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Anger Therapist
Kevin Fleming Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of anger management in a very humane yet fresh perspective. You see, anger is a normal emotion but it is the valence (intensity) as well as the coupling choice of what one does with this that is the problem. Telling someone to "not" do it or modifying behavior with a trite psychological plan that only breeds a compliant response is not the way to change anger. Brainwave optimization is a new cutting edge technology that allows one to rewire circuitry responsible for reactivity driving the anger. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at email@example.com or 877-606-6161.
Anger Therapist
Tom Petit, Ph.D., LMHC, CCMHC, CAP
Licensed Mental Health Counselors / Board Certified Coaches
Destructive, uncontrolled anger damages relationships, marriages, children, entire families, career advancement...and oneself. It can destroy lives. Anger needs management, harnessing & work to use its energy for productive lives. Good can come out of the chaos - it takes work and a commitment to change. It is possible. My clients learn to control anger, use the energy for good and repairing damage to relationships. Whether dealing with current or past events, or both, my clients learn to make sense out of their lives and move past and forward in ways that bring personal and relational health, healing and practical ways to move to better places in their lives & the lives of others.
Anger Therapist
Julie Ann Teeling, MA, LMHC, NCC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Anger is commonly a shield to protect us from feelings of hurt, pain, sadness, and fear. I provide tools to help manage the angry feelings by helping to increase insight and eventually help w/ the healing process. Sometimes anger feels good to release in the short term however the negative consequences tend to add up over time especially to relationships.
Anger Therapist
Karen Allen, LMHC, CHT, CAMS
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
I am a Certified Anger Management Specialist and member of the National Anger Management Association. The approach I use is more than learning a few calming skills. My clients work on identifying and resolving the root of their anger. Anger management therapy is a 16-week course, including assessments. It involves work outside therapy sessions and daily completion of an anger log. If you are serious about tackling anger problems, this therapy has the tools to help you achieve your goal.
Anger Therapist
Clarissa Crystal-Belle, Clarissa Crystal-Belle, LMHC
Star Point Counseling Center
At Star Point Counseling Center we help clients understand their anger triggers and teach them how to utilze tools to demote the anger triggers.Our counselors are skilled in helping people learn to manage and resolve anger. After therapy, you won't have to "control" your anger, as you will learn how to change your thinking patterns so you no longer respond to the triggers that previously led to your anger.
Anger Therapist
Kathy Long, MA, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Anger is a necessary emotion. It can motivate you to action. However, excessive or misplaced anger creates problems and pain. Let me help you find the best way to express your anger in a safe and productive way. As you release the negative energy, you will find you are able to experience more peace, joy and love in your life. You can also become more powerful as you learn to use defend yourself in acceptable and positive ways.
Anger Therapist
Heather Widmer, LMHC, CAP
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
I use Christian-faith based counseling as a way to reduce anger as well as multiple cognitive behavioral techniques and homework assignments. Deep breathing, meditation and muscle relaxation as well as other creative forms of expression are used in session and during session time as a way to get you re-focused and in the present. Examination of underlying causes for anger are also explored and examined as well as forgiveness work if needed.
Anger Therapist
Kristina Martin, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Anger seems to be running rampant in society today. If you just can't seem to shake that underlying anger and/or have problems expressing your feelings in a healthy and productive manner, I am here to help. Using Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies we can address not only the behavioral management of anger, but also identifying and modifying the underlying root causes of your anger.
Anger Therapist
The Holistic Mental Health Clinic, LMHC's and LCSW's
Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Understanding the roots of Anger including the biological basis for problems with Anger is something I can offer you. As an Affiliated Education Center with the Amen Clinics I offer a Brain Health Assessment so that you can better understand how your brain uniquely works. Using holistic and traditional therapies we target treatment for your anger problem giving much better results. As a Level ll EMDR specialist, if the roots of your anger are from past trauma we can naturally heal your brain from this trauma and free you to have the satisfying and successful relationships you desire.
Anger Therapist
Steve Graham, PhD, DMin
Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst
So often the approach to anger management is to tell someone to stop acting out on angry feelings: just behave, just control yourself. My sense is that the vast majority of people who struggle with anger are angry for important reasons. You have dealt with enough shame and embarrassment over this; I would like to help you try to get to the heart of the matter. Most people find that the journey to discover the underlying reasons for anger, if it occurs in a safe and empathic environment, is profoundly healing. Not only are angry reactions minimized, but anger itself seems much more manageable.
Anger Therapist
Joel Schmidt, MA, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
I often refer to Anger as a "secondary emotion", which is often a complex emotion that is the result of other underlying feelings and circumstances, some of which include: sadness, lack of control, injustice, jealousy, and disrespect. I help those I serve become aware of those feelings below the surface and provide evidence based strategies that can be used to decrease feelings of anger and to effectively deal with feelings of anger when they occur.
Anger Therapist
Brian Nussbaum, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Traditional anger management has a bad rap for a reason. It doesn't work for most people. Effective anger management starts with understanding what is beneath anger. We will develop a toolbox of options that you can tap into when triggered. You don't necessarily need to change. In fact, you are probably just fine as you are. What can change is how you respond the challenges that lead to anger and angry behavior. We will work together to find new ways of responding that lead you to a better outcome, a better result.
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Thank you for visiting our Florida page of anger counselors in Seffner, Florida who are experienced in therapy and treatment for anger issues. Ask your provider about classes or workshops in addition to individual sessions to help with issues relating to anger. Begin your new journey today.
Seffner is located in Hillsborough County, Florida. It has a land area of 3.60 square miles and a water area of 0.20 square miles.  The population of Seffner is 7,532 people with 2,616 households and a median annual income of $50,795. .
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T Cell Biology Research Program
Lab head: Professor Barbara Fazekas de St. Groth
Location: Centenary Institute
The T Cell Biology Laboratory studies how the immune system is regulated, with a particular focus on how regulatory T cells and dendritic cells interact with CD4 T cells. We work in mouse models and with human samples.
Lab members: currently 3 post-docs and 5 PhD students
Funding: NHMRC
Research approach equipment: Transgenic mouse models Highly multiparametric flow cytometry CyTOF mass cytometry
How do regulatory T cells work? - a systems biology approach
Primary supervisor: Barbara Fazekas de St Groth
Tregs control many different aspects of the immune response. We have discovered a new and fundamental Treg function - control of the threshold for naiveT cell activation through modulation of CD80/86 expression by dendritic cells. We are now studying the molecular mechanism involved in such fine-tuning of peripheral immune responses. As part of these studies, we have performed RNA sequencing of flow sorted human conventional and regulatory T cells. Analysis of this deep sequencing data will serve as the basis of this project. In particular, splice variants of crucial Treg effector molecules such as CTLA-4 will form the major aim of the project.
The project will have 2 supervisors: Prof Barbara Fazekas, Head of T Cell Biology at Centenary Institute, and Dr Will Richie, Head of Bioinformatics at Centenary Institute. Although no previous programming or bioinfomatics experience is required, the student will need both an interest in, and a talent for, computing, as most of the year will be spent in front of a computer. The project will also involve some flow cytometry and tissue culture of human Treg cells, to generate more material for sequencing.
Discipline: Infectious diseases and Immunology
Co-supervisors: William Richie
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Immune tolerance, T-cells

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Vanderbilt got into one bowl game and suddenly more students than ever wanted to get into Vanderbilt.
That's the way university chancellor Nick Zeppos sees it.
"We had a record year in applications," Zeppos said Friday afternoon as he watched the day's football practice. "… In a tough economy, everybody said, 'Well, are you up or are you down?' We're up 16 percent."
"People love the university and they want it to succeed at everything it does. For many people, (football success) is a long time coming, and many people were waiting for this to happen. I think it's fantastic. I've been here 22 years and we've never been this competitive in all sports, but particularly football. I've been really proud of (coach) Bobby (Johnson) and the program he's built."
In his estimation, half of that 16 percent was directly related to the football team's first winning season since 1982 and its first bowl victory since 1955 and the publicity – locally and nationally – generated by those things.
Zeppos served the university in numerous roles before he was elevated to chancellor in Feb. 2008. In his current role, he has been an avid supporter of athletics, including the football team, which went 7-6 and won the Music City Bowl last season.
Friday, Johnson asked him to address the team at the conclusion of its ninth formal practice in preparation for the 2009 season.
"He said he was proud to support the Commodores and proud to be the chancellor here at Vanderbilt for the Commodores," Johnson said. "And he said just for the players to enjoy the season. That's a good way to put it – enjoy the season."
Zeppos made it clear that he intends to do exactly that.
"I just love sports," he said. "I really do. There's so much to enjoy about being a college president and it's such a diverse job. Where else can you work with college freshmen, brilliant professors curing diseases and then come out on a Saturday at get to watch our team in the most competitive sports league in the country? That is a great part of a job."
He also pledged continuing support for Johnson, who has won 27 games (21 in the last four seasons) as the Commodores' coach.
"I think Bobby was the right guy, but I think there was a collective, institutional sense that we have to really support him," Zeppos said. "I think we have … on the academic side, on the facilities side, on getting the coaches and keeping them here. It's been a team effort.
"… We trust him. He's going to bring in great kids and they're going to be successful in the classroom. I think, every way we've tried to say, 'Bobby, you're our guy, but you can't do it alone.' We've seen people come in and not be successful."
Now, thanks to Johnson's success they're seeing more people than ever who want to get in any way they can.
Freshman safety Jay Fullam will need surgery to repair a torn tendon in his left hand and is expected to miss approximately five weeks.
"You have to have it operated on right away or gets worse and worse and worse and worse," Johnson said. "… Most hand injuries on a defensive guy, you can just splint them up. This is to make sure he can have the use of his fingers for the rest of his life."
The injury increases the chance that Fullam, from The McCallie School in Chattanooga, will be redshirted.
"Jay was doing really well," Johnson said. "He was learning things fast and making his presence known. He was probably going to be one of the guys we were going to … play as a freshman."
The team will conclude its first full week of workouts with a comprehensive scrimmage on Saturday. The session will include special teams work in addition to the offensive and defensive efforts.
"We're going to get right to it," Johnson said. "We'll warm up, but we won't do any individual work."
So let me get this straight. Applications increased because of a 7-6 season that culminated in a berth to the Music City Bowl?? Sorry. Don't buy it.
Although winning a bowl was very important to Vanderbilt, I disagree with Chancellor Zeppos. I think the actual driving factor for applications increasing was the fact that Vanderbilt announced the Expanded Aid Program which is slatted to start in the Fall of 2009. Under this program all incoming students will no longer have need based financial aid. Need based aid will be replaced by grants and scholarships from the University.
Stallings is out of pocket 100,000 for the basketball team's trip to Australia. As a Vandy alum, I am embarrassed and ashamed. Anyone remember when basketball was the only moneymaker in VU sports?
Stallings, the best coach we have ever had, will, justifiably, accept the next good offer that comes along. Who could blame him?
Put your money where your mouth is, Zeppos.


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Structured Data is a type of HTML tags that are used to better define what and where the information about you or your business is on any given webpage. Search engines get a much clearer picture of what your website is about using this type of direct access. Structure Data allows search engines to provide better more specific search results. This S.E.O effort pays off by making it easier for users to find relevant information about you on the web. Many of the top search engines Bing, Google, and Yahoo rely on this type of markup to offer better search results. If you use Structured Data you will make it easier for people to find your business or organization when they search within your industry. You can find out all about Structured Data by going to Schema.org. There you will find all the codes to use for your specific type of website.
The name Meta Tag refers to a bit of code that goes into the <head> section of a webpage's code. These tags tell search engines about the nature of your website. Search engines place different importance on these tags. However it would be insane not to use them to your advantage. There are many tags. The main two that help in describing your website's content are, the description and keyword tags. Below is the format in which these tags appear.
<meta name="description" content="Within this area goes a description of the webpage's content.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Within this area goes the keywords separated by commas like this... keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, and so on.>
It is also important to note that each page should have a slightly if not entirely different set of keywords in the meta tag section and it's own unique description. Even if each page is on the same subject in general. Do not repeat the same description over and over again or use the same meta tags keywords throughout your pages. Succinctly state within your description what each particular page is on. Make it no more than three short sentences. Find the differences on each page from the other pages and highlight those difference by using them as keywords along with other main keywords you want to use in your meta tags and include some of those words in your meta tag description as well. If you have a standing page on your website that shows information that changes, your keywords and description meta tags should change as well each time to reflect the changes made to the page.
This type of keyword is found within the text and image content of your website. How do you come up with good keywords? You think about the kind or type of web traffic you want to attract to your website. You make a list of those different keywords and or search terms you think will attract the correct traffic to your website. Enter those keywords you come up with into a search engine and see what results you get. I recommend you work with Google.com, Yahoo.com, and Bing.com. If the results you get are where you would want your website to be listed, that is probably a good keyword to try. If the results are not what you expected, that is probably not a good keyword. Different engines will give different results. You have to decide on the best keywords you think over all will bring you the best traffic. Notice I didn't say the most traffic. More is not always better. You make changes when something isn't working and you try something new. You brain storm and you continue to do research on how your website can improve it's rating or ranking.
This creative process is not something your are going to do just once. Optimizing your web pages is an on going process that will never end. Most of time you are either going to have add new content to your website or change the content of the website to stay on top of your competition or even just to keep up with them. That means you are going to have to think and re-think of keywords all the time. Getting a good search engine ranking is not something that is accomplished and then your finished. Even if you have your website in great standings on all the major indexes, it won't be for long unless you keep working at it.
Search terms are very much like keywords. They work in in a very similar way. These are words that have been grouped together like a sentence or a phrase. Many people look up information on search engines using this method. Instead of looking something solely under one word, say a category or subject matter, an entire sentence or search term is used.
* Note * I want to address a very important and often missed fact about search terms. The words used in "search terms" should contain others words as well that narrow down or help to define your search terms actual meaning. Many words have different meanings but are spelled the same. You can get a lot of unwanted traffic even miss your intended target completely by what other words you use or don't use along side of your keyword terms.
For example the phrase, "job offer". That could mean a whole lot of different types of job offers, different types of pay scales, etc... Be much more specific with your terms. Say somehow what it is that you do want and what it is that you don't want by choosing your words very carefully.
Another important issue with search terms is the relation the words have to each other. Search terms can be helpful or not. In order to make terms effective, you need to combine the keywords in your term with words that define and relate to your website. I will give you an example of what I mean.
Combinations are keywords and or search terms slightly altered. In the cases of keywords or the page's meta tag description, ... it could be the order that the words appear is different than the order the words appear in already on another page on your website. It could be the use of one different word or a few different words within a similar search term you already use. The idea behind this strategy is that different variations get different audiences. These different audiences also express an interest that is inline with your website. They just express that same interest differently. By using different search terms you gain more audiences of the correct traffic you want.
Every page should have a title. Different search engines place different importance on titles. The title of each page should be as short as possible but filled with keywords. A lot of information on your website will be determined by the titles you create for your web pages. Here again I want to remind you that, "Rome was not built in a day". Titles that are not working for you should be changed. Experiment until you get the results you are looking for and then keep it up. Also often titles have to change when you add new content to your pages. Sometimes the changes are so significant that it demands a title change to properly list the page.
Links are connections made from one point in a document to another point on either the same document or to an entirely different document. The very nature of a link is to weave together instant access to more information with the click of a mouse. These connections can range from within the computer system you are working on to anywhere on the World Wide Web. These connections are also known as "Hypertext" or "Hyperlinks". Links are internal and external.. Internal links don't leave your website. External links come and go from your website to other places on the internet.
External links that point to your website in general add to your website rankings. But there are exceptions to this. The strategy behind using externals links to improve your ranking is greatly dependant on the relevance of the website that connects with yours and it's own popularity on the internet. The better the website's rankings are on search engines, the more help it is to your website. A very important fact often over looked is that in order for that strategy to work the websites that connect have to be relevant to each other. There has to be a clear relationship between the websites. If you link to a website that has really nothing to do with yours, it will actually hurt your search engine rankings. This is because as a resource you are of no good to the search engines. If your website has links that will mislead people or just waste their time. On the flip side of this argument, if the website is relevant and well connected, then being linked with this website enhances your search engine rankings.
The actual text that you use to create a link with is very important. This would be the text that people see when they read your page. You should use "keywords" and or "key terms "to construct your links. Each link can and should carry a title tag within it's code. These titles fields are also used by search engines in placing your website. Also some disabled software programs used these tags along with other information to make your website user friendly to people with disabilities.
This tag or field is known as the "TITLE" field. This field is available with most links. This field is used by search engines, disabled software programs, and the everyday user to understand the content of your website and to navigate through it as well. Used correctly it can enhance a user's experience as well as score you some points with the search engines. These fields come into the vision of the surfer when they "mouse over " the links.
On the left I have a sample image with the fields filled in. Place your mouse over the image and see. These fields are known as the "ALT TEXT" field and the "TITLE" field. Here we have two fields that are available with most images. These fields are used by search engines, disabled software programs, and the everyday user to understand the content of your website and to navigate through it as well.
From a web surfer's point of view, these fields light up or pop up when a user places their mouse over the image. This creates a little activity and attracts the user to the information the tags carries. Coding these fields/tags correctly with informative "keywords" and or "key search terms" will help both your website with it's search engine rankings as well as the surfers of the website. A good way to attract different audiences is to name the "title" tag what you want people to see when they mouse over your image. Name the "alt text" tag something else. Use another keyword that is relevant to the image and also describes it. Browsers will show the title text above the alt text of an image. This doesn't mean that the search engines don't see the alt tag; They do! And if a browser were to show the alt tag instead of the title tag, your description will still makes sense.
* Note * An important note for images used for a hyperlinks instead of text! In this instants you have 3 keyword possibilities. You place a title tag within the hyperlink code itself giving the link a description. You place an alt and title tag within the code of the image as well using different keywords. The browsers will show the title tag of the image. Again make sure all the keywords you use are relevant the image link. This way no matter what is displayed or picked up, the text always describes the link and image and your page makes sense.
No matter what your website is about. Today one needs to consider "Cross Referencing" of subject matters as well when creating your website's keywords and search terms. What I call cross referencing is also known as "Long Tail Traffic". The best way I would describe this type of traffic is that it consists of all the people who could find your website from related searches because of some "variant" content on your website. This can be a section on an existing web pages or a new webpage dedicated to some slight departure from the main subject matter of the website. Even a paragraph where you mention something in connection with your subject matter.
I think of it as cross referencing subjects and at the same time making your website more interesting and useful to more people. In essence you make mention of certain other things that are related to your main theme either by logic or chance. Things you find will be interesting and or could be seen as having something to do with your website.
What I am talking about is illustrated in the following example. Say I have a website on the subject of the temperatures of Hawaiian ocean waters. However just for a moment I mention a certain fish that lives in the oceans of Hawaii that is not native to Hawaiian oceans. The website's main topic is only really the temperature of the oceans of Hawaii. In briefly mentioning the non-native fish I am leaving the main subject matter of water temperatures just a bit and just for a moment. The point I am making is still relevant to the website, because the fish lives in Hawaiian oceans now. However, it is not the main focus of the website. This type of added information can help connect people to your website who look up say, something to do with the non native fish. The connection or cross reference as I like to call it that leads to your website could be from where the fish is actually native to. Maybe a study was done on this fish, etc. I think you get the idea. The more little interesting or related tidbits you put on your website's main content, the more other people will find you by way of related searches. Which is another very good way to think of long tail traffic.
You might ask, "Why would I want traffic going to my website that wasn't looking for me in the first place?" Many people I have spoken with feel these web surfers are not looking for whatever it is their website is selling, so why bother with them. First let me say that a lot of the web traffic that most websites get is from "Non-Optimized Keywords", or "Long Tail Traffic". I know that this type of "Search Engine Traffic is definitely worth engaging.
Now, have you ever heard of impulse buying? Why is it that when you get to the cash register at most stores, the counters are filled with little goodies ready for the picking? Could it be impulse buying that the stores are going after? This is the same concept. Only there is no line to wait on. The search engine results page or an ad on someone else's subject related website becomes where the impulse buying takes place online. A customer sees you because of a related keyword they used that is on your website's content. They click over and cause a conversion of some kind. Online impulse buying at it best.
Have you ever found your way somewhere but you went a different way than you would normally go? This is the new online version of those signs you see at the market steering walking traffic to a certain isle or section of the store. These are the same strategies being applied. we are just using today's methods in doing so.
In short, NO! You will never be finished with optimizing your website. Even if you have reached where you want to be on the search engines today. That is only today. Tomorrow is another day and another search. You have to stay on top of things or you will lose out. As the internet changes so must you. To keep your high ranking position you must keep earning it.


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- New Hope Cemetery (3.5km)
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- Greenleaf Cemetery (4.6km)
- Jamison Cemetery (5.1km)
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5 Special Needs Girls Taking Pop Warner Cheerleading by STORM!
Please take a few minutes and watch 5 girls (one is my daughter Anna) compete during the 2011 Pop Warner Cheerleading competition at ESPN's Wide World of Sports. Even if you have seen it already, please watch it again, you will pick up on a couple of things that maybe you didn't see the first time. They won their division (Challenger) and I am still a proud (becoming a "cheer Dad") though clinging to Sammy's flag football victories as well. Share this video with your friends. Thanks.
Come to ESPN Wide World of Sports on Sunday 12/11/11 & Cheer on 10 Special Needs Boys Playing Flag Football.
Though Sam Mutz, who is the National Football Commissioner for Pop Warner Little Scholars simply refused to allow the West Orange Wildcats Challenger Football team to take part in the Pop Warner Super Bowl this week (see the post below for the backstory), ESPN has opened their doors so that the 10 boys, who have been fighting for their lives since before they were born, will be able to take to the field and play flag football.
The game will take place on Sunday, December 11th at 2pm. Admission is FREE!!
Please spread the word. These boys practiced at least twice a week as a team so that they could play during the PWSB, and this is their moment on the field. WE NEED YOU to help cheer them on from the sidelines and in the stands.
PLEASE COME OUT. Did I mention that it is FREE ADMISSION? Just show up and CHEER your head off!
The Pop Warner National Champion West Orange Wildcats Challenger Cheerleaders will be there supporting their favorite team. See their 12/7/11 performance on youtube HERE.
10 Special Needs Boys Need YOUR help to play Pop Warner flag football on Thursday, 12/8/11
Due to a paperwork mix-up at several levels of the Pop Warner Football League, 10 boys, born into a life of facing challenges everyday need YOUR help.
For the past few years the West Orange Challenger team has received and then submitted their paperwork for the team to play during the Pop Warner Super Bowl, which for the past few years has been held on Disney property at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. The team would receive the paperwork a couple of weeks prior to the start of the event.
This year we found out over the weekend that our boys were not allowed to play this year because the paperwork had not been submitted. When our board members spoke to the Mid-Florida Region leaders they were told that it was too late and that we should have known to submit the paperwork months ago.
The Winter Garden Wildcats provide the MAJORITY of all the volunteers that do the "grunt" work during the entire Super Bowl week. This year the Winter Garden Wildcats provided 38 volunteers. How many did the next group provide, MAYBE a dozen, but more than likely less than 10.
Our boys, who have spent their entire life fighting for everything, and for most, that includes their very life while they were still in the womb. We are talking kids that face the challenge of downs, autism, microcephaly, skeletal, mental, genetic, or other physical issues. Life is not a joy ride for these kids.
The Pop Warner Challenger division is set up for these boys so that they can still play football, and yes, it is flag football, but to these boys, it is just like the football they other kids play. They get to hold the ball and run. People cheer. They are happy campers. After the game, they get together for a post race snack, and then see each other at school (several are in the same classroom) and they look forward to practice (twice a week) and the game on the weekend.
Here is the problem, after finding out that there was a paperwork mix-up, our West Orange Wildcats president and directors both tried several avenues in order to get our boys out on the field and play this Thursday.
We have hit a brick wall and possible back office roadblocks with the powers that be, which include Sam Mutz, the "National Football Commissioner for Pop Warner Little Scholars", who can be contacted via his PUBLISHED email address firstname.lastname@example.com. He has stated that it would be unfair to let our kids play since the paperwork had not been submitted. End of discussion according to him.
Reminding him that the West Orange team provided 38 volunteers for this year's event, and is always the leader in providing volunteers does not mater to him. He simply sees that the paperwork was not submitted.
For the past few years our team HAS submitted paperwork AFTER receiving it from the head office a couple of weeks prior to the start of the series. Last year the paperwork was submitted the week prior to the start. NO ONE stated that they were submitting it late, so we had no idea that it was late. Last year our team played a team from New York and the kids loved being able to play someone other than themselves.
PLEASE send an email to email@example.com and plead to Sam so that our boys can play on Thursday. He is answering emails, and at this point they do not seem to be simply cut and paste auto replies though he will most likely simply reply back stating that it is too late to do anything, though we know otherwise via several sources, BUT HE IS THE ONLY PERSON THAT CAN LET OUR KIDS PLAY! He will also say that we are on the top of the list to play for next year. That is great, but what about the boys THIS YEAR!
They DO have time to allow our boys to play a simple 30 minute game. It is NOT rocket science.
Repeat after me, let them play! Let Them Play! LET THEM PLAY!
Why Publix Most Likely Won't Honor Your Albertsons Store Coupon Soon
For a couple of year's now we have received a couple of the Albertsons inserts in the mail. All you had to do was fax them a form and they would add you to the list. Today we received the above letter in our mail box (click to see larger view).
Though the letter above states that "Albertsons in concerned about protecting the enviroment…" I bet you that in reality the amount that they are paying in just postage is far and away more than the mailings brought in weekly via the mailings. Everyone that I know that receive the inserts via the Post Office have not stepped foot in an Albertsons in many months.
So basically the letter states that we will no longer be receiving the inserts via snail mail, but instead if we hand over an email address, they will add us to the VIP First Look program, and email us the same information. What will be interesting is if they kill off the coupon all together or they make it something that you have to visit coupons.com or similar service to be able to print out.
If they simply have the coupon as part of the email, and you can print 1 to as many as you wish, well, Publix simply has to say, "No More Albertsons Coupons". In the past they could at least tell it was from an insert.
What do you think?
FREE Parking at Daytona Beach Hilton Ocean Walk.
Now that I have your attention, I have a morals question for you.
Q: You are staying at the Daytona Beach Hilton Ocean Walk and when you are checking in the oh so not even happy to have a job front desk employee, but one that really does a great job checking people in asks if you took a cab to the hotel or not. Not if you plan to valet or self park. I ask why does it matter if I took a cab or not. She replied that if I took a cab then she would not have to explain the various parking options. Made sense when you think about it. But, I happened to drive and then she asked if I was going to valet or self park? Self-park, I replied. Having been at the groundbreaking for this building over two decades ago, I knew there was a lot diagonally across the street. She said it costs $10.00 a night to park there. No problem, and she told me to swipe my room key to get the entrance gate to go up. Got my free meal vouchers and upgraded room because I am a member of HHonors, and off to park my car. Parked and then went to my room. Uneventful so far. Then I remembered that I left something in my car, and instead of taking the elevator down, I did what I usually do, I took the stairs down, 16 stories.
As I approached the parking gate, I noticed that the EXIT arm was in the UP position. Made a mental note and went back about my business, played on the beach for a while, had dinner, and walked past the parking lot, and noticed that the EXIT arm was still up. When I got back to the hotel I left the valet person know, and they replied that it is usually like that. "Well doesn't that mean anyone can park there?" I asked. Looking at me like I was an idiot the girl behind the glass replied "ah, yeahhhh". Decided to let someone else that might actually care. Found a security person who told me pretty much the same thing. I asked him then why is the hotel charging people to park there. Because they are trained to charge for parking was his reply. I asked to see the hotel manager on duty. There wasn't one. I asked for the resident manager, "we don't have one" was his reply. I decided it was a lost cause and figured I will wait until I check out to bring it up again.
Fast forward to the next morning. I did what I came to Daytona to do, and my job at the speedway was done before the sun rose. I came back to the hotel for brunch. Guess what I saw when I came back to the parking lot? If you said the EXIT gate was down, well you are wrong amigo.
I took a couple of photos, because you know you can never have enough photos of an EXIT gate to a hotel parking lot. They are at the bottom of this post, enjoy, it is some really nice urban landscape photography, Ansel Adams would be proud. If you have no idea who Ansel Adams is, ask your parents.
So, after I had brunch, went back to the room, gathered my things, I went to check out. GREAT! Guess who was at the front desk, does this person ever go home? Though I knew I did not have to go through the charade of actually checking out, I wanted her to ask if everything was OK or not. I asked her why I paid $10.00 to self park in a lot that has the EXIT arm in the UP position. "Because you self parked there and that costs $10.00 per night". Yes, that is true, but what does the hotel do if someone just parks there and does not tell you? "That's dishonest and no one does that.", was her terse reply. "Are you sure" "Yes, this is a Hilton and we do not do business with dishonest people." I was caught off guard by that statement. As if they know the actual business that every one of their guests is involved with.
I gathered my wits and when she asked me again if everything was ok or not with my stay I slid her my bill and said that it will be better when she refunds me my $10.00 for parking. "But that is dishonest sir." I'm not lying about wanting my $10.00 back. You know the gate arm is broken and that you are pretty much letting anyone park there for free." Now, I would like my money back. She refused, no manager was on duty, and the resident manager was at church. Hey, at least she admitted to what I already knew to be true, almost all Hilton Hotels have a resident manager that actually lives on the property.
I figured that instead of leaving a voice mail on the RM's machine, I would instead make sure that everyone knows how to get FREE parking at the Daytona Beach Hilton Ocean Walk. BTW, they DO NOT issue parking passes, which means that they have no way of looking at a car and knowing if that car belongs to someone staying at the hotel or not.
Yes, in the photo is a booth, which from what I understand is only used when there is an event at the Ocean Center, Peabody Auditorium, Spring Break, Bike Weeks, and Speed Weeks.
During brunch I DID in fact encounter an employee that actually LIKED his job, even said so. His name is Joseph and works in Doc Bales' Grill. His very professionalism made my entire stay and if I owned a hotel, Joseph would be the person who at that moment I would want my employees to be like. Maybe he was in a great mood, maybe he really is a great person, have no idea, but I do know, he appears to work hard and it showed.
So, the morals question is this, do you admit to parking and pay the $10.00 or jet park there knowing that the hotel doesn't have a clue as to who should be parking there or not?
Leave your answer in the comments.
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Coupons in the April 2011 All You magazine
I received an email from a PR rep at Time Inc (they publish All You Magazine for WalMart). They sent me a sneak peek of the coupons that are included in the upcoming April issue, set to hit newstands, OK, your nearest WalMart on Friday, March 25th.
If you have never seen All You magazine (exclusively at WalMart stores or various sites online), it is packed with money saving coupons and is one that I read every month as soon as it arrives in our mailbox. Kathy and I regularly find coupon match-ups weekly using this magazine.
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Volunteers are needed in Lake County, 3/6/11
What are you doing this coming Sunday morning (March 6th)?. I know for many of our readers the answer is going to church. But if you are not going to be at church or have free time this coming Sunday morning (March 6th) the company I work for, Sommer Sports, is having a Half Marathon and 5K Run/Walk in Tavares, FL (Wooton Park) and we need a bunch of volunteers to help put the event on.
We need people to help with registration in the morning, pass out water along the course, hand out finisher medals, collect the timing chips, and of course helping with the post race food tent. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IS NEEDED. Everything you would need to work with will be provided to you at the race.
For more information, please visit send an EMAIL or call 352-1320, ext 100
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Winner of the Italian Days Publix Gift Card.
Sorry to be posting this a day later then I had hoped to, but I took our daughter to Cape Canaveral to see the launch. I lost count of how many shuttle launches I have seen over the years, but this was her first one that was up close and personal at the Cape. We usually watch the launch from our backyard.
I want to congratulate Shirley Walker, who typed "I like Progresso Soups" on 2/21, for winning our Italian Days at Publix $25.00 Gift Card giveaway. MyBlogSpark will be sending her the gift card which was provided by General Mills.


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I didn't get to listen to Toucher & Rich yesterday morning, but they made sure to fill me in on the disaster that was Gary Tanguay filling in for Rich yesterday.
They made sure to bring everyone up to speed on what was a car crash of an interview that Tanguay hijacked and burned to the ground with his CSNNE colleague Trenni Kusnierek, who is in Sochi reporting on the Olympics for NBC — which is owned by Comcast.
The best part? When Tanguay makes a not so subtle joke about writing a fake novel about a reporter from Wisconsin covering the Olympics who is kidnapped. Kusnierek grew up in Wisconsin, is a reporter and is covering the Olympics in an area of the world that doesn't have a great track record of being "safe." Tanguay made the joke because both Toucher and Kusnierek made a slight joke about Tanguay's habit of writing novels and screenplays while at work that will never see the light of day. Apparently he was offended or thought he could be funny. It didn't work, but, then again, most of what he contributed didn't help either.
Also, apparently Tanguay doesn't know how to look at anyone while he's working in radio. I guess it's no surprise why he and the Sports Hub parted ways in 2010. Tanguay was part of the midday show originally.
Listen to the mash-up and best moments of the interview here. Or you can listen to the entire interview here.


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Triple celebration as parents tie knot after twins' baptism
A COUPLE stunned guests at a Christening by also getting married.
Karen Simmons and Gearoid Dunne thought they'd have a double celebration with their new-born twins -- but nobody thought it included exchanging vows.
Karen (34) and Gearoid (30) met whilst playing for a GAA club in Calgary, Canada.
But trying to build a house in Tubbercurry, Co Sligo, and managing three children all under the age of two put marriage plans on hold -- until they decided to make the Christening of eight-week-old Leah and Conor extra special.
Karen, an office administrator from Letterkenny, said the only other person in on their secret was the parish priest Father Martin Jennings.
It was even a surprise for their other child, two-year-old Grace.
"We decided that the vast majority of people we would want at our wedding, including our families and close friends, were there anyway," the bride said.
"We didn't want to put them to any additional expense or fuss so we decided we would have our wedding ceremony after the Christening. We are trying to build a new house as well so it all just made sense.
"Even some of my team-mates from my GAA club in Canada where I had been the captain were home over Christmas and the new year and that made it even more special."
Karen said the announcement at the church in Tubbercurry shocked the 60 Christening guests.
"I told them we had another small ceremony to complete and we'd also be getting married and everyone just went quiet. They were in shock and slowly they all began to cheer. It was amazing," she said.
Gearoid's brother Cathal, who was home from Australia to be godfather to little Leah, was best man. Karen's sister Maureen looked stunned when she was told she would be bridesmaid.
Fr Martin Jennings said the whole day was "wonderful".
He said: "It's certainly the first time I have conducted a Christening and a wedding on the same day involving the same couple.
"There was a wonderful appeal about the simplicity of it all. Weddings can be sometimes extravagant and stressful for families and this day was simple. Karen and Gearoid were completely focused on their commitment to one another and the sacrament."
The new Mr and Mrs Dunne had no honeymoon planned.
However, last night one of Donegal's leading four-star hotels heard about former employee Karen's marriage and offered them a honeymoon weekend.
Karen will soon be heading back to the Mount Errigal Hotel in Letterkenny to enjoy a lavish weekend in the honeymoon suite.
"When we heard what Karen did we were thrilled for her," said spokeswoman Carolynne Harrison. "We will make it all very special for them."
Karen added: "We are absolutely thrilled. I loved working there before I moved away and it will be great to go back.
"All I need now is a babysitter for new-born twins and a two-year-old!"
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SHEPHERDSVILLE - The meeting was so important that it took members of the Shepherdsville City Council two nights to make their decisions.
But, in the end, the council voted on two measures that would generate more money for its cash-thin coffers.
The meeting, which started on Monday and was recessed until Tuesday, saw the Shepherdsville City Council approve a 50 percent increase in its occupational license fee and an increase in its take of the county's insurance premium tax.
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Money in Sports: Testing the limits of loyalty
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, June 18, 2002
We love athletes.
We hate those jerks.
We hate them because they covet money, even though this is the prime directive of our capitalistic economy.
We hate them because they are thugs, even though statistical analysis demonstrates they commit crimes at a significantly lower rate than the general population.
We hate the way they dress and talk; we hate their attitudes and their music; we hate their tattoos, haircuts and jewelry -- even if this seems to speak more to our own biases, be they based on race or generation.
We wish they said things like this: "We have no price. We don't give in nor do we sell ourselves, nor do we exchange the affectionate applause of millions for millions of dollars."
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That is until we learn the man who said those words was Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor, celebrating his nation's communism.
When we consider Alex Rodriguez left for a $252 million contract, we pine for those sepia-toned golden years when athletes played for the love of the game.
We nod our heads in agreement when it is said: "The great trouble with baseball today is that most players are in the game for the money."
That is until we realize the man who said those words was Ty Cobb, notorious jerk, racist and hardball negotiator, speaking in 1925.
We point to athletes who spent their entire careers in one city -- Stan Musial! Ernie Banks! Ted Williams! Michael Jordan (almost)! John Elway! -- forgetting perhaps that Babe Ruth and Wayne Gretzky were sold, and Lefty Grove, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Wilt Chamberlain and Joe Montana were traded.
Our nostalgic reverie resists the fact that only about 25 percent of players in baseball's Hall of Fame spent their entire career with one team.
It barely raised an eyebrow when Janet Jackson whined that she gets just $10 million an album. Surely Siegfried & Roy are worth every penny of the $50 million they make annually?
But when Gary Sheffield groused last season about his $9.5 million deal with the Dodgers, we were ready to hang his mug shot in a post office.
So what if Harrison Ford got $25 million for 20 days of work while filming K-19? Or that Dick Cheney and his wife hauled in more than $36 million the year before he became vice president. Or that the average salary of the CEOs at the nation's 365 largest companies is $13.1 million a year with stock options.
No, what boggles our mind and engorges our indignation is not what happens in other lucrative industries, but how often athletes disappoint us because of their behavior or financial demands.
Sociologist David Rowe in his book "Sports, Culture and Media" called sports "a secular religion, (that has) taken over from the church as the primary place of collective and individual ritual, belief, ecstasy, and so on."
We may be showing up in record numbers to watch games, and networks might be shelling out billions of dollars to secure exclusive rights to broadcast this, our secular religion, but there appears to be a distance between athletes and fans that looks like nothing less than a crisis of faith.
A-Rod and other ingrates
It didn't take long for multiple publications to provide revisionist history on A-Rod's contract with the Rangers. They concluded the efficient market of our economy was at work, that the Rangers' hefty investment in Rodriguez should prove to be a sound one.
Of course, few fans in Seattle cared when they assaulted that Benedict Arnold with a chorus of boos when he first returned to the city as a Ranger last April.
After two years, Rodriguez is still the richest player in baseball and the Rangers still stink.
This past off-season, Jason Giambi went corporate, spurning the Oakland Athletics for a monstrous contract with New York Yankees. Oakland fans hissed: greedy sellout!
"The minute you have to explain things in depth, your point of view can never become as clear as 'Look at this!' and 'Look at that!'" Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras, said. "That's all the fans see. We don't boo movie stars because of the money they make. That's because you don't have access to them like you do athletes. You don't have the emotional attachment."
In an increasingly complex world, sports are still supposed to bring communities together in unambiguous ways. It's our guys vs. their guys; our beloved town vs. the bad guys from somewhere else.
Rodriguez and Giambi had opportunities to become fabulously wealthy and remain loyal to the fans who had cheered for them their entire careers. In what Rodriguez termed "a business decision, an economic decision," he decided that being slightly more fabulously wealthy -- ludicrously wealthy, perhaps -- was more important.
To Seattle fans, that was a betrayal rooted in greed. He rejected us and became one of "them" for purely selfish reasons.
Yet a player doesn't have to leave to attract fans' ire. He just needs to act unhappy about the millions he's already making.
"It has a Marie Antoinette coloring to it," NFL agent Leigh Steinberg said. "There will never be sympathy for a player's contract demands.
"It's one thing to make that kind of money. It's another thing to complain about it."
Agents and players claim owners and general managers cultivate resentment toward athletes' salary demands, knowing the headlines that follow will focus negative attention on the athlete, thus ignoring the monstrous profits being taken by the teams, leagues and networks.
Hand-wringing owners, who want contraction and a salary cap, don't mention that salaries in major league baseball have held steady at between 51 and 54 percent of team revenue over the past five years.
Athletes are humans, too
Mixed messages are the norm: Attendance is steady, even in a slumping economy; television ratings are volatile; league revenues are strong in every major sport, though a smattering of franchises are hurting.
Major League Baseball doesn't want fans to know that its tale of revenue woe, as pointed out by Financial World and Forbes magazines, forgets to include many sources of revenue, such as stadium naming rights and advertising, luxury suites and team merchandise stores. They want you to pay attention only to burgeoning salaries.
Athletes are aware that big contracts distance them from fans, who often believe living out the childhood fantasy of playing professional sports should be reward enough. Some athletes wonder out loud that if money isn't supposed to be everything, why then does it becomes the only thing fans and media obsess about?
"If you're making $20 million a year, they don't give a damn if your mom or dad dies -- you've got to perform," Seahawks cornerback Shawn Springs said.
"Sometimes the amount of money you make overshadows the fact that you're just a normal person. It's like how much you make becomes a part of who you are. ... You're still human. Things do bother you. Things do affect you. But it's like that's not allowed. Like you're supposed to be above that, just because you make this much money."
Then there are the athletes who abandon one team for a bigger contract elsewhere and leave their skills and dedication behind. Vin Baker has never lived up to his billing as a budding star after signing a mega-deal with the Sonics, while Shawn Kemp has floundered since he departed in search of a monstrous payday.
Kemp, in fact, has become exhibit A for those who believe money can ruin a player. He got the contract he wanted, became cartoonishly fat and ended up in rehab for drug dependency.
"I think Shawn's disorientation from the game of basketball started when he wanted a new contract ... and he had to go someplace else to get the money he thought he deserved," said George Karl, the former Sonics and current Bucks coach.
"I just think the money messes up a lot of players' careers."
Players who demonstrate loyalty and humility -- and sign for less than their market value, proving their motivations are authentic -- are lionized. Remember what Mark McGwire told his son after he signed a two-year, $15 million contract extension with the Cardinals for less than he would have received as a free agent? He said, "People are going to talk about how I'm going to be underpaid -- that's pretty ridiculous."
When McGwire retired this past off-season, there was more. He turned down a two-year, $30 million offer, stating, "I am unable to perform at a level equal to the salary the organization would be paying me."
Perception, reality collide
Fans don't simply begrudge athletes the money they make. It's also the overriding perception of their arrogance and antisocial or even criminal behavior.
Seemingly every day, a story about an athlete breaking the law tops news reports, leading fans to believe that athletes are simply criminals with big bank accounts.
"Anybody reading the paper would think we are awash in a plague of athletes' misconduct," Steinberg said. "The press is so dramatic in its presentation of every incident off the field that you'd think athletes have disintegrated in their behavior patterns."
Despite this popular perception, however, studies repeatedly have shown that athletes commit crimes less frequently than their comparable peer groups (typically males under 30) within the general population.
Even when charges aren't filed, athletes often become the objects of scorn for their behavior: Albert Belle treated fans and media members like dirt; Latrell Sprewell attacked his coach; Allen Iverson cut a rap record that contained controversial lyrics; John Rocker redefined boorishness; Ray Lewis danced onto the field before the Super Bowl a year after escaping murder charges; Rasheed Wallace established new standards for technical fouls; thuggish behavior in NHL playoff games has become commonplace the past two seasons.
Then there are the visuals of conspicuous consumption and arrogance: custom-made purple suits; full-length mink coats, head-to-toe jewelry and tattoos; prancing and preening after a good play; taunting and trash-talking whenever.
A few years ago on HBO's "Real Sports," Bryant Gumbel suggested that members of the predominantly white media were unfairly singling out black athletes for criticism. Sports writer Mike Lupica took issue with Gumbel and others in his 1996 book "Mad as Hell," a screed describing how sports were alienating fans.
"The idea that an athlete can make a (jerk) of himself as some sort of cultural imperative -- that we the white media are supposed to be more tolerant of (jerk) behavior because of this 'social gulf' Mr. Gumbel talks about -- is nonsense. It is nonsense dressed up very nicely in politically correct language," Lupica wrote.
Still, Lupica went on to admit, "Some of the anger fans feel toward big sports, and its stars, is racial in nature."
This resentment manifests itself in revealing ways. When Stephon Marbury was robbed of a diamond necklace valued at $150,000 while sitting in his Bentley, the media and fans aimed their derision at Marbury, implying he got what he deserved.
Todd Boyd, a University of Southern California professor who frequently writes about hip-hop culture, said this resentment has to be considered in racial terms. After all, black men make up roughly 70 percent of the NFL and 80 percent of the NBA.
"If we're honest about it, we have never been comfortable in this society when it comes to dealing with black men and money," Boyd said.
Boyd noted that black men who conform to society's mainstream values on appearance and behavior -- like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods or Grant Hill -- often are exempt from harsh judgments, while those who don't -- like Iverson or Wallace -- are repeatedly attacked.
"There's always been a space reserved for black men who do as they are told and don't ruffle anybody's feathers," Boyd said. "(Iverson) represents the urban ghetto in an obvious way -- the hair, the tattoos and the attitude.
"He's saying, 'I'm not going to act the way you want me to simply because I'm paid a large sum of money to play basketball.' For a black man to act that way in this society is often something that people have a difficult time with."
Life in a fishbowl
University of Washington creative writing professor David Shields penned "Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season" after following the Sonics during the 1994-95 season. His book focused on Gary Payton and Payton's resistance to white, mainstream norms.
Shields represented the separation Payton and other black NBA players build between themselves and their predominantly white fan base in the repeated line, "It's our camaraderie, not yours."
Seven years later, Shields still feels simultaneously drawn and repulsed by sports -- and fascinated by how typical that feeling is.
"(Sports) should be in complete crisis, but it's not -- it still seems to entertain us, and I don't pretend to be exempt," he said. "I can do a Marxist critique of it and still be a childlike, stupefied fan, excited to watch a game."
Athletes are aware of the conflicting feelings fans have about them, as well as the demands fostered by media scrutiny that spotlights their every misstep, whether it be a problem with the law or rude treatment of an autograph seeker.
"My privacy is something I've sacrificed for fame," Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez said. "I know I have to put up with it. I cannot run away from it, because it's my job."
Said former Seahawks defensive end Michael Sinclair, "You are a commodity. There are a lot of things that come with the territory. You can't pick and choose. ... You want to be a part of this business, what you're signing up for is a lot of things -- the good stuff and the not-so-good stuff. You owe something to the fans."
Fans are stunned by the monstrous contracts and perceive athletes as arrogant and antisocial. Athletes feel they live under an unduly harsh microscope. They see themselves as demanding a fair share of what has become a rapidly evolving business that takes in billions annually. Have sports reached a crisis point? Not until fans turn away in significant numbers.
Whether that will ever happen remains to be seen.
"(Athletes) are in the entertainment business, making a choice to enter a field dependent on discretionary spending," Steinberg said. "If they are not willing to do their part to keep the sport healthy and keep relationships with fans alive, they are in the wrong profession. Fans could some day turn away."


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When the first RetroRama fashion show was held in St. Paul eight years ago, organizer Aleah Vinick hoped enough people would attend so the room wouldn't look empty.
She got her wish — and then some. More than 1,000 packed the Minnesota History Center Museum space that year — and the annual event continues to be as popular as ever. Couples, grandmothers, mothers, daughters and friends have made it a tradition to attend each year in their vintage best.
"This was before 'Mad Men.' We thought we'd do something with vintage styles," Vinick says. "Back then, people would dress up to run an errand or ride on an airplane. We felt that tradition of going out and dressing up needed to be celebrated."
This year, RetroRama is bigger than ever. The fashion show, shopping and people-watching event has switched from the usual Thursday evening to a Friday night, May 17. Local designers featured will be Danielle Everine, Season 9 contestant on TV's "Project Runway," Laura Fulk, Sarah M. Holm, Max Lohrbach and Kerry Riley.
To better accommodate the crowd, the runway show will be held inside the auditorium instead of at an outdoor tent. The number of looks created by local designers also has doubled.
And for attendees who want to show off what they've dug out of their closets or scored at the nearby vintage store, the runway will open to the crowd afterward so they, too, can strut their stuff.
"We really encourage people to dress up," Vinick says. "We try to create an experience that is the best people-watching of the spring."
Linda Shaw, 54, of Inver Grove Heights attends the event with her friend Sharon Madsen each year. She's worn everything from her grandmother's vintage aprons to a 1960s-inspired flight attendant uniform her friend created.
"It's fun to see how everybody dresses, whether it's the models or the attendees," Shaw says. "There are a lot of young people there and then those who are older than us. It's just a good mix."
Nancy Ngo can be reached at 651-228-5172. Follow her at twitter.com/nancyngotc and pinterest.com/nancyngotc
What: RetroRama
When: 8 to 11 p.m.; Friday, May 17; fashion shows at 9 and 10 p.m.
Where: Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul
Cost: $25 general admission. Purchase tickets online or at 651-259-3015.
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As the media trumpets a new marginal high for the much rigged and HFT-jigged S&P 500 (in purple below, over the past year), other global stock markets gave up on the QE dream in 2014 and have been trending lower since (India, Japan, Canada, Germany, UK and China, all shown here).
As we look under the hood of headline highs for the S&P (now trading at a wide-eyed 24.9x estimated GAAP earnings of $86.44 in March), we see that investor flows (red bars below, shown since 1985) have continued to gush out of US stocks even as the price has gone parabolic. So who or what is buying at garish valuations? Why price-insensitive, trend- following computer algos and liquidity-spewing central banks, of course. We will agree with the breathless business media in this much: the S&P 500 is 'high' alright.


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Imagining a Young Earth
August 26, 2010
JOHN E. writes:
In this entry, Adam Skelton wrote:
I'm completely in the traditionalist camp, but I do think that Christianity needs to be disassociated from young earth creationism. It's really not an intellectually tenable position, and whenever I hear a Christian preacher or teacher advocate it it makes me cringe. If we can't harmonize the Christian story with an old earth, a relatively late mankind, and death (at least animal death) before man was even here and could have Fallen, then the Christian worldview has a huge, serious hole in it.
I know the entry is stale, but I've been meaning to challenge the ideas Adam Skelton presents here, not because I am a strong advocate for a young-earth position, but because I don't understand how arguing for a young earth is intellectually untenable, and it seems that many who do hold to a young-earth position do so for good reasons (granted, many also do so with bad or no reason). Read More »


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WoW.com can confirm that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, patch 3.3.3 will be going live tomorrow, Tuesday, March 23rd on the N.A. realms, and Wednesday, March 24th on the E.U. realms. This patch will bring a host of minor improvements to the game, along with some key balance changes.
WoW.com's Guide to Patch 3.3.3 will give you everything you need to know about the patch. Head over and check it out. A few of the more major things happening in patch 3.3.3:
- Patch Notes (release version, updated on 3/23/2010)
- Gallery of datamining finds (including the Celestial Steed)
- Frozen Orbs to be greed only in patch 3.3.3
- New uses for Frozen Orbs
- Profession changes
- Changes to the auction house and game economy
- Battleground and honor changes
- Raid buff changes


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You're a TIP Scholar! – Now What?
Confirming Your TIP Membership
Once you have received your invitation to be a TIP Scholar, make sure to follow the instructions on your invitation to secure your seat and help us prepare for your arrival during Orientation.
Summer Orientation Preparation
Summer Orientation at UT is fun, busy, and one of your first full-blown Longhorn experiences. Make sure things go as smoothly as possible and know what is expected of you before you arrive by exploring the University's Freshman Orientation page found here.
How is TIP Orientation different from UT Summer Orientation?
TIP Scholars' orientation events are integrated into each UT new student orientation offered. TIP components to Orientation supplement the general information provided at orientation and include insights into the transition to college, academic advising, and help with fall registration. Specific information about when and where you will first meet with your new family will be emailed to you approximately a week before your scheduled orientation date. Therefore, it's important to keep us updated on the Orientation session you registered for with New Student Services.
Is there anything I need to do before I arrive for Orientation?
Yes! UT and the College of Natural Sciences want you to be as prepared as possible for the transition to UT and provide several resources they want you to complete this summer. Check with New Student Services for university-wide requirements.
As a Natural Science student, math and chemistry are common core courses that help determine your success in the sciences. UT uses an online program called ALEKS to ensure that you have a smoother start to the challenging curriculum. ALEKS is an online assessment and learning tool for math and chemistry and is crucial in helping you find the right fall courses for you. Completing your math ALEKS assessments before your orientation date will help academic advisors discuss your math options.
This is not a project to take lightly. Those who do best in these core courses take ALEKS as an opportunity to honestly assess their current knowledge in math and chemistry and use the modules to boost their preparation for the fall. Stay on top of your email for important notices from the College about these placement requirements.
What do I need to know if I'm an International student?
You are required to attend an immigration briefing and check-in session to clear your International Bar. Find out more from the
International Student and Scholar Services site on the Check-in and Orientation page.
What if I have credit from AP, IB, or Dual Credit courses?
In order to get credit for any coursework you have completed at another institution, you must send your transcripts from that institution to UT. The sooner you do this the better so that advisors can have a complete academic record to work from as they advise you on your coursework.
For undergraduates submitting transcripts from other institutions, mail transcripts to The University of Texas at Austin; Office of Admissions; P.O. Box 8058; Austin, TX 78713-8058 or drop your official transcript(s) off in the Main Bldg Room 7.
New students are often anxious to claim AP credit (or IB credit) for a variety of reasons. We STRONGLY encourage all students to meet with their TIP academic advisor before claiming such credit. Claiming AP credit can sometimes cause issues for some students, especially if you are planning to work in the health professions. The process of claiming credit is not reversible and many times, can wait until after your freshman year.


text: Hi Roman, everybody, First of all my apologies if it is a wrong list for pygccxml discussion. We are using py++/pygccxml on moderately sized project, and recently py++ started to fail silently on us. It runs gccxml and then silently quits. It turned out the offending piece of code was pickling cache. Something fails in cPickle and terminates the whole process. Most likely it is a stack overflow, because if cPickle replaced with pickle, then we get recursion limit runtime error. One can raise recursion limit and pickle will save cache just fine, but really slowly (not surprising at all). At the moment we've worked around this problem by disabling cache, however it would be nice to fix it properly. After reading a bit about pickling, it looks like (c)pickle don't work very well with recursive structures, which declarations obviously are. I just want to list some ideas I have on how to tackle this problem, and I would love to get some comments on their feasibility, or better yet alternative approaches. 1. Simple one, just set all parents to None before pickling and rebuild parents upon loading. Should be relatively simple, I'll try it first thing. Hopefully that would kill fair amount of recursion, but not all of it (e.g. class A refers to class B and B to A). 2. Add unique id to each declaration, have a global store that saves declarations by id, and define for each declaration __getstate__, __setstate__ that would serialize ids, rather then declaration instances. Then we just pickle the global store. In reality somewhat more complex approach needed to tackle recursive references. References: Reversible flatting out: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/302535 Some details: we are running: Python 2.4.3 on Windows XP Py++/pygccxml 0.9 gccxml -- somewhat old CVS snapshot Kirill


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If you are like most people, you are probably dealing with too much stress! Our bodies were designed to deal with stress by girding us up for battle. As one part of this stress response, we experience an increase in muscle tension.

This excess muscle tension is a waste of energy, contributes to fatigue, and can result in chronic pain. Think about boxers - they dance around the ring as a way to keep their muscles loose so that they can concentrate all of their power when they want to land a punch.

The good thing is that there is a great workaround for the problem of being tense all of the time. Muscle relaxation exercises are simple techniques for calming your body in response to life stress. Learning to systematically relax the muscles in your body will keep you better equipped to deal with your day to day challenges. These exercises may be of particular value if you have a health problem that is worsened by stress, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, or chronic pain.

Step By Step Instructions

1. Take a deep inhale, make a tight fist with your right hand and hold it for a count of three. On an exhale, think the word "relax" and release all the tension in that right hand. Take a moment or two to focus on the difference in the sensations of a tense muscle versus that of a relaxed muscle.

2. Using the same technique, one by one, tense and relax the muscles in your face. Add tension on the inhale, then think the word "relax" as you exhale and let the muscle slacken.

Forehead: Frown like you are angry or puzzled. Exhale and smooth it out.

Eyes: Screw up your eyes like a baby crying. Then exhale and release the tension.

Jaw and cheeks: Clench your teeth and jaw as if in anger. Exhale and relax. Feel a sense of warmth and relaxation throughout your entire face.

3.Tense and relax the muscles in your torso.

Shoulders: Point them up to the ceiling on the inhale. Exhale, let them relax and hang loose.

Chest: Tighten the chest muscles on a deep inhale, and then let the tension deflate on the exhale.

Abdomen: Tighten your belly as if someone is going to punch you, then let your belly go slack. Feel a spread of warmth throughout your entire torso.

4. Tense and relax your arms. Make a fist with both hands, tightening your biceps, triceps and forearms. Let the tension go, leaving arms that are hanging loose and heavy at your side.

5. Legs are last. Point your toes to the ceiling, tighten your thighs and calves at the same time, before letting all of the tension go. Feel the last bits of tension draining from your whole body, out through your legs and into the ground.

Pro Tips

Enjoy the experience! If any particular body part still feels tense, go back to it, tighten it and then let it loose. It may take a few weeks of practice for you to achieve a complete sense of relaxation.

Practice! Practice the exercises twice a day and sit quietly for about 10 minutes. Do not practice in bed - you want to teach yourself to relax, not teach yourself to fall asleep! It is a great idea to practice right before bed. A relaxed body will sleep better.

Choose what order works for you. Although there are a variety of ways to progressively relax your muscles, I like to start at the top of the head and then work my way down. This allows me to feel like the tension is "draining" from my body.

Take it to the next level. After two weeks, you may no longer need to tense the muscles first. Just focus on each body part, actively relaxing the muscles.

Road test it. Once you are proficient in the exercises, you can start to use them whenever you feel tense. Monitor your tension level throughout the day. If you feel yourself tightening, take a few deep breaths, think the word "relax," and encourage your body to return to a state of relaxation.

Record it. Some people find it helpful to make an audio recording of the instructions for progressive muscle relaxation. If you do, make sure you keep repeating the key words: relax, warm, heavy, loose.

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"Stress Management" Mayo Clinic website Accessed January 31, 2016.


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Above: Transition Network founder Rob Hopkins, left, grants an interview to Raul Velez at the train station in Totnes, England, birthplace of the Transition movement. (Raul Velez photo)
By Tracy L. Barnett
For Magis Magazine
One of the early Transition Town initiatives was launched in Ensenada, Baja California, by an American expat, Robert Frey. Frey went to Queretaro, Mexico, in 2010 to a permaculture class taught by Raul Velez, founder of a nonprofit environmental education project called Ruta Ahimsa. Frey invited Velez to Ensenada to do some permaculture trainings, and shared his excitement about the new initiative he'd launched. Velez accepted the invitation – more to see Baja California than to learn about Transition.
"Actually I was skeptical," Velez recalls. "I thought, OK, I live in a country that has been colonialized by European culture, and then the American way of life – another concept from another part of the world and we need to apply it now and change.' But I was ignorant."
Three weeks after Velez' visit to Ensenada, Frey was found murdered in his own home.


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At some point we all want to disappear. We want to disappear from a moment, a crowd of people, the darkness of our own gaze. It is within all of us, this urge to flee. This urge to fade away and never look back. We all want to run somewhere, to be forgotten but there are very few of us who can become invisible without even trying. It's these people that wish most for the warmth of the sun to wash across their skin. It's these people that are lost to the waves, plunged under into the creeping cold water and drug into the undertow. It's these people we should save but these are the ones that get lost in a disappearing act.
Save Me From Disappearing
October 19, 2010


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Batherson Casting is casting background for "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," a Chernin Entertainment produced feature film starring Andy Serkis. No other casting information is available at this time. Project description: "A sci fi centered on the strange and unlikely interactions." Matt Reeves ("Let Me In"), dir.
Shooting this spring in New Orleans, LA.
Seeking—Background: males & females, 18+, any ethnicity.
To apply, goto Batherson Casting.
Include your name, age, contact info, and a recent photo.
Professional Pay. SAG Background Contract.


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"The Little Book on CoffeeScript", written by Alex MacCaw, is free to read online. An updated version of the book is also available from O'Reilly. This book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript.
CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles down to JavaScript. The syntax is inspired by Ruby and Python, and implements many features from those two languages. This book is designed to help you learn CoffeeScript, understand best practices and start building awesome client side applications. The book is little, only five chapters, but that's rather apt as CoffeeScript is a little language too.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Syntax
- Classes
- Idioms
- Compiling
- Applications
- The Bad Parts
Book Details
Format(s): HTML
Number of pages: 60
Link: Read online.