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Elbow Room Café: The Musical (Phase 1) takes a look at Vancouver's own Elbow Room Café, known for it's witty, sassy service, celebrity sightings and "welcoming" environment. This show focuses in on the two owners, Patrice and Bryan and the cafés many rambunctious customers. Come check out this brand new work in its first phase! Like us on Facebook or follow us on Instagram & Twitter for updates on this crazy process, using our hashtag #elbowroommusical. Elbow Room Café: The Musical (Phase 1) is on stage from March 19 – 29, 2015. Get your tickets from Tickets Tonight!


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I've been watching football for virtually my whole life. And I'm still learning about the game.
Here are a few things I'll take away from the 2013 season, as it nears its culmination:
» Sometimes a single play can change a rule in the NFL. The unforgettable image of a severely injured NaVorro Bowman lying near the goal line with the ball clearly in his possession -- on a play that was unreviewable -- was just such a sequence. I think it will be the catalyst to change that aspect of the replay system, at least. And in what arguably has been the worst year for officiating in a while, I wouldn't be surprised to see a major overhaul -- possibly centralizing the review process in New York, and making more plays (perhaps all plays) reviewable.
» Speaking of changes, will enhanced safety precautions increase active-roster sizes? One thing that's clear in the wake of the league's strong adherence to concussion protocol: You're going to have games, like the Chiefs-Colts wild-card showdown, where two or three players exit and are ruled out of a single game because of concussions. Combine that with other non-concussion injuries and you're looking at teams being severely strapped for players by a contest's end. Coaches and general managers will continue to call for larger rosters, while the most cost-conscious owners will counter that rosters are already too big and that the league got along just fine with rosters of 40 men (or fewer) for half a century. Here's a reasonable compromise: Instead of dressing just 46 players, and designating seven members of your 53-man roster inactive, teams should be able to dress all 53 on game day -- but those seven designated players are barred from playing unless injuries force others out of the game. There's no real coherent economic argument against this. You're paying all 53 of those guys anyway. This isn't a matter of finances; it's a matter of safety and common sense.
» The demise of the workhorse back is real. Though many have commented on the running game's postseason resurgence, just two backs (Marshawn Lynch and LeSean McCoy) eclipsed 300 carries this year. Counting pass receptions, McCoy logged a punishing 366 touches in the regular season. It will be interesting to see if the Eagles back can get anywhere near his 5.1 yards-per-carry average in 2014. In general, I think that the 300-carry running back is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
» Quarterbacks still must make plays from the pocket. Colin Kaepernick's off-balance, midair touchdown throw to Anquan Boldin in the NFC Championship Game was a thing of beauty, although you can be sure any NFL head coach would have chewed him out in film study if it had been intercepted. But you know what? The difference between being a good quarterback and a great quarterback in this league sometimes comes down to being able to throw passes to guys who are covered, and completing them in any way possible. Of course, Kaepernick also made some crucial fourth-quarter mistakes in that game, so he has to reduce the bad decisions. Both Kaepernick and Russell Wilson need Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hours -- or in this case, maybe 10,000 throws from the pocket -- to become the quarterbacks they want to be. It's still true in the NFL: You need a passer who can run, not a runner who can pass.
» Big defensive backs are back en vogue. Everyone is looking for rangy, physical corners who can match up with the Demaryius Thomases and Calvin Johnsons of the football world. This, of course, is a driving force behind Seattle's "Legion of Boom" secondary. Interesting side note: The Seahawks' two starting cornerbacks were drafted in the fifth (Richard Sherman) and sixth (Byron Maxwell) rounds, while their star safety (Earl Thomas) was selected in the first. An influx of highly skilled/athletic players at tight end has been one factor in pushing premium safeties -- like Thomas, Kenny Vaccaro and Eric Berry -- up draft boards across the league.
» The postseason format certainly could change, but how? As I mentioned in a previous column, I believe we're quickly moving toward a 14-team playoff field. It just seems like the writing's on the wall. In a related vein, I truly hope the NFL reconsiders its postseason seeding system. Let's seed teams based purely on their records, with a divisional title serving as the first tiebreaker. This just makes the most sense from a competitive standpoint. Though the regular season's value would be somewhat diluted, a record-based seeding system would give teams more to play for down the stretch.
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The Zipp Vuka Stealth is a brand new fully integrated and highly adjustable aerobar from the aero specialists.
Soon after carbon fiber handlebars hit the market, a few integrated bar-and-stem modules began popping up with some striking designs — and prices to match. While the road and aerobar integrated options often came in a few configurations of width and stem length, none of them caught on for a singular reason: you could not adjust them. Unless you just happened to love the particular dimensions and angles that were set in carbon, you had to fit yourself to the bar, not the other way around.
Enter the Vuka Stealth, the culmination of Zipp's five-year project to build an aerobar that does everything.
The Vuka Stealth will be available in March in three stem lengths. Four extension options are available but not included
Is the Vuka Stealth perfect? Perhaps not. The price alone is sobering at $1,070/€958/£799, not including extensions. But the integrated bar does seem to hit a sweet spot of a streamlined design for aero, aesthetic and stiffness benefits while still offering substantial flexibility in fit.
The carbon fiber bar comes in small, medium and large.
At a glance, the adjustment options include:
- Armrest and extension height relative to bar: 0-50mm (via riser kits)
- Extension fore/aft: 90mm
- Extension rotation angle: 360 degrees
- Extension clamp width: 104mm or 144mm
- Armrest/extension pitch angle: -6 to 6 degrees
- Armrest fore/aft: 80mm
- Armrest width: 140-276mm (c-to-c)
- Cable routing: 2 brake cable exit options
The small Vuka Stealth weighs 695g without extensions (and 820g with carbon Zipp extensions).
The small Vuka Stealth is visually compact
The Zipp Vuka Stealth will come in small, medium and large sizes. Zipp intentionally doesn't specify the stem measurement as the relative steerer-to-pad distance is different than many other bars, including Zipp's own Vuka Alumina. (BikeRadar measured the stem lengths to be 70, 85 and 100mm.)
Instead, Zipp is pushing for fit and corresponding product selection to be done via stack and reach measurements. (Stack means the vertical distance from the center of the bottom bracket. Reach means the horizontal distance. Stack and reach are X and Y measurements that can be taken for anything on a bike in the two dimensions you see when looking at a bike sideways.) Many bike companies now list the stack and reach measurements for their frames, and the fit position of aerobar armrests or extensions can certainly be measured this way, too.
"We want people to be disciplined about their fit," said Ben Waite, Zipp's design engineer.
To assist with just that, Zipp is in the final stages of a Vuka Fit app that spits out detailed set-up instructions after you enter your desired stack and reach plus width measurements. Of course, Zipp is counting on bike shops and bike fitters to provide much of the service.
"Fit is the new aero," said Zipp technical PR manager David Ripley. "If your shop does not have a fit station, it will soon, or it will not be legitimate."
Slogans aside, a rider's body position has always been the primary factor in aerodynamic drag. So regardless of how svelte a bar or bike looks, it is how said bar or bike allows you to position your body that matters most for aerodynamics, not to mention comfort and efficiency.
Armrest and extension height relative to the base bar are adjustable via risers, which are bolted on with this low-profile set-up. Armrest width can be set on one of four facets, for center-to-center measurements of 140mm to 276mm
Five years ago, Zipp was starting to get traction among riders with the Vuka base bar and clip system. "We recognized then that there wasn't really a good option for an integrated aero bar," Ripley said. "Integrated aerobars basically didn't work – you had to fit yourself to the aerobar. We started work, then, on an integrated bar that was adjustable."
Now, Zipp expects the medium Vuka Stealth to fit 80 percent of riders. While the base bar for all three sizes is fixed at a 42cm width and a flat angle, the armrests and extensions have a huge amount of adjustability in all three planes. That said, the Vuka Stealth isn't quite as adjustable as the modular and much more affordable Vuka Alumina system due to the latter's separate stem options.
Zipp claims the Vuka Stealth to have a total of 1,920 fit configuration options, 940 per bar, in 1mm increments, compared to 2,912 possible configurations for the Vuka Alumina including all available stem options. Those numbers don't include pitch angle.
Armrest and extension adjustment are handled separately
Regarding aerodynamics of the bar itself, Zipp claims the Stealth to have the same drag coefficient as the Vuka Aero using a 145mm stem. Unlike that set-up, though, the Stealth is UCI-legal with a 3:1 width-to-length ratio.
With titanium and aluminum hardware, the carbon Stealth weigh 695g without extensions. The bar should be available in March. Last year, BikeRadar tested the Zipp Vuka Alumina system, and it won our Best Aero Bars of 2012. While heavier, modular and requiring a separate stem, the Alumina is substantially cheaper at £190/$225 for base bar, armrests and extensions — plus it still packs a healthy amount of adjustability and comfort.
In related news, Zipp also introduced another niche, high-end aero product: a 650c version of the 404 Firecrest Carbon Clincher.
Look below for more images of the Vuka Stealth.
A clean design looks good in the wind tunnel, too, Zipp says
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When Regina Regazzi arrived in Los Angeles for the first time to visit UCLA Anderson in 1995, she felt at home immediately. She explained, "A friend and I had just visited Northern California and then driven down the coast. The minute we hit L.A., it seemed I knew my way around. My friend said, 'It's unbelievable. You belong here.'"
First thing Regazzi knew, she was at an information session on the roof of UCLA Anderson's former building where she saw boxing promoter Don King, a guest for the evening, and met Dean William Pierskalla. "It all just clicked and I decided I had to come here. I hate to be dramatic, but it was one of those magical moments," she said.
A native of the East Coast, Regazzi had been an undergraduate at Colgate University in upstate New York and then spent two and a half years as a research associate at Greenwich Associates in Connecticut. "Greenwich Associates was a great launching pad for business schools," she said. "The expectation was that after two or three years, you'd go off to business school. So I started researching it." This led to an MBA fair, followed by her visit to California.
Friends warned Regazzi that a move west to attend UCLA could be permanent. She told them that couldn't be the case since UCLA has alumni all over the world. The more she thought about how moving to Los Angeles could expand her horizons, the more it made sense to choose UCLA. She now considers it to be one of the best decisions she has ever made.
At UCLA Anderson, Regazzi felt challenged to keep up with classmates. "I thought the academics were really hard," she said. "It was so different from anything I had ever done." But student activities were reminiscent of her undergraduate experience. "So many students were involved in extra curricular activities," she said. "But what's so different from a lot of other schools is that they actually run them. At a lot of business schools, the staff and faculty run extra curriculars."
Regazzi ran orientation for the class of 1998, was a teacher's assistant in entrepreneurial studies, played roller hockey, was a member of the tug-o-war team as part of the Challenge-4-Charity Program, performed at Cabaret and served as one of three fund-raisers for Anderson Affiliates - among other activities. She remembers that there were so many things to choose from that it could be overwhelming if you weren't super focused.
Regazzi had an epiphany as she looked around a crowded Korn Hall with four sections of students combined for economics. "At that time, I had only known these people for six weeks, but I realized that some of them were going to be my best friends for life," she said. "And it was true. While we were in school, we tended to gravitate toward those we had met in our sections during orientation but, after graduation, my friendship circles became much wider, spreading across the country and around the world."
Following graduation, Regazzi accepted a job with Bank of America and moved to San Francisco where she became president of the Bay Area Chapter of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network. It was the first of several roles with the association that led to her election as president of the board in 2009.
UCLA Anderson's Alumni Board is comprised of 85 members dedicated to serving the school's 37,000 alumni. Within the board is a 16-person executive committee. Each member of the committee has a specific focus such as career management, online services and development. In addition, there are three members-at-large who are also working on projects. The board is very active, according to Regazzi.
One major objective is to give prospective students a personal welcome to the school. Alumna Dominique River initiated a process in which alumni board members call everyone accepted by the MBA and Fully Employed MBA Programs to provide information and answer questions.
"We hope to smooth the transition from prospect to student to alumnus," said Regazzi, "so we are starting at the very beginning by reaching out when someone is accepted. We're creating touchpoints and that's really important."
The alumni board has also focused on social networking. Facebook pages have been created for each class and each chapter will soon be featured on Facebook and Linked-In. "We're putting more emphasis on industries," said Regazzi. "It's going to be one of our areas of focus for the next couple of years. It will be another way to get people engaged and interested."
Networking is the key to the UCLA Anderson alumni experience, Regazzi explained. "Networking has been one of the best parts of my experience here," she said. "This school values its network, and I really encourage people to take advantage of it - whatever that means. If it means showing up in Shanghai to meet Dean Olian, go ahead. If it means getting together with alumni in Japan - do it. If it means helping plan an event in D.C., Philly or Boston - absolutely. If it means giving back to the school by doing mock interviews or helping with resumes - have at it. There are many ways to cater to your own interests while giving back."
Regazzi has recently been leveraging the network to help launch an executive search firm in New York City specializing in financial services. The move followed a difficult decision to leave banking. "I had to do a lot of soul searching," she said. "I spent six months thinking about what I really wanted to do. So, while reading the postings from the Parker Career Management Center, I came across one for executive recruiting. I knew a little bit about it - but not a lot - so I started researching and doing informational interviews."
Regazzi bounced the idea off friends in her own network. "People were bending over backwards to help me," she said. "They said I would be perfect. People were calling to introduce me to people. It was great."
Leaving Bank of America, she joined one of the top search firms on the East Coast. "I ended up getting a job at the best of the best," she said, "and it was hands-down the best training I've had for anything, anywhere. I learned what delivering a top-notch product in executive recruiting was about. I also learned how to do search in asset management."
Then, Regazzi was recruited by a boutique executive search firm - but soon realized her move may have been a mistake. "It was the worst cultural fit ever," she said. Regazzi wondered if she had picked the wrong industry - but people assured her she hadn't.
"So I said, 'Well, I don't have responsibility for anybody but myself. I've got some money set aside. Why don't I give this a whirl on my own?' I had a great network that covers a broad spectrum. I had experience. And I decided you've got to go when the opportunity arises."
Regazzi left her job in January, 2008 and spent the rest of the year launching a business. Everything from getting incorporated as an LLC to completing a business plan and getting counsel from family and friends.
"Many people in my network had started businesses and many were well connected," she said. "Everyone was very encouraging. But it took a long time to get everything ready and, by the time I launched, it was December, 2008 - one of the worst times in history."
Instead of becoming discouraged, Regazzi undertook a pro bono search for her alma mater, Colgate University, which helped refine her processes and deliverables. She has also been informally giving guidance to people embarking on a job search or helping them think through various opportunities and how to approach them. She encourages actively leveraging ones networking to get in front of as many people as possible and open oneself up to new opportunities.
Regazzi's firm, Artume LLC, has begun attracting clients, but her outlook for the near future is cautious. "Companies are starting to hire," she said. "In mid-to-late fourth quarter of 2009, I started to feel a thaw in the market - like people were thinking about hiring. But nobody in financial services has taken the lead yet. They are making a few strategic hires - but nobody is particularly bullish."
So Regazzi continues to lay the groundwork for her future while completing her term as president of the Alumni Network. "My UCLA Anderson experience has been so rewarding that I wanted to give back," she said. "That's why I got involved. It was also a way to stay connected to my friends and to the faculty and staff. I've gotten back so much more than I've given. It has been amazing."


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Despite declining sales and continuing consolidation of major players, the U.S. crop protection industry remains committed to providing effective materials to the nation's farmers, says Stan Howell.
"As we look forward and try to project what the industry's going to look like in the next five years, there's no doubt we will see further reductions," he told members of the Southern Crop Production Association at their annual meeting at Amelia Island, Fla.
Howell, vice president-North America for Dow AgroSciences at Indianapolis, Ind., says while the U.S. crop protection industry "has always had a significant economic footprint, unfortunately in recent years the dynamic has been in the direction of overall sales reductions."
From a high water mark of $9 billion-plus in sales in the late 1990s, he says, current sales are about $6.5 billion annually.
In 2005, that includes $4.3 billion for herbicides, $1.3 billion for insecticides, $715 million for fungicides, and $365 million for other products.
Howell, who is also chair for CropLife America (CLA), the national organization representing ag chemical manufacturers, formulators, distributors, and associate members, says some analysts estimate the industry could be down more than $500 million this year alone.
This trend and factors affecting it "are important as we plan ahead" for CLA programs, he says. "It is going to be absolutely necessary that we focus our resources and money available to us on key issues."
To that end, "the CLA business plan has been tightened and refocused on issues that matter most to our members."
These issues and their rankings were determined in a June survey, which had nearly 100 percent participation of members.
Some 50 discrete issues were ranked, Howell says, "and from this we were able to determine the issues that our members consider important and to prioritize them in order of importance."
These include implications of the Endangered Species Act, water quality, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, spray drift, and other legislative, regulatory, legal, stewardship, and communications issues.
The survey also showed, Howell says, that the CLA membership "very highly values the discipline our organization brings to the table and that they feel they're getting an excellent return on their investment in CLA."
He says the annual Capitol Hill visits by CLA and SCPA leaders "have allowed us to have valuable interfaces with key congressional and White House leaders. By showing up and being counted in Washington, we've shown our industry is concerned about government policy affecting our industry."
SCPA and CLA political action committees have been involved in a number of strategic issues, Howell says, demonstrating "strong, effective relationships" with state agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal legislative/regulatory agencies.
"We are a credible advocate on regulatory, legal, and environmental issues, and we have earned a reputation as a trusted source for the media on these key issues. We also have great relationships with national farm and commodity organizations.
"Our advocacy efforts are stronger because we work with other industry groups to resolve issues together, frame constituencies together, and share resources.
"We have a number of tools that make our advocacy work, starting with a foundation of sound science. As long as we have knowledge and truth on our side, we can make progress," Howell said.
Charles Morris, SCPA president, said the southern association has "remained financially sound, despite a shrinking industry," and continues to "take a proactive stance on issues that concern us."
He said SCPA is the only regional association in the industry that has a full-time staff person dedicated to state and federal regulatory affairs.
"On our annual trip to Capitol Hill, we visited 85 congressmen, senators, and key staff members representing our 15 southern states, to discuss key industry issues and do valuable networking.
"Through these visits and grassroots contacts with legislators back home, SCPA is able to strengthen its influence in shaping federal legislation that affects our industry."
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Titanfall App Offers Mini-maps, Loadout Changes and More via Second-Screen Functionality
This companion app for Titanfall is proving to be a must-have for Pilots everywhere.
According to MP1ST, Respawn Entertainment has just released the official companion app for Titanfall. This awesome app lets players have notifications on all of their Titanfall escapades by providing them with a ton of second-screen options. Connecting to an Xbox One console will let you have a fully interactive mini-map and allows you to check the scoreboard whenever you'd like. Also, the app offers a variety of lore and info based on Titanfall's story, characters, locations, weapons and, of course, Titans.
Any pilots who would like to download the companion app for Titanfall may do so by going to the App Store or from Google Play. The Titanfall second-screen companion app is set at the cool price of nothing. That's right; this app is free.


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LONGMONT -- A lawsuit over Longmont's anti-fracking charter amendment should be heard in Boulder County and not Weld County, and should not include a "takings" argument, the city's attorneys argued in a filing to the Weld County District Court.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Association sued the city in December over its ban of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process that uses high-pressure fluid to crack open oil and gas deposits deep below the earth. The ban was adopted by a citizen referendum.
In its suit, COGA claimed that a ban on fracking was effectively a ban on drilling -- something off-limits to Colorado cities since 1992 -- and that the ban was an unconstitutional taking of private property without compensation.
City attorney Eugene Mei and special counsel Phil Barber argued in response that the claim of a taking should be dropped, since COGA hadn't said what "just compensation" for a taking would be or even listed a specific property that had been affected.
"It is rare for a plaintiff to pursue a takings claim without alleging what property was taken, or who owned it," Mei and Barber wrote in their filing last week to Judge Daniel S. Maus. "COGA is the rare exception."
In asking for the case to be shifted to Boulder County District Court, Barber and Mei noted that the complaint was served in Boulder County, the anti-fracking measure was approved for the ballot in Boulder County (in the City Council chambers) and that the city's government effectively "resides" in Boulder County.
The brief also noted that COGA had already accepted Boulder County as a suitable venue for a similar case against Longmont, an oil and gas lawsuit by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission that COGA attached itself to.
"There is no venue-relevant distinction between the actions of the Longmont City Council giving rise to the present case and to the Boulder County case," Mei and Barber wrote. "COGA is therefore bound by its admission in the Boulder County case that actions taken by the Longmont City Council at the Longmont Civic Center occur in Boulder County. ... (V)enue is proper only in Boulder County."
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Don't sure I dig the new site. Way too many pop-ups making it hard to navigate. You may lose some readers.ReplyDelete
This was commenting on the Floyd post, I think. Was just going to say that's how I see it, too, but it's good to hear from someone with your perspective as well.
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The Skepchicks have the 2008/2009 Skepchick and Skepdude calendars on sale.
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choatetke needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 73 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
This logo should encompass the feeling of being part of an exclusive, hand-selected group of salon/spa owners that are proud to display it on all their literature and in their salons.
Salon Professionals Association
This logo will be provided to members that have businesses ranging from small, local hair saloons all the way up to high-end, exclusive salon-spas.
The logo should be gender neutral as both male & female owners will be members. This isn't necessarily about being "pretty" to look at. It is more about being distinguished and being set apart from the rest. The logo should make the owner proud to have it displayed all over their salon, business cards, letterhead, websites, etc.
A badge, a seal, a crest, etc. would be more along the lines of what we are looking for.
This association will have a lot of exposure in the industry and will become a top player at trade shows which are heavily attended.
Imagine yourself receiving this distinction. What would make you proud to display it? That should help your creative fire come up with a winner.
- I would like the website included in the logo. SalonProfessionalsAssociation.Org
- The font should be easily read with color schemes that are easy to blend in with any color concept that a salon/spa would already have.
Colors should not be difficult to blend in with color schemes that encompass the entire color wheel.
The font should not be in script form as it would be hard to read.
The logo should not be viewed as female only. Their is a large percentage of salon/spa owners that are male and needs to look good for them as well.
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Armel Le Cléac'h (Banque Populaire) and Jean-Pierre Dick (Virbac-Paprec 3) have each borrowed 100 miles back from Gabart in the last 24 hours.
Le Cléac'h became the second boat to cross the equator at 04:47hrs UTC and is now in the North Atlantic. His passage across the line, on a route to the east of Gabart's, took 66 days 16 hours 45 minutes (and 51 seconds) and came 15 hours and 6 minutes after Gabart.
On November 20, 2012, Gabart entered the doldrums in second place, just ahead of Jean-Pierre Dick (Virbac-Paprec 3)and behind the leader Le Cléac'h. Almost two months later, the skipper of MACIF is 50 miles from the same place of passage and part of the same trio in the lead - but this time it's just a different order.
Le Cléac'h has reclaimed 104 miles in the last 24 hours on Gabart and is now only 143.7 miles behind, but the leader's pace has not been dramatically slowed. Gabart still averaged a comparatively healthy 10.7 knots overnight. The doldrums are not normally particularly active at this time of year and compared to November where the leading group were stalled at one point, the front four may simply compress and then extend on the other side. But that will not be clear for two days.
Dick has taken back 109 miles on the leader to lie 586 miles behind and 443 behind Le Cléac'h. Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) still struggling a little on the west, off the north coast of Brazil, has taken only 6 miles back from Gabart, not much to bank. Hugo Boss is still very close to the coast (170 miles).
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Worse than the doldrums for the middle five is the high-pressure hole they dropped into. The escape of Jean Le Cam (SynerCiel) to the west stalled overnight. He averaged 9.3 knots overnight, compared to Mike Golding (Gamesa) with 11.7 knots, who has nevertheless lost 108 miles to Le Cam in the last 24 hours is back to a manageable 86 miles behind him and 352 miles south east of him. But the weather maps and route ahead for them is still not simple.
Behind them Javier Sansó (Acciona 100% EcoPowered) had the worst night in the fleet, averaging just 6.6 knots. He has been the slowest in the fleet over the last 24 hours, averaging 5.8 knots and traveling 138 miles. Dominique Wavre (Mirabaud) also had a difficult night and a happier Arnaud Bossières (Akena Verandas), who is the furthest west, was able to pull back 27 mile on him to lie 46 behind in ninth.
Golden road for de Broc and de Lamotte
After their passage around Cape Horn, Bertrand De Broc (Votre nom autour du monde avec EDM Projets) and Tanguy de Lamotte (Initiatives cœur)should find a road paved with gold in the Atlantic. Not for them the headache and weather windows to negotiate, as they will soon feel the by a rise of a beautiful southwest low of 25 knots coming up behind them. It looks strong and steady and should allow them to make good gains on those in front. Even before its arrival, such has been the struggle for Akena Verandas that De Broc has already recovered 127 miles on Akena Verandas in the last 24 hours and is 1,183 miles behind.
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Welcome to Jennifer Garner Network - a comprehensive website dedicated to Golden Globe & Screen Actors Guild award winning actress Jennifer Garner who is best known for her role as Sydney Bristow from the hit series Alias. She has also been in such films as Dallas Buyers Club, Miracles From Heaven, 13 Going On 30, and Wakefield. Jennifer is also the face of Neutrogena & spends significant time raising awareness as an ambassador for the Save the Children organization. This site is determined to bring you the most up to date information on this talented performer and her career. I hope you enjoy your visit!
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A man's camping trip with his wife and friends spirals out of control. A U.S. adaptation of the British series, 'Camping'.
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Peppermint is a revenge story centering on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her rivals the very life they stole from her.
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Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
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Save the Children is an organization close to Jennifer's heart. Save the Children is dedicated to helping children in poverty here in the United States. Jennifer serves as a member of their board and has been named as one of their Artist Ambassadors. "I think that kids inspire you to do everything you can. You want to a great role model. But you don't need to be inspired to help other kids. You don't have to be a mom. You just see other kids in need and you want to reach out to them. It's just a basic human emotion."
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NHGRI reorganized to meet expanding research mission
Times change and so, too, should institutions. For the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a natural time for change has arrived, and the institute will reorganize to appropriately reflect its current and future genomics research portfolio and associated activities.
In 1988, NIH created an office that eventually became NHGRI; at the time, the single charge to that office was to oversee NIH's contributions to the Human Genome Project. As such, the office started with a simple organization - a director's office and a team managing grants.
Today, NHGRI manages dozens of scientific projects and a research portfolio that is multifaceted and highly diverse. NHGRI's current suite of responsibilities requires a more sophisticated management structure. Moreover, with the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, NHGRI has worked with the international community of genomics researchers to develop strategic plans to guide the field as a whole.
In February 2011, NHGRI published its most recent plan in the journal Nature: (Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside). This new strategic vision is organized around five domains of research activities that together chart a progression from basic research elucidating the structure and biology of genomes, to understanding the biology of disease and advancing the science of medicine. The ultimate goal is to improve the effectiveness of healthcare and advance human health.
To effectively oversee these complex scientific activities, and to better manage the many associated programs now conducted by the institute, NHGRI will implement a new structure that reorganizes the institute from three components - Office of the Director, Division of Extramural Research, and Division of Intramural Research - to seven. Four new divisions will together constitute the institute's Extramural Research Program, while two new divisions will be created from components of the current Office of the Director. The Division of Intramural Research will remain unchanged.
Read more about the new structure at Description of the Reorganization
Learn more about the reorganization at Frequently Asked Questions
Pursuant to the Public Health Service Act section 401(d)(4) as amended by the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, (42 USC sec. 281(d)(4)), NHGRI held two public meetings to present the proposed reorganization, answer any related questions and receive feedback from interested individuals about the proposed new structure:
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Richard Eberhart photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Description: Henri Cartier-Bresson [1908-2004] was a French photographer that pioneered modern photojournalism. Early to try the new 35mm Leica format, Cartier-Bresson is famous for his street scene photographs and portraits of individuals. He felt that the new compact camera format enabled him to stroll the streets ready to "trap life," on film. This candid of Richard Eberhart [1904-2005] an American poet who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is attributed to Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cartier-Bresson travelled to the United States several times and moved in literary circles throughout the world. His first American show was in 1935, at the New York Julien Levy Gallery. At some point his path crossed with that of Eberhart. The photograph was found in a volume recently acquired by Joyner Library through purchase from Eberhart's literary agent, Stuart Wright.


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About RBC > Media Newsroom > News Releases > Glen Abbey Golf Club to Host 2013 RBC Canadian Open
Oakville, Ont. (Golf Canada) - Golf Canada and RBC announced today that Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ont. will host the 2013 RBC Canadian Open. The event will take place July 22-28, 2013.
Renowned as the longtime home of the Canadian Open, Glen Abbey will play host to Canada's National Open Championship for a record 26th time. The announcement marks the return of the RBC Canadian Open to the ClubLink-owned facility for the first time since 2009.
"In partnership with RBC, we are very pleased to confirm that the RBC Canadian Open will return to Glen Abbey Golf Club in 2013," said Golf Canada Executive Director and CEO Scott Simmons. "Glen Abbey has challenged the world's best on 25 occasions and played host to many of the most memorable finishes in Canadian Open history. As the most fan-friendly spectator course I've ever seen, the Abbey and the Canadian Open share a special connection in Canadian golf and we're thrilled to add to that legacy once again in 2013."
"It is exciting to see the tournament return to Glen Abbey, given its history and success," noted Andrew Shibata, head, Brand Marketing, RBC. "RBC and Golf Canada are committed to bringing the RBC Canadian Open to the best golf courses across the country and we look forward to welcoming the world's top golfers and our dedicated fans back to this prestigious golf course."
"We are very pleased to welcome the RBC Canadian Open back to Glen Abbey for a record 26th time," said Rai Sahi, ClubLink President and CEO. "It is only fitting that Canada's most famous course plays host to our National Open Championship. Since the Canadian Open was first played on this Jack Nicklaus Signature course in 1977, Glen Abbey has produced many worthy champions including Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, and Curtis Strange. We look forward to a great tournament week and another outstanding champion in 2013."
Glen Abbey was owned and operated by Golf Canada (previously known as the Royal Canadian Golf Association) from 1982 - 1998 before selling the property to ClubLink in the fall of 1998. As the longtime home of Canada's National Open Championship, 'The Abbey' hosted 22 Canadian Opens between 1977 and 2000 as well as 2004, 2008 and 2009. Golf Canada's head office as well as the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum are located on the grounds of Glen Abbey Golf Club.
Golf Canada also announced that former Canadian Olympic Committee CEO Chris Rudge will serve as Tournament Chair for the 2013 RBC Canadian Open. Rudge, who sits on Golf Canada's Board of Directors, is currently Executive Chairman of the Toronto Argonauts and the 100th Grey Cup Festival set for Toronto in 2012.
"It's an honour to be asked to serve as Tournament Chair of the 2013 RBC Canadian Open," said Rudge, the former Chairman of the Own the Podium steering committee. "With more than a century of storied history and incredible golfing moments, we want Canadian golf enthusiasts from coast to coast to rally around the event, embrace as the proud history of our National Open Golf Championship and celebrate what this fabulous championship means to the sport of golf in this country. It is also exciting to be involved as golf re-enters the Olympic world where it will be contested in Toronto during the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro where Canada will defend as the reigning gold medalist in golf."
The 2012 RBC Canadian Open will take place July 23-29 at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club in Hamilton, Ont. The event will once again raise money in support of national charity partner - the Mike Weir Foundation - as well as the recently announced Community Child Abuse Council (CCAC) in Hamilton as the local charity beneficiary.
For information about tickets, volunteer opportunities or corporate hospitality, please visit www.rbccanadianopen.com.
Part of the FedEx Cup, stars of the PGA TOUR will compete for $5.2 million (US) at the RBC Canadian Open, July 23-29, 2012 at Hamilton Golf and Country Club in Hamilton, Ont. Established in 1904, the tournament is the third-oldest national open golf championship worldwide next to the British Open and the U.S. Open. The RBC Canadian Open is proudly sponsored by RBC, Bell, BMW Group Canada, C.F.F Stainless Steels, Molson Canadian 67, TaylorMade adidas Golf, The Glenlivet, The Globe and Mail, Reader's Digest and the City of Hamilton, with funding provided by the Government of Ontario. For tournament information please visit www.rbccanadianopen.com or call 1-800-571-6736.
ClubLink is engaged in golf club and resort operations under the trade-mark "ClubLink One Membership More Golf." ClubLink is Canada's largest owner and operator of golf clubs with 53�, 18-hole equivalent championship and six 18-hole equivalent academy courses at 44 locations, primarily in Ontario, Quebec and Florida.
ClubLink is also engaged in rail, tourism and port operations based in Skagway, Alaska, which operates under the trade name "White Pass & Yukon Route." The railway stretches approximately 177 kilometres from Skagway, Alaska, through British Columbia to Whitehorse, Yukon. In addition, ClubLink operates three docks primarily for cruise ships.
For more information, visit www.clublink.ca or call 1-800-661-1818.
RBC proudly supports golf around the world through high profile relationships with the PGA TOUR, the PGA of America and Golf Canada. RBC is the Official Banking and Financial Services partner of touring professionals Luke Donald, Jim Furyk, Ernie Els, Matt Kuchar, Mike Weir, Stephen Ames, Fred Couples, Hunter Mahan and Morgan Pressel. As the Official Bank of the PGA of America and title sponsor of both the RBC Heritage and the RBC Canadian Open, RBC also supports emerging Canadian golfers through Golf Canada's grassroots developmental programming, their Canadian Amateur Golf Championships and high performance national team. Outside of golf, RBC sponsors amateur sport, from grassroots to national sport associations. RBC is one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies and among the largest banks in the world, as measured by market capitalization.
Golf Canada is the governing body of golf in Canada, representing more than 340,000 members at close to 1,500 clubs across the country. Recognized by Sport Canada as the National Sport Organization (NSO) for golf in this country, Golf Canada's mission is to grow participation, excellence and passion in the sport while upholding the integrity and traditions of the game.
A proud member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Golf Canada conducts championships, programs and services to help shape the present and future of golf in Canada. High performance athlete development, Golf in Schools presented by Callaway, Golf Fore the Cure presented by Subaru, the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, CN Canadian Women's Tour and CN Future Links - Canada's national junior golf program - are only some of the initiatives the association leads for golf in Canada. As the authority for golf in Canada, the association also administers the Rules of Golf, amateur status and handicapping and course rating. In addition, Golf Canada conducts Canada's most prestigious golf championships. The RBC Canadian Open and CN Canadian Women's Open attract the best professional golfers in the world, while regional junior and national amateur championships provide world class competitive opportunities for Canada's top golfers to showcase their talents.
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March 31, 2007
Subject: File No. S7-12-06
The Honorable Christopher Cox, Chairman
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Dear Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Commission,
I hereby submit the following article that I find germane to the issues at hand,
Remember How The SEC Stalled Meaningful Action for Years on FTDs? More Doing Nothing Ahead...
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It would be very funny if not completely true.
Those who lost fortunes over the last 7 months, while the SEC finally grudgingly acknowledged that Reg SHO wasn't working, will be glad to hear that the desperately and anxiously awaited action we've all been waiting for has been......
Delayed yet again.
Yes, instead of doing simple things like admitting that the Grandfather clause, which was unlawfully slipped into Reg SHO, and in violation of the SEC's own rules, never received a comment period (thus making it an illegitimately issued hall pass for those refusing to deliver what they sold, often for years)...and doing away with it, what instead has the commission done?
Re-opened the comment period for SHO.
Huh? WTF? Why? We already know that there is no basis in the SEC's charter to forgive persistent delivery failures. There is no basis in its mandate of investor protection to allow exemptions for market makers to create massive FTDs - none of which has the most remote basis in bona-fide market making. Failing for weeks, months or years is not bona-fide market making. Never was, and nobody with a working brain would buy it for a second. But apparently the SEC does, hook line and sinker.
We know that Reg SHO hides information rather than encouraging transparency, and badly damages investors and companies, for whom their stock is a fiction Wall Street bad guys have simply refused to deliver - after being paid for the product.
But now instead of an end to the grandfather clause, and a tightening, if not complete elimination, of the egregious options market maker exemption (wherein the options MMs are allowed to create naked short shares in literally un-checked amounts, in order for them to enjoy cost-free hedging in the derivatives market at the direct expense of equity securities investors) we get more stonewalling and requests for comments.
Where is it so hard to see that by allowing speculators in a different market - options - to create stock at will in the stock market (for the sole reason of providing free hedging for the options speculators), materially damaging stock investors as well as the companies affected, that it is BAD for everyone EXCEPT the options speculators? Where is the SEC allowed to favor the interests of options speculators, over the interests of investor protection? Point me to the code section. The enabling language that says, "If you are a company deriving financial benefit by speculating in options, you can hedge your for-profit trades by fabricating non-existent shares at no cost to you - and do so as early and often as you like. Screw investors buying those phantom shares, and those whose stock plummets due to the massive, unauthorized volume you just printed - it's all good. Knock yourself out."
Unbelievable. Really. I've never in my life even hinted at this level of gross and callous disregard for the rule of law as the norm, and yet for year after year after year, investor dollars are taken, nothing is delivered, and the best the SEC can do is "extend" the comment period. Because 8 years ago, naked short selling as we saw in the crash of 1929 was so, er, unexpected and misunderstood - you know, the idea that you might have to deliver the stock you sold, instead of just refusing to do so, and giving the investor the middle finger, was such a quaint notion that the SEC was unable to figure out it could damage companies and investors. That was a tough one. 8 years later, and they still need comments. How about this one: Settle the trades, or go to jail. Did I leave anything out of the mix? Some nuance omitted?
I suppose all those rapists, whose easy pickings every weekend night looked to be in jeopardy from the passage of laws that make it against the law to take women against their will, can rest easy, while the motivations of the rapists are discussed as more info becomes available. "I just get so mad," "She was asking for it," "She was wearing that dress - how clear did it have to be?"
Yet more opportunity to study the motivations of the violent criminal predators is now at hand, while the raping continues unabated.
Folks, I am absolutely dumbfounded.
"I sold, and continue to sell, tens of millions of shares that don't exist, uh, you know, because of the bona-fide market making I'm engaged in that requires the creation of tens of millions of non-existent shares..."
"Well, you grandfathered them all, so why would I go pay money to deliver the shares, when you gave me the free pass for years?"
"When I was selling with unbridled levels of aggression, while my hedge fund clients were telling me to put the company out of business, and bury them, I thought that was bona-fide market making, not criminal stock manipulation. Oops. I heard it was a fun and lucrative game. Cramer said everyone should do it. Sorry. Really. My bad."
"We figured that since you violated the law and enacted grandfathering, that was our go-ahead to use it to keep violating the law and ripping off the last remaining dollars in the US retirement savings system. How about another 6 months to comment on it while we pick the bones?"
"Gotta go create another million shares of OSTK while you have the rubes write letters. Too GD funny. Really very amusing. Ha ha ha ha."
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Rowhani wins Iranian election
TEHRAN, Iran — Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani was declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote on Saturday after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians looking to claw back a bit of ground after years of crackdowns and now resets the country's political order.
The stunning surge behind Rowhani, a former nuclear negotiator, was seen by his supports as a rebuke of uncompromising policies that have left Iran increasingly isolated and under biting sanctions from the West over Tehran's nuclear program. It also demonstrated the strength of opposition sentiment even in a system that is largely organized against it.
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The ruling clerics barred from the race reform candidates seen as too prominent, allowing a list of hopefuls who were mainly staunch loyalists of the supreme leader and the Islamic establishment. But the opposition settled on the 64-year-old Rowhani as the least objectionable of the bunch, making him a de facto reform candidate with backers inspired by his message of outreach rather than confrontation.
Celebrations broke out across Tehran and other cities. Thousands of Rowhani supporters took to the streets leading to his campaign headquarters in Tehran before the final results were announced despite a statement from Rowhani urging his supporters to avoid street gatherings. There were no immediate reports of unrest or attempts by security forces to rein in the crowds — another sign of the sweeping scope of Rowhani's victory with more than three times as many votes as his nearest rival.
But the numbers don't translate directly into power in Iran's Islamic system. The ruling clerics and their protectors, the Revolutionary Guard, maintain control over all key decisions such as nuclear efforts, the military and foreign affairs.
What Rowhani's victory means, however, is that reformists and liberals will likely regain a greater voice and clout to try to shape the views of the theocracy, which cannot easily ignore the decisive outcome of Friday's election to success the combative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was barred from seeking a third consecutive run.
Ahmadinejad congratulated Rowhani, adding "I hope ... opportunity will be provided more than before to serve and work for the establishment of justice and development of the country."
Rowhani won with 50.7 percent of the more than 36 million votes cast, the Interior Ministry reported, well ahead of Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf with about 16.5 percent. Hard-line nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili — who said he was "100 percent" against detente with Iran's foes — came in third with 11.3 percent followed by conservative Mohsen Rezaei with 10.6 percent.
Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the turnout was 72.7 percent, suggesting that liberals and others abandoned a planned boycott as the election was transformed into a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide. Iran has more than 50 million eligible voters.
Rowhani just cleared the majority needed to seal victory and avoid a runoff. The Interior Ministry said Rowhani had 18,613,329 votes, followed by Qalibaf with 6,077,292, Jalili with 4,168,946 votes and Rezaei with 3,884,412. The other two candidates were far behind.


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This is the type of clothing that was worn by senior toolmakers and employees in the Quality Control Lab of the Millers Falls Company of Greenfield and Millers Falls, Massachusetts. Strict clean and climate-controlled environments were necessary in these factories that produced precision measuring tools. Toolmakers were the most highly qualified workers on the shop floor, and coats like this distinguished them from their fellow workers. Before World War II (WWII), the Millers Falls Tool Company made 2,500 different tools. During the war, the company continued manufacturing all its usual product lines (for example, electric tools, hand tools, hack saw blades, levels, planes, micrometers, etc.).
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Just the other night I cooked up this super tasty dinner: First I cubed some winter squash and cut up some cauliflower and roasted them. Once cooked, I sauteed the veggies with my usual Mexi spices (cumin, coriander, oregano, smoked chili powder, salt and pepper). Meanwhile, I sauteed a huge bunch of kale with a little garlic, and cooked up some black beans with garlic, fresh salsa, spices and fresh cilantro. All together it was a huge, delicious mess! Full of savory flavor explosions!!
What I love about these bowls is that no two are ever alike, I can pretty much use whatever grains or veggies I've got sitting around, and the end result is guaranteed to be delicious and easy and nutritious. I'm also pretty comfortable ad-libbing my way around the kitchen with Italian flavors, but somehow I never seem to end up making Italian bowls... so maybe I'll set that as a challenge for myself! What are your most comfortable flavor combos to play with?


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A minor annoyance in Flex that I've lived with for many moons now is that even though I will provide enough vertical space to show all the text or htmlText in a Text Control, when a user attempts to select the text, often times, the text will scroll up, hiding the first line. The easiest fix is to set selectable='false', and in most cases this will do the trick. There are times however, when a client will demand that text remain selectable. And that same client will be the first to complain about the apparently unnecessary scrolling of text.
I played around with this, but seriously, the mx.controls.Text class really doesn't give one much to work with. On browsing through the sdk source, I discovered I'd probably have better luck working with the wrapped UITextField. In the end I tapped into the scroll event and the alwaysShowSelection attribute of the UITextField to get me where I needed to go.
It's been a long week so I'm just going to post up a link to the solution here, and the source code here.


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Cody Stipes '11 - Indiana has continuously been trying to improve its public education systems for many years. Although these public schools are making great strides, some students, specifically those gifted and talented, are being left behind. However, Indiana still has a plethora of educational opportunities for these students to prosper at three of the most unique high schools in the country. The Culver Academies, the International School of Indiana, and the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities all offer a highly accelerated academic curriculum that better prepare students for the world beyond.
The Culver Academies, comprised of the Culver Military Academy, founded in 1894, and the Culver Girls Academy, founded in 1971, offer a boarding school education for high school students in grades nine through twelve. Culver is a world-renowned institution and is said to be the leaders in whole child education. Located in Culver, IN., the Culver Academies might be, as many Culver administrators will say, the best kept secret under the corn silk stalks of Marshall County.
The International School of Indiana, located in Indianapolis, offers an education that focuses on foreign languages, specifically Spanish and French. The International School of Indiana, commonly referred to as ISI, offers a full International Baccalaureate (IB) Program for all grades and it is one of only six schools in the country to offer the IB Program in all grades. All graduates of the International School are fluently in at least one foreign language and many are trilingual.
The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities is located on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, IN. and is a public residential high school for 300 of the greatest young minds in the country. The Indiana Academy offers students a college preparatory education and serves Indiana as a statewide center for gifted and talented education. The Indiana Academy has been nationally recognized as a leader in education for gifted and talented students.


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Tropical decor is perfect for summer months or in a beachside vacation home, and it provides a cheerful sanctuary from the cold during snowfalls. Here are some tips on how to construct a tropical living room.�
If you're just looking to add a tropical feel to your room, then the place to start is with the accessories. This style of design features a lot of beachy materials, such as wicker and bamboo. For your windows, the most tropical treatment you can use is wooden roller shades. Reminiscent of a balmy cabana on the shoreline, the funky shades will provide you with some privacy while contributing to the decor. Decorate with lots of bright flora to make the air smell fragrant and add pops of natural color throughout the room. Tropical style also allows for a certain level of quirk: If you've been collecting seashells, now would be the time to adhere them to the frame of an old mirror and hang it in your living room for a vacation vibe. Look for coastal motifs as well, such as patterns that almost reflect palm trees and hibiscus flowers.
Tropically inspired rooms often use a lot of wood and wicker, but you can also channel paradise with colorful, exotic patterns and prints. Seek out comfortable seating - remember that part of the appeal of cabana style is that it's relaxing. Pieces like egg chairs with plush cushions piled on top are a great alternative to going all out and hanging a hammock in your living room. Love seats and ottomans are another great way to get that exotic feeling.
The colors of a tropical room often look as though they've been pulled out of a natural habitat, but the scene is up to you. You could use the beach as inspiration and use lots of beige with blues as accents, or you could pull pigments from a tropical rainforest and use green and deep brown with pops of fuchsia and yellow. To keep it sophisticated, let the neutral materials in the room speak for themselves and stick to muted shades of cerulean. Or, make it fresh by keeping the walls and majority of your furnishings white sneaking unexpected pops of color in.


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Hello everybody, and today we will be sure and post with you that is about to be NFL and all of its unknown players. We will have a list below for you that has the names of different players and a little description of them.
Joseph Randall-Joseph Randall is a running back The Dallas Cowboys and he is one of the unknown NFL players that is not in the limelight. He has actually lead the Dallas Cowboys to a lot of their victories but hasn't taken the credit for any of them. He is not the type of person who wants to be in the spotlight of the NFL. He is just there to play football and that's it. Currently runs a four 340 yard dash and can dodge just about anything on the field. Watch out for this guy because he is young and an up-and-coming football player. He could be one of the best and a Hall of Famer very soon.
John Baldwin-John Baldwin is a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. This is another unknown sports star when it comes to football. He has also led his team to many victories by getting about 15 touchdowns at the pro level. He is also caught about 41 interception passes that have led to the Kansas City Cheifs getting touchdowns. He is truly an up-and-coming rookie that has a lot of potential. Keep your eye out for him as he might also be a player that steps out into the ranks and becomes very well-known Some day.
Vincent Brown-Vincent Browne is a player that is a part of the San Diego chargers and he is a wide receiver as well. He is another upcoming player in the league and he just made it to the NFL back in 2014. He is a young kid and has a lot of potential in his career. He has been able to show himself on the field by getting many different interception passes for The Chargers. He has a lead them into the victory of the few games by intercepting a couple passes that allowed the chargers to get the ball and run a touchdown in at the last minute. You definitely want to look out for him as well as he will definitely become one of the key players for the San Diego Chargers. He is a person who really please behind the scenes and acts as the foundation for the Chargers.
Tracy Eaton- this is a little bit different than the other players because Tracy is somebody who was around back in the 1990s with football. He was very great player but was one that suffered a lot of injuries through his football career. He ultimately had to retire and now he currently is a pool builder in Sacramento.
Tracy will go down in the Hall of Fame as a very memorable player because he provided some very good events and some of the games that he played for the teams that he played for.
That was a review of just a few of the different unknown players that actually matter to the NFL. These players are definitely people that you want to focus on because they could be up and comers. You never know who is going to make it big in the NFL. So you always have to make sure to keep an eye on the underdog because they could be the next Peyton Manning or Tom Brady.


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Fitbit is a small device to track your physical activity or sleep. You can wear the device all day because it easily clips in your pocket, pants, shirt, bra, or to your wrist when you are sleeping. The data collected is automatically synched online when the device is near the base station. After uploading, you can explore visualizations of your physical activity and sleep quality on the web site. You can also view your data using their new mobile web site. You can also track what you eat, other exercises that you do, and your weight.
URL: http://fitbit.com/
Tags: fitness, sleep
The Digifit ecosystem is a full suite of Apple apps that records heart rate, pace, speed, cadence, and power of your running, cycling and other athletic endeavors. Data can be uploaded to the well established training sites Training Peaks and New Leaf. The ecosystem is is split up into the Digifit™, iCardio™, iRunner™, iBiker™, iSpinner™ and iPower™ apps. To utilize the full functionality of the app you must purchase the Digifit Connect ANT+ dongle and and the purchase of an advanced functionality App.
URL: http://digifit.com/
Tags: sleep, iPhone, health, fitness
MoodPanda.com is a mood tracking website and iphone app. Tracking is very simple: you rate your happiness on a 0-10 scale, and optionally add a brief twitter-like comment on what's influencing your mood. MoodPanda is also a large community of friendly people, sharing their moods, celebrating each others' happiness, and supporting each other when they're down.
URL: http://moodpanda.com
Tags: health, iPhone, lifelogging, lifestyle, location, mood, social, web app
MoodScope is a web based application for measuring, tracking and sharing your mood. Moods are measured using an online card game, and can be shared automatically by email with friends, with the idea that these activities can raise mood in and of themselves. The mood log can be charted to see progressions and as a way to identify events that may have influenced your mood.
Tags: web app, social, mood
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
A wireless headband, bedside display, set of online analytical tools, and an email-based personalized sleep coaching program.
URL: http://myzeo.com
Tags: sleep, health, gadget
RunKeeper is a mobile application available on iPhone and Android to track your runs: distance, duration, speed, and calories consumed. The mobile application uses GPS to measure your distance. It also has several features to motivate you to run: 1) you can preset exercise intervals and distances; 2) it allows you to listen to music while running; 3) a voice informs you about the progress of your run; and 4) it stores a history of your runs. The mobile interface shows you a list of your runs, while the web site has Fitness Reports with visualizations of your runs.
Tags: Android, fitness, iPhone
Momento is an iPhone journal writing app. It allows you to make entries using text or photos and allows you to tag them with people from your address book, and locations from the GPS as well as category tags. In addition to what you capture on the phone itself, the app can automatically include events from web services, including twitter, facebook, flickr, and others. Any web service that provides an RSS or ATOM feed can be included. The app also has export and backup features.
URL: http://www.momentoapp.com
Tags: iPhone, lifelogging, location
DailyMile is social workout-sharing site geared toward currently active people who want to give and get encouragement from the community. Users can add workouts manually--with photos and videos--or upload workouts from devices. Workouts will automatically be mapped. DailyMile integrates with Garmin devices, Nike+, iPhone and Android. DailyMile syncs easily with Twitter and Facebook. Signup is free. Users can easily see others workouts and post encouragement, similar to commenting on friends' posts on Facebook.
URL: dailymile.com
Tags: Android, fitness, goals, iPhone, social, web app
Klout is a metric for overall online influence. Klout gives a score ranging from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence online. Klout uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach (the size of your engaged audience - only including active accounts), Amplification Probability (the likelihood that your content will be commented on or retweeted), and Network Score (the influence level of your engaged audience).
URL: klout.com
Tags: API, social
"Helps you collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data" Very well-designed interface, very simple to use, and versatile too - you can track anything. Also as an iPhone app: http://daytum.com/about/iphone_app
URL: http://daytum.com
Tags: health, iPhone, lifelogging, money, social, web app


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The top man in the Baltimore Police Department is standing in an alley not far from the housing complex people here call "Target City."
It's a nickname born of gun violence and could apply to more than just those low-income apartments. There are dozens of shootings in this city each week – over drugs and respect, corners and feuds, domestic violence and business deals gone bad. There are a growing number of gang shoot-outs, too, including one last summer that sent tourists diving for cover at the popular Inner Harbor waterfront area. And in August, Baltimore made national news when 12 people were wounded at a shootout at a backyard barbecue.
All of which helps explains why, here in this trash-strewn alley illuminated by the headlights of a police cruiser, Frederick H. Bealefeld III is telling the mother of three teenagers that she – not the cops – is the one who needs to deal with the fact that he just caught her boys smoking marijuana.
Backing off can be just as important as cracking down, knows the veteran of Baltimore crime fighting.
Mr. Bealefeld speaks respectfully, like an old friend of the family who just happened upon the kids' misbehavior and is letting their mom know about it. His Baltimore accent echoes hers, and he's relaxed, showing none of the aggressiveness or attitude one might expect in a section of the city where tensions between police and residents are severe. Even the boys' mother, and the family pressing up behind her in the doorway, seem taken aback that this tall white man isn't, in fact, going to hassle them.
And that's all Bealefeld: accustomed to shaking expectations. He grew up in a family full of men who wore the blue uniform, and he rose from street corner patrolman who chased down his share of drug deals and gunslingers to become commissioner two years ago. He never went to college, has lived his whole life in Baltimore, and spent 28 years on the police force. Yet Bealefeld has bucked established department policy dramatically, pushing for a new, tighter focus on guns and gun offenders, while also emphasizing improved relations with the city's black residents.
He has become known as being exceptionally blunt, a colorful character who can disarm criminals, politicians, and citizens alike. The Baltimore Sun once published a column of Bealefeld quotes turned into poetry; after losing a bet with the mayor's office over who could best run the Baltimore Marathon, the commissioner sang – badly – Whitney Houston's "I'm Every Woman" on a popular radio show. He's a regular participant in neighborhood safety walks, meets with community groups across the city, and still plays in multiple weekly ice hockey games.
But more important than the image, people here say, are the results underlying the personality: Under his leadership, Baltimore has seen the lowest homicide numbers in 20 years; nonfatal shootings are also at a decades-long low. And according to the mayor's office, the number of complaints called in against the police – in the past an almost daily event – have dropped significantly.
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Earlier this decade, Baltimore tried to implement a "zero tolerance" policing policy – a strategy used to much acclaim in New York City, where officers arrested people for the most minor of violations. Get the troublemakers off the street, the theory went, and less trouble will happen; moreover, police might get tips from small-time crooks to nab the truly dangerous criminals.
In Baltimore, however, that strategy didn't make a dent: Homicides continued upward, and the historically bad relationship between police and black residents deteriorated further.
"To get one tuna, you'd get a bunch of herring, and some minnows, and eels, and all sorts of stuff you don't want," Bealefeld says using the trademark allegorical style that makes his press attaché, Anthony Guglielmi, put his head in his hands. "If sharks are the problem, then sharpen a spear and go after sharks. You don't troll through the city with a net. Because then you scoop up dolphins. And everyone loves dolphins."
He pauses, deadpan, before he breaks into a smile. But then his face turns serious, intense. There is no mistaking that this is a law enforcement officer who is exceedingly tough.
"Listen, I'm being facetious, but the analogy gets back to the core of relationships in city. And in particular African-American cities like Baltimore.... You know what I heard a lot in my 28 years here? I've gone and done search warrants, gone and done battle with guys on the street, and we're dragging these guys off and we think we've done a good deed, we think we've done something good for the community – and we hear people yelling, 'Why don't you get the big guys?' And it's like, 'The guy had a kilo in his car! What are you talking about? I think he's a big fish.' " But not to them. That's not their priority.
"You know who their priorities are? These guys who are riding around with guns who rob them every time their kids go to the store. The community – they [understand] the drugs.... They don't like them, but they're really, really worried about these guys with guns shooting their children...."
Since becoming commissioner, Bealefeld has told his officers to focus on gun offenders. And it is a point of pride to him that while murder numbers have dropped significantly under his watch, so have arrests. In 2005, police made 105,000 arrests in this city of 600,000. Last year, which had the lowest homicide numbers in two decades, the number of arrests dropped to 75,000.
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So Bealefeld leaves the three teenage boys sitting on the ground in the alley under the watch of another officer and walks through the backyard to chat further with their mother. The woman looks ashen as she stands in her doorway, family members peeking around her.
She explains that the kids had slipped out of a family gathering; tonight was her mother's funeral.
"Their grandma?" Bealefeld is indignant, his eyes locked on hers, but his posture still relaxed. "They do not need to be out acting foolish. Tonight of all nights. Right now your family's grieving. You don't need any more drama. I'm going to leave them for you to take care of, OK?"
She clasps her hands in thanks, and he turns to the teens.
"You could be on your way to central booking," he says harshly. "You don't need to be going there tonight.... You need to be in the house being men. OK? And remembering your grandma. That's what I need you to do. That's what your family needs you to do."
The teens start to shuffle back into the house, heads down.
"Excuse me," the woman says to the boys, glaring. She is empowered, hands on hips, on Bealefeld's team.
"I believe a thank-you is in order."
"Thank you," they mumble toward the commissioner.
He nods to their mother, walks back toward his SUV, and continues his nighttime patrol of the city. That's the corner where a 5-year-old got shot, he points out. There's the liquor store stoop where he regularly found bodies as a homicide detective. That open lot? That used to be an open-air heroin market where the fiends lined up 30 deep to get their hits.
He muses about the teens he encountered in the alley: "By arresting a couple of kids with weed, am I affecting the crime problem? I don't think I am. The power of that family will do more good for the kids than me taking them down to baby booking [juvenile detention]. Clearly we could fill up the jails with violations of the law. But I would trade a lot of missed drug lockups for a bad guy with a gun."
He looks out at the urban landscape - rows of boarded up houses, crumbling brick and wood in a weed-laced street; occasionally a swath illuminated by the surreal blue light of a Baltimore Police Department camera.
"Guns, guns, guns," he says. "It all comes back to guns."


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In today's technology-based society, there is a dire need for an energy plan that strikes a balance between fossil, renewable, and sustainable energy sources. Our dependence on finite energy sources is short sighted, says USM's Professor of Environmental Science Daniel Martinez in his new book, "The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems."
Co-authored with Ben Ebenhack, associate professor of petroleum engineering at Marietta College in Ohio, it offers readers information about energy options, their potential, and their limitations. The book was written for classroom use, but also is accessible to policy makers and others interested in sustainable energy.
"The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems" is now available in print, Kindle, and Nook.