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This Sept. 11, 10 years after the terrorist attacks, the dedication of the 9/11 Memorial in New York will evoke many emotions: reverence for loved ones lost, gratitude for brave first responders, love of country, perhaps some uplift and peace.
In a solemn ceremony, the families of the victims – as well as Presidents Obama and George W. Bush – will look out on two massive waterfalls that pour into pools formed in the footprints of the former towers of the World Trade Center. The water disappears into dramatic black voids. All around the pools are the names of the victims, incised into bronze sheeting.
Instrumental in bringing about the memorial are three Americans who were strangers on 9/11 but ultimately became linked by the terrible events of the day.
Joe Daniels emerged from a subway station to see the North Tower of the World Trade Center ablaze. "Like everyone around me, I was transfixed looking up at the hole in the building," he says.
From his East Village bedroom window, Michael Arad could see smoke coming out of the towers. He went to the roof of his building and watched United Flight 175 swoop down the Hudson River and crash into the South Tower. "It was unbelievable, a very difficult thing to see," he recalls.
Early in the morning in San Francisco, Peter Walker was alerted to the events by his wife, who was in Indiana. Like millions of Americans, he watched as the television networks replayed the scenes. "That's probably one of the most shocking things anyone has ever seen," he remembers thinking.
This is the story of how these three men turned their initial shock into a memorial, transforming the gaping wound in the ground, a reminder of 2,977 lives lost, into a place of serenity, reflection, and grace.
Around the time of 9/11, Mr. Arad, an architect, worked for the New York City Housing Authority. As he thought back on the tragedy later that year, he pulled out his sketch pad. He drew the Hudson River, the World Financial Center, and the marina, all adjacent to the collapsed twin towers. Where the towers would be were two voids, holes in the ground.
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"I was intrigued by that idea," he says. "I ... spent a lot of time trying to understand the aesthetic, how the image could be made into reality."
He built a model and took it up on his roof, where he photographed it.
Arad ended up making an anonymous submission to the competition for memorial designs. It was one of 5,201 entries. He envisioned an urban plaza at ground level – unlike the master plan for the site, drawn up by architect Daniel Libeskind, which had the memorial 30 feet below grade.
Making it all at ground level and completely flat was essential to his plan. "It creates this unified precinct; it marks it as a space," he says.
In the middle of the plain would be the two voids, with water falling into them.
"As you walk up to the body of water, there is a moment of sad comprehension for visitors," he explains. "You understand the scale and magnitude of what happened here."
By 2003, he found out his design was one of eight finalists. But the jury choosing the design was concerned that Arad's proposal seemed austere.
That's where Mr. Walker came in. A landscape architect based in the San Francisco area, he had been involved in other memorials in the past, so he was familiar with the emotional issues, he says. When Arad called him, he agreed to work with him.
The jury of architects, public officials, and citizens deciding which design to use wanted to know if trees could be planted without losing the concept of a plain.
The idea resonated with Walker, who viewed the plain as an important "metaphor for the earth," while "trees, of course, represent life."
By January 2004, Arad and Walker's design was chosen.
The next year, Mr. Daniels, a lawyer who was working for a consulting firm, became general counsel for the nonprofit National September 11 Memorial & Museum. That organization was being formed to raise money for the memorial as well as the museum, which is scheduled to open next year.
Within 10 months, Daniels received a "battlefield" promotion to run the operation. A big part of his job was trying to come to agreement on various issues among many different constituencies – the families of the victims, commercial interests, local residents, the general public, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owned the land.
"You could literally be bogged down forever," he recalls.
In the meantime, Arad began the process of trying to implement the whole concept, which included building two waterfalls that would be the largest man-made ones ever. He wanted each waterfall to be composed of separate strands that meet halfway down.
"It is analogous to how names are commemorated on this memorial where each name has its own autonomy, its own identity, but it's also part of a much greater assembly of names," he says. "This was one of the things that defined the memorial ... the ability to acknowledge both individual loss and the collective loss."
Arad also addressed the thorny issue of how to place the names around the pools. Should they be random? Should they be alphabetical? Should the first responders have their own section?
Arad reached out to families to ask what was important to them. "How can we mark that in a memorial," he wondered, "so the placement of the names relative to every other name carried an embedded meaning and might be hidden to many people? But once it's embedded in the design, it can be teased out in many different ways – through a printed guide, an audioguide, through first-person accounts, through curated accounts."
It took two years to settle on the concept of "meaningful adjacencies," where names are placed in a way that reflects families, friends, people who commuted to work together every day, or those who went to school together many years ago. Some 1,200 requests came in from the families, and it took another year to arrange the names.
This resulted in nine groups, representing the four flights that were hijacked, the two towers, the Pentagon, the first responders, and the victims of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Each group contains smaller groups.
In some instances, it was necessary to place the end of one group next to another group. For example, two brothers, John and Joseph Vigiano, both died on 9/11. One was a firefighter; one was a police officer. "We knew we would have to end one group here and start another group there to allow the two names to be placed next to each other," Arad says.
While he was working on the names, Walker was trying to find the right trees for New York City. "New York is a very, very tough place for a tree to grow," he says. "The trees are not in loamy soil with perfect drainage and irrigation and all that kind of stuff, so they get stressed."
Nonetheless, the trees became an integral part of the design. Walker ended up using white oaks. He adds, "We wanted the trees to have straight trunks that go up and branch out in a vase shape so when you go down the row, they would form a kind of Gothic arch, which is referring to the arches that were at the base of the World Trade Center originally."
As Walker and Arad fine-tuned their plans, Daniels was raising money. As of mid-August, donors in all 50 states and 60 countries had contributed $406 million, enough money to open the memorial this year and the museum next year.
"This memorial, this project, is going to define part of this country forever, and people have a very natural and positive instinct to want to be part of it," says Daniels, who is trying to raise another $20 million. All total, after public funding, the project will cost $700 million.
In addition to the memorial, construction has been going full-bore on several commercial projects in the area, including One World Trade Center and Four World Trade Center. As of late August, 1 WTC was 80 stories high (out of 104), and the other building was 48 stories.
Under the master plan for the site, no morning shadow from any of the buildings will fall on the memorial on this and future Sept. 11s.
Immediately after 9/11, Arad remembers walking to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Scores of other New Yorkers, mostly strangers, came together to come to terms with the attacks. "That is to me what I remember about 9/11 – the courage and compassion and resilience that New Yorkers showed," he says.
He can envision his memorial having the same impact. "I can see someone sitting here in that once-in-a-lifetime moment and having an incredible emotional experience, and somebody sitting there eating their lunch and then going across the street to their office. Those two experiences not only can exist, but should," he says.
Daniels hopes that the memorial helps the families – that once they see the names of their loved ones and the respect accorded them, it will help bring some peace. This summer, he says, he took a woman – now raising her three sons who had lost their dad in the tragedy – to the memorial site when the waterfalls were being tested.
"Just to see her reaction to it and the sense of all the different people, all the different occupations that have been working towards memorializing her husband and her kids' father – it was a very uplifting feeling for her. And hopefully, it is representative of how family members in general take it in," says Daniels.
Walker hopes that the memorial and plaza feel like a great cathedral to visitors.
"When you think about it, when you go in it's very deliberative," he explains. "Then ... it's all about going out into the world again, and you are refreshed.... You know that life does go on."


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We've watched them grow up on "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and now Kylie and Kendall Jenner are opening up about their life in the limelight as well as their protective family.
Kylie, 15, and Kendall, 17, have dealt with the glare of the media spotlight for as long as they can remember. The girls are now aspiring models and fashionistas, who get a lot of advice from their big sisters, Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian. They shared it all with Glamour's March issue – including why they are content being Jenner girls.
Glamour: What do you learn from each of your sisters?
Kendall: If we're fighting, we call Khloé. She's our peacemaker. Kourtney keeps us down-to-earth.
Kylie: Kim teaches us how to deal with the spotlight.
Glamour: Your family leads such a public life. Is that a good thing?
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Kendall: We appreciate everything that we have, but we don't remember what it's like to be normal kids who aren't harassed by the paparazzi. I hate that. We're underage girls. I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.
Kylie: No one really knows what we are like. People read about us on Twitter, but they don't know what we do all day long. We don't really have privacy, but we have an aspect that people don't know about.
Glamour: Between your brothers— Brody, Brandon, Burt, and Rob—and your sisters' partners, Lamar, Scott, and Kanye, there are a lot of men in your lives. Are they protective?
Kylie: Rob checks on me at least three times a day, and Lamar wants to meet any guy we're talking to. Just yesterday Scott was going over the kind of guy I should date.
Glamour: We have to ask: Do you ever think about the fact that your last name isn't Kardashian?
Kendall: We're full-throttle Jenners! We don't have any desire to be Kardashians.
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Ever since CISPA passed the markup phase, people have been waiting to see how the administration would respond to the changes. Today, we got the official statement from the White House:
We continue to believe that information sharing improvements are essential to effective legislation, but they must include privacy and civil liberties protections, reinforce the roles of civilian and intelligence agencies, and include targeted liability protections. The Administration seeks to build upon the productive dialogue with Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger over the last several months, and the Administration looks forward to continuing to work with them to ensure that any cybersecurity legislation reflects these principles. Further, we believe the adopted committee amendments reflect a good faith-effort to incorporate some of the Administration's important substantive concerns, but we do not believe these changes have addressed some outstanding fundamental priorities.
Though it doesn't raise the possibility of a veto, and even avoids explicitly taking a position of support or opposition, it serves as a fairly clear indication that the administration will not be supporting CISPA. Nevertheless, it's a little disappointing in its meekness.
Whenever someone spends that many words acknowledging the "good faith" of their opponent and boasting about "productive dialogue", it's a good sign that neither of those things are true. As we noted earlier, the amendments that were adopted during markup do not just fail to address the issues, they raise serious questions about just how much "good faith" has really been involved in this debate on the side of those who are pushing for the legislation. The dialogue, much like the one with CISPA last year, tends to go a lot like this:
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Mylan says middlemen and suppliers have forced them to jack up the prices on EpiPens by hundreds of dollars, but two industry insiders say the company pays no more than $30 per device, NBC News reports.
Some patients are forced to pay a little over $600 out of pocket for a two-pack of the lifesaving medication. Mylan sparked outrage last month when it was revealed the company had hiked up costs for the drug by over 400 percent since it acquired the brand.
Kevin Deane, a partner with the PA Consulting Group, a global technology and design firm that sold a drug delivery technology company to Pfizer in 2004, told NBC News that the base components for each EpiPen, including the plastic cap, tube and needle, might cost between $2 to $4 to purchase. Pharmacists contacted by NBC estimate that the epinephrine inside costs less than $1.
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Drunk Guy In London Caught Falling By 5 Security Cameras
You know this guy woke up thinking someone had beat the crap out of him. 5 security cameras on the streets of London caught this guy walking home but doing so with some serious balance issues. I give him an 8.5 for the form he holds when he goes over the railing.


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Hi mojo.
I love Susan Jacoby and Richard Dawkins too. I'm reading The Greatest Show on Earth right now. Carl Sagan's lectures are in a pile of books on my nightstand too. I've yet to read Dennett, but he's on my list. I understand Paul Kurtz is the man for secular humanism. He's on my list too. If I had to name my favorite 10 books for freethinkers, I'd pick (alphabetical order):
Barker, Dan (2008) godless
Dawkins, Richard (2006) The God Delusion
Eller, David (2004) Natural Atheism
Harris,Sam (2006) Letter to a Christian Nation
Hitchens, Christopher (2007) god is not Great
Jacoby, Susan (2004) Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Price, Robert M. (2003) The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man
Shermer, Michael (2002) Why People Believe Weird Things
Smith, George H. (1979) Atheism: The Case against God
Stenger, Victor J. (2007) GOD: The Failed Hypothesis
Hi mojo.
I chose "god is redundant" for the title of my book because throughout it, the concept of god became unnecessary to explain anything. It was never the best answer in explaining nature (creation, design, etc.) or morality or...
I wrote the book for my daughters who were fairly young, so I tried to keep it simple and moving fast. There's a few dozen chapters that are on average only 5 pages long. The whole book is only 200 pages and can be read in a couple sittings.
After introducing the topics, I provide some simple definitions and do a quick American history lesson on the Founding Fathers.
The next section gets into all the things I don't like about theism: the nature of faith (vs. reason), the nature of religion (vs. science), why the benefits to theists aren't benefits to me, why I think it's psychologically unhealthy, and why I think it promotes intolerance, anit-Semitism, and misogyny.
In the third part of the book, I tackle the great debate dedicating brief chapters to all the historic arguments theists have offered over the ages: Pascal's Wager, causal, arguments from design, authority, etc.
The next section dives deep into Christianity and provides more likely answers to prophecies, miracles, virgin births, resurrections, etc. I also examine references to Jesus in other holy books, historical writings, and discuss historical authenticity.
I wrap up by examining the relationship of morality and reason to theism, and lay out my wish for my kids. My goal was not to indoctrinate them, but it was to be honest and make sure they knew whether and what to believe was their choice.
If you're interested in learning more, my profile has a link to my book's facbook page where there are many links to free chapters, reviews, etc. I'm told it's a fun, fast read that makes for a handy little freethought primer.
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Sometimes when something tragic happens in the United States, Chinese media (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) will jump at the chance to somehow relate it to something happening in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Despite the gravity and the horror of what happened last Friday in Colorado, the Chinese media have done it again, this time linking Chinese movie star Jackie Chan to the tragedy. Allegedly, Jackie Chan said he was almost at the theater in Aurora.
According to Hong Kong's Oriental Daily, Jackie Chan has going the rounds talking about how he escaped a near death experience in Aurora. Oriental Daily reports that Chan was allegedly invited to for the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado but work obligations got in the way and he had to return to Beijing.
Taiwan's China Times reported that while Chan expressed grief and shock over the incident he seemed to be more worried about how the upgraded security will affect the premiere of his own upcoming movie Chinese Zodiac .
This is the first we've heard of Jackie Chan appearing at the Aurora theater—your typical suburban theater—for a premiere. Why would Chan, a worldwide star, appear at this theater? More importantly, if Chan is actually going around saying this, perhaps he can explain.
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by Tom Utescher
After winning the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Squash Association tournament title on January 29, Chestnut Hill Academy remained on a roll last week in a home match against familiar rival Germantown Friends. The host Blue Devils won all of the nine official individual matches and captured two exhibition bouts, as well, losing a total of one game in the process.
Going into the MASA tourney at Lawrenceville School, Chestnut Hill's lone loss in head-to-head competition had been a 4-5 setback at Episcopal Academy. The Devils did not get to meet the Churchmen directly at the tournament, though. While CHA claimed its third 5-4 victory over Haverford School this season in the semifinal round at MASA, Episcopal was suffering a 3-6 upset in the other semifinal at the hands of the host team, Lawrenceville.
There was no more magic for the Big Red, as they succumbed in the championship match to the Devils, who won handily, 7-2. The GFS Tigers placed fifth in Division I at the tournament, while six other teams, including Penn Charter, competed in a second division.
Going into last Wednesday's contest, CHA had not played since winning MASA, but GFS had already engaged in two matches earlier in the week. The Tigers blanked Conestoga High School on Monday to attain a 7-1 record, but they were shut out in turn by Episcopal Academy the following afternoon.
Almost two months earlier, CHA had defeated GFS in a seven-match encounter, winning 6-1 at Germantown Cricket Club. At home last Wednesday, the Devils truly overpowered the Tigers. Although he has switched from left to right-handed play this winter due to a chronic injury, Hill resident Sam Conant was the only GFS player to win a game in the rematch. Nevertheless, the sophomore went down to CHA freshman Mason Blake in the ninth spot, 11-2, 8-11, 11-8, 11-6.
In a pair of 3-0 exhibition contests, CHA freshman Brian Giegerich won over Germantown sophomore Sam York, and sophomore Christian Dorff defeated Tigers senior Max Kaplan.
In the early official matches played on Chestnut Hill's two gallery courts, CHA senior number three Peter Lynn won, 11-9, 11-3, 12-10, against visiting junior Deigo Sanz, while next door Blue Devils junior Augie Frank took the number five match over Tigers senior Ben York, 11-4, 11-9, 11-8.
Elsewhere, senior Nick DiDonato, the number six for Chestnut Hill, got by GFS sophomore David Sneed, 11-7, 11-1, 12-10, and at number seven freshman Philip Kelly of the Devils posted scores of 11-8, 11-7, 11-8 in defeating Tigers senior Cole McCourt. Junior Alex Ambrosini of the host team topped Germantown sophomore Drew Wallace in the eighth spot, 11-8, 11-4, 11-6.
Back on the gallery courts, GFS number four Max McCafferty gave fellow sophomore Alex McCall a battle in each of their three games, but the CHA player won them all by identical scores, 11-9.
Speaking of "identical," McCall's twin brother Peter was observing the match, having returned home from Egypt six days earlier. A Penn Charter student as a freshman, Peter had been spending his sophomore year honing his squash skills while attending the American School in Cairo. At the very beginning of the current unrest he was able to make his way home on commercial airlines, although he had to make a junket to Amman, Jordan before he could find a direct flight to the U.S.
After Alex McCall's victory, Wednesday's action concluded with four seniors competing in the top two spots. Both Chestnut Hill players appeared to gather momentum from game to game; Anderson Good won, 11-6, 11-4, 11-2 against visiting number two Alex Nalle, and Blue Devils number one Jack Maine overcame the Tigers' Dan Sneed, 11-7, 11-4, 11-2.
While several of the seniors on the two teams are still sorting out their college choices, decisions have been made by CHA's Maine (Penn), Lynn (St. Lawrence), and DiDonato (Drexel), and by McCourt (Penn) and Kaplan (Brown) of GFS.


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STOCKTON - When is a woman happy about her purse being stolen? When it leads to the prevention of a far worse crime.
STOCKTON - When is a woman happy about her purse being stolen? When it leads to the prevention of a far worse crime.
As she was reporting the theft of her bank card to her local credit union last week, Cathy - not her real name - was informed that a prior request had been made to issue a duplicate of her bank card. This confused Cathy, because she had never ordered a second card.
What's worse, she also learned that charges were being made on her card, including $1,295 at a Stockton Best Buy electronics store at the same time she was in the sauna at her gym. Had she not discovered this when she did, she fears her bank account could have been emptied.
The victim in this case, a 35-year-old registered nurse working for a public agency, spoke on condition of anonymity since she is the victim of identity theft as a direct result of the recent surge of mail thefts plaguing Stockton neighborhoods.
Cathy is convinced because of the timing of events that it is the mail thief, and not the purse snatcher, who fraudulently used her bank card.
A second victim was not so lucky. Mary - also not her real name - was unaware that someone called her major national bank to order a duplicate bank card. Unfortunately for Mary, the criminal apparently stole the duplicate card soon after it arrived in her mailbox and started using it. Before Mary could do anything about it, her checking account was overdrawn.
Mary, 45, is a single mother and also a registered nurse who works the overnight shift. She was not previously acquainted with Cathy, but both live just blocks apart in north Stockton neighborhoods that have suffered a plague of mail thefts and mailbox break-ins in recent months.
Cathy first became a victim when her group mailbox that provides 12 individually locked boxes for neighbors was busted open sometime during the second or third week of January. She didn't know what mail, if any, was stolen at that time, and she didn't think much about it until a month later.
On Feb. 16, Cathy parked in the lot outside her gym. When she came out to her car about an hour later, she discovered that her purse containing her wallet had been stolen from the locked trunk. That's when she contacted her credit union to start monitoring her missing bank card for fraudulent activity and was informed that another card had recently been ordered and mailed to her home address.
Adding to the confusion, earlier this year Cathy had been informed by her financial institution that her card would be automatically replaced due to the massive security breach last fall involving 70 million Target customers nationwide. So Cathy was expecting and did receive a new bank card in the mail, but it turns out that card was the one that had been fraudulently ordered. The bank held up sending out a third card - the legitimate one - after Cathy's purse was stolen.
Cathy still feels violated.
"My Social Security card, my driver license, my nursing license, credit card, health insurance - I am so paranoid now. My whole life is in that wallet. Now I'm worried about my Social Security number and my identity being used," she said. "I am living in fear every day."
But Cathy believes that fate, in the body of the purse snatcher, had a hand in protecting her from even more heartache, such as that suffered by Mary.
Because of her work schedule, Mary didn't always get to her unlocked mailbox - grouped with other unlocked mailboxes - every day. When she did collect her mail, she noticed several times last month the door was left open. During one period, she had no mail for three straight days.
"This is very unusual for it to be empty. I haven't gotten my W2 earnings, my mortgage taxes and other things for taxes. I am alert now on my mail," Mary said. Unfortunately, her vigilance came too late.
"I am really, really afraid now these people have all my information, what I've earned in a year - and I have nothing," she said.
That's because, what Mary learned to her horror starting around 1 a.m. during a lunch break from work, was that someone using a duplicate bank card was going on a shopping spree along Trinity Parkway and other north Stockton locations.
When Mary went to use her debit card, it was declined. She knew she had $700 in her account, so she called her bank and was told her account was overdrawn by $47. When she went online, she saw charges for Walmart in the amounts of $483, $108 and $67. There were more charges later that night - $75 at a minimart/gas station, a video rental and, finally, at 4:35 a.m. two charges at a fast food restaurant for $15 and $6.
And, Mary said, although her bank assured her they canceled her card when she called at 1 a.m., the criminal accessing her account had managed to get her card issued with a different account number. And that new number had not been canceled. It was used until Mary's account was overdrawn by $212 before it was finally declined for good.
Mary said she learned over the course of many days and dozens of lengthy phone calls that the criminal who ordered a new card in her name had told her bank there was fraudulent activity on the debit card Mary was using.
After Mary reported the fraud to police, she ran into two bicycle patrol officers who told her that they, too, had been victims of similar identity theft.
"This whole thing is really crazy. It's just a big mess," she said.
The criminal or criminals responsible for Mary's situation also managed to go online and change the user name on her online banking account so she could no longer access her information.
For several days before Mary's paycheck was electronically transferred into her now-compromised account, she had no cash for gas or groceries for her family.
Her bank has restored some of the fraudulent charges against her account and has assured her they will restore them all once the investigation is complete. But in the meantime, Mary said last week, "My life is on 72-hour hold. I've just been so scared wondering who is doing this to me," she said.
Jeff Fitch, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, said the crimes committed against Cathy and Mary show a certain level of sophistication, but they still remain crimes of opportunity.
"This is one where they are able to turn a profit, to get some money. The real key to these investigations is reporting these incidents to police and to our office as well. The fact is the clues are critical information for the postal inspectors and detectives in their investigation, even if it is 30 days, 60 days after the fact," Fitch said.
"It's something we see, and we understand the amount of work faced by the victims to undo the damage by these mail thieves," he said.
To report a crime involving the mail or a mailbox - a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine - contact local police as well as the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at (877) 876-2455; online at postalinspectors.uspis.gov; or obtain a theft complaint form at any post office.
Contact reporter Joe Goldeen at (209) 546-8278 or email@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/goldeenblog and on Twitter @JoeGoldeen.


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What your children are playing with could cause them serious health problems later in life. One in three children's toys tested by the Ecology Center contained lead, arsenic and other toxic chemicals.
Jennifer Taggart is trying to track down toxic toys and she's demanding change. And she's doing it armed with a powerful blog and a handheld X-ray fluorescence analyzer or XRF gun.
"It's not just children's products, it's everything," says Taggart.
An environmental lawyer and former engineer, Taggart's new mission is to find toys, cups, bags-anything that could be harmful to your health and let the public know about it.
"Everything that I tested that was vinyl had lead in it," says Taggart.
Lead exposure has been linked to heart disease and cancer in adults. In children, it's behavior and intellect problems.
"You can get exposed but you don't realize the kind of chronic, low-level exposure is effecting a child's development, and you don't even realize it until they're in kindergarten and it's irreversible," says Taggart.
Her gun tracks lead, cadmium and mercury.
"When you're doing toys, you can find lead in the plastic and also sometimes in the wheels are vinyl. Right now it's testing almost 7,000 parts per million...so it's well above the standard for children's toys," explains Taggart.
Although lead is banned in children's toys, toy makers are now switching to cadmium.
"It's more toxic technically, than lead," she says.
Taggart was part of a group of activists who found cadmium in McDonald's glasses.
"On one of the glasses it was 5,000 parts per million," explains Taggart.
A heavy metal listed as a carcinogen by the EPA was found in the paint.
"On the Shrek glass, it was the green that tested high," says Taggart.
They reported what they found to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. A week later, McDonald's recalled 12 million Shrek glasses.
"I got a lot of hate mail on my blog," says Taggart.
A report in www.healthystuff.org found high cadmium levels in 48 percent of toys tested and 78 percent were made with PVS or polyvinyl chloride, which is often contaminated with lead. And it's not just toys. She says to beware of cheap, costume jewelry.
"I had a charm that was 73 percent lead," says Taggart.
To her, every fake purse is a red flag. This vinyl one tested 31 hundred parts per million. It should be no more than 200 parts per million. To protect yourself, Taggart says never buy vinyl. Toys should only be painted with vegetable-based dye and take off your shoes at the door.
"We track it in on our shoes. You can reduce lead exposure by taking off your shoes by as much as 65 percent, which is a no-cost, easy solution," says Taggart.
And the first step, is to stay informed. Taggart warns one of the most harmful toxins to our health: household pesticides. Exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy can increase your child's risk of leukemia by a factor of nine.
Taggart recommends looking for natural ways to kill pests. For instance, she says mice hate mint. If you have a rodent problem, plant mint around your home.
If would like to learn more about toxic chemicals in your home, you can visit Jennifer Taggart's website at the www.thesmartmama.com.


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I have been teaching elementary school for the past five years. At the beginning of my career, I taught in the suburbs of Chicago starting out in 3rd grade for two years and moving up to 5th for my last year. After moving to Ohio, I quickly obtained a position teaching 3rd grade again! I love third graders and the opportunity to do a job that I love!
As I continue to grow professionally, I have become inspired by the challenge of stimulating students who are not engaged in their learning, cannot connect the curriculum with the real world, or see using information they acquire in the classroom in their future. I am driven by a desire to reach and engage these students. The idea of the teacher becoming a partner in the learning process, thus guiding students to discover the meaning within the subject areas, is one I embrace. By implementing project based learning experiences throughout the curriculum, students work cooperatively to solve real-world problems that correlate with the curriculum. In doing this, I have become a facilitator in the learning process while my students became active researchers and participants in their own learning.
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We really should be ashamed.
It should sadden the hearts of individuals if the true number was known of unemployed veterans in U.S. More than 2.5 million unemployed veterans risked their life to fight for all humanity and safety of this country. These men and women took the responsibility to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan only to return home with no jobs to maintain and support their families.
Even though Congress has announced to initiate to help veterans get back to work, it seems to be moving very slowly. The numbers are truly rising. The pressures are growing. In addition to this, the federal government has deployed various methods to assist vets find jobs.
Nevertheless, it is not enough.
If we really understood the financial pressures that weighing on the veterans that have to deal with �not having,� maybe things would move the heart of the government to motivate change.
I am afraid that things may not get better for our vets who have served. I am afraid that the vets who need work and income may be without a decade from now due to the financial status of the U.S. It bothers me that those who refuse to work depend on the system for services such as food stamps, Medicaid, etc. It bothers me that some are generational dependents upon the system to help them survive, but the vets who want to work cannot find work.
According to U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, at least 945,000 veterans were out of work.
Indeed, the number of unemployed veterans has since dropped to 806,000, according to the BLS June 2012 figures. That is 7.4 percent of the veteran workforce.
In conclusion, Bishop said in his speech before Congress that there were �close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now.�
Could it be true that we forget that veterans face many challenges that they cannot change? Many of the vets that are struggling are dealing with mental disabilities and disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries. Is it correct to assume that most companies are discriminatory against the certain conditions that would prevent them from hiring veterans?
It is only fair and just that these companies open their thinking and consider offering vets an opportunity to do what they may be qualified to do. Some military leaders worry about hiring discrimination. These employers justify not hiring vets is based on the vets being emotionally damaged while serving in Iraq.
I believe that all Americans should agree that veterans should not have to fight and struggle for a job once they have returned home. It is a shame! Jonathan Jones, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan stated in an interview, �All too often, those who made a choice to sacrifice and struggle to make things better for U.S. find themselves bankrupt and unworthy of their skills and talents.�
President Barack Obama mentioned recently that �if you can save a life in Afghanistan, you can save a life in an ambulance. If you can oversee millions of dollars of assets in Iraq, you can help a business balance its books here at home.�
It is clear that the Obama administration is attempting to make things better and easier for veterans to access training, but when will things be manifested?
We know that the economy is difficult and tough since the 2008 recession began.
However, if we cannot find a �yes� to a more than qualified vet for a job, then how can we ask them to go away from their families and live overseas to stand with courage and fight to keep us safe from harm?
I am convinced that we can do better, and now is the time to stop talking about doing better and DO better.
Pratt is a native of Gaston County currently living and working in Union County. She is a Social Worker II at Union County DSS and is currently her MSW at University of Southern California School of Social Work.


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We chose to share the wordless book Pancakes for Breakfast with our Mommy and Me Book Club friends.
Gathering: Wheat Exploration Box
(Sensory exploration, fine motor skills, self help skills)
We created a sensory bin with whole wheat kernels and measuring cups, spoons, spatulas, and plastic eggs. The children had a wonderful time scooping and pouring the wheat.
It was such a simple box to put together, but something about the texture of the wheat was soothing. It was also a really neat opportunity to teach that flour comes from wheat kernels.
Circle Time
(pre-literacy skills, listening skills, rhyming, story retell, language development, counting backwards, one to one correspondence)
We read the wordless book Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola. The story shows through classic DePaola artwork the morning in the life of a woman who wants pancakes for breakfast. Unfortunately she discovers she is missing most of the ingredients. So she must gather eggs from her chickens, milk the cow and churn the cream into butter, go and get syrup from a neighbor. When she returns from her last trip for ingredients and is ready to make the pancakes, finally, she finds that her pet dog and cat have broken the eggs and spilled the ingredients on the floor. Discouraged, she is about to give up, until she smells something delicious coming from a neighbor's home....pancakes. She invites herself there for breakfast.
Fingerplay: We used 5 foam pancakes to help act out this fingerplay.
Five Crispy Pancakes
Five crispy pancakes in a frying pan,
Flip them and toss them and catch them if you can.
Along came (child's name)
For a pancake one day
Sprinkled with sugar and took it away.
Source: Youth Services Organization Program Page
Make Pumpkin Pancakes Together
(fine motor skills, self help skills, cooking, cooperation)
We had all of the ingredients ready to go to begin with. The kids helped pour and mix the ingredients for our pancakes and we had a mommy cook them for us.
When they were cool enough to eat, they devoured them!
I can't really call this part a snack, none of us had to feed a lunch afterwards! One of our moms has a fantastic recipe, and I have included it here for you! Seriously, the best pancake recipe ever!
Pumpkin Pancakes2 cups Flour (or whole wheat or spelt flour)
3 Tbs. Brown Sugar
2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Ground Allspice
1 tsp. Cinnamon
½ tsp. Ground Ginger
¼ to ½ tsp. Ground Nutmeg
½ tsp. Salt
1 ½ cups Milk
1 cup Pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
1 Egg
2 Tbs. Grapeseed Oil
2 Tbs. Apple Cider Vinegar
1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Stir together dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and mix just until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop about a 1/4 cup of batter (an ice cream scoop works great) onto a warm griddle (350 degrees). When edges begin to set and bubbles pop in middle, flip pancakes and cook other side until done. Serve warm or at room temperature. Makes about 16 pancakes.
Art-Squeeze Paint Art
(strengthening hand muscles, art exploration, process oriented project, literacy and real world connections, sensory development)
We wanted to do an activity that replicated pouring syrup on pancakes. We were inspired by this great Squeeze Paint Dough project from Family Fun. You can go here to get the recipe. We found our bottles at Michael's craft store in the cake decorating department.
We discovered something fun though, that is not included on the website. This works well as microwavable paint, too. We tried it to see if it would dry enough to bring our projects home, and it worked! It also created a pretty fun texture to explore.
The children enjoyed squeezing the paint and making fun designs. Each was unique.
Activities- Pancake Races
(pretend play, fine motor, gross motor, balance, throwing, hand eye coordination, cooperation, sharing)
We cut out"pancakes" from foam to use to play several games.
1-We practiced flipping these with spatulas and small frying pans.
2- Also allowed them to try to carry them on the spatula while walking across the room.
3- Tried balancing the pancakes on their heads.
4-Threw the pancakes into the pan from across the room.
5-Played Hot Pancake (like hot potato).
This month we are spotlighting books by Tomie dePaola for our Yearlong Virtual Book Club for Kids!
Will you join us?
All you have to do is...
- Pick a Tomie dePaola book to read with your child!
- Do any activity, craft, cooking project, or other book inspired activity that goes along with the book your chose.
- Share what you did with us starting Monday, November 19th! We will have a linky up for 3 weeks where you can share any blog posts (if you are a blogger) or you can post what you did at the end of the linky post in the comments or on our Facebook wall.
I can't wait to see all of your fabulous ideas! Thanks for participating!
For more updates and to see loads of the posts by participating bloggers, head on over and "Like" our Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook page.
You can also check out lots of fun ideas on some if the other participating blogs!
Toddler Approved - Rainy Day Mum - Adventures in Reading with Kids - 3 Dinosaurs - Royal Baloo - The Educators' Spin On It - Inspiration Laboratories - Pleasantest Thing - Edventures with Kids - Two Big Two Little - Playing With Words 365 - Kitchen Counter Chronicles - Outlaw Mom - Mommy and Me Book Club - Crafty Moms Share - No Twiddle Twaddle - The Good Long Road - Ready. Set. Read 2 Me - Reading Confetti - Mama Smiles - Juggling with Kids- Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas - Creekside Learning - Creative Family Fun - The Usual Mayhem - Teach Preschool - PlayDrMom - CraftoArt - Here Come the Girls - Being a Conscious Parent - Smiling like Sunshine - Crayon Freckles - Train Up a Child - Smile Play Learn
Please only share activities inspired by Tomie dePaola books. All other links will be deleted.
Want to get a head start on December? Our featured author next month is Jan Brett!
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Want to get a head start on December? Our featured author next month is Jan Brett!


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HBO's steamy vampire drama "True Blood" is gearing up to return for Season 3 on June 13, but in the run up to finding out who took Bill Compton, what blood-sucking sheriff Eric Northman has up his sleeve and whether Jason Stackhouse can remain Bon Temps' local hero, the three gents have showed their human side to Details magazine.
For the mag's May issue, Details has dropped three covers – one with blue-eyed Brit Stephen Moyer (Bill), another featuring sexy Swede Alexander Skarsgard (Eric) and a third showing off the ripped six-pack glory of Aussie Ryan Kwanten (Jason).
Among the revelations from the men? Alexander spent time in the Swedish marines.
"Sweden is probably one of the three countries least likely to get in a war, so the military's pretty safe," he told the mag, but he added that he did stints lasting four days made up of surveillance of a radio antenna.
"You couldn't talk or move," he said. "You had to piss in a bottle. It gave me a lot of time to think about things. I realized I missed being onstage and on a set."
As for Ryan, he revealed he's writing a self-help book.
"It's a satire of self-help books," he told the mag. "It's called 'The G Strategy.' I am 'The G.' There are steps. The first is 'Ask yourself the question.' The second is 'Give yourself a G name.'
"That name might have a stigma attached to it due to the years of abuse I've suffered as a child. But as, say, Ace, I can do anything," he added. "I can associate myself with a mythological creature or a made-up word. And through the invention of that word, it makes you want to break into a smile."
Stephen, who is engaged to his "True Blood" love interest, Anna Paquin, who plays mind-reader Sookie Stackhouse, shared a little more about his romance. The actor revealed the two took getting involved very seriously.
"To get a pilot that runs to a series, it's big s*** to people," Stephen said. "And so to come along and go, 'Oh, let's have a quick f***,' and then risk arguing and being a nightmare when you're playing the two people who are together the whole time — that would be immature."
To read more with the "True Blood" gents, click HERE.
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Kris Lin, the project leader of the displayed work [RIPPLE] CLUB HOUSE - CLUB HOUSE by Kris Lin demonstrates, This case is positioned to be a high-end club, where celebrities are expected to gather. The overall style is a new style of Orientalism based on the concept of [resort hotel in Southeast Asia]. Its functions include a lobby, bar, tea, video hall, VIP room, swimming pool, gym and dance studio and so on. Its interior space is very open, it has a very inclined roof, the ceilings are expected to show the feeling of wooden buildings of Southeast Asia, so the use of [Truss] in the ceiling design and integration of the lighting in the trussed ceilings, make the whole building full of harmony and a new Orientalism of Southeast Asian-style..
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Book Review for "JBoss AS 7 Configuration Deployment and Administration"
Book Review for "JBoss AS 7 Configuration and Administration"
Have you heard the buzz about JBoss AS 7? Happy days for the developer community-- the productivity gains of JEE 6 are combined with lightning fast speed and minimal footprint for AS 7. The downside to all this is there is much to learn (again). Packt can help.
The book's author is Francesco Marchioni. If that name sounds familiar, it should. This is the guy behind "MasterTheBoss", a very popular JBoss oriented developer website. Francesco has also authored well-written books on JBoss AS 5 development and JBoss AS 5 performance tuning, so he knows a thing or two about JBoss as well as how to churn the words out.
This is a "RAW" book, which means it's not yet finished. Some of this is reflected in the book's existing text, but mostly what's here is good. There are a few chapters yet to be written.
So what's in this book? Here's a quick chapter-by-chapter breakdown.
Chapter 1 - A nice overview of the new, improved JBoss. AS 7 is a major re-hang, with the old MicroContainer going by the wayside and being replaced by JBoss Modules and a Modular Service Container. (The most dramatic external changes are very fast startup speed and completely different configuration mechanisms.) JBoss Modules is a big change, and really is explained throughout the book, but your first exposure is here. You're also given a very newbie-friendly explanation of how to download, setup, start and stop JBoss.
Chapter 2 - We start the daunting task of learning to configure the new and improved JBoss. JBoss has always given administrators a lot of options to consider when it comes to configuration, and AS 7 is no exception. Suffice it to say the model is all new, but this book goes about explaining it in a clear way. (Pictures are used where appropriate.) Here we are given an explanation of how configuration now works-- there is a 'standalone' mode and a 'domain' mode, these are covered. A few bread-and-butter items like port configuration, datasources, and installation of JDBC drivers is here. The author's performance orientation shines through in a section that describes the various types of thread pools and how they can be used. The chapter ends with section on the latest messaging system (HornetQ) and Transactions.
Chapter 3 - Chapter 3 covers 'Enterprise' topics, which include the various flavors of EJBs. The book explains their lifecycles and how they are configured (down to details like cache pool sizing). If you're getting the impression this book covers some low-level topics, you would be right. The JBoss Web Container (very similar to Tomcat) is explained. Configuration of the default JBoss logger is covered, as is installation of Log4j should the reader decide to use it instead. Even though this is an administrative book rather than a development book, the author chose to throw in a simple example web application so the reader can have something to deploy. I tend to lag on web technologies (because I work with back-end technologies), so I really appreciated that part. Woohoo, I've used Facelets!
Chapter 4 - This chapter covers the all-new 'domain' mode. Domains are all about centralized configuration of groups of servers, a feature that will be very welcome in large shops and cloud environments. You may think this sounds a lot like the traditional JBoss simple clustering, and you would be wrong. This is something completely orthogonal to clustering! But it's given a good coverage, and by the time you're done with this chapter you'll be itching to go try to define your own domain and work it over.
Chapter 5 - Chapter 5 is about application deployment. The mechanisms you use will differ depending on whether you are 'standalone' mode or 'domain' mode. You also have several ways to deploy JEE artifacts-- these are all explained nicely. This makes for light reading, but the chapter is balanced out by a good section on Classloading in AS 7. If you've done much JEE development (on any platform) you are aware that classloading can be a tricky area. With AS 7, JBoss sought to straighten this out and this chapter explains how it all works.
Chapter 6 - is about the administrative interfaces AS 7 brings you. First, there's a web UI. In my opinion, the web interface is clean and adequate as far as usability, but it lacks depth. The alternative is a command line interface (CLI) that you can use to reach all kinds of nooks and crannies in AS 7's configuration. The CLI demands that you understand a somewhat arcane dialect, but it rewards you with useful functionality. If you know the current JBoss 'twiddle' utility, you should find the CLI very similar.
Chapter 7 - is the clustering chapter. Cluster configuration is explained, including the Infinispan and JGroups components you'll need to understand. Clustering has always been one of JBoss's strong suits, it should only get better with AS 7.
Still yet to be provided (this is a RAW book, remember):
Chapter 8 - on load balancing web applications.
Chapter 9 - Integration with other frameworks (I'd watch for Spring content here)
Chapter 10 - Tuning and slimming. (With the modular emphasis, we should have some very effective slimming available)
So who's this book good for? I'd say anybody using AS 7. (AS 7 will be the basis for the next 'supported' JBoss, EAP 6, by the way.) AS 7 is a major re-hang, so you're going to want a decent guide to learning your way around. I liked this book, and imagine I'll be using it as a reference on a regular basis.
Oh, that last paragraph begs the question: Who should be using AS 7? I think everybody should give it a try. JEE 6 has an associated learning curve, but it's the most productive version of Enterprise Java yet. With the speed and reduced memory footprint, I found that AS 7 is great to run in an IDE like Eclipse or JBDS, allowing me to deploy and start in a flash. I'd encourage every Java developer to give AS 7 a look, and while you're at it use this book as a reference.
The book can be found here.
Happy (productive) reading and coding!
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ClickOnce Cache Overview
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All ClickOnce applications, whether they are installed locally or hosted online, are stored on the client computer in a ClickOnceapplication cache. A ClickOnce cache is a family of hidden directories under the Local Settings directory of the current user's Documents and Settings folder. This cache holds all the application's files, including the assemblies, configuration files, application and user settings, and data directory. The cache is also responsible for migrating the application's data directory to the latest version. For more information about data migration, see Accessing Local and Remote Data in ClickOnce Applications.
By providing a single location for application storage, ClickOnce takes over the task of managing the physical installation of an application from the user. The cache also helps isolate applications by keeping the assemblies and data files for all applications and their distinct versions separate from one another. For example, when you upgrade a ClickOnce application, that version and its data resources are supplied with their own directories in the cache.
Cache Storage Quota
ClickOnce applications that are hosted online are restricted in the amount of space they can occupy by a quota that constrains the size of the ClickOnce cache. The cache size applies to all the user's online applications; a single partially-trusted, online application is limited to occupying half of the quota space. Installed applications are not limited by the cache size and do not count against the cache limit. For all ClickOnce applications, the cache retains only the current version and the previously installed version.
By default, client computers have 250 MB of storage for online ClickOnce applications. Data files do not count toward this limit. A system administrator can enlarge or reduce this quota on a particular client computer by changing the registry key, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Deployment\OnlineAppQuotaInKB, which is a DWORD value that expresses the cache size in kilobytes. For example, in order to reduce the cache size to 50 MB, you would change this value to 51200.


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Maintaining Interest With Your Club's Layout
One thing we could learn from other retail-type industries is successful merchandising. The key to selling a shirt or a box of cereal or any other item is to merchandise it properly according to the market's needs.
Do we merchandise our product (a club membership) well enough? Does someone visiting our club want to try it on to see how it fits immediately? Are we taking advantage of the "impulse buy" by placing our other profit centers in optimal locations?
I have found there isn't a special way of setting up that will make your membership or product sales boom instantly. What I have found is that clubs must adapt or change with the changing needs of the marketplace.
Designed for (Sales) Comfort
Several times a year, I walk through my clubs with an objective eye and ask myself questions. For starters, I consider whether my sales process (how we tour and sell memberships) is comfortable to potential new members.
Remember long ago when clubs used to have membership offices behind closed doors, down dark hallways, where salespeople could sequester potential candidates and coerce them into joining? Eventually, many clubs saw the light and went to open offices or cubicles with views of the club where the energy would stir the potential member into joining.
It seems sales psychology trends keep changing. In my recent visits to state-of-the-art clubs, I have seen sales desks dispersed throughout the club, out in the open, or member lounge areas used as sales areas. I have even witnessed computerized kiosks where people can casually walk up and join the club.
The key salient feature in all of these examples is the simple atmosphere clubs want to portray when enrolling new members. We want prospects to feel good about their decisions to get fit and healthy; we don't want them to feel coerced into becoming club members.
The layout of the sales area influences membership sales, but other layout factors come into play after someone joins. What about the overall layout of the club itself? How does it affect retention and additional profit centers?
I take all of this into account when I examine my clubs several times a year, asking: Is my club layout convenient for members' workouts? Does my club feature the items that members most likely want to purchase?
This takes me back to the beginning of this article and the idea of proper merchandising according to the market's needs. Do you know what your membership is? Is it mostly male or female? Ages 20-25 or older? Does it consist predominantly of businesspeople?
Knowing who your primary customer is (or who you want it to be) will enable you to merchandise your club for optimal selling. By displaying your product (your club) optimally, you encourage potential customers to buy it. And keep it.
If you have a large percentage of female population (or want to increase your percentage), then don't put your free weights (which can intimidate women) in the front of the club. If you have a stronger corporate clientele, put your towel service and business and shower amenities in the forefront of the pro shop/front desk area where they are quickly accessible. If you serve a large college student population, stock your pro shop with lower-priced T-shirts and baseball caps that they can easily purchase on their way out. Also, make sure your tanning programs are in clear view for the college students to use them.
Get Ready for Change
You must change to or adapt with the transitions in the market if you want to stay progressive. So be prepared to make some changes.
Is your customer base the same as it was 10 years ago? Have your club's memberships or profit centers increased in those 10 years? If not, is it because you only catered to that original type of member and never made any changes to encourage the development/retention of other customer types?
Changing how we do things in a club can be difficult. Some of these changes may involve major structural remodeling, such as replacing your front desk or relocating your pro shop in order to make it easier for members to pick up an item they want to purchase.
If members have to ask an employee to get them an item from behind the front desk, they'll probably pass on it when they are in a hurry. Therefore, put coolers with drinks on your way in and out, not behind a desk. This is a simple adjustment, yet simple adjustments may be all you need to make.
You can change the direction of your traffic flow so that members have to go through your pro shop to get into the club. You can move your equipment so members can find machines easier. You can also make the location of your other profit centers, such as tanning or massage therapy, more visible and accessible. Even small changes can make huge differences in sales and retention.
So step back, take on the eye of an outsider, be critical and make changes! These will probably not be the last changes you will make, but they may be changes for the better. If not, change again.
Teresa Burke is the co-owner of two Gold's Gyms in southeast Pennsylvania (Conshohocken and King of Prussia). She can be contacted at [email protected]
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Cisco Returning Cash to Shareholders, and More
What's News: Cisco is hiking its quarterly dividend 21%. Amazon.com is buying Goodreads. Consumer sentiment and spending rise despite higher tax rates that took hold earlier this year. Photo: Getty Images.
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I'm new to using Arduinos and I'm looking for the perfect book to help me.
I love reading Arduino books and I've learn a lot of things. I'm also taking online courses now and I know my Arduino learning will help my business soon.
Any book good for professional C++ programmer ?
This is an introductory book to programming and computer science using assembly language. It assumes the reader has never programmed before, and introduces the concepts of variables, functions, and flow control. The reason for using assembly language is to get the reader thinking in terms of how the computer actually works underneath. Knowing how the computer works from a "bare-metal" standpoint is often the difference between top-level programmers and programmers who can never quite master their art.


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Aurora Industry Day
Industry representatives from Aurora Participating States* are invited to attend the Aurora Industry Day on 1 June 2006, at ESA's space technology centre, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The half-day event will provide representatives from industry with an updated view of Europe's Aurora Exploration Programme, its milestones and detailed information about the upcoming opportunities.
Representatives from the Aurora Programme and Alcatel Alenia Space from Turin will present details about future activities and 'Invitations to Tender' (ITT) and will answer questions with the aim of enhancing mutual understanding and therefore facilitating the bidding process.
Following the Preparatory Phase between 2001 and 2005, the European Space Exploration Programme Aurora was approved at the last ESA Council at Ministerial level held in Berlin in December 2005. The Programme is made up of two major elements: a Core Programme and the first robotic Mission to Mars, ExoMars.
The Core Programme is devoted to further the preparation of the European space exploration framework, scenario and roadmaps and to the development of enabling capabilities as well as system designs for future exploration missions. The detailed Core Programme Work Plan is still subject to formal approval by the Aurora Programme's Participating States, expected to occur at the end of May.
ExoMars will deploy a large rover on the surface of Mars in 2013 with a scientific payload searching for traces of life. The ExoMars mission is currently in its B1 Phase under the prime contractorship of Alcatel Alenia Spazio of Turin, Italy.
The date of the Aurora Industry Day has been chosen to take advantage of the ESA's Industry Space Days that will be held at ESTEC on 29-31 May.
Participation to the Aurora Industry Day is free and you are just requested to register yourself on the Web at www.congrex.nl/06m29 (click on Registration & Hotel)
For further information:
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Righteous Job the Long-Suffering - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 1
As an indestructible pillar of courage, / you repulsed the attacks of Belial and remained unmoved in temptation. / Therefore, O wise Job, / the Church praises you as a model of endurance and an example of virtue; / and she is made radiant by your great deeds.
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But if you're brewing tea by the cupful, the water can be a little hotter when it's poured. That's because a small, uncovered cup of water will lose heat more quickly than will a large, covered pot of tea. In other words, if the water poured into a cup containing a teaball or other type of strainer isn't hot enough, it will quickly cool below the temperature required for a good infusion.
This is probably why most "purists" consider that tea is best brewed by the potful: the pot keeps the water at the right temperature while the tea is brewing, and afterwards keeps the brewed tea warmer longer. But if you like the convenience of brewing by the cupful, you can still enjoy the same full flavor and aroma of Mellow Monk tea by experimenting to find the "Goldilocks" temperature--not too hot, not too cold.


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IRVING, Texas (AP) Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Jay Ratliff is unlikely to play again this season after undergoing sports hernia surgery.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said Ratliff had the surgery Thursday in Philadelphia and would be out three to six weeks, meaning he would only have a chance to play if Dallas makes the playoffs.
Garrett said Friday that the club planned to keep Ratliff on the active roster.
Ratliff has played in just six games. He missed the first four with a sprained ankle before a groin injury sidelined him last month.
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Flights to Thailand with Qatar Airways
Thailand is one of Asia's most popular travel destinations. Despite the huge influx of visitors each year, it has managed to sustain its cultural identity and has created a wonderful synergy of old and new. The juxtaposition of neon lights and high-rise office blocks with the rural traditions of field and farm is what makes this country so fascinating, as you'll discover when you travel to Thailand with Qatar Airways.
Although ultra-modern cities and new towns have sprung up all over Thailand, the traditional farming village is still at the heart of the nation and gives the people their strength and endurance. Even if you're based in a thoroughly modern hotel, close to restaurants and entertainment venues, you won't have to journey far to find the more traditional Buddhist temples, rubber plantations and fishing villages that have been the foundation of Thailand for hundreds of years. Almost half of all the Thai population still lives directly off the land and rice –the basis for Thailand's sophisticated and unique cuisine –is still the main food staple across the country.
In the 1980s, Thailand had the world's fastest-growing economy. The fruits of that economic boom are today visible in the modern shopping malls and office blocks of cities like Bangkok, Si Racha and Nonthaburi. Traditional influences are, however, never far away, and their roots are so deep and enduring that cities like Bangkok are a heady mix of the glitteringly modern and the timeless. This particular city has a solid core of traditional temples and night markets.
Venture further afield to places like Chiang Mai, in the northern uplands, a cultural and historic centre for the region. If you're interested in exploring ancient stone temples, take a trip to the complexes at Phanom Rung and Khao Phra in the Mekong River valley in the northeast of the country.


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