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As palegirl points out, Jesus didn't even bother updating his Facebook status to "married", which just goes to show you want an inconsiderate friend he really is:
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Coordinating an event can be relatively easy if you organize and simplify the process. Remember, your SLD advisor is available to help you in planning your events and programs. All CSULB student organizations have two advisors; an advisor from SLD and a faculty or staff advisor. Both advisors play an important part in fostering student organizations that function effectively and smoothly. By sharing personal experience and knowledge about the University, advisors assist organizations with meeting their goals.
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NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows. STScI in Baltimore, Md., administers the Hubble Fellowship Program for NASA. The Hubble Fellowship Program includes all research relevant to present and future missions in NASA's Cosmic Origins theme. These missions currently include the Herschel Space Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The new Hubble Fellows will begin their programs in the fall of 2014 and are listed below in alphabetical order with their Ph.D. and host institutions:
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In larger agencies, applications under either the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System generally are turned in 60 to 90 days prior to the chosen retirement date. In smaller agencies (less than 3,000 to 4,000 employees), 30 days is probably sufficient. To be on the safe side, ask your human resources office what they would recommend.
There are some things that the personnel office must do before you retire to be sure your service history is properly documented and your insurance coverage will continue. If you simply wake up one day and decide to retire, your application still will get processed -- just not as quickly as you might like.
What forms do I need?
Your HR office can provide you with the necessary forms and publications to help you make a smooth transition. Here are some that are online:
- CSRS Application for Immediate Retirement
- FERS Application for Immediate Retirement
- TSP Request for Full Withdrawal
- TSP Request for Partial Withdrawal When Separated
- Request for TSP Materials for Separated Participant
- Applying for Social Security Benefits
- Continuation of Life Insurance
If I change my mind, what is the latest I can ask for my retirement request to be rescinded?
Retirement is considered a voluntary action similar to a resignation. If you change your mind on the last day, you have the option to stop the presses and continue your employment. The only exceptions would be if you accepted a buyout, if you are subject to mandatory retirement (that includes law enforcement officers, firefighters and air traffic controllers) or if you are retiring under discontinued service retirement (due to factors such as an agency reorganization or your job being abolished).
If I am going to combine my military career with my civilian career, how do I waive my military retired pay?
If you are considering this option and need more information, check out my column Mixing Civilian and Military Retirement (June 30, 2006). If you want to waive your military retired pay to receive credit for military service in the computation of your CSRS or FERS benefit, you should write the Military Retired Pay Operations Center at least 60 days before your planned retirement. Here's the address:
U.S. Military Retirement Pay
P.O. Box 7130
London, Ky., 40742-7130
Or you can fax your request to 888-469-6559.
What if I owe money to my employer when I retire?
You may owe your agency money for outstanding travel advances, overpayments of salary, failure to return government property or damage to such property, or advanced leave. You should resolve these before you retire.
If you have a health care flexible spending account, it will terminate as of the date of your retirement. There are no extensions. Any expenses incurred prior to the date of separation will be reimbursable, but those afterward are not. If you used your entire elected amount before it was deducted it from your account, you will not be responsible for the remaining payments. You can continue to use the remaining balance in a dependent care flexible spending account until the end of the benefit period or until your account balance is used up, whichever comes first.
How do I apply to withdraw my Thrift Savings Plan funds?
You must apply directly to the TSP. You can't choose to withdraw your funds until after your agency has notified the TSP that you have left government (usually within 30 days of your separation). You are required to withdraw your account balance in a single payment, begin receiving monthly payments or start receiving annuity payments by April of the later of:
- The year following the year you become age 70 ½.
- The year following the year you separate from federal service or the uniformed services.
You will have a variety of options. See Withdrawal Options (March 14, 2006), Life Expectancy vs. Life Annuity (April 6, 2007) and TSP Withdrawal Quiz (April 13, 2007).
You should allow several weeks from the time you submit your request until payment is sent. It could take longer if the agency delays in reporting your separation, if you have an outstanding TSP loan or if you submit forms that are not properly completed. If you are using the TSP Web site to complete your form, you will not be allowed to begin the process unless your TSP record indicates that you have left government and have no outstanding loans.
How do I apply for Social Security retirement?
You should apply for Social Security about three months before you want your first check. You can make an appointment with a claims specialist in your local Social Security office by calling 1-800-772-1213, or you can apply for benefits online at the Social Security Web site.
When applying for Social Security, CSRS retirees need to be aware of the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. To learn more about them, see Offsetting Penalty (June 9, 2006) and Gone with the Windfall (Sept. 1, 2006).
What do I need to do to continue my health benefits?
Your human resources office will determine if you are eligible to remain in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. This will be done after you turn in the retirement application, during the review of your personnel records. If you were covered under someone else's FEHBP or military health care plan (CHAMPUS or Tricare) during the last five years of your career, be sure your HR office knows this. They will include a notice with your retirement application to the Office of Personnel Management to let them know which insurance coverage you will continue. The premiums will be deducted automatically from your CSRS or FERS retirement benefit. If you want to review the requirements for maintaining this valuable benefit, see Ensuring a Healthy Retirement (June 16, 2006).
What do I need to do to continue my Federal Employees Group Life Insurance?
Your retirement application includes a form to continue FEGLI coverage. You have to choose how much life insurance you wish to maintain. To review the possibilities, see Life Insurance Options: Part One (Sept. 15, 2006) and Life Insurance Options, Part Two (Sept. 22, 2006).
What about the two newer benefits programs: long-term care insurance and dental and vision benefits?
Your current Federal Employee's Dental and Vision Insurance Program coverage will continue when you retire. Retirees can choose to change dental or vision plan coverage during an open season. You can sign up for these benefits even if you didn't have them before retirement.
If you have long-term care insurance, you will need to contact the company that oversees the program, Long Term Care Partners, to let them know you are retiring. Deductions will not automatically transfer from your agency to your retirement system -- you need to take action. You can contact Long Term Care Partners' customer service center at 1-800-LTC-FEDS (1-800-582-3337). As soon as they hear from you, they will work with your retirement system to set up premium deductions from your annuity. You can also choose to start long-term care coverage after you retire. Can I change health plans when I retire?
Simply retiring does not create an open season to make changes in your FEHBP coverage. But retirees who move outside of the area covered by their plan may enroll in a different plan covering their new location, and OPM may announce special open seasons affecting members of specific plans only. Becoming eligible for Medicare creates another opportunity to change FEHBP coverage. If you marry, divorce or become widowed after retirement, you may also change FEHBP coverage within 60 days following such an event (or up to 30 days before). Retirees participate in annual FEHBP open seasons in the same manner as employees. How do I deal with tax withholding from my retirement checks?
Most of your retirement income will be subject to income tax withholding. This includes your CSRS and FERS retirement benefits, TSP monthly or lump sum withdrawals and Social Security (depending on your adjusted gross income). If you do not complete a tax withholding form when you apply for retirement, you may contact the agency overseeing each of these benefits to change your withholding election. The National Active and Retired Federal Employee Association has an online guide to state taxation of federal retirement benefits.
Do I receive a retirement check or are the funds deposited directly into an account I designate?
Technically, you can still receive a paper check, but the Treasury Department recommends you sign up for direct deposit. About 80 percent of federal benefit payments are now made by direct deposit. If you will be living outside the United States after retirement, you may not be able to choose direct deposit. Many retirees choose to have their payments deposited in a U.S. bank and use ATM withdrawals, checks or online banking services.
Do I have to make new beneficiary designations when I retire?
No. The selections you made as an employee for CSRS, FERS, FEGLI and TSP benefits will follow you into retirement. If you wish to update your beneficiary designations, you will need to complete a new set of forms. To learn more, see Who's Your Beneficiary? (May 12, 2006).
How long before my retirement checks start to arrive?
There may be an interim period between your last paycheck and the arrival of your first retirement check. To prepare for this, you may want to have some extra cash available. Many employees use their lump sum annual leave check to cover expenses while waiting. To learn more about choosing a retirement date and maximizing your lump sum leave check, see Best Dates to Retire 2007 (Nov. 3, 2006).
Tammy Flanagan is the senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning Inc., which conducts federal retirement planning workshops and seminars. She has spent 25 years helping federal employees take charge of their retirement by understanding their benefits.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A Muslim member of Israel's Knesset, the outspoken and controversial Hanin Zoabi, is facing possible legal action after she issued a thinly-veiled threat against a Christian representative addressing the Knesset's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee last week.
Shadi Haloul, spokesman for the Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum that encourages young local Christians to join the Israeli army and integrate with Jewish society, was invited by the committee to speak on behalf of the growing number of Christians who want to be recognized as a minority separate from the Arabs.
As Haloul reached the end of his presentation, Zoabi lashed out, calling the Christian a "coward" and daring him to take his message to the streets of Nazareth, where local Muslims and unsympathetic Christians would "give you the proper response."
This week, the Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum's lawyer, Uri Shenhar, filed a request with the Attorney General to remove Zoabi's parliamentary immunity so she can be held accountable for her dangerous remarks.
The request filed by Mr. Shenhar argued that while Zoabi might not have directly threatened Mr. Haloul, her remarks could very easily incite very real violence against him and other Christians who hold similar views.
Members of the forum cited by Ma'ariv noted that others have been indicted for "incitement" for issuing threats that by comparison were far more innocent than what Zoabi said to Haloul.
Many Israeli Christians and those who support them view Zoabi's threat as just another piece in the effort to keep local Christians living under fear, and therefore subservient to the Muslim agenda.
But, as the submitted legal request concluded, that "prison of fear" has now been broken, and Israel will continue to see more and more Christians joining the army, building strong relationships with the Jewish community, and becoming increasingly loyal and productive citizens of the State of Israel.
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Historic snowstorms, survival, and death
I've heard many stories about the bad winter of 1948-1949 in Nebraska, when some snowdrifts reached second story windows and shed rooftops. My parents told of being snowed in for weeks at a time.
However, I am not at all familiar with the Blizzard of 1952 in South Dakota. The South Dakota Office of Emergency Management (OEM) compares that weather event to the infamous Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888:
Jan 1952 Blizzard -- This blizzard had many similarities to the one of 1888. The temperature dropped from 40°F to -8°F in a short period of time. The wet, driving snow clung to everything. Cattle were blinded and suffocated as snow covered their mouths and noses. Young country school children lost their way home and died of hypothermia. A few ranchers died when they tried to gather their livestock. Snow piled up to a point that people could walk along tops of REA power lines. In some isolated areas, people were snowed in for 4 months off and on throughout the winter. Planes were used to deliver mail, groceries, fuel, and feed for livestock. Snowtrack vehicles were used to transport doctors to isolated farm areas.
Source: South Dakota OEM Listing of Past Natural Hazards, Occurrences, and Disasters
We were living south of Johnstown, Nebraska, in Brown County in 1952, just 30 miles or so from the Nebraska and South Dakota state line. Surely, we had a significant snowstorm, but I've never heard any stories about it.
Just north of us in south central South Dakota, the blizzard was so intense that Mrs. Walter Hellmann wrote a little book about it: Blizzard Strikes the Rosebud, 1952, Winter of Disaster. The book is said to contain many photographs of the massive snowdrifts as well as the stories of the area residents.
An excerpt from Mrs. Hellman's book has been reprinted on a Longcor family history webpage. (Scroll down to "Ducks for Company in a Grain Bin", slightly past half-way down the page.)
The excerpt is the story of Clarence Longcor, who left home to purchase supplies at noon and was trapped on the road by the storm. He was unable to return home or to go forward, so he finally decided to follow the fences to a neighbor's house. He didn't find the house, but he came to a grain bin where he spent a very cold night with some ducks, afraid to sleep because he might freeze to death. This happened in the Millboro, South Dakota, area, just north of the Nebraska state line, northwest of Springview, Nebraska, and southwest of Colome, South Dakota.
When reading storm stories like this, one should remember that weather forecasts were not nearly as accurate 60 years ago as they are today.
"Young country school children lost their way home and died of hypothermia," the South Dakota OEM says in the storm description above. It's very sad that school children lost their lives trying to get home in a 1952 blizzard. I can't find any additional information about it, but surely the South Dakota OEM is a reputable source.
In northern Nebraska in the 1950s and 1960s, our teachers always had us bring cans of soup to keep at our country school. We were ready to wait out a blizzard at the schoolhouse if we had to do so. I didn't realize that this emergency preparedness was probably in response to the 1952 tragedy of South Dakota school children as well as the terrible loss of life in the Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888.
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Funny how someone close to you can say something so poignant, it interrupts your ride with a pause. @mzsitka rides next me last night and says, "how do you keep your bar tape so white?"
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In the Matter of KYLE L. LARSON, Respondent.
In a letter dated January 9, 1998, to the Clerk of the Appellate Courts, respondent Kyle L. Larson, of Goodland, an attorney admitted to practice law in the state of Kansas, voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law in Kansas, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 217 (1997 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 232).
At the time respondent surrendered his license, there were two separate complaints scheduled for hearing on January 13, 1998, before a panel of the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys. The complaints contained allegations of misappropriation of client funds, improper use of respondent's trust account, practicing law while suspended, and failure to cooperate with the disciplinary investigations. A claim in excess of $50,000 is pending before the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection.
This court, having examined the files of the office of the Disciplinary Administrator, finds that the surrender of respondent's license should be accepted and that respondent should be disbarred.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Kyle L. Larson be and he is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in Kansas and his license and privilege to practice law are hereby revoked.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Appellate Courts strike the name of Kyle L. Larson from the roll of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this order shall be published in the Kansas Reports, that the costs herein shall be assessed to respondent, and that respondent forthwith shall comply with Supreme Court Rule 218 (1997 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 235).
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Everyone's Offended by Linda S. Glaz
24 comments:
- Tom Threadgill said...
Yep. Used to be people could disagree with each other without being "bigoted" or "mean-spirited" or any other name. Just grow up, people.
I mean, my neighbors are even offended when I go outside in just my boxers. That's why you have curtains, folks.
Oh, and excellent use of the octopus analogy. Way to show instead of telling!
- August 17, 2015 at 8:58 AM
- Rick Barry said...
Like any tool, the Internet has its pluses and minuses. You hit a bull's eye with your mention of anonymity. I'm convinced that most of the acidic remarks made anonymously online would never be made face to face. When talking face to face, there's at least a tad more civility despite disagreements. It also seems that a certain segment of the population is searching for reasons to be offended. Perhaps there is a psychological reward for feeling offended by something, anything?
- August 17, 2015 at 9:00 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
Oh, my. Gouge my eyes out, Tom. LOL But in a sense, that analogy is spot on. If we don't like something, close our eyes, our ears, our thoughts. Just don't partake of something if it offends us. And you're right. Any time someone is offended, the other person becomes an instant hater of some sort.
- August 17, 2015 at 9:12 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
Rick, I'm afraid a lot of it comes from a generation of entitlement. Some friends are seeing it on college campuses. Students who feel they are entitled to grades, instant grat, instant everything and always their way. If they don't get it, someone must hate them or what they stand for. Really sad times...
- August 17, 2015 at 9:13 AM
- Elaine Stock said...
Wonderful words, Linda. I think you're spot on correct when you emphasized "entitlement." I am amazed (to the point that I have to stop my mouth from dropping open) how many people I daily encounter who insist that they are "owed" something. Then, as you say, they board the rocket of social media and implode to glorify only themselves… one wannabe commenter on my blog last evening attempted to call me a bigot, but mercifully I rejected that comment rather than post it… guess that's the flip side of social media: choosing whether or not to be bothered and wounded by another person. So sure, Mighty Mouth may have something to share worldwide (at least they can hope), and on an anonymous basis, but we have the potential to delete it, and certainly not bother to read it and react to it. It is up to each one of us to choose not to spread this hatred.
The bottom line: it's very, very sad and tragic that one human being has to put down another. Wars start and perpetuate that way. Horrifyingly, annihilation of human beings by human beings happen this way as well.
When will the madness stop?
We know that answer. And why!
- August 17, 2015 at 9:24 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
It is sad, Elaine. Especially when the media could be used to start dialogue that would empower all concerned. Opening the door to discussion is such an important tool, but it IS being used for evil rather than good.
- August 17, 2015 at 9:31 AM
- Pegg Thomas said...
The word "hate" is overused, misused, and wielded as a weapon to silence the opposition. Every disagreement is not hate. In fact, most aren't. People need to get a grip on reality. Tolerance seems to be preached - but not practiced - by those most often offended. Be offended if you want, but I don't have to play in that sandbox.
- August 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
I like that, Pegg. I don't have to play in that sandbox OR leave any doo-doo behind!
- August 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM
- Janet Grunst said...
Anonymity encourages folks to rant without having to back up their comments.No accountability. The really negative, and sometimes crude remarks, speak more about the commentator than the one they are putting down. Like so many other things in our lives, what God can use for good, the enemy uses for evil.
- August 17, 2015 at 10:27 AM
- Sadie and Sophie said...
Well said, as usual, and totally inoffensive. When did we become such a thin-skinned society that everything offends? It's gotten to the point that having an opinion is instant cause for retaliation or worse. A dear friend reminded me once, "Say what you mean; mean what you say; just don't say it mean."
- August 17, 2015 at 11:32 AM
- Linda Glaz said...
You're right, Janet. Things said that we would otherwise never think of saying.
- August 17, 2015 at 12:31 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
Great way to put it, ladies, we ARE thin-skinned. We can't take anyone else's opinion and accept that it is just that, their opinion.
- August 17, 2015 at 12:32 PM
- Karla Akins said...
My thoughts here are in regard to how we should respond to the haters and those offended by anything we say or write.
Lately I've been thinking about not only how I'm to act like Jesus but how I'm to REACT like Him. I think our Christian influence is most effective through how we react to those who are offended by God's Word, His stories, His Truth.
Jesus came not to bring peace but a sword (Matthew 10:34; Luke 12:51). The Word of God is just as divisive today as it's ever been, if not more. We should expect it. We should expect, as Christian writers, to have readers react defensively because they are blind and the only weapons they have at their disposal are lies and hate.
It's not people we are up against, but the spiritual forces at work in people's lives.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" (Ephesians 6:12).
Jesus died for the every same people who hate us for our Christian message. As His followers, We are called to be compassionate and prayerful in our response. I find that taking the high road can be lonely. The flesh would rather put up its dukes and tussle, but I've never regretted using a soft answer (I have regretted times when I didn't).
I love this Proverb for helping me to react like Jesus to those Who attack me for my faith or writing or ministry:
Proverbs 25:11-13; 15 --
11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver
is a ruling rightly given.
12 Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold
is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear.
13 Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time
is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him;
he refreshes the spirit of his master...
15 Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,
and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
In John 16:33 Jesus said: "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
Oh to keep our eyes on Jesus and ignore the storm. If we can train ourselves to do that, we won't be offended by those who lash out at us in their blind ignorance. As for me, I'm not there yet. But I long to be.
One of the enemy's tricks is distraction. It thrills him to keep our eyes on our situations and not on the Lord. We are only human, and it's simply not possible to react in a Christ-like way without the help of the Holy Spirit. This is not something He expects us to do on our own. We must draw on Him to walk in love towards our enemy.
"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26:41).
I believe we need more than ever to be in the prayer closet in order to have the mental and physical strength to respond to this world the way Christ would.
I keep thinking about the image of David over a sleeping Saul. In David's righteous mercy he did not destroy the very one who was so hateful to him. He could have. But he didn't (1 Samuel 24 & 26).
Grace is a beautiful tool in the hand of the Christian. I pray I remember to pick it up and use it as the days grow darker.
- August 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
Great response, Karla. I, too, wish I were "there" so to speak. It's a daily struggle.
- August 17, 2015 at 1:14 PM
- Deborah Dee Harper said...
Linda, great, thought-provoking post (and not offensive in the least). Social media has morphed into a place to spew hatred and stir the pot of insensitivity and bigotry. Of course we have differences in opinion! If not, we'd be just a bunch of humans with different faces--all thinking, speaking, and hearing the same things. Instead of 1.) listening to, 2.) ignoring, or 3.) responding with kindness to offensive comments, we whip out the "hate" accusation as if our opinion is the only one worth having. Oftentimes, responding to a nasty message with kindness is more aggravating to a hate-monger because they WANT an argument. Let's not give it to them. Let's react as Christ would. Thanks for bringing this to light so we could have a civilized, thoughtful conversation about it among your readers. Good job, my friend :-)
- August 17, 2015 at 1:35 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
Good points, Deb. Yes, we'd be like zombies just going through the motions, or without our own opinions, we'd be like the Stepford Wives, merely doing and saying what someone else expects of us. Good point...
- August 17, 2015 at 1:46 PM
- Donn Taylor said...
All good points about social media. Like any tool, these media can be used for good or evil. At a deeper level, though, the conflicts on social media are a product of our national culture, which is formed by cultural and political leaders who, for their own purposes, promote divisions among the public. If they can keep us fighting among ourselves, we'll be too preoccupied to see what they are doing.
- August 17, 2015 at 2:44 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
Really good point, Donn, and so true. Keeps us from looking at the bigger issues.
- August 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM
- J'nell Ciesielski said...
The internet is a wonderful tool and hammer of the devil all at the same time. Suddenly, everyone has an opinion that they think is worth sharing with the rest of the world and no one can stop them. Entitlement. The younger generations seethe with it kinda like my two-year old. Maybe they all just need a good spanking and we can all move on to more important things. Oh wait, does the concept of spanking offend them too? Oh, dear.
- August 17, 2015 at 3:46 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
Yeah, pretty sure spanking is outside boundaries nowadays. LOL
- August 17, 2015 at 4:41 PM
- Karen Prough said...
My first thoughts are about the title of your blog, "Everyone's Offended by Linda S. Glaz". :) I'm not offended, so it isn't true! You can't say EVERYONE is offended by your heartfelt thoughts and words. Now, I could rant and rave about your statement and say it isn't the truth, but I will go in another direction. In today's society, people think they are in touch with everyone on all the social "spider webs". They do touch others and can hurt others, but the pain does not ripple back to them. There's a barrier to hide behind. Words hurt and the act of putting cutting things in print on the internet keeps hatred floating before a sea of readers. But I think it shows what type of person they are deep inside. It also gives decent people a "voice", because sometimes they aren't noticed.
- August 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM
- Karen Prough said...
Ohh, no. I guess I just lost the comment I wrote! It was so good! Let me see if I can recall parts of it. First thing I said was that I DID NOT agree with the title of your blog. "Everyone's Offended by Linda S. Glaz". I'm not offended by you, so it is not true! I could make a big deal about that, but I won't. Now, with that settled,let me try to remember what I wrote. It was something like ... in today's world, people can hide on the internet and say nasty things to hurt others. They figure no one can touch them. It's a form of abuse. But untrue things that are written can usually be figured out by decent people or those who want to check things out for themselves. And sometimes when "mud-slinging" happens, the truth and the message spreads wider than it would have ... had things been "nice". That's kinda what I said, but I think it was better the first time I typed it. (Sigh) And maybe it'll show up after I post this! Ha.
- August 17, 2015 at 6:14 PM
- Linda Glaz said...
I'll be the first to admit that there ARE things that offend me. I'm not sure anyone can say they have nothing that offends them, but maybe it's just me. When I see an animal being brutalized, I'm offended. If I see a child left in a hot car, I'm offended. Many things offend me, but I hope I won't (as in the past) unleash my offenses against people on social media. God has clearly taught me a lesson is trying to take the kinder route. Hopefully, I will, but I AM offended by things. What I had to learn was how to react to those offenses.
- August 17, 2015 at 6:18 PM
- Karen Prough said...
Yep, it showed up. Where was it to begin with? Please, ignore me. Ha. I almost had it written the same. (My face is red.) Okay, you all can attack me for "rambling". I'm going to go hide under a rock.
- August 17, 2015 at 6:21 PM


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Red Sox prospect holds free clinic in Newtown
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- It wasn't exactly baseball weather, but it was close enough for Connecticut.
Boston prospect Matt Barnes, a native of nearby Bethel, brought a contingent of players and coaches to the Newtown Youth Academy for a free instructional clinic on Sunday. Barnes, a first-round selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, said it meant a lot to him to make a mark in his home state.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- It wasn't exactly baseball weather, but it was close enough for Connecticut.
Boston prospect Matt Barnes, a native of nearby Bethel, brought a contingent of players and coaches to the Newtown Youth Academy for a free instructional clinic on Sunday. Barnes, a first-round selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, said it meant a lot to him to make a mark in his home state.
"It's awesome," Barnes said. "Anytime you can come home in the offseason and give back to the community you grew up in, I think it's something special. We had a bunch of good guys here who are helping us out. We're trying to get these kids better and to give them a fun Sunday."
That last part was never in doubt. Barnes -- and a group that included Oakland reliever Evan Scribner and rising prospects George Springer and Mike Olt -- welcomed more than 200 children from ages 7 to 15 at the Newtown Youth Academy's sprawling indoor facility.
Barnes, who grew up within 8 miles of Newtown, could hardly get closer to home in his first foray at hosting an instructional clinic. And he would've had a hard time choosing a more worthy place than Newtown, a community still healing from a horrific school-shooting incident last December.
Barnes, the No. 5 prospect in Boston's organization, said he came up with the idea for the clinic and that his agents helped make it happen. They also got an assist from USA Baseball, which provided several tutors willing to work with the Newtown children.
"It's nice to finally see the finished product," said Barnes, who also arranged several gifts for the students. "You put in a couple months planning and trying to get everything together. When you see all the kids come in, have a good time and walk out of here happy, that's the most important thing."
Barnes reached Triple-A last season, and Springer, his teammate at UConn and on Team USA, served notice that he's one of the most intriguing players in the Minor Leagues. Springer, Houston's No. 3 prospect, split the year between Double-A and Triple-A and batted .303 with 37 home runs.
And perhaps most importantly, Springer could tell the children about his gradual transformation. A fleet-footed outfielder, Springer was scouted early by UConn and wasn't really considered a prospect. But he kept playing and growing, and he worked his way into becoming a first-round pick in 2011.
"It's great to give back to the community. When Matt called me and said this was going to happen, I was excited about it," Springer said. "I was actually just talking to my dad, and I was just saying how great it would've been. I grew up in New Britain, and [Torii] Hunter and [David] Ortiz [were playing there]. It would've been great to do stuff like that with them, but for all these kids, it's all about the kids now."
Scribner, who has made 48 appearances for the A's over the past two seasons, echoed a similar sentiment, and he said he would've loved a chance to meet a big leaguer when he was a kid. Scribner said that in his hometown, it was even hard to find players that had gone on to play in college.
Scribner, a 28th-round draftee in 2007, played his college ball at Central Connecticut State, and he is one of just three players from that school to ever reach the Majors. And in this setting, among fellow small-town Connecticut natives, Scribner loves the opportunity to be a role model.
"My brothers and my dad also do baseball lessons, so I get to see all the local kids," said Scribner, whose hometown of Washington, Conn., has less than 4,000 residents. "By getting to see them play -- and them getting to see me -- I think it helps them stay motivated and have the drive to keep going and keep practicing. Coming from a small town, they're in the same situation. They see the success that we have, and I think it helps them. It's good to come back for the offseason and help the kids out."
Duke Dickerson, who operates the nearby Connecticut Titans of the Collegiate Baseball League, helped Barnes put together a roster of skilled coaches and players for Sunday's clinic. Pat Horvath, coach at Philadelphia University, brought several members of his team to lend a hand.
Barnes and Springer -- two first-round picks in recent years -- found themselves relaying baseball anecdotes to hungry minds Sunday, and they wanted to know a few simple things. In short, the children wanted to know what they can do to get better and what it's like to play professionally.
"The first couple years have been awesome," Barnes said. "Your first year, you get in there and the season kind of takes a toll on you as it gets to the end. It gets long. It gets tedious. That's something you take into the offseason and use to work harder and get your body in better shape and get more mentally ready to take on a new season. ... I think the first two years were a lot of fun."
Nearly a year has passed since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and Newtown has looked inward as it tries to heal an impossible wound. The fire department has erected 26 stars on its firehouse roof -- one for each victim -- and a touching plaque dedicated to the lives that were lost.
All over town, there's a ubiquitous bumper sticker that speaks to the attitude the citizens have taken.
"We are Sandy Hook," it reads. "We choose love."
That love has been returned to the community in numerous forms, and the clinic on Sunday was just another reminder that the country will never forget Newtown. But on this day, this was just any other town in Connecticut where the kids love baseball enough to play in frigid conditions.
Scribner, who was drafted by Arizona and now plays in Oakland, chuckled when asked about the weather. It's too cold for him now, but he can recall growing up and playing in it anyway. And as he looked around the gym, he couldn't help but feel certain that many of these children feel the same way.
"The kids make it for me. They love the game so much," he said. "I think growing up and getting older, the guys I used to play with aren't lucky enough to keep playing professionally. They kind of lose the love of the game. But these kids, they all have it. And I hope they never lose it. We'll see."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com.


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By Tom Piscitelli
All distributors care about is getting the order. That was what my boss told me when I was a rookie sales rep for a manufacturer in the early 1970s. Granted, he was from North Jersey, and I was assigned to distributors in Philadelphia, where things can be a little rough around the edges. However, it was still, at the most, only a partial truth. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't going to understand the whole truth until later.
As a contractor doing business in a very competitive environment, you have to gain every advantage you can. After all, you tell yourself, if you don't press for all the business you can, your competitor will take it from you.
Your distributors can offer you a lot more than just the products you need at a low price. Most contractors know this and have made some of their buying choices, and paid a small price premium, based on something else a distributor provided that helped grow their business.
On the other side of the table is the distributor who wonders why some contractors don't value all the distributor has to offer. Those contractors take advantage of the extra distributor services and still demand the lowest price. Thankfully, they also have some mutual contractor business relationships that go beyond the lowest-price need.
How can contractor/distributor partnerships be improved so that each party sees some benefits? Let's begin with understanding the concerns of contractors and distributors.
How Contractors Treat Distributors
"What's Your Lowest Price?" Certainly the question is valid, because we all weigh price against value when making any purchasing decision, in our personal lives as well as in business. Unfortunately, much of what the contractor buys from the distributor is a commodity, the same product in the same box that many other distributors can provide. The contractor has learned — actually he has been taught, that he can pressure distributors to give him a lower price. As a result, many distributors become willing to engage in pricing wars. The contractor assumes distributors have plenty of margin to play with because this tactic results in lower prices.
Thereafter, low price becomes the basis for all future business dealings.
Cherry Picking. There are some products and services that contractors recognize as providing additional value, which they will pay a small premium to acquire. This could be a specialty product, such as geothermal equipment, or a value-added service, such as job-site delivery. In either case, the contractor realizes that the overall cost is competitive even though the specific product or service price costs more. The cherry picking contractor will still pressure the distributor for the lowest price on everything else. If the distributor refuses, the contractor can always take his business elsewhere, and usually does just that.
The Business Partnership. The business partnership is built upon the best value to both the contractor and the distributor. In this relationship, both the contractor and the distributor reach a mutually beneficial agreement on how they will do business together. This means the contractor and distributor must have a significant amount of mutual trust established. Each must be clear about what he or she wants out of the partnership, and be willing to make commitments in exchange for getting what they want.
How Distributors Respond
Again, this varies, but here are some typical corresponding distributor responses to the contractor behaviors I have just described.
(What's Your Lowest Price?) Hearing this all day, all week, all month, all year, every year, can be wearing. Distributor sales reps expect contractors to ask the question. They also know that some business will only be won by having the lowest price, while other business can be gained by helping contractors be more profitable in other ways.
Some distributors, and their sales reps, only know how to sell on low price, and are streamlined to the point were they are pretty good at delivering on that promise. But don't be looking for something extra, because they won't be able to deliver it. Other distributors have built their business with capacities for doing more for their contractors, and they simply can't offer the lowest prices and stay in business.
(Cherry Picking) This gets a little more complicated for the distributor. The lowest-price can accommodate the contractor on commodities, but doesn't measure up with the specialty needs. The distributor might stock up on a new product line the contractor can use, but the contractor won't likely get the service he needs that goes along with it. On the other hand, the "value-added" distributor can provide the extra products and services, but can't offer the absolute lowest price on commodities. The distributor needs the commodity business to help support his investment in resources and people. If they can't get some of that business, they can't continue to support the contractor's special needs.
(The Business Partnership) If the or contractor know how to build and maintain this relationship, then each party gets the best of all worlds. In this scenario, each explains openly what they need to be successful, and each is willing to look at the overall cost of the business relationship and make their decisions accordingly.
If the contractor stocks up on pre-season specials in order to get the lowest price, he is also investing in handling, warehouse space, warehouse inventory management, and other costs that often cost more than the initial price reductions had saved. If the contractor could get a competitive price guaranteed, without the need to buy and inventory large quantities, they would have lowered their overall cost, met their goal, and the distributor would be selling products at a reasonable profit, meeting his or her goal. Both win!
Establish Up-front Dialogue
If we want a different result, we have to change the way we behave and how we view our business. This all begins with your desire to establish a partnering relationship with your distributors.
Contractors, if you are ready to change the way you do business in exchange for an improved bottom-line, then these are the steps you need to take:
- Sit down with your management team and decide what you want from "the perfect distributor." Anything goes. Get creative with your thinking. Any idea is worth discussing. And write this all down. Title that page, "What We Want."
- Ask your distributor sales rep if he or she can talk about how your companies could form a better working relationship in which both could benefit. If they agree, set up a meeting.
- Explain your vision of a business partnership to your distributor, and confirm that this is something that they'd be willing to work toward. Present your "What We Want" list and discuss it in detail. Explain that you don't expect them to make any commitments on the spot, nor do you expect them to agree with everything; you're just showing them what you would like to get from the perfect distributor.
- If the distributor has been trained in this approach, (perhaps through my "Winning the Sales War" training, for example) then the sales rep and manager will fully understand that this is the beginning of a process that will result in profitable changes for both of your companies. They should be asking many questions, and not offering any solutions or agreements at this initial meeting.
- A week or two later, in a second meeting, the distributor confirms what he or she understood you wanted. Once that's established, the distributor should review what they can, and can't, do, along with the commitment needed from you.
Expect the distributor to ask you for your business in exchange for giving you what you asked for, and be willing to commit your business to them if they agree. In some cases, you will be looking at a higher price. But if the service or support you have asked for saves you a particular cost, or increases your profits, then the higher price will result in a lower cost or, you will increase profits.
- Reach an agreement on all points. Write out your agreement out and shake hands. Then, you're on your way! This strategy has a 100% success rate. At the least, you can get some of what you want, to help you reduce costs, increase profits, and make your life easier.
Tom Piscitelli is president of Applied Learning Associates Inc., an HVAC consulting and sales training company. Contact Tom at 425/985-4534, [email protected] or visit his website at www.alainc.com.
This article is based on the presentation, How to Partner with Your Distributors, which Tom Piscitelli will be giving at HVAC Comfortech 2005, which will be held in Nashville, TN, Sept. 14-17, 2005. For more information about HVAC Comfortech, call 216/931-9550.
Learn from the leaders: In 2004, HVAC Comfortech presented more than 30 speakers providing educational seminars. All the sessions were recorded, and are available for purchase. For pricing and ordering information, visit the show website: www.hvaccomfortech.com.
For more information on this topic, go to: www.alainc.com; www.nawpubs.org; or www.mcaa.org.


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This example shows how to detect a cell using edge detection and basic morphology. An object can be easily detected in an image if the object has sufficient contrast from the background. In this example, the cells are prostate cancer cells.
Read in the
cell.tif image, which is an image of a prostate cancer cell.
I = imread('cell.tif'); figure, imshow(I), title('original image'); text(size(I,2),size(I,1)+15, ... 'Image courtesy of Alan Partin', ... 'FontSize',7,'HorizontalAlignment','right'); text(size(I,2),size(I,1)+25, .... 'Johns Hopkins University', ... 'FontSize',7,'HorizontalAlignment','right');
Two cells are present in this image, but only one cell can be seen in its entirety. We will detect this cell. Another word for object detection is segmentation. The object to be segmented differs greatly in contrast from the background image. Changes in contrast can be detected by operators that calculate the gradient of an image. The gradient image can be calculated and a threshold can be applied to create a binary mask containing the segmented cell. First, we use
edge and the Sobel operator to calculate the threshold value. We then tune the threshold value and use
edge again to obtain a binary mask that contains the segmented cell.
[~, threshold] = edge(I, 'sobel'); fudgeFactor = .5; BWs = edge(I,'sobel', threshold * fudgeFactor); figure, imshow(BWs), title('binary gradient mask');
The binary gradient mask shows lines of high contrast in the image. These lines do not quite delineate the outline of the object of interest. Compared to the original image, you can see gaps in the lines surrounding the object in the gradient mask. These linear gaps will disappear if the Sobel image is dilated using linear structuring elements, which we can create with the
strel function.
se90 = strel('line', 3, 90); se0 = strel('line', 3, 0);
The binary gradient mask is dilated using the vertical structuring element followed by the horizontal structuring element. The
imdilate function dilates the image.
BWsdil = imdilate(BWs, [se90 se0]);
figure, imshow(BWsdil), title('dilated gradient mask');
The dilated gradient mask shows the outline of the cell quite nicely, but there are still holes in the interior of the cell. To fill these holes we use the imfill function.
BWdfill = imfill(BWsdil, 'holes'); figure, imshow(BWdfill); title('binary image with filled holes');
The cell of interest has been successfully segmented, but it is not the only object that has been found. Any objects that are connected to the border of the image can be removed using the imclearborder function. The connectivity in the imclearborder function was set to 4 to remove diagonal connections.
BWnobord = imclearborder(BWdfill, 4);
figure, imshow(BWnobord), title('cleared border image');
Finally, in order to make the segmented object look natural, we smoothen the object by eroding the image twice with a diamond structuring element. We create the diamond structuring element using the
strel function.
seD = strel('diamond',1); BWfinal = imerode(BWnobord,seD); BWfinal = imerode(BWfinal,seD); figure, imshow(BWfinal), title('segmented image');
An alternate method for displaying the segmented object would be to place an outline around the segmented cell. The outline is created by the
bwperim function.
BWoutline = bwperim(BWfinal);
Segout = I;
Segout(BWoutline) = 255;
figure, imshow(Segout), title('outlined original image');
bwperim |
edge |
imclearborder |
imdilate |
imerode |
imfill |


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NWSB Editor and Writer Chris Anderson preview this weekend's clash between the Washington Huskies and Oregon Ducks. It has been a long time since both Washington and Oregon come into this game ranked (in fact, the last time this happened was at the turn of the century in 2000), and having both the Ducks and Huskies in the AP Top 25 has helped to give this rivalry an added spark that it has been missing in the past few years.
Week 6 College football preview: Washington vs. Oregon matchup
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(WLOS) - It's an alarming and tragic statistic - 399 babies born intro drug addictions at Mission Health in one year.
WLOS - TV has been investigating the heroin epidemic and it's most innocent victims.
RELATED | Heroin Epidemic: A heartbreaking look at the innocent victims
Now, we're getting perspective on the problem from a mother who lived through it.
Christine admits she was a drug addict for more than a decade. She is not proud of her past, but she wanted to share her story in order to provide hope for others.
She has been clean since 2008.
Christine said she started using pain pills around 1996 and was in school when she realized she had a problem.
"I remember sitting on the bed and I hadn't had any pills and I realized I was in a lot of pain," Christine said. "And I was like, 'what is going on?' And I realized I was having withdrawals."
RELATED | How big is the heroin crisis in North Carolina?
She said from that moment on her drug addiction only got worse. She was living in Massachusetts at the time, with little contact with her family.
Christine said she eventually started using heroin, then crack.
"When I was using drugs, I was doing whatever I needed to do to get more drugs," she said.
Christine said, during a trip to detox, she found out she was three months pregnant.
"When I got pregnant with him, I was on drugs and didn't know I was pregnant with him," she said.
Christine decided to continue with detox and convinced her doctor to lower her dosage of methdone. She said she did everything she could to give her unborn son the best chance at a good life.
It worked, and her son was born healthy.
But, Christine was not. She kept using, and her little boy was taken away when he was about six months old.
"Through all of that, I bottomed out and I was doing a lot of bad things and I become a terrible mother to a child that I desperately loved. I was a really bad mother ... at one point DSS came and they took my son and it was very painful," Christine said.
Her son stayed with relatives and then went into foster care.
For several years, Christine only saw her little boy in supervised visits.
Then, on Aug. 7, 2008, she went to a court appearance and landed in jail. She told the judge she needed help or she was going to die.
"That day, I had an abscess on my arm from using IV drugs, and I had lost everything. I had nothing. I didn't have my family, I didn't have my child," Christine said.
She said, while she was sitting in that jail cell, she said a prayer to surrender her addiction, and it worked.
She's been sober since.
"I knew that it was important that I stay clean no matter what, no matter if I got my son back or not. So, to me, that was the greatest experience of surrender that I've ever had ... was when I surrendered my child," she said.
Christine regained custody of her son when he was 4. Seven years later, they're still rebuilding their relationship.
Christine now has a 2-year-old daughter, as well. She says her son is like most 11-year-olds. He loves video games and hockey and his younger sister.
She said they now have a great bond and is amazed by her little boy.
But, Christine said she still carries lots of guilt over the life she brought him into and the years she gave away.
"My son's gone through hell because of my addiction, and it's not fair. I'm not proud of it," Christine said.
When we told her how many other children are being born in to addictions in our area, she was shocked and emotional.
"That's a lot. I'm sorry ... That's a lot. It's really sad. It's like an epidemic. It's a huge problem," she said.
Christine said she works every day to be a better mom and tries to focus on the future of her family ... the moments she has ahead instead of the ones she lost.
"They do help me stay clean because I don't want to miss any more time. He's already 11, and time goes by so fast," Christine said.
Christine credits drug court and a 12-step program with helping her finally overcome her addiction.
She hopes her story will show other addicts that they can get better. She also hopes it helps society have more compassion for those battling addictions.
Mission Health has a hotline set up for expectant mothers struggling with an addiction: 1-800-532-6302.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn.- The Lipscomb men's tennis team fell 6-1 to Vanderbilt Sunday at the Vanderbilt indoor courts. The loss dropped the Bisons to 1-2 on the year.
Freshman Rob Mitchell pulled off the only singles victory for Lipscomb as he defeated Jeff Offerdahl in straight sets 6-3, 6-2.
"Today, Rob Mitchell played probably the best match for him in both the fall and spring," said head coach Mario Hernandez. "He had a great win today.
"The guys competed pretty well today."
In doubles Miguel Cortez & Stuart Tierney played against Vanderbilt's Rhys Johnson & Ryan Smith. The match remained unfinished at 5-4.
"I really thought our doubles play was quite good and that can become a strength for us in the near future," Hernandez said. "Singles play wasn't bad either. Vanderbilt is tough, but we are tough as well."
David Salazar & Mitchell lost to VU's Suresh Eswaran & Pen Binet 6-4.
On the singles end, Salazar played at No.1 and lost to Johnson 6-3, 4-6, (10-8).
"David Salazar had a very tough match against a guy that has been ranked near the top 50 in the nation," said Hernandez. "He played extremely well and fought hard."
Cortez had a tough fight in the first set against Smith that ended in a tiebreaker. The match ended with the score of 6-5(7), 6-2 for VU.
Tierney at No. 2 and Nacor Ibanez at No. 6 lost in straight sets.
"There were positives across the board as well as things we need to improve on, "said Hernandez. "It's early in the season and we will continue to look to improve."
The Bisons will be back in action against Austin Peay next weekend.
MATCH RESULTS: Vanderbilt 6 - Lipscomb 1
1. David Salazar (LU) lost to Rhys Johnson (VU) 6-3, 4-6, (10-8)
2. Stuart Tierney (LU) lost to Kris Yee (VU) 6-2, 6-1
3. Rob Mitchell (LU) won vs. Jeff Offerdahl (VU) 6-3, 6-2
4. Miguel Cortez (LU) lost vs. Ryan Smith (VU) 6-5(7), 6-2
5. Nacor Ibanez (LU) lost to Suresh Eswaran (VU) 6-1, 6-0
6. Vanderbilt won by default
1.Cortez/Tierney (LU) vs Johnson/Smith (VU) 5-4 did not finish
2.Salazar/Mitchell (LU) lost to Eswaran/Binet (VU) 6-4
3. Vanderbilt won by default


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Garrett White needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 132 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
The Authentic Entrepreneur
I am 33 years old and have been a top producing Sales person and entrepreneur for 9 years. I have started and sold 4 companies for millions and in 2007 had 100% of my wealth tied up in speculative real estate and bankind deals. By January 2008 I had lost 100% of what I had built in the firts 7 years - and was left BK. Since then I found myself spiritually - and authentically. I looked back upon my business's and upon how I decided to show up in business and realized that I had shown up as a LIE. This means that I showed up as "My Money" and "My Stuff" and was willing to be in-authentic to close business. Since that time for the past 2 years I have lead over 50 workshops/ intensives committed to assisting Entrepreneurs and Sales people to learn the principles of authenticity and the power of authentic influence. We have had tons of success and in January 2010 I am back on the air (radio & TV) with shows committed to unlocking the power of Authenticity in the world of business & sales. I have also realized that it is now time to brand myself...to truly build the brand of Garrett White aka" The Authentic Entrepreneur" - I have no idea what this will look like visually - but am very excited to see what you come up with.
25-40 year old Men and Women...who have specific type of energy in how they show up in Sales and Business. These are people who work in sales for another organziation (example: Insurance, mortgages, realtors, car sales etc...) as well as tons of rookies in the world of Direct Sales & Multi Level marketing companies and also could be the owners of organziations like this and that manage teams of sales people. The market is not new....and currently exists in a powerful way. Entreprenership and Sales will never go away. My audience must have a connection to technology - meaning utilize email, twitter, facebook, linken In etc...and have no issues jumping online and downloading my podcasts or watching vidoes on my video Blog. They are agressive sales people and business owners that understand the need for Selling and who are open to new Ideas about selling that will take the content they have been trained on and infuse it will the Authenticity The New Conciousness of Sales.
Ok so what am I looking for?
1. A logo
2. Color pattern that I can transfer to everything I do.
3. Clean and modern look
4. Color scheme is clean and modern - white & Lime green possibly? (check out the color shceme on a site I have http://www.awakensoulpurpose.com)
5. You have tons of creative license - at this point I am not even sure what it will look like so surprise me.
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Reviewed by Pete C. (age 12)
Go Kart Rush is a good action book. I'm a kid that likes action books. My favorite part is when they are racing on the track and driving people off the road. If you like action, than this is the book for you. This book is special because I used to have a go-kart of my own. My dad and I used to race. My favorite character is Tony because I'm like him. I like to race other people that I don't know.
I recommend this book because it is full of action. It will keep you on the edge of your seat.


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I've started Code Academy and as of last night, completed Week 1. This is a free program with weekly, online lessons to learn how to code (Javascript). Librarians have started using the hashtag, #codeyear to communicate with each other on their progress (and you can sign up for the lessons at the Code Year site). There has been a push in Libraryland for librarians to learn coding so we can be more self-sufficient in developing digital services and products, as well as just communicating better with IT professionals. There is even a newly-established ALA Connect group for librarians to discuss and help each other with the weekly lessons.
My impressions so far of Code Academy are mixed. Of course, no doubt, this is a great thing. It's free, it's accessible, and it's an intro-level program that is incredibly interactive. It can be hard to teach yourself these types of skills, so opening up the playing field is huge.
It's also nice that the lessons are given in increments, so you get Week 1 for a week, and then are sent Week 2 the next week. You can do more if there is more content up on the site, but it at least makes it more digestible. The leveling up and getting badges is another thing I like. It could be a little bit of gamification, but since these lessons have been made more social through Code Academy and also through the library community, it adds a little more fun to it. I've taken a particular interest as well as to how the Mozilla Open Badges project will relate to library instruction (or could relate), so experiencing a badge-generating program is useful to me and I'm seeing how it could potentially work with students. Although the Mozilla Open Badges project is for open access education, I still think it could be a beneficial concept to try in university and other formal academic settings as well.
Back to Code Academy, there are also some things that I am finding problematic. When considering good pedagogy, detailed feedback contributes to effective learning. Code Academy does not really give any feedback. You put your code in and run it, and then you are right or wrong. There is a little bit of info that pops up when you do enter wrong code, but it's not often enough to help you figure out where you went wrong. The hints are great at the beginning of the lessons, but get more obtuse and mysterious as you progress. I think it can be a good method that they are giving sort of a sandbox atmosphere to try out coding without being bogged down with theory and memorizing definitions (and where you don't have to be afraid of failure, which is a quality of a good game BTW) but at the same time, not really understanding the logic behind how some of the code works makes it very hard to understand why your answer does not work. I was glad to have other librarians who understand coding logic explain why my answer for Week 1, Lesson 8.2 was incorrect, so I was able to progress and finish the week.
Overall, I really do think Code Academy is great, and I'm going to continue on with the lessons. It can be difficult to weave detailed feedback in to an automatic, teach yourself-type program, but at the same time, it is essential for people who are just starting out. I think this article by Tech Crunch, "Will we need teachers or algorithms" (interesting read also for emerging trends in education) rings true here to a degree. Human or AI-driven though, if you can't figure out what you did wrong in a meaningful way, you can't learn from your mistakes and progress.


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18 iPad weather app current weather screens
Earlier in the week I compared the current weather screens of 27 popular iPhone weather apps, and in the spirit of equal time for expansive interfaces, here's the same thing for 18 popular iPad weather apps. The reason for the lower number is that not all of the iPhone apps had iPad versions -- Apple's own iOS weather app included! While some of the iPad versions are just bigger, others take advantage of the larger screen and broader aspect ratio to show not just bigger but more.
Like before, I used the exact same location and page, whenever possible, for each app. I paid for full versions of in-app purchases to disable ads when I could, and when it worked. If extended forecasts could be brought up on the same screen, I brought them up. I made them as comparable as possible.
Here they are, in order, from top left to bottom right, are:
- Today Weather, Check the Weather
- Weather 2x, The Weather Channel
- AccuWeather, Weather HD
- Weather Bug, Weather Live
- Dark Sky, eWeather HD
- Daily Weather HD+, Pocket Weather Australia
- Farenheit / Celsius, Thermo
- Weather+, Living Earth HD
- Magical Weather, swackett
The current weather screen isonly one aspect of a weather app, and doesn't cover features like radar, videos, etc. so as the title says, consider this only a glance at different design approaches. For more on the individual apps, check out our weather app review series.
That being said, which weather apps do you use, and are they the same ones that appeal to you most in the comparison above? Any of the weather screens attractive enough they encourage you check out an alternative app?
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Who spends millions upon millions lobbying the US Government?
Who wants ALL the data?
Looks Googly to me.
US diplomat warns of "trade war" if "right to be forgotten" proposals in Europe are followed through. The introduction of planned changes to EU data protection laws could herald a trans-Atlantic "trade war", a US diplomat has warned. John Rodgers, economic Officer in the US Foreign Service, said that "things could really …
I think the SPQA (Senatus Populusque Americanus) wants it more for transaction tracking than Google wants it for mining, which hints at the fact they already do it either via requests or sneakiness. Can't see a trade war being threatened just cos of Google.
Trade war could be worked. We could buy Russian Wheat, Polish horseburger (it seems we already do), Chinese/Japanese/Korean tech and they'd still want Jags, Mercs, Porsches, Audi, Ferraris, Range Rovers and Lambos and they'll pay a government-inflated price for them so they can still drive around in a flash EuroCar. It'd eventually serve to further isolate them from the rest of the world ultimately as alternate trade sources would likely be kept if they stopped cocking around at some point later. Wouldn't be to much of a stretch to imagine EU cosying up with China, Japan, SKorea, India and everyone just raising prices. Not that I wouldn't put the USA going to (actual) war with the-rest-of-the-world over a trade sulk, though, cos they weren't getting their way. There isn't anyone called Nero in the Whitehouse staff, is there?
Oh, and the whole of EU could tax MS, Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, etc into receivership. Yeah it all sounds simplistic but if you really want a detailed economic breakdown then do it yerself ;o)
I hate to break the news to ya but as someone in the states i can tell ya that corps and gov? Kinda the same thing now. Even if the rumors of NSA funding Google aren't true the fact is the feds can walk themselves into just about any corp office and help themselves and nobody will say or do squat, just look at how quickly the story of AT&T having a secret room for the NSA to help themselves to data fizzled.
So I really hope you guys in the EU do pass something like this, as sadly we here in the states have pretty much ZERO say in our government anymore and if their was any doubt who is running the show the supreme court ruling money is speech cleared it right up.
You took the words right out of my mouth. The EU actually wants to do something to enhance privacy and those gun toting rednecks are telling us we can't do that "or else" Are they out of their f-ing minds?
I do understand why they object, as the US government knows more about me then the Dutch government and they don't want to give that up.
Wadda ya mean "anyone else?" What he really effectively said was "oh sure, we gots privacy...our own special brand of privacy."
We Yanks ain't got it any better than anyone else.
How "right to privacy" fails to imply "right to data protection" is beyond me. Must be a lawyer thing...
"For the Record: There is NO explicit Right to Privacy in the US Constitution."
Tell that to the Supreme Court Justices who decided Roe vs. Wade. They divined a right to privacy in the due process clause of the 14th amendment. Not saying they're right, not saying they're wrong but there it is.
From: A US citizen
To: The World
Please accept our sincere apology for allowing this dimwit to speak. Our Chinese overlords would not allow us to get into a trade war with Europe as anything that could possibly leave us with less money to buy all the shiny-shiny stuff from China is against the rules.
>The EU has a ~ €2 Trillion larger economy than the USA. Dream on yanks....
Yeah and we have seen how coordinated and tightly integrated the EU is economically. North America will stay a very important market and considering the US is built around consumption and most of the EU is built on exports, a trade war could still be very bad for both parties. Still this dude is just talking trash. Obama is already paranoid about having a Jimmy Carter type legacy and a trade war of any type would ensure that.
Certainly a trade war is about the stupidest thing to threaten given the current global economy. This idiot may see the US as rebounding but his glasses are certainly a couple of shades too rosy but more likely it's just threats that our gubbermint may very will be stupid enough to make good on. I say, let 'em.
"Obama is already paranoid about having a Jimmy Carter type legacy and a trade war of any type would ensure that."
In all honesty Jimmy gets a bad rap but he actually signed a key piece of legislation that has probably created more jobs in the US than any other President since but he doesn't get enough credit for it. It was H.R.1337 of the 95th Congress and it eased the restrictions on the production of beer and wine in the home and ultimately opened the door for the craft brewing industry in the United States. Sure, it took time but would Jim Koch have been able to craft his Boston Lager and launch a company only six years later? So cheers to Billy Beer, nepotism and homebrew; Obama should dream of such a legacy.
Actually we don't. It's more smoke / mirrors than real protection. The big fear this bureaucratic muck is worried about is that data has been so shabbily handled it would cost a fortune for companies to actually figure out who they sold, gave or otherwise handed off the data to. Oh, and they want to be able to go to companies like AT&T and say "give us all your data on X and don't worry about the illegality, here's your retroactive immunity card."
Right to be forgotten <> right to have all data held deleted.
Financial institutions are required to keep records for 5 years minimum on transactions, this law wont change that.
Driving convictions (UK) are kept on record even after "spent".
There are others.
What this will most likely do is allow an individual to have their personal data deleted by someone who has no need to keep it - say an airline after the flight has happened.
It sounds more like a case of enshrining in law something that should have been possible anyway.
OK. I did a quick mental survey of what I own that comes from the USA and it turned out mostly to be software. And less and less of it as time passes. An interesting exercise. The 'fun' stuff, such as movies etc, I would not class as essentials. If I didn't have them, I'd still get along fine. So, yeah, it's possible to live a consumer life without the USA. Who knew.
Lack of software and films would easily be plugged by EU's home grown industry and they can easily do a better job with films the UK has a proven track record in films already and software houses would spring up all over the place not just that wonky silicon roundabout.
All of the stuff I have is MADE in China / Taiwan etc anyway. Some stuff designed in US (iPod), but mostly it's European brands anyway. As OP says it's mostly software and movies that come from there. Movies no problem there's a big and growing EU + international scene with extremely high production values, quality etc. Only main advantage of US films is they're in English... but then again British films >>> US films anyway.
Software ditto though I suppose I could easily switch to Linux. All the embedded software in my kit is probably linux-based anyway. The real biggie is web-based services... Google / Bing search, Google maps, Google translate, Facebook etc... nothing essential and nothing that can't be replicated (albeit less polished / capable) although it would be annoying.
Oh... and Android / iOS / Windows phone OS. I guess we can all switch to the new Blackberry :)
"So, yeah, it's possible to live a consumer life without the USA. Who knew."
Hell, that's what I do and I live in the USA. No I don't count taxes as part of a consumer life because all I get from my tax dollars is idiots like this and I could easily, even preferably, live without that.
That said, with the exception of meat even the food comes from Mexico or further south for half the year and when I lived up in the northern part of the US it was about nine months of imported veg. Frankly, it it weren't for the ag twins of subsidies and tariffs it would probably be cheaper to import most of our food including meat. After all, those are the only reasons why corn syrup is cheaper than sugar and also why Brazil has so much sugar which, IIRC, they turn into auto fuel. Then again, I'm fairly sure I'm not telling you folks in Europe anything new. One quick question, do your governments pay farmers to not grow produce that doesn't grow where the farm is to minimize surplus like our gubbermint does?
Work - the database server we use, now owned by a German company, compiler - US based but Germans work on it as well.
Home - some games, US based but multinational workers incluidng high up British employees.
Not much really, I think I would miss Naughty Dog the most.
I already did. As far as I know the only item I own which was made in the USA is the Intel chip inside the Chinese laptop I. Bought three years ago.
You Americans make nothing the rest of the world wants.
The core skill is branding and marketing third world manufactured goods. These would fall outside any trade embargo. Worse if the EU got really nasty it could just stop enforcing intellectual property rights for US based companies.


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justinpie wrote:Here's one that was actually on my radio station today:
In the beginning of "Life's a Glitch and Then You Die," there is a new year's party going on, and a banner on the wall. What does the banner say?
kathleenJ wrote:Exchanging long protein strands. "If you can think of a better way, I'd like to hear it!"
Okay...this trivia spans all the halloween episodes.
Name two Halloween costumes each that Bart and Lisa have worn, and one each for Maggie, Marge, and Homer.
justinpie wrote:I remember Fish Police and the Family Dog.
Trivia: Has anyone realized that Kang and Kodos have only appeared in the Halloween specials? I guess I knew that, but I just considered them more regular characters for some reason.
kathleenJ wrote:Kang and Kodos appeared in a non-Halloween episode last year, which gets my Worst Episode Ever vote - it was a godawful clip show where Homer was getting roasted at a club for some reason. They weren't in the clips - they actually showed up and interacted with the characters and caused some havoc, which, I dunno, it just shouldn't be. IMO, the only saving grace was the shot of Homer literally jumping a shark at the end.
I really liked that Behind the Laughter episode, tho.
Trivia time: Which one of Kang and Kodos is female?
EteRock wrote:What line came after "Hello Mr. Kurns....me bad want money now.....me sick"?
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text: NWSB Insider and Blogger Jon Irwin talks about the gameday experience at OSU's Reser Stadium. Home of the Oregon State Beavers football team. For a football program as old as OSU's, there are surprisingly few stadium traditions. What Oregon State does have thought is some of the best football weather in the country. OOOOO, SSSSS, UUUUU, OREGON STATE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Following a thrilling comeback win at the Harvard Invitational last weekend, the women's golf team looks to head into their off-season with a win at the Sacred Heart Invitational this weekend.
That win at Harvard saw freshman See Heo Moon rise to the occasion as she has all fall, not only registering a hole-in-one, but setting a course women's record low en route to her third individual championship of the fall. Another bright spot for the Bulldogs was freshman Sun Park, who despite not being amongst Yale's scoring five due to the fact that she is coming off an injury, shot rounds of 74 and 75, good for the second best weekend of any Yalie besides Moon.
Seniors Harriet Owers-Bradley and captain Alyssa Roland (156 and 157, respectively), also had low-scoring weekends, while Cassie Boles and Alex Lipa were also major parts of the comeback, turning in combined scores of 159 over the two days of play.
The Bulldogs take to the course for the final time this fall in Sacred Heart's two-day Invitational at the Great River Golf Course.
Report filed by Chelsea Janes '12, Yale Sports Publicity