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Over the last twenty odd years, Greg has worked Sales, Technical and IT Management but mostly he delivers Network Architecture and Design. Today he works as a Freelance Consultant for F100 companies in the UK & Europe focussing on Data Centres, Security and Operational Automation. He does actual networking during the day and has clouds in his pockets.
Writing consistently on his blog at http://etherealmind.com since Jan 2008, he is known as a strong voice on promoting networking technology. Because someone asked, he also talks about networking as co-host of Packet Pushers Podcast at http://packetpushers.net since April 2010. Today, Packet Pushers one of largest networking focused podcasts today reaching over 10000 listeners per episide and a thriving independent community of bloggers who share their knowledge.
He is known for practical opinions, technical viewpoints and being graceful when getting it wrong. Mostly. Once called the "Howard Stern of Networking", Greg tends to voice strong opinions, is willing to tackle new technologies and attempt to explain them.
He also writes professionally for Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com/blogs/author/Greg-Ferro) and other companies.
Greg believes that Networking is best possible career and doesn't understand why everyone communicating and sharing more about this amazing industry.
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Leading mobile field operations management solutions company specializing in Oil and Gas and Industrial/Environmental Services announces the hiring of a senior director to lead implementation and support team.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 22, 2013
LiquidFrameworks announced today that it has hired Jeffrey Baldwin as Senior Director of Implementation and Support. In his new role, Mr. Baldwin will focus on enhancing the implementation and support processes currently offered to LiquidFrameworks customers. He will also be instrumental in developing new partners to enrich the already impressive list of top tier companies working with LiquidFrameworks to bring their industry-leading FieldFX solution to the Oil and Gas and Industrial/Environmental Services industries.
Mr. Baldwin comes to LiquidFrameworks from ION Geophysical where he was responsible for global enterprise applications and projects. Previously, Mr. Baldwin served in various technology and operational roles in the energy sector, included positions at Think Forward Group, Syntex Management Systems, P2 Energy Solutions, and Oracle. "I'm excited to join the LiquidFrameworks team," said Mr. Baldwin. "Our solution, FieldFX, empowers our customers to be more successful by improving their internal processes and re-capturing lost revenue from ticket leakage."
LiquidFrameworks' FieldFX solution is a cloud-based mobile field operations software suite designed to manage contracts, quotes, equipment, jobs and field tickets along with customer-specific electronic forms such as safety incidents, inspections and other operational data reports. FieldFX was designed with ease-of-use for field personnel in mind, in order to increase usability and, therefore, increase and accelerate the value of their work tasks.
"Jeffrey comes from a technology and operations background, and his combined experience brings additional depth to the LiquidFrameworks team," said Trent Derr, LiquidFrameworks President and CEO. "Our focus is, and always has been, on helping our new customers implement in fashion to generate value as soon as possible and supporting our existing customers in reaping additional benefits from FieldFX as we continue to deliver new capabilities. We anticipate that these changes will enhance the value of implementations for our customers and for our own continued growth. As our customer base continues to grow, Mr. Baldwin will also play a key role in adding new implementation partners to our existing eco-system."
To learn more about how mobile field operations management solutions can add value to your oilfield or industrial/environmental service company visit http://www.liquidframeworks.com.
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Natural Gas Caps First Monthly Gain Since October on Supply Drop
Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Natural gas futures rose in New York, capping the first monthly gain since October, after a government report showed that U.S. stockpiles fell more than average last week.
Gas advanced to a four-week high after the Energy Information Administration said inventories dropped 171 billion cubic feet in the week ended Feb. 22 to 2.229 trillion cubic feet. The five-year average decline for the week is 118 billion. A supply deficit to year-earlier levels grew to the widest in more than four years.
"The storage number was a little bit bullish," said Kent Bayazitoglu, an analyst at Gelber & Associates in Houston. "March looks like it's going to be quite cold and we definitely still have three more triple-digit withdrawals left in us."
Natural gas for April delivery gained 5.2 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $3.486 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest settlement price since Jan. 23. Trading volume was 2.1 percent above the 100-day average at 2:44 p.m. The futures have climbed 38 percent from a year ago and gained 4.4 percent this month.
April gas futures were 21.3 cents below the October contract, compared with 21.4 cents yesterday.
April $3.25 puts were the most active gas options in electronic trading. They fell 1.4 cents to 3.1 cents per million Btu on volume of 675 contracts as of 3:03 p.m. Puts accounted for 53 percent of options volume.
Stockpile Estimates
Analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg showed an expected gas supply decline of 170 billion cubic feet. A survey of Bloomberg users predicted a stockpile decrease of 172 billion. A surplus to five-year average supplies narrowed to 16 percent from 18 percent the previous week, according to the EIA, an arm of the Energy Department.
Inventories were 12 percent below year-earlier inventories, compared with 9.2 percent in last week's report. The deficit was the biggest since August 2008.
Natural gas production from the lower-48 U.S. states fell 1.1 percent to 72.7 billion cubic feet a day in December from a revised 73.53 billion the previous month, the EIA said today in its monthly EIA-914 report. Output was up 0.6 percent from December 2011, the smallest annual gain since 2009.
Production in Louisiana decreased 3.1 percent to 7.47 billion cubic feet a day as some operators reported shut-ins. New Mexico output fell 3.9 percent amid cold weather.
Colder Weather
Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland, said temperatures may be below-average in the central U.S. from March 10 through March 14.
The low in Chicago on March 13 may be 19 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 7 Celsius), 11 less than usual, according to AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. The low in Minneapolis may be 15 degrees, 8 below normal.
About 50 percent of U.S. households use gas for heating, according to the EIA.
"Though the recent cold weather has been constructive in sparking a rally, we don't think that there is much further running room to the upside as a short bout of late-season weather is unlikely to materially impact end-of-season balances," Mike Tran, an analyst at CIBC World Markets Inc. in New York, said in a note to clients today.
Gas prices at the benchmark Henry Hub in Erath, Louisiana, will average $3.53 per million British thermal units in 2013, compared with $2.75 per million Btu last year, the Energy Information Administration said in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Feb. 12 in Washington.
The boom in oil and natural gas production helped the U.S. cut its reliance on imported fuel. America met 84 percent of its energy needs in the first 11 months of last year, government data show. If the trend continued through 2012, it will be the highest level of self-sufficiency since 1991.
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"In The Woods" (2008) by Tana French won the Edgar award in 2009. This is her first book and it is apart of a series featuring Detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox. "In The Woods" is rich in characterization and atmosphere. There seems to be a lot of varying opinions about the author's first book. I've been told that I'll either love her book or hate it. Well, guess what? I enjoyed this book although the ending was like everybody said it was: disappointing. Warning: A few plot points are mentioned as well as a major spoiler about one aspect of the ending that aggravated readers.
The story starts off with a brief summary surrounding a tragic event. To set the scene, imagine a grainy film reel, showing you a memory of someone's childhood. In the summer of 1984 three kids from Knocknaree Dublin went into the woods but only one came back out alive. Sole survivor, Adam Ryan, can't remember what happened to his best friends Peter and Jamie. At the scene where the police officers find Adam, there's a lot of blood soaked in his shoes but he can't remember what happened before the police found him.
Shortly after the disappearance of his best friends, Adam's family packs up, moves and sends him off to boarding school. The memory of his friends disappearing in the woods haunts Adam 20 years later where the story picks up. Adam's changed his name to Rob and is now a detective in the Murder squad. As much as Rob would like to forget the past, his first murder investigation takes him right back to the 1984 case.
A 12 year old girl is found murdered in Knocknaree, near an archeological dig in the same woods that took Jamie and Peter twenty years ago. Detective Ryan and his partner Cassie Maddox are assigned the case. This will be their first murder investigation for the duo. Rob decides to withhold his involvement in the 1984 case after it's revealed that there might be a link. No one knows he is Adam Ryan except his partner. This duplicity proves to be too much for Ryan. He keeps getting flashes of his friends but he can't remember what happened to them.
Ryan narrates the story. The bulk of the book is about how Ryan tries to solve a murder case even though he struggles with the memories of the disappearance of his two best friends. Ryan is hoping that this current case will trigger a deeply buried memory. Can you imagine being the only survivor with two of your best friends missing and you can't remember anything? Then there's the unusually tight relationship between Rob and his partner, Cassie. As another reader has pointed out to me (and is correct), Ryan spent a good deal of the book telling us how close they are and how they almost manage to keep up a platonic relationship. Of course Ryan states at the start that he's an unreliable narrator: He likes to lie.
But anyway, the murder investigation into the death of a young girl might be tied to a couple of things. One is an activist group called Move the Motorway. The victim's father is the leader of the activist group. Many of the protesters feel that the land that the government wants to build a motorway on is sacred ground. They want them to build the motorway somewhere else. Another lead has the investigators looking more closely at the young girl's family. Upon a closer look, they are dysfunctional.
So, what are my thoughts on this book? Entertaining but the ending fell apart. Believe it or not, despite the bad ending, I enjoyed enough of this book to give a B+. Tana French is on my auto-buy list. About that ending: I think what really made readers mad was that the author didn't resolve the 1984 case. Guess what? I'm glad she didn't. I wasn't expecting her to resolve it. First of all, the lead character, Rob Ryan, couldn't remember anything and still didn't remember anything crucial in solving the case at the end of the story. Second, in real life cases like that aren't easy to solve and remain unsolved.
I like Tana French's writing style and voice. If you enjoy crime fiction that is character driven then this would be the book for you. "In the Woods" is followed by "The Likeness" and "A Faithful Place." My grade for her debut: B+. Beginning is slow and this book is long. "In the Woods" read like a page-turner until I hit the last fourth of the book. I really want to dive into the next book but am tackling Alan Glynn's Winterland now.
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Sarah Sprink's Hat Trick Propels Maryland Over Virginia
Nov. 2, 2012
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Freshman Sarah Sprink tallied her first career hat trick and the Maryland defense limited a potent Virginia offense as the Terrapins defeated the Cavaliers, 4-1, Friday evening in the semifinals of the 2012 ACC Field Hockey Championship. With the win, Maryland (15-4, 3-2 ACC) avenges a 3-2 loss to the Cavaliers on Sept. 28 and advances to the ACC Championship on Sunday at 1 p.m to face No. 1 North Carolina. "We had the mentality that we wanted to step up our game," said Sprink. "We wanted to show everyone that we can play better than we did yesterday." Sunday's title game will be a rematch of the last three national championship games, two of the last three ACC finals, and will be the 14th meeting between the two schools in the 30-year history of the ACC Championship. "Our team has been looking for a breakout game all season, to be honest," Maryland head coach Missy Meharg said. "We're a team that's still evolving. We're kind of just evolving and getting really good."
Virginia falls to 15-5 and 4-1 in conference play and now awaits the NCAA Tournament selection this upcoming Tuesday. "We came out and gave them just a little too much room to attack and make their passes, and once you are doing that, you know you are always running back," said Virginia head coach Michele Madison. Janessa Pope got the Terrapins on the board in the 11th minute. The senior fired a shot from the right doorstep that was blocked by Virginia goalkeeper Jenny Johnstone. The rebound found its way back to Pope, who didn't miss on the second opportunity for her sixth of the season. Maryland pushed the lead to 2-0 shortly before halftime on the third goal of the year for Lindsey Puckett. Megan Frazer sent a pass through the box to a waiting Puckett on the back corner who found the back of the net. The Terrapin penalty corner unit scored two quick goals early in the second period. Eight minutes in, Sarah Sprink blasted a ball past a diving Johnstone, assisted by Katie Gerzabek and Harriet Tibble. The trio combined to score again three minutes later for a 4-1 lead. Virginia's Paige Selenski tallied her league-leading 26th goal in the 58th minute, driving through the Maryland defense and launching a shot to the corner past goalkeeper Natalie Hunter. The score was Selenski's 99th career goal, tying her with Maryland's Katie O'Donnell for second in ACC history and placing her two behind former Cavalier Meridith Thorpe for the conference record. Sprink completed her first career hat trick on another penalty corner with under three minutes remaining in the game, chipping a rebound over a sprawled Johnstone. Spring leads all freshman in the ACC with 10 goals in her rookie campaign. Hunter made three saves and allowed one goal in the win, and Johnstone stopped seven shots in the loss. Maryland outshot Virginia, 13-6, and held a 6-3 advantage in penalty corners. More information on the 2012 ACC Field Hockey Championship can be found online at http://theacc.co/FHChamp. |


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811 Palm Blvd, Isle Of Palms, SC 29451
- Price: $1,200,000
- Status: Contingent
- On Site: 293 days
- 5 Beds
- 5 Baths
- 1 1/2 Baths
- 0.22 Acres
- 2,750 SqFt
- $436 $/SqFT
- 1992 Built
- Single-Family Home
- Neighborhood: Isle Of Palms
- County: Charleston
- Area: Isle of Palms
- Elementary School: Sullivans Island
- High School: Wando
- Middle School: Laing
- School Ratings & Info
Property Description
Reduced another 75k! This elevated, two-story home is located on the deep water of beautiful Hamlin Creek and is surrounded by a canopy of Oaks offering a true low country setting just 1000 ft from miles of pristine beach and features a private dock with boat slip, electric, water and 2 jets ski docks. The first floor of the home has an open living, dining and kitchen area all with stunning creek views through the oversize windows. Lots of natural light in every room! Also on the first floor is the master suite with sitting area and large master bath with his and hers vanities and large, double headed shower. Step out to the large covered deck and attached open deck from either the living room or master suite and enjoy the stunning sunsets and abundant wildlife. The first floor also features 9 ft ceilings throughout, vaulted ceiling with a skylight in the kitchen, a laundry room, a half bath, ceiling fans and beautiful wood floors. The second floor features four additional bedrooms, two with private baths and creek views and two sharing a hall bath. The ground level has a two car garage, full bath with shower and a 15 X 24 rec room. This home truly has it all to offer! Strong rental history. Square footage and acreage is approximate and should be verified for accuracy. Furnishing are negotiable. Seller holds an inactive SC real estate license.
Property Features
Exterior- Vinyl Siding
- Enclosed Metal Fence
- Deck
- Patio
- Covr'd Patio
- Dock Existng
- Floating Dock
- Elev Construction
- W/Frnt-Deep
- Tidal Creek
- Marshfront
- Marsh View
- 2 Car Garage
- Asphalt Shng
- 2 Story
Floors- Wood
- All Wdw Trmt
- Smooth Ceil
- Downstairs
- Sitting Room
- Outsd Access
- Ceiling Fan
- Lr/Dr Combo
- Laundry
Amenities- Cable Available
- Trash Pickup
- Dock Facilities
- Central
- Heat Pump
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- Pre-Owned
- Flood Ins
- Public Water
- Septic
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White Rabbit
LP (Item 28514) CTI, 1971 — Condition: Used
One of the moodiest sessions on CTI from the early days – and a landmark album that took George Benson from the funky jazz scene into the upper reaches of 70s jazz. The record was put together by Don Sebesky, and it's a lot more high concept than some of George's earlier work – and proof that he was a totally great player who just needed a push in the right direction to find his own vibe. Other players include Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, and Airto – and titles include "California Dreaming", "El Mar", "White Rabbit", and "Little Train". (Original gatefold pressing. Cover has a name in pen, a spot of clear tape and a bumped corner.) © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc. |
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An Icelander's Hymn to High Tech
The Daily Pic: Ragnar Kjartansson sings a song of sentiment and rigor.
Four stills from the brilliant nine-screen video projection called "The Visitors", produced by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson and now showing at Luhring Augustine gallery in New York. One day not too long ago, Kjartansson and eight of his Brooklynish friends occupied nine rooms and sites in and around a shabby-chic mansion called Rokeby Farm, upstate in New York. Together (but apart), and in one 53-minute take, they recorded a slightly sentimental, nouveau-hippy song, each one contributing a separate musical line on voice, piano, electric bass, accordion, drums or some other classic-rock instrument. Rokeby Farm says that it is set up to "welcome bohemia and spirituality in all its forms", and the video made there risks bathing in the same kinds of sentimental cliche. But as the sound weaves together in the gallery space, and the images remain discrete, you realize that Kjartansson's romantic excesses are perfectly balanced by his technophilic rigor. The technology seems to provide its own ironic gloss on the song's mawkishness.
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An Owl's-eye View of the Dark
The Daily Pic: Darren Almond treats moonlight as the light of day.
Darren Almond shoots landscapes by the light of the full moon, including this one, titled "firstname.lastname@example.com" and now in his solo show at Matthew Marks gallery in New York. Of course, what's most important about these images is that exposure times measured in minutes yield results that look like perfectly normal daylit scenes, or something very close. That means that the subject here is photography, its truths and deceptions, rather than nature itself. Any photo can be exposed and processed to affect the "reality" of its subject: A day scene could be shot to be as murky as any typical night shot. "Normal", "correct" exposure is a notion imposed by us, not by the world being shot.
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The Daily Pic: Steffani Jemison shows us what we make of fleeing youths.
These are stills from Steffani Jemison's video called "The Escaped Lunatic", now on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem in "Fore", a group show that presents emerging black talent. (Click on the image to watch a clip from the video). The video is straightforward but powerful: It presents a scruffy urban landscape, across which run a series of almost identical Young Black Males, and the action loops ad infinitum. Jemison says that the piece is based on early silent-film chases, and sees the piece as being about "persistence and futility" amid cultural, social and geographic constraints. But I read it differently: It seemed to be about the stereotypes we associate with running black youths, and the TV-bred image we have of them as always fleeing a crime, or perpetrating one.
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Hirst's Signature Marks the Spot
The Daily Pic: Are the YBA's prints about the color of pigment, or the color of money?
This is a Damien Hirst "spot" print called "Ferric Ammonium Citrate", done in woodblock and now on view at Carolina Nitsch in New York, in a show of all 40 works from the same series. It's easy to see the project as a retro return to formalist issues of shape and color, of figure and ground and of variations worked on a theme. Hirst's simple instruction-set – never repeat a color; place the spots one spot's-width apart – does in fact yield surprising perceptual dividends, if you spend the time looking. On the other hand, it may be more interesting to see the series as a riff on market dynamics – as much about how the woodcuts sell as about what they look like. Hirst's signature may be the deciding factor in any reading: The only function it plays, on the surface of the prints – there are 48 of each image – is to tie each one to the history of unique, certified, hand-made (or hand-signed) commodities. The messy signature actually detracts and distracts from a formalist reading of these otherwise pristine works. But then, plenty of rigorous formalists, including Barnett Newman, also defaced their works by signing the front. Does that make their paintings comments on the market, or sell-outs to it?
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Isaac Asimov or Carl Sagan?
The Daily Pic: Michael Benson's planetary art hovers between sci-fi and astronomy.
This is Michael Benson's "Northern View of Saturn and the Darker Side of the Rings" based on data collected from the Cassini spacecraft on May 9, 2007. It is now on view at Hasted Kraeutler Gallery in New York. You could say that Benson's spacey images are too eye-catching for their own good – like a painting you'd see on the cover of an old sci-fi novel. But what interests me is the idea that, while these images purport to show the solar system "as it really is", it seems that there's a a fair amount of artifice and number-crunching involved in making them look that way. In that sense, they are indeed as close to a sci-fi painting as to the sunset you shot on your last vacation. The more cliched they are in their picturesqueness, the more obvious that becomes, and the more questions get raised about what pictures can show.
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Diana Cooper's Chelsea Reno
The Daily Pic: A New York artist messes with her dealer's space.
"Skylight 1" is one of my favorite pieces from Diana Cooper's solo show at Postmasters gallery in New York, which locals have one more day to catch before it closes. In this piece and others, Cooper takes a real feature of the Postmasters interior and shifts the place and shape it takes up. This new tactic gives a firm, real-world grounding to the fantasy that Cooper's always revealed in her work. It's also a kind of homage to Postmasters itself: For almost three decades, in one space after another, owners Magda Sawon and Tamas Banovich have given artists room to do the most daring work they know how. It's nice that there's now work that's about the room given.
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The Guardian Mothers of Art
The Daily Beast: Andy Freeberg shoots the female guards at Russian museums.
This image, titled "Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's Bathing of a Red Horse, State Tretyakov Gallery", was shot by Andy Freeberg, and is now on view in his show at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York. Freeberg visited Russia's great museums, photographing the almost-babushkas charged with guarding the country's artistic treasures. Even when Freeberg finds women whose look rhymes with their charges, or – as here – where contrast is the point, what strikes me most is the size of the gap between lived life and the worlds found in art. Now what I'd like to see is a photo of a Chelsea gallerina standing by one of Freeberg's prints, to see if the gap would be as striking.
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The Daily Pic: The pioneer of neon looks good at Mary Boone.
A neon piece called "Ba-O-Ba II", made in 1969 by Keith Sonnier and now refreshed for a solo show at Mary Boone Gallery in New York. I'm old enough (just) to remember how neon seemed the Next Big Thing in the early 1970s, and plenty old enough to remember how out of place those neons seemed in museums in the 80s, when we'd collectively decided that the way forward for art would have to do with content rather than color and shape, line and light. And now, after the passing of so many years, vintage neon's looking good again, as the last but powerful gasp of the modernist tradition, and as more deeply rooted in social realities than we'd been able to see when first it went out of style. As Sonnier says in the press release, "Our type of work was somehow counter-culture. We chose materials that were not 'high art' …. We were using materials that weren't previously considered art materials."
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Mona Lisa of the Coffee Shop
The Daily Pic: The crème brûlée "bismarck" from the Doughnut Plant is a great aesthetic creation.
For a foodie, trumpeting the crème brûlée doughnut from the Doughnut Plant, in New York, is like saying that you rather like the Sistine Ceiling. But, on the assumption that not everyone who reads the Daily Pic is a food fanatic, I'm still willing to proclaim this sweet, with its crisp-caramel outside and crème-y filling, one of the great aesthetic creations of recent years. My only problem with that proclamation is that I'd never rave about fine art that was so mild-mannered in its innovation: I ought to demand a blood-flavored cruller with durian foam. Can I take refuge in the thought that the mash-up of French and American pastry idioms gives this donut some postmodern cred? Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?
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The Daily Pic: Florian Borkenhagen pitches high-end reuse.
A "recycled" sofa by the artist-designer Florian Borkenhagen, who shows with Gabrielle Ammann gallery in Cologne. As a one-off piece, it will hardly make much of a dent in our problem of overproduction and overconsumption, but it works, art-wise, as a fine pointer to both. It's also a rare pleasure to see a new piece of furniture that isn't just a rehashing or reheating of modernist cliches.
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News of a Verdant Virgin
The Daily Pic: Why did Girolamo dai Libri paint Christ and his mother as arborists?
A lovely altarpiece, almost 13 feet tall, painted in about 1520 by the ultra-obscure Veronese artist Girolamo dai Libri, now standing out in almost comic relief against the grim architecture of the Lehman wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Click on the image to see it in detail.) I love the way Girolamo managed to stick to the sweetness of a 15th-century style while including some of the "modernizations" of 16th-century Florence and Rome. Of course, the central conundrum of this painting is the massive area given over to the foliage at its center. There are obvious iconological solutions to its unbalanced composition, but I like to think that in fact it's all about how Girolamo was taken with the idea of fixed perspectival viewings of "modern" pictures: he imagined his tree would only ever be seen in peripheral vision, convincingly and impressively looming overhead as a "roof" of green, as our eyes kept their focus on the Mother and Child. In other words, he didn't buy into the idea of painting as a composition in 2D, but thought instead in terms of giving us access to a three-dimensional world, where issues of "balance", and of what appears where, have to be thought of in entirely different terms.
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Did Rothko Go Colorful Because Printing Did?
The Daily Pic: Color starts dominating abstraction when books could reproduce it.
An untitled 1949 painting by Mark Rothko, from the National Gallery's collection and until recently on view in a show at the Columbia Museum of Art. I've written a few times about the effect of black-and-white photoreproduction on Matisse and Picasso. Recently, I've begun to wonder if the rise of color plates in art books, after World War II, affected the color-full and color-field abstraction that came to be made then. Who wouldn't imagine their art forward to the day that it would be reproduced? Of course, there wasn't color repro in Renaissance Florence, but that didn't stop Botticelli and others from going for chroma. (Or is chroma/non-chroma only a salient binary after Daguerre?)
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Nils Grossien's Diamond-Cut Pixels
The Daily Pic: Mosaics went digital before circuit boards.
This image of Rudy Giuliani was done in glass mosaic by Nils Grossien, and is now in the show called "Playing with Fire" at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. It woke me up to a fact that I should have noticed long ago: Mosaic is the original digital medium. (My friends Alex Nagel and Chris Wood made good use of that fact in their great study of Renaissance ideas about time and the moment of creation.) Interesting, though, that Grossien made this piece in 1995, before most of us were thinking too much about the digital. Of course, using the digital and thinking about it are two different things: Not sure the mosaicists of Saint Mark's in Venice were obsessed with bits and bytes.
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Icons of Jewishness
The Daily Pic: Around 1920, Isidor Kaufmann sought to capture the look of his community.
"Friday Evening", painted in around 1920 by the Jewish-Austrian artist Isidor Kaufmann, who specialized in genre scenes of life among the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It's on view in a permanent-collection show at the Jewish Museum in New York. Producing images so deeply entrenched in the European pictorial tradition must have been part of this community's profound attempt at assimilation, although here that's in interesting tension with subject matter that tries to assert its separateness. Neither assimilation nor separation made any difference in the tragic decades that followed.
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Sugimoto, Hermes and the Old Scarf Illusion
Daily Pic: The Japanese master plays fast and loose with optics and marketing.
A series of silk-scarves designed for Hermes by the great Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, on view at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. The premise of the project is that Sugimoto took Polaroid shots of the color bands dispersed from daylight by a huge prism reflected by a mirror onto a wall. He then got Hermes to devise a new process for jet-printing the images onto silk, as a kind of representation of natural color at its most pure.
But as with everything Sugimotesque, I think his trickster self is at work. After all, the gap between the original light and the final scarf gets bigger with each intermediary step, thanks to the distortions of prism and mirror and wall and film and scan and computer processing and digital printing with chemical inks onto a substrate of machine-woven silk. (Read Sugimoto's artist's statement to get a sense of his conceptual tergiversations.)
Many of Sugimoto's series pretend to get at essences but are really about the failure to do so. His two-hour photos of movies being screened elide the films they pretend to reveal. His images of seas at night, with their near-arbitrary exposures, don't really substitute for being there. His blurred building shots are about the misdirections of pseudo-technique (he claims to focus them at a meaningless "twice infinity").


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Every day, doctors search the bone marrow transplant list looking for a potentially life saving donation.
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It's a new day on campus in Sheboygan County.
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"The Bold and the Beautiful": Hope had to accept Liam's decision to stay with Steffy and the baby. Maya's singing at Dayzee's ignited sparks between her and Rick. Bill and Taylor bonded over the unborn grandchild. Bill encouraged Brooke to ask Eric for a promotion to co-CEO. Eric gave Taylor lingerie and a romantic setup, thinking Stephanie would approve. Bill offered support and baby gifts to Steffy. Brooke caught Eric and Taylor in a compromising position, which caused mayhem. Oliver revealed his feelings to Hope.
"Days of Our Lives": Nick warned Sami to stay away from Gabi. Will and Sonny finally reunited. Kristen manipulated Brady into moving into the mansion with her and Stefano. Marlena warned Nicole about falling for Eric, and she left town. The junkie strangled Eric, demanding money. Kristen had an anxiety attack after Brady caught her in a lie. Stefano gloated to John about Kristen and Brady. Nick demanded that Will give up parental rights to the baby. Kristen came clean to Brady about her time away from Salem. Nicole witnessed a moment between clandestine lovers. Daniel rejected Jennifer's ultimatum, and she told him she wanted to break up. Chloe and Abigail had words and more. Sami confronted Nick. Lucas and Sonny talked Will out of turning himself in for EJ's shooting. Nick gave Will papers relinquishing rights to the baby, while Gabi decided on a name.
"General Hospital": Anna deduced that McBain and the escapees were at PCU,
"The Young and the Restless": Jack turned on the charm when Phyllis expressed reservations about getting back with him. Kyle told Summer they were only friends. Michael tried to apologize to Fen and Lauren, who told Michael she was moving out. Abby flirted with Alex in front of Carmine. Nick and Victoria assured Nikki that the family would help her through her illness. Victor told Nikki that the new house was almost ready. Dylan told Phyllis he came to town to see Avery, who later got into a fight with Phyllis. Jack told Phyllis he trusted her, and they made love. Nick argued with Sharon over her relationship with Adam. Dylan and Sharon became acquainted as he worked on her house. Chelsea, Chloe and Gloria pitched their designs to Neil, Jack, Cane and Lily, and Neil hired them. Tyler told Leslie that they needed to fess up about the past. Wheeler overheard Avery clearing her calendar and asked if there were any new developments with her case. Michael offered Christine his job as DA. Alex asked Michael for a job. Jill accused Adriana of stealing her watch. Victor showed Nikki the new house, and others arrived to celebrate.


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Laser Hair Removal – Questions To Ask Your Doctor:
The following questions should help you choose your doctor, and better understand the proceedings.1. Are the desired result as I described is realistic? 2. How do I cook my skin for the treatment? 3. Where is the procedure for submission? How long will it take? 4. There are other procedures that should be taken into account to improve the effects of exclusion laser beard? Five. How much does the procedure? 6. What is your experience in the presentation of this procedure? (How long has he / she has presented this procedure, and how he / she has submitted the previous year?
) 7. What percentage of patients had serious complications? (The physician should disclose this information to you.) 8. Want to double or modify procedures, if not willing collects your goals? And if the procedure must be repeated / twisted, I'll be back in power? (Your doctor must provide with his paper on this topic.) 9. I can see "before and after" photos of patients to date? The physician should provide many photos of patients.10 News. Can I have the name and the friend of information for some patients currently excluded Laser beard?
(Due to get first hand information on the procedure and the doctor.) 11. I study the way of thinking before making up my mind to have the procedure? (Each folder or live). 12.What should I need to Position-operative in the language of pain, which in the mind, drugs, swimming, Laser Hair Removal, and the flattening of activity? Ask if your doctor has a gradient of activity should elude.13. Who will care during the procedure? What are their qualifications? (The dermatologist this process intact?
Six Packs Are Out, Regular Sized Male Models Are In
Last week, our commenter eEv remarked "I have my preferences, but if I were to say, "Guys, please do not ever ever go to the gym because we ladies find six-packs really unattractive," many ladies would disagree." According to the Sydney Morning Herald eEv is in the majority. A study was recently conducted in Queensland that found that most women really don't love six packs after all.
More than 600 participants were shown mock-up advertisements featuring men of varying body types and told to rate their appearance. Both men and women rated slim male models or even slightly chubby ones just as highly as those with rippling six packs. The study leader remarks:
Some participants in the University of Queensland study "may have attributed the models' muscularity to vanity or homosexuality, characteristics which they may have found unpleasant or discomforting.'"
I think it's more likely that they just remembered the men they've dated who woke up at five in the morning to do crunches to a Guns n' Roses soundtrack (not everyone feels welcome in the jungle). That said, we hope that this reminds male models that lots of different body types can be attractive, rather than making them feel like they should stop going to the gym and live off of coffee and cigarettes.
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Nose Job Capital of the World – Beverly Hills Or Tehran
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Fashion conscious women prefer to spend their money in plastic surgery and proudly show it off. They want smaller noses to look almost like Barbie. "You guessed wrong! I am not talking about Beverly Hills but rather Iran." A Beverly Hills rhinoplasty specialist explains. With Over 100,000 plastic surgery per year Iran has been the rhinoplasty capital of the world. A woman's beauty is an essential component of Iranian culture. "Kill me, but make me beautiful," one Iranian proverb goes. "The beautiful face soothes the tired heart and opens the closed door," goes another.
However the Islamic rulers of Iran have been limiting the display of female beauty by enforcing Islamic dress code. Iran's strict Islamic dress code has backfired. Where the women face is the only visible part of the body it is understandable that unsightly nose can take a center attention. Influenced by flock of western culture through internet and satellites, Hollywood noses are the Persian women's dream. The desire among lovely Persian women to look like Snow White is strange but it is a direct reaction to authority's attempts to make them look like bats and crows.
There have reportedly been more nose jobs in Iran recently than in any other country in the world. Persian women are flocking plastic surgery offices like nowhere else in the world. Right after leaving Tehran's plastic surgeons' operating rooms, women rush to their favourite coffee shops to show off a new bandaged badge-of-honour noses. Some even wear fake bandages just for the show off. Now It's becoming increasingly common for Iranian men to have cosmetic surgery too. Business has been wonderful for hundreds of doctors specializing in nose and other facial surgeries. Of even greater concern are the rising instances of facial disfigurement resulting from operations carried out by unqualified surgeons. As a result, Iran's justice ministry has set up a special office for medical malpractice cases. Between 2001 and 2004, it dealt with 2,715 cases arising from cosmetic surgery , leading to 459 doctors receiving various forms of written rebuke and 21 being suspended for up to four years.
In Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, one of the largest communities of Iranian outside Iran, nose job still remains one of the most requested surgeries by Persian women. The Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon, explains. In United state too non qualified surgeons are allowed to perform rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty is by far the most difficult of all the plastic surgeries thus He recommends board certified facial plastic surgeons.
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Permanent, And Less Painful: Laser Hair Removal
Laser hair removal is always seems to be an increasingly popular cosmetic procedure. And 'non-invasive, convenient and less painful than some of the more traditional means of removing unwanted hair permanently. Laser hair removal is used to remove hair in areas where it is simply not interesting to have. May be the chin, bikini line, underarms, back, hair or other areas. The days of tights, painful chemical applications is long gone. This procedure can be used both for face and body hair.The cosmetic procedure may last from several minutes to several hours.
The time varies depending on the area of the body concerned and the amount of withdrawal. Laser hair removal is done using a low energy laser in the areas concerned. The laser energy passes through the patient's skin and is absorbed by the pigment, Laser Hair Removal, of the hair follicle (root). A certain percentage of the follicles are instantaneously, not to mention permanent disability, with each treatment. In most cases, no anesthesia is necessary, or even needed.Benefits laser hair removal: Laser hair removal is a sweet, a noninvasive procedure that can take care of unwanted hair from any part of the body.
Leaves skin looking smooth and silky, more rarely with rashes, swelling or other side effects. Larger areas can be treated more effectively because the procedure removes more than one hair at a time. Minimum of discomfort. Replaces wax, electrolysis and razors, all the most painful and uncomfortable than the laser hair removal. Why is it so sweet, you can immediately return to a normal. There are still many important considerations that must be done before going to laser hair removal. The first is that this is not one and faces.
Laser hair removal is an ongoing process that requires several sessions. Blonde, gray and white are less sensitive than dark colors. Usually, these can still be addressed to some extent, but not always. If you do go with this treatment, there may be a slight redness or mild swelling. Both are temporary. Your doctor may recommend other treatments or sunscreens: watch this advice. Do not let the warnings scare: laser hair removal is one of the mildest of all cosmetic treatments, and also the side effects are worse so far to be easy to ignore.
The Sisters From The Dixie Chicks Release "Court Yard Hounds"
The Dixie Chicks , sisters Emily Robinson and Martie Maguire have taken a big step by releasing an album without lead vocalist Natalie Maines Pasdar. According to the sisters, they were getting rather anxious during their 4 year hiatus, wanting to get back into the studio. For Emily it was even more urgent because she needed something to focus on after her divorce from country singer Charlie Robinson in 2008. So, the sisters started writing…Hence, Court Yard Hounds …
As children growing up in Addison, Texas, Martie and Emily learned to play multiple instruments, including guitar, banjo, and violin. Their parents pushed them at age 12 and 10 to do bluegrass shows together which eventually led to forming the Dixie Chicks in 1995 with Natalie as lead vocalist. They have won 13 Grammy's as well as selling 30 million albums. Their new solo album Court Yard Hounds, is filled with acoustic, rock, country and folk elements. Martie told BSW that her sister Emily just kept sending her song after song that she had written over a two year span. The Sisters will be on tour this summer with The Eagles. Their album will debut on May 4, 2010.
Look out, these two working mom's have musically inclined children as well and from what BSW has heard, they have formed their own band and who knows…they might be bigger than the Dixie Chicks…
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Product Review: Tom Ford Lipstick Is Half Lipstick, Half Art
Last week, I attended a press event for Tom Ford's new line of lipsticks. I'm a big lipstick fan, but I'm also fiercely unloyal – I'll wear anything from drugstore brands to stuff from Sephora , all in search of the perfect color. It's a trait I get from my mom. Neither of us wears much makeup during the day, but we both rely on lipstick as a way to look pulled-together. Tom Ford told Vogue that one of his memories of his mom was how she'd put lipstick on before answering the doorbell, and I feel the same way about lipstick's ability to make people look dressed-up instantly.
However, the Tom Ford lipsticks are something completely new for me. For one, they have heft – these aren't lipsticks you can throw around and abuse, they're serious, well-crafted products. The heft, combined with the "TF" logo on the top of the lipstick, really drives home the fact that these products, while pricey, are made with care. The line has four nudes (although, as I said earlier, I think we need to find a new term to replace "nude" , four bold shades (including True Coral, at left), and four dramatic shades (including Bruised Plum, at the bottom of the page). Even though I normally prefer berry shades, I have to admit I've been utterly won over by the neutrals. Right now, I'm sporting Warm Sable, a beige that might have been the very hue Julianne Moore wore in A Single Man.
There was one thing that bugged me about the lipsticks, though – they smelled faintly of something lovely, but I couldn't figure it out. Finally, after a couple of days, I believe I have found the formula. Behold:
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Hip Replacement
After years of a deteriorating hip joint, you are left with
almost constant pain and decreased mobility. Eventually, your personal
and social life suffers. You are no longer able to do all the
things you could once do with ease. If you've exhausted all other
attempts to relieve the pain and stiffness, it may be time for you and
your doctor to consider hip replacement surgery. You don't have to
live with pain for the rest of your life. Hip replacement is a common
surgery with a high success rate.
Depending on your age and the condition of your hip, total hip
replacement surgery (total hip arthroplasty) may offer the best solution
to your problem. Hip replacement hardware (ball and socket prosthesis)
can last up to 20 years. And it can often be replaced if the first prosthesis
wears out (though second surgeries are not always as successful as
the initial hip surgery). If you are fairly young, your doctor may suggest
delaying surgery. If so, medications or lifestyle changes may help control
your symptoms until the time is right for joint replacement. Losing weight
can take a tremendous amount of stress off your hip and knee joints.
Surgical Procedure
Most hip replacement surgeries involve the traditional approach
to the hip joint (lateral/posterior or posterior approach). With the
common lateral approach, an incision (8-12 inches long) is made down
the outside of your hip. The ball at the upper end of your femur
(thigh bone) is cut off and replaced with a ball/metal stem component.
The stem is placed into the marrow cavity of the thigh bone and
the ball portion at the top fits into your new ceramic or plastic
socket that is implanted into your pelvis (the cartilage from
your hip socket is removed or smoothed).
The Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System (BHR) is relatively new
(introduced in 1997). Long term studies are still in progress, but
so far results have been favorable. The BHR method eliminates the
need to cut off the ball at the top of the femur. Instead, the ball
is left intact and merely resurfaced (reshaped) to allow an
anatomically shaped metal sphere to be attached. The socket is
replaced with a metal implant. The procedure is bone-saving and
results in a stronger hip joint than the traditional total hip
replacement. The chance of hip dislocation is greatly reduced. For
younger and active people, this may be the procedure of choice.
Minimally invasive hip replacement surgery involves an anterior
approach to the hip joint. An incision is made along the front of the
hip, which allows a more direct route to the hip joint. The major
hip muscles are not in this area, so there is minimal tissue/muscle
damage during surgery. This usually results in a shorter hospital stay, a
quicker recovery/rehab period, and less pain. The only downside to
this method is there are few surgeons performing the anterior approach
surgery. It requires a special surgery table (which few hospitals have)
and special surgical training.
Total Hip Precautions
After traditional total hip replacement surgery, patients are
required to follow strict precautions that restrict certain
movement/positions of your new hip. This is to prevent your new
hip from dislocating. They are commonly called total hip precautions,
or total hip protocol, and include the following:
Do not cross your legs
Do not point your toes inward (no pigeon toes)
Do not bend your new hip more than 90 degrees
Your doctor may also restrict the amount of weight you can put on
your new surgery leg while walking. This is called your weight-bearing
status. This should be strictly followed so you do not damage your new
hip while it's healing.
Surgery Complications
All surgeries carry risk. Hip surgery complications include, but are
not limited to, infection, DVT (deep vein thrombosis- blood clot),
dislocation of your new hip, leg length discrepancy, vascular damage,
nerve damage, just to name a few.
Surgery Recovery
Recovery after hip surgery depends on the amount of cartilage damage, your age,
and your fitness level prior to surgery. Exercise before your surgery and your recovery
will be easier. Approximately 4-6 months after surgery you should be fully healed, but you must
take an active part in your recovery by doing daily exercises and taking daily walks.
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Senior Hannah Jakobs, 17, of Sterling, is one of Sterling High School's December Students of the Month. She is the daughter of Sue and Tim Jakobs of Sterling. The family has two dogs, Sampson and Tommy.
Favorite class: AP literature. I learned a new way of writing and a new way of looking at literature this year.
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Richard Crawford is helping to develop the next generation of aeronautical and astronautical engineers. He has been teaching aerospace technology to high school students in Tampa, Florida since 2002 and manages the school's highly-respected aerospace technology program. His work earned him the prestigious 2008 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation Achievement Award. He was one of seven teachers from the United States to receive the award.
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Product DescriptionDo you suffer the pain of a loved one gone astray? Quinn Sheerer amd Ruthanne Garlock have both kept a light in the window for the return of prodigal children. But they did not wait passively, helplessly wringing their hands, paralyzed by fear and despair. Instead, they battled for their children in prayer and trusting that, ultimately, almighty God would intervene, returning the prodigals to their parents' arms. The enemy uses many worldly temptations to lure our young people away from their Christian values and upbringing. This book reminds us that for those of faith, victory is always within our grasp and that our loved ones are eternally dear to His heart.
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----Skip in Edmond, OK
Some of you may remember this question being asked in a recent phone call on the showand my response that I had never heard of such a thing, and could not imagine how such a trick would actually work. Well, many of you expressed interest, and then our unparalleled unpaid fact finding fanatic Charles Younger sent me a link to an article about this very topic on Snopes dot comthe famous myth busting (or, in some cases, myth
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Snopes ruled it neither true nor false; instead letting it fall into their weasely undetermined category. They note that the rumor to which Skip refersabout using some type of hanging plastic bag containing water to repel fliesis very prevalent down South, but in most variations the bags contain
water. A lesser percentage of the time, the bag user is instructed to add either a specific number of pennies (generally four), a single penny, or bits of shredded tinfoil to the water in the bags. Presumably the distortion of the water, the flashes of light from the shiny things and the possibility of seeing their own reflection in a distorted manner frightens or confuses the flies.
The Snopes articleposted on the site in August of last year and credited to Barbara Mikkelsongoes on to mention that a researcher in North Carolina actually tested the premise scientifically in a building where chicken eggs were sorted and readied for market. That researcher, Mike Stringham, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, was able to fill me in on the details.
Mike explained that during his many years on the job, the topic of hanging water filled bags to repel flies in barnyard and packing situations would come up every once in a while, with many people swearing by its effectiveness. Oddly, he explains, in one version of the secret origin of this story, the idea begins with a fisherman who noticed a lack of
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It wasnt long before stacked bags filled with fish and water repelling biting flies in a boat became hanging bags of water alone repelling flies in general, explains Mike.
The idea remained just another conversational curiosity until Mike came across someone who had begun a small business selling specially made plastic bags designed specifically to hold water for indoor fly controlso he decided to test them.
The bags were in the shape of small cylinders, he explains; we filled them half way with water, tied the tops and bottoms closed and hung them head-high, ten bags to an egg room. As a control group we left some rooms in the egg house un-hung. Then we spread what are called speck cards or spot cards throughout the facility.
These are small white pieces of paperwe used standard index cardsstapled to wall studs that measure the amount of fly excrement in a given area. We then use the information {ahem} collected on the cards to estimate the fly population; its a system that works pretty well.
These egg rooms can be very dusty environments, so we followed the designers recommendations and replaced the bags with fresh ones about once every ten days to make sure that they stayed clean and the water could continue to do whatever reflecting of light is supposed to provide the repellant action. We ran the experiment for 13 weeks.
At the end of the experiment, there was actually evidence of a
number of flies in the rooms with the hanging bags, not the expected lower number. The control rooms that had no hanging bags actually had fewer flies.
In a professional poultry situation like this, fly control is all about keeping the flies out to begin with and then managing chicken manure and indoor moisture levels. The more efficient a poultry house is at managing its manure and keeping moisture levels low, the fewer fly problems theyre going to have.
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Keep your window screens in good repair, and dont leave unscreened doors or windows open, of course. Old-fashioned sticky flypaper works very well to capture any flies that do sneak inside. Unroll and hang it just before you go to bed in the evening. In the morning, cover your hands with old newspapers, pull it down and throw it away.
I mentioned to Mike that when my wife and I enjoy a summer meal in an outdoor area thats not screened, I set up an oscillating fan to create a breeze that seems to blow most flies and mosquitoes away from us.
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Dating violence addressed at SCC event
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On Feb. 20, the Safe Community Coalition (SCC) held a healthy relationships and dating event, "What's Love Got To Do With It?" at McLean High School. The event covered the ...
On Feb. 20, the Safe Community Coalition (SCC) held a healthy relationships and dating event, "What's Love Got To Do With It?" at McLean High School. The event covered the ...
Junior Nikhil Bhattasali placed in the top three of the 2013 DuPont Challenge Essay Contest. Bhattasali was sponsored by physics and CAD teacher Michael Walker.
Seniors Morgan Cheatham, Kleo Greenwood and Howard Small are three of the 800 black high school students nationwide who won National Achievement Scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Selection of scholarship winners was based on PSAT scores, academic performance and recommendations.
In the 2013 Quill and Scroll International Writing and Photo Contest, five tjTODAY reporters won awards. Students include seniors Tahmina Achekzai and Amy Ahn, sophomore Ellen Kan and Class of 2012 graduates Joshua Baquedano and Colleen Marshall.
Senior Gordon Hart and Jisu Park and sophomore Hanna Carolina Hatanpaa are honorable mention winners in the 2013 DuPont Challenge Essay contest.
The team of senior Scott Gibson, juniors Catherine Shi and Robert Wang and sophomore Hamil Shah won first place at the 2013 Governor's Challenge Champions in Economics and Personal Finance competition, which was held at Virginia Commonwealth University on April 17. They competed in the David Ricardo Division.
At the NSPA/JEA Spring Journalism Convention in San Francisco from April 25-28, Threshold was named the first place Best of Show literary magazine, Techniques was named the fourth place Best of Show 275-324 page yearbook, and tjTODAY was named the sixth place Best of Show 13-16 broadsheet newspaper.
Senior Patrick O'Connor was named the Allstate Foundation-VHSL Achievement Award Group AAA Male Athlete of the Year.
Senior Emily Barrett won two Scholastic Art National Silver Medals for her work in digital art and photography.
At the NSPA/JEA Spring Journalism Convention, sophomore Ellen Kan earned a Superior in Feature Writing, junior Shayna Hume earned an Excellent in Editorial Writing, sophomore Alexis Williams earned an Excellent in News Writing, senior Sunny Kim earned an Honorable Mention in Commentary Writing, and sophomore Sandy Cho earned an Honorable Mention in News Editing, Headline Writing and Current Events.
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TJ Orchestra performed at the Fiesta-val National Music Competition from April 24 to 28. The orchestra came home with Superior ratings, a First Place award, the Most Outstanding Section award and were overall Grand Champions. Seniors Hans He, Andrew Jiang, Ian McConnell and Alan Wei were Outstanding Soloists and senior Iman Abdikarim and sophomore Billie Males were Outstanding Dedication and Musical Contribution award recipients.
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The Longmeadow High School football team finished its first practice of a new era Monday at Williams Middle School by running offensive sets that looked perfectly familiar.
"It really has seemed to work pretty well for us the past 15 years," coach Nick St. George said of the Wing T offense, which Alex Rotsko used while leading the team to 15 consecutive MIAA Super Bowl appearances.
"I don't know why I'd want to make any big changes from here. We made some major changes to our defense about 10 years ago, and we haven't changed much of anything since."
Rotsko retired in April with a 184-37 record and 11 Super Bowl championships, but his presence loomed over the field Monday.
As Longmeadow finished its practice session on the opener of MIAA high school training camps, a middle school team stood on the sidelines waiting for its own practice. The team would soon be practicing the Wing T, just like the varsity.
Longmeadow has coordinated its youth program so that each team runs the same offense as the high school. The continuity helped Rotsko develop a program that consistently paced Western Mass. football regardless of how much talent graduated the previous season.
It's a testament to his work establishing a foundation – and the work of St. George, who, with 26 years coaching Longmeadow football, has contributed to the program even longer than Rotsko – that St. George's first practice at the helm unfolded seamlessly.
"The best first day of practice I've ever had," said senior lineman Robbie McClure. "The intensity, the focus – we didn't practice like that last year until the end of the year."
"I feel like we have so much chemistry for the first day. Last year we didn't have that much chemistry at all. Same system, same practice structure, same tempo," said fellow senior lineman Steve Krushell.
The focus in Longmeadow is still on building slowly – "We don't want to put in too much during the first session," said St. George – but the players, even those with little to no varsity experience, are uniquely prepared to take on a larger portion of the team's playbook in the early stages of training camp.
"With Wing T, the two-day camp that we have, captain's practices, running the plays since middle school, all that — we want to be ready for day one. We don't want to waste a single day," said McClure. "This group, obviously, we've been together since third grade or something like that. We're all best friends. We love each other. We push each other in the gym, contests to see who's the strongest. We've pushed each other for 10 years now."
In addition to McClure and Krushell, the senior class at Longmeadow includes several other contributors from last season: Lou Calabrese, a lineman who was recently named to ESPN Boston's preseason All-State team; Frankie Elder (752 yards and eight touchdowns rushing last year; 274 yards and three touchdowns passing), the chameleon who morphs between quarterback, running back and wide receiver depending on what the team needs; Austin Sierra (522 yards, five touchdowns in 2011), who made a huge splash last season at running back whenever star T.J. Norris sat; captain Mike Sell; and Zach Kalman and Mark Gentile, the final two pieces of a deep, experienced, intelligent offensive line.
Once, Longmeadow's nucleus stood on the sidelines and waited its turn just like the middle schoolers did Monday.
"This is the same core of the team that went undefeated in eighth grade," McClure noted.
In Longmeadow, the first day of training camp shouldn't count as day one.


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Between over-the-counter, prescription, and herbal supplements, it`s becoming more and more common for older adults to take five or more medications, and it can be a lot to keep track of.
"It`s very much advised to keep in constant control and educated about what types of medications they`ve taken and for what indications. And then if they do have questions, they should definitely talk to their physician or pharmacist about any kind of side effect," said Carolyn Seehafer, Director of Pharmacy at Trinity Health.
When it comes to driving, not all older adults are completely certain that their various medications are safe to be using.
"When they`re taking multiple medications there may be some interactions that could potentiate the side effects of medications so that`s where it gets really tricky, they need to be in constant control and educated about these potential interactions," said Seehafer.
The best thing is to consult a physician or pharmacist, but a quicker solution is also online. AAA has created a website called Roadwise Rx, where you can type in your medications and see right away if you`re in the clear.
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