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Odalis walloped a big shiny sphere with her mallet. She was annoyed by the flashing yellow lights connect to the sphere via an intricate network of heavy-gauged, metal-mesh-shielded cables. The yellow lights winced ever so slighly with each wallop. The Floppy Dongle, a ship intended for cargo hauls and extended travel, started to rattle slightly.
"I don't think that will fix it," Tom commented with quite a bit of snark.
"What would you know, pencil pusher?" asked Odalis, arms crossed in a challenging pose.
Odalis continued to show the sphere who the boss was. This time, her banging was harder and more frequent. Tom sat, legs crossed as he sat on a crate full of spare parts. His eyes were squinted towards Odalis in a pensive, judgemental gaze. His coy smile was inviting to a swift punch or at least a sneaky spitball.
"Weeeelllll… I know enough to say this starship and your crew is not up to spec, and you know what that means: you have limited access to UNDSA sectors."
Shane barged in with his usual wide-stanced penguin waddle. Unlike Odalis, Shane had no tool belt or high-tech aides handy. He preferred to travel "light".
Shane blurted out, "You know, your body looks mighty nice with all that sweat glistening."


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What you'll notice about this live screen shot (see items in RED) is that the search engine is still presenting results from our 3 million documents in WorkSite in tenths of seconds and the faceting is working as advertised. Much of the content was redacted out, but you can get the gist of how it works. This capability has been made possible with the help of XMLAW and is not standard, out of the box, functionality with SharePoint 2007.
Thoughts and opinions of Tom Baldwin on law firm management, technology, knowledge management and other issues affecting our industry.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Faceted Search Is Coming for SharePoint 2007
Many folks have asked about 'faceted' search, which simply put allows for easier filtering of results. While our full-text search of WorkSite content is still getting used almost 900 times per day, our lawyers have been asking for this feature, which is still in beta for us, but coming soon.
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What exactly is faceted search, how is it different from the normal live/google search or one provided in MOSS 2007?
One of our customer is also expecting faceted search in MOSS 2007. I am begginer to MOSS 2007, how do I provide faceted search in MOSS 2007, any sample/pointer on this? Any Ms internal material if not published yet?
Faceting is nothing more than filtering options generated to help further refine search results, at least that's my humble opinon.
Ontolica offers faceted searching for MOSS, but will take some configuration.
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The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday with the award ceremony at which Terrence Malick's long-awaited The Tree of Life was given the top prize, the Palme d'Or. Last week after Tree's mixed reception on the Croisette I posited to Lainey that Tree was more Oscar than Cannes, but she said no, that it was definitely more Cannes than Oscar. Looks like she was right. Though it's way too early to make even vaguely educated guesses, and winning at Cannes doesn't automatically translate into winning at the Kodak, I do think Tree will have a presence at next year's Oscars. This kicks off what will be a long year of love-hate for Tree in the film world. (Lainey: And it also kicks off Brad Pitt's Oscar campaign, as you saw last week when the Brange played King and Queen of Cannes.)
A big winner was the Marche du Film, with sales being way up over previous years, prompting many to declare the economic slump in the industry over. I see a new hesitation, though, as many deals begun in Cannes won't close for a while yet as distributors make sure they know exactly what they're getting. Projects that just screened sizzle reels (clips instead of full scenes or a complete film) aren't closing deals as quickly and where big money is being spent caution follows. Buyers are taking a little extra time to be sure of the product they're getting before shelling out top dollar, even for projects that will bring returns in prestige and/or box office.
Other winners include Best Director winner Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive (Ryan Gosling was on hand, continuing the Gosling/Refn bromance on the Riviera), Israeli writer/director Joseph Cedar picked up Best Screenplay for Footnote, and Kirsten Dunst capped off her comeback trip with a Best Actress win for Lars von Trier's Melancholia (more on von Trier later). I'm all over Dunst's comeback triumph. I'm not a Kiki fan, but it's good to have her back in quirky/charming mode, not homeless/potentially crazy mode.
As for her director, the now-embattled Lars von Trier, well he's clearly an idiot. His remarks about Nazis (among other things) were met with profound distaste and disapprobation in Cannes, as they should be, but I disagree with the festival's decision to ban him for life, mostly because I think they'll end up reversing this decision. Von Trier is, and always has been, a provocateur. He makes provoking, often difficult, movies and he's known for giving fruity answers at press conferences.
I think, in his head, everything he said at the Melancholia press conference was funny, but the reality is that he's a jack*ss who took it too far. The proper response from the festival would have been, "Lars is an idiot and obviously his views don't reflect ours and we've asked him to leave for the remainder of the festival because we can't handle what a dumb*ss he is right now." That way, he's sent off in disgrace for being so dumb, but the door is open down the road when they want him back. Which they will, because Lars von Trier is what the Cannes Film Festival is all about. His career isn't measured in box office but in how much he can stir up a festival (his last Cannes showing, Antichrist, won Charlotte Gainsbourg a Best Actress prize, but also left many declaring it the worst movie they'd ever seen). Cannes will ban him for life until he makes another arty pot-stirrer. Cannes loves drama and von Trier is basically a professional drama queen.
But speaking of measuring box office, Pirates of the Caribbean: Map to More Money premiered at Cannes, to underwhelming reviews, and then opened over the weekend with $90 million. After last year's disappointing impact on the film community at large, the organizers at Cannes were determined to bring that clout back this year. While Pirates' box office is considered soft (which is ludicrous) compared to other entries in the franchise, it is the biggest single-weekend opening of 2011. And with films like Tree, We Need to Talk About Kevin and one of the top titles in the market, Iron Lady, looking like early award-season bait, they've succeeded with that. Drama, controversy, a lucrative market, Pitt Porn, award contenders—2011 was a great year for Cannes.
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How to Plan a Backyard Campout Adventure With Your Kids
Are your kids begging to go camping, but you just don't have the time?
Want to expose them to the great outdoors without leaving home?
Pitch your tent, grab some marshmallows and have a fun family campout in your own backyard.
A backyard campout has all of the joys of camping without the cost or time spent traveling. It's the perfect solution.
In this article I'll show you how to have a fantastic, adventure-filled campout right in your own backyard.
Why Have a Backyard Campout?
A backyard campout is a quick and simple way to enjoy the fun of camping without some of the hassles. You can take your kids on an outdoor adventure with very little planning, and you never even have to pack the car.
Camping is a great way to bond as a family, talking and telling stories around a campfire. It helps teach kids the value of working together to pitch a tent or cook a meal (or a s'more). And it's a great way to get kids outdoors, watching the clouds or the stars instead of videos; playing live games instead of video games.
If you've got reluctant or first-time campers in your family, a backyard campout is a great way to ease them into the experience and get them hooked so they'll be eager to try camping somewhere else.


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Often in cooperative situations, many aspects of the decision-making environment are uncertain. We investigate how cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in risky environments. Drawing on research from risky choice, we compare choices in stochastic social dilemmas to those in lotteries with equivalent levels of risk. Cooperation rates in games vary with different levels of risk across decision situations with the same expected outcomes, thereby mimicking behavior in lotteries. Risk presentation, however, only affected choices in lotteries, not in stochastic games. Process data suggests that people respond less to probabilities in the stochastic social dilemmas than in the lotteries. The findings highlight how an uncertain environment shapes cooperation and call for models of the underlying decision processes.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Krista Wilkinson, professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State, has been named editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (AJSLP). The mission of AJSLP, which has been online-only since 2010, is to report peer-reviewed, primary research findings concerning an array of clinically oriented topics transcending all aspects of clinical practice in speech-language pathology.
Wilkinson's research focuses on language development, and augmentative and alternative communication intervention in individuals with severe intellectual/developmental disabilities. In much of her early work, she examined how vocabulary instruction can be improved through an understanding of processes of early word learning in children with and without disabilities.
Her current research examines how to improve the design of augmentative and alternative communication displays. Through applications of the tools of neuroscience and cognitive sciences, Wilkinson seeks to understand how individuals with severe disabilities perceive and understand the visual information presented on visual augmentative and alternative communication displays. The resulting information can help improve clinical services by permitting clinicians to tailor the design of the communication system to the visual-cognitive processing skills of individuals who use them.
Wilkinson has published more than 45 peer-reviewed publications and multiple book chapters and other invited papers. She served as associate editor for the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology from 2004 to 2010 and for Augmentative and Alternative Communication from 2007 to 2009. Two of her publications have received the editor's award for most significant contribution to the journal Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
Wilkinson has received multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health. In addition to serving as a faculty member at Penn State, she is an adjunct associate scientist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center. She received a bachelor's degree in linguistics and cognitive sciences from Brown University and a master's degree and doctorate in psychology from Georgia State University.


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You've met someone new, and things are going great, but you start to notice something off about them. Could your significant other be a robot in disguise? Check our list for the possible signs.
Now maybe you're knowingly dating a robot, or perhaps you've had one constructed for that very purpose. But if you think your guy or gal might be an artificial intelligence, but you're not sure, look for these symptoms:
You've Only Spoken to Them Online
xkcd: It's always risky dating someone online. You don't know if that cute girl you've been chatting with is really an octogenarian with great taste in movies — or a particularly sophisticated spambot. Fortunately, this savvy Internet user knows a test for artificial intelligence far more efficient that the Turing Test or the Voight-Kampff.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer "I Robot...You Jane:" We all learn a valuable lesson about chatting with strange men when sweet, awkward Willow starts an online romance with Malcolm. She thinks she's found the man of her dreams — or at least someone to help her forget Xander for a while. Tragically, "Malcolm" is actually "Moloch," an ancient demon trapped in the school's computer system whose only means of physical interaction is through a robot body.
There Are Multiple Copies
Battlestar Galactica: Glowing spines would have been a handy way to tell the Cylons from the humans, but barring that, there are a few other ways to tell if the person you're sexing up is a Cylon. Baltar and Tyrol both date Cylon women with a penchant for sabotage, but Helo gets the most definitive clue to his lady friend's true nature, when he spots her exact duplicate hanging around Caprica with a Number Six.
Star Trek "Requiem for Methuselah:" Rayna Kapec seems like the perfect woman: intelligent, beautiful, and a great pool players. It's no wonder that Captain Kirk, who falls in lust every other week, pursues her. But, alas it's not meant to be. Kirk and Spock stumble into a chamber belonging to Rayna's guardian Flint, containing several earlier gynoid versions of the lovely Rayna. The emotional impact of learning that she's a robot and being forced to choose between Kirk and Flint prove too much for Rayna's circuits to handle, prompting an irrevocable meltdown.
The Twilight Zone "In His Image:" Jessica Connelly never actually learns that Alan Talbot, the man she fell in love with, is a robot. His creator and physical doppleganger, Walter Ryder, just quietly takes his place after Alan malfunctions and starts developing homicidal impulses.
They're Three Laws Compliant
Foundation: We'd all like our significant others to respect human life and to protect us when we're in danger. But Dors Venabili, Hari Seldon's bodyguard and eventual wife, is actually programed to do just that. Seldon does suspect that she's a robot, but by then he has already fallen for her.
Their Affection Can Kill
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: British Intelligence never bothered to tell Austin Powers that his partner and new bride Vanessa Kensington is, in fact, a fembot planted by Dr. Evil. Austin learns soon enough when Vanessa points a pair of machine guns from her breasts, though she notes he would have figured it out sooner if he'd tried a little foreplay.
Kim Possible: So the Drama: When crime-fighting teenager Kim Possible needs a date to her junior prom, new student Eric appears just in the nick of time to be Kim's first steady boyfriend. She's understandably devastated when her nemesis Dr. Drakken kidnaps her new beau, and rushes to save him. But when Kim gives the newly liberated Eric a relieved hug, he electrocutes her, revealing himself to be one of Drakken's Synthodrones.
They Dance Like No Human Dances
"Der Sandmann" by ETA Hoffmann: Summer Glau's ballerina background may have been an excuse to place the Terminator Cameron in toe shoes, but gynoids have a long history of dancing. Olimpia, for example, is quiet adept at dance as well as singing and playing the harpsichord. Many find her cold and stiff movements a bit off-putting, but Nathanael, a young student already engaged to another woman, develops a passionate obsession with her. When he learns that Olimpia was an automaton all along, he's driven mad by the revelation, leaping to his death.
Metropolis: When the Joh Fredersen and Rotwang conspire to place a robot made to resemble the popular worker leader Maria upon the working caste, they hold a dance performance to see if the people of Metropolis see her as human. It works, and the men of Metropolis are immediately captivated. It's Fredersen's son Freder, who is in love with the real Maria, who eventually recognizes that she's not the girl he fell for, and must be a copy.
They've Returned from the Dead
Machine Teen: Carly Whitmere knows that her boyfriend, Adam Aaronson, is frequently ill, but never would she guess that his bouts of illness are the result of glitches in his robotic systems. It's actually not Carly, but Adam's best friend JT who first discovers his robotic nature, and later helps repair Adam after he is seemingly shot to death.
Star Trek "What Are Little Girls Made Of?:" Starfleet had lost contact with Nurse Christine Chapel's fiance Dr. Roger Korby for several years, so she was relieved to discover him apparently alive and well on Exo III. But it turns out the Korby she encounters is not quite the man she remembers, but an android copy that the dying Korby imbued with his appearance and memories, one who firmly believes in robot supremacy.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Ted:" When Joyce Summers starts dating Ted Buchanan, he seems to good to be true. He's charming, a fantastic cook, and happy to spend an afternoon playing miniature golf. Unfortunately, Ted also happens to be the robotic equivalent of Bluebeard, wooing women only to later hold them captive and watch them die. Although Buffy takes an instant dislike to this interloper, and accidentally "kills" him after Ted slaps her, Joyce only catches on to Ted's evil nature when Ted returns from the dead, all glitchy and malfunctioning.


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Marathon 2 was my jam when I was a kid learning about computers on the Macintosh Performa 6200 my parents bought. I tinkered some with editing physics models and a little map making on both Marathon 1 & 2. I was floored when I found out that the original Marathon 1 files are supported under AlephOne. My mind instantly went back to Devil in a Blue Dress and Morgana's Revenge
I'd like to say thanks to the people involved in making AlephOne the Marathon engine for modern machines.


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Next week, Finland (and many other countries, for that matter) is celebrating May Day or vappu, as we call it in Finnish. I've written about this spring carnival before, here. This year I didn't make sima (mead) or doughnuts, but another traditional vappu treat, tippaleipä ('drop bread' also known as funnel cake). These pastries are actually much like deep-fried pancakes and not very sweet at all. They are relatively quick to make and end up being quite light despite being deep fried in oil. For someone like me, who is terrified of deep-frying and only ever makes (or eats) deep-fried anything once or twice a year, tippaleipä is an easy and safe option. A word of warning, however, these are as quick and easy to eat as they are to make!
Hauskaa vappua! Happy May Day!
(makes 10-15)
4 eggs
2 tablespoons caster sugar
200ml milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 pure ground vanilla or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
260g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 litre canola oil, for frying
icing sugar, for serving
1.Break the eggs in a bowl and whisk in the sugar. Add the rest of the ingredients and whisk into a smooth dough.
2. Heat oil in a pot and place a metal ring (or you can use a deep ladle) into the oil. Scoop the dough into a piping bag (you may have to work in two batches).
3. Once the oil is hot, pipe the dough into the ring making little figures of eight. Fry for a minute or two on each side, until golden. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen paper to soak the extra oil. Dust with icing sugar before serving.


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The Obscurecast Ep 24: Gnome Fawkes
Gnomer and Out!
November 7, 2010 by Gnomeaggedon
The Obscurecast Ep 24: Gnome Fawkes
Gnomer and Out!
[…] who I ran into this weekend, Gnomeaggedon from Armaggedon's comming well actually his alt Squidly while doing some […]
I can't wait! It'll be weeks til I hear up since I'm only up to episode 19 but I'm really looking forward to it!
it was a great episode! i've listened to it 3x so far, because there's a lot of great topics and info.
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Traditionally, the separations process was one which involved frequent and often complicated maintenance. Wastewater Diversion Systems, Inc. of Mechanicsville, Va., has developed and patented the FOX VGS (Vertical Gravity Separator) to remove free oil, grease and suspended solids from wastewater, while significantly reducing the frequency and difficulty of maintenance.
This separator features high efficiency, low cost oil water
separator technology that continuously meets the performance standards, is able
to handle high concentrations of oil, effectively removes the suspended solids,
reduces vapor content to acceptable levels, and requires less floor space.
The FOX VGS operates by control of both fluid velocity and
pressure, which gently coaxes non-emulsified impurities from water —
allowing high density contaminants to fall into a sludge retaining area and oil
droplets/low density suspended solids to rise where they float off into a
sludge tank.
This separator is effective because the FOX VGS Skimmer skims
only a few millimeters from the surface of the oily water, dealing with the
most relevant fraction of liquid.
Often with conventional oil/water separators, cleaning can
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a high pressure hose to wash them —with grease and oil everywhere.
However, with the FOX VGS, there is no lifting plates or
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This separator is designed to operate efficiently. A pump
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down this central column before being redirected upward through the chimney of
the truncated conical spiral pack (SPAK).The oily water supply to the pump is
from either a skimmer or a fixed suction in the pit, depending upon the
application. At the top of the main body, free oil and suspended solids are
built up, eventually flowing out for collection and suitable disposal.
The partially cleaned water is directed to the outside
(perimeter) of the conical SPAK and follows a tortuous path while cascading
down and around the SPAK. If this fluid while passing down the main body
encounters a set of conditions where the density of the fluid below is greater
than itself, then this lower density (oilier) fluid is drawn preferentially up
the inside of the inclined coalescing surface of the SPAK and into the lower
pressure center (chimney). Here it co-mingles with the incoming fluid and is
thus redirected again to the top of the main body and the process is repeated.
As a result of this process, the lightest fluid phase is
trapped within the hydraulics of the FOX VGS. This "convection
current" is created and maintained within the SPAK by the density
variations down the fluid column and the upward flow of the incoming oily water.
At the point that the fluid is most free of oil droplets, then this
"cleaned water" will enter the outlet leg — flowing up and
out of the system — while the heavy solids will drop to the base of the
main vessel.
The depth of the separated oil and surface sludge trapped in
the top of the main body of the FOX VGS is regulated by adjustment of the
height of the "cleaned water" outlet. This level is set by rotation
of a T-Bar assembly (adjuster) at the time of startup or at anytime that the
flow rate through the VGS is varied.
Construction of the unit is such that the SPAK is hung from
a support plate which bears onto the top edge of the main body and is free to
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into the oil and sludge phase. Because the conical SPAK forms a continuous
spiral, its rotation produces a violent pumping action of the internal fluids
and causes the surfaces to be cleaned of any sludge build up. The paddles fluidize any encrustation of the surface sludge and makes it
suitable for discharge with the oil.
Maintenance and cleaning requires about one minute. A worker
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the SPAK counter clockwise for three revolutions to flush it. Oil, water and
surface sludge buildup will flow out of the oil outlet for collection. This
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VGS. The frequency of this cleaning action depends on each application. Once
per month is suggested until experience dictates otherwise.
The trash basket will indicate that emptying is required if
inlet fluid is seen to flow over the top of the main body. This fluid is
contained by the top berm initially, and will enter the main body via the
hollow paddles. Build-up of any heavier sludge in the base of the main body may
be drained off through the bottom valve.
For further information, phone Wastewater Diversion Systems,
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ViperPilot wrote:If you listen to LiveATC.net, especially for a smaller airport, you can hear ATC use visual references for pilots flying, entering and exiting the VFR pattern. When I listen to Centennial ATC (KAPA) they regularly make references like, "Call your turn to final over Lincoln Ave.", or "Report over the North shore of Cherry Creek Reservoir".
A 45 degree bank to the left in a Cessna 150 only offers a view of the underside of the wing
Brett_Henderson wrote:A 45 degree bank to the left in a Cessna 150 only offers a view of the underside of the wing
A 45-degree bank in a C152 @ pattern altitude = "death by accelerated stall"
Even at 5,000agl.. steep turn with flaps deployed is dangerous... let alone at 1,000agl near approach speed.
Try cutting that bank-angle in half.. 20-25 degrees of coordinated bank will yield a standard-rate-turn, and leave you some room for error, iffin' the wind shifts a bit... and reduce the time where you're blind to the runway.
WPadgett wrote:"A 45 degree bank to the left in a Cessna 150 only offers a view of the underside of the wing, Pitot tube and wing strut, out of the left window, and a wondrous clear view of Heaven out of the right window, whilst out of the front window is the journey to; "somewhere else""
So, as I understand it, what you want is an unobstructed view of the runway during turns.
Piece 'O cake.
In 'Cockpit' view, press W one time which will leave the flight instruments along the bottom of the view. Views in this mode are not obstructed by aircraft parts. During your turn you can cycle between your preferred cockpit view and the 'Cockpit (W)' view to get a clear view of the runway until it becomes visible in your preferred view.
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DescriptionThe State of Oregon is issuing this Request for Proposal for Trailered Portable Variable Message Signs. Additional details are included in the Scope of Work/Specifications section of Attachment A. Agency anticipates the award of one Price Agreement from this RFP. The term of the Price Agreement is anticipated to be 10 years.
ContactContact Joni Sirovatka at 1 (541) 429-6687
About Oregon Department of Transportation
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If you'd like to know more about our mission to promote innovative programs that provide equitable access and opportunities in Oregon transportation, please visit https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/CS/CIVILRIGHTS/Pages/about_us.aspx.
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Composed Salad with Pickled Beets & Smoked Tofu
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This composed salad is an artful arrangement of greens, hard-boiled egg, smoked tofu, beets and snap peas drizzled with a cool, creamy dill dressing. It's as pleasing to the eye as it is to the palate. We like smoked tofu, but any flavored baked tofu would work well in this recipe. Serve with iced tea.


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Back in March, when the relieving news that a new CBA had been reached came down, few recognized how this MLS offseason would differ from others.
At that point, the Expansion Draft was still a foggy event sometime in the future. The expanded Home Grown rules were exciting for their potential, but we all knew they needed time. The Re-Entry Process was still being fully baked, its ramifications for teams and players still more theoretical than concrete.
But now, here we are, smack dab in the middle of the offseason. And the various mechanisms have already made this offseason one of the more intriguing ones. The Expansion Draft—with the added pressure of two teams picking—produced a rapid-fire domino effect of player moves (Dax McCarty to Portland to DC, Sanna Nyassi to Vancouver to Colorado, etc.) that has already started to re-shape many teams.
And now there is the Re-Entry Process, which got under way on Wednesday.
It was a quiet Stage 1 draft, as expected, with only two players selected (Joseph Ngwenya by DC and Aaron Hohlbein by Columbus). But the lead-up showed a lot about the value of players and the particular calculus that is used when a club must operate under a budget.
Most eye-popping, of course, were the marquee players like Juan Pablo Angel, Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Jimmy Conrad who were up for selection. Many people were wondering why their clubs were willing to let them go, and now that the Stage 1 draft is done, many are wondering why they weren't picked.
Well, it's simple, really. These decisions come down to salary pressures and the individually determined value of a player.
As any fantasy sports player or kid with a weekly allowance will tell you, operating on a budget requires tactics that have little to do with formations or set pieces. Working within the MLS salary structure necessitates ingenuity, a mesh of long- and short-term thinking, and a really good calculator. It also requires the ability to be ruthless in some ways.
"The Re-Entry Process is new this year, not only for the players, but also the teams," New England Revolution vice president of player personnel Michael Burns said after the club declined the option on center back Cory Gibbs, among others. "With the new labor agreement, we had to make some difficult personnel and salary-cap decisions."
In other words, the cost-benefit analysis simply didn't come out on the side of certain players. Which is not to say their clubs don't want them. They just don't want them at their current price.
[inline_node:311341]Now it may be that another club values a particular player differently and is willing to pay him at his current contract's terms, as was the case for United's selection of Ngwenya and Columbus' of Hohlbein. After all, that's what the Re-Entry Process is all about: A player finds out his worth within the wider MLS market, and a club puts its own player-value calculus into action.
It's here that a club's technical staff really makes its money. Coaches and technical directors really need to figure out what a player is worth to their club. And it's not just about salary. There are many other factors to weigh when determining a player's worth: age, skill, position, character, upside, contract length, playoff experience, marketing value, future value (perhaps as an assistant coach or some such thing).
This offseason, right before our eyes, we are witnessing the new CBA play out. Players are taking advantage of the new movement mechanisms to seek new opportunities. Clubs are adjusting their team-building tactics to reflect the changes.
And the fans, though at times perplexed by the new rules, are waking up to the possibility that, unlike in past years, a new player—someone they never expected to wear their club's colors—can suddenly be theirs.
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By now, most people believe they know all about the dangers of smoking and drinking. But there is growing evidence that people with psoriasis ought to think especially hard before lighting up or downing more than a few.
Smoking and alcohol use increase your risk of developing psoriasis and may make the disease significantly worse. Heavy drinking may also prevent your treatment from working or your disease from going into remission.
This is a particular problem since many people use alcohol or smoking to cope with the tough emotions—such as stress or anxiety—that psoriasis can cause.
Cigarette smoking—What's the risk?
One study led by Luigi Naldi, M.D, published in 1999, found a much higher risk of psoriasis in smokers. Dr. Naldi's group compared people with psoriasis to people with other skin conditions; as many as one in five cases of psoriasis were related to smoking.
According to Dr. Naldi, "We know that smoking affects the onset of psoriasis and its clinical appearance. Smoking about doubles a person's risk of getting psoriasis; the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day, and is higher in women than men. The risk for women who smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day is about 2.5 times greater than the rate of nonsmokers, and in men the risk is about 1.7 times greater than the rate of nonsmokers."
Studies have also found a very strong association between smoking and a type of pustular psoriasis called palmoplantar pustulosis.
How does it affect the body?
Studies of how smoking might affect psoriasis on a biological level are complicated by the thousands of ingredients in cigarette smoke. Dr. Naldi points to nicotine as a possible culprit in altering the immune system and possibly skin cell growth, as well as directly affecting skin inflammation.
Smoking and alcohol may also be associated with the same psychosocial factors that may drive psoriasis, such as stress, worry and poor coping skills.
How does lifestyle affect risk?
A 2000 study examined the effects of various lifestyle practices on psoriasis. The researchers first found that alcohol use and smoking have negative effects on psoriasis (as did emotional stress, obesity and lack of exercise).
Then the researchers split the study participants into two groups, based on whether they had ever had remissions or a time when the disease had disappeared completely.
The results were dramatic: 78 percent of people who had experienced remissions were nonsmokers, and only 22 percent were smokers. But of those who never experienced a remission, 66 percent were smokers, and only 34 percent were nonsmokers.
Alcohol appears to affect psoriasis in men more strongly than in women. One study found that heavy drinking actually lowered treatment response in men. Other studies have shown that men with psoriasis drink more than men without, that there is a significantly higher incidence of psoriasis in alcoholics, and that abstinence can improve the severity of the disease.
Dr. Naldi confirms that "data concerning alcohol consumption are less clear-cut. It seems that only young men who are heavy drinkers are at a higher risk for psoriasis, but other studies have shown that drinking alcohol has a negative effect on clinical response to treatment and on the likelihood of remission."
In addition, it should be noted that alcohol can have dangerous side effects when combined with certain psoriasis medications, such as methotrexate or acitretin (brand name Soriatane) in women of child-bearing potential.
What about psoriatic arthritis?
There is very little data available about the effects of alcohol or smoking on psoriatic arthritis. One small study published in 1996 looked at the effects of smoking on ankylosing spondylitis (AS), which is a type of arthritis of the spine and neck that affects some people with psoriatic arthritis.
After looking at clinical tests, X-rays and laboratory measurements, the authors concluded that smoking was associated with poor long-term outcomes in AS patients.
However, according to Dafna Gladman, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, there simply isn't any data yet to confirm if people with psoriatic arthritis might experience similar negative effects from smoking or alcohol.
Dr. Gladman does believe, however, that there may be more evidence to indicate that smoking and alcohol may lower treatment response of a person with psoriatic arthritis.
More research needed
Ongoing studies in the United States are currently pursuing these links. The Utah Psoriasis Initiative led by Gerald Krueger, M.D., at the University of Utah, is a long-term study of people with psoriasis.
Preliminary analysis of their data suggests that smoking has a negative impact on psoriasis and supports "dermatologist-initiated counseling on smoking cessation to improve their patients' skin disease as well as their general health."
"It's a fascinating linkage," says Dr. Krueger. "If the disease is triggered by smoking, can we get the disease back in the can by quitting? We just don't know yet. However, I tell people that if you need another reason to quit, you've got one."
The bottom line
- If you don't smoke, don't start, especially if you are a woman—you have an even higher risk of developing psoriasis than men.
- If you do smoke, consider stopping—you may have a higher likelihood of remission.
- If you drink, do it in moderation—heavy drinking may trigger psoriasis, interfere with your response to treatment and prevent remissions.
- If you are on certain medications, do NOT drink—alcohol can lead to serious side effects for patients using methotrexate; women of child-bearing potential also should not drink if they have to take Soriatane.
- Focus on positive, healthy ways to cope with stress and anxiety—try meditation, counseling, adequate sleep, healthy diet and exercise.
- Be sure your children know of the additional risk if they smoke or drink heavily—Dr. Naldi says smokers with a family history of psoriasis increase their risk as much as nine times.
Tips to stay healthy
If you have psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis and you're coping with the disease and the emotional toll, call the Patient Navigation Center for free, personalized help.
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For more than 50 years, we've been driving efforts to cure psoriatic disease and improve the lives of those affected. But there's still plenty to do! Learn how you can help our advocacy team shape the laws and policies that affect people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis – in your state and across the country. Help us raise funds to support research by joining Team NPF, where you can walk, run, cycle, play bingo or create your own fundraising event. If you or someone you love needs free, personalized support for living a healthier life with psoriatic disease, contact our Patient Navigation Center. And keep the National Psoriasis Foundation going strong by making a donation today. Together, we will find a cure.


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The Android Instagram app has been in the works for months and its launch is imminent, at least if you believe Instagram's latest stunt -- a website asking the question, "Want to be first in line for Instagram on Android?" and letting users type an email address so they can be notified first when the app launches.
While some call this a registration for a beta release (the Next Web) we're not willing to call it anything that fancy or hype something just for the heck of it. The simple inputting of one's email address could also easily mean a mass message suggesting that everyone head to Google Play/Android Market and download it or a similar link.
And yes, we know that Instagram's founder Kevin Systrom talked up the Android version of app at SXSW and even showed off a prototype. But even by our math, a prototype in mid-March would still mean a beta release probably closer to mid-to-late April. So, if you're an Android user you can sign up with Instagram and hope for hipster photos by Memorial Day weekend.


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I love, absolutely love, being a pastor. I get to see people grow and change and learn to be servants. I get to share God's love with people and see the fruits of my labor. I have been blessed to have a church full of people who are passionate about what has happened to them and are sharing it with others. Even when I think that I want to pull my hair out, and for those who know me, that means things are really stressful and weird, I still love what I do.
This past few weeks has been both stressful and weird. On top of funerals, surgeries, and the other everyday stuff a pastor can deal with, I have been dealing with getting use to having an international student in my house. He is a great kid, so far, and I will get used to having a teenager in my house again, I hope, but this is quite an adjustment for me. I am a creature of habit and don't mind having a routine that rarely changes. When it does, I have to think that God is trying to teach me something, or, He has decided to show me a sick sense of humor.
In the last couple of weeks I have had a few people tell me the they think that God wants them to leave our church. Before some of you panic, this is not uncommon. I think about leaving at least three of four times a week, and that is in a good week. The reason people tell me that God may want them to leave our church is because they feel like they are not getting along with someone or that things are changing and they don't like it. I want to address those two reasons for a minute.
First, if there are people who you are not getting along with, consider that God may want you to change something about you, like patience, instead of changing churches, after all, love is patient. Sure I know that most of you are perfect and have no need for change in your own lives, but there are a few who need to learn that God often puts us around people who are different to get us to love those who we don't like. Luke 6:27, But I tell everyone who is listening: Love your enemies. Be kind to those who hate you. If you are attending a church in hopes of liking everyone you are going to be disappointed. Our command is to love people, not like them. Being the new kid on the block only lasts for a while and then reality sets in. You will find people who disagree and maybe even disappoint you. Those are the ones who challenge you to be more like Jesus, who by the way, does not like everything we do either, yet still loves us. We are not put into the church to be liked or to like everyone. We are put here to serve God and bring Him glory. I am sure glad Jesus did not walk away when He found out someone did not like Him.
Second, is the change thing. Change is always going to make some people uncomfortable. But think about this; if nothing ever changes in church, people are not getting to know Jesus. I would like to offer this suggestion. Rather than getting upset about change, get upset about the status quo. Get upset when you do the same thing week in and week out and never get comfortable with the way things are. The Pharisees got upset because Jesus changed the way they had always done things. Those were the religious guys and the ones who the church way to often resembles. Yet it was their lack of change that had Jesus nailed to the cross. I am very glad that Jesus changed things or I would still be headed to hell. Change is a good thing. Perhaps instead of leaving to find a church that stays the same, you should look and see if it is you that needs to change. I know that I have to evaluate how to change on a daily basis.
Changing the church you attend is often needed. I am not so naive as to think that everyone should stay in the same place all the time. I have changed churches a few times myself. I did know that there was a specific purpose for my change and that it was God that wanted me to go elsewhere and not my own pride or selfishness. But to change churches for the two reasons above is often just that, prideful and selfish. Solving problems instead of running from them helps us to grow and to understand the heart of God better.
If you need to go, I give you my blessing. You will know it is God when you have complete peace about it and can tell anyone who asks the reason without fear or confusion. Fear and confusion are not from God. The very best servants of God, like Paul and Barnabas, left churches to serve elsewhere. Sometimes the best are needed somewhere else to help others grow. That is part of God's plan and design and I am all for that.
Meanwhile, don't let Satan cause you to leave where God is working, and He is working at our church. People are coming to know Jesus as Savior every week and others are growing and learning to serve others to help them be more like Christ. Satan is a liar and a punk. He loves complacent churches where nothing ever changes and people rarely get saved. He loves it when we get focused on ourselves and forget that we should be helping others. Jesus said that in this world we would have trouble. He said that people would dislike us and that we should never grow weary of doing what is right. Doing what is right is not always easy. Doing what is wrong often is. Think about it.
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?
I love, absolutely love, being a pastor. I get to see people grow and change and learn to be servants. I get to share God's love with people and see the fruits of my labor. I have been blessed to have a church full of people who are passionate about what has happened to them and are sharing it with others. Even when I think that I want to pull my hair out, and for those who know me, that means things are really stressful and weird, I still love what I do.


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NASA presents a video tribute to the astronauts of the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies.
This should be the saddest week of the year for NASA — which is marking the anniversaries of three fatal tragedies, including the 10th anniversary of the shuttle Columbia's catastrophic breakup. But the way NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sees it, this week is not just about mourning 17 dead astronauts.
"I think this is not a memorial. It's a celebration, because of what they made possible," he told NBC News this month during a visit to Seattle. "We're commemorating them, and we're thanking them by continuing to move forward — and not dropping back and dwelling on the pain. They'd be pretty angry, I think, if they saw that."
The week of celebration — and, yes, of commemoration — begins on Sunday with the 46th anniversary of the 1967 Apollo 1 launch-pad fire. The 27th anniversary of the 1986 Challenger explosion follows on Monday. This year, NASA is focusing the most on Friday, the 10th anniversary of the Columbia tragedy, which has been set aside as the agency's "Day of Remembrance" for all of its fallen astronauts.
Ever since the loss of Columbia and its crew of seven, NASA has organized solemn commemorations during the last week of January.
"We honor the memory of all three crews that were lost over the history of human spaceflight," Bolden explained. "We thought it was fitting that it be somewhere around the dates of those three losses. We think about this every day, to be quite honest. But we take these particular times and set them aside, when we can let everyone else around the world join us and help celebrate."
There's that word again.
"I use the term 'celebrate' because we have to remember that, yeah, we lost some valiant people — but what their sacrifice brought is what we should really be thinking about: the fact that they dared to challenge and do things differently," Bolden said. "Because of what they did, we're well on the cusp of going deeper into space than we've ever gone before."
Each tragedy took a terrible toll — and in each case, NASA learned from its mistakes:
Apollo 1's three astronauts were Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury 7 pioneers; Ed White, the first American to do a spacewalk; and rookie spaceflier Roger Chaffee. They died during a pre-launch test at the launch pad when bad wiring sparked a blaze in the pure-oxygen environment inside their sealed capsule. After the fire, engineers overhauled the wiring system, switched over to a less flammable oxygen-nitrogen mix and redesigned the hatch to open outward instead of inward. Years later, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong observed that the accident provided "the gift of time" — a chance to change a lot of things for the better. "We got that added benefit, but we regret the price we had to pay," Armstrong said.
January 27, 1967: The crew of Apollo 1, Command Pilot Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee were killed when a fire ripped through the spacecraft's cabin during a launch pad test. NBC's Bill Ryan reports.
Challenger's crew of seven was led by commander Dick Scobee, but the best-known flier was Christa McAuliffe, who was tapped to be the first teacher in space. The other astronauts were Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ron McNair and Greg Jarvis. Their space shuttle blew up 73 seconds after launch, due to a bad seal on one of the solid rocket boosters. The investigation led to a redesign of the boosters, which worked without fail ever since. It also pointed up the problem of "go fever," which led NASA to give the go-ahead for launch amid dangerously low temperatures. Reforms in management procedures gave astronauts, engineers and contractors more of a role in ensuring launch safety.
January 28, 1986: NBC's Dan Molina reports on the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its crew of seven.
Columbia's crew included Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, as well as commander Rick Husband, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla and William McCool. The shuttle broke up over Texas during its descent at the end of a 16-day science mission. Investigators concluded that flying foam insulation from the external fuel tank damaged the left wing during launch, setting the stage for the Feb. 1 tragedy. The fuel tank was redesigned, emergency rescue plans were updated, and an array of cameras was added to the shuttle to watch for damage. The investigators also pointed to lapses in NASA's "safety culture." The George W. Bush administration followed up on the investigative panel's recommendations and decided to close down the space shuttle program once construction of the International Space Station was complete. That day finally came on July 21, 2011, with the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis.
Dec. 31, 2008: NASA released new information about what the astronauts went through in their final moments on board the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
Bolden said the successful operation of the space station and the rise of a new generation of commercial space vehicles would not have been possible if it weren't for the sacrifices made by the fallen astronauts. Rather than shutting down America's space program, political leaders gave the go-ahead for more ambitious plans to go beyond Earth orbit, and ultimately to Mars.
"If we didn't have that coming along, then what would have been the point of losing them?" Bolden said.
To recognize those sacrifices, Bolden will attend a space conference being conducted in Ramon's honor this week in Israel, and then will return to Washington in time for Friday's wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. NASA's space centers are planning commemorations as well: Officials at Johnson Space Center will participate in memorial events in Texas on Thursday and Friday. Kennedy Space Center's ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET Friday at the visitor center's Space Mirror Memorial. That Florida observance is open to the public and will be broadcast on NASA TV.
Stay tuned for more about NASA's week of sad celebration in the days ahead — and feel free to add your own reminiscences and tributes as comments below.
More about NASA's space tragedies:
- Apollo 1's tale retold: 'Fire in the cockpit!'
- The chilling saga of the shuttle Challenger
- Columbia remembered, 10 years after launch
- Flash interactive: NASA's Day of Remembrance
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In celebration of the 84th Academy Awards, film and television producer Debbie Durkin hosted the "EC0-OSCARS" Music, Celebrity and Pet Style Lounge benefiting Music Saves Lives and Fur Fitness Foundation at the lavish Hancock Park Estates where the Oscar-nominated movie, The Artist was filmed.
Honorees and guests were pampered and gifted with eco-luxury lifestyle brands at the historic Pickford Mansion.
Music Saves Lives featured live acoustic performances while performing blood drives for the American Red Cross.
Fur Fitness hosted the Red Carpet Pets area where celebrities could schedule to have Pet Portraits taken and designed and painted signature bowls that were auctioned for charity.
Founder, Suzanne Lindley from Yes! Beat Live Tumors was on hand delivering her message of HOPE, awareness, support, resources and to share information.
This gorgeous setting featured original handmade in the USA luxurious Minky Couture designer blankets, fabric that was originally used to welcome babies into the world now wraps around adults, drapes across leather sofas, and comforts college freshmen, and pampers pets.
HUGRZ™ boot wraps made in the U.S.A. and 100% acrylic gave away luxurious boot wraps and accessories. Hugrz soft boot wrap collections include Aspen, Bennington and Santa Fe.
The artful make-up of D'Mademoiselle Pure Mineral Makeup and Skintastic skin care displayed a wide range of lipsticks, eye shadows and foundations.
Celebrities were treated to pampering mini-massage treatments compliments of Absolute Vital Body Works neck work expert, Yvonne Larson. The private spa treatments are customized to your needs of either neck restoration, non-surgical face lift, firm therapeutic massage, body scrubs, raindrop technique, hot stone massage, Swedish massage, high-frequency lymph drainage, custom massage scalp treatments, body wraps, aromatherapy massage, reflexology massage, sports massage and reiki massage.
www.neckworkexpert.com or 800-711-4081
Sought-after Celebrity Brow and Lash expert Stefanie G with her boutique line of Stefanie G Fine Cosmetics of BH generously gave brow and lash treatments to attendees. Stephanie's career has spanned nearly two decades. Her work can be found in magazines Los Angeles, Angeleno, In Style and on television channels E!, Bravo, and many more.
Her artistry also has graced many red carpet events: The Oscars, The Golden Globes, The Emmys, The Grammys and many other award shows. Known for her talent, she has worked with many great designers, from chic Michelle Mason to couturier Bob Mackie, creating one-on-one makeup looks for their fashion runway shows.
SOLZ displayed an innovative solar bag that allows you to harness the power of the sun to charge electronics such as cellular phones to help you stay organized, stay active and stay green. SOLZ also gave away folding sneakers and ballet that can fit in your purse.
SOLZ, Inc. is a San Francisco brand founded in 2010 and provides uniquely fashionable footwear which meets the rapidly growing demand of women and men for distinctive, comfortable footwear that enhances their enjoyment of an active, leisurely lifestyle called "functional fashion".
SOLZ shoes are ultra-lightweight, flexible casual shoes. They are available in a variety of colors and logos. They can be bent, folded, and rolled up, and are designed to move naturally with your feet as you walk. They are weather and water friendly and are all-machine washable. Each pair comes with a matching ballistic nylon clip-on "capsule" bag.
Tonya M. Rupell of Stone Soup Designs gave away her gorgeous hand wire wrapped jewelry which is made with recycled wire. Her creative pieces include red butterflies, hot pink etched agate, candy jade stone, etc.
SONAS displayed colorful, sexy, unique, free spirited denim jeans. Sonas Denim was founded by Gerry Kelly an Irish born festival enthusiast living in San Francisco since 2000 who was inspired by a trip to Greece to make denim jeans.
www.sonasdenim.com or [email protected]
Beautiful Mijanou Pham of Socially Sweet Events displayed tiny, delectable cupcake treats in different flavors of lavender, coffee cream, chocolate and strawberry cream. Socially Sweet Events provides partial and full service event planning for weddings, fundraisers, corporate, parties, fashion shows, catering, sweets, gift baskets, etc.
www.sociallysweetevents.com or (949) 244-4280
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In addition to the great products that were showcased, the "Red Carpet Pets", to benefit Fur Fitness Foundation TM was featured by hosting Celebrity Pet Portraits.
Celebrities were also sent a copy of their portrait following event with several prints to autograph and return to Fur Fitness Foundation for online auction.
Celebrities had the opportunity to design signature Pet Bowls which will be donated to Fur Fitness Foundation for auction. The Fur Fitness Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide educational resources and help pet parents navigate the confusing world of pet health, fitness and nutrition. The Foundation also directs a special emphasis on helping pet parents and veterinarians address the growing trend of the pet obesity... epidemic with the goal of reversing and eradicating this preventable health crisis. The Fur Fitness Foundation is deeply devoted to inspiring a revolution of change in the current status of pet health and well-being.
Guests also enjoyed ongoing acoustic music performances by an array of artists on the Music Artist Stage presented by Music Saves Lives®. The Music Saves Lives® 501c3 Charity helps to raise funds and create a worldwide presence, increasing awareness of their life-saving mission of donating blood and kidney marrow by connecting Music and Entertainment...Saving Lives Never Sounded So Good TM
Celebrities and attendees were also pampered with Chef Len's sustainable Mexican bar, Chef Tony's gourmet Italian bar and signature organic cocktails by Kanon Organic Vodka (www.kanonvodka.com) which included Kanon Rosemary Lemonade and Kanon Firecracker. OXY Water gave out the ultimate hydration beverage in 3 delicious flavors of Cherry-Pomegranate, Passion Berry, and Island Citrus. OXY Water is a pure, filtered water with loads of extra oxygen, B, vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes.


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Writing Coach Teresa says: "Platform-Building Is Fun For Writers, Friends, Fans."
When I heard dear friend Kim McMillon's voice on July 16, 2012 asking if I would like to be a guest on CBS 5′s Bay Sunday show, I thought . . . I'd love to, but, I'm exhausted. . . Just that day, artist Chandra Garsson (another dear friend) had filmed me reading my ten-minute monologue Answer Me Now. Two days before that, I was on the "Writers on Writing" panel at Oakland Library, Rockridge Branch, that Kim had orchestrated for Stephanie Dale, Judith Cody, Yolande Barial, Joan Gelfand, and yours truly Teresa LeYung-Ryan.
Saying "yes" would mean spending at least two full days preparing for the appearance and doing pre-event publicity and then calendaring another two days to do post-event follow-ups and publicity.
You see . . . a week before that, I had interviewed award-winning author Carol Sheldon (Mother Lode) at Book Passage at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Two days before that event, I had attended a planning meeting at Women's National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter. Before that, I was away for the 3-day Redwood Writers Ten-Minute Play Festival at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa. Before that, I was having fun with California Writers Club friends showcasing our works at the San Mateo County Fair (June 12 and June 16 for me).
All the while . . . I was helping clients create their platform-statements and identify themes in their manuscripts.
Yes, I was exhausted . . . But, I knew I would say "Yes!" to my dear friend Kim McMillon. Kim was helping Bay Sunday Producer Akilah Bolden-Monifa by providing a list of authors with public-speaking experience. I was one of the fortunate chosen ones. I needed to say "Yes! Thank you!"
I am so glad I did . . . Angela Pang, Community Relations Manager at AsianWeek Foundation (who is also my pal Margie Yee Webb's beloved niece), saw the group photo posted by Bay Sunday's super team on their facebook album "Bay Sunday 7/23 Taping" and tagged me. Now, I'm getting all kinds of fun messages from my other friends.
Writers' Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: "The way Bay Sunday Host Frank Mallicoat cheers for his friend who is writing a book is a beautiful example of friends turning into fans for each other. Outfitting your fans (old ones and new ones) with your platform-statement helps them brags about you with ease. I cheer for writers, friends, fans! Thank you, 3 time Emmy Award winner Frank! Thank you, producer Akilah Bolden-Monifa! Thank you to the four wonderful interns, especially Jennifer and Chelsea! Thank you Bay Sunday Team (including audio expert Francisco Gomez and the gurus behind stage!)
"I had so much fun this morning being a guest on Bay Sunday at CBS 5 with fellow authors Joan Gelfand, Ishmael Reed, and Pireeni Sundaralingam . Everyone extended kind energy. I was happy to see Tennessee Reed! Thank you, Kim McMillon, for pitching us to Akilah!
Please click here to get the post after the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am and the link to view the segment posted on Bay Sunday's YouTube channel.
Please click here to get the post after the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am and the link to view the segment posted on Bay Sunday's YouTube channel.
Please click here to get the post after the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am and the link to view the segment posted on Bay Sunday's YouTube channel.
Of the 10 talking-points that I was prepared to cover, we had time to answer most of these in the five-minute interview:
• What is Coach Teresa's definition of a writer's platform?
"Making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers—who are likely to buy what you have to sell."
"What I care about leads to my writing about those themes/subject matters/issues; what I write about attracts my fans because they also care about what I care about. Help your fans find you."
Start with: "I care about . . . "
Example: (as a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction, including memoirs )
I am Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart. I care about helping adult-children (of mentally-ill parents) speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their loved ones.
Example: (as a writer of prescriptive nonfiction a.k.a. "how to" )
I am Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days. I care about helping writers thrive in today's publishing arena.
Where to "show" your platform-statement?
Your email signature block! Your letterhead! Your website and blog slogan/tagline/description! Your bio! Your business cards!
"Even when I'm emailing my loved ones (my biggest fans), I show them my platform-statement in my signature block. Help your fans brag about you with ease."
• Why does a writer need to promote?
"To compete in the publishing arena where celebrity authors and best-selling authors have huge fanbases. "
• How much does it cost to build my writer's platform?
"Might not require money. The writer does need to invest time and energy. 22 minutes a day for 22 days to start."
• What is branding?
"Your name is your brand. Making your name synonymous with the issues you write about in order to attract fans (a.k.a. targeted consumers)"
• Which is the "better" route – find an agent who will find the publisher OR find the publisher myself OR be my own publisher?
"A writer's journey is magical. Your fans could be the ones to lead you to your route. Take a look at my website, page entitled "Writers' Resources," and my blog."
• Coach Teresa, your workbook is Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days . Why 22 days?
"When we stick to something for 21 consecutive days, we develop a new habit. Why not gain the wonderful habit of building our platform/name? On the 22nd day, we celebrate. Everyday is a good day to build your name / fanbase / platform!"
The workbook: Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
Please click here to get the post after the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am and the link to view the segment posted on Bay Sunday's YouTube channel.
I care about helping writers thrive in the publishing arena. Coaching writers before and after publication is what I enjoy doing. Some clients prefer my coaching them 5 to 15 minutes a day for 22 consecutive days ( in-person, via Skype or phone calls); some prefer an hour or two hours at a time. Start with my workbook — You can sneak preview the 2 exercises for Day 1 in Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days by going to Amazon and take advantage of their "Look Inside" feature.
How to contact me? Click here please.
I cheer for all writers!
Coach Teresa
Writers' Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
"Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams."
"My platform is not something I stand on, it is what my name stands for."


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Praise the gods of affordable apparel, the 20,000 square foot Forever 21 at Coronado Center is open. Out of key makeup items, yesterday I grudgingly stopped by Coronado to shop at Sephora and was pleasantly surprised to find the new Forever 21 open for business. The store shines like a tranny out on the town. The decor, naturally, is that mega-trendy faux Lucite and chandelier-bedecked, quasi French boudoir style, which compliments the voluminous stock of cheap, whimsy-laden merchandise. This store, unlike its Cottonwood Mall counterpart, has a men's section, a lingerie section, shitloads of accessories and who knows what else. I'd have to spend hours in there to give a full assessment. Sadly, the store was closing when I arrived and it was all I could do just to contain my excitement long enough to locate and purchase some big-ass sunglasses and ruffley pajama shorts.
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Guatemala ex-guerrilla convicted in 1988 massacre
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court issued the first conviction Friday against a leftist guerrilla commander for a massacre committed during the country's 1960-1996 civil war.
The three-judge court sentenced Solano Barrillas, 55, to 90 years in prison after convicting him of homicide and crimes against humanity for ordering the 1988 massacre of 22 pro-government farmers in the town of El Aguacate.
"This (sentence) is aimed at setting a legal precedent, to prevent these acts from ever being repeated," the court said in its ruling.
The massacre in El Aguacate began on November 22, 1988, when leftist rebels allegedly killed Carlos Humberto Guerra Callejas, a civilian liaison with the military in the village 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Guatemala City.
According to the widows of those killed, Guerra Callejas had discovered a secret stash of clothes, food and other goods hidden by the rebels and had been stealing from it. He went missing and when relatives and friends went to search for him they were ambushed by suspected rebels.
A few managed to escape, but 21 were captured, tortured and hanged. Soldiers found Guerra Callejas' body and fought against rebels before unearthing the bodies of the other 21 people buried in clandestine graves.
Rebels initially blamed the army for the El Aguacate massacre. But several years after a peace accord ended the war in 1996, a United Nations truth commission determined that rebels were responsible.
Solano Barrillas was arrested and charged in 2012 after the victims' relatives filed a complaint through the human rights organization Mutual Support Group.
According to a UN truth commission report, the Guatemalan army committed about 93 percent of the killings during the war that claimed more than 200,000 lives. About 3 percent were attributed to leftist guerrillas and responsibility for the other 4 percent remains unclear.
Solano Barillas is the first rebel commander to be convicted for such crimes. Several high-ranking officials and soldiers have been prosecuted on war-crimes charges.
The highest-ranking official, former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, was sentenced to 80 years in jail for his role in the massacres of thousands of Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. But last year, the country's Constitutional Court annulled the conviction, a decision many say was a sign of lingering influence by the wartime military and its supporters.
A retrial of Rios Montt is scheduled to begin in January.


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Japan Airlines Delays Start of Daily Local Service
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Japan Airlines has postponed the planned March start of direct daily service between San Diego and Tokyo, due to the continued global grounding of the Boeing 787 aircraft. The airline announced that four-days-weekly service will be offered from San Diego International Airport during the month of March.
Inbound and outbound flights are scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays for the March 1-30 period, except for March 27, according to a statement from the carrier. Schedules for March 31 and beyond have not yet been finalized.
The carrier's schedule revision prompted cancelation of a total of 28 local flights previously slated for Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays during March, impacting approximately 1,800 passengers.
"We sincerely apologize to all customers and related parties for the inconvenience and concerns caused by recent issues with the Boeing 787 aircraft," Japan Airlines spokeswoman Carol Anderson said in an email.
The San Diego region's first-ever direct service to Asia started in December with four-days-weekly service, which was originally scheduled to become daily on March 1. The Boeing Dreamliner grounding, prompted by electrical system issues, forced cancelation of 22 local flights that had been slated for January and February.
Japan Airlines since late January has been operating the local international flights with the larger Boeing 777 aircraft.
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State Report on Weldon Spring Risks Criticized
WELDON SPRING (AP) - Health advocates and scientists are criticizing a new state report on leukemia risks near a radioactive waste storage site in St. Charles County.
The report released by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services in December concluded that residents in five ZIP codes around the town of Weldon Spring are not at higher risk of developing leukemia due to waste stored there from when explosives were made during World War II.
But Washington University geochemist Robert Criss told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the report diluted data by looking at too many ZIP codes, made no correction for extensive population growth in St. Charles County and failed to study other types of cancer with known links to radiation.
The authors of the report declined to answer questions.


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Photographs of what appears to be the front panel of Apple's upcoming fifth-generation iPad have surfaced online this week, with the purported leaked part shown in the photos hinting that the iPad 5 will have an iPad mini-like design.
French site Nowhereelse.fr published the photos on Wednesday, claiming that the images offer "the first concrete evidence that the production of the iPad 5 has actually begun."
The site says that the photos were sent in by a Chinese source, but also highlights that the shown part could belong to a knockoff of Apple's tablet.
If the leaked images prove to be legitimate, the iPad 5 will have design elements reminiscent of the iPad mini, such as thinner side bezels and slimmed down proportions.
While the new photographs are in-keeping with rumours that suggest the next-generation full-size iPad will resemble an over-grown iPad mini, reports this week claim that the iPad 5 has been delayed from its expected April unveiling, and won't enter production until July or August.
SEE: New iPad 5 release date, rumours and leaked images
See also:
iPad 5 rumours: Apple's thinner, lighter 10in iPad to adopt thin-film touch panels used for iPad mini
iPad 5 patent: inductive Smart Cover contains battery
New renderings compare iPad 5 with iPad 4, iPad mini, iPhone 5
Images of possible iPad 5 back plate leaked from China
New iPhone 5S: three colours, two sizes and a low-cost model, claims
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I have said many times over many years that I think that The Constitution of The United States is broken. I have recently been asked to give specific examples of what I mean when I say that. This is, of course, a very fair question to ask. To answer it, however, I will both give some background information to help explain WHY I feel the way I do on this subject (which is the topic of this first part of this article) and, as I don't think that it is helpful when people say what they think is wrong with something without actually offering any possible solutions to the problems that they see, I will also provide specific examples of WHAT I would specifically suggest to fix these perceived problems (which will be the topic of the second part of this article). I will do this by primarily suggesting how I think specific aspects or parts of The Constitution can be improved to better accomplish the goals of the founders. Now, with my suggested changes, I will not be offering specific wordings for those changes. I believe it would be pre-mature and a poor process to do so within the scope of this article. I think that that there needs to be some agreement first about what changes should be made, then establish specific goals and objectives for those changes, as well as agreement on why a specific change should be made and what its purpose would be, and THEN, work on the actual wording to be forever enshrined in The Constitution. For me, then, to actually propose specific wording changes at this stage in the process would be pre-mature. In addition, I am rather… verbose… and I personally think that such wording needs to be as concise as possible.
Let me start by telling my readers why this topic interests me and why I feel I am qualified to write an article on this subject. When I was a 16-year old kid in high school, I was able to get involved in several college student organizations at Texas A&M University. This was a very unique period at A&M in the mid-1970s, which is what made this possible. As a high school kid, I was still an outsider in those groups. This allowed me to be an observer of the organizational group dynamics. In one of the organizations, after I had been in it for a couple of years, there was a huge internal crisis which literally tore the organization apart. This was the first time I ever got to experience what I came to call the 'second generation effect'.
It was for this group that I wrote my first constitution, a 25-page thing that no one ever got to see because when I had completed it, it was stolen before I could present it. In retrospect, it probably wasn't very a very good constitution, although I do not have a copy I can read to verify that. What writing it began for me, however, was hobby of designing fictional organizations and writing constitutions for them that lasted well over a decade. I would do this in the same way that some people do crosswords or jigsaw puzzles and, to me, the process was, and is, very much a logic puzzle. Along the way I have written five to seven actual constitutions for real organizations and, because of what I watched happen in those groups I was part of while I was in high school discovered a desire to help other people create better organizations themselves. I eventually earned a Master's degree that would allow me to work as a student activities / college union professional, which also provided me with the means to collect constitutions from all kinds of organizations from many different locations to study. This has allowed me to see many commonalities, both good and bad, among those documents and helped me to formulate a guiding philosophy for designing and writing constitutions for ANY organization. That philosophy is:
"You can NOT, by definition, plan for the unexpected… but you are a damn fool if you do not prepare for the predictable."
In case anyone is interested, by the way, I think that my next project along this line will be to try to incorporate a city in the unincorporated area in which I live and try to create an actual 'laboratory of democracy'.
The second generation effect is when an organization which has been created by people with a common understanding of why they created the organization themselves begins to have people who were NOT part of the organizational creation process reach a level where they begin to have a greater controlling influence on the organization than those who did create it.
When an organization is created, those who created it usually have a common understanding of the principles and processes they expect the organization to operate by. Because of this mutual understanding, they are generally very minimalist about what they put into the organization's founding document(s) or constitution because they think that more is unnecessary for the very fact that all of the original members have a consensus about those principles and procedures. As a result, they leave those principles and procedures unspecified in the organization's founding document(s). Even where these people have differences with each other, they are actually bound together by their mutual understandings about the organization. They simply don't see how others who will come along later will not share those bonds and will not view the organization in the same way that they do. This is what results in constitutions and founding documents which are what I classify as the 'we create this group, and we will do things and we will be friends' category of constitutions and founding documents. This is also what I call the 'first generation effect'.
So, why are the 'first generation' and 'second generation' effects important concepts when talking about our Constitution? It is very simple. I think that the founding fathers operated under the first generation effect when they wrote The Constitution. Their common experiences with the separation from Britain, The Revolutionary War, and The Articles of Confederation created a common bond which unified them on a subconscious level. Even with their many disagreements and differences, they were still bound to each other by what they had experienced in common with each other.
This period saw one of the most remarkable collections of great men and great minds in one place and one period of time in all of human history. I still can't figure out if history gave us this moment and gathering of mental giants, or if the moment and gathering of mental giants gave us history. Which one is responsible for the other, I frequently wonder? The result of their gathering in Philadelphia in 1787, The Constitution of The United States, is an amazing and awe-inspiring document. In fact, I think that it has single-handedly shaped where the world has moved since it was created more than any other single document, philosophy, event, or person since then. The downside of what they did in Philadelphia is that they had no other real historical examples which they could study, other than their experiences under The Articles, to see what would work and what wouldn't. They pretty much only had theories and ideas to use. They also came up with a minimalist document that left much more unwritten and which would rely on their common understandings with which to fill in the gaps than it actually specified about the operation of the new government which they were creating.
In 1991, I was hired for my first job as a Director of Student Activities at a small, private liberal arts college in Illinois. At this time, the Student Activities Board was an unconstituted committee of the school's Student Forum. I decided that the SAB needed to be a separate organization with its own constitution and I created a committee of students, faculty and staff to help design the organization and help write it's constitution. The Forum's advisor was also the school's government teacher and 'expert' on the U.S. Constitution. One day, in passing, she stopped me and asked why the document I was trying to create needed to be as long as it was. After all, she pointed out, the U. S. Constitution was only 4,543 words long (honestly, I remember it with her saying it was only 1,458 words long, which is the length of The Declaration of Independence and not of The Constitution but I will give her the benefit of the doubt by assuming she said the correct total). I responded by telling her "Yes, and it isn't a very well written document." She got very angry and, without allowing me to explain to her what I meant, she stormed off. She never again spoke to me civilly and I was terminated at the end of the school year WITHOUT getting my SAB constitution ever publically discussed or voted on, much less passed.
When I said that The Constitution was not a very well written document, I meant no insult to it or to the great men who wrote it. I meant simply that they didn't have the advantages of history which we have upon which to base their document. NOTHING is ever as good as it can be on a first attempt (look at how much better The Constitution was than The Articles were), and distance is needed to see how things work (or don't work) as desired, and what can be done to improve it. I think that this is a necessary evolutionary process in any long standing organization. I also never got to explain to her my theory of the second generation effect or how I think it illustrated the fundamental flaws in the document.
I think that there are many reasons that more things were not spelled out better in The Constitution. One of them was the first generation effect of common understanding and fellowship. Another was that the Federalists, under the leadership of Alexander Hamilton, did not WANT things to be spelled out better so that they could use the ambiguities of the document to argue that it said and meant things that it clearly didn't. As is common in history, those of a more liberal ideology will concede things to their political opponents in order to create a consensus while those of a more extreme conservative ideology will simply take those concessions as wins for their side and an indication of weakness for the other side, and will then proceed to try to use that point as a baseline from which to further advance their cause at the expense of those they oppose. A defining characteristic of a liberal personally is individualism and efforts to strive for common agreement and consensus, while a conservative personality is more commonly seen as wanting unification among those who agree with them for the advancement of their agendas, suppression of individual internal disagreement and accumulation of power for their group. (Please look for a future article to be written by me on the subject of groupthink, conformity and shame theory to further explain this claim.)
By the 1820s, the first generation of those who created our American constitutional government was mostly gone from the scene and the second generation was in control. As I have personally seen in all too many smaller organizations, the second generation, not having had a hand in giving 'birth' to an organization does not feel limited by the voluntary constraints by which the members of the first generation operated. A key aspect of the second generation effect is the rise of members who are more interested in their personal power than in the greater good of the organization. These power-seeking second generation members will also look for weaknesses, flaws, loopholes, omissions and ambiguities within the governing procedures and document(s) of an organization to see how they can be utilized to advance their personal power or parochial interests at the expense of the greater good of the entire organization. I also do not know how to test it, but I theorize that it is the very weakness and flaws in an organization's founding documents which ALLOW the second generation effect to occur. The better that things are clarified, and potential problems identified and provided for, the longer an organization can go on with unity and consensus. I believe that it is the failures of the first generation to study more closely when they create their organization and better provide for potential problems in the future within their founding documents that is the cause of the second generation effect, and not the fault of those in the second generation.
In American constitutional government, this was seen in the rise of a professional political class; party politics holding dominance in the elected branches of government; party and regional (state) concerns being held as being more important by those elected officials than the greater good of the entire nation; and a desire for gaining and using personal power bases in order to control the functions of government at the expense of those who do not help the person wielding that power.
One last aspect of the generation effects is a blurring of the lines between and the convergence of common misunderstandings of the differences between and meanings of both 'power' and 'authority'. Contrary to common belief, the two ideas do not have the same meanings and, in fact, are completely separate concepts from each other. This is why they are both used together… power AND authority, like assault AND battery. Authority is the RIGHT to do something. Power is the ABILITY to do something. While power and authority might reside together in some cases, it is much more common to have an exercise of POWER by a person or group who do not have the AUTHORITY to do what has been done, or a group or person who has the AUTHORITY to do something but does not have the POWER to accomplish the desired action (much like when the Supreme Court ruled against Andrew Jackson regarding the Cherokee Indian treaties with The United States and Jackson, supposedly, commenting in response that "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.") Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John Calhoun are all classic examples of second generation personalities.
Part II of this article will deal with the actual flaws, weaknesses and omissions which I see in our Constitution and my personal suggestions for correcting them.
Rhys M. Blavier
Romayor, Texas
"Truth, Justice and Honor… but, above all, Honor"
© copyright 2009 by Rhys M. Blavier
Thank you for reading this article. Please read my other articles and let me know what you think. I am writing them not to preach or to hear myself think but to try to create dialogs, debates and discussions on the nature of our government and how we can build upon and improve it based on what we have seen and learned over the course of the 225 years of The American Experiment.