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I was born in Itri my father is Orlando Capotosto and my Grandfather was Vincenzo Capotosto. My grandfathers brothers /sisters went to US and i believe settled in Cranston. My Grandfathers brother was called Cosmo Capotosto and i believe his children are Luca and Davide. We cant remember what his sisters name was.
My father is 82 yrs old and i thought i would enquire on this site in case some of our second cousins can get in touch with me.
I have been to Itri however my father Orlando moved to Australia in 1956 and we live in Newcastle NSW
If anyone in Cranston reads this we would love to hear from you.
Angela Capotosto/ Cardillo
Comment by Angela Capotosto— March 11, 2010 #
Hi Angela,
My father was Cosmo Capotosto he was originally from Itri and settled in Cranston, Rhode Island. I am one out of 6 children my brother is Luca Capotosto. Your grandfather Vincenzo was my father's brother and their sister was Angelina Fusco. Angelina's grandson was named David. I am very excited to get in touch with you. Please, contact me by email that way we can talk in more detail.
Your cousin,
Maria Capotosto Vartanian
Comment by Maria Capotosto Vartanian— April 1, 2011 #
I am David Bufalino as you know by now. I am the Grandson of Angelina Capotosto Fusco.
Comment by David Bufalino— February 14, 2016 #
Hello Valentino's Wife…
I love this blog… My Father (not by blood) is Italian. His last name is Iannone…(pronounced E-Ann-Own-E'). I can't claim the Italian blood, however the IRish temper keeps me fairly busy. lol! Love your garden posts. I've been adding lots of goodies to my soil. Today, tilled in some nitrogen rich coffee grounds from Starbucks. Tomorrow I will pick up the aged manure and peat moss. Do you live in a moist area? We have dry, hot summer's here and I have to ammend my soil well each year. So, that the soil will hold the moisture. Enjoy the Springy season!
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Riptide Mixed Martial Arts Center has relocated its facility from Hilton Head Island to a 4,000-square-foot space, located at 36 Persimmons St., Building 300, Suite 303 in Bluffton's Sheridan Park.
The new move comes just in time to help area residents keep their fitness New Year's resolutions. Riptide owner, John Juarez relocated to a much larger, more up-to-date facility in order to offer more classes for its members. In addition to Mixed Martial Arts cage training, Riptide now offers longer gym hours, bootcamp classes for women, more classes for teenagers and children and cross fitness training programs.
Riptide's trainers specialize in general physical training, as well as Jiu jitsu, Muay Thai kickboxing, self-defense and Mixed Martial Arts. All ages and abilities are welcomed. Riptide offers discounts for students, military and teachers.

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I had a Poll request over the weekend as to whom should the Mets target to improve their pitching. There are some decent arms, and some risks out there. There's nobody, however, that cries out, "Sign me, sign me."
Here's the main names on the list: Joel Pineiro, Jon Garland, Doug Davis, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, Ben Sheets, Chien-Ming Wang and Erik Bedard.
The Mets are talking with Smoltz and still are considering Pineiro.
So, who do you want?
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Of Oysters and Mammograms
"I can't believe they would put an economic value over the lives of fifteen or more people." (Statement of a woman whose father died as a result of eating raw oysters that contained a deadly bacteria.)
"Let the rationing begin." (Rep. David Camp, Ranking Republican on House Ways and Means Committee, responding to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Report that recommends women delay routine mammograms until age 50).1
Public health takes a beating again.
In the first case, the FDA has had to eat crow. Just last month, the agency trumpeted its "public health" duty to prevent a predictable number of deaths each year by banning the sale of untreated, raw oysters during the summer months. But now the FDA has been shut up by the industry and by too-powerful Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu. (She can pretty much get anything she wants, including her own Mardi Gras Float, at least while the health care reform bill is pending.) The agency has slunk away, murmuring something about studying "feasibility and costs."
In the second case, the jumpy recommendation against routine mammograms (and self-examinations) to detect breast cancer has brought a howl of protests. The objection: "Yes, the test only picks up one cancer case out of every 1,900 — but what if you're the one?" For opportunists in the Camp camp, this cold-blooded calculation serves as a timely, exploitable proxy for everything that's wrong about health care reform. Never mind that the proposed legislation does a dismal job at controlling anything — costs or procedures — and that rationing is a fact of life now under managed care.
And when it comes to the battle against breast cancer, stirring outrage is a pink breeze. Anything that would lead to even one more death — period — will be decried as the heartless elevation of population-based data over real lives.
It's not clear that federal authorities, here representing a population-based, public-health perspective, were right in either case. Perhaps they could have continued efforts at education in the first case (which the FDA said it had tried, without success for a decade), rather than requiring irradiation (which has its own PR cost). In the second case, even public health authorities are split on whether the evidence justifies the new recommendations. At least this was a non-binding task force, easily overcome by political outrage.
There are two issues here. First, public health works best when it can explain and justify its position in a way most reasonable people will find at least defensible. Even then, though, its recommendations — or even coercive steps — can be defeated when other forces (like the oyster lobby or the breast cancer survivor community) are more powerful.
But the more important point — and the one no one wants to discuss — is that we do make safety and efficiency trade-offs, all the time. We couldn't function without doing so, either in our own lives, or societally. Would routine mammograms be cost-justified if, say, they saved one life in one million? One can always say: "What if you're that one person?"
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First off, I'd like to say welcome to all the folks who have discovered my blog from the CWIM article I wrote.
Second, I'd like to thank all of my current readers for being so patient while I spent the summer working at the bookstore and dealing with family health issues. We are fine now, but it's been a long hot summer.
However, I was able to work on some things, several of which are pretty exciting. Of course, the most exciting project has been the conversion of books to ebooks. I have now successfully converted all of Emerald Tablet to ebook, and I almost have the Kindle version done as well. Annnnnd, the Emerald Tablet has a beautiful, fabulous new cover. Take a look:
And, if you want to see the first 3 chapters of the Emerald Tablet (and PJ's new teen book — not put out by CBAY, alas, but still cool), you can read the ebook sampler I put together for PJ. Click here to download it.
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Unsurpassed StyleHP innovation is most visible in its breakthrough notebook PC designs that truly integrate fashion and technology for today's mobile, digital lifestyle. High-gloss HP Imprint Finish encases the elegant, curvilinear form and is more durable than traditional painted surfaces. It features an HP-exclusive Echo pattern that was inspired by the rings forming a digital fabric that mimics our lives. Encouraging direct interaction, the backlit media control panel responds to the touch or sweep of a finger.HP's Notebook Design Group has been recognized by distinguished design institutions: International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards; iF International Forum Design Award; Industrial Design Excellence Awards; ID Magazine Annual Review; Good Design Awards.Mobile EntertainmentPersonal entertainment is now even easier to enjoy with an updated menu and built-in demos. Providing more choices than ever, HP QuickPlay enables access to DVDs, videos, photos, music, karaoke, games, Internet TV, and streamed or recorded TV (with an optional TV Tuner) at the touch of a button. Watch DVD movies on the full screen using simple media controls. Add music to your slide shows or videos with drag-and-drop functionality. Watch Internet TV. Throw an impromptu karaoke party or play preinstalled games from leading brands. Listen without disturbing others with included stereo earbud headphones. And control content from up to 10 feet away with the HP Mobile Remote Control that can be stored in the Express Card slot for convenience. It's time to play!Mobility with a twistFor those whose active lives require constant access to high-performance, easy-to-use computing and communication tools, the HP Pavilion tx2000 series Entertainment Notebook PC provides the ideal convergence of these features with exceptional entertainment options. And it's light enough to take everywhere! Its 12.1" screen twists 180? for presentations and DVD playback - and folds flat to enable the convenience of capturing hand-written notes and drawings. Staying in touch has never been easier with the integrated HP Webcam. With AMD Turiontm 64 dual core mobile technology and the same viewable screen content as a 15.4" system, the tx2000 provides all the power and performance of a mainstream notebook PC without the additional weight. Integrated Fingerprint Reader. A fingerprint reader offers advanced security by using fingerprints instead of standard passwords to access online accounts, such as banks and e-mail. To set up access, each fingerprint is associated with a password through the Digital Persona software.Touch Screen and HP rechargeableeraser pen. Interact directly with your system using your finger or stylus. With a Wacom digitizer the included pen is optimized for hand-writing capture and conveniently recharges while you write; it does not require a battery. Erasing notes on your screen is just like using a pencil: flip the pen over and erase! Use Windows Journal to take notes as you would on notebook paper. The tx2000 can convert handwriting into typed text.HP Webcam and Integrated Microphone. Turn your next instant message into a live video chat with the integrated webcam, omni directional microphone and IM solution of your choice. Optimized for low-light environments, it's great for capturing short videos or photos to e-mail to friends or share on your favorite social networking site.LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling. Create custom laser-etched disc labels right in the drive with LightScribe and preinstalled Roxio Express Labeler. Just burn data on the disc, flip it over and burn the cover image using any scanned image and/or text. Visit the LightScribe Web site for more information.
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text: How to Leave Money on the Table this Fall September 25, 2013 03:00 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Greg Henderson Drovers Editorial Director Email Feeder cattle prices are called a "runaway" this week. Declining corn prices has prompted cattle feeders to bid up yearling cattle prices to dizzying heights, which is great news if you're a seller. The market's weakness--if weakness is an accurate term this fall--is the price of calves. Sure, those prices are at dizzy levels, too, but auction market operators call the demand for lighter cattle a little soft. In fact, last week's National Feeder & Stocker Cattle summary from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service quoted new crop spring-born calves "weak to $5 (per hundredweight) lower, with the full decline noted in the Southeastern calf markets." Much of the weakness in calf markets has been attributed to the absence of buyers who also have farming chores, since many of those farmers have been busy with fall field work the past couple weeks. Want to know how to make up that $5? It's simple, livestock specialists say, precondition your calves before sale day this fall. If you sell your calves straight off the cow you're leaving money on the table. "There's a steep discount on calves that have not been preconditioned," says Mark Harmon, Joplin Regional Stockyards, Carthage, MO. He says he sees the discounts regularly as the auction market typically sells 5,000 to 6,000 stocker and feeder cattle each week this time of year. Veterinarians and animal health professionals recommend that calves are vaccinated and weaned 45 days prior to sale. Specifically, such a preconditioning program helps calves get started eating and gaining weight, and the incidence of health problems is greatly reduced as the cattle navigate through the marketing process to their next destination. Studies of market premiums suggest preconditioned calves can fetch a $5 to $10 per hundredweight premium for sellers, depending on the weight and quality of the cattle. That's a $25 to $50 per head premium on 500-pound calves. That's how much you'll be leaving on the table if you skip preconditioning your calves. Back to news


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Overton's Bolden Signs With Lipscomb
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Outfielder Michael-Allen Bolden from Overton High School has signed to play baseball next season at Lipscomb University.
Bolden, 6-foot-1, 170, was a 2004 All-District Tournament selection and a 2005 All-District selection.
"I feel there is a great opportunity to continue my education, and get a great one," Bolden said. "I also feel with the coaching and the facilities at Lipscomb there are enough things there to make me the best baseball player I can be."


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Andrew test out Product X by need2
Hey fellow good bros and gym warriors, I will beta testing a product for needto that he plans to come out with eventually. I have been lifting weights since the age of 14, started off doing more calesthetics of course. The only reason I got into weight training was to give me more strength on the baseball field. I noticed that as I got stronger the balls that I hit went farther, my arm strength got better and I got faster aka literally Bigger Strong Faster. LOL I like the way that sounds. Since the age of 16 I was diagnosed with a hyperactive hippocampus which led to HIGH and I mean HIGH testoterone levels, to the point that I have the epi ratio part of the hormonal drug test in sports while playing NCAA baseball LOL. In order to prove my innocence not only did I have to show the clearinghouse my documentation of my medical diagnosing, I had to take a polygraph test HAHAHA, of course I passed. I was always a athlete, I succeeded as running back in football but my parents did not want me getting hurt so after Freshman football I was forced to stop playing football. As a senior in Highschool, I batted over 400 with 13 homeruns and over 40 RBI's in 28 games. From Highschool I went to a community college in South Florida in which I excelled, from there I was sent to San Pedro, Dominican Republic where I showcased my skills for not 1 but a couple of organizations, the one complaint that I kept hearing from them was that I was not tall enough. (I am 5'8''-9'') I got fed up hearing that since I could literally throw a ball from home to second at about 90 mph which is RARE. One day in my dorm at San Pedro I see a UFC fight, and I say to myself hey none of those guys are tall but they can kick ass and compete. So I decide to go back home, quit baseball and focus on MMA as a whole. To my surprise I was really good at it, striking being my base since I started to learn boxing at the age of 13. I got real good at stand up and started to get the grasp of grappling and judo. People would always comment on me being a great wrestler but the funny thing was that I NEVER wrestled in highschool or college but the fact that wrestling runs in blood could be the reason why I am a natural at it. My cousin was a collegiate All American so it can explain a lot. The funny thing is that all my life as a Christian I was taught that fighting is bad even through sports but untill you learn about a sport you can't really talk, plus I have learn that people want to dictate your life, the only one that will dictate me besides myself is GOD. After 8 months of training, I decided to take an Amateaur fight to see how I would pan out, and boy did I do well. I knocked out the poor dude in 3 seconds with a viscous jab. Everyone commented on my heavy hands but I knew that it is all talk tilll you actually are living proof of it. Since then, I decided to keep training and get more refined. After a year of training I went pro, and have not lost yet. In the works of signing with major organizations but as I say MONEY TALKS. I am currently on a VIGOROUS training schedule that lasts 6 days a week. The work ethic I obtained from baseball carried onto MMA which helps a great deal and definitely gives me an edge over others. I am obssesed with shadowboxing, do it all the time, everywhere ranging from the supermarket to college LMAO. I do not do it to show off or intimidate people but to keep muscle memory within my body which is crucuial for learned behaviors. The reason I help out in forums is because I like to help people in general online and offline, but of course people need to be able to help themselves out as well. I became so helpful on forums that I became a representative for Anabolic Innovations in which that opened more overall doors for me. I have helped companies develop products as well that I knew from personal experience ACTUALLY worked. I am a true introvert so I am very private and task focused as you will see in my log. I just turned 23 but still feel how I felt during HighSchool if not better... LOL! My diet is pretty strict except that I LOVE SWEETS, especially Chocolate so don't be surprised to see cheat meals in my log that include cookies or snickers or anything of that nature. I have known needto for some time now and the dude is as genuine as they come which is why I chose to be beta-tester for his new product. I will be starting the beta product tommorow. I was told by needto that this product DRAMATICALLY boosts testosterone while lowering estrogen. needto told me that the average tester was getting a 300% increase in testosterone, talk about WOW that is a huge increase LOL! I know stacking this with some LCLT will do some justice which is what I plan on doing. I don't look to add on muscle with any supplement so I will not be posting pics unless people start raving to see pics LOL. I am looking more athletic needs such as strength/power output, recovery, aggression, drive, focus, sense of well being, coordination, memory, agility, endurance, glycogen retention, better quality of sleep which I have plenty of LOL. I know that many love bodybuilding but I am sure MMA is cool in your books to LOL, so feel free to show me some love cuz I got some love for ya all as well LOL!
I fight at 170 and my current weight is 171.5 so making weight is Cake LMAO, the thing is that I stay all year in shape so umm yea LOL. Here is a list of what to expect on my daily log ins:
Body composition
Sense of well being/mood
strength/power output
Sleep quality
Libido/sex drive
Training Intensity
Pheromone release
Let me explain the whole pheromone concept to those that do not know about them. They are bodily chemical messengers that we all give off, some more and others less. The None based mones are masculine and dominant mones. The Nol based mones are friendly mones. The androsterone is masculine yet Wisdom like and comforting. We all carry different ratios of them, I tend to carry more None than any but I definitely carry androsterone since I am a wise dude and always learn from my mistakes. The reason that I have such high levels of None is that I have high levels of testosterone, testosterone metabolites become androstenone within the sweat/urine and feces. People are usually pretty darn intimidated by me which is normal and expected with my body chemistry. I expect my Nones to elevate even further which is going to make people even distant themselves even further from me. The funny thing about Nones is that they STINK, my friends and family always tell me how much I stink lol. The other day after grappling training, my trainer's girlfriend comes into the complex and starts talking to us, and she goes what is that smell, it smells like ass. I just laught and admit that it was the scent of my sweat. People can literally smell from at least 50 feet which is crazy. The funny thing is other women have gotten real close to me and said you smell nice while everyone else was like what is this chick talking about he smells shit. If I don't overly intimidate a woman, they absolutely are infatuated with me, the reason I can't say that I do well with women is because half the time I scare them away LMAO. One time when I was learning about pheromones, I picked up some NPA which is androsteNone concentrate, what a mistake. I took ONLY 1 dab and went out. I had people literally moving from one side of the room to the other with doing their best not to make eye contact with me. I have had women in the past cry or run away when I have tried to approach them in a friendly manner. So yeah I am like Beast from the movie Beauty and the Beast LMAO. Dudes either try to be real friendly with me or avoid me at all costs, it is pretty funny. Anyways, if you got more questions about pheromones go ahead and shoot.
I was instructed to take 3 caps first thing when I wake up in which I will also take 1.5g of LCLT before eating breakfast. I don't count calories so don't break your heads over my caloric intake LOL. I will being giving a breakdown of my training daily schedule, it does change weekly since my trainers have hectic schedules but I am a priority so we work with each other. My lifing protcols are crazy so again bare with me, and I will not show numbers since I do not have a video to show for the lifts. Other than that my good bros enjoy sit tight and enjoy the ride, cuz this going to be a hell of a ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds good, but what is LCLT?
Day 1 of Product X
So I took 3 caps as soon I woke up with the LCLT. About 20 minutes after taking it, I felt mellow and in a really pleasant mood, laughing from anything and just jollly as can be. I also noticed that body temperature increased quite well, started to get a thermogenic effect which I know is from androgen elevation. I also noticed a slight increase in testes fullness....Here is where it gets interesting; about an hour into it, I started to pee every 10 minutes which tells me that DHT levels rose which is a GOOD thing. See DHT is responsible for sex drive, CNS stimulation, mood, strength, some endurance, natural anti-estrogenic properties, 10x more anabolic than testosterone with the skeletal structure, hardens muscle, and increases aggression. I definitely noticed that my pheromone output was strong and was not so friendly since I could not get people to make eye contact with me no matter how friendly and welcoming I presented myself which is a sign of more androstenone production. I did get the attention of young women (probably 18) she gave me a naughty stare but then was timid as usual LOL. So as soon as I started to do muay thai drills, boy did I have nice calm aggression, even my trainer commented on my focus and drive. When it came time to spar I noticed a little more endurance and the will to take more punishment which was pretty interesting. After 1 hour muay thai I started to work on grappling/wrestling submissions and combat sambo. It went real smooth, again the drive was still there and as I started to do 5 minute sessions I could not help to notice the aggression that I had which helped to control people a bit easier than normal. After all that grappling I did 3 hours of lifting:
Bench with different weights, a total of 8 sets
different dumbell exercises that included dumbell cleans, 7 sets
500 push ups
200 pull ups
1500 sit-ups including 2 sets of weighted leg lifts
12 sets of squats with different weights
3 sets of lunges with weighted plates
100 sprawls with weights
shadow boxing in between sets
25 pullup dips
150 weighted dips
leg curls 5 sets
leg extensions 5 sets
Meal 1: Lots of oatmeal, 1 banana, berries, 2 whole eggs, 1 scoop of WheyToBuildMuscle Chocolate flavor, water
Meal 2: Spinach, 1/2 burgers, cup full of almonds, water
Meal 3: Sprouted grain bread with Almond butter, left over salmon from Sunday, some broccoli, tortilla chips, and water
Meal 4: Green Apple with Peanut Butter, some raisins, 1 scoop of whey with 2 tbsp of EVOO, and water
Meal 5: Brown rice with Frijoles, romanian lettuce, 3 Chicken breasts with 3 tbsps on EVOO and 1tbsp of EVCO poured over it and water
So as you can see I have quite the appetite but train like a horse, I forgot to mention that 5-6 days a week as soon as I get up I start to shadow box and then hit my own heavy bag for 30-60 minutes depending on my schedule.
I will start doing the ratings, on day 5 when I feel its more applicable. I don't want to hear oh that the placebos talking LOL!
ill like a sample.
Hope you love it bro! I'm excited to see your progress.
I'm in bro, love the detail in here keep it upConfucius say...
A ripped guy who eats a pizza, then does an hour of cardio is still ripped.
A fat guy who eats a pizza, then does an hour of cardio is still fat.
Thanks for the support my good bros!
Day 2
Took 3 caps before breakfast and about 30 minutes later still noticed a warming sensation of the body, did not pee too much today. I also noticed that I was in a great mood but also real energized and sort of aggressive, my scalp was itchy today as well. Endurance was great today during MMA sparring, I noticed that I felt the need to keep pushing even though I was starting to lose some breath. Another interesting occurence was that I landed every single takedown attempt which usually I land 90% of them, today I was NOT stopped once which was real encouraging to me. Did muay thai pad work for about an hour including sprawls, again I definitely noticed a nice drive/focus zone during this session. I definitely gave off a putrid smell today because at times I had to put my nose across my shoulder not to smell by chest area, but my upper lip was not helping LOL! The only thing that I don't like when testosterone and NONE levels rise is how people normally at least say hello are too timid to greet me and kind of avoid me yet they stare at me from a distance, some real annoying garbage. I also seemed a bit more vasolated than normal, especially during MMA sparring, it was pretty cool. Hunger also seems to be up a bit because I ate dinner not too long ago and I am already ready for a snack. My focus to do paperwork seems to be good as well because I am less distracted than normal which is definitely to my benefit since I can get the case of the ADHD's LOL.
I had a lighter day of conditioning as follows:
100 pull ups
1000 situps with leg lifts and crunches
5 50 yard sprints
5 sets of a specific back exercise that I do not know the name of LMAO
jump roping 10 minutes
5 sets of dot drills
5 sets of tricep extensions
5 sets of exercises for the traps
10 sets of the these power output leg exercises
Meal 1: Crap load of Oatmeal, 2 scoops of whey, blueberries, 2 scoops of natty PB, and water
Meal 2: Sprouted grain bread with Almond Butter, organic mixed greens, 1 banana, and water
Meal 3: 1 scoop of whey with 2 tbsps of EVCO, 1 green apple, and water
Meal 4: Brown Rice with Red Pinto beans, broccoli, 2 chicken breasts, an ice cream sundae, some chocolate chip cookies, water
Meal 5: Cheerios with Almond milk, 1 scoop of whey, 1 cup of almonds, and water
Still going to eat LOL
Day 3
About 45 minutes after my dosing of Product X I got a pretty overwhelming heat sensation that lasted for about 30 minutes, my face warm and somewhat red, was kind of cool LOL. I noticed A LOT of aggression today which I like, when I was driving anyone who made a mistake blew me up instantly. I wanted to hurt my grappling partners today during grapplig sessions. I did pure grappling with different partners for an hour in the cage, definitely was aggressive somewhat of an ahole since I did moves that you should not really do to your partner but as I said before my aggression and temper was up. Did pure muay thai pad work today for at least 45 minutes with my trainer, work on angles an so forth, had a nice drive factor. I definitely noticed a rise in libido today, normally I don't think about women during training hours but today I did somewhat which is RARE. Nones were high and an asian woman at the gym was ovulating so she could not help but to stare at me in a very naught matter, can't blame her though hehe.
Today's workout:
5 sets of incline bench
5 sets of kettlebell drills
1200 situps including weighted leg lifts
8 sets of heavy weight squats
5 sets of hamstring extensions
7 sets of dumbell based exercises
500 push ups
100 pullups with weights included
250 weighted dips
5 sets of 5 minute wall sits
Endurance was up in the weight room from what I can tell, which is def a good thing for me.
Meal 1: Organic Raisin Bran with Almond milk, 2 scoops of wheytobuild chocolate, grapes, and water
Meal 2: Sprouted Grain bread with 5tbsp of natty PB, 1 scoop of whey, 1 banana and water
Meal 3: Turkey breast slices with organic mixed greens, almonds, EVOO and EVCO drizzled over the greens, cranberries, and water
Meal 4: Pita roll with tuna, spinach, and water
Meal 5: Brown rice with pigeon peas, 2 Chicken breasts, some mixed greens,with 2 tbsp EVOO, some more almonds, and water
Still going to eat another meal.
Day 4
Well I am not sure if my body went through a heating sensation today since I went outside and did sprints almost right after dosing Product X. Mood was great today, I was very focused overall. Calm aggression is WAY UP, only when needed. Today I worked on submissions with a well a experienced MMA fighter who has been in the game for 10 plus years. We worked on a lot of arm bar techiques from guard, we also worked on some different crucifixes from Guard. Then we MMA sparred for 7 rounds of 5 minutes and I was on FIRE LOL, had great overall performance. My drive factor was GREAT during pure grappling sessions to the point people were getting frustrated in rolling with me. I must say I left the MMA facility in a GREAT mood. Hunger was up today for sure, I had to pick up take extra protien intake today. My adrenals were up today which was good stuff, made the workout easier. Testes definitely plump as well HAHAHA! Surprisingly people were talkative to me usually its hi and bye but today unfortunately people wanted to conversate. A woman entered a conversation I was having with some dude and kept talking to me to the point she gave me her number LOL, at least she was pretty and in good shape. I know I was releasing some nols due to my good mood so that is what made it easier for the woman to feel comfortable around me.
Meal 1: Oatmeal with 1 banana, almond milk with 2 scoops of wheytobuild chocolate
Meal 2: Sprouted Grain bread with 5 tbsp of natty PB, turkey breasts slices, 1 orange, and water
Meal 3: Sprouted grain bread with Albacore tuna, with organic mixed greens, and water
Meal 4: 2 Angus burgers with cole slaw, spinach, 1 sweet potatoe, and water
Meal 5: cheat meal that consist of the following: 12 pieces of chicken from a bucket of KFC, 1 pint of mashed potatoes, 1 pint of cole slaw, buscuits, 1 chocolate filled donut, 2 cheese sticks from Pizza Hut, and water
2oo pull-ups
1 10 minute wall sit
1000 situps including some leg lifts
5 minutes of jump roping
leg pushes for 10 sets
dot drills
5 sets of hammer pulls
Day 5
Took 3 caps first thing when I woke with LCLT, still getting some body heat increase along a real mellow down feeling. Mood was awesome LOL, felt like the King of France. The quality of training was OUTSTANDING today, I felt great during MMA sparring, and was wrestling extrememly well. I did 5 rounds of 5 minutes of MMA hard sparring, definitely bringing it to my partner, had more endurnace than usual which allowed me to be RELENTLESS! I was definitely in the zone because my partner threw a right hand that landed on my right cheek, which led to a popped zit, which led to blood, and I DID NOT NOTICE it till my trainer came and took a look. After sparring and grappling which again I excelled real well today in, I hit the speed and power bag for another 30 minutes. It was funny cuz when I saw that I had 5 minutes left till the end of the session, I started to grunt just to make sure that I pushed hard and I must say it felt good LOL!
I noticed that my erone levels are higher from I assume DHT level increases because people have been more wanting to talk to me. Unfortunately I know my nones are still very high because some chick came in today the facility today, when she saw me she got uncomfortable and stopped smiling, also could not even say a friendly hello LOL. I felt bad and tried to say hello but as soon I went to approach her, she did 180 and split like race car. I did not lift today since I wanted give my muscles a break for a hard workout tommorow.
Meal 1: Organic Raisin Bran, 1 cup of quinoa flakes, berries, 2 scoops of WheytoBuildMuscle Chocolate, and water
Meal 2: Grilled chicken breast with organic mixed greens, almonds, EVOO drizzled over the greens, water
Meal 3: Sprouted Grain bread with Almond butter, 1scoop of whey
Meal 4: Oatmeal with 1 green apple, 2 soops of whey, 1 full carrot, water
Meal 5: Cooked Platains, 2 baked Chicken Breasts, EVCO drizzled over the platains, some ritz crackers, pudding, some organic ice cream, some grapes and water


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Events in the past, not exactly oral history, but pretty close to it.
National Jukebox at the Library of Congress
The soundtrack of our grandparents' and great-grandparents' generation is now on the web in a large (and growing) collection called The National Jukebox, located at www.loc.gov/jukebox. The first phase of the historic audio recordings range from turn of the 20th century to 1929, and range from music (Jazz, opera, vaudville, ) and spoken word of all kinds.
The collection was digitized from 78 rpm recordings of the Victor label of records. Sony owns the license to the collection, but made an arrangement with the Library of Congress for people to listen to them. (You can hear, you can share, you can make playlists, but you cannot download the music)
It's the iTunes of Retro Music.
Crossword Puzzle Blues: Duncan Sisters (1924)
Darn these words that crossword puzzle me
I'll be basking [?] till they muzzle me
Some demented nut invented
this way to stay discontented.
(The Duncan Sisters also performed Um-um-da-da. Can't play the embedded song? Permalink on National Jukebox site)
Back in the day between ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 12, 2011 in
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• Restoration
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Two generations removed from an Eyewitness to Lincoln
He said, "I asked her if she'd seen anybody famous, anything I might have read about." It bought a startling response. "She told she'd seen Lincoln debating Douglas when she was a girl." That memory came back to him from freshly-baked bread.
It all began at dinner last Monday. The three of us sat down. Before long, the waiter brought us bread. He took a slice, buttered it, took a bite, and chewed it. Then a story came out, about a woman whose house he went to when he was a boy—about, oh, eight years old or so. He liked to be there on the day she baked bread.
He is my boyfriend's father, Doc M Sr. He was in town for a visit.
He was born in 1926, the year that Winnie The Pooh was published, and Henry Ford established the 40-hour work week. In the year he was born, Moussolini came into power, and Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne in Japan. World War 1, the war to end all wars, had been over a scant 8 years. ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 19, 2011 in
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The Mushroom Cloud Photograph: Preview of Digital Audio Workshop for SOHA Conference
Family history meets History history: For the Digital Audio Workshop I'm teaching at the SOHA Conference, I will work from an interview with the granddaughter of the physicist who conducted the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Photographer Rachel Fermi talks about discovering a color snapshot of a mushroom cloud in a box of family photographs. That discovery led her to create (with co-author Esther Samra) a book-length photo essay of the Manhattan Project, called Picturing The Bomb.
Here's a little foretaste of the audio we will work with at the workshop, which takes place in a week and a half in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
And yes, you can still register!!
Here are some photos from the interview (during the last days of 2010), and four short edited audio excerpts.
In the FIRST AUDIO RECORDING [MP3, 1:07], Rachel describes the background—how she's related to Enrico Fermi, and what she was told about him when she was young. (Although she was born in the United States, Rachel grew up in Cambridge, England.)
"I was told a little bit about my grandfather. I knew that he was a physicist, and I knew that he'd won a Nobel Prize. But as I was ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 21, 2011 in
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• Photographs
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Katrina and The Flood, We Watched Everything Float Away
Podcast memories of Katrina and the flood, from Louisiana State University's Oral History Program. This is the second in the Katrina retrospective, using oral histories.
The MP3 audio podcast (playable right in the browser window) contains numerous clips from interviewees.
It was through listening to this podcast that I learned of the Floodwall exhibit and oral history that I wrote about in the previous post.
(Stick through the first minute of audio of the recording—unfortunately, the first 50 seconds of the 27-minute recording is boomy with that icky metallic note of excessive audio compression. It seriously gets much, much better after that. I nearly clicked away a few seconds in, thinking the entire recording would be like the first part, but I was very glad I stuck out the first minute.)
Some highlights from the podcast, with recollections of Katrina:
How memories of Hurricane Betsy (1965) helped one person decide what, exactly, to ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 02, 2010 in
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Katrina and The Flood, 5 years later: Floodwall
How can you possibly imagine the destruction of an entire city? How do you imagine an event so impossibly large? How do you get past "the mind boggles"? Floodwall is an art installation, a "Wailing Wall" with an oral history component. The brainchild of Jana Napoli of New Orleans, Floodwall is a way to wrap your mind around the destruction of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina and the Flood.
Her art installation is a collection of household drawers, scrounged from the post-flood detritus from cleaned out houses. When Napoli returned back to New Orleans after the flood, she was stunned by the silence of the empty city. "I saw these emptied out drawers and thought, 'Each one of these is a household.' I began to collect them." On the back of each drawer, she wrote the address where she picked it up. She couldn't stop collecting them.
Napoli: "The problem is, where do you save—the first 50 were easy; they went out in the garage—where do you save 700 dresser drawers while they dry out and fall apart?"
How can a person imagine the immensity of ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 31, 2010 in
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Thoughts about Faces of America
Just watched the first episode of Faces of America American Lives, the annual February PBS documentary by Henry Louis Gates Jr. He looks at the immigrant experience, and the family history that brought certain people to the United States – the parents and grandparents of Americans of note– Kristi Yamaguchi, Yo Yo Ma, Mike Nichols, Louise Edrich, Mehmet Oz, Elizabeth Alexander, Malcolm Gladwell, Eva Longoria and Mario Batali (I guess we hear more next time from Stephen Colbert, Meryl Streep, and Queen Noor). The heart of this episode dwelled in the events of World War II, and the way that great event shaped the lives of ancestors of Yamaguchi, Ma, Nichols and Edrich.
One trademark about these Gates productions is the revelation about an ancestor. You watch Gates direct the person to turn the page of the book and take in the surprise fact about the Ancestor To The Celebrity. What did figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi's grandfather do when he served in WW2? Surprise! What became of the other family members of Mike Nichols who stayed in the old country? Surprise!
Some surprises are affirming and uplifting, others are revelation of unknown tragedy, examples of prejudice and injustice. Still others exemplify the torn loyalties of new Americans who support their adopted country that is now at war with The Old Country.
"Faces of America" illuminates the ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 10, 2010 in
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Census 2010: A family history perspective
Pia Lopez of the SacBee opines that the census is much more than How Many People, What Ages are they? She describes all her family history that's contained in census past. She recounts everything she knows of her family history that'd be lost if a proposed law that asks Just Four Questions Only (name, age, date of response, number of people living in one household) had been in force at the time her ancestors filled out the census. enacted.
From my family's oral history, I knew that my mother's grandfather had left Ireland for New York in 1893 and that he worked for James Butler's Irish neighborhood grocery store chain.
But the June 6, 1900, census snapshot fills in a whole lot more fascinating detail. Martin E. Roache lived at 551 W. 152nd St., near Broadway (one block from the Hudson River) in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He was boarding with the Schmidt family.
The husband, age 42, had arrived from Germany in 1875 and was a baker. The wife, age 39, was born in New York, the daughter of a German immigrant and a native-born New Yorker. They had two children, ages 10 and 5. The older child was attending school. A ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 05, 2010 in
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Great Grandma's 1918 Flu letter mentioning Vicks VapoRub makes it into the News-Record
Greensboro News-Record recounts the history of Vicks VapoRub in the 1918 flu epidemic, and I and my great-grandmother get a mention. Vick's VapoRub was invented in Greensboro, North Carolina.
A coupla years I came across a letter my Great Grandma Fannie wrote to her daughters Florence and Doris during the 1918 flu epidemic. I was captivated both by mentions of the flu (the letter was written during December, 1918) and tickled by the description of Vick's VapoRub. You can read the whole thing here and see a page of the letter, and the clippings from the newspaper article, which I transcribed.
Last week, I was contacted by Donald W Patterson from the News-Record, and we spoke briefly about the Billings Gazette article and the letter and my thoughts. I told him more of what I knew, that Great Grandma Fannie wrote her daughters weekly. No, I didn't know if there were more ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on June 29, 2009 in
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Flying Thuds into North Vietnam
Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North. Air & Space Magazine, Smithsonian. On the weekend of April 4 & 5th, I was in Arizona to attend a wedding and to interview my uncle for the Veterans History Project. Among the many things my uncle did in his Air Force career was to fly F105s as a fighter pilot, flying 5 more missions than the required 100 missions into North Vietnam that completed a tour of duty.
My uncle mentioned that the latest Air & Space magazine had an article on the F105s. I found the article online; hence this link and post.
Other things my uncle mentioned that the article does not:
The tires would last for two flights. Takeoff, land, takeoff, land, change tires. That plane was so heavy on takeoff—what with fuel, external fuel tanks, and the ordinance they had on board, the plane was heavy at takeoff—50,000 pounds. Sometimes they had to rolling at 300 mph before the plane got airborne. Landing, the plane was 25,000 or 30,000 pounds. (I'm reciting the weights from memory; I'd have to go back and listen to get exact figures, but the point is takeoff weight was close ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 14, 2009 in
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• Personal History
• Veterans History Project
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Photography changes what we remember
This 3.5 minute video (direct YouTube link; embedded below) is an interview with Hugh Talman, a photographer with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He muses on his act of photographing the aftermath of Katrina. The curator who was planning to visit the area asked him, "What would you photograph?" His reply: "you'd photograph the evidence of the power of Katrina. I don't style myself as photojournalist, but it turned into having photojournalistic aspects to it." The video shows some of his photos. Most striking: photographs of an object where it was found (in its full post-Katrina context), versus the object photographed the way Talman normally works with objects, shot in the sanitized setting of a photo studio. What a contrast.
Before I watched the video (and saw just its name—"changes what we remember"), I thought, "Oh, this might relate to photos and memories and how to use photos to nudge or direct memories." Not so pointed as that. It's more that a collection of photographs is a kind of memory artifact of how it was. The contrast between an object's plain (studio) background versus that object in its environment so powerfully conveys the power of Katrina. The two photos of the same object may as well be two different objects. I'm inspired to hunt more carefully when I look at old photographs for objects and their contexts, and the clues they might provide about a person or a time. I'm thinking ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 10, 2009 in
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• Interviewing
• Photographs
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Random Find: How Railroads made the West
[Seattle Times] Book and Tacoma Exhibit describe how the "transportation revolution configured not just the landscape, but the very mindset of the American West." The book is The West the Railroads Made, by Carlos A. Schwantes and James P. Ronda (Washington State Historical Society/University of Washington Press). The exhibit is at Washington State Historical Museum in Tacoma (through January 24, 2009)
The article provideds some examples of The Change We Heed—as it reshaped life in that time:
Henry David Thoreau was one of the earliest observers to note the changes in the rhythms of American life triggered by the shift from stagecoach to rail transportation: "Do they not talk and think faster in the depot than they did in the stage-office?"
Rail travel didn't just speed things up; it codified time and industrial standards in unprecedented ways. Early in the railroad age, each town and city had its own time zone — a system that might work in the age of stagecoach transportation, but became untenable in the rail era.
The United States established four standard time zones. After ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 24, 2008 in
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LIFE magazine photo archive now searchable on Google
LIFE photo archive hosted on the web by Google. Photos go back to the 1860s, and sketches & etchings go back to the 1750s. Wow! Here's the Google blog post about it. There goes the afternoon. I've already found an interesting railroad set. There goes the afternoon! [via Lifehacker]
Not only is this cool, but it's a good thing to poke through if you're going to sit down and interview someone. It's better to get some research in about the time and place where your interviewee lived. What was it like in 1950s? What about such-n-such events? Spending time in collections such as this helps to take you, the questioner, there, and ask better questions of your interviewee.. I've been thinking about online repositories of supporting information
P.S. Southern Pacific Rail Road. Dispatcher, perhaps? That was my grandfather's job and employer
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 18, 2008 in
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• Interviewing
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Towers of Gold: History of the man indistinguishable from history of the State of California
It's a personal family historian's Best of All Possible Worlds scenario – follow a hankering to learn more family history for the sake of the kids, and go to the state historical society, discover not just one but dozens of boxes of archived materials about Great-Great Grandpa, and spend the next 8 years researching and writing a book about how that Great Great Grandpa, Isaias W. Hellman, helped make California. Frances Dinkelspiel's book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California was released last week.
I first learned of Frances Dinkelspiel and her Great Great Grandfather during Southern California's record rainy season in 2005. Kevin Roderick, of LA Observed, published her rejected op ed about the rainiest season ever. I was blogging the wet season, so I linked to it in my research of writings about the wettest year on record (1861) in CA. From that time, I intermittently followed Ghost Word, the blog of Berkeley-based Frances Dinkelspiel, which covered writing, journalism, and her work researching and writing about Isaias Hellman.
The story of Isaias Hellman in California begins the decade after statehood (1850) and ends just after WWI. In 1859, Hellman emigrated to Los ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 17, 2008 in
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• History
• Personal History
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Orange County Historical
O.C. History Roundup. I'm in Orange County (CA) right now, where I grew up and where my parents live. I came across this site a few days ago, and it definitely merits a link and a mention. Blogger Chris Jepson has lived in OC for 30 years, and works in local history in some fashion. The most recent post features vintage movies of Disneyland.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 09, 2008 in
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• Links
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Hope Dies Last
Studs Terkel's Hope Dies Last has been my bedtime reading of late. Studs interviewed a number of people (post 9/11) on the topic of hope. (The book was published in 2003.) The book has stories from a range of people, ranging from notable figures (Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay) and John Kenneth Galbraith, elected officials, teachers, clergy, musicians, activists, organizers, students, and more.
I'm not quite done with the book, but today—the day after Super Tuesday, which is also Ash Wednesday—is a good day to write about it. (I'm giving up reading political blogs for lent, a hard thing to do today, especially, since my state held an election yesterday. The upside is that posting here ought to increase accordingly. )
On this site, I veer away from politics and religion. Still, hope runs through both of those topics. And today, a little of politics and a little of religion, and a lot of oral history find common ground in Terkel's book. Hope Dies Last offers a fascinating glimpse into contemporary history. These are the stories that aren't "before my time" but during my ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 06, 2008 in
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• History
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All IT services, processes, organizational structure and technology are "vulnerable" and hence should be open to the positive impact of CSI.
This presentation focuses on CSI and the positive impact it can have on the business. CSI's focus is on identifying, prioritizing and choosing improvement opportunities in the Service Organization that will best benefit the business.
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Continual Service Improvement in IT – Getting the Business to Care
Nov 30 2017
56 mins
Lou Hunnebeck
Everyone is so busy working on projects and on normal daily activities to keep the lights on, there hardly seems time to spend on continual improvement efforts. Any what about the funding? It's easy to explain to the business why funds should be found for new systems or exciting new features, but how do we get them excited about improving processes or other methods? In our session, we will: •Explore the benefits that continual improvement efforts can provide to the business •Discuss methods of marketing these benefits to gain support and funding Whether improving services themselves, or our associated processes and work methods, returning value to the business is the mission.
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The Service Desk on the Front Lines of Cyber-Resilience
Oct 11 2017
61 mins
Bob Rice
Don't be the next news headline!
Recent theft of business critical information occurred because a Service Desk provided information to a cyber-crook that allowed access to internal business critical servers. The information stolen could impact national security interests. Why did that happen? How could it happen? Expensive technology did not stop this breach. How could the Service Desk have been better prepared?
Security breaches and the theft of intellectual property and personal and financial information are too common. The service desk is KEY to ensuring the early detection of security events and providing the first-line response. So what role should the service desk play in early identification of security events, and how can the service desk best be prepared to respond?
Are there best practices to provide guidance to develop robust cyber-protection? This session explores cyber-resilience best practices and the impact the service desk plays in response and cyber-resilience.
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How to Assess and Improve Your Problem Management Process
Jul 26 2017
56 mins
John Clipp and Ted Gaughan
This presentation will offer guidance on using the ISO/IEC 15504/33000 Assessment Methodology to conduct a maturity assessment of your Problem Management Process as part of your Continual Service Improvement (CSI) initiative.
With the goal of achieving continuous improvement of the Problem Management Process, ISO/IEC 15504/33000 offers a structured methodology for process baseline and follow-on assessments. As a flexible assessment solution, which can be adapted to a company of any size, an assessment using the ISO/IEC 15504/33000 methodology provides the first step in a Continual Service Improvement initiative.
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Simplifying Service Response with Standard+Case
May 4 2017
57 mins
Brian Newcomb and Edward Gray
In this webinar, Brian will introduce the Standard+Case approach and discuss benefits for both IT and non-IT service providers.
Description: Service Management best practice describes many different situations that a provider must deal with. Incidents, Problems, Requests, Events, Changes – all with best practice processes of their own, but while these distinct classifications provide clarity of measurements they can also get very confusing for first line resources handling the majority of customer contacts. The Standard+Case approach can complement best practices while leading to a more efficient adoption and understanding by service provider staff.
Brian Newcomb is the Director of Technology, Process, and Data Solutions within the Office of Human Resources at The Ohio State University. His team is responsible for aligning HR information systems and related technology with business processes while delivering the data required to drive business decisions. Brian has worked in technical, leadership, and consultancy positions over the last 20 years and has led numerous IT Service Management initiatives and organizational transformation efforts. Today, Brian uses this experience along with industry certifications in ITIL, CobIT, and LeanIT to promote process improvement, maximize value, and foster a customer centric culture.
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Lana Thelen is the College Librarian at Relay School of Education in New York City. Previously, Lana worked as College Librarian at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, and as Deputy Director and Outreach Librarian at Perkins Braille & Talking Book Library. She also has experience working in archives, special collections, and in online information environments.
Lana is a 2005 ALA Spectrum Scholar, the 2006 APALA Scholarship recipient, a 2007 ALA Emerging Leaders participant, and a 2009 ACRL Librarian Scholarship recipient. She is also a life member in Beta Phi Mu, the library and information science honors society.
Lana is active in libraryland and enjoys presenting at various events and conferences. She enjoys exploring the intersections of librarianship and social justice and is active with Radical Reference. She also had fun completing her first term on the ALA Spectrum Jury in Spring, 2010.
Lana was born and raised on a working farm in Watsonville, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in 2006. Lana is proud to be the first person in her family to get a Master's Degree, and shares the honor with her brother, Dustin, of being the first in their family to go to college.