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KOLLAM: Seventy children were today hospitalised as they took ill after allegedly inhaling 'smoke' emanating from a plant of state-owned Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML) at Chavara near here, prompting authorities to temporarily shut it down.
The condition of none of the children, students of three nearby schools, was stated to be serious, hospital sources said.
The children were rushed to nearby hospitals after they developed symptoms of uneasiness and some of them vomited.
The incident sparked protest in the area with local people converging before the plant alleging that the company had failed to improve safety measures despite recurrence of such incidents.
According to officials of the plant, which processes minerals and metals, the smoke was caused by burning of charcoal and "not very dangerous or obnoxious".
State Home Minister Ramesh Cehnnithala visited the hospitals where children were admitted and said a high-level inquiry would be ordered into the incident.
He told reporters that a team of scientists and engineers would be deputed to the study the problem and suggest measures for putting in place a foolproof the safety mechanism
Following protests, the Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers, the state regulator for safety of factories, ordered closure of the plant till "corrective measures" are taken.


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Delaware Township Volunteer Ambulance Corp will hold its Annual Wreath Sale and Open House on Friday, Nov. 30 from 3-8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 2 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The event will be held at the ambulance building on Park Road in Delaware Township.
Beautifully decorated wreaths are only $15. Patrons will receive free cookies and hot cocoa and the kids can visit with Santa Claus on Saturday.
Pike County Advanced Life Support Lottery Calendars will also be available. Come have fun and support a local non-profit agency.
For more information call (570) 828-2345.

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An ambulatory electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) records the electrical
activity of your heart while you do your usual activities. (Ambulatory means that you are able to walk.) Ambulatory monitors
are referred to by several names, including ambulatory electrocardiogram,
ambulatory EKG, Holter monitoring, 24-hour EKG, or cardiac event monitoring.
Many heart problems become noticeable only during activity, such as
exercise, eating, sex, stress, bowel movements, or even sleeping. A continuous
24-hour recording is more likely to detect any abnormal heartbeats that occur
during these activities.
Many people have irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias)
from time to time. The importance of irregular heartbeats depends on the type
of pattern they produce, how often they occur, how long they last, and whether
they occur at the same time you have symptoms. Because arrhythmias can occur
off and on, it may be hard to record an arrhythmia while you are in the
doctor's office.
There are several different types of ambulatory monitors. Your doctor will choose the type that is most appropriate for you and is most likely to help diagnose your heart problem.
Ambulatory EKG monitoring is done to:
Many medicines may change the results of this test. Be sure to tell
your doctor about all the nonprescription and prescription medicines you
Since an EKG is often used to monitor a preexisting heart
condition, such as an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia), make sure that your
doctor has copies of any previous EKG results.
Take a shower or bath before the discs are put on. You will not be
able to get the discs wet during the test. Wear a loose blouse or shirt. Do not
wear jewelry or clothes with metal buttons or buckles, because these can
interfere with the recording. Women should not wear an underwire bra for the
same reason.
If your doctor asks you to keep a symptom and activity diary, be sure you have a method. In this diary, you will record activities and symptoms and the times they occurred. The accuracy and usefulness of your test depend on how carefully you keep this record.
If you are getting a monitor implanted under your skin, you will receive instructions on how to prepare for the procedure.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need
for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will
mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the
medical test information form(What is a PDF document?).
Continuous recorders are the most common type of ambulatory electrocardiogram monitor. This type includes the Holter monitor.
A continuous recorder provides a 24- to 72-hour record of the electrical signals
from your heart. A standard EKG monitors only 40 to 50 heartbeats during the
brief period you are attached to the machine. A continuous recorder monitors
about 100,000 heartbeats in 24 hours and is likely to find any heart problems
that happen with activity.
For this test, you wear a lightweight, battery-operated tape
recorder (monitor) on a strap over your shoulder or around your waist. The
recorder is connected by wires to small metal discs (electrodes) taped to your
chest. The electrodes detect the electrical signals from your heart. A clock is
connected to the recorder so you can note what time it is when you have any
You will be fitted with the recorder and electrodes by a
technician in a doctor's office or hospital room.
While wearing the continuous recorder, you will also be asked to
keep a diary of all your activities and symptoms, including the type of
activity you were doing and the time your symptoms started. In the diary, write
down the exact times when you exercise, climb stairs, eat, urinate, have a
bowel movement, have sex, sleep, get emotionally upset, take medicine, or
perform other activities. If you have any symptoms of heart problems, such as
dizziness, fainting, chest pain, or palpitations, push the event-marker button
on the recorder to mark it and write down the exact time and how long the
symptom lasts. For example, you might write: "12:30 p.m. Ate lunch. 1:00 p.m.
Argument with boss, had chest tightness for several minutes."
When you sleep, try to stay on your back with the recorder
carefully positioned at your side so that the electrodes are not pulled off. If
one of the electrodes or lead wires comes loose, a light on the monitor will
flash. Press on the center of each electrode to see if you can restore the
contact. Call your doctor if one of the electrodes comes off and you can't get
it to stay on.
While you are wearing a monitor, try to stay away from magnets,
metal detectors, high-voltage areas, garage door openers, microwave ovens, and
electric blankets. Do not use an electric toothbrush or shaver. Signals from
these types of electronic equipment can sometimes interfere with the recording.
At the end of the recording period (usually 24 to 72 hours), you will
return to the doctor's office or hospital to have the electrodes removed, or
you may be able to remove the electrodes yourself. You will return the Holter monitor to your doctor's office or hospital. The recorded tape will be
read by computer to provide information about your heart rate, the frequency of
your heartbeats, and any irregularities.
Your doctor will also look at your records of activities and symptoms and times they occurred. Your doctor will compare the timing
of your activities and symptoms with the recorded heart pattern.
Another type of continuous recorder can be implanted under the
skin of the chest. This recorder can be kept in your chest for more than a year
to record the electrical signals from your heart.
Another kind of ambulatory EKG monitoring is the intermittent
recorder, which is used when symptoms of an abnormal heart rhythm do not occur
very often. An intermittent recorder can be used for a longer time than a
continuous recorder. The information collected by an intermittent recorder can
often be sent over the phone to a doctor's office, clinic, or hospital.
You may be instructed to call your doctor, clinic, or hospital
while you are having symptoms or soon after you record your heart rhythm so
that the information on the monitor can be analyzed right away.
The procedure for intermittent recording depends on the type of
monitor used.
If you have electrodes placed on your skin, the electrode sites may itch slightly during the ambulatory EKG
recording, and the skin on your chest may look or feel irritated when the
electrodes are removed. The recording unit is very lightweight, so carrying it
usually is not uncomfortable.
There is no risk from ambulatory EKG monitoring. The electrodes
placed on your skin detect only the electrical signals from your heart. No
electricity is sent through your body, and there is no possibility of receiving
an electric shock.
An ambulatory electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test that records
the electrical signals that control your heartbeat while you do your everyday
Results of ambulatory EKG monitoring usually are interpreted by a
cardiologist or cardiac electrophysiologist. The results are generally available in a
few days.
No abnormal heart rhythms are found in the EKG information
collected by the recorder. Your heart rate may go up when you are active and go
down when you are sleeping.
Many kinds of irregular heartbeats can be detected by
ambulatory monitoring.
The results of ambulatory heart monitoring are compared with your
medical history, symptoms, and other test results. You may need to have the
test repeated if the results aren't clear.
You may not be able to have the test or the results may not be
helpful if:
Ambulatory heart
monitoring is most effective when you are able and willing to carefully follow
instructions throughout the monitoring period.
If you tend to pass out from a heart problem, your doctor will choose a monitor that will record these episodes. The
continuous recorder and the loop recorder work best for people who pass out
when they have symptoms of a heart problem. The loop recorder is not useful if
you lose consciousness for more than a few minutes or if you are so confused
when you wake up that you are unable to start the recorder.
Visit the American Heart Association (AHA) website for information on
physical activity, diet, and various heart-related conditions. You can search for information on heart disease and stroke, share information with friends and family, and use tools to help you make heart-healthy goals and plans. Contact the AHA to find your
nearest local or state AHA group. The AHA provides brochures and information
about support groups and community programs, including Mended Hearts, a
nationwide organization whose members visit people with heart problems and
provide information and support.
The Heart Rhythm Society provides information for
patients and the public about heart rhythm problems. The website includes a
section that focuses on patient information. This information includes causes,
prevention, tests, treatment, and patient stories about heart rhythm problems.
You can use the Find a Specialist section of the website to search for a heart
rhythm specialist practicing in your area.
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) information center offers information and publications about preventing
and treating:
CitationsFischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Other Works ConsultedChernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis:
Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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How To: Transplant Trees
Whether you're moving trees with a tree spade or planting them balled-and-burlapped from the nursery, you can improve transplanting success by following these tips.
Preparation is essential. Chose the right tree for the micro-environment you are planting into, considering drainage, sun exposure, overhead restrictions, final shape and size and the amount of maintenance you can afford the tree.
The day before planting, thoroughly water the area where you will put the tree. You will find that the soil digs easier and you will be able to create a healthy environment for the tree to grow.
If you're transplanting a tree from one location to another, consider the weight of the root ball and the type of equipment available for the job. You will need a minimum of 10 inches of root ball per 1 inch of trunk diameter. Water the tree the day prior to digging. The tree will be better equipped to handle the stress of moving if it is well hydrated. Also, mark the compass direction on the trunk for orientation later when you are situating the tree in the hole.
Use sharp tools: sharp shovels for digging and sharp pruners to remove dead branches. This will make your work much easier. You will also need protective gear for the tree, including rope for tying up branches and soft padding and cover for protecting the crown during transport. Keep the tree protected until the operation is complete. Treat with anti-transpirants if there is foliage on the tree.
If digging the tree, be sure to center the trunk in the root ball. This will make it easier to place and orient the tree. While preparing the tree, determine the real top of the root ball. Some nursery practices kick soil up onto the top of the root ball. Dig down to find where the first root flares off the trunk — this is the true top of the root ball. All depth measurements should take place from here. If you're planting a balled-and-burlapped tree from the nursery and you have to dig down more than an inch or so to find the top of the root ball, consider that the root ball is smaller than it should be and you should select a different tree.
Because root development is primarily horizontal, the wider the hole, the more extensive a root system can grow before it encounters more compact native soil. It pays to spend more time getting the size of the hole just right because it will result in a shorter establishment period. If you are unable to dig the hole three to five times the diameter of the root ball, you can achieve some of the same effect by loosening the soil in a large diameter around the planting hole using a shovel or pitchfork. This technique also works with spaded trees. Because root balls can be very heavy and, therefore, compact loosened soil, do not dig the hole any deeper than the depth of the root ball. You want to set the root ball on undisturbed soil.
Prior to setting the tree, roughen up the sides of the planting hole to enhance root movement into the native soil.
Remember to remove the wire basket by the end of the planting process. In order to achieve this without damaging the root ball, try the following: While the root ball is out of the hole, snip off a small circle of the basket on the bottom of the root ball; handling the root ball with the remaining wire, set the tree into the hole and move it around to match compass direction and aesthetics; remove the remainder of the wire basket. Some nurseries will not guarantee the tree if the basket has been removed, but considering the long-term health of the tree, it may be worth it to forego the guarantee.
Controversy still surrounds the issue of amending the backfill. Newest research supports the idea that it doesn't matter if the soil has been amended; rather, the most important element is having a wide planting hole. Fertilizer should not be needed for the next one to two years.
For the next few months and few years, you should consistently supply water, even if the species is drought tolerant. The root ball can dry out much quicker than the surrounding soil, so you will need to water it even if the surrounding soil is moist. Help retain the moisture by applying a loose mulch, 4 to 6 inches deep, in a wide area around the tree.


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The one-time frontrunner in the Liberal preselection for Wentworth has withdrawn from the race, saying he believes the party "should preselect a woman".
Local businessman Andrew Bragg said allegations of bullying by outgoing MP Julia Banks and comments by former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop about the lack of women within the party were behind his decision.
"I believe these recent events and comments have changed the mood and accordingly I will withdraw my nomination," Mr Bragg said in a Facebook post on Monday.
Woollahra councillor Mary-Lou Jarvis, who's president of the NSW Liberal Women's Council, was previously considered one of the biggest threats to Mr Bragg's preselection chances.
But AAP understands senior Liberals in Canberra now want Sydney East Business Chamber chair Katherine O'Regan to be the party's candidate.
Mr Bragg - who'd received the blessing of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to try and take over his seat in Sydney's eastern suburbs - said he was "genuinely shocked" by Ms Banks' allegations.
"Julia Banks' exit from public life is a loss for all of us," he said on Monday.
"Julia is exactly the type of professional woman the Liberal Party must be able to attract and keep in parliament."
There's speculation Mr Bragg stood aside in return for a high-up spot on the party's NSW Senate ticket.
He said in his Facebook post: "I believe in public service and I hope to serve the people of NSW in the future."
Some 210 selectors from Wentworth branches will be involved in the Liberal preselection on Thursday evening.
Any candidate who receives less than five per cent of the vote will be eliminated from any further rounds. The first person to receive more than 50 per cent of the vote is preselected.
Tim Murray is Labor's candidate for the Wentworth by-election. He's being supported by Mr Turnbull's son Alex Turnbull.
City of Sydney councillor Kerryn Phelps is considering whether to stand as an independent with many pundits convinced she'd have the best chance of seizing the seat from the Liberals for the first time since the party's inception in 1944.


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Did you know there was a town in Quebec called St. Hyacinthe? It is located due northwest of Montreal. Below is an image of the town and its park taken from Wikipedia.
If you are an older Albert, what do you remember about Sister Rebecca? I remember visiting her with my family on regular visits to New Hampshire. For an older, seemingly sedentary person, she also had an animated quality about her. She was always asking me questions about my lessons and somehow she knew I'd become a teacher. Sometime around the age of ten, she gave me a book on Longfellow poems as a birthday present.
Note regarding source of the newspaper article:
The article was clipped and attached to a handwritten letter but did not include the date or the name of the paper. Since she was living in Westbrook at the time, I assumed it was a local paper - either the Westbrook American or the Portland Press Herald.


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NVIDIA has just unveiled a new slide that predicts GPU performance on mobile devices will catch or even surpass the graphical capabilities of the XBOX 360 by 2014. While this may sound like an amazing feat for mobile devices, let's put things in perspective. The XBOX 360 is currently the most popular gaming console on the market, but it was introduced back in 2005, and it's graphical performance reign was eclipsed just one year later with the introduction of the PS3. Both Microsoft and Sony are expected to introduce new console systems in the next 18-24 months, which would significantly increase their GPU performance.
We applaud NVIDIA for all the work they have done to deliver mobile GPUs that allow developers to create amazing games. Unfortunately, increased GPU performance will not mean a thing unless developers find a way to make mobile gaming as lucrative as console gaming (where consumers are willing to pay $60 for new releases). There are many great games on Android, but a quick glance at the top games listed in Google Play reveals that most consumers are not interested in playing graphic intensive games on their mobile devices.
If mobile GPU performance catches up with console gaming within the next few years, would you be willing to spend a little more money for games on your Android device? Or would you prefer spending $60 to enjoy a game on your 46-inch flat panel TV while sitting on your couch?
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… Lindsey Stone
" Is it her employer's fault that she's a moron? No – it's not. And perhaps she's super awesome at taking care of disabled people. Perhaps firing her isn't appropriate. I don't know. I just know that she deserves every ounce of public humiliation and ridicule that is coming her way. Especially since she is still excusing her own behavior.
OBVIOUSLY you meant no disrespect, Lindsey? OBVIOUSLY? No. "
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- David Weigel debunks a video that has never been bunked in the first place. (althouse.blogspot.com)
- Top 10 Ways to Deal with the Internet's Biggest Morons (lifehacker.com)


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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) believes in the power of open data and being accessible to the public. This is why we make our data, deliberations, and decisions, accessible to consumers, developers and stakeholders, in accordance with the Open Government Initiative.
We use our website to broadcast live webcasts of meetings, hearings, and interactive workshops and trainings. Staff memos, technical analyses, Federal Register notices, Commissioner's statements and public comments are posted online during the course of CPSC's decisional processes. Recalls, safety alerts, safety awareness programs, interpretive rules, final rules and enforcement policies are all available on this site.
CPSC has the following tools to share our data sets with you:
CPSC Recall App
The CPSC Recall App is a stand-alone mobile app that enables the public to search for product recalls.
Please download the CPSC Recall App and let us know what you think by sending an email to email@example.com.
Download the Plan
CPSC has the following tools to share our data sets with you:
Recall Data
CPSC has recently improved our API and dataset surrounding all of our recalls. Information on how to interpret and connect to the CPSC API can be found on the Application Program Interface (API) documentation page.
Civil & Criminal Penalties
When CPSC is involved in a civil or criminal investigation into violations of the Consumer Products Safety Act the Commission publishes final determinations and those penalties are recorded in the Civil and Criminal Penalties Database. You can search this database for records by civil or criminal penalties as well as by company, product, and fiscal year.
Import and Marketplace Violation Data
For all products regulated by CPSC, the Commission issues a Letter of Noncompliance when there is a violation of a mandatory standard. It advises the company of the violation and of the nature of the necessary corrective action (to correct future production (CFP); to stop sale and CFP; or to recall, stop sale, and CFP). This section lists all letters sent to importers and manufacturers beginning in Fiscal Year 2013 (double check starting date), where CPSC received a response from the company confirming the violation and CPSC confirmed that the company voluntarily completed corrective action to remedy the hazard.
View the Violations page on our website which also has a link to download the data as a spreadsheet.
CPSC has recently released the Violations dataset surrounding all violations of mandatory standards. Information on how to interpret and connect to the CPSC API can be found on the Application Program Interface (API) documentation page.
Monthly Progress Reports
The Monthly Progress Report (MPR) is provided by recalling firms to report on the progress of the recall. The MPR reports recalled products at the Manufacturer, Distributor, Retailer, and Consumer level on a monthly basis.
Download the data here.
Testing & Certification Lab Data
CPSC maintains a database of approved and accredited laboratories for third-party testing for each children's or general product safety rule. The search provides you a list of labs that have been accepted by CPSC to test for compliance with federal product safety rules.
NEISS Data
CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) is a national probability sample of hospitals in the U.S. and its territories. Patient information is collected from each NEISS hospital for every emergency visit involving an injury associated with consumer products. From this sample, the total number of product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms nationwide can be estimated.
More information on NEISS data and how to query the database can be found on the CPSC NEISS Injury Data Page. Be sure to check out the guide to assist in your Query:
- NEISS Coding Manual (pdf) - a description of which cases are included in NEISS, how they're coded and an alphabetical listing of products with current product codes
CPSC has recently released the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) dataset. Information on how to interpret and connect to the CPSC API can be found on the Application Program Interface (API) documentation page.


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Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com reports that the Reds have signed outfielder Jay Bruce to a six-year, $51 million contract extension.The deal also contains a club option for a seventh year that would bring the total worth to $63 million. Bruce was up for salary arbitration for the first time this winter and could have started down a path of negotiating raises each year. Instead he opted to cash in now, committing Thursday to an extended stay in Cincinnati. These deals often go well for both sides.Source: Jerry Crasnick on Twitter
The Reds have locked up Jay Bruce to a 6-year contract with an option for a 7th. Seven more years of Jay Bruce? I'm looking forward to each and every one. And, the deal comes at the exact right time, as I truly believe that Bruce is ready to break out. When all is said and done, this deal should work out very well for the Reds and set Jay Bruce up for life.
If Bruce avoids injury, then this deal should be a very good one for the Reds. Under the fangraphs.com "Dollars" metric, Bruce's 2010 production was worth $21.1M. In short, a single season at his 2010 level of production would be worth almost 1/3 of the cost of his entire salary over the next 7-seasons. It's scary to think just how valuable Bruce can be if he continues to improve.
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Though Ol' Myrt here is sure there can be errors with any indexing project, last night's Second Life discussion of naturalization papers brought the following mistake to light.
Yesterday afternoon, I found this card by going to Footnote.com, then Naturalizations, then choosing NY Eastern July 1865 -Sep 1906 collection. I then selected the Index rather than petitions. I then chose Yozzo, and then Giacomo.
Notice that this index card for Giacomo Yozzo is listed as arriving in 1848 (per circle above on Footnote.com "you are viewing: dialog box. Yet the date of arrival May 21 1891 would have most likely precluded a naturalization date in 1848, since there were residency requirements. Note the Date of Naturalization of Aug 1 1898 where the 9 in 1898 could have been construed to be 1848.
When only place, year and name are the fields indexed, we're not able to locate this document if anticipating naturalization at the end of the 19th century. Fortunately, Yozzo is an uncommon name, and it didn't take much to review this older index card, as part of a diligent search.
I am not faulting Footnote. No one indexer is perfect. Even with double, blind data entry
(such as at FamilySearchIndexing.org) handwriting can be challenging to decipher.
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Not sure how easy these will be to implement, the first should be, but the second... I'm not so sure. Either way, onto the suggestions;
1: A way to press 2 keys in the binding screen so that when they're pressed together they activate what one key would do. For example, say if you wanted to press the start button, but for some ODD reason your controller doesn't have that many buttons (with the Zeemote, for example. Which is what I use.), you can bind it so you can press 2 buttons at the same time on the Zeemote controller and this will act as a start button.
2: A way to trim sections out of one screen and overlay them on the other. This would be useful for landscape 1 screen mode, where I can trim useful information I need out of 1 screen and overlay it on the other screen. I wouldn't be able to interact with them, since I'm not sure if that's possible, but it would help. For example, the game Nanostray 2 displays lives, how much of your special ability is left, and boss health/rank/name on the lower screen, while gameplay is on the top. It's annoying to have to pause the game to switch between screens just to check on information, so this would be very helpful.
3: This has likely already been implemented but I only received my Zeemote today so I'm not sure if it's already added. Correct me if it is and it shall be removed.
The ability to have external controller profiles for different games. Like i said, it's probably already added, so ignore me if it is and I'll delete it
Give me some constructive criticism if you can! I feel like these would be pretty useful features, I just hope they're easy to implement!
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Nicki Minaj calls Steven Tyler racist
A happy American Idol judging family? Dream on.
But according to former American Idol judge Steven Tyler, harmony should be the ideal. Want that peacefulness explained via a sort-of gross birth metaphor? Tyler's got you covered:
"I know that they've got something going on on the judges' panel, [and] it shouldn't be that, it should be just the opposite: They should have something going on, which is called 'camaraderie,' " he said in an interview with MTV. "They should have something going on so thick and beautiful that they can lay it over the new talent that's trying to birth itself. It needs to be birthed, not judged by 'entertainment' factors, it needs to be judged by people that [are] honest, true, that have the 'it' factor. Not the 'it' factor because they can fight. The f— is that all about?"
The rocker goes on to say, "These kids…they're scared to death; you're not going to get the best [out of them]. … If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield! Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out, as we did with Phillip Phillips. Just saying."
He's just saying! Don't be angry! Tyler just thinks judges should be worried about picking winners, not picking on each other via silly feuds. (A rep for American Idol had no comment about Tyler's remarks.)
Naturally Minaj has weighed in on this latest drama on Twitter. The rapper wrote in a series of tweets, "Steven Tyler said I would have sent Bob Dylan to a cornfield??? Steven, you haven't seen me judge one single solitary contestant yet! I understand you really wanted to keep your job but take that up with the producers. I haven't done anything to you. That's a racist comment. You assume that I wouldn't have liked Bob Dylan??? why? black? rapper? what? go f*** yourself and worry about yourself babe."
Later, she wrote, "LOL lets make him a shirt that says 'No Coloreds Allowed' then escort him down 2 Barbara Walters so he can tell how he was threatened w/guns." [She's presumably referring to the part of her feud with Mariah Carey when Barbara Walters got involved by repeating Carey's claim that Minaj threatened her.] "When Steven 1st went on Idol he was ridiculed by his peers & fans alike. Called a sell out. So what does he do? Ridicule the next judge."
Poor Keith Urban. When there's this much drama when all of these people are on their own, what's going to happen come January? American Idol is no doubt hoping you'll tune in to find out.
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All this television chatter about Jay Leno's primetime failure and subsequent return to late night by supplanting Conan O'Brien's current slot got me to thinking.
There's an "I'm With Coco" movement afoot for those folks supporting the carrot-topped (but not that Carrot Top) tv host. O'Brien has opted to put his foot down and refuse to move.
Talk all you want about that Conan, but I'm rooting for a different Conan.
The original Conan – The Barbarian.
The real deal who would smite down Leno with one deft swoop of his sword. "The Chin" would fall in a heap at this Conan's feet.
Gawker has a round-up of all the late night hosts and their Leno bashing.


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At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. She is treated unfavorably by her relatives, except for her cousin Edmund, whom she grows fond of. However, Fanny's life is thrown into disarray with the arrival of worldly Mary Crawford and her brother Henry.


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There is nothing wrong with a chartreuse rose. Who says you have to make lifelike fondant flowers in lifelike colors? Is there a rule book somewhere that I am not aware of? I will make lime green roses if I want to make lime green roses.
Maybe I am just a little extra feisty after the week that I have had. You know those food network competitions where they build the huge beautiful chocolate sculptures and the clock is ticking down and the chefs are going to put the final touches on and the thing crashes to the ground into a million little pieces in what seems like slow motion? I can officially say I know how that feels. A whole quarter of chocolate work and nothing to show for it. I didn't even get a picture before it was destroyed by a too warm chocolate kitchen. It capped off a already crummy week and drained my resolve to keep a happy face on and work through the all the crap.
I don't think I have ever been more ready for the holidays than this year. Between the stress of classes wrapping up for good, a possibly totaled car, being sick every other week, all I want to do is be home with my family and friends, not worrying about real life for a while. Soon, I will be sitting at the dinner table surrounded by all my favorite people, eating delicious turkey, brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes and cheesy corn, drinking some beaujolais nouveau, and just taking it all in.
There is just something about sharing a meal with the ones you love to set everything right, if even just for a little while. When I get back from home, its back into cake making and work mode full force until after new years. I am actually very happy that I have quite a few side projects lined up, even though I am incredibly busy. The cakes and desserts that I make for freelance projects are always the most fun, and the ones that I can pour my creativity into. No matter how many hours I put in, or long, late nights I stay up working on a cake, it's pretty much always worth it in the end.
To give someone a original, delicious, and gorgeous cake that you designed and created with your two hands is one amazing feeling. And that feeling can mean a lot when other things in your life aren't going so well.
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After Stanford unveiled its Steve Jobs archives this week, The Next Web resurfaced another, even weirder gem: Apple's 1987 music album called "The Apple Boogie."
Download free mp3s, lyrics and album art here.
The cassette tape was apparently handed out at an Apple sales conference in 1987, and includes the classic "Blue Busters," Apple's anti-IBM anthem sung to the "Ghost Busters" tune. You know the one: "Something strange / Stinking up your desk / Who can you call? / Blue Busters."
But "The Apple Boogie" has other songs--and it's safe to say you don't have any of them on your iPod. They include "Apple II Forever," "Breaking Through," Building the Future with You," Leading the Way," Power to be Your Best," "Ripples" and "We're So Excited."
Many of the lyrics seem cheesy today, but back then they somehow must've made sense. "Ripples" is the first track on side A of the tape. It features classic '80s lines like this one: "So look in my eyes as the sun rises / behind us, my friends / and hold my hand, and pass it on / like we did back then."
The forgotten tape is sold out on RedLightRunner.com, an online shop selling Apple stuff. The site says the "The Apple Boogie" was produced by Geoff Levin and Chris Many.
In a Stanford archives interview, Jobs recalled the time Apple got its name while he and Wozniak were driving down Highway 85. He said he was happy Apple would come before Atari in the phone book. You have to wonder if Jobs was also brainstorming catchy album titles like "The Apple Boogie."


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The Board of Directors has been named for the Toronto-based 2015 Pan Am Games. Former Four Seasons hotel chain director Roger Garland will serve as chairman. David Braley, the president of the BC Lions CFL team and the chairman of the board of directors for the 2003 Road Worlds in Hamilton provides some cycling content to the Pan Am Board. Now that the Board has been appointed, the next task will be to hire a CEO, and then the organization will begin to work on venues. A velodrome is slated for Hamilton, with Road and BMX event to take place in Toronto and the mountain bike competition north of Barrie at Hardwood Hills. The velodrome faces a bit of a battle to obtain the necessary funding to build a permanent world-class facility, since only $11.2 million has been budgeted for this venue, and one of Hamilton's primary goals will be to build a new stadium that can eventually provide a home for the Hamilton Tiger Cats CFL team.
The complete Board:
· Roger Garland (Chairman), Former director, Four Seasons hotels
· Marcel Aubut, President-Elect, Canadian Olympic Committee
· Sylvie Bernier, Chef de Mission for Canada, 2008 Olympic Summer Games; Olympian and Pan Am Games Athlete and Medallist – Diving
· Martha G. Billes, Canadian Tire Corporation
· David Braley, President, Orlick Industries Limited, President BC Lions CFL team
· Michael Chambers, President, Canadian Olympic Committee
· Tony Gagliano, Executive Chairman, CEO of St. Joseph Communications
· Sandra Levy, Director, Human Resources, Magna Exteriors and Interiors Corporation; Olympian – Field Hockey
· Carla Qualtrough, BSSc, LLB; President, Canadian Paralympic Committee; Paralympian
· Chris Rudge, CEO and Secretary General, Canadian Olympic Committee
· Victoria Winter, Partner, Beard Winter LLP; Pan Am Games Athlete and Medallist – Dressage
· Andrew Wright, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
How far will the apple fall from the tree?
It's another one of those only-in-New York politics stories.
The daughter of a trailblazing political family is elected to the House of Representatives — just as the family patriarch gets ready to head to the, well, Big House.
Rep.-elect Grace Meng's (D-Queens) "freshman orientation day" in Washington, DC, this week was bittersweet: Back home, her pioneering father, Jimmy Meng, was pleading guilty in a bribery case.
He's looking at 20 years — a sad turnaround for the first Asian member of the state Assembly.
(Not that ethnicity necessarily had anything to do with it; Albany is an equal-opportunity destroyer of souls.)
Sadly, Grace Meng's great day preparing for her first term in Congress next year will instead be memorable in a much more disappointing way: She's become yet one more member of a politically connected Big Apple clan with a relative serving a term — behind bars.
Only in New York.
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one wonders if A.Hevesi was released from prison, so as to make cell space for J.Meng. also a democrat. the prisons are reported to be overcrowded , especially with democrat politicians from NYC.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
Maybe we need to build a special "big house" for our convicted pols to ease the overcrowding in our regular prisons.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
So the pork pie faced Taiwanese Koo Man Tang Gracie gets all the goodies that Ackerman has stashed away.
Which tong does she belong to?
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
She'd better dress better.
Otherwise some senior Congressman might mistake her for a "Wok 'n Roll" delivery girl.
"Uh, miss...where's my soy sauce'?
- Saturday, November 17, 2012
Representative Grace "La China" Meng!
In effect, she was an absentee Assembly member, unless you were one of her Oriental constituents.
What can the "round eyed ghost people" expect from her in Congress?
Fried noodles and stale duck sauce!
- Sunday, November 18, 2012
If the won ton falls on the kitchen floor, just wash it off and put it back in the soup.
If daddy Jimmy Meng goes to jail, just wash off the family reputation and his daughter goes to Congress.
If Gracie's Republican opposition were someone more qualified than that crackpot Dan Halloran, she would have lost the election.
So be it. America is on the skids!
The Chinese horde will annex us...financially to begin with!
- Monday, November 19, 2012
have you forgotten that the F.B.I. agent, who served his country in the John Liu election campaign fund scam, is a Mandarin speaking American ,of Chinese heritage?
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Graduate Student's Proposal for Google Glass is Accepted by Google
A Ph.D. candidate in Penn State's College of Education is working to make a new technology into a tool to assist people with disabilities. Sam Sennott applied to the recent Google Glass project, which was offering Google's hands-free, wearable computer to researchers and consumers as a part of the company's research and development.
Sennott said he was eager to apply for the new technology when he heard about it in 2012. He submitted his 50-word entry in February, and Google contacted him about a month later to invite him to join the program. He said he anticipates receiving his Glass this summer.
"The overarching goal is to use Google Glass as an accessibility tool for people with a wide range of physical, communication, and cognitive disabilities," said Sennott.
There are three primary areas that Sennott identifies as possibilities for this project.
"First, will be helping people who struggle to speak by working with Glass as an augmentative communication tool," said Sennott. "Second, will be to develop a range of assistive technology solutions. Third, will be looking at how parents, teachers, and other related service providers can use Glass to enhance their work with students."
Hacking things together to make them work is what special educators do on a daily basis, according to Sennott, so coming up with a new way to use Glass was natural.
"It is in my DNA to make solutions work out of whatever materials are available and to seek out new tools to get the job done for the students and families we serve," said Sennott. "For me, all it takes is being with the individuals I serve and the ideas start flowing. I am committed to harnessing the power of innovative new consumer technologies to make a difference."
This is not the first time Sennott has adapted a new technology to be used as an accessibility tool. He was able to collaborate on creating a popular technology for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
"I co-created the original Proloquo2Go," said Sennott, "the iOS software that helps people who have difficulty speaking due to disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, and developmental disabilities,"
Sennott anticipates that the assistive technology community will support this project.
"The assistive technology community is incredible," said Sennott. "They mobilize quickly and are really generous with lending a hand to share about important new developments in the field."
Sennott, who will be joining the faculty of Portland State University this fall, said he plans on using Google Glass as a part of his research in his new position, but he is cautious about his predictions for this project.
"My hope is that it provides tools that are powerful, discrete, and always nearby," said Sennott.


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Commeter GeshGa is willing to admit he really loves Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis if you'll admit to loving similarly crap games in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
It's very easy to come up with 'Games that everyone likes but I hate' lists - for example: Final Fantasy, Halo, Gears of War. See?
What's more difficult is owning up to loving a true stinker of a game. I'm not talking about liking a game like say, MindJack; which was largely terrible but had some good ideas that justify having a place in your heart. I'm talking about true pieces of garbage.
Personally, I've always been fond of Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis. It's god-awful, but it's an honest-to-goodness Aquaman game that I can play on my Gamecube. Fancy that.
So yeah, y'like Altered Beast?
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The "Let It Be" Sessions
photo album
The final Beatles album was first released on 8th May, 1970 - just prior to the launch of the cinema film of the same name. Rehearsals and recording sessions for the album had taken place in January, 1969 - first At Twickenham Film Studios, later in the basement and on the roof of their Apple headquarters on London's Savile Row.
The idea behind the album had been to capture the group "live in the studio" without overdubs or effects but this changed when producer, Phil Spector was brought in to re-produce the tracks. The Long And Winding Road, which had been given a new musical arrangement featuring orchestra and choir, was released as a single in the US and other markets, but not the UK. It became the group's final # 1 single.
The album reached #1 for three weeks during its 59 week chart stay. In the US, the album enjoyed a four week stay at #1 during an initial chart life of 55 weeks.


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San Jose and San Antonio
San Jose and San Antonio
Syracuse and Tulsa
You took it to the next level! the Unis are Great! What if I want to buy one?
Thru the Wilson generator. I'm sure they could customize.
I wonder if I could make and sell these? maybe overseas people would think they're real teams. I understand they print things like '19-0 Patriots SB Champions' shirts and hats and ship them off to the third world when the team in question loses.
true story; I attended a Div III Lacrosse championship game between Hobart and Salisbury U. Hobart won. the vendors had 'SU NCAA Champion' shirts but put them all back in the box, refusing to sell me one.
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To be a relief after having shared what one is thinking or feeling with others, or upon no longer having a particular problem. I finally completed my tax return for this year. That's a load off my mind! Talking over my problem with my close friend was a load off my mind.


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Sunday, October 02, 2005
Not Boston Bound :(
Below is a copy of my race report to my ultra running group. I didn't do it today. I did not have what it took to qualify. I'm ok with that (like I have a choice in the matter-well, I suppose I could be pissed, I'm not)as I gave it all that I had today. I could not hold the pace. Man it was hard!!
Thanks for all of your encouragement and support while I was training for this buggar! I appreciate that so much.
Sometimes days just go like this and we have to learn from them :)
I'll post some pics in a bit.
TCM was tough tough tough for me.
Last June I pr'd at Grandmas in 3:59:58 and this surprised me greatly. I had never broken the 4 hour barrier.
I then hatched the great idea of trying to qualify for Boston at TCM by running a 3:50.
I trained hard these past few months. I began to run at the track, running Yasso 800's in 3:40-3:45. I started with 3 and worked my way up to a dozen. I began to run tempo workouts as well, these are two workouts that I've never incorporated into my training before because, well, running faster than what I was used to, hurt. Plain and simple.
The speed workouts and losing some weight helped to quicken my ultra distances. I began to PR at the 50K and 50 mile distances.
I thought I could run a 350 today, maybe even a 345.
I drove over to Ann's this morning. I was so lucky to again be able to ride with Ann, her hubby Fred and son Kyle. Kyle entertained me all the way there .. and back. He's a funny little energetic 7 (I think) year old that reminds me of how my boys were at his age.
After we were dropped off at the Dome we stood around in lines, met up with friends and then I was ready to find my pacing group.
I thought I had plenty of time to find them. Wrong again. 20 minutes prior to start and the chutes were already crammed and full. I pushed my way up to the 445's and stopped dead. Oh well, I figured I'd catch them soon enough. Wrong again.
We were off and running. I crossed the start and tried to find my group. I spoke with Val from Voyageur, whom I and Jeffrey ran with at V for quite some time, it was awesome to see her again.
1 mile down and I still hadn't caught the 350 pace group. 1 mile: 7:34. Not good, way too fast. Mile 2 and I still hadn't caught them! Not good again: 7:56. Mile 3 and finally caught them. Mile 3: 8:00. This was bad. Way too fast for me. In retrospect I SHOULD have just run my miles off of my pace band but at the time I was hell bent on catching the group. (another lesson learned) I was out of breath, hot and dry.
I realized that I should have been carrying my ultra pack with the 2 24 oz bottles. Heck, I always train with this and I always drink 24 oz an hour. That's what my body is used to. Why didn't I have it? (another lesson learned). I was having trouble sustaining on the 3-5oz cups of water, even though I was trying to chug as many as I could.
At mile 10 I was at 3:45 pace. I was pretty excited about that, but not excited about the way my quads were cramping. I've never had cramping in my muscles. Never.
I was doing electrolyte caps, did a gel, more water at the aid station..then guess what. Another first and bad move. I missed an aid station! I thought there was only one table that I passed, I guess I must have passed a few more because all of sudden I realized the water tables were gone and I hadn't had anything to drink. (another lesson learned)
Mile 13 and holding onto the 345 pace but fading fast. I could feel it fading.
Mile 16 and holding to the 350 group..then I had to make a pit stop. Yeah. Of course.
Mile 19 and I fell. Yeah, fell during a marathon on asphalt. No roots, no rocks! I was running along and didn't notice (wasn't looking I guess..duh) the guy with the rake in front of me, raking out the cups and runner debris. My toe hooked the rake and BAM. Face plant. Scratched my sunglasses, the hat flew off but I was OK. I caused a collision in back of me. It was the pits. My iPod shot out of its case on my arm and slid a ways. I probably would have laughed it I wasn't feeling so lousy and hot and dry and crampy in my quads.
Mile 20 and I'm falling off of 350 pace. Mile 21 took me 10 minutes. I just want this over with.
Then I changed my attitude. I was going to finish and I was going to have fun. I couldn't qualify for Boston today but I could at least enjoy the marathon, enjoy the spectators and enjoy the other runners. There was no way I could keep the 350 pace. That was real fast and real tough for me to hold. I was going to finish the race in 10 minute miles, around 4 hours and enjoy the surroundings. I could not go any faster.
I enjoyed the spectators. I saw members of my Big Lake run club: Kevin and Ken were loud and encouraging! I saw Jo, Don and Chris and the girls; I kept seeing Marie's Tom over and over again! It was so much fun finding spectators that I recognized.
My legs were heavy and tired. Man they were tired. I was running as FAST as I could and I could not break a 930 mile this last section. I'm sure I didn't.
I was running my best, doing what I could do today and it was not good enough for a Boston qualifier. It was just not good enough. It was the best I could do today. The best I could, that's all I could give and I'm happy with that.
My watch time was 4:02, I think the race clock said 4:08. A TCM pr for me.
At the finish line I was able to watch Ann run in, it was fun to see her finish! A PR for Ann. Woohoo!! We hobbled to the changing tents and who was there but Leslie from Voyaguer! A gal I and Jeffrey ran with for a while. I never did see Val from V again.
Leslie left behind a container full of wet wipes. Ahh, how good it felt to wipe the salt from our face! The little things in life!!
Kyle entertained me all the way back to Ann's. All in all, it was a great day!
There were many of the MN-DRS out there, don't let me be the only one to talk about the day:)
Julie Berg
Big Lake
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- Jen said...
Julie, This is what makes running so hard. There are good days and bad, although a PR is never a bad day. I think you were right to realize that today wasn't the day and relax and enjoy it. There will be other races. You did learn some very valuable lessons today and all of them will help you on that magical day. I hope you don't feel too discouraged but energized to try again. You were ready...It just wasn't your day for a qualifying time. Jenna
- Nancy Toby said...
Hey, a course record is great! PRs are always to be hoped for, but one only gets them not just after the work has been done, but also when the stars align. Every race is just training for the next one! And there's plenty of time to qualify for Boston still if you take a few weeks to recuperate, and try again on another day!
Julie you have a fantastic attitude!
You had a great race and learned some lessons about yourself. I'm sorry you missed the BQ time, you'll get it next time :)
TC is a tough course, Nice job!
I'll do Grandmas before doing this one again...
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Julie, I like that you are not beating yourself up. You still had a great time and a great race. You can qualify for Boston anytime. It just wasn't time for you this race... I am so glad that you took stock and just decided to enjoy it. You knew the BQ wasn't going to happen and look at the fun you had! Great job and great report!
I'm sorry you didn't make your big goal Julie. I suppose this is like those gymnasts in the olympics who fall down. Everyone can have a bad day. Of course I wish that I was as fit and fast as you are on an off day. Sounds like a great run overall. Congrats on your personal best for that course even if it wasn't quite what you were hoping for.
- Chad said...
Julie, after reading about your first 3 miles I thought I'd be reading about a DNF. But you kept battling and still ran 4:02 on a TOUGH day. Way to go.
- Tracy said...
I know that you were after Boston, but that final time is NOTHING to gag on! I know, though, at this point that kind of stuff is kind of just cushy talk.
Everything happens for a reason, and your race is coming ;)
- brent said...
i admit i haven't followed along with your whole training story but you did the best you could out there on sunday and that's all you can do. i think finishing in 4 is so impressive. wow, i just can't imagine going that fast. thats too bad about the rake!! i almost got tripped up in one too.


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Tae kwon do team travels to Cornell for first ECTC event
November 9, 2013 | Ithaca, N.Y.
Liberty University's tae kwon do team competed in its first Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC) event since it began as a club last year, Saturday at Cornell University.
More than 20 college teams participated in the event.
"This is a well established conference that has been holding competitions for over 30 years and includes over 30 colleges, most of which are Ivy League schools such as Penn State, Harvard, Princeton, Syracuse, Yale, and MIT," Liberty Head Coach Jesse Wilson said. "We are very excited to now be considered a member of this league and we did well overall considering this is our first time in the league. I am very pleased with their performance."
The Lady Flames' women's black belt tandem of Riana Turner and Dani Gallagher finished fourth in its division with Turner, fighting in the heavyweight division, delivering a powerful kick to her opponent from Princeton. Gallagher, meanwhile, dominated her middleweight division challenger, also from Princeton.
Leah Deaton, April Lyn Handog, and Lydia Douglas represented Liberty in the women's beginners division and placed fifth overall.
In the men's beginners division, Darrel Richards and Robert Flores represented the Flames, also placing fifth.
Andrew Baab finished fourth in the men's intermediate forms division, in which competitors demonstrate skill and technique in forms by performing a choreographed set of punches, blocks, and kicks.
"While we did not place in the men's or women's intermediate divisions, our teams did very well and gained a lot of experience," Wilson said. "We will use the next several months to learn from our mistakes, re-evaluate where our strengths and weaknesses are, and train for our next ECTC competition, tentatively set for April at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute."


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Over the last three financial quarters, cancellations at clubs have increased. Unfortunately, many club owners are not doing anything about it, but it's time for a change, and here's how.
Observation: When staff is at work, most of them are focused on their jobs rather than on how their jobs keep members.
To do: Revise job descriptions to include the following phrase as the primary purpose of the job: "To create and deepen relationships with members that will add value to their membership and enhance their sense of belonging and community within the club." By making this their primary purpose and making their job task their secondary purpose, you help them focus on creating a connection that will keep members.
Observation: Calculating retention, the cost of a lost member, the cost to get a new member and the time it takes to recoup the initial cost of a member is done inconsistently, if at all. These need to be calculated and shared with all staff so they have a retention awareness.
To do: Analytically measure outcomes monthly and manage retention behaviors daily so you can improve these numbers.
Observation: Most clubs have a member cancellation policy rather than a member recovery program. The front desk staff handles the cancellations at most clubs, but they are too busy multi-tasking to have the kind of conversation that can save a member. Instead, the desk person should immediately contact the club manager to handle the situation, giving the manager the member's name and location in the lobby.
Before speaking with the member, the manager should access his or her file to see when the member joined, check club usage and see how much the member is paying. The manager should then greet the member and say in a genuine, concerned tone, "I understand you would like to discuss cancelling your membership. I am sorry to hear that. We don't want to lose you. Let's go into my office and discuss the options."
The manager should then ask the following questions in a concerned, non-defensive manner: Why do you want to leave? Why did you join the club? Did you get what you expected from your membership? What could we do differently that would make you want to stay? If we were able to do something specifically for you, would you reconsider cancelling?
After the first question is answered, the manager will know what direction to take the conversation. If the member is moving to another state, then this member more than likely cannot be saved. However, if the member responds with, "I have not been using the club," then the manager should proceed with the rest of the questions and be prepared to offer substantial services or accommodations. Knowing how much a lost member costs will help you define what your manager can afford to offer.
To do: Turn your cancellation process into a recovery process, and revamp your cancellation projections to set a goal to save a minimum of five members per month who are cancelling. E-mail me to get a form that shows how much revenue a net 60 members adds to your bottom line.
Observation: Retention awareness has to be translated into behaviors that create a definable difference and a compelling competitive advantage.
To do: Create an in-house service skills program that gives new and veteran staff the tools to provide consistently gracious, seamless service.
This is a perfect time to examine both your strategic and reactive approaches to retention and make the necessary changes that allow you to affect the number of members who leave your club in 2009.
Karen Woodard-Chavez is president of Premium Performance Training, Boulder, CO, and Ixtapa, Mexico. Woodard consults and trains clubs throughout the world. She can be reached at 303-417-0653 or at [email protected].


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Should restaurants start doing this?
Or - are you tied to your cell phone that you can't part with it for just a bit?
Hold that call: At Eva, a New American restaurant in Los Angeles, diners who give up their cell phones for the duration of the meal get a 5 percent discount.
"When I first heard about it, I loved it," said Jaime Oikle, founder of RunningRestaurants.com. "It's obviously going to be a talking point" that can generate buzz for the restaurant, he said.
The discount is a new solution for a problem that's vexed restaurant owners since phones became untethered from their cords and small enough to slip into a pocket. Back in 2006 — a year before Apple's iPhone came onto the market — a New York City councilman suggested a ban on cell phones in restaurants, but abandoned the idea after restaurateurs said such a prohibition would hurt business.
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I'm not a big cell phone user, and would be insulted if someone pulled one out during a dinner. I often look over at families while out to eat. Everyone is texting, and the younger family members are playing games on iPads. I really makes me sad. Dinner time at our house (and when we're out to eat) is a time to socialize... with the people who are present. I would happily take a discount to not use my phone during a meal, as I don't use it now.
I think it is very annoying and obnoxious when peoples' phones go off in an eatery and they answer. Some think they have to practically shout into the mouthpiece to be heard, and that means you listen to parts of their conversation whether you want to or not. I think the polite thing to do is to put them on buzzer mode when you go in and either step outside to answer or let the caller leave a message you can answer later.
I tried replying to your comment "Me too Chris" but received a "Were Sorry message preventing my entry there.
A ban in all restaurants wouldn't give one an advantage and eventually people would get used to it. The can always eat in their car and talk on the phone as loud as they desire. It's absurd to give a discount to behave civilly.
{RING!!!} "Excuse me, I have to get this..."
Ya know, it wasn't 10 or so years ago that you DIDN'T have to get that, back when all your phone was was a PHONE (gee, whiz, what a concept!). If I'm at a restaurant with company, my focus should DAMNED WELL BE ON THAT COMPANY, and not on a piece of plastic with some fancy semiconductors in it.
Then too, this is an issue of MANNERS, especially in a public place, and as I'm sure we've all seen one way or another, manners are on the decline in 21st century America, and possibly elsewhere as well. Granted, my phone might ring a couple times a WEEK, but even if the second coming were in full swing and I were being phoned, texted and tweeted about it, I think my wife or my customer or whoever I'm with is due my full attention.
It's about priorities, peeps.
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Many of you have read the Trunk's brilliant column on the recent murder of an 11-year-old girl by Minneapolis gangsters, "The Silence of the Liberals." Tomorrow morning, the Minneapolis Star Tribune weighs in with an editorial on the same topic. The editorial starts relatively well, but predictably veers leftward. In the Strib's view, the gangsters are apparently the real victims:
"But what next? How to prevent some of Tyesha's classmates from turning into those sullen young men standing around street corners with no jobs except selling drugs, with no greater ambition than to shoot guns at rival gangsters in a kind of nihilistic child's play?"
How indeed? The average citizen would no doubt assign law enforcement a prominent role in preventing young men from "shooting guns at rival gangsters." Law enforcement, however, is never mentioned by the Strib. Instead, the newspaper blames Tyesha's murder on……Ronald Reagan. You think I'm kidding?
"Minneapolis citizens, from City Hall to the kitchen table, must resolve that the downward spiral of the 1980's will not resume, that the heroic and successful work of rebuilding Powderhorn and other inner-city neighborhoods will continue."
This verges on the mind-boggling. The murder victim was not even born in the 1980's, and it is not clear what this reference is supposed to mean. In the last twenty years, it would be hard to think of a single Minneapolis politician who been elected without the Star-Trib's endorsement. The city's government has been exclusively in the hands of liberal Democrats throughout that time. City, county, state and federal spending on social programs has increased steadily. So what on earth is the Strib tallking about?
Of course, Minneapolis has experienced a "downward spiral" since the 1980's. The downward spiral has involved a welfare/crime explosion and has been the direct result of Minnesota's decisions to 1) pay far higher welfare benefits than surrounding states, and 2) refrain from punishing criminal activity wherever possible. These decisions have resulted in a rapid influx of welfare recipients and criminals (typically, the boyfriends of welfare recipients)–a fact which every resident of Minneapolis knows, but which the Strib never hints at.
But the Strib isn't quite done. It also suggests that :
"Another constructive step would be to visit the Lagoon Theater in Uptown Minneapolis or the Southdale Center in Edina to see Michael Moore's powerful documentary film 'Bowling for Columbine.' Whether or not you like Moore's slant on politics, and despite his rather loose way of dealing with fact, the film overall is a gripping indictment of the fear and paranoia that produced and sustain America's gun culture."
Even the Strib recognizes that Moore is a liar. But never mind, see his movie anyway. It's against guns. Of course, the gangsters who murdered Tyesha weren't "fearful" or "paranoid." Those terms would describe the law-abiding citizens who cower indoors to avoid the gangs. (That didn't save Tyesha; she was shot inside her own home.) The gangsters are loose and confident, secure in the knowledge that Minneapolis' civic authorities are–if not precisely on their side–certainly not anxious to do anything that would interfere with their fun.
Fortunately, the Minneapolis Police Department–which knows perfectly well who the gangsters are–arrested the murderers before policemen had an opportunity to read the Strib's editorial. Otherwise, they might have been watching "Bowling for Columbine" instead of checking their own arrest warrants, which, coincidentally no doubt, included two of the murderers.
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Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel, now living in the UK. He is a successful jazz musician as well as a prolific writer. Atzmon writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish identity and culture. He specializes in writing about Jewish identity politics and how it fits into Jewish ideology. His papers are published in many press outlets around the world. His novels 'Guide to the perplexed' and 'My One And Only Love' have been translated into 24 languages.
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Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Sustainable Building, is not a particularly humble man. A humble man would not have erected, on his firm's corporate campus in the Chinese province of Hunan, a classical palace and a 130-foot replica of an Egyptian pyramid. A humble man, for that matter, would not have redirected Broad from its core business—manufacturing industrial air-conditioning units—to invent a new method of building skyscrapers. And a humble man certainly wouldn't be putting up those skyscrapers at a pace never achieved in history.
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In late 2011, Broad built a 30-story building in 15 days; now it intends to use similar methods to erect the world's tallest building in just seven months. Perhaps you're already familiar with Zhang's handiwork: On New Year's Day 2012, Broad released a time-lapse video of its 30-story achievement that quickly went viral: construction workers buzzing around like gnats while a clock in the corner of the screen marks the time. In just 360 hours, a 328-foot-tall tower called the T30 rises from an empty site to overlook Hunan's Xiang River. At the end of the video, the camera spirals around the building overhead as the Broad logo appears on the screen: a lowercase b that wraps around itself in an imitation of the @ symbol.
In person, Zhang himself seems to move at an impossible time-lapse clip. He's almost always surrounded by Broad employees, all wearing identical white button-front shirts (the uniform for the corporate office) and all offering papers for him to review or sign. When I arrive, he's issuing a steady barrage of instructions while spinning himself around in his office chair. When he's finally ready to start the interview, he abruptly stops spinning and, without looking at me, barks out, "Begin!"
The pace of Broad Sustainable Building's development is driven entirely by this one man. Broad Town, the sprawling headquarters, is completely Zhang's creation. Employees call him not "the chairman" or "our chairman" but "my chairman." To become an employee of Broad, you must recite a life manual penned by Zhang, guidelines that include tips on saving energy, brushing your teeth, and having children. All prospective employees must be able, over a two-day period, to run 7.5 miles. You can eat for free at Broad Town cafeterias unless someone catches you wasting food, at which point you're not merely fined but publicly shamed.
So far, Broad has built 16 structures in China, plus another in Cancun. They are fabricated in sections at two factories in Hunan, roughly an hour's drive from Broad Town. From there the modules—complete with preinstalled ducts and plumbing for electricity, water, and other infrastructure—are shipped to the site and assembled like Legos. The company is in the process of franchising this technology to partners in India, Brazil, and Russia. What it's selling is the world's first standardized skyscraper, and with it, Zhang aims to turn Broad into the McDonald's of the sustainable building industry.
"Traditional construction is chaotic," he says. "We took construction and moved it into the factory." According to Zhang, his buildings will help solve the many problems of the construction industry. They will be safer, quicker, and cheaper to build. And they will have low energy consumption and CO2 emissions. When I ask Zhang why he decided to start a construction company, he corrects me. "It's not a construction company," he says. "It's a structural revolution."
Asked about his life story, Zhang avers that it's too boring to discuss. ("This whole article shouldn't be more than two pages," he says.) But he goes on to attribute his success to his creativity and to his outsider perspective on technology. He started out as an art student in the 1980s, but in 1988, with the help of two partners, including his brother (an engineer by training), Zhang left the art world to found Broad. The company started out as a maker of nonpressurized boilers. While Zhang again insists that the story isn't interesting enough to talk about, Broad's senior vice president, a smiley woman named Juliet Jiang who sports a bowl haircut just too long to stay out of her eyes, is happy to fill in the gaps. "He made his fortune on boilers," she says. "He could have kept doing this business, but my chairman, he saw the need for nonelectric air-conditioning." China's economy was expanding past the capacity of the nation's electricity grid, she explains. Power shortages were a problem. Industrial air-conditioning units fueled by natural gas could help companies ease their electricity load, reduce costs, and enjoy more reliable climate control in the bargain.
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The AC units that Zhang still manufactures are gigantic, barge-sized affairs. The so-called micro chillers weigh 6 tons; the largest is 3,500 tons and can cool 5 million square feet. The technology Broad employs, called absorption cooling, is an old one. Instead of using electricity to compress a refrigerant from a gas to a liquid and back again, nonelectric air conditioners use natural gas or another source of heat to turn a special liquid (typically a solution containing lithium bromide) into vapor; as the vapor condenses, it cools the air around it. Today, Broad has units operating in more than 70 countries, cooling some of the largest buildings and airports on the planet. These systems are all monitored from a central headquarters in Broad Town: When an air conditioner malfunctions in Brazil, an alarm goes off in Hunan.
For two decades, Zhang's AC business boomed. But a couple of events conspired to change his course. The first was that Zhang became an environmentalist, a gradual awakening that he says began 10 or 12 years ago. The second was the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit China's Sichuan Province in 2008, causing the collapse of poorly constructed buildings and killing some 87,000 people. In the aftermath, Zhang began to fixate on the problem of building design. At first, he says, he tried to convince developers to retrofit existing buildings to make them both more stable and more sustainable. "People paid no attention at all," he says. So Zhang drafted his own engineers—300 of them, according to Jiang—and started researching how to build cheap, environmentally friendly structures that could also withstand an earthquake.
Within six months of starting his research, Zhang had given up on traditional methods. He was frustrated by the cost of hiring designers and specialists for each new structure. The best way to cut costs, he decided, was to take building to the factory—and as a manufacturer of massive AC units, he knew how factories worked. But to create a factory-built skyscraper, Broad had to abandon the principles by which skyscrapers are typically designed. The whole load-bearing structure had to be different. To reduce the overall weight of the building, it used less concrete in the floors; that in turn enabled it to cut down on structural steel. The result was the T30, 90 percent of which was built inside the factory. And Zhang says this percentage will only rise with future buildings: The more that happens in the factory, he says, the safer and less wasteful construction becomes.
These theories are increasingly accepted by the sustainable building community in the West, where prefabricated and modular buildings are gaining in popularity. In New York, a 32-story modular building, the world's tallest of its kind, is slated to go up near the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn (though union disputes might result in a more traditional building instead). Two entirely modular developments have gone up in the suburbs of London. Both modular buildings (which are delivered to a site in prebuilt cubes) and prefabricated towers (closer to what Broad is doing) are safer to construct and easier to regulate than traditional structures, and both cut down on waste.
But modular and prefabricated buildings in the West are, for the most part, low-rise. Broad is alone—perhaps forebodingly alone—in applying these methods to skyscrapers. For Zhang, the environmental savings alone justify the effort. According to Broad's numbers, a traditional high-rise will produce about 3,000 tons of construction waste, while a Broad building will produce only 25 tons. Traditional buildings also require 5,000 tons of water onsite to build, while Broad buildings use none.
Compared with the West's elegant modular buildings, Zhang's skyscrapers are aesthetically underwhelming, to say the least. On a tour of the T30, my guide gestures at a scale model and says, "It's not very good-looking, is it?" To create a sufficiently spacious lobby for the hotel, an awkward pyramid-shaped structure had to be attached to the base. Inside, the hallways are uncomfortably narrow; climbing the central stairway feels like clanging up the stairs of a stadium bleacher.
It's worth noting, though, that the majority of apartment buildings going up in China are equally ugly. Broad's biggest selling point, amazingly enough, is in the quality. In a nation where construction standards vary widely, and where builders often use cheap and unreliable concrete, Broad's method offers a rare sort of consistency. Its materials are uniform and dependable. There's little opportunity for the construction workers to cut corners, since doing so would leave stray pieces, like when you bungle your Ikea desk. And with Broad's approach, consistency can be had on the cheap: The T30 cost just $1,000 per square meter to build, compared with around $1,400 for traditional commercial high-rise construction in China.
The building process is also safer. Jiang tells me that during the construction of the first 20 Broad buildings, "not even one fingernail was hurt." Elevator systems—the base, rails, and machine room—can be installed at the factory, eliminating the risk of a technician falling down a 30-story elevator shaft. And instead of shipping an elevator car to the site in pieces, Broad orders a finished car and drops it into the shaft by crane. In the future, elevator manufacturers are hoping to preinstall the doors, completely eliminating any chance that a worker might fall.
While Jiang focuses on bringing Broad buildings to the world, her boss is fixated on the company's most outlandish plan—the J220, a factory-built 220-floor behemoth that would just happen to be the tallest building in the world. It's hard to say for sure that the 16-million-square-foot plan isn't entirely a publicity stunt. But Zhang has hired some of the engineers who worked on the current height-record holder, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, and Broad has created two large models of "Sky City" (as the J220 has been nicknamed). The foundation is scheduled to be laid in November at a site in Hunan; if everything goes well, the building will be complete in March 2013. All in all, including factory time and onsite time, construction is expected to take just seven months. Again, that's assuming it really happens: When my guide at the T30 plugs in one of the models and the lights flicker on, he tells me, "My chairman says we have to attract eyes. We have to shock the world."
But if all Broad ever does is build 30-story skyscrapers—in 15 days, at $1,000 per square meter, with little waste and low worker risk, and where the end result can withstand a 9.0 quake—it will have shocked the world quite enough.1
Lauren Hilgers (email@example.com) was based in Shanghai as a reporter from 2007 to July 2012.
Note 1. Correction appended [9/25/12:00 PM EST]: Broad's skyscrapers cost $1,000 per square meter, not $1,000 per square foot.


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Do you remember my tweet from late December where I wrote that I'm working "on a deal with a manufacturer who wants to hear *your* opinions"? Well, sometimes it takes a little bit longer but as you can imagine, there's a lot of work to be done in the background. Nevertheless, we are almost done now and will have an end-user survey online later today. So what is this survey about? Before Christmas I was contacted by one of the major smartphone and tablet manufacturers and asked if I could host an end user survey for them. As a matter of fact, this manufacturer wants to hear your opinions to improve his devices even further because he "doesn't want to build devices for himself but for you, the end user"!
Brilliant, at the moment I heard such a statement I was sold to the idea to work with the manufacturer on the survey and I'm happy that we will go online with the survey later today. All of us, end users, bloggers, media and carriers like to bash manufacturers for certain decisions. But sometimes they don't know it better and instead of bashing them for their decisions, let us help them to shape the future of smartphones and tablets!
Therefore the survey is about user experience and how end users like or dislike certain features. The survey will have up to 15 really shot question which should verify the one or the other manufacturer opinion. This allows all survey participants to direct the manufacturer into the one or the other direction because he's totally open to whatever the final result will be; as long as it is qualified enough. The manufacturer promised me in several discussions that he's taking the result serious and our opinions might make it into future products, who knows!
So stay tuned for more and in the meantime don't forget to tell your friends. The more participate the more impact we can have!
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