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2016 Holiday Lights Around West Cobb
Every year right after Halloween, we begin to see homes getting their holiday lights around West Cobb ready. But some homes start even earlier. It takes months to decorate homes like The Felix Family Lights and Atkinson Lights in Dallas. And now that Thanksgiving is days away, it is time to plan your holiday outings to visit some of these displays. So check out our list of 2016 holiday lights around West Cobb.
Throughout metropolitan Atlanta, there are several holiday light extravaganzas like the ones listed here in addition to the neighborhood displays listed below by city:
Holiday Lights Around West Cobb & Paulding
Acworth Holiday Light Displays
Hrockin Hranicky Lights
3848 Rivers Run Trace NW
Acworth, GA
tune in to 107.7 FM
Nov 28 – Jan 1
Charity: Angels Among Us Pet Rescue
1662 Dogwood Lane
1662 Dogwood Lane
Acworth, GA
1563 Boxwood Trace
1563 Boxwood Trace
Acworth, Ga
Please note that these lights are shut off at 9pm school nights and 11pm onweekends. Also, they are not lit on rainy nights.
3699 Autumn View Drive
3699 Autumn View Drive
Acworth GA 30101
Farina Family
5735 Fairwood Drive
Acworth, GA 30101
Dallas Holiday Light Displays
Felix Family Lights
224 Oliver Overlook
Dallas, GA
tune in to 100.9 FM
Aubuchon Lights
28 Southshore Pass
Dallas, GA
Seven Hills Area
- 10 Red Bud Ct
Dallas, GA 30132
- 28 Grace Arbor Court
Dallas, GA 30132
- 1313 Ivey Gulledge
Dallas GA 30132
Lights are on from 5:30pm – 11:00 pm
Stokes Family Christmas
257 Mary Wallace Way
Dallas GA 30157
Atkinson Lights
18 Riverwood Landing
Dallas GA 30157
tune in to 99.1 FM
The Atkinson Family will be joined by their neighbors, the Rowell Family, this year for an even larger holiday display.
Biskup Family Lights
265 Jefferson Drive
Dallas, GA
According to the family, the light show grew as the boys got older and do it all themselves. They started doing the lights around 10-12 yrs old and now one son – at 17 he's got the passion. Our family theme is "Believe"
Christmas Open House
149 Mary Wallace Way
Dallas, Georgia 30157
"We support and raise money for St Jude children's hospital. We decorate trees, mantles, garlands, etc. for clients in their homes and business. We are open every Sunday from 12-6. Free Admission" – their Open Houses end in early December, so check them out soon.
Kennesaw Holiday Light Displays
1010 Token Way
1010 Token Way
Kennesaw, GA
McGuire Family Christmas
3120 Calumet Circle
Kennesaw GA 30152
Riley's Rockin' Christmas
2008 Palladium Drive
Kennesaw, GA 30152
Riley's Rockin' Christmas, with over 35,000 LED lights is set to 50+ minutes of music. Tune in to 101.3
DATES: December 2 – January 1
HOURS: Sunday-Thursday 6pm – 9pm
Friday-Saturday 6pm -10pm
Donations accepted for the Children's Burn Foundation.
Calumet West
1045 Peace Dr NW
Kennesaw GA 30152
Towne Lake
5780 Stonehaven Drive
Kennesaw, GA
Ben King Road
1510 Ben King Road
Kennesaw, GA
Living Hope Church
3450 Stilesboro Rd NW
Kennesaw, Georgia 30101
Marietta Holiday Light Displays
Maple Avenue Historic District
Maple Avenue
Marietta, GA
The Wigington Family Lights
1720 Whitlock Road
Marietta GA 30066
tune in to 98.3
Stott Family Lights
121 Mayes Farm Road
Marietta, GA 30064
tune in to 88.3
Children's Light Display
3234 Custer Lake Dr
Marietta, GA 30064
tune in to 87.9
Other Area Holiday Light Displays
Lovinggood Lights
503 Friendship Church Road
Douglasville, GA 30134
Mint Julep Christmas Display
116 N Mountain Brooke Dr
Ball Ground, Georgia 30107
40,000 lights synchronized to 20+ songs. Listen on 88.3 FM. From 6-10pm thru New Years Eve. Free show but donations are graciously accepted for Sibley Heart Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Holiday Lights of Hope
6688 Bells Ferry Road
Woodstock, GA
Holly Springs Lights
First Baptist Church of Holly Springs
2632 Holly Springs Parkway
Holly Springs, GA 30142
Pettit Creek Farms
337 Cassville Road
Cartersville, GA 30120
Did we miss any?
Comment below to let us know any other displays we should share around West Cobb.
Happy New Year! Our Holiday Lights map has expired for 2017. Please stay tuned for more local information, and of course, if you are looking to buy or sell a home, we are happy to help.
Decorating Your Home in West Cobb
There are several companies around in West Cobb that can help you with your holiday decorating. Here are some:
Acorn Home & Decorating
3870 Due West Rd. NW
Marietta, GA 30064
Seasonal Designs
Hiram, GA
Lightning Bug Electric
3605 Sandy Plains Road
Marietta, GA 30066
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Jade recently asked me to contribute to ME's newest online program, The Metabolic Rehab, by providing my personal story and those of my clients in terms of the mindset behind the metabolic damage process. I will leave the heavy science to Mr. Teta 🙂 as my expertise is more aptly used in the mindset realm.
It's important to realize that metabolic damage and fat loss resistance do not happen overnight. In fact, the process is the result of many behaviors done over time via yo-yo dieting and/or competition practices. However, the MINDSET that proceed these behaviors that can do a lot of damage also.
Below are 3 common mindset issues that many use to justify actions that can lead to metabolic disruption. I know, because I have extensive experience with each, and have coached hundreds of women with the same mentality. There's no judgment here at all—this stuff is normal in the weight loss and physique world. It's just that sometimes, our "good" behaviors can turn on us, at the physiological level, leading to futile results despite agonizing efforts. The bottom line is to learn how to work smarter, not harder or longer, and this can be a big shift for many of us driven, fit women.
1) We think we just need to do more: more workouts every week; more consistency with dieting; more minutes on cardio; more calorie cutting, etc. However, this way of thinking can get us in trouble when more and more effort reaches the point of diminishing returns. But psychologically, we believe we are not seeing results because we are not training enough, cutting calories enough or trying hard enough. For those dealing with metabolic resistance, the idea that simply doing more of the same stuff that created the problem only exacerbates it. The answer is to do things differently—not simply more of the same old behaviors.
2) We employ a black-and-white "dieting" mindset. This is typical of yo-yo dieters and especially competitors, who are either "in season" or "off season." Simply using those terms does us a disservice. Does an off-season allow us the luxury of eating everything we want and skipping workouts? Does an on-season mean we need to do everything humanly possible to rid ourselves of any extra body fat, regardless of method employed? It's the definition of extreme measures. But, as a society, we want extreme. We seek it out. We love the idea of losing weight fast. Or doing 2-a-day workouts to get results even faster. These sort of short-term solutions do us a disservice in the end because they are just that—short-term. They are behaviors based on willpower alone. And research shows that willpower is exhaustible, and of course we have all experienced that—extreme measures always peter out. By definition, habits take a longer time to form. If you are trying to form a habit in mere weeks, it's not a habit; it's a desperate measure. And desperate measures are scary for 2 reasons:
- They don't last, so we always gain the weight back and usually even more.
- Not only do we gain more weight back, but this back-and-forth puts our metabolism in jeopardy. It's not a benign process. The metabolism is like a tire getting worn down with more and more mileage. It doesn't perform the same way forever. It takes a hit.
Now imagine yo-yoing up and down in weight several times, over years. No wonder our bodies start to protest—by not responding and/or forcing us to do more and more exercise and take in less and less calories to respond the same way it did last time we came down. Many competitors get into this vicious cycle that I call "cardio resistance" when doing more simply does not work, and in fact wears down a delicate metabolism even more. The farther you go down that hole, the longer it takes to dig yourself back out. Hence, the Metabolic Rehab program.
3) We tend to associate our physique with our self-worth. As a competitor and fitness model, I did this for years. I was a slave to my physique because I simply thought it was all I could offer. Others affirmed me when I was in killer shape on the cover of a magazine. It was hard to get that same affirmation for my intellect or for being a good friend 🙂 I saw my physique as my meal ticket.
Though that's an extreme example, I think it speaks to what many women feel in terms of their self-worth. We can have everything we want—great family, good friends, fulfilling career, but if our jeans become too tight, none of that matters. I think we do ourselves a disservice when we rely exclusively on the number on the scale to determine our worthiness. It is most likely unconscious, but ask yourself, could you be happy if you never lost another pound? Because the goal is not 0% body fat, right? The goal is to like the way you look. The goal is contentment. So why not skip the middleman and just be happy and grateful for your awesomeness in this moment. Just because we accept where we are doesn't mean we stop striving. In fact, when we decide we are worthy right now, it frees us up to do the work necessary to take it to the next level.
When you get down on yourself about your body, remind yourself of all the other amazing things you have to offer: your intellect, your business prowess, your amazing friendship, your loving partnership, your sense of humor, your ability to be a great parent, etc. There's so much more to be grateful for, apart from the number on the scale—sometimes it just takes a little introspection and gratitude to change the way you see things. You'll be happier for it!

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The latest incident puts a spotlight on larger issues in society
Violent outbursts during sporting events are nothing new.
Humans have a natural tendency to lose their cool in intense, emotional situations.
But some coaches and experts worry the blow-ups are getting worse, in part because these kinds of attacks have become their own form of entertainment.
The video of a referee being pummeled at a youth football game in Sarasota is no exception. It has gone viral with millions of viewers online and on television.
The footage that led to felony battery charges for three Sarasota Gators' coaches and a 14-year-old athlete was released by the Sarasota Sheriff's Office on Wednesday.
A barrage of comments on the violent scene came from people across the country in its first 24 hours and in less than a week has garnered nearly a million views on YouTube and the attention of national news networks like NBC and CNN.
Gregg Heinzmann, director of the Youth Sports Research Council at Rutgers University, said the way popular culture has evolved contributes to the outbursts and the attention given to them.
"It says something about our society when you look at daytime television and see people coached and instructed to fight for people's entertainment," he said. "It's no wonder that it spills over onto our athletic fields, onto our roads and into our shopping malls."
There is no evidence of a rising tide of violence in organized youth sports, said Heinzmann, who was first asked about such flare-ups some 15 years ago.
But, he said, it is likely that the attacks are more often being reported to law enforcement and video evidence is more prevalent with the advent of smartphones.
"People are just more aware," he said. "Whether or not it's rising is not the important question because if it happens in my town or if my child is exposed to it, then it's a problem."
Another videotaped attack that went viral and became ESPN chatter came from this area in December. Teenager Mason Holland shoved and body-slammed a referee during a game at DeSoto High School in Arcadia. Holland, a high school senior at the time, now faces a felony charge.
Florida is one of 20 states that enacted a law about a decade ago that makes it a felony to go after a referee. The law has been strictly enforced in high school and amateur sports.
A Sebring parent faced a felony charge for beating a Pop Warner football official during a 2005 game; a high school soccer player was arrested after he punched a referee in the mouth during a match in Pine Ridge in 2006; and a semi-pro football coach went to jail for clocking a line judge in the head during a Bradenton game in 2006.
Chris Toelle, a Sarasota resident who has coached youth football for more than a decade, said the time and energy spent coaching a team can sometimes blur the mission of youth sports.
"We're there to teach these kids life lessons," he said, "but in the end you also get the pressure and the stress to win the game."
Youth sports coaches often put in up to 30 hours a week when you include practice, paperwork and strategy sessions.
Add to that the pressure of the games. The Sarasota Gators, a team expected to win its conference, was getting beat at the Aug. 27 game and two of its coaches -- brothers Eddie and Dexter Austin -- were dealing with the grief of their mother dying.
"It's not an excuse but I'm sure it all aided in these actions," said Toelle, who coached the Pop Warner Suncoast Buccaneers last season.
Authorities say Dexter Austin, 43, was upset over the referee's calls when he instigated a fight by throwing an open water bottle at referee Jayme Ream and charging toward him on the field. Ream threw the first punch in self-defense, Sheriff Tom Knight said.
Assistant coaches Timothy Howard, 38, and Antonio Bradley, 28, along with a 14-year-old player, reacted to the blow by rushing the field to attack Ream.
Heinzmann called the attack especially "unsettling" because it included a child apparently defending a coach, who is supposed to be his role model.
"This teaches children all the wrong lessons about how to handle disputes and how to manage conflicts in appropriate ways," he said.
Toelle said sports associations need to have stricter rules in who they allow to mentor children to set an example that these violent acts will not be tolerated.
"It takes the right people to coach how to turn it on and how to turn it off and walk away," he said. "That will stick with these kids for the rest of their lives and then maybe we won't have these kinds of attacks happening."


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The Aston Villa striker Luke Moore could be out of action for the rest of the season after suffering a recurrence of a shoulder injury against Chelsea on Saturday.
Moore is set to have surgery on the problem, which has dogged him to varying degrees for the past three years, and his manager Martin O'Neill is resigned to be without him for the foreseeable future.
"I believe Luke's injury could be a season-threatening injury," he said. "It looks like, and I don't want to pre-empt things, that he will need an operation. It's the first time he has not been able to put the shoulder back in again straight away after it's come out."
O'Neill, who is understood to be stepping up his efforts to bring in the former Celtic striker Chris Sutton on a short-term contract, added: "If Luke needs an operation, it will be a major blow to us and a real blow to him, but he needs the shoulder tightening up and he needs it strengthened."
Manchester City's Ousmane Dabo has been ruled out for six weeks after damaging knee ligaments in training. The French midfielder had just completed a three-match suspension following his dismissal at Reading last month. "It is sod's law, really. He was just starting to show some form for us," City's manager, Stuart Pearce, said.
Kevin Ball, the caretaker manager of Sunderland from February to May, is expected to take charge of Darlington tomorrow, even though the present manager, David Hodgson, has not been formally dismissed yet.


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What is RTCP XR?
RTCP XR is a relatively new mechanism for compatible devices to transmit voice quality reports after the conclusion of a call. Asterisk internally has some metrics (RTPAUDIOQOS, for example) to monitor call quality, but the piece Asterisk sees is only half the picture. RTCP XR lets us measure what the end user's experience is.
Newer firmware for the Cisco SPA50x and SPA525 series phones has this capability. I am told some Polycom devices do as well, as do SNOM phones.
How does it work?
You have to set up a "collector", or system to collect the RTCP XR reports from the devices. The reports are sent using SIP PUBLISH. To my knowledge, Asterisk does not have this capability.
You can use Opensips (SIP Proxy) and a database as a collector. http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Setting+up+an+RTCP-XR+collector+for+Polycom+Productivity+Suite gives a general how-to on the way to do this.
I found it very difficult to get Opensips installed properly until I found a YouTube video showing me how. It was much easier once I found the video and watched him run through it.
I set up my Opensips on an Amazon EC2 micro instance with Ubuntu. The only modification had to make was to add the line advertised_address="x.x.x.x" (x.x.x.x being an elastic IP assigned to the instance) to the opensips.cfg file to deal with Amazon's one-for-one NAT arrangement. Opensips receives the SIP PUBLISH notifications and passes to a simple PERL script that writes the info to a database.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Beguine \Be`guine"\, n. [F. b['e]guine; LL. beguina, beghina; fr. Lambert le B[`e]gue (the Stammerer) the founder of the order. (Du Cange.)] A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Beguine n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life 2: music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance 3: a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba


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JOHNSON CITY (September 24, 2013) – Dr. Arsham Alamian, an epidemiologist with the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health, has been elected to the governing council of the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association.
Alamian, an assistant professor in the ETSU Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, focuses his research on the epidemiology of chronic disease, as well as the epidemiology of behavioral risk factors for chronic disease. He is a co-investigator on an interprofessional research grant recently awarded to ETSU by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for the study of prescription drug abuse and misuse in Appalachia.
Alamian, who is also an elected, full member of the American College of Epidemiology, received his doctoral degree in public health, with a specialization in epidemiology, from the University of Montreal. He completed a fellowship in public health with the Quebec Population Health Research Network, also in Montreal, and holds a master of science degree in pharmacy, with a specialization in pharmacoepidemiology, from Laval University in Quebec City.


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Show up at 9:30AM for breakfast and orientation. Come dressed to be outside for 2-4 hours. We will have a breakfast sign-in and orientation. The volunteers will divide into groups to rotate thru volunteer positions. Starting line: moving teams to the start, sled holding at the start and trail guarding on the trail.
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Justin expresses his excitement for his upcoming birthday weekend and announces plans to close the bar for a private party with the gang (aka, his "real family"). Moments later, a dashing musician rolls up to the bar and flirts with Leslie - until Justin reveals that the customer is his dad, Frank, making a surprise visit. Sounds like a nice thing to do, except Frank missed most of Justin's childhood and remains unapologetic about their complicated past. Danny ignores the warning signs from Justin and invites Frank to the birthday party. One problem: he didn't consult Justin.
After he flips out on Danny, Justin eventually warms to the idea of bonding with his dad. Is it possible that Frank has changed? No sooner does Justin feel okay with the new scenario than Danny receives a text from Frank - he's not coming. This results in a huge blowup from Justin, who blames Danny for the whole thing and storms off with a bottle of butterscotch liqueur, intent on drinking by himself.
For once, Danny recognizes his role in Justin's emotional roller coaster and the guilt leads him to a state of drunkenness at the apartment. Leslie discovers him and moments later a drunk Justin stumbles in from his bedroom. Through the boys' slurred words and scattered logic, Leslie manages to figure out that Danny wants to help Justin and Justin wants to let his dad know how he feels.
Meanwhile, Sabrina complains about her waitressing position at the bar and Shelly rags on her, labeling her problem a "white girl emergency." She challenges Shelly to switch roles and experience it for himself - and within minutes he finds the job exhausting, complicated and frustrating. He eventually learns the ropes and grows confident... only to realize Sabrina's still the one getting paid. At least she earned his respect.
Back at the bar the next day, the guys shock Justin by carrying in Frank against his will and forcing a confrontation between him and his son. Justin finally expresses how Frank's constant absence affected him... but Frank shrugs it off, stating the importance of his true passion: music. This fuels a sing-off between father and son - and Frank loses. Justin's victory sparks a real celebration and, needless to say, a lot of relief.


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this is one of the best shows iv watched next to lost and thats saying something for me, but i need to know is 'Kill Them All' the final episode of the season and if so when does it next air for season 2?
I am so glad this show took off running after a somewhat lackluster first episode. I am glad they did not make the arena fights a central aspect of the show, don't get me wrong I like the fight scenes, but if they would have made them the central point of the show it would have gotten old pretty quickly. I like the intrigue even though its a bit transparent at times. But still enough to keep me hooked every Friday night.
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i love this show and although it may not be the best written show out there as far as visual effects and filming go its second to no show i'v yet to see i know its early in the season but i love what i see and i wish there were more shows like this out there. if any one knows of any films or shows like this pleas let me know. :)


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I am looking for an IOS app developer who can develop a brand new IOS app. Here is the synopsis of the features expected:
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I also expect:
You to do the backend APIs and its documentation
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Shall code in Swift 3 + Mongo DB + Node Js
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Compatible with iphone 4 or higher
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I will provide you all the designs and their assets in XD or SVG format. Wireframes will be provided by myself
I pay only in milestone and that is going to be after App is done completely and tested throughly. I do not want any one to put me in hurry to release milestone or write review and close the project. Partial payments are not encouraged.
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From Washington County, Maryland Cemetery Records, Vol III, Willow Bend Books, 1993.
Mary Jane Churchey died 14 Nov 1898
There is an entry for Israel Churchey but no date--
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I also found a J.A. Metz buried next to a Benjamin Good.
If you would like copies please contact me direct.
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Steam Summer Sale Buying Guide
I don't want to hear whining because this info is a "no duh" for you game pros. It wasn't that long ago that we all experienced our first Steam sale. Maybe you even have a few games from that sale that you haven't gotten around to. But let's be honest, the Steam sale is emotionally and economically draining (damaging? Invigorating?) for us all. So I've written this post to give a psychological lift and some sound advice for how I get through one of the hardest wallet-hitting parts of the summer.
For those of you who don't know what Steam is, if you care about gaming at all you should get it. It's a great platform for buying all sorts of games without having to leave your gaming chair. Each summer they do an amazing sale where games are insanely discounted. So here are my tips for surviving the sale.
Tip 1: They won't run out of copies
When the Steam summer sale was announced, many of us were unable to log in. Some of us waited 30 minutes, some of us had to wait hours. I… well to put it bluntly I about lost my mind hitting the refresh button. But, when reflecting back on it, it's pretty silly. These are digital games. They won't run out if you won't make it within the first 15 minutes of a sale being announced. Breathe; let your connection beef up a bit; things will be ok.
Tip 2: 1:00 is really important
1:00pm is the most important time during the Steam sale. Not only is it when the 24 hour games role over, but it also lines up with the flash sales. Timing looks like this:
Daily Deals: 24 hours, switches at 1pm daily
Flash Sales: 8 hours, switches at 1pm, 9pm, 5am daily
Community Choice: 8 hours, switches at 1pm, 9pm, 5am daily
Yesterday's Big Deals: 24 hours, switches at 1pm daily
As you can see, the biggest change takes place at 1pm. If you work or sleep in, that's cool, but you need to check on Steam between 1-9 to get the most out of the sale (preferably, at 8:30 and 9:30pm… like anyone could wait until 8:30 to check the sale).
Tip 3: If it isn't on the front page, don't panic
Just because games aren't on the front page doesn't mean that they aren't on sale. Sometimes there are incredible deals, up to 80% off, that aren't even listed. If you're looking for one specific game, you can just look it up to see if it's on sale anyway. You can also sign up for Steam to contact you when it does go on sale. I just got Remember Me for $30 by using the latter method.
Tip 4: If you paid more, don't beat yourself up
The Steam sale, at its heart, is a game. It's a game in patience, in foresight, in self-restraint. So you just paid $6 on Fez and now it's up for a community choice option for $4. It's ok. You couldn't have known. And in the end, our dollars are going to help people make even better games. Some sites like Good Old Games have explicitly stated that heavily discounting games, such as during the Steam summer sale, hurts game developers because they aren't getting the money they need to develop more games. So be thankful that someone sat in his Canadian apartment for 7 years to make a game you now just bought for $6, and let it go.
Tip 5: Here's the deal with trading cards
Trading cards are a Steam thing where you get these virtual cards for playing games and for other random stuff (such as buying games during the Steam sale!). I thought they seemed really dumb at first, but upon researching them a little more I have changed my mind. You take the cards and can turn them into Steam badges or achievements. Badges earn you XP toward your Steam level (yep, you have a Steam level now). But none of that is why I think it's kinda cool. I think that it's a good idea because it helps further build community around gameplay, which is especially important with solo games like Sims. Me and say, my friend Jeff, can get Portal 2 badges through playing on Steam and trade with each other to earn badges and xp. I mean, that's one of the reasons we all play on Steam right? Brag about our achievements, rate games, see what others are playing. It's a natural place to further develop community, and I'm glad they're at least trying something, even if it's a little corny J
In the end…
I've been pretty restrained so far in my purchases, partly because we had company in town and I couldn't check as often as I would have liked, partly because Steam dropped my credit card info and I drug my feet on putting my new one in, and partly because I haven't loved (or already owned) a good chunk of what's been for sale. But here it goes:
Mark of the Ninja (regularly: 14.99; paid: 7.49)
Age of Empires II (regularly: 19.99; paid: 9.99)
System Shock 2 (regularly: 9.99; paid: 2.49)
Remember Me (regularly; 49.99; paid 29.99)
The Night of the Rabbit with soundtrack, 8 audiobooks, and original comic (regularly: 24.99; paid: 16.74)
I think I've done fairly well so far. I typically like to buy up a bunch of indie games for 1-5 dollars, and I may still do that. The sale is young.
Now it's your turn. I know Sam is chomping at the bit to get in on this post and share her wealth of wisdom about the Steam sale. To all of you: What advice do you have for noobies? What have you bought so far? What are you looking forward to going on sale?


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Daft Aussie spooks are blowing their cover by announcing what they do for a living on social notworking sites.
While the move might be about getting Pussy Galore, it is proving to be a gold mine for foreign spooks who want to know who to keep an eye on.
A survey by Fairfax Media found that while in the good old days you would not be able to find out what a spook did without a lot of torture, or a honey trap, more than 200 former and present intelligence officers have disclosed their classified employment in profiles on LinkedIn, other professional networking sites and social media including Facebook and Twitter.
Most of them only said that they are hired by agencies including the top secret Defence Signals Directorate and the Defence Intelligence Organisation, but some have revealed details about their work.
This included work at specific intelligence facilities, overseas postings and liaison with allied intelligence agencies, linguistic expertise indicating particular intelligence targets, and involvement with specific issues and information technology systems. None of them fessed up to wet work, black ops or bumping off men with Golden Guns.
But the security problem does not really stop at Australia. One officer told of his postings to Britain's Government Communications Headquarters in Gloucestershire and GCHQ's Composite Signals Station in Cornwall and a posting to the US National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Some have told of their specialist knowledge of counter-terrorism, telecommunications and aerospace.


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Ankle Sprains
Principles of Orthopedic Massage and their Application
By Ben Benjamin
Originally published in
Massage Bodywork
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Copyright 2003. Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals. All rights reserved.
It is difficult to treat a pain problem effectively if we do not understand the underlying cause of the pain. Injuries to the ankle are common, but understanding the nature of these injuries, as well as the appropriate treatment for them, requires some specialized knowledge. In this article I will discuss several principles that can help therapists understand, evaluate and treat injuries. We will apply these principles specifically to the most common ankle sprains.
I learned about ankle sprains in a very personal way. At 15 I sprained one ankle, then at 17 I sprained both ankles at the same time. I don't recommend learning about ankle sprains in this way.
It was not until many years later, after I had already worked as a therapist for 14 years, that I learned key facts about the injury process that would revolutionize not only my understanding of my own pain and healing and the body's capacity for healing, but my ability to help my clients as well. Dr. James Cyriax and Dr. Milne Ongley, pioneers in orthopedic medicine, taught me what I have come to call the Essential Principles -- the underlying principles that govern effective assessment and treatment. These important concepts are based on facts about the normal functioning of the body's tissues and what happens to these tissues when they are injured.
I learned, for example, that muscles are injured frequently but heal easily, while tendons, ligaments and joints often take months or years to heal and often stay injured for a lifetime. I also learned that long-term pain patterns are most often the result of adhesive scar tissue that forms in tendons, ligaments and joints after an injury. Hundreds of discrete injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, bursas, nerves and joints can be precisely assessed and successfully treated. Hands-on therapists can effectively treat many of these injuries by using friction therapy, an effective technique that breaks down adhesive scar tissue in muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia.
Although it took me two decades to grasp these essentials, I now teach these principles of orthopedic massage to therapists all over the country who apply them successfully in their practices. This article will present some of these important concepts that will help you understand the body and its pain in a new way. I will use the ankle joint and its common sprain patterns to illustrate how you can apply these Essential Principles in your own practice.
PRINCIPLE: Specific areas of the body are prone to specific injury patterns
In each part of the body, certain structures are more likely to be injured than others. For instance, the construction of the shoulder includes the rotator cuff, where tendons not only function as tendons but also do the work of ligaments by holding the humerus in the glenoid fossa. This structure allows the shoulder joint great freedom of movement -- but also means there is more likelihood of injury to the tendons in this area when movement is sudden or requires excessive strength. The back of the thigh, in comparison, is a highly muscular area of the body; the most likely casualty of an injury to the mid-posterior thigh will be a tear in the muscles. In contrast to both of these, when an ankle is sprained, the structures that are most commonly injured are the ligaments.
APPLICATION: Ligamentous structure of the ankle joint
The ankle is a hinge joint that primarily permits forward and backward motion. But the ankle is also capable of subtle side-to-side movements that help us walk and balance on uneven terrain.
There are three supporting ligaments on the lateral side of the ankle: The anterior talofibular ligament, the calcaneofibular ligament and the talofibular ligament -- sometimes referred to as the posterolateral ligament. These lateral ligaments of the ankle hold the foot to the base of the lateral malleolus, which is in fact the distal end of the fibula. During standing, walking and other activities, these ligaments prevent the ankle from buckling laterally.
The anterior talofibular ligament attaches the anterior portion of the lateral malleolus to the talus. The calcaneofibular ligament attaches the inferior portion of the lateral ankle bone to the calcaneus below. The posterior talofibular ligament attaches the posterior aspect of the lateral ankle bone to the posterior portion of the talus. Together these ligaments create stability for the lateral aspect of the foot and ankle.
PRINCIPLE: Ligaments should be tight
Bones and their joint capsules supply the primary structure of our bodies. Muscle-tendon units enable our bodies to move these bones at the joints. Ligaments supply the stability we need at the joints in order for our movements to be controlled and safe. All these parts of the body must do their individual jobs interdependently to allow us pain-free movement. For ligaments, this means that their fibers must be flexible enough to allow normal movement and yet tight enough to protect the joints and the bones they connect. Ligaments limit movement and provide stability so that we do not fall over when we walk, run or suddenly move to the side.
While it is healthy for us to have muscles that are loose and relaxed, it is not healthy for us to have ligaments that are loose. To appreciate the necessity for tight ligaments, imagine a door where the hinges are loose because the screws are not screwed in tightly. The loose hinges will allow the door to rock around until, eventually, the door or the frame, or both, become damaged or broken. In contrast, hinges that are securely attached to both door and frame allow the door to open and close smoothly, with no undue pressure on any part of the door's structure.
Ligaments function in a similar way. When loose, ligaments allow too much movement at a joint and can lead to injury not only in the ligaments themselves, but also in the relevant joint capsule, tendons and muscles. Appropriately tight ligaments hold the joint stable during movement, thereby limiting the possibility of injury.
Ligaments can become loose in three ways: Through genetics, trauma or by the development of distended scar tissue.
- Genetically, an individual may be born with ligaments that are too long for his body's structure. We all remember kids we would call "double-jointed" because they could get into all sorts of positions that were unimaginable for the rest of us. These individuals did not actually have two joints instead of one; they simply had ligaments that were longer than their joints needed, allowing them to be much more flexible than the norm. Unfortunately, these very flexible individuals are also very vulnerable to injury because they lack joint stability.
- Secondly, trauma from a sudden blow or a severe accident can, in a moment, stretch a ligament permanently.
- The third and very common method that leads to loose ligaments is the development of adhesive scar tissue. Whether the ligamentous scar tissue results from repeated injury or from surgery, it can stretch and distend over time. When it does, this distended scar tissue leaves the person vulnerable to further injury, often of a more serious nature.
APPLICATION: Injuries to the lateral ligaments of the ankle
For the ankle to be stable, its supporting ligaments must be tight. If the ligaments are too loose, there is an excessive amount of joint movement that makes the ankle vulnerable to injury.
After low back and cervical pain, lateral ankle sprains are probably the third most common injury a massage therapist sees. "Sprain" refers to tears in the ligamentous fibers. The seriousness of a sprain can vary from minor sprains in which only a small number of ligament fibers swell or tear, to a more serious sprain in which one or more ligaments can rupture completely.
It is common for the ligaments on the lateral aspect of the ankle to be looser than the medial ligaments. Often just stepping on a small stone or off a curb unexpectedly will cause the ankle to buckle outwards. The majority of all ankle sprains occur to these lateral collateral ligaments of the ankle.
An outer-ankle sprain often involves the fibers of all three of the lateral ankle ligaments named above and shown on pages 68 and 69 (the anterior talofibular ligament (A), the calcaneofibular ligament (B) or the posterolateral ligament (C)). In almost all cases the anterior talofibular ligament is affected, and in many lateral ankle sprains all three ligaments are partially torn.
There are three grades of sprains that we can think of as mild, moderate and severe. The extent of the sprain can be judged by the severity of the pain and the degree of swelling. However, there is an exception to this. With extreme sprains one ligament (the anterior talofibular) can rupture and in these cases the pain often completely disappears. When an ankle ligament rupture occurs, although the pain usually subsides quickly, the ankle feels very weak and unstable. An important ligament is now gone. When dealing with any sprained ankle, especially when there is swelling and pain, the massage therapist should have the client visit a physician to get an X-ray before seeing the client. The ankle could be broken. Even with moderate sprains, the swelling can be severe enough that seeing the ankle bones and making an assessment can be difficult.
Many activities or conditions can lead to sprained ankles. Poor alignment of the bones of the feet, where the arches pronate and drop toward the ground, makes a person very prone to ankle sprains. High arches also make the ankle less steady and prone to injury. Instability from excessive flexibility at the ankle joint, which may come from stretched or inherited loose ligaments, increases the likelihood of a sprain as well. If a person has very weak or chronically tense calf and shin muscles, they are less able to adapt to changes in the ground surface, increasing their vulnerability to injury. Other causes are muscular imbalance in the lower leg and wearing high-heeled or platform shoes. Of course, a person could be doing everything just right yet slip on the ice or accidentally trip and end up with a badly sprained lateral ankle.
The lateral ankle is frequently sprained during athletic activity and commonly involves a severe, sudden trauma. This injury can easily occur during an off-balance shot in basketball, while landing incorrectly from a jump during dancing, crashing into somebody playing soccer, sliding into third base, or tripping on some uneven ground while running or walking. There is often severe pain, and sometimes a loud "snap" is heard. It usually takes an hour or so for the swelling to occur and the pain to intensify. Within a few hours, the swelling and pain are usually quite severe. After swelling has progressed, it becomes difficult to walk.
In other cases, the sprain is not immediately apparent. In the heat and excitement of activity, a slight falling over on the ankle is barely noticed; the person recovers his balance automatically without missing a step. An hour or so later, a nagging pain begins to appear and may or may not be accompanied by swelling. It may remain just a slight irritation, that gets worse over the next few days as the ankle is used or it may become increasingly painful after several hours.
If the sprain causes adhesive scar tissue, the ongoing pain pattern is often irregular, causing pain at the beginning of activity and/or after the activity has stopped. This pattern emerges when an ankle sprain does not heal properly. When a sprained ankle becomes chronic and will not fully heal, it is generally caused by scar tissue that is malformed during the healing process. The ligament fibers heal in the wrong direction and/or improperly attach to the bone they should glide over, and a sense of instability as well as pain results. Strenuous activity re-tears this weak and unwanted scar tissue, resulting in a seemingly endless cycle of pain, no pain, pain and no pain. It is an enduring problem that can continue for many years if not properly treated.
PRINCIPLE: Injured ligaments often result in a capsular pattern
British orthopedic physician Dr. James Cyriax coined the term "capsular pattern" to refer to "a pattern of limitation of movement of a specific joint." The principle of the capsular pattern is based on one of the emergency systems the brain puts into effect to protect us when we become injured. When a joint or its supporting ligaments become damaged, the brain tells the synovial membrane that forms the lining of the joint to begin secreting excess fluid. This swelling is telling us to rest and limit the use of the joint until it is healed. The body speaks loudly saying something like, "Stop moving this joint until I heal, or I will hurt you more."
When a joint swells in association with an injury, the result is called a traumatic arthritis, which means an inflammation of the joint as the result of trauma. This joint inflammation and swelling usually disappears when the triggering injury is resolved. People who have a traumatic arthritis in a particular joint experience the same pattern of limitation, or capsular pattern.
The principle of the capsular pattern is an important concept because it helps us differentiate different types of injuries from other conditions in the joint. For instance, in the knee the capsular pattern is always the same; it is more difficult to bend the knee than it is to straighten the knee. Similarly, the capsular pattern for traumatic arthritis of the elbow shows up as more difficulty bending the elbow and less difficulty straightening the elbow. If that pattern is reversed and the person can easily bend the elbow but has a great difficulty straightening it, a different condition is present.
APPLICATION: Capsular pattern in the ankle
The capsular pattern in the ankle means more limitation in plantar flexion than in dorsiflexion. When you see a client who has this pattern of limited movement, it means the person either has a sprained ankle that has not been resolved or some other irritation to the joint that is causing swelling and therefore pain and limitation of movement.
PRINCIPLE: Passive testing tells you when passive structures are injured
One of the most important skills a therapist can develop is the ability to assess which structures are involved when a client presents with an injury. A therapist can learn many assessment tests to help evaluate the client's condition. These assessment tests are specifically designed to pinpoint exact structures that may be damaged. In order to determine whether ligaments, joints and bursas have been injured, one essential principle predominates: Passive testing tells you when passive structures are injured.
Ligaments, joints and bursas are referred to as passive structures because, unlike muscles, they do not initiate movement. Ligaments support the joints of the body, and joint capsules hold the bones together. Bursas cushion the gliding surfaces of muscles, tendons, ligaments and so forth.
During a "passive test," the client remains relaxed and allows the practitioner to initiate and complete a movement with no help from the client. If there is pain and/or limitation of normal movement on a passive test, it means there is damage to whatever passive structure is being tested. For instance if we stretch a ligament passively and it hurts, this tells us the ligament is injured. If, on passive testing, a joint is limited in its capacity to move, this usually indicates the joint is swollen and inflamed.
Therapists can learn how to perform numerous passive tests in order to determine, very specifically, which passive structures have been injured.
APPLICATION: Passive tests for lateral ankle sprains
If the X-ray is negative, we test for a sprained ankle by having the client lie supine while trying to reproduce the type of movement that originally caused the sprain. There are separate tests for the anterior talofibular ligament, the calcaneofibular ligament and the presence of a capsular pattern indicating a traumatic arthritis in the joint. The posterolateral ligament is difficult to test, but if you palpate the ligament and compare the level of discomfort between the injured ankle and the good one, you can assess with a great degree of certainty if it is sprained as well.
With recent sprains, very little pressure is needed to induce pain. Ask the person to let you know immediately if they feel discomfort; there is no need to give excessive pressure causing the person pain. If any of these movements caused even mild discomfort, it means the structure you are testing is injured.
If the sprain is very mild or if it is an old chronic sprain, you will need to give the foot an extra push after you have it in the stretched position. This should reproduce the pain of an old or mild sprain. As a general rule, remember to go gently at first and harder only if necessary.
Capsular Pattern
If there is pain and/or limitation of movement on passive dorsiflexion or passive plantar flexion (see the next two photographs), this indicates the ankle is swollen. There is usually greater limitation in plantar flexion than in dorsiflexion. This indicates there is a capsular pattern.
Passive dorsiflexion
- Sit on a stool at the client's feet and place one hand under the heel for support. Now place the heel of your other hand on the ball of the client's foot and press the foot into full dorsiflexion. If there is no pain at the end of the range, give the foot an additional push further into dorsiflexion. When there is swelling, it soon becomes apparent this movement is difficult for the person to tolerate.
Passive plantar flexion
- With the hand still under the heel for support, bring the foot into full plantar flexion, giving a slight additional push if there is no pain. If there is swelling the movement is quite limited and painful under gentle pressure.
Passive supination and passive inversion of the heel help you determine if the anterior talofibular ligament or the calcaneofibular ligament, or both ligaments, are injured. Palpate the posterolateral ligament on both ankles in order to determine if this important ligament is also involved.
Passive supination
- Place one hand under the back of the client's heel for support, then with your other hand firmly grip the top of the foot with your elbow raised and the curve of your thumb facing you. Now gently supinate the foot. (Supination is a combination of plantar flexion, medial rotation and inversion -- all done simultaneously.) Pull the foot medially and down toward the floor as you inwardly rotate it. If the ankle is sprained, this should cause pain at the lateral ankle slightly to the front of the ankle bone. This test assesses the sprain of the anterior talofibular ligament.
Passive inversion of the heel in dorsiflexion
- Hold the foot in dorsiflexion with the medial hand and grip the lateral ankle with the heel and palm of the lateral hand. Now, forcefully stretch the lateral ankle by rotating the heel medially into what is called a varus stretch. This test assesses the calcaneofibular ligament.
Peroneus brevis or longus tendinitis is sometimes mistaken for a mild ankle sprain because this pair of tendons passes around the back of the ankle very close to the ligaments. Confusion often results from the fact that the pain is similar in both of these injuries.
In cases of severe ankle sprain, one or both of the peroneal tendons are often stretched and strained along with the ligaments of the ankle. What happens to many people is that the ligaments heal, but the pain remains. This pain often results from strained tendons that have not been paid attention to or treated. If five or six weeks pass and an ankle you have been treating still hurts behind or just below the outer ankle, check the peroneal tendons by having the person push their forefoot out laterally against resistance.
PRINCIPLE: External adhesions must be eliminated for healing to occur
Injured soft tissues react to trauma by forming internal or external scar tissue. Internal adhesive scar tissue forms within a structure (for example within a tendon or a ligament). When an external adhesion forms it is between two different structures (for example between a ligament and the bone the ligament is supposed to glide over). In certain conditions, the formation of adhesions can often be a random, uncontrolled process. If, for example, the range of movement is significantly restricted, the newly forming scar tissue may adhere to whatever it touches. If the person is immobilized, more scar tissue generally forms in odd places. However, if healing occurs in the presence of full movement, the formation of external adhesive scar tissue is minimized.
Scar tissue begins to form within minutes of an injury. Therefore, prophylactic treatment of adherent scar tissue formation can theoretically begin the same day the injury occurs. Friction therapy is not recommended in the first two or three days, unless the therapist is very experienced and knowledgeable in treating such injuries. In the first few days, all that is needed to prevent adhesions is two or three well placed friction strokes along with frequent movement. If treatment is done too harshly or for too long at this stage, friction might interfere with the normal healing process.
To eliminate firmly entrenched external adhesive scar tissue takes a considerable force. Deep sustained friction therapy, manipulation or injection are three techniques that are usually effective in the appropriate circumstances.
APPLICATION: Eliminating external scar tissue adhesions in the ankle
When the ankle is sprained, strenuous activity should cease immediately; the leg should be elevated and the ankle iced. As soon as possible, a doctor should check for broken bones or complete rupture of the ligaments. If the ankle isn't broken, rest. The use of ice and elevation of the leg should begin at once.
As soon as the person can move the ankle, the foot should be flexed, pointed and moved circularly in both directions many times throughout the day. It is recommended that the leg be elevated while exercising in this way. This will prevent much of the adhesive scar tissue from forming. Walking on the injured foot should begin only when mild discomfort remains. With proper treatment, this should not take more than three to five days at the most. Care should be taken not to rush into any exercise or athletic activities, for a re-sprained ankle is often worse than the original injury.
In mild and sometimes in even more serious cases of sprained ankle, the self-care treatment described above can promote successful healing without treatment. This usually takes three to six weeks, depending upon the severity of the injury. This does not apply when the sprain is an extremely severe one. If it is severe, the person should be under the care of a physician and/or therapist. Ankle sprains do not heal well without some treatment. Instead, they improve and then recur regularly. If massage therapy is initiated within two to six weeks of a sprain, proper healing is greatly facilitated.
Deep Massage and Friction Therapy
When performed by a skilled therapist, therapeutic massage is effective in mild to moderate cases. Massage, applied directly to the foot, ankle and leg, can reduce the swelling and help speed in fresh blood for healing. Gentle effleurage may begin right after the injury. When massage is combined with friction therapy of the damaged structures, treatment is much more effective. In recent sprains, friction therapy stimulates healing of the ligament while preventing unwanted adhesive scar tissue from forming.
In chronic sprains where there is external scar tissue, sustained friction followed by manipulation done by a chiropractor or osteopath is often required to tear the malformed adhesive scar tissue. The anterior talofibular ligament will often adhere to the surface of the talus, the bone that it is supposed to glide over. If this occurs the person will suffer from, mild, but chronic, ankle swelling and pain.
Location and friction of the anterior talofibular ligament
With the client lying supine, supinate the foot with one hand and feel the lower edge of the outer ankle bone with the thumb of the other hand. Go to the base of the ankle bone and then work your way around toward the front of the bone. The anterior talofibular ligament is slightly to the front of the distal part of the lateral malleolus. Keeping the ligament stretched by holding the foot supinated, friction in either direction with your thumb or forefinger. When the ankle is sprained, it is not that difficult to locate the ligament because it is very tender. The anterior talofibular ligament is key to most ankle sprains.
Location and friction of the calcaneofibular ligament
The calcaneofibular ligament is located distal to the lateral malleolus, the outer ankle bone, and goes vertically down and slightly back to the calcaneus. The tear is usually just below the ankle bone and friction is applied by pressing the ligament up under the inferior edge of the malleolus. If both ligaments are torn, alternate two or three minutes in each place and come back to it a few times. It is most effective to treat ankle sprains two or three times a week for three to four weeks initially. Slowly scale down the frequency of the visits as progress is made. If you are successfully treating the ligament, swelling should be quickly reduced for it is only a secondary reaction to the ligament damage. Other signs of improvement are less pain while walking and exercising the foot, more normal range of motion, less pain during treatment and less pain when re-testing the ankle.
In this article I have introduced several of what I consider to be the Essential Principles of the field of orthopedic massage, and have applied these principles to the specific case of ankle sprains. These principles can guide a therapist to more exact and effective assessment, verification and treatment of clients who present with injuries.
Ben Benjamin holds a doctorate in education and sports medicine. He is the founder and president of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Mass., and the author of Listen to Your Pain, Are You Tense? and Exercise Without Injury. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or benbenjamin.net for further information and training in these principles.
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Odds are good that wherever the words "labor" or "arbitration" are mentioned at meetings around the world, somebody from the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will be there.
When there was a "dispute resolution workshop" in Turin, Italy, in February 2012, for example, FMCS deputy director Allison Beck was there, at a cost of $2,037.
The Turin visit was just one of many official trips taken by Beck, the second-ranking leader of an obscure 220-person agency that became the focus of a congressional investigation last year following the Washington Examiner's reporting of massive evidence of corrupt contracting and widespread personnel abuses.
Beck was back in Europe in June 2012 for an American Bar Association meeting in Paris. The ABA reimbursed FMCS $1,000 "towards cost of attendance at this conference under terms of ABA Development Fund fellowship."
But the trip cost $5,570.
From Paris, Beck took the train to Geneva, riding first class in order "to be able to get work done," according to her expense report.
She went to Geneva to meet the "new director of social dialogue section" of the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency designed "to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, [and] enhance social protection."
In addition, Beck was to lecture the Swiss on "FMCS LM relations and conflict resolution training programs," and to do something that apparently could only be done by traveling to Europe: use video conferencing to discuss "joint training projects," the expense report said.
As it was with Beck's Italy trip, the purpose of the Paris excursion was "staff development," according to the form.
John Arnold, an FMCS spokesman, said staff development activities are funded by fees FMCS charges companies and unions, and that it sometimes was reimbursed at least partially by groups like the ILO.
Two weeks later, Beck was off on a $4,189 business trip to Tunis, Tunisia, followed in the next two months by an excursion to an island off the coast of Georgia, then to Montreal for the "international labor agencies meeting."
On the way to Montreal, Beck stopped in Toronto for a personal vacation, noting that doing so was "cheaper than to go Montreal."
In July, Beck's itinerary included a lake in Missouri, then an August vacation jaunt to New Orleans, with FMCS footing the travel bill since she stopped in Nashville for the Tennessee Labor Management Conference.
From Aug. 21 to Aug. 30, she was off to Vietnam and Bangladesh at cost of $8,871.
On that trip, Beck enjoyed a $111 "car service from home to airport" on top of an upgraded flight home.
"The Vietnam and Bangladesh travel was funded under interagency acquisition agreements between FMCS and the departments of state and labor to assist developing market economies and current or potential U.S. trading partners with effective industrial relations," Arnold told the Examiner.
In September, Beck headed to Jackson Hole, Wyo., for the Labor Relations Advisory Committee conference, allowing that private group to foot the bill for perks to the government official.
Beck flew first class, at a cost of $1,900, saying "the only seats available on the return were in first class."
Three days later, she was off to Seattle for an "FMCS Institute class," then FMCS paid Beck $766 to drive to the ocean-view vacation home she owns in Maine.
While there, Beck went to the Maine Labor Employment Relations Association conference. Those two trips cost $2,879.
Then-Director George Cohen was also an FMCS frequent flyer, with a one-night trip to New York in September costing $1,500, and one-night trip to Cleveland for a "managers meeting" in April costing $1,000.
A $2,081 FMCS reimbursement to Cohen had no documentation of what was paid for in the records provided to the Examiner.
FMCS Chief Financial Officer Fran Leonard made a trip to Iowa for a "market survey" and one from Washington to Rhode Island to meet with a congressman in August and September.
Like others, director of human resources Adam Ramsey frequently turned FMCS-paid trips into time off, like a $1,693 trip to Fort Lauderdale where he took a vacation day and weekend there, a $1,627 trip Minneapolis where he added a four-day weekend onto his trip, and a $1,917 one in Montreal where he took two vacation days.
The Examiner obtained travel records for 2012 under the federal Freedom of Information Act. FMCS officials always paid travel agents to help book their trips.
Information technology staffer James Donnen, who lives in West Virginia and rarely reports to work at his office in Washington, took a $2,000 trip to Las Vegas Jan. 9-13, while Ramsey and others went to Atlantic City for the "33rd Arbitration Symposium" Sept. 5-7.
Director of arbitration services Vella Trayham, meanwhile, had just returned from trips to the Annual Labor-Management Conference in Houston, the Pacific Northwest Labor Arbitrators Conference in Seattle, the Minority Professionals in ADR conference in Ohio and the "Advocate-Arbitrator Symposium, of which FMCS is a co-sponsor," and other variants in Las Vegas, Atlanta, St. Louis, and elsewhere.
The extensive travel by its top officials came despite FMCS having employees working in offices across the country. But the non-Washington FMCSers also accumulated extraordinary travel expenses.
Scott Blake, FMCS' Pennsylvania head, racked up $2,566 in February, primarily for a trip to Baltimore, not too far from FMCS' headquarters on K Street in the nation's capital.
Blake's travel bill was $3,000 for March, $3,500 for April and $2,735 in May, according to the expense reports.
Many of the trips taken by Blake and others working at FMCS were for meetings with officials from other federal agencies.
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FMCS co-sponsored several such intra-governmental conferences, including the Institute of Continuing Legal Education Conference near Detroit. John Pinto, then director of the group of offices near Michigan, spent $2,885 traveling around that region in April.
When Pinto traveled to New York City, he stayed at the Hotel Millennium Hilton for $499 a night.
Arnold said that the conference travel was advertising for the agency's existence.
"Since mediation is a voluntary process, all mediators are required, as one of their key performance elements, to conduct extensive outreach to labor and management to inform them of the full range of FMCS services," Arnold said.
"Mediators last fiscal year ... conducted more than 2,000 training programs," Arnold said. "Mediators conduct highly interactive training in such essential skills as active listening and accurate communicating, creative/collaborative problem-solving and demonstrating mutual respect."
Arnold said that, because strikes are costly to the economy, the money spent by FMCS is well worth it if it can help avoid work stoppages.
Last October, the Examiner reported that FMCS officials spent tens of thousands of tax dollars at jewelry stores, regularly used government credit cards to circumvent contracting rules and buy luxuries such as $600 stereos and $1,900 televisions and routinely bought suspiciously marked up items such as $500 thumb drives.
The Examiner's reporting spurred a continuing investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Then-director Cohen resigned in the wake of the Examiner stories.


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STUTTGART AND PITTSBURGH (February 8, 2011) – Vocollect, Inc., the world leader in voice-centric solutions for mobile workers, today introduced its new flagship voice-centric solution set which helps distribution centers (DCs) and warehouses significantly improve productivity, accuracy and total cost of ownership across the broadest range of workflows with the most complete set of solutions. When customers combine Vocollect's industry-leading products with the voice workflow expertise of its global partners, they solve their operations challenges and gain the best operations and business results versus alternative solutions.
"Working with our partner Speech Interface Design, we recently deployed Vocollect's next generation solution to improve accuracy with the kitting process in one of our assembly lines. In this pilot implementation, we reduced errors by more than 50 percent and started seeing results in less than one month," said Chad Resler, Senior Manufacturing Engineer and ValueStream Leader for Power Panels, Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management."Based on these results, we have implemented voice for a second product line for picking and replenishment, and will be deploying voice on a third product line for put-away and picking," said Resler. "Vocollect's next generation voice solution has been a very attractive means for improving our operational performance," he said.
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"Last spring Vocollect announced a bold vision for the voice-centric warehouse and the solutions necessary to enable that vision," said Joe Pajer, President and CEO, Vocollect, Inc. "With our Next Generation Vocollect Voice Solution set, that vision is more real than ever before. This will truly change how customers think about improving operations performance, addressing business challenges and managing their DCs and warehouses," he said.
The Next Generation Vocollect Voice Solution suite is comprised of two broad new product sets, the Vocollect Voice Software Suite and the Premium Wearable Voice Solution. The Vocollect Voice Software Suite provides advanced host interface and voice workflow logic to the broadest range of warehouse management systems (WMS) and is based on VoiceArtisan, VoiceLink, VoiceDirect and VoiceApplication products. Customers can voice-enable their WMS-based operations via real-time direct interfaces, middleware or third-party middleware. The new suite is based on industry standards for application design, development and testing. It provides Vocollect partners with greater flexibility and expanded capabilities for creating custom workflow capabilities for end customers, building on a range of out-of-box tasks such as selection, put-to-store, replenishment, put-away, loading, cycle-counting, inventory control and receiving.
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Geoff Paul, who was Chief Executive at the former Blyth Valley Borough Council, received a reported figure of over £250,000 when the authority was scrapped in the re-organisation of local government in 2009.
Now he has made a return to local government after being appointed to a senior role within Northumberland County Council.
Mr Paul has been given the newly-created post of Director of Planning, Economy and Housing.
He was formally appointed last Friday, but has been working for the council in an interim position since January. The county council formally approved the creation of the job, with a salary of around £110,000, earlier this month.
However, it came under fire from opposition members who complained it was just months since the council reduced the number of senior figures to cut costs.
Conservative Group Leader Peter Jackson said: "I still question whether this role should have been created at that level of seniority and at that level of pay."
A spokesperson for the authority said: "The council is delighted to confirm the appointment of Geoff Paul as Director of Planning, Economy and Housing.
"His previous experience at a senior level as a Chief Executive, combined with his business experience over the past five years in setting up his own company, will be of great value to the council as it continues to drive forward the economic growth of the county."


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Artist's Comments:(ברכת הבית, Home Blessing) The Hebrew in the Star of David is the word Chai (living). The title is Birkat Habayit and means The Home Blessing. The hand design is a hamsa which is a traditional symbol of protection.
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Living with less and 5 Kids? Isn't that an oxymoron?
The mounds of forgotten toys, used clothing, unread books and assorted papers felt like they were choking the life out of me. Everywhere I turned, there was more stuff to sell or get rid of.
For our large family, the journey towards living with less began by getting rid of about 95% of what we owned, or really, what owned us. The mental shift of realizing that our stuff controlled much of our lives pushed us into a much simpler life.
If you'd asked me only 1 year ago what it meant to live with less, I would have imagined an impoverished family, eating sandwiches or beanie weanies out of a can for every meal, each child having one pair of dirty, smelly worn out shoes…and being miserable.
But when we'd finished our final yard sale with only a half dozen of "not too big" boxes left to donate, a huge burden seemed to be lifted from my husband's and my backs. A burden that seemed to stand in the way of our dreams of living in another country. That burden was our "living with more" lifestyle.
So how are we living with less AND doing it all with five children? We prioritize what is most important and are content with what little we DO have.
I'm very thankful that, in spite of the huge life transition, we really don't feel like we live with less most of the time. We have a roof over our heads, great internet, our computers and enough clothes and shoes to wear that I'm not washing clothes every day. Well, I do end up washing something every day, but no one's running around naked. :o)
Here are some changes we've made:
-we don't have a smart phone…just a cheap, pre-paid cell phone for local calls.
-we have a small fridge, so we buy groceries (especially milk) more often.
-we eat less processed foods and cook a LOT from scratch.
-we wash dishes by hand, even though we have a dish washer, because dishwasher soap is $8 a box!
-I usually cook just enough for one meal. Leftovers are usually only gallo pinto, a Costa Rican rice and beans dish.
-we have an uncomfortable couch, but don't feel the need to buy a comfy one.
-we rent our home, so maintenance is not up to us.
-we walk almost everywhere and don't have to worry about how much gas is today.
-we don't drown in a flood of papers because we haven't gotten mail in almost a month, except for one package.
-there's hardly any toys to clean up because we don't have very many…less than 3 per child.
-I make cookies and cakes without my KitchenAid Mixer and have them turn out just as delicious as before…and burn calories in the process!
I think two of the biggest fears some people have about "living with less" is that they'll be looked at as poor and that they won't be happy.
Frankly, we don't care what others think about us. Not to be mean, but there's freedom in knowing we only have God to answer to and we're confident He wanted us to do this. And compared to much of the world, we live like very wealthy people.
As for not being happy with less, we really don't have less. We're finding we have MORE! We spend more time exercising by walking, more time being together for fun stuff, more healthy habits, more appreciation for the amazing world we live in.
Living with less seems to be more of a mindset, but one that we found almost impossible to have where we were in Florida. It's hard to strive for a simpler life when you don't force yourself into it…at least that's our experience.
Jesus lived with very little…no permanent home, probably one outfit and pair of sandals. He told the story of the rich man who wouldn't give up his worldy possessions to follow him. (And contrary to popular teachings, we think we'd be considered equal to the "rich man" and know how HARD it is to focus on what REALLY matters when surrounded by stuff!)
Many people even look at missionaries who live with very little through pity-colored glasses. But what we need to realize is that a lot of times when we're called to serve God, He only requires us…not our stuff. There's a freedom to letting go of your belongings and living with just the basics. And the basics are usually quite a bit less than we thought!
Here are some other families who are living with less and their views on this topic:
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Break Out of Bushwick: Live with less – Lessons learned from downsizing
Around the World in Easy Ways: Living With Less
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Have you tried living with less stuff? What was the biggest hurdle you faced when trying to get to that point?
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Holy Hot Mess! Britney Spears— what were you doing in this Spider Woman get up?
One part Pussycat Dolls corset, two parts — cobweb! And your choice of fishnets is just unfortunate because you have such a sad history with torn fishnets. You may not remember, but we do — the more bipolar you got — the bigger the holes in your fishnets?
Hope this Grammy scarewear isn't an indication that you've fired your stylist like you did in your breakdown years.
And, Jason Trawick — my final question is for you. You're not just Britney's boyfriend, you're her agent. On both a personal and professional level — shouldn't you have nicely nixed this god awful get up?
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During my birthday a couple of years ago I was posted up in Philly with Filthy in that awesome Barnes and Nobles on U Penn's campus.
The Roman Polanski rape charges were being debated in the New York Times and some folks were defending him saying that it wasn't "rape-rape", that happened so long ago, or the alleged rape victim retracted her statement etc.
I was perplexed, why was this White man not in jail for raping an underaged White girl?
I thought, if she couldn't be protected than my ass was grass.
I said this to Filthy and he looked at me, paused, stared at me for a minute, then said, well you know that's a real working class Black woman's perspective. I didn't really know WHAT he meant by that at the time, but I remembered it, because it felt like I was going to need to remember it. Feel me?
Black men have been lynched and Black women have been raped, historically, in the US to maintain the hierarchical, racial, gendered, social order. This terror was particularly acute 1880's-1920's in the south, as the US tried to figure out what a post slavery nation would look like.
Historically Black women are seen as UNrapeable. Naturally lewd, lascivious, fast and promiscuous. The social system of slavery needed us to be seen this way to normalize the domination of our reproduction and our manual work during US chattel slavery.
Because Black women were the two-fer, we worked in the fields and gave birth to enslaved workers, our sexuality was and in many ways still is looked at in a very particular way, even in 2010.
My understanding of this comes from two books. The first is Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen and At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire.
Back to Polanski. Filthy explained to me that in Western Europe prominent, artists, writers, filmmakers, philosophers and thinkers are placed on a pedastal.
I was like word?
Then peep game, he said for this reason, he holds these folks to a higher standard WHY? Because they have a platform where they can both influence society and consequently play a large(r) role in changing the world.
Louder voice, conceivably bigger impact.
This bugged me out.
How do I get to Assange and R. Kelly?
Well, I was really interested in three things in terms of how the Assange narrative was emerging:
The lack of a clear narrative around the facts of what actually occurred during the week in question. (h/t to @shoutcacophony for the link.)
The fact that people didn't have the language to talk about both his genius/subversive actions AND the rape allegation against him.
The fact that Naomi Wolf's stand point on Interpol as the dating police.
The fact that a group of largely White feminists got Keith Olberman and Michael Moore to apologize after being dismissive of Assange's rape allegations. More here @ the #moreandme hastag.
Whats the Assange/R. Kelly connection?
In 2008 R. Kelly was found not guilty on 14 counts of child pornography charges with a thirteen year old African American who was suspected to be his Goddaughter.
A couple of weeks ago, on The Facebook a homie made a comment about R. Kelly's genius, and a conversation ensued about just sorta being conflicted over him.
I responded:
It's bugged. In terms of R.Kelly, if the issue were Race/Rather than Gender, I don't think we would be so ambivalent.
To put it another way:
Could we really rock to some music made by a Brilliant Racist, rather than a Brilliant Pedophile?
…R. Kelly Married Aaliyah when she was 15. We *Been* knew he was wrong.
Why is sexual domination acceptable for men artists who are labeled genius?
Then again, sexual domination often goes unchallenged on the day to day, so I just kinda answered my own question. 0.O
In someways its a part of the success package and that troubles me.
What makes people short circuit when it comes to holding artists and other genius folks accountable for their janky gender politics, pedophilia, rape allegations?
Because artists influence people, large amounts of people via their art, shouldn't they be held to a higher standard, not a lower one?
Why or why not?