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an anonymous reader
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:51 am
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Also, MSG is not derived from seaweed anymore, although that was the original source. It is produced by fermenting molasses or starch hydrolyzate into l-glutamic acid, which is then neutralized with sodium hydroxide. Before this, wheat gluten was used, which contains upwards of 25% MSG by weight.
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an anonymous reader
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:52 am
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1) Umami is considered a specific flavor. There is much evidence to support that human tongues have receptors for Glutamate.
Rather than cook with MSG, celery is a good source of it-- that's why Celery tastes like water but makes food much tasty.
2) Nobody is allergic to "aspartame" per se, it's a sensitivity to phenylaline. Those that have this condition are required to be vegetarians (as meat contains it as well). I think Aspartame has a far worse reputation than it deserves, but I'm still a sucrose man, myself.
3) Chocolate doesn't contain caffeine (unless added). Chocolate contains a compound called Theobromine, which indeed is related to caffeine.
Theobromine's properties are much more positive in my opinion, it's processed much slower, it's a mood enhancer, and its stimulant properties are much more relaxed. And dogs can't handle it so don't give your dog chocolate.
4) Lecithin is found in chocolate and considered to be very healthy. Turmeric (Curcumin) also has healthy properties.
I find it impressive (and frightening) how many food colorings are derived from petroleum!
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Jeff Dougan
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:52 am
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On lecithin: Also found in egg yolks; it's the phospholipid that makes eggs such great emulsifiers.
On MSG #1: Although most people aren't particularly sensitive to it in normal-to-moderate doses, there are some people who are especially sensitive to glutamates in general.
On MSG #2: The glutamate sensitive should also keep their eyes on ingredients for "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" or similar phrases. Hydrolysis is the process that breaks proteins down into their component amino acids, and some glutamate will invariably be released in the process. (P)HVP's will usually be used as a way to add glutamate and the corresponding umami taste to a product.
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an anonymous reader
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:52 am
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>Personally, once I got a bag of Ranch Corn Nuts, devoured the bag, and immediately got a headache and even nausea. I checked the ingredients, and there was MSG pretty high on the list.
I always get a headache when I eat 'ranch' flavoured anything and I don't think it has anything to do with MSG (in fact I suspect that it is psychological) but some flavouring in it does not agree with me. If I think its psychological does that rule it out...?
I often get a headachy feeling when I eat yellow, green or orange candy. I can't figure out if it's the colouring or the flavouring. I only have trouble with certain candies, and never with pop or other processed foods. It's always the gummy chewy sticks to you teeth transparent candies, like sour keys. Red candy I never have a problem with.
I don't see what's wrong with having seaweed in ice-cream. It's not like iced is a natural state for the cream anyway.
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an anonymous reader
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:53 am
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3) Chocolate doesn't contain caffeine (unless added). Chocolate contains a compound called Theobromine, which indeed is related to caffeine.
I am curious to know more about this... I personally have an allergic reaction to caffeine. (This is document by several different doctors- not something I self diagnosed.)
I have always been told that the caffeine in chocolate comes from the coca bean used to make the chocolate. I always check for coca bean or coca butter prior to purchasing a product. Needless to say- I don't eat much chocolate since almost all chocolate items contain one of these ingredents. I have found some white chocolate that does not contain either of these, but it is a rare find.
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:54 am
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re: cocoa and caffeine
Almost all chocolate has caffeine added. The question I'm wondering is whether or not cocoa naturally has caffeine. My sources say yes - about one tenth of the amount of theobromine, but nonetheless it does have caffeine. Now a number of internet websites claim there is no caffeine in processed cocoa (unless added), and some even cite scientific papers which I have been unable to find. In short, I don't know if cocoa has caffiene, but every piece of printed literature I've been able to find says "yes" and there are more than a handful of websites that say "no, it's another food myth".
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an anonymous reader
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:54 am
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I'm not a doctor or chemist, however, I would say that it would be worthwhile to consume a decent amount of chocolate at some point and find out if you actually do have a sensitivity to it the same way you get with caffeine.
I do apologize for my mistake, apparently cocoa does contain small amounts of caffeine, 17mg per liter, which is the same as a cup of decaf tea, and less than 1% that of espresso.
If caffeine is added to chocolate, I would imagine that it would have to be labelled as such.
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drink recipes
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:54 am
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Wow, I gotta say, this is a really nice complete list of all the stuff that we put in our body.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
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an anonymous reader
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:55 am
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I must respectfully disagree that "all chocolate has caffeine added". Caffeine is a drug, however common it may be, and you are suggesting that it may legally be added to a food but omitted* from the list of ingredients?
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:55 am
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I believe I might have used the wrong words in my last comment. As a base ingredient, most common chocolate contains caffeine. I don't know if it's been added or it's naturally there - but it's there...
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:21 pm
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Actually, caffeine can be added to an ingredient and not be listed as an additive - if the supplier of the ingredient that
normally naturally contains caffeine
bumps up the level of it and it is then sold to the manufacturer.
And did you know that caffeine helps minimize and reduce the incidence of cancer? Caffeine is not the horrible culprit that many deem it to be - in the amounts that people drink it in coffee at several huge cups per day, yes it can cause jitters, anxiety, etc. In someone like myself, even in small amounts it can do the same. But caffeine itself actually has some amazing health benefits so having in your product - particularly naturally ocurring and in small amounts - is not necessarily a bad thing. Just make sure you don;t add milk to your coffee or tea - milk proteins bind with the polyphenols (other natural compounds in coffee and tea) that have health and anicancer benefits. So some coffee each day is not a bad thing!
It seems here there is some nit picking about "additives". Guar gum and natural thickeners, such as agar, are commonly used in cooking around the world and are very natural. They are ingredients, or natural "additives" not nasty negative "additives". Some actually have health promoting properties such as burdock root. Their use does not mean that a manufacturer is "skimping' on quality items at all - it means that that is what they used in their recipe to create whatever texture, thickness, viscosity, they wanted to - or it can be used to hold things together in solid forms.
Question for someone familiar with Japanese regulations: WHat is acceptable in Japan for use as a release agent or lubricant in candies or tablets other than magnesium stearate (a natural vegetable fatty acid)?
Much obliged!
P.S> MSG makes me sick, plain and simple.
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Location: Florida
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:32 pm
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A big part of the reason MSG is associated with Chinese food (and Asian food in general) is because it's found naturally in soy (and seaweed, as a few other people have mentioned) and also because it was common for Chinese resturants in the US put extra MSG in their food to help bloster the taste of low quality (read: cheap) ingredients. Headaches and nausea caused by MSG are sometimes called 'Chinese Resturant Syndrome.' But really, a lot of cheap foodstuffs have MSG added to them to make the customer think that what they're eating is higher quality than it really is. I've seen many Chinese resturants in my area advertising 'No MSG' in their food to help calm additive-conscious customers.
I agree with Dragnore, there is a distinct flavor that MSG gives to food that can be picked out, although I've never gotten ill from it. I try to avoid foods with MSG added in addition to what's naturally in some foods simply because I don't like unnecessary chemicals in what I'm eating, but it's not the end of the world since it doesn't make me ill.
Perhaps MSG deserves it's own article?
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:00 pm
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Without reviewing my biochem, and that's my background, I believe that it is sloppiness in descriptions that accounts for people claiming the presence of caffeine in chocolate, when in fact, it is theobromine. Theobromine is an analog of caffeine, an analog simply meaning that the chemical or molecular structure is very nearly, but importantly, not, identical to caffeine. So, it can have similar, but not identical side effects on a person. Same as theophyline in tea. People claim caffeine in tea, but theophyline is an analog of caffeine. Anyway, my disclaimer is that I didn't have time to look up to refresh my memory, but, as an ex-professional scientist, I've seen a lot of general sloppiness that causes people to believe something erroneous. Some science mags or sources figure the masses don't need to know the accurate details, so they talk "down" to the masses. However, that being said, there could, indeed, be small amounts of caffeine in chocolate and tea, as well as the analogs I've mentioned. Just not time to research it at the moment.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:34 am
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I found this wonderful book at goodwill that explains all these,and I guess you can also buy the book on amazon if you're lucky, but anyone who is truly curious about what's in our food, I would highly recommend this book:
Our poisoned earth and sky (Preliminary task force report)
It's old but still very relevant, and it really opens your mind to the fact that nothing you eat anymore is without poison unless you grew it yourself in virgin soil, probably in a greenhouse. Not gonna sell my book though.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:48 am
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I became interested in BHT since I read in the book mentioned previous about what BHT stands for, the T is for tolouene which is also a component of the car paint we sell at my job and that stuff is soooo noxious! I found this site about the properties of BHT and it's really frightening! This stuff is commonly found in gum and hotdogs, and other preserved meat products. They actually call it an Anti-Oxidant! I am getting a little confused lately about antioxidants, cuz some of them are purely lethal, apparently.
Bht is derived from coal tars which are known to have carcinogenic effects
It would be lovely if they would just sell fresh food in its natural color and leave all this preservative CRAP out of it. It's ridiculous how much undigestible chemicals go into almost all food.
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Imagine going to sleep and waking up the next morning not able to bend your elbow or knee. Or imagine having difficulty drawing breath because your rib cage is starting to fuse. Imagine being unable to enjoy your favorite cut of steak because your jaw has locked into place. Even worse, imagine having a limb amputated because you've been misdiagnosed with cancer. This is the harsh reality facing patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare, genetic disease affecting 1 in 2 million people (700 known cases worldwide, 185 in the US), where soft tissues–like muscle and connective tissue–are progressively replaced by bone. Often beginning in the neck, ribbons of bone, spread through the shoulders, along the back, trunk, and limbs of the body eventually freezing patients in a skeletal cage.
Curiously, FOP patients are born by and large symptom free, the only consistent tell-tale sign being malformed great toes:
Extraskeletal bone formation occurs sometime in the first two decades of life, usually during childhood. Bone formation is preceded by a painful, inflammatory flareup, the cause of which is unknown. A particularly insidious feature of the disease is that trauma or injury can induce these flareups, meaning that undergoing surgery to remove the extra bone only exacerbates the problem. Bumps and bruises we typically overlook cause alarm for FOP patients. Even injections, such as vaccinations, are a source of concern. Currently, while there is no cure, treatment revolves around reducing inflammation and controlling pain using corticosteriods, NSAIDS, or COX-2 inhibitors such as Vioxx (before it was pulled from the market).
A mystery unraveled
While the earliest description of FOP dates back to the late 17th century, the cause of the disease remained an enigma for centuries until 2006, when researchers at the University of Pennsylvania linked the disease to a mutation found in FOP patients (1). The mutation affects one copy of the ACVR1(ALK2) gene, which encodes a protein important in relaying communication between cells. In the body, cells can send signals to instruct other cells to start forming bone via Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP)–thus named for their ability to induce bone growth. ACVR1 is a type I receptor for BMPs and, with the help of the BMP type II receptor, acts like an antenna that receives these signals and transmits the encoded instructions to the cell.
Studies in zebrafish, fruit flies and mammalian cell culture all indicate that the mutant ACVR1 receptor linked to FOP has gone rogue, capable of transmitting the instructions without having to receive the initial BMP signal (2-4). The mutant receptor acts as though its power switch has been permanently flipped to the "on" position. More recently, scientists have provided even more direct evidence that the mutant form of ACVR1 is responsible for FOP. Through a trick of genetic engineering known as "gene knock-in", the researchers at UPenn were able to replace one copy of the normal ACVR1 gene in mice with the mutant form associated with FOP. The resulting mutant mice displayed many of the hallmarks of FOP: "malformed first digits in the hind limbs and post-natal extra-skeletal bone formation" that occurs both spontaneously and as a result of injury (5).
One of the limitations of their knock-in technique, however, was that the replacement of the normal ACVR1 gene with the mutant version was incomplete–it occured in most, but not all, of the cells in the mice. This produced chimeric mice, which were mosaics of cells that had one copy of the mutated ACVR1 gene ("FOP" cells) and cells that had two normal copies of the ACVR1 gene. Exploiting this mixed nature of the mice, the researchers were able to study how "FOP" cells interacted with normal cells. Surprisingly, they found that in the presence of "FOP" cells even normal cells were turning into bone. This suggests that cells that have the faulty ACVR1 receptor can also instruct normal cells to turn into bone through an unidentified mechanism.
Marching toward a cure
With these findings scientists are beginning to devise strategies and design drugs that can either specifically turn off the expression of the mutant ACVR1 gene or turn off the aberrant activity of the mutant, providing hope that a cure or, at very least, an effective treatment is on the horizon. While some of these avenues are promising, a viable treatment is far from reaching the market. To find a cure will require more research, which in turn requires money. Because FOP is such a rare disease it often flies under the radar when it comes to research funding. Currently, an estimated $1.5 million a year is spent on FOP research, 25% of which is funded by institutions like the NIH and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. Incredibly, the remaining 75% is generated through donations and FOP family fundraising. If you would like to help or find out more about FOP, please visit the International FOP Association website.
Featured Image: Harry Eastlack, a man who lived with FOP, donated his skeleton to science. His skeleton is on display at the Mütter Museum.
1. Shore EM, Xu M, Feldman GJ, Fenstermacher DA, Cho TJ, Choi IH, Connor JM, Delai P, Glaser DL, LeMerrer M, Morhart R, Rogers JG, Smith R, Triffitt JT, Urtizberea JA, Zasloff M, Brown MA, Kaplan FS. A recurrent mutation in the BMP type I receptor ACVR1 causes inherited and sporadic fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Nat Genet. 2006 May;38(5):525-7
2. Shen Q, Little SC, Xu M, Haupt J, Ast C, Katagiri T, Mundlos S, Seemann P, Kaplan FS, Mullins MC, Shore EM. The fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva R206H ACVR1 mutation activates BMP-independent chondrogenesis and zebrafish embryo ventralization. J Clin Invest. 2009 Nov;119(11):3462-72. doi: 10.1172/JCI37412
3. Le VQ, Wharton KA. Hyperactive BMP signaling induced by ALK2(R206H) requirestype II receptor function in a Drosophila model for classic fibrodysplasiaossificans progressiva. Dev Dyn. 2012 Jan;241(1):200-14. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.22779
4. van Dinther M, Visser N, de Gorter DJ, Doorn J, Goumans MJ, de Boer J, ten Dijke P. ALK2 R206H mutation linked to fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva confers constitutive activity to the BMP type I receptor and sensitizes mesenchymal cells to BMP-induced osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. J Bone Miner Res. 2010 Jun;25(6):1208-15
5. Chakkalakal, S., Zhang, D., Culbert, A., Convente, M., Caron, R., Wright, A., Maidment, A., Kaplan, F., & Shore, E. (2012). An Acvr1 R206H knock-in mouse has fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva Journal of Bone and Mineral Research DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.1637
*7.10.12 – Updated figure. See this post.

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LYONS — With the score tied at an offensively miserable score of 8-8 at halftime, one wondered if, after the break, the team that managed to string just two baskets together might be the one to come away with a victory.
As it turned out, once a couple baskets fell for Alexander Dawson, the shots just kept raining down.
Shaking off the doldrums of a frustrating first half, the Mustangs quickly put together a dominant run in the third quarter, paving the way for a 37-20 nonconference win at Lyons. Alexander Dawson (6-6) received sudden scoring bursts from Morgan Powers, Rachel Clair and Fiona Bell during the third to pull away from the Lions. It was the sixth consecutive loss for Lyons, which fell to 1-11 overall.
"I told them at the half that the good news was that it couldn't get much worse than that," Alexander Dawson coach Jessica Mitchell said. "They all kind of laughed and I think it relaxed them a little. We hadn't hit a shot yet and we were tied, so we tried to push it from there.
"Once they saw the lid was off the top (of the rim) in the second half, they got some confidence. When one of us gets going, it kind of feeds off each other. That helped us a lot in the second half."
Lyons took a 10-8 lead immediately after the break on a driving layup by senior Olivia Raspotnik, but that would be the end of the offensive highlights for the Lions. A jumper from Bell began a 20-0 run by Dawson that put the game out of reach and featured a range of contributions for the Mustangs.
Powers, who missed all five of her 3-point attempts in the first half, knocked down three consecutive long jumpers, including a pair of 3-pointers. Bell added six points during the burst while Clair, who made only one of her first eight shots, drained consecutive 3-pointers, the last of which capped Dawson's 20-0 run and gave the Mustangs a 28-10 lead going into the fourth.
"Some of our shots were close but we weren't making them, but we knew they would fall eventually," Powers said. "We kept telling our teammates that they were going to fall and to keep trying. They finally did. Once that started it helped our team get excited and pull away. It's good to get confidence like that."
Bell paced Dawson with 12 points, scoring eight in the second half, while Powers scored all 11 of her points after intermission. Powers also contributed 10 rebounds, combining with Nicole Towner (12 rebounds) to give the Mustangs a sizeable advantage on the boards.
The youthful Lions, who feature only two seniors on their roster, have not been the most formidable offensive team, entering Saturday's contest averaging just 25.7 points a game. Yet it has been a particularly frustrating week for Lyons, which managed only 33 points overall in losses against Platte Valley and Dawson. Head coach Sandy Mitchell (no relation to Dawson coach Jessica Mitchell) still is patiently attempting to develop other offensive weapons to help the Lions when Raspotnik is shackled as she was on Saturday. The senior, averaging more than 14 points and 12 rebounds, was limited to seven points by Alexander Dawson.
"Olivia is our go-to player, but we're talking about a team that is so young," said Sandy Mitchell, whose club made only six field goals. "And not just young, but with no experience. (Raspotnik) wasn't getting hot, and when she doesn't get hot, it almost trickles down to the rest of the team, unfortunately."
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Alexander Dawson 37, Lyons 20
At Lyons HS
Powers 4 0-0 11, Gallop 1 0-1 2, Towner 2 0-2 4, Clair 3 0-0 8, Bell 6 0-3 12, Barrett 0 0-2 0, Desai 0 0-0 0. Totals 16 0-8 37.
A. Sundrud 0 0-0 0, Bashor 0 4-6 4, Raspotnik 2 2-2 7, Walko 1 0-0 2, Simms 1 0-0 2, Roth 1 0-0 3, Grace 1 0-0 2, Hamilton 0 0-0 0, S. Sundrud 0 0-0 0, Danduran 0 0-0 0. Totals 6 6-8 20.
Score by quarters:
Alexander Dawson 6 2 20 9 — 37
Lyons 3 5 2 10 — 20
3-point field goals — Alexander Dawson (5): Powers 3, Clair 2; Lyons (2): Raspotnik, Roth. Total fouls — Alexander Dawson 12, Lyons 15. Fouled out — Walko.


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Midfielder Jonatan Torres moves around a defender last Friday in Liberty's 3-1 win over Presbyterian College.
The Liberty Flames will travel to Conway, S.C. for a men's soccer match with the No. 6 ranked Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Friday afternoon. The Big South Conference contest is scheduled for 3 p.m. at CCU Soccer Field.
Liberty (7-6, 3-3 Big South) will look to extended its conference winning streak to three. The Flames recorded victories over Winthrop and Presbyterian College in their last two Big South matches.
Friday's match with Coastal Carolina (11-2, 6-0 Big South) will be the highest ranked opponent the Flames have met on the soccer pitch since falling to the No. 2 ranked North Carolina Tar Heels, 2-0, on Oct. 12, 2010 at Osborne Stadium.
How to Follow the Flames Friday afternoon's contest will be video streamed live on the Big South Network free of charge. The broadcast, provided by Coastal Carolina, can be accessed by clicking on the video link under men's soccer on LibertyFlames.com. In addition, live stats will be provided by the Coastal Carolina Media Relations Office. They can be accessed by clicking on the live stats link under men's soccer on LibertyFlames.com.
A Look at Liberty Liberty had a three-game winning streak snapped in a 2-0 loss at N.C. State, Tuesday evening. The winning streak was the longest of the year for the Flames.
Midfielder Sachem Wilson continues to pace the Flames in goals, assists and points. The sophomore has netted five goals and assisted on three others for 13 points. Sophomore Tim Harbison follows with 10 points on four goals and two assists.
Midfielder Blessing Tahuona and forward Kyle Breitmeyer join the pair as multiple-goal scorers this season. Tahuona has scored three goals, while Breitmeyer has netted two goals.
Tyler Bullock, Jonatan Torres, Sam Duininck, Jacob Sebold and Ernest Siaw have each scored a goal for the Flames in 2013.
Goalkeeper Jeremy Lee has started the past five contests. The redshirt freshman has logged over 598 minutes between the posts for the Flames this season, posting a 1.50 goals-against average and .730 save percentage.
Liberty has posted five shutouts, all coming in victories this season. As a team, Liberty enters Friday's game with a 1.37 goals-against average.
Liberty's Jeff Alder is in his 13th year as head coach at his alma mater. Alder has posted a 123-92-22 career record, while heading the Flames' program.
All-Time Against Coastal Carolina Friday afternoon will be the 25th meeting between Liberty and Coastal Carolina on the soccer pitch. The Chanticleers hold a 15-8-1 overall record in the all-time series. However, the Chanticleers hold a slight 4-3-1 over the last eight meetings between the two. Last season, the then-No. 19 Chanticleers defeated the Flames, 3-0, at the East Campus Fields on Sept. 19.
A Look at Coastal Carolina The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers enter Friday's contest with a 10-game winning streak. The Chanticleers defeated Big South opponent Radford, 1-0, in their latest outing this past Sunday. Coastal Carolina is unbeaten in Big South Conference play with a 6-0 record.
Midfielder Ricky Garbanzo leads the Chanticleers with seven goals on the season, while fellow midfielder Pedro Ribeiro paces Coastal Carolina with 16 points on six goals and four assists.
Goalkeeper Devin Cook has played in all 13 of the Chanticleers' contests, starting all but one. Cook enters Friday's game with a 0.79 goals-against average, which leads the Big South Conference. He has also been in goal for each of Coastal Carolina's seven shutouts.
Shaun Docking is in his 18th year at Coastal Carolina. The Chanticleers have recorded a 225-111-29 mark during his tenure.
Big South Play With a 3-1 victory over Presbyterian College last Friday at Osborne Stadium, Liberty evened its record to 3-3 in Big South play.
With four conference games remaining, the Flames are currently tied for fifth in the Big South standings with Winthrop. Coastal Carolina leads the conference, with the only unblemished Big South record.
Liberty is 96-82-14 all-time in Big South Conference contests. The Flames have posted a .500 or better conference ledger in 20 out of their 22 seasons in the conference. Liberty has won two Big South titles, both during head coach Jeff Alder's tenure. Liberty captured conference titles in 2007 and 2011.
A Look Ahead Liberty returns home to Osborne Stadium for a Big South Conference contest, Tuesday evening. The Flames will host the Longwood Lancers, with match time scheduled for 6 p.m.
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The Lewiston-Porter Alumni Association has announced its gala, celebrating the 60-year history of the Lewiston-Porter Central School District, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel.
The Lewiston-Porter Alumni Association, formed in 2007, has assisted Lewiston-Porter with scholarships for graduates, teacher mini-grants to support classroom initiatives, freshmen orientation, and distinguished alumni awards.
The work of the Lewiston-Porter Alumni Association would not be possible without the support of its membership and the local community. The merging of two communities of Lewiston and Porter, which were archrivals in basketball at one time, was a dream that became a reality. The mission of the Lewiston-Porter Alumni Association is to create a partnership among alumni and the school and community that encourages involvement, enhances loyalty and serves current and future needs of the school and alumni.
The Lewiston-Porter Alumni Association has made many strides in the five years of existence and the board of directors wants to continue making strides for the students of Lewiston-Porter. This benefit will help the association to continue to strive for excellence.
Alumni membership and the community at large are invited to join in this year's gala celebration on Oct. 6 at Seneca Niagara. The event gets under way at 6 p.m. with cocktails featuring an open bar. Dinner will be offered at 7 p.m., followed by two hours of open bar and dancing to the music of Asylum. A basket and silent auction also will be a part of the evening.
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Law's History: How Law Understands the Past
Friday, October 19th, 2007
The University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL Law in the modern era is one of the most important of our society's technologies for preserving memory. In helping to construct our memory in certain ways law participates in the writing of our collective history. It plays a crucial role in knitting together our past, present, and future. The purpose of this symposium is to examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a "victim" of history, we want to treat law as an author of history, not just in the instrumental sense in which law can be said to make a difference in society, but in the ways that law constructs and uses history. Law looks to the past as it speaks to present needs. In the production of judicial opinions—supposedly definitive statements of what the law is—judges reconstruct law's past, tracing out lines of legal precedent that arguably "compel" their decisions. Among the things we wish to explore are the varied ways law treats history, how history appears in legal decisions, and how the authority of history is used to authorize legal decisions.
Organized by Professor Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst and Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar for the 2007-2008 academic year at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Speakers include:
Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California (paper abstract here)
Martin Flaherty, Fordham
Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia
Neal Katyal, Georgetown
William Novak, University of Chicago.
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If you owe someone a few hundred dollars, why not send it to them over Gmail? Now that Google has integrated Google Wallet with the web mail system, it's now entirely possible to give and receive cash.
Users can hover over the attachment link until it offers the $ icon, which means you can now attach a dollar amount you want to send, according to Travis Green, a product manager for Google Wallet. For those worried about scams and fraud, apparently Google Wallet Purchase Protection covers you 100 percent -- provided you report it within six months and it doesn't cover Google Play, Google Drive or YouTube. The new payments via Gmail will be rolled out in the next few months.
Of course, sending money via email isn't free. Google Wallet charges a 2.9 percent fee, with a minimum 30 cents, to send money from a credit or debit card. There's also a $10,000 a day transaction limit, but Google says this could change. Users also must be 18 years old.
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It's certainly a convenient way to pay someone, especially someone who doesn't have a payment system in place, but with an almost 3 percent fee we feel that it may be worth a trip to visit your friend to give him or her $200 in cash rather than pay $6 to send it via Gmail.


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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. If the name of the holiday wasn't enough to tell you, its the perfect time for giving thanks. With my new baby home, healthy and happy with us I want to give thanks for the precious little bundle I have. I want to give thanks for my mother in law living across the street and willing to help whenever I need her. I want to give thanks for my (fairly) quick recovery from my c-section as it doesn't hurt as badly as I thought it would to care for my baby.
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Lowcountry Feast
Chef Chris Hastings pays homage to the fresh food of his childhood.
Amid a flurry of gulls begging for their share, restaurateur Chris Hastings and his wife, Idie, set up lunch while sons Zeb and Vincent run along the beach. As the family gathers around the table, Chris begins to tell his story: "Creek Boy. That's what they called me."
On the map it's Salt Marsh Creek, an inlet from the Atlantic running parallel to Pawleys Island. To locals, it's just "the creek." Chris often visited here as a child to harvest clams, crabs, and fish. "It came naturally and it was fun," he says. This lifestyle inspired Chris' philosophy on food--local and fresh.
Tradition is important to Chris and Idie, and today's menu reflects their Southern roots. Paying homage to meals of decades ago, the couple prepares a vibrant platter of Hot and Hot Fish Club Tomato Salad. The first Hot and Hot Fish Club (namesake to Chris' renowned restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama) was a men's club founded more than 150 years ago. Membership included Chris' great-great-grandfather. Its name evoked the tradition of serving many steaming seafood courses, one after the other.
Though not hot, and not seafood, the tomato salad Chris derived from succotash uses Southern favorites--lima beans, bacon, corn, okra. He prefers heirloom tomatoes: not hybridized or altered from their original form. "They are imperfect and often blemished," he says, "but it gets back to the flavors. Flavor is first, last, and always."
Lunch unfolds pleasantly but not too leisurely. High tide fast approaches, and the family's spot on the wide beach will soon be 2 feet under. High tide also means good crabbing, so it's time to bait lines.
The salt marsh fills, turning the wide mud path into a sparkling waterway. Lively blue crabs find their way to the deeper parts to catch a fresh meal. The Hastings have a similar idea in mind. All closely monitor several lines of string dangling from the dock.
Chris explains this age-old method of crabbing: Start by fastening a 6-foot length of string around a wooden dowel or stick. Tie a chicken neck or fish head at the other end of the string as bait. Drop it into the water and wait. A tug on the line signals a potential score. Slowly wind the string around the dowel. When the crab's in sight, just beneath the water, slip a net under it and quickly scoop it up.
Chris checks the sex of each crab before placing it in a basket. He returns females (and small males) to the water to ensure another generation. The crustaceans are feisty-mad, and Chris shows the boys how to pick them up without getting nipped. Escapes cause a bit of commotion as human feet leap out of the way to avoid their wrath. Zeb, 12, and Vincent, 10, watch with fascination as they let a few bold ones run on the dock. "We have to put them back," says Zeb. "Remember? If we play with them too much they die."
"Gosh, we've got problems," Vincent points out, as a battalion of angry crabs scuttles across the worn wooden planks. It's time to return them to the basket.
The now-receding high tide causes a riverlike current in the marsh--great fun for boaters and floaters alike. While Idie takes the afternoon catch to the house, the boys opt for a dip. Chris smiles as his sons take turns leaping into the warm water, remembering when this was his whole world.
Does watching his kids splash around make Chris feel old and sentimental? "No," he says, kicking off sandals. "I'm out there with 'em. I'll feel old when I can't do it."


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As the army tanks and American taxi cabs ride out of town, Vancouver bids farewell to a giant, radioactive monster otherwise known as Godzilla.
The mega-budgeted blockbuster landed with a big bang in B.C., busting out large-scale sets, explosions and delivering (omg!) star sightings for three months. Actors spotted around town include heartthrob Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche and Elizabeth Olsen.
As the film crew moves on to Hawaii next week, Vancouver's film industry revs up for a busy summer. Here's a few highlights:
Legendary director Tim Burton has been in town scouting locations for feature film Big Eyes, which will be here from July 8. Starring Amy Adams — who most recently played Lois Lane in Man of Steel — as well as Christoph Waltz and Krysten Ritter, the plot centres on the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her success in the 1950s, and her later legal difficulties with her husband, who claimed credit for her works.
Look out for hunky new dad Channing Tatum in the coming weeks, who will likely accompany wife, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, and newborn Everly (born May 31). Jenna stars in TV series The Witches of East End, which starts July 16.
Production is said to start this week on horror/sci-fi flick The Visitors, featuring Freddie Stroma, who played Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter series.
The Untitled Eadweard Muybridge Project, starring Michael Eklund, begins Monday.
The next big blockbuster to look out for is Tomorrowland, a secret Disney film starring George Clooney, Hugh Laurie and Raffey Cassidy. They'll be here Aug. 8 to Jan. 15.
The next JJ Abrams series, Almost Human, begins filming July 16.
Looks like homegrown comedy hero Seth Rogen will be returning to his old stomping grounds this summer to film The Interview with James Franco. Pre-production to begin August, with cameras rolling in October, according to reports. It's about two journalists who try to assassinate the president of North Korea while interviewing him.
The hit TV series Once Upon A Time resumes filming July 12. Its spinoff, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, gets rolling July 31.
Other TV series: Supernatural will be filming from July 11; The Tomorrow People from July 17; and A&E's thriller Bates Motel will return to its creepy Aldergrove set July 24 for its second season.
That's not all. For all the updates, follow Katya on Twitter
Click here to view images of celebrities to look out for on the streets of Vancouver.


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The death of her father must have been a great shock to my grandmother Grace. She was only a little over 16 years old at the time of his murder. I wonder what she might have been thinking. I have wondered what the news of her father's death would be like for her. Things had been tense between them because of Hank Taylor's interest and then her marriage to my grandfather R.S. McDonald. George had not been happy and told her so.
Here is a possible scenario:
R.S. entered the hotel room. Grace was just finishing tucking her hair into place. She turned to greet him and stopped short. R.S. looked at her intently. "What's wrong?" she said. Ronald Sandfield McDonald searched carefully for the words that would tell his lovely new wife of the tragedy that had occurred. "Well, Mr. McDonald, what on earth is wrong." She demanded. R.S. could see no other way but to say the words. "Your father has been shot." Grace looked at him and blinked standing there with a puzzled look at her face. "Papa, shot? Is he all right?" R.S. took a deep breath and said: "No, I am afraid to tell you this, but he died very quickly and suffered little." Grace began to sway and R.S. rushed to catch her and gently helped her to the bed. "This can't be. Are you sure?" Grace said. "Yes, here is the telegram that came just now." He handed it to her. Grace took it into her hands and read it slowly and carefully. It was from her mother, Amarilla and it asked her to come home immediately. She held it tightly in her hand and the room was filled with silence. R.S. sat next to her gently comforting her. The last several months since their marriage had been hard but this was totally unexpected and unbelievable. R.S. was the first to break the silence and said "I have made arrangements to get you to Pine River as quickly as possible. He rose from the bed and went to her suitcase and started packing her things. Grace sat quietly on the bed, reading the telegram again and again. Clutching it in her hand. "Papa, dead?"
Grace and R.S. said their goodbyes at the Cloquet train station. "I have some business to finish up and will be going off to the camp. I will come down to Pine River in a couple of days and be with you. I am so sorry, Grace. I wish I could be with you now but Backus has me running." Grace smiled gently at her husband. His job as Superintendent for Backus was not an easy one. Grasping the railing she climbed abroad the train. Feeling a tug at his heart, R.S. watched the train starting its journey. Leaving her behind was always hard but this was worse. He turned on his heels and dashed up the street.
Grace somehow found a seat on the train next to the window. The train began to pick up speed. Can't this train go faster, she thought. Wanting to get home and find out what had really happened to her father and yet on the other hand a tremendous dread of what was to come engulfed her. Papa, dead……no it can't be. He was just yelling at Yllander a few weeks ago. Papa always yelled! …
Written by her granddaughter in 2005. My grandmother had her written compilation "Words of Wasted Moment." I hope I have done her proud to write this scenario. See the posted dated September 19, 2013 "1898: Sweet Sixteen – Grace Barclay is growing up. "
How Grace managed to get from Cloquet, Minnesota to Pine River by November 2, 1898 for the Coroner's Inquest on the death of her father George, is only speculation on my part. I am convinced she used the railroads to do it. Getting around as a passenger in Minnesota had not been easy but progress was being made by 1898. She either went to St. Paul and headed for Brainerd where she took the train to Pine River; however, if the railroad was in place from Duluth to Brainerd then she could have gone to Duluth from Cloquet and transferred to get into Brainerd and then headed north to Pine River. Fun to speculate on her route.
The Historical Maps website has a railroad map for Minnesota dated 1900. Grace was no stranger to traveling the trains. She had been riding them for years going to school in St. Paul and traveling with her parents.


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Donald Drive #80 – A Packer Forever – Love You, Man
It's impossible not to love Donald Driver, for his talent, his giving to the community, and his big smile. And let's not forget that whole "Dancing With The Stars" thing. We're gonna miss you Donald, but you will always be loved by Cheesehead Nation for everything that you stand for. You will be a Packer … Continue reading


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January 29, 2013
Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2013, ended December 31, 2012.
"AspenTech delivered strong second quarter results that exceeded our guidance on all key metrics. We continue to see strong customer demand and product usage patterns, which contributed to our solid year-over-year annual spend growth of nearly 13% during the second quarter," said Mark Fusco, President and Chief Executive Officer. "The company's operational execution remains at a high level, which is evidenced by free cash flow generation of $34.5 million during the quarter. With over $50 million of free cash flow generated during the first half of our fiscal year, we feel very good about the company's position as we are heading into our seasonally strongest cash flow quarter."
Fusco added, "Looking ahead, we are encouraged by the strength of our pipeline and business momentum. We believe the company is tracking well against each of our key full year objectives, including growth, cash flow, revenue and profitability."
Second Quarter Fiscal 2013 and Recent Business Highlights
- Annual spend, which the company defines as the annualized value of all term license and maintenance revenue contracts at the end of the quarter, was approximately $320 million at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase of 12.7% compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and 2.6% sequentially.
- The license portion of total contract value was $1.54 billion at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase of 13.5% compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and 2.9% sequentially.
- Total contract value, including the value of bundled maintenance, was $1.78 billion at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase of 15.5% compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and 3.3% sequentially.
Summary of Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results
AspenTech's total revenue of $77.3 million increased 16% from $66.6 million in the second quarter of the prior year. • Subscription and software revenue was $59.5 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase from $46.5 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012. • Services & other revenue was $17.9 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2013, compared to $20.1 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012.
For the quarter ended December 31, 2012, AspenTech reported income from operations of $14.9 million, compared to income from operations of $7.0 million for the same period last fiscal year.
Net income was $9.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2012, leading to net income per share of $0.10, compared to $0.04 in the same period last fiscal year.
Non-GAAP income from operations, which adds back stock-based compensation expense, restructuring charges and amortization of intangibles associated with acquisitions, was $18.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2013, compared to $10.1 million in the same period last fiscal year.
Non-GAAP net income was $12.3 million, or $0.13 per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2013, compared to non-GAAP net income of $6.0 million, or $0.06 per share, in the same period last fiscal year. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in the financial tables included in this press release.
AspenTech had cash and cash equivalents of $175.2 million at December 31, 2012, an increase of $11.9 million from the end of the prior quarter after using $19.7 million in cash to repurchase shares of common stock and reducing secured borrowings by $5.6 million. AspenTech has now fully repaid its secured borrowings. During the second quarter, the company generated $35.7 million in cash flow from operations and $34.5 million in free cash flow after taking into consideration $1.2 million in capital expenditures and capitalized software.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release contains "non-GAAP financial measures" under the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Non-GAAP financial measures are not based on a comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. This non-GAAP information supplements, and is not intended to represent a measure of performance in accordance with, disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or superior to, financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in the financial tables included in this press release.
Management considers both GAAP and non-GAAP financial results in managing AspenTech's business. As the result of adoption of new licensing models, management believes that, for the next few years, a number of AspenTech's performance indicators based on GAAP, including revenue, gross profit, operating income (loss) and net income (loss), will be of limited value in assessing AspenTech's performance, growth and financial condition. Accordingly, management instead is focusing on certain non-GAAP and other business metrics, including the non-GAAP metrics set forth in this press release, to track AspenTech's business performance. None of these non-GAAP metrics should be considered as an alternative to any measure of financial performance calculated in accordance with GAAP.
Conference Call and WebcastAspenTech will host a conference call and webcast today, January 29, 2013, at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), to discuss the company's financial results for the second quarter fiscal year 2013 as well as the company's business outlook.
The live dial-in number is (877) 245-0126, conference ID code 86327489. Interested parties may also listen to a live webcast of the call by logging on to the Investor Relations section of AspenTech's website, http://www.aspentech.com/corporate/investor.cfm, and clicking on the "webcast" link. A replay of the call will be archived on AspenTech's website and will also be available via telephone at (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406, conference ID code 86327489, through March 1, 2013.
About AspenTechAspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing – for energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs and become more energy efficient. To see how the world's leading process manufacturers rely on AspenTech to achieve their operational excellence goals, visit www.aspentech.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fox will cut "American Idol" to one night for several weeks next spring, part of a reset for a struggling network that will have 12 new series in the coming year including the much-awaited "Batman" prequel "Gotham."
The network announced Monday that it will also break up its Sunday animation block by moving in the critical favorite "Brooklyn Nine Nine." Two of its Tuesday-night comedies will be replaced by an unscripted show that imagines people setting up a new society in an undeveloped area.
"American Idol" will air for some 37 hours next winter and spring, compared to the 50-plus hours that have been running for years, Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly said. After the initial auditions, the series will probably air a two-hour show once a week. The show's decline from television's biggest phenomenon to just another moderately successful series, combined with a failure to mint new hits, made this season a tough one for Fox.
"'Idol' is not going to come back to be the ratings champion it once was," Reilly said. "But we believe the show can be on for many years to come."
He compared it to CBS' "Survivor," once a sensation but now a dependable, mid-level hit — coincidentally one that frequently beats "Idol" in the ratings.
The "Idol" decline meant fewer people have tuned in live to Fox this season. With network TV's youngest audience, Fox is also hit harder than its rivals in the switch to other forms of viewing that doesn't show up in traditional overnight Nielsen ratings — streaming online, DVR usage and video on demand, Reilly said.
Five of Fox's new series already have a place on Fox's fall schedule, with the rest to come later in the season. "Gotham" has the biggest buzz — Fox says a trailer online has already been seen 6 million times — and will air Monday nights. It follows a 12-year-old future caped crusader in a city teeming with crime. Although Jada Pinkett Smith will play a new character, crime boss Fish Mooney, most of the show's characters will be familiar to followers of the comic book series.
The unscripted "Utopia" will air two episodes a week in the fall, on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Other new series to premiere in the fall are the youthful soap "Red Band Society," a 10-episode series "Gracepoint," based on the British drama "Broadchurch," and "Mulaney," starring John Mulaney as a struggling standup comic.
Fox is canceling "Enlisted," ''Dads," ''Rake" and "Surviving Jack," ''Almost Human" and "The X-Factor."
Other new series planned by Fox for next season:
—"Backstrom," a crime procedural starring Rainn Wilson of "The Office" as a detective battling his own self-destructive impulses.
—"Empire," a drama from Lee Daniels and Danny Strong of "The Butler" about an ailing hip-hop music executive whose children are bidding to inherit his business.
—"Heiroglyph," an action series set in ancient Egypt.
—"Wayward Pines," a 10-episode thriller from "The Sixth Sense" maker M. Night Shyamalan, based on the novel "Pines."
—"Bordertown," an animated comedy from "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane about the Buckwalds and Gonzalezes, two families living in a Southwest desert town.
—"The Last Man on Earth," a comedy set in 2022 starring Will Forte as a banker who is the only human left alive after a catastrophic event.
—"Weird Loners," a comedy about four people who have trouble maintaining relationships stuck in a Queens, New York, town house.
Fox unveils schedule, cutting back 'Idol'
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox will cut "American Idol" to one night for several weeks next spring, part of a reset for a struggling network that will have 12 new series in the coming year including the much-awaited "Batman" prequel "Gotham."


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When YouView landed in its plain vanilla form we were whelmed. Not overwhelmed, or underwhelmed, just plain, regular whelmed. And that was because, although the user interface was pretty, and the box seemed to work well in its PVR duties, it was not an outstanding on-demand device. It certainly couldn't rival the breadth of services that Sky offers, or the low-cost of a Freeview HD recorder.
So when TalkTalk announced its offering, we were slightly concerned that it would be the same again, with a TalkTalk logo plastered on the front. Happily, it seems this isn't the case, and the company has come up with a very interesting offering to take YouView to the next level.
First, TalkTalk has gone with a box from Huawei. The version it is giving out "free" - free, as in "included", not as in "beer" - has a 320GB hard drive and a custom design, with TalkTalk's own remote design. The firm admits that it's gone for lower-cost options here - hard drives are still very expensive - and that has led some of the decisions. But it's confident there will be bigger storage capacity options later. The TalkTalk box is also fan-free, which keeps operating noise to a minimum, something we found bothersome with the Humax receiver.
As you would expect, there are the usual on-demand options from the likes of BBC, ITV and channels 4 and 5. As with all YouView boxes, you can scroll through the EPG backwards to find catch-up TV to watch, or go forward to set recordings in the future. We couldn't see any difference in performance between the Humax box, and the TalkTalk model, it seemed fast and responsive, although we didn't get much chance to play.
But the main event here is the service TalkTalk is offering. The company is building on expertise and technology that it has acquired from the days of HomeChoice, and later, Tiscali TV. So its own TalkTalk player offers access to lots of unique content. But TalkTalk is also the first to offer linear, streaming TV down your broadband connection. So it's possible to subscribe to Sky1 through your YouView box, or to pay for the latest on-demand movies.
Films are provided by LoveFilm, although it's not the same as that company's own streaming service. When you enter the portal, you're shown a rolling trailer loop, with the new releases, and as with HomeChoice, you can opt to buy a film based on this trailer, and simply press green to start the rental process.
Pricing is also designed to be flexible. You'll get your box included in an 18-month contract on TalkTalk Plus TV - 24 months for existing customers. Your basic service costs £14.50, but you can add Sky's entertainment channels for £5 a month - which includes Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky Sports News, Sky Arts 1 and 2 and Sky Living. There are also kids' and music packages, which are £5 each: you get 13 kids' channels, and the usual music suspects.
If you want to save some money, then the entertainment pack includes all of that for £15 a month. The good news though, is that there is no long contract, just 30 days. As you would expect, a Sky Movies pack is more, at £15 a month, and the sports pack is £30 a month.
It is certainly the TalkTalk player that impresses most here. There seems to be a good selection of content, and although you have to pay more for much of it, there are some freebies and the usual on-demand content from the likes of Sky, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. If you can't get Sky, then TalkTalk offers a lot of the highlights through your phone line and it's impressive to see both catch-up and live TV in one place.
On the downside, you need about 5mbps broadband to use the service, and TalkTalk won't let you order it if your speed fluctuates too much, or you're in a marginal speed area. We also have some modest concerns about picture quality. The whole of YouView is delivering standard-definition content in a high-definition world. While we appreciate the technological challenges here, YouTube manages HD well, on a scale well in excess of what any of these providers is doing. We really had hoped all of YouView would be HD, but that isn't the case. For TalkTalk, it will need to be a fibre provider before that's a logistical possibility.
And of course, the biggest issue of all is that this service requires you to use TalkTalk. So for those who don't, don't expect to get this from vanilla YouView, and it will further add to the fragmentation of the service too.
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Hi I am trying to solve Zellers Congruence and I am having a little trouble. Here's my instructions:
1) Allow the user to enter a month. For calculation purposes, January = 1, February = 2, ... December = 12.
2) Enter a day of the month(1..31) Error checking is not necessary at this point, but would be helpful.
3) Enter a year using 4 digits (e.g., 1776, 1994, 2001)
4) Find the adjusted month and adjusted year
If the month entered is less than or equal to 2
Add 10 to it
Subtract 1 from the year entered
Subtract 2 from the month
Leave the year alone
5)Find the month correctionby
Multiplying the adjusted month by 26
Subtract 2 from the above
Integer divide the above by 10
6) Determine the century by integer dividing the adjusted year by 100
7)Determine the century remainder by finding the modulus 100 of the adjusted year
8)Determine the year correction by
Multiplying the century by five then
Adding the following to it
The century remainder
The century remainder integer divided by 4
The century integer divided by 4
9) Determine which weekday by
Adding the day, month correction, and year correction
Finding the above sum's modulus 7
If the solution to step 9 is '0', then the day is "Sunday". If it's '1', then the day is "Monday", ... if it's 6, then "Saturday".
So far i have this:
System.out.print("Enter the month (1-12): ");
int month = keyboard.nextInt();
System.out.println("Enter the day of the month (1-31):");
int day1 = keyboard.nextInt();
System.out.println("Enter a year (e.g, 1776,2003,2005):");
int year1 = keyboard.nextInt();
int adjustedMonth, adjustedYear, century, monthCorrection;
if (month <= 2)
adjustedMonth = month += 10;
adjustedYear=year1 -=1;
adjustedMonth = month-=2;
adjustedYear = year1;
//step 5
monthCorrection = (((adjustedMonth * 26) - 2) % 10);
century = adjustedYear % 100;
I am wondering if i am on the right track and if someone could help me guide the right way. I would appreciate it. So far i got up to step 6 of the instructions i was to do. Any help is great! Thank you!


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|The most important things acting on the comet and its tail are the gravitational field of the sun, the solar wind (which is a flow of fast-moving charged particles such as protons out of the sun), solar radiation (photons from the sun hitting the comet and particles in the comet's tail) and the gravitational field of the comet itself.
|The gravitational field of the sun just causes the comet to orbit the sun. The solar wind and solar radiation "blow" the comet's tail so that it always points away from the star. Comets are commonly referred to as "dirty snowballs," meaning that they are mostly ice with some dust and other "dirt" mixed in. The part of the comet's tail that we can see is mostly due to the sun's light reflecting off of dust in the comet's tail.
|In principle there could be a stable "atmosphere" around a comet if the comet's gravitational field were strong enough to hold on to water and dust. However, comets are very small (typically a few kilometers in diameter), and it turns out that their gravitational field is just too small to hold on to any material that's not physically stuck to the comet.
|To be a bit more quantitative, the escape velocity from the surface of a comet (how fast something needs to be moving to leave the comet and never return) is about 1 meter per second, around 2 miles per hour. So, if you were standing on the surface of a comet, you wouldn't find it too difficult to just pick up a snowball and throw it straight up so that it never came back. In fact, you could probably bend down and jump, and you'd exceed the escape velocity and therefore float off into space and never return to the surface of the comet. (Such a thing happened to an astronaut in the movie "Deep Impact.")
|Now, an object's temperature is one way of measuring the average speed of the particles that make up that object. Hot objects are made up of very energetic, fast moving particles, while cool objects are made up of sluggish, slowly moving particles. In order to make the average speed of water molecules faster than 1 meter per second, you have to have the gas warmer than about 0.001 degrees Kelvin, very close to absolute zero (this is about -459 degrees Fahrenheit). This is extremely cold, and a comet in the solar system will never get this cold, even when it's far from the sun.
|The upshot of all this is that as soon as the sun heats up the comet enough to cause some of the ice to turn to water vapor, these water molecules are moving fast enough to completely overwhelm the gravitational field of the comet and escape. Then the dust and water vapor are blown back by the solar wind and solar radiation so that the comet's tail points away from the sun.
|So no, there is no point where the comet's gravitational field balances the sun's radiation pressure. But this is only because comets are typically so small and therefore have weak gravitational fields. If comets were much more massive, there would be such a point. A good example of this is the Earth, with gravity strong enough to hold on to a fairly thick, warm atmosphere.


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By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Celebrated piano man Billy Joel took a break from his Madison Square Garden residency show and returned to the Sprint Center. This marked the third time that the six-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter performed at the Sprint Center. He previously performed at the venue in December 2007 (during its inaugural season) and returned […]
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ATLANTA — Children covered by Medicaid are six times more likely than kids covered by private insurance to be treated for severe obesity, according to a recent survey by Thomas MedStat.
About 1,115 of every 100,000 children covered by Medicaid were treated for obesity compared to 195 of every 100,000 privately insured kids. The average annual medical costs for an obese child totaled $6,700 for those on Medicaid and $3,700 for a privately insured child. Experts blame the higher rate of obesity on poor nutrition and the fact that Medicaid children often don't get treatment until they're severely ill.


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill Wednesday, offering testimony on the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which she put her focus on the diplomatic security upgrades and other changes she has ordered since the tragedy.
In morning testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary Clinton tried to keep her emphasis on how the US can improve diplomatic security in the future, while Republican senators wanted answers on Benghazi – why it was allowed to happen, what the Obama administration knew when, and why administration officials persisted so long in calling the terrorist attack the tragic outcome of a spontaneous demonstration.
The result was a sometimes testy, even fiery interchange in which Clinton at one point threw up her hands and questioned the relevance of the Republican hammering on how the administration characterized the attack. At another point Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky told Clinton that, were he president, he would have fired her over the attack.
Clinton was also appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday afternoon.
Clinton's testimony was closely watched in part because some Republican senators have said they would not be prepared to vote on the nomination of Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts to replace Clinton until they received satisfactory answers from the Obama administration on Benghazi. Beyond that, perceptions of how Clinton handles the hearings are expected to follow her as she exits the State Department – influencing her record as secretary of state and certainly resurfacing if she decides to make another run for president in 2016.
On the Senate side, Clinton repeated her earlier acceptance of full responsibility for the Benghazi tragedy that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.
"As I have said many times since Sept. 11, I take responsibility," she said in her opening statement. "I am determined to leave the State Department and our country safer, stronger, and more secure."
The important task now, she added, was to move forward and make the changes – including granting the secretary of state the authority to shift existing State Department funding to needs, like increased security, that may arise – that she said could help head off similar tragedies in the future.
Clinton offered a broad assessment of instability and terrorism risks likely to exist across North and West Africa for years to come, and said the US would continue to grapple with balancing security challenges with the need to remain engaged in the world's riskiest environments.
"This is going to be a very serious, ongoing threat," she said. "We are in for a struggle, but it is a necessary struggle."
Republicans seemed less interested in such lofty notions for the future than in revisiting the shortcomings revealed by Benghazi.
Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona, who worked closely with Clinton when she was a senator, told her "the answers you've given today are not satisfactory to me," before later saying "I categorically reject your answer" as to why the State Department did not immediately debrief officials who survived the attack to get a clear idea more quickly as to what had happened.
The State Department "should have at least interviewed the people who were there," Senator McCain said, suggesting that could have prevented the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, from going on Sunday news shows on Sept. 15 and giving answers that were "false."
McCain did, however, expand his criticism beyond the specific failures in Benghazi, underscoring his view that it was the Obama administration's insistence on a "soft footprint" – no US military on the ground – in Libya after the fall of strongman Muammar Qaddafi that was "potentially responsible for the [Benghazi] tragedy."
Clinton responded to her old friend "we just have a disagreement" over both "what happened and when it happened" in Benghazi and the administration's actions in Libya post-Qaddafi. She did remind the senators that a number of congressional "holds" had been put on administration requests for funding for stepped-up involvement in Libya.
A common refrain from some members of Congress, she said, was, "Why are we doing anything for Libya, it's a wealthy country" because of its oil.
Suggesting that the disconnect between Congress and the administration on issues like resources for a country like Libya or spending on diplomatic security also shares in the blame for the Benghazi tragedy, Clinton said, "We have to get our act together."
The testiest exchange in the Senate testimony came when Sen. Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin told Clinton that had it wanted to, the administration could have "easily, easily" ascertained within hours that Benghazi was not the result of a demonstration. Instead, he said, "we were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that."
Clinton raised her hands – and her voice – responding angrily that four Americans were dead, adding, "Was it because of a protest or is it because of guys out for a walk one night and they decide they go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?"
The committee's Democratic senators had their own refrain to cite in response to their Republican colleagues' repeated assertion that the American people were "misled" on Benghazi. For every reference to "false information" on Benghazi, the Democrats responded with reminders of the Bush administration's insistence on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq – weapons that turned out not to exist – as a pretext for going to war.
Sen. Dick Durban (D) of Illinois, citing the Iraq WMD claims and asking rhetorically if "the American people [are always] told correct information right away," added, "We could have a hearing on that."


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Reading Manga Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Reading Manga Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message xXx_Perla_xXxJoined: 08 Feb 2010Posts: 8Location: Ecorse, MI Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:04 am Post subject: Reading Manga Hello there. My name's Perla, and my favorite hobbie is reading Manga. I just finished with Rurouni Kenshin, I saw the anime, but I was disgusted when I finished the Manga, because Rurouni Kenshin lost its greatness when they turned the Manga into Anime. And it's not the only one, so if you like to read manga to, I'd like to invite you to this site, which I enjoy very much, so you can enjoy it as much as I do (: http://www.onemanga.com Back to top charactereducationJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 21Location: USA Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:36 am Post subject: I can't understand to till now that what is meant by Manga?_________________Character Education Back to top AlyssaMJoined: 22 Nov 2010Posts: 20 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:27 am Post subject: Yes, what is it exactly? I looked online and it seems to be like a comic book. Is that correct? What is the difference between a comic book and Manga?_________________post pregnancy tummy | belly after pregnancy | losing pregnancy weight Back to top Vermonter_84Joined: 30 Dec 2010Posts: 14 Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:57 am Post subject: Manga is a Japanese comic book usually printed in a normal paperback style instead of a magazine format. It is almost always done all in black and white. It is also different in that it reads from right to left in order of traditional Japanese text so even if you get read it in English everything is backwards. I read a lot of it myself. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Minnesota is both a solidly blue state and a land of political correctness, so it is surprising to learn that guns aren't necessarily prohibited in the state's schools. The Minneapolis Star Tribune headlines: "Little-known Minnesota exemption allows guns in schools."
For years, Greg Lund carried a loaded gun as a high school principal in northwestern Minnesota. Students, parents and most of the staff at Norman County East High School didn't know he was armed, but Lund said he couldn't leave his students' safety to chance.
"There's little you can do to prevent them from getting in the building," said Lund, a gun safety educator. "It was a small, rural school, and it would be 20 minutes or more before we would have police in the building."
Lund carried the gun with the permission of his superintendent — and under the provisions of a little-known exemption to the state's general ban on guns in school. The rule says that any adults who have a state permit to carry a gun can bring the firearm to school once they obtain written permission from a principal or other school authority.
Given what happened at Sandy Hook elementary, one might think that Minnesotans would applaud the foresight manifested by that exemption, and consider whether it should be more broadly implemented. But no:
Brenda Cassellius, the state education commissioner, "feels very strongly that we should be keeping guns out of schools," said spokeswoman Charlene Briner. Gov. Mark Dayton agreed, and he will look at tightening the state ban on guns in schools when the Legislature convenes in January, said his spokeswoman, Katharine Tinucci.
I think everyone would agree that our first choice is "keeping guns out of schools." The problem is that people come and go from schools all the time. It simply isn't possible to ensure that all of them are unarmed, and none of them are crazy. That being the case, it seems rather pathetic to take comfort in the fact that guns are "banned" from schools. Murderers don't obey signs. But practicality–actually improving safety, as opposed to feeling self-righteous–is not much in evidence:
"I cannot even imagine a situation where we would consider giving people permission to carry guns in school," Richfield Schools Superintendent Robert Slotterback said. "You're not going to have a gun drawn. If they walk up to you, point a gun and fire, it doesn't matter if you have a gun in your pocket or not."
So self-defense is impossible, apparently. This really is the mentality that we are dealing with in trying to improve school safety. Unfortunately, now that Minnesota's governor and legislators are aware of the provision that creates at least the possibility of protecting students from armed predators, it likely will be repealed.
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It is a tough job keeping up with the "Joneses" — especially when the Joneses are bigger fitness facility companies, which virtually all are when you're a one-shop operator.
But the recent Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey shows that many small mom-and-pop operators are holding their own when it comes to pay and benefits for the frontline fitness staff — personal trainers and group exercise instructors, who are probably the most recognizable "face" of a fitness facility other than the front desk staff.
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Personal training is one of the leading profit centers and sources of non-dues revenue for clubs of all sizes. According to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), more than 50 percent of clubs report that personal training is among the top five most profitable programs. To offer perspective, the program that came in second was massage with only 28 percent of clubs ranking it among the top five.
Well, to make money you have to spend money, or so the saying goes. And fitness facilities will spend money for personal trainers, especially as they demand more education and certification from the fitness staff.
According to the recently conducted IDEA 2004 Compensation Survey, which will appear in the July/August issue of IDEA Health & Fitness Journal, the median hourly wage for personal trainers is $26. The sample comes from a fairly even split between independent contractors and those on staff.
"We are seeing trainers being more educated and getting rewarded for it," says Kathie Davis, co-founder and executive director of IDEA The Health and Fitness Source. "We are seeing in the club setting that 60 percent of personal training fees are going to the trainers."
The Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey shows that this median is split among a wide range of rates at single location fitness facilities. More than 22 percent of single shops pay trainers more than $25 an hour. Conversely, 12 percent pay personal trainers $12 an hour or less.
"We pay $15 an hour for personal trainers for the three free sessions we give all new members," says Joey Young, president of Young's Health Club in Auburn, AL, which has been offering personal training services for less than a year. "We then bump that up to $20 an hour if they can convince that person to buy a package of training sessions."
The IDEA Compensation Survey shows only a $1 rise in the hourly rate of pay for trainers since the previous survey, which was done in 2002, says Davis.
A look at the Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey shows that 16 percent of single-location fitness facility operators offered no raises to personal trainers year over year. Of those that did offer salary increases, 16 percent offered raises of less than 3 percent. Overall, the Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey shows that almost 42 percent of the one-club respondents offered raises to less than half of the staff regardless of position (compared to a still low, 38 percent of multiple location companies). This trend, especially for personal trainers, is not expected to see much improvement this year for trainers in any size company.
"We are not expecting to see huge pay raises for personal trainers in 2005, according to our study," Davis says. "The findings show that 28 percent of respondents say they are somewhat likely and 18 percent are very likely to give raises to personal trainers. At the same time 18 percent say they are somewhat unlikely to give raises."
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Recent findings from the Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey show that 20.3 percent of single-location facilities pay group exercise instructors between $15.01 and $20 per hour. Meanwhile, another 14.9 percent of respondents pay more than $25 an hour for group exercise instructors. This compares favorably with multi-location facilities, according to the findings. In fact, the survey shows that while the largest group of respondents, 26.3 percent offer between $20.01 and $25 an hour, only 5.3 percent of multi-club owners offered their group exercise instructors more than $25 an hour.
These findings are all in line with the results from the 2004 IDEA Compensation Survey — although that survey found a further difference in pay scales for instructors of different class types. According to the IDEA survey, group fitness instructors — defined as those that teach classes such as step and mixed impact classes — earn a median of $20 per hour. Those classified as fitness instructors — primarily employed at wellness, recreation and university centers — come in slightly below the commercial average, earning about $18 an hour. Meanwhile, specialty instructors — defined as those teaching classes such as indoor cycling and martial arts — earned $1 more an hour at traditional centers with a median hourly rate of $21. Topping the list are yoga and Pilates instructors with a median hourly rate of $28.50.
"The difference in pay rates can be attributable to a number of things," says IDEA's Davis. "It can be based on size of facility, whether clubs are charging extra, and the amount of training and education needed. Anecdotally, this is probably most evident in the yoga and Pilates classes — especially those utilizing Reformers and other props."
Group exercise instructors of all types were given modest raises from last year, according to the Fitness Business Pro Salary Survey. Unfortunately for those at single-facility operations, odds were that they didn't get any raise. According to the survey, 18.9 percent of instructors were given no raise compared to last year (conversely, only 5.3 percent of multi-facility companies gave no raises). Another 10.8 percent were given a raise between 2.1 percent and 3.0 percent; another 10.8 percent of single-location operators gave raises of between 3.1 percent and 5.0 percent (multi-location facilities gave the same rate at a 21.1 percent clip).
Beyond Pay
We know that it may take more than a paycheck and the slim chance of a raise to hire and keep qualified staffers regardless of the size of a facility. This is where bonuses, commissions and benefits come into play — even for part-timers.
According to the Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey, beyond facility membership, some of the leading benefits given to part-time employees (regardless of position held) include flexible work schedules, holidays and continuing education reimbursement.
Leading the way — and rather obvious considering the nature of part-time work — is a flexible schedule with close to 45 percent of single-location respondents offering this benefit. Continuing education benefits come in at a distant second with 28 percent of single-location shops offering this; another 24 percent offer certification reimbursement to employees.
Although a small percentage, some clubs are thinking outside the box and offering their part-time employees some of the benefits long associated with full-time positions.
In fact, the Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey shows that various insurances, vacation and even 401(k) plans are being offered.
One-location companies are offering medical insurance to their part-time employees at a 10.5 percent rate. But they aren't stopping there. Seven and a half percent are offering dental insurance, another 4.5 percent offer life insurance and 3.0 percent offer long-term disability insurance. Unfortunately for part-timers, these rates fall below those offered by larger chains — sometimes by half.
Other benefits being offered by single-site companies are vacation time (12.8 percent), holidays (21.8 percent), 401(k) plans (6.8 percent) and family leave (13.5 percent). On average, one-club operators spend 10 percent of salary on employee benefits.
But, that doesn't mean that the fitness staff is actually getting these benefits, according to IDEA's Davis.
"It is more likely in most cases that trainers especially are more eligible for cash bonuses than they are for benefits," she says.
The Fitness Business Pro Annual Salary Survey shows that, in fact, 13.5 percent of single location facilities offer bonuses to the personal training staff. Meanwhile, 6 percent of group exercise instructors receive bonuses. Those numbers may rise when data showing that 18.8 percent of respondents say that they give all staff a bonus of some kind, a strategy that has worked well for Young's Health Club.
"We set goals for the company as a whole, and if we hit them, everyone gets a bonus," says Young. "We can't be successful unless everyone cares about the business and the members, and this is a way to have everyone feel part of it and work toward our overall success."
While it is never easy for the little guy to keep up with the Joneses when it comes to size, flash and finances, it seems many smaller operators are trying their best to keep their fitness staffs compensated and rewarded for jobs well done.
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A sociological definition of social change would refer to a "change" of behavior in a social institution: family, religion, and so forth. That may sound boring, but if you listen to which word a sociologist uses to describe that change, it will reveal that sociologist's theoretical orientation. For example, John, a "structural-functionalist," would describe social change in terms of increasing differentiation, suggesting that society beneficently becomes increasingly complex as it develops greater and greater inclusivity and efficiency. While Randy, a "conflict theorist," might depict social change in terms of domination and exploitation, with one or more groups being forced to change their behavior by groups that are economically and politically more powerful. Now, if these two sociologists were asked to write essays about California's Proposition 8, they would tell two entirely different stories. John would describe a cooperative system in which values and outcomes influence each other, and Randy would tell a story of disparate groups in conflict with one another. Separately, either essay would talk about Proposition 8 and some of the groups surrounding it. But taken together, a more complete image would take shape. We would see that neither viewpoint is complete. Then we would realize that these essays are not just describing Proposition 8, but they are describing the authors as well, each saying something about their core beliefs and essential world views. This phenomenon is not only true regarding scholars. When people speak, they often tell us as much about themselves as the thing that they are speaking about. It is in this experience that the value of diverse cultures coming together is most apparent.
Our ideal of cultural diversity is not merely a reapplication of the idea of providing equal access to social goods themselves, but it is an attempt to redefine the goods themselves. As people of diverse backgrounds are brought together, a transformation will take place in people's minds and hearts. An individual in a formerly exclusive group will discover the richness of a different culture. He will influence others in his group who will eventually be open to different foods, different customs, and most importantly, different ideas. The diversity lecture series and planned events will produce not only tolerance and respect, but understanding as well, enhancing the effectiveness and creativity of individuals and contributing to economic prosperity. Diversity will create broadmindedness, goodwill, and social betterment in every direction. People can learn from one another's distinctive cultural experiences and become better workers, better citizens, and ultimately better people. The African- American manager, the gay CEO, and the disabled political consultant will bring discussions and leave with a greater understanding of each other, creating guidelines for social balance. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasized our interconnectedness and underlying unity. This is where the chief challenge lies and where GCC is heading towards with this road to understanding and positive social change.Mission
As educators, we must first foster a desire to understand, then we must nurture the tolerance for difference that follows understanding, and finally develop within our community an ability to fully appreciate humanity in all its forms. The purpose of this cultural diversity lecture series and planned cultural events across Glendale Community College is to encourage the development of dialogue within the campus community through the organized interchange of ideas and research, as well as the sharing of cultural products, such as food and music, of various cultural groups with the aim of inclusivity and equity across all groups. This multicultural educational program will develop a level of awareness of cultural diversity as being the road to social change, enabling the GCC campus community to participate in this endeavor and to promote appreciation of all cultural traditions.