stretch!
I love the Alps. Your photos make me want to go back - very badly.
Go Beat!


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Institutional scholarships and awards are available for students attending classes on the main campus in Highland. Students attending the technical center and living on campus or with parents/guardians in Doniphan County are also eligible for institutional awards. Scholarships are not valid for online classes, whether or not a student is living on campus. Starting Fall 2017, students will be eligible for a book rental and tuition scholarship.
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Students enrolling at the Technical Center have two attendance options:
HCC Technical Center Attendance- Enroll in a full-time technical program at HCC's Technical Center in Atchison and successfully complete a minimum of twelve credit hours each semester on the Technical Center campus in Atchison. Live with a parent or guardian in Doniphan County or on HCC's Main Campus in Highland. Complete WorkKeys testing and meet program minimum requirement.
HCC Technical Center and Highland Main Campus Attendance- Enroll part-time in a technical program at HCC's Technical Center in Atchison and part time in general education classes on HCC's Main Campus in Highland and successfully complete a minimum of twelve credit hours each semester. Live with a parent or guardian in Doniphan County or on HCC's Main Campus in Highland. Complete WorkKeys testing and meet the program's minimum requirement.
Tech Center Students who are full-time at the Tech Center or part-time at the Tech Center and part-time on the Highland campus may be eligible for a book and tuition scholarship starting Fall 2017.
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For more information about Technical Center Awards, contact the Student Services Office at the HCC Technical Center, (913) 367-6204.
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- Scholarships may not be used for HCC online or concurrent classes at a high school.
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Members of the 2/130th Field Artillery Battalion may receive $500 in scholarship monies for part time attendance at the Highland campus or $1000 for full time attendance at the Highland campus. The scholarship is not valid for attendance online or at one of the regional centers.
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- Must be enrolled full time (14 or more hours) or part time (6 or more hours) on the Highland Campus
- Must complete a minimum of 12 hours (full time) or 6 hours (part time) on campus hours with a 2.5 GPA.
- Scholarship is available for the fall and spring semesters only (not summer).
- Scholarshipo cannot be combined with an academic department or athletic scholarship at HCC.
- Must be a member in good standing of the FA Battalion.
Students meeting the aforementioned requirements may apply for this scholarship by contacting the HCC Financial Aid Office at (785) 442-6135.
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If you are a dependent of an employee at an Affiliated Foods corporate facility (headquarters, warehouse), contact the Financial Aid office at 785-442-6135. Once verified by Affiliated Foods, a scholarship will be applied to your account. The amount of the award varies each year.
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Interview with Kru Yodtong Senanan
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Kru Yodtong Senanan is one of Muay Thai's most distinguished figures. He is the founder of the famous Sityodtong camp in Pattaya which has schools all over the world and has produced world champions in both Muay Thai and boxing.
This interview was mainly filmed at Evolve MMA in Singapore which is affiliated to Sityodtong and was founded by one of Kru Yodtong's students, Chatri Sityodtong. It has established a reputation as being one of the top mixed martial arts academies in the world and is home to a number of former Muay Thai world champions from the Sityodtong camp in Pattaya.
There is also some footage from Asia's most prestigious MMA event, One Fighting Championship 'Champion vs Champion' at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Another of Kru Yodtong's students, former boxing world champion Yodsanan Sityodtong, won his fight at this event with a second round stoppage.


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Auckland is leading New Zealand's commercial and industrial property market recovery, with demand from a broadening base of buyers outstripping supply, says John Church, general manager of commercial and industrial for Bayleys Real Estate.
Writing in Bayleys' latest Greater Auckland magazine, containing the agency's first commercial and industrial portfolio for the year, Church says demand is most noticeable for lower-value properties where investor competition is intense, but activity has also picked up at the larger transaction end of the market.
Good-quality properties over $10 million are also finding ready local and offshore buyers, he says.
"Another feature of the Auckland commercial and industrial property market in recent months has been its broadening base of buyers. During the initial stages of the market's recovery, the investment focus was very much on low-risk, well-located and tenanted passive investment properties, and purchasers were willing to accept yields of between 5 per cent and 7 per cent to secure these.
"More recently we have witnessed a return to the market of less risk-averse investors focused more on the added-value opportunities a property might provide," says Church.
"Now that the substantial correction in land prices has run its course and values are moving up again, we are also witnessing the re-emergence of cashed up 'land bankers' looking for strategically located sites with future development potential.
"This spreading of buyer interest is largely an Auckland phenomenon, and is not being replicated to the same extent in other parts of the country simply because they do not offer the sort of growth opportunities that New Zealand's largest city does.
"Auckland is leading New Zealand's economic recovery and, while that recovery has been a slow and hesitant one, the city's sheer weight of numbers cannot be ignored," he says.
The city's present population of about 1.5 million is forecast to expand by more than 20,000 people a year over the next 30 years. "That creates opportunities for investors as the demand for property needed to cater for this substantial population increase outstrips supply.
"That is why investors are attracted to the Auckland property market: it is simply because it offers the best prospects for land, building and rental-value increases," says Church.
Auctions are likely to continue to be a popular method of selling and buying commercial property, he says, with Bayleys' Greater Auckland and Total Property portfolio auctions generating strong bidding competition and high clearance rates last year.
At the last national Total Property auctions in December, 27 properties were sold at a combined value of close to $30 million.
"Sixteen of those sales were concluded at auction in Auckland, which underlines the dominance that the city has in the property investment market," says Church.
"We have been able to secure 16 properties for auction for our first Greater Auckland auction for the year, which will be held on March 6.
"This will provide a good kick-start to the market for 2013, and with signs of confidence continuing to build in the Auckland region we are expecting plenty of interest in these and other offerings in the portfolio."
Bayleys is also sourcing properties for its first national Total Property portfolio for the year, which closes off on February 22 and will be released to the market on March 8.


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As for "draft experts" every year at this time they have a player or two ranked as a first rounder that will end up being a 6 7 or undrafted FA, so that's hardly Gospel.
Kiper had Robert Royal in his top 5 at one point. Being in Kiper's list half a year before the draft doesn't mean anything. I'm sure you'll be calling them idiots if they drop Mingo further down their lists.
Mingo needs to come back to get bigger and stronger. He's definitely not 240 like he's listed, he's smaller than last year since he couldn't really work out all summer with the neck surgery. That combined with the ankle injury i think have affected him all year. IMO if he comes back and gets stronger he could have the year next year he was projected to this year and put himself right back in that conversation.
I don't know why Mingo didn't put weight on over the offseason or whether he really tried. I believe he actually lost some weight.
We dropped Tim Williams's scholly
not true. Stop the bull shite rumor. Talked to multiple Uhigh coaches and close family friends and this is the furthest thing from the truth. After Frank Wilson heard about this he personally called Tim to assure him it wasn't the truth.
I'd be pretty pissed if my NFL team drafted Mingo in the first round FWIW
not true. Stop the bull shite rumor.
Smith had 11 sacks as a freshman. Does Mingo have 11 sacks in his career?
I could see us using a different rotation than we have in the past 2 years. With the guys that are currently behind Mingo/Sam, we could rotate several variations with size or speed...depending on the team that we are facing. I think that Rasco will be very similar to our current DE's by the time he leaves. Possibly Hunter too.
A good question is...How many teams would our back-up DE's be starting on right now?
Smith had 11 sacks as a freshman. Does Mingo have 11 sacks in his career?
You're like the energizer bunny, you never get tired of showing off your ignorance and your penchant for picking out a particular LSU player and trying to run him into the ground. WTF man, what makes you so miserable?
Do you honestly think that stats taken from a DE playing in the pass happy, lower competition level Big 12 are equal to the stats of a DE playing in the SEC? You can't be that stupid can you?
Oh yeah I forgot, you can be that stupid because you are MAXIMUS!!
Use your eyes you ignorant frick! Stats are meaningless in CFB because of the disparity in competition. If you were as good a judge of football talent as I am, your eyes would have told you all you need to know about Mingo and his ability.
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The Thursday night offerings at the Bellingham Senior Center for the month of April are as follows:
The Thursday night offerings at the Bellingham Senior Center for the month of April are as follows:
APRIL 4,11,18 ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS . The program will run for three weeks from 6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m.
WEEK ONE is "IT STARTS WITH COMMUNICATION
If you have not signed up yet call 1800-272-3900 and ask for Julie McMurray. While this program is going on the Friendship Club offers caregivers respite by providing care and companionship at the Center for your loved one during this series for $10 per evening. Arrangements are limited to those who meet eligibility criteria. For more information call Dariel Ford at 508-966-0398. If you have a loved one who is beginning to exhibit symptons of diminished capacity in any form this program is for you.
Yoga continues each week from 6:15 to 7:30. There is a $5.00 charge for each class. There is still some room for new students. Students of all levels are welcome.
On April 11 and 18 Know your Digital Camera continues. The class is limited to four members, so sign up early. There is no charge for this program. You must bring your camera and the user manual.
On April 25 Rep. Kevin Kurus will be here at 6:00 p.m. to speak to any constituent who has a question for him.
The following is the schedule for the Center during the day. Please run these events from this date to the date they occur. Thank you.
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TUPELO – Renasant Bank has become one of two major supporters of the annual Gum Tree Run.
"We are really excited to have Renasant Bank come on board with AT&T," said Andy Hughes, race director of the Gum Tree 10K and 2K fun run.
The largest 10K in the state is in its 36th season. This year's race is May 11.
"It was a no-brainer when Andy approached us about the sponsorship," said John Oxford, Renasant's director of external affairs.
Hughes said the $20,000 to $25,000 raised in sponsorship is crucial to offsetting race costs.
Proceeds from the race are donated to Habitat for Humanity in Tupelo.
"This is our largest fundraiser of the year," said Habitat director Donna Jarrell. She said in addition to raising money, the event also raises awareness about the organization.
Habitat in Tupelo builds six to eight homes a year at a cost of about $30,000 per house. Hughes said his goal this year is to raise $15,000.
"We'd like to raise half a house," he said.
Hughes said the Gum Tree race has been raising money for Habitat for the past eight years and has donated more than $40,000.
Jarrell said she was approached by the running club and is thrilled with the support.
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The Microcon is a modern-day little analog monophonic synthesizer module emulating the simple design and sound of classic Roland TB-303 and SH-101 synths. They are made by Technosaurus, a Swiss company best known for their high-end Selector modular synths. It is handmade using the same discrete circuits found in its bigger brothers.
The Microcon is a totally analog table-top synth module that's slightly smaller than the original TB-303. It has one main oscillator capable of either sawtooth or square waveforms, just like the TB-303. The addition of a sub-oscillator is more like SH-101, which can help beef up your bass sounds. The analog lowpass filter is switchable as either 2-pole (12dB/oct) or 4-pole (24dB/oct), which is better than the TB-303 or SH-101 offered. The LFO can modulate the filter cutoff frequency with either triangle or square wave and the VCO can be modulated by square or triangle waves. Simple attack and decay envelope controls and a Glide effect round out this fairly simple to use and highly affordable 303 clone. The Microcon only uses CV and Gate for being controlled externally.
The Microcon II adds MIDI, making this cool little mono-synth available to the masses! The Microcon II has all of the features of the original, but adds MIDI IN for performance and control of parameters such as accent, cutoff frequency and glide. Also new are a filter input to process external signal sources, CV/Gate outputs added, and the Microcon II can be used as a midi to CV converter for other CV/GATE gear.
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In the wake of reports this week that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered Yahoo to scan all of its users' email in 2015, there are many unanswered legal and technical questions about the mass surveillance.
But before we can even begin to answer them, there is a more fundamental question: what does the court order say?
In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users' incoming emails, in real time.
There's still much that we don't know at this point, but if the report is accurate, it represents a new—and dangerous—expansion of the government's mass surveillance techniques.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has failed the American public. Let's count the ways.
It often feels like everyone inside and outside the government agrees that over-classification of government records is a major problem. Yet a series of Freedom of Information Act requests by EFF has found that even when Congress allowed agencies to offer cash rewards to government employees to be less secretive, nobody has been collecting the money.
From cell-site simulators in New York to facial recognition devices in San Diego, law enforcement surveillance technologies are spreading across the country like an infectious disease. It's almost epidemiological: one police department will adopt a new, invasive tool, and then the next and the next, often with little or no opportunity for the citizens to weigh in on what's needed or appropriate for their communities. Sometimes even elected officials and judges have no idea how technologies are being used by the police under their supervision.
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Strasbourg, 26.05.2009 – The Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released today three new reports examining racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance in Belgium, Germany and Slovakia. The ECRI reports note positive developments in all three of these Council of Europe member states, but also detail continuing grounds for concern, said the Chair of ECRI, Eva Smith Asmussen.
In Belgium, the Federal Action Plan to combat racism, antisemitism, xenophobia and related violence was adopted in 2004 and its implementation is in progress. Steps have been taken to improve the content and the implementation of legislation to combat racial discrimination and racism. However, cases of racial discrimination, particularly against non-citizens, persons of immigrant background, Muslims and Travellers, still occur in fields such as access to employment, education and housing. The persistence of racist, antisemitic, islamophobic and xenophobic discourse by some politicians and on the Internet is worrying.
In Germany, the adoption of the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) has strengthened the legal and institutional framework against racism and discrimination; there are signs of improved dialogue with the Muslim community and the authorities have begun to develop a strong new focus on integration, aiming to help migrants participate fully in German society. However, violent racist, xenophobic and antisemitic attacks continue to be reported, and support for parties expressing racist, antisemitic or revisionist views has increased. At the same time, discrimination in daily life is reported by members of the Muslim, Turkish, Black as well as Roma and Sinti communities.
In Slovakia, a new Criminal Code containing several provisions on racially-motivated crimes was adopted in 2006 and the Anti-Discrimination Act, which prohibits discrimination based on, among others, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, colour and language, was passed in 2004. However, the situation of the Roma remains worrying in areas such as education, housing, employment and health and instances of police brutality against members of this minority still occur. A rise in racist political discourse by some politicians targeting primarily Hungarians, as well as Roma and Jewish people, has been noted. The integration of refugees is still an issue that needs to be tackled, namely through the integration strategy devised by the Slovak authorities.
These new reports form part of a fourth monitoring cycle of the Council of Europe member states' laws, policies and practices aimed at combating racism. ECRI's country specific reports are available in English, French and the national language of the country concerned at www.coe.int/ecri. They cover all member states on an equal footing, from the perspective of protecting human rights.


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Yahoo topped Google in U.S. Web traffic in July, according to comScore's monthly rankings.
The collection of sites operated by Yahoo, which includes the popular home page as well as sites for news, finance and sports, pulled in 196.6 million unique visitors last month, compared with 192.3 for Google sites. Microsoft, Facebook, and AOL rounded out the top five.
The last time Yahoo was number one was May 2011, comScore told the website Marketing Land, which earlier reported on the rankings.
These monthly lists tend to be a boring, and don't necessarily reflect the underlying news or business of the companies. (See turmoil at AOL for an example.) But Yahoo winning this month's king of the hill title was notable for two reasons.
First, the numbers don't include traffic for Tumblr, which had its own place in the rankings down at No. 28 with 38.4 million visitors. Tumblr was basically a deal to bring aboard millions of new, young customers. Second, Yahoo's achievement came even as its focus has been elsewhere, mainly a shopping spree to bulk up its engineering teams. Still, Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is putting effort into redesigning sites and apps like Flickr, Weather, Fantasy Sports and Mail — and the efforts have been well-received and seem to be paying off.
All of this said, a good point from Liz Gannes at All Things D: The comScore data don't include mobile, an important and growing category that will only get more important in the coming years. That arrow is headed in one direction. Andrew Lipsman, a vice president at comScore, told Gannes that it's possible Google will be back on top in the coming multiplatform rankings.
Monthly data metrics are hardly the stuff to cause handstands. Yahoo still has a raft of big challenges to overcome, such as monetizing all of that traffic and beating back perceptions that most of its value comes from its stakes in overseas Internet companies.
Still, this gives Yahoo another shot in the arm at a time when momentum and buzz are going its way.


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At around 9:30 this morning I stumbled across an entire case of the new Preview Figures at the Walmart in Panorama City. They were listed for $6.44. I grabbed two complete sets, and an extra Clone Trooper. Just then another collector came down the isle and gobbled up the rest of them.
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Here are some things going on this morning in our world of tech:
Shares of 3-D printer maker 3D Systems (DDD) are down $3.94, or almost 8%, at $45.32, after the company this morning delivered Q1 revenue of $147.8 million, slightly beating the consensus for $145.5 million, and EPS of 15 cents, in line with estimates, and reiterated a forecast for this year of $680 million to $720 million, and EPS of 73 cents to 85 cents.
Shares of Sprint (S) are up 73 cents, or almost 10%, at $8.16, after the company this morning reported Q1 revenue of $8.88 billion and a 4-cent net loss, besting Wall Street's estimates for $8.78 billion and an 8-cent loss.
The company had a postpaid retail net subscriber loss of 333,000, to end the quarter with 53.55 million subscribers. Churn among retail postpaid subscribers rose slightly to 2.18% from 2.15% in the December quarter.
Sprint raised its full-year Ebitda estimate to a range of $6.7 billion to $6.9 billion from a prior range of $6.5 billion to $6.7 billion.
In other Sprint news, the company is hosting an event in New York City this morning, at which it announced a partnership with music streaming service Spotify, for a $7.99-per-month streaming music offering for Sprint customers. Sprint also announced a partnership with HTC and Harman/Kardon for a special edition of HTC's "One M8" smartphone. TheVerge has more coverage of the event here.
Shares of Nokia (NOK) are up 24 cents, or 3.4%, at $7.27, after the company last night said it named its head of networking equipment, Rajeev Suri, its new chief executive officer, and that it would embark on a €5 billion capital return plan involving regular and special dividends and buybacks.
Nokia also this morning reported Q1 revenue of €2.66 billion and earnings of €0.03 per share. That was below the consensus €2.84 billion average estimate of analysts, but in line with consensus on the profit figure. The company re-affirmed a 5% to 10% operating margin in ints networks business.
Shares of security technology vendor Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) are down $2.75, or 4%, at $63.12, after the company this morning reported Q1 revenue of $342 million and EPS of 84 cents, beating the consensus for $341.5 million and 83 cents.
Shares of cloud computing company NetSuite (N) are up $1.20, or 1.6%, at $74.79, after the company last night reported Q1 results above consensus, and raised its full-year revenue view, though it projects earnings this quarter a little light of consensus.
There are no ratings changes this morning, that I've seen, but price targets are going down at several shops. Canaccord Genuity's Richard Davis, reiterating a Hold rating, cut his target to $85 from $125 "to account for the valuation correction we have seen in the high growth/high valuation software names over the last 8 weeks," he writes.
Research firm Strategy Analytics this morning reported that global mobile phone shipments rose 9% in Q1 to 408 million units. Privately held Chinese phone maker Huawei was the "star performer," the firm says, selling 14.2 million mobile phones, for fifth place, with a growth rate that was twice the overall industry average. "Huawei's 3G and 4G Android devices are proving relatively popular in Asia and North America," the firm said.
Apple (AAPL) came close to overtaking Nokia for second place, with 43.7 million iPhones sold, just behind Nokia's total 47 million phone units. Samsung Electronics (005930KS) maintained its top spot, with sales of 113 million units. Apple's share rose to 10.7% from 10%, Nokia's share slipped to 11.5% from 16.6%, and Samsung's share slipped to 27.7% from 28.6%.
In other Apple news, the company updated its MacBook Air line of laptops, lowering the price of the entry-level unit to $899 from $999, and adding faster processors.
Apple stock today is down $2.09, or 0.4%, at $592.


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