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Kick Stress While Learning To Kick Ass!
Kick Stress While Learning To Kick Ass! As modern society has become more and more technologically advanced we've made enormous improvements in almost every facet of life. However, we have also ran into our own set of problems as well. On the plus side, food has become far cheaper and easier to get as society has evolved. Yet on the minus side, we are now facing some really bad diet-based problems such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Technology has allowed us to accomplish so much more with our days than we could before. Now I can wake up to an alarm clock, zap a quick breakfast in the microwave, get to my destination several miles away within a matter of minutes, come home to a house that's heated or cooled to my exact comfort, and then turn on a light to work or read when it gets dark. Technology has also allowed us to become lazier and more sedentary than ever before. Televisions, computers, and cars keep me in a constant state of, well, not moving. And much of the hard work around the house can now be done easily with the help of machines and the like. Unfortunately, our evolution hasn't quite caught up with our technological prowess. Our bodies still act as though we were still hunting wild animals for food and protecting ourselves from becoming the next item on the menu for something else. When we undergo stress our bodies release a chemical called Cortisol. Cortisol is a fitness junkie's worst nightmare because it literally turns the body's muscles into fuel. It burns muscle! It also causes other issues inside of our bodies which make you run down, sick, and even kills you. Why would your body do such a thing to itself? Well, if a mountain lion were to jump down from a tree and give you the ol' stink-eye which says that you're about to be dessert your body doesn't care about your health when you're 60. It cares about your health in the next 10 mins. So it quickly releases that ugly cortisol into your body to break down important muscle tissue in order to give you a quick spurt of energy to get your a** out of there! Fast forward to today. We still undergo a lot of stresses, as I'm sure you can attest–THAT hasn't really changed–but the nature of those stresses have changed A LOT. Last I checked not too many people were eaten by mountain lions last year. Yet the majority of us are stressed out by our jobs, by certain people in our lives, and by the less than wonderful economy, to name a few. Our bodies still respond the way they always have. They still release that fat shot of cortisol every time we feel stressed. And in today's world that's a lot of cortisol! And what's worse–instead of burning up that cortisol through movement (i.e. running from a killer animal), it's often left to course through our bodies for far longer, causing even more damage. The remedy?? Joining Austin Impact Jeet Kune Do! Or just making sure you do SOMETHING to get enough exercise in your day. Ever noticed how people say that one of the things they love about working out is the stress release? Yeah. And this doesn't mean you have to go "balls to the wall" for 2 hours. In fact, overdoing your exercise can ALSO cause stress. So keep the intensity lighter or keep your workouts under an hour. This'll be just enough to burn off all that pent up energy and stress from the day and make you feel refreshed and revitalized. Sifu Forrest
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Sean Burns is vice president of Business Development at Ahead, the #2-ranked company on CRN's Fast Growth 2011 list.
In the reseller world, it's common for a VAR or system integrator to talk about being an IT solution provider but uncommon to actually put your money where your mouth is. That, however, is how Ahead has operated since opening our doors in 2007. It's also how our revenue jumped from $3 million to $121 million – including services as well as products – in just four years.
From the beginning, our goal was to build a company around what the client needed – not around the usual product silos. That led us to four decisions that have proved to be the engine that fueled our growth as a true IT solution provider.
1. Establishing an organizational structure where the sales and engineering teams are all cross-trained. Instead of dedicated storage, server and network specialists, for example, we have account managers who address all of a client's data center needs.
2. Agreeing to focus on the next-generation data center and ride the perfect storm of virtualization, storage and cloud technologies that we saw emerging as we were assembling our business plan.
3. Committing ourselves to being vendor-independent, so that we could match the client to the technology. As a result, we sell a variety of best-of-breed solutions for virtualization, storage, servers, network infrastructure and so on.
4. Hiring the talent to deliver consulting, product procurement and implementation services under one roof to provide a seamless experience for clients – and, of course, build our revenue in the process.
Ultimately, we confer with prospective clients to determine their business requirements and deliver a road map with concrete recommendations for the next 24 to 36 months. The document is written to help CIOs justify the suggested investment to their CFOs and other stakeholders from an infrastructure, business and financial perspective. That not only helps get projects off the ground but also keeps clients coming back for more.
We may start with a server virtualization project, move to desktop virtualization, upgrade the entire data center infrastructure, set up a disaster recovery data center, and keep on going. We don't have to sell follow-on engagements – they fall into place because of the foundation we build from our first encounter with a client.
Ours isn't the only reseller path to growth, but it's the one we've followed. And – if you'll excuse the pun – for us, it's been the secret to getting Ahead.
Next week, Sean Burns talks about how investing in his business by adding an IT lab resulted in a increased revenue.

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Merriam-Webster defines "reputation" as:
"overall quality or character as seen or judged by people in general"
Nowadays that reputation is increasingly informed by what people see online. Use of the yellow pages is going down. Google is way up. People ask for opinions on Twitter before they would pick up the phone to get their best friend's opinion.
So while you used to invest resources to make sure your business cards, stationery and signage reflected your image and good reputation, now you must use turn your attention to your online reputation as well. Little things online speak loud and clear about the quality and character of your business.
Below are 5 little-known factors that affect your online reputation:
1. Company Website
If your company doesn't have a website, it's as good as non-existent. But it takes more than slapping on a website to form a good online reputation. Your website must look nice, of course, and be readable and all that. But it also needs to have updated content. The contact information should be clearly visible. Visitors should see the people and faces behind the company. Anonymous websites give off a fly-by-night aura.
And forget the static company website that's the online version of your brochure. Nowadays, people expect companies to provide useful information. This enhances your reputation as an authority in your field. And makes prospects know you care about them. This is what a blog is good for.
2. Social Networking Profiles
Aside from your website, your social networking profiles also reflect on your online reputation. First off, look at the user name you've chosen. If it's not your company name or your personal name, make sure it's not something silly or nonsensical. And then there's the issue of your avatar. In some cases you don't have a choice but to use your company logo. Otherwise, avoid anything confusing or vulgar.
Lastly, pick your friends. The people you follow on Twitter, your LinkedIn connections, your Facebook friends, and the Facebook pages you follow all reflect on you. Choose them wisely.
3. Social Networking Updates
This may be obvious, but it's too important to leave out of this list. What you tweet about or post on LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ all affect your reputation. You have to be especially mindful if you've synchronized your different social networks together. For example, you may forget that your Twitter tweets are automatically published on your LinkedIn profile. Then you absentmindedly tweet, "Beer starts flowing in an hour!" That would be a huge turn off to your professional network on Twitter.
You may have also linked your Twitter account with your YouTube account. If this is the case, you'll automatically tweet every time you upload and favorite a YouTube video. Make sure your YouTube activities are relevant to your Twitter followers. Or unlink your accounts.
Be purposeful about your social network presence, and make sure each of your updates are aligned with your goals.
4. Search Engine Ranking
How you rank for your top keywords also affects your online reputation. If you're not in the top 10 of the search engine results page (SERP), you're pretty much not in the big leagues.
Another important SERP to look at is the type of web pages that come up when you search for your company name and/or the names of your executives. If one of them is a blog post with the title, "Acme's Blue Widget Sucks – Don't Buy!" then that will affect your online reputation.
5. Comments in Blogs and Forums
Online comments made by your company executives and employees on blogs and forums also affect your reputation. I've seen people leave snarky comments, or even pick a fight online. This doesn't look good, even when there's a good reason for it. These comments never read in a good way. And, remember, these are web properties you have no control over. So you couldn't go back and delete them afterwards. They may even rank well in SERPs.
This doesn't mean you should restrict employees from participating in online communities. But do remind them to think twice, three times, or more, before publishing anything when they're angry or upset.
How's your online reputation?
Looking at the factors above, how's your online reputation doing? Are there areas where you can do better? How can yo use social networks to improve your reputation?
Tell me about your Aha's and action points below. Or connect with me on Twitter or Facebook.
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Elena is founder of a technology PR agency that works with startups to billion-dollar companies. She is passionate about helping marketers and small business owners with practical publicity strategies, which she's also using for her own bling flip flop company.
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Email is a great way to send out information and important newsletters to your clientele, and the Best Time to Send an Email infographic gives you all the facts you need in order to get the most out of your emails.
It breaks down hour by hour the peak times to catch people reading their emails and when these virtual letters are most likely to be opened. If you want to have an effective web campaign, you need to know what times of the day are best for engaging your audience, including info like top click hours, top open hours and how to time your messages according to time zones.
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Former UFC heavyweight champion, Andrei Arlovski went under the radar last night in his return to MMA Action. The Team JAckson fighter took out Andreas Kraniotakes via TKO at Fight Nights: "Battle in Minsk" from his hometown of Belarus. Arlovski improved his win streak to two with this most recent victory. Here's the highlight:


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On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 09:19 pm, Winther wrote:
If you've got a MacOS CD you could try holding "C" with the CD in the drive If that doesn't work try resetting PRAM cmd+opt+P+R (hold down all four keys whilst booting) wait 'til you hear chimes and then try holding "C" again. Have you got a Mac OS installed on the box?Hi Im installing Debian on my Powermac 6400/200 (late stoneage hw) Everything seemed well until "Please, remove all floppy CD" And then Boot "for the very first time" It didnt boot The HD ran for 3 secs and then stopped The screen had a nice terrazzo pattern ! :-) and thats all :-( But the worst was yet to come: Tried booting from my floppies What floppies ?? The machine didnt seem to recognice the drive - screen in terrazzo & stopDuring installation I repartitionened my harddisk, and I fear that I have been a little too eager For now I'm stuck with a machine that does'nt seem to have a active bootloader,And with no possibility for booting from a floppy or CD That's it ! Now for the prayer ! To whom it may concern.Aside from throwing this fine piece o hw out o da window, what can be done ???Any suggestion welcome.
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One of the ways I try to reduce my carbon footprint is to keep my office and classroom lights off as much as possible. As I have a window in my office, I hardly ever need a light on in my office. And, increasingly, I try to keep lights off in my classrooms in Alter Hall. Opening the curtains provides enough light for my daytime classes. When I need to show PowerPoint slides or a DVD, I close the curtains and turn on one bank of lights, if necessary. I reverse the process when I no longer need the equipment. Mark Hanlon, associate director for operations in Physical Plant, gave such actions his stamp of approval, noting that energy reduction is one of their top priorities and that each of us using less electricity for lighting on a regular basis would not only be good for the environment but also for Xavier's budget.
According to my resident energy guru (a.k.a. my husband) in the coal-fired Midwest, electricity emissions are about two pounds of CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour of energy produced. There are six 32-watt fluorescent tube lights in my office in Hinkle Hall, each fluorescent tube light requires the local coal plant to emit about 1 ounce of CO2 for every hour of use. Therefore, if I had them on for about 20 hours each week, I would produce about 7.7 pounds of CO2 per workweek, or one-and?a-half pounds per day.
There are 64 fluorescent tube lights in each Alter Hall classroom. All those bulbs turned on for an hour require about 4 pounds of CO2 emissions. If I teach nine hours a week, that is a bit less than 37 pounds of CO2 per week if I keep all the lights on for the entire class. Of course, to get "my share" of that, I would technically have to divide that by the 30 people occupying the classroom, so it turns out to be nearly 1.2 pounds per person per week.
To help put all this in perspective, the average American generates about 41 pounds of CO2 a day. Sustainability estimates put the world's ability to continuously absorb carbon emissions at about 9 pounds/person/day. By keeping lights off in my office and classroom (most of the time), I can reduce that "average" number by about 1.8 pounds a day, a 4.3-percent decrease from the average of 41 pounds/day.
Unfortunately, this is a simplified version of reality. For me to really achieve these numbers?and the University and planet to significantly benefit?we all need to act together. For those of you who really want to know how turning off your lights reduces our university's carbon footprint read on.
Again, this is courtesy of my energy guru. As stated above, Duke Energy plants in Ohio emit on average 2 pounds of CO2 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of energy generated. However, that does not directly mean that turning off appliances and reducing energy power demand by 1kW for an hour (using 1kWh less energy at the customer point) necessarily results in a savings of 2 pounds of CO2 emissions.
The emissions reduction depends on the total amount of the power reduction and the time of day that the reduction occurs. The utility company has one overriding requirement: ensure that enough power is available in the lines to meet whatever customer demand occurs immediately anywhere in their territory. Considering that they provide power to several million people and even more appliances, and they have no idea when most of them will flip their power switches, this is no small feat.
To do this the utility estimates based on past history what its demand will be at any hour of the day every day of the year. They are required by law to have enough extra power in reserve to meet that varying demand plus expected increases and to maintain enough reserve to handle any unexpected increases in demand.
The highest power demand occurs in the afternoon on a hot summer day. The utility must have access to enough power to meet that demand plus a certain percentage reserve. To do this they use baseload generators which run nearly constantly, peaking plants that can turn on and off relatively quickly, and spinning reserves which are plants left running but not outputting power just in case an immediate increase is needed. They can also buy power from neighboring utilities if need be. The baseload capacity is sized to meet the bulk of the power demand as it also provides the cheapest power for the utility. Peaking plants, spinning reserves, and buying power on the spot market are much more expensive ways to meet the demand.
Coal and nuclear plants are used as baseload generators as they take days to weeks to turn on or off and run most efficiently at full throttle. In fact EPA emissions laws require coal plants to run at nearly full throttle to maximize efficiency. These baseload plants do not respond significantly to fluctuations in demand. In essence once they shovel the coal into the burner, it will be burned, whether or not anyone needs the electricity it creates.
Peaking plants are those that can be throttled on and off rapidly to meet changing demand. Most of these use natural gas, which produces lower emissions per kilowatt-hour than coal.
So when you switch off a single light bulb and use 1kWh less energy, the actual amount of emissions reduction depends on whether or not a power plant reduced its power output as a result and by how much. A very slight and short-term reduction would likely be lost in the noise of a spinning reserve station and result in no reduction in emissions. However, the actions of many, many people turning off switches does have a noticeable impact as it allows a peaking plant to turn off or a spinning reserve to slow down. More importantly, over the long term, continual reductions in power use day after day affect the utility's long term planning and result in the lower expected future demands. This results in the utility turning on fewer or smaller power plants in the first place. That is where the real emissions savings occur. When this happens then we truly get the 2 lbs/kWh advertised.
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Arandoza – Gems from a Small Family
There are far too many cigars and cigar makers to keep track of them all. And, since I write about cigars for you on a regular basis, I know lots of them. I can't imagine how you could even try to keep up as an individual. Still, every month new cigars from new makers come onto the market. And some of these sticks are good or even great. How do you find out about them? If you're like me, it's probably through word of mouth. Friends, in the industry and outside, will make it a point to share something interesting and good. I do the same thing myself. I frequently will call or email a friend and tell them about a cigar I've just smoked. A discovery, if you will, that I'm unwilling to wait for blog posting to share. And others do the same thing. Actually, if you know of a good cigar that we haven't reviewed, please email me and let me know.
So, a few weeks ago I was in Miami visiting some friends and stopped by the Guayabera Lady, to look at some shirts. Berta is a wonderful person, makes great shirts, and knows everyone. During my visit we took care of shirt business, but also she gave me a few nice sticks to try. One was made by some friends of hers that had just started making cigars. So thanks to Berta and her friend Robert Arango we have a wonderful new cigar to review.
Arango, who owns Arandoza Cigar writes, "We are a new company, family owned and operated, established in April 2011. I've been an avid cigar smoker all of my adult life. Everyone at our house smokes cigars, from my two sons to my beautiful daughter all the way up to my wife. We enjoy sitting outside after a long day, just chatting and smoking…seems to be a great bonding factor in my family." Just that thinking alone makes me want to try his cigars. The cigars speak for themselves.
When you first look at the cigar you'll notice its nice medium brown color. The cigar is without blemish and has a nice cap. I punched mine without a problem and lit up easily. It produced nice clean smoke. I thought it was filled tightly and expected a difficult draw but that wasn't the case at all.
The cigar was well constructed. I was afraid that the tight pack of the tobacco would hinder the draw but it was open and easy smoking. The cigar held a great ash which was long, tight and even.
This cigar has a nice flavor profile. My original notes from the smoke said that the cigar was an even flavored smoke of medium strength that didn't overpower but did let you know you were smoking a cigar. When ever I write that I almost always mean that this is a cigar that has an old fashioned flavor. During the first third it was predominantly cedar and earth tone that I was getting. As the cigar progressed it dried out a little to leather tones and finally as I was finishing the was a slow build up to spiciness. Overall, it was impressive.
These cigars are made in Esteli at a factory owned by Erik Espinosa. At a retail price of between $6 and $7 there is a lot of value. Four sizes are available and I'm looking forward to trying the torpedo which is my favorite size. Find these cigars and buy some to smoke right away. You'll not only thank me, but you'll want to share with your friends.
Cigar Info
- Cigar Name: Robusto
- Brand: Arandoza
- Size: 5 x 52
- Wrapper: Nicaraguan, Habano
- Binder: Nicaragua
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Smoking Time: 50 minutes
- Source: Manufacturer/Distributor
- Price: $6.00


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A silver, bulbous UFO hangs from the ceiling of the train station and a ghost train features a small girl crying over her dead badger. It can only mean one thing, the Lille 2012 festival, Fantastic.
The Lille 3000 Fantastic festival has brought together some great exhibitions featuring artists such as Breughel and Bosch, through the early 20th century in the Magical City exhibition and right up to date with a gothic Phantasia exhibition at the Tripostal space, plus some great examples of that much-maligned concept, street art.
After an easy Eurostar journey of just 1hr 20mins to the heart of Lille, and a five-minute walk to the hotel, it was time to see the whole festival kick off. It did with a typically mad street parade featuring giant floating lizards, worms and beetles, with dance music in the handsome town square followed by a huge firework display, but that was just to warm everyone up for the fun to come.
Lille has 20 installations dotted around town, and all are great fun to discover and ponder. In the Flanders train station a UFO lights up platform 2, and the expression of surprise on commuters' faces when they see it soon turns to a smile. It's actually the creation of a Welshman, Ross Lovegrove, who is a designer for the likes of Apple and wants to bring a fresh sense of wonder to people.
In the middle of a shopping street is an ad board which appears to show the other side of the street, but is actually a video screen showing the same street 24 hours earlier – so the pavement could be wet when it's dry, the people could be wearing different clothes and the light could be completely different. It's an idea by Thierry Fournier, who explained: "What it's showing is completely uninteresting, but the question it asks is interesting – what's happening here? Who are these people? It's a window into the past."
It's all good lively stuff, but the real meat of the festival is in the exhibitions in the city's varied exhibition spaces. Out in the suburbs at the LAM, Lille's Museum of Modern Art, there is a show called The Magical City which is well worth the short commute on the tube.
The Magical City shows the effect of the creation of huge cities on the 20th century, mainly New York, but the surrealist feeling of the whole of Lille 3000 is never far away. There are paintings by Magritte and de Chirico, some stunning black and white photos by Brassai and a real treat for film fans. We've all seen how influential Fritz Lang's film Metropolis was on early cinema, but here we get photos of the set, some great clips from the film, and drawings and storyboards. There are also some glorious posters, plus clips from Berlin – a Symphony of a Great City and Man With A Movie Camera, all of which show the stunning speed at which cities sprang up and mechanised everyone's way of living. The Magritte men with bowler hats and de Chirico empty courtyards emphasise how alienating it all was for the human.
There's also a wonderful section on the growth of film noir, with Fritz Lang's M at the centre of it and some gloriously gloomy black and white photos of gangsters and tired looking policemen. The whole exhibition is a glorious meeting of Russian expressionism, American film noir and surrealism from much closer to these parts, a very Flemish sense of the bizarre. There's a very nice catalogue for €35 with great reproductions but it's only in French.
LAM is always worth a visit for its under-rated permanent collection, especially strong on cubism with some great Picassos and Braques, but also some excellent paintings by Miro, Modigliani, Leger and van Dongen.
If all that surrealism has got you in the mood there's more fun to be had at the glorious Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille. The exhibition Flemish Landscape Fables shows paintings by Bosch, Breughel, Bles and Bril, around the theme of heaven and hell.
Anyone who has seen the film In Bruges will remember the scene where Colin Farrell gets close up to a Bosch painting of hell, and here there are lots of examples of this painter's extraordinary imagination. Painted around 1500, his version of hell, in a time when most people could not read and the catholic church was in trouble, is propaganda of the most extreme kind. Naked bodies writhe in hell's fire, men turn into beetles and frogs, monsters appear in every dark corner, eggs are cracked and empty, women's faces are wracked with disease and ageing. Breughel's depictions of heaven and hell are no less awesome in every sense of the word, but his religious meanings are even clearer and more powerful.
Having guaranteed nightmares for a week you might as well go the whole way and visit the weirdest ghost train you'll ever see. At Gare Saint Sauveur, an old train station transformed into a great space, the Train Fantome features a Jacques Brel puppet singing out of tune, a disembowelled horse and a girl weeping loudly over the death of her pet badger.
It's the perfectly surreal way to end a weekend in Lille which proves that few European towns have injected more time, money and passion into holding a festival with something for everyone. Much of it will baffle, some will delight and some will make you think, but all of it is superbly staged and just great fun.
Eurostar operates up to 9 daily services from London St Pancras International to Lille with return fares from £69. Fastest London-Lille journey time is 1hr 20 minutes. Tickets are available from www.eurostar.com.
Standard Premier offers calm, spacious surroundings with on-board staff offering a light meal and a selection of magazines. Standard Premier fares start from £189 return.
Eurostar Plus Culture is a unique partnership between Eurostar and some of Europe's most popular museums and galleries in Brussels, Paris, London and Lille. Travellers simply present their Eurostar ticket to take advantage of 2-for-1 entry into paying exhibitions.
Lille galleries and museums include: Le Palais des Beaux-Arts, La Piscine – Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.


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|Same Size Can but with More Profit
And so it goes. Profits stay high, the fat guys get fatter, and the everyday folks in the grocery store don't even realize what is happening to them. At least maybe not until every food product starts doing it. And now they are.
All of this came to the forefront (again) in a front page article in the Business section of the June 12 Wall Street Journal. The entire article is well worth the read, so you don't waste your money on big business rip offs. Consumer Reports reported on its investigation of these deceptive practices a few years ago but obviously things have only gotten worse as Big Business has continued to find ways to sneak around the law's prohibitions.
You need to be aware of this grocery store deception and to be ready to do something about it too.
We don't know where it started but McCormick's pepper tins are among the latest to take the weight out of their same-size tin package so they can keep their profits high. Same size tin on the shelf at your grocery store. Just a lot less pepper inside. One fourth of the original content has been cut out and in tiny print on the bottom edge of the can the new much-less content amount is printed, 3 ounces now where it was 4.
It's like a 25% price increase that you didn't even know you were paying. In the food packaging business this deception is called "weight-out" or "slack fill" apparently by those who are beginning to do it regularly. We call it cheating.
News programs noticed the narrowing of toilet paper rolls, followed by the shrinking size of some cereal boxes, but up to now there was usually some noticeable size difference in the package itself that would tip off the consumer that they were getting less than when they shopped yesterday. Now we are seeing some food companies getting deceptive by simply keeping the food container-package the same size and just cut back on how much product is put on it.
Well it turns out the Federal Trade Commission has some federal regulations that makes deceptive packaging illegal and there are only a couple ways around deceptive packaging laws. One is the unavoidable settling of the food items into the bottom of the package - think crackers in a box for example. Another is to protect the food from damage in transit - think chips for example.
|Is Big Business Cheating You at the Grocery Store?
Better yet, the FTC is looking at rewriting its packaging regulations and is inviting you to tell it what you think - you can do that by clicking here - so give them a piece of your mind if you want to stop this kind of consumer fraud.
Time did a nice article online about the ten common ways that companies trick you into spending more on their products.
So what can you do? You can stop them. You can let them know you don't appreciate being ripped off by sneaky sales gimmicks that are designed to see if you are being careful every time you go to the grocery store.
Every state has a "Udap" law that makes it illegal for any company, anywhere, to do anything that is unfair or deceptive to a consumer - and that includes the use of deceptive advertising and sales gimmicks that can rip you off. And, best of all, many of these Udap laws say that a violation of the federal law against unfair and deceptive acts is also a violation of the state law. So if you see an unfair or deceptive sales tactic that costs you money, these laws not only give you the right to stop it, but most of them give you the right to make the company pay you for doing so and, on top of that, they can be liable for any attorney fees too.
Big Business will be fair and honest, it seems, when you make it less profitable for them to be unfair and deceptive. So when you go shopping, be careful and don't let them trick you into wasting your money.
Burdge Law Office
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text: Hi Eric,On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Eric Dumazet <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:> Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 16:08 +0800, Po-Yu Chuang a écrit :>> From: Po-Yu Chuang <firstname.lastname@example.com>>>>> FTGMAC100 Ethernet Media Access Controller supports 10/100/1000 Mbps>> and MII/GMII. This driver has been working on some ARM/NDS32 SoC's>> including Faraday A369 and Andes AG102.>> Hi>> It seems very close from drivers/net/ftmac100.c one. Are you sure a> factorization is not possible ?First, the registers and descriptors of FTGMAC100 are not backwardcompatible to FTMAC100.Second, FTGMAC100 HW has some features new to FTMAC100(jumbo packet, checksum offload... etc.) and not all of them are supportedin the current version. For example, NETIF_F_SG support might be the nextstep to improve.IMHO, it will be easier for me to maintain them and to add new features toFTGMAC100 driver if we separate these two drivers. How do you think?> BTW, it seems I missed the fact that ftmac100_alloc_rx_page() used a> GFP_KERNEL allocation, while its called from softirq context (from> ftmac100_rx_packet())Tested. Thank you.> Same problem of course in this Gigabit driver.Will fix it.Best regards,Po-Yu Chuang--To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Tractor Supply posted another strong quarter, with a 20% sales increase and 40% increase in net income. These are on top of record results last year.
How do they do it? It's complicated. But one secret that emerged from the 1,000-plus location farm-and-ranch retailer's fourth-quarter earnings call was the importance of resisting the temptation to stray from the categories that connect Tractor Supply to its customers.
Greg Sandfort, president and chief merchandising officer, explained it this way: "I've said a couple of times, there are many things we could sell in our store, but we're going to stay true to who our customer is and service them."
Even with its 2011 success story, Tractor Supply executives say they're nowhere near a state of optimized regionalization of merchandise. Sandfort estimated TSCO is just in the second or third inning of proficiency. "There's still plenty of running room for us," he said.
Footwear is a for-instance. The first or second quarter will see a reset in the assortments of the highly regional-specific category of footwear. Other changes include product-category extension in the garden area, where more live product will hit stores in 2012.


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What are the classical elements of Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost?
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What is so fascinating about this epic classic is the way that Milton takes so many elements of classical literature and adopts them, but only to subvert them. Consider the variety of aspects in this poem that we would normally associate with classical poetry. Firstly the beginning starts in the middle of the action, there is repetition of the phrase "what cause?", the angels indulge in epic games and there are long lists of armies, soldiers and wars to name but a few.
However, if we examine such classical elements carefully, we can see that Milton always uses them for his own purposes. For example, the statement of his theme and purpose deliberately parallels the introduction of Virgil and Homer. However, unlike these two epic authors, he appeals to the power of Providence instead of Fate. In addition, with his standard invocation to the Muse at the beginning of the poem, he addresses Urania and then the Holy Spirit as being responsible for his work. Other classical authors addressed Calliope, who was the Muse epics normally began by invocating.
In its framework 'Paradise Lost' is a classical epic. It is written in the form of a classical epic. Milton conceived and executed the grand scheme of the poem in accordance with the design of Homer's 'Iliad' and Virgil's 'Aenied' - The great epics of classical antiquity. To a great extent he conforms to the rules of the epic poetry laid down by Aristotle. In conformity with the classical tradition 'Paradise Lost' opens with a proposition followed by an invocation in the manner of Homer and Virgil. Its theme is classical. Like classical epics, it contains several episodes. It is saturated with Milton's classical learning. It is written in a grand style befitting its grand theme and characters. It is full of classical allusions.It contains Homeric similies. It has a great hero and deals with great action. It conforms to the Aristotlean theory of the epic poetry.


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Hello, Last cruise I did through AAA and everything worked out fine, but this time I was looking online so I would have something to compare it to when I talk to my TA.
I found a 7 night Mexican Riveria cruise on Carnival Pride for about 900 per person including tax and a online bonus of prepaid grituities for guests 1 & 2. ( I think that a value of $140.00)
What do you think? Good deal, or keep shopping...?
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900 was for a guaranteed balcony, also I found the price drop about 50.00 when I looked for october instead of Sept.
I would visit carnival.com and click that box to have them call you. When booking online there are certain fees that you have to pay that you don't when you talk to a Carnival Personal Vacation Planner.
When I booked my cruise for this coming March, I found a room online and it was a total of around $2550. I called my PVP to see if he could give me a better deal, and we wound up with the exact same room I requested for $2200; $300 cheaper!
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Maria Shriver has officially filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Much to absolutely no one's surprise, Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger's 25-year marriage will soon be over. On Friday, Shriver filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. This, of course, follows news from over a month ago that Schwarzenegger had a long-running affair with the family's housekeeper and fathered the woman's now teenage son. Like we said, no one is surprised that Shriver is finally calling it quits. Arnold And Maria's Breakup Signals A New Age Of Relationships
Both Shriver and Schwarzenegger had secured divorce attorneys early last month, so it really was a matter of time before one of them filed the paperwork. And since their kids are all adults or teenagers, it doesn't seem likely this divorce will turn into an ugly custody battle. With that said, though, we wonder how their assets be divided.
In June, the Huffington Post reported that the "Schwarzenegger-Shriver divorce could be one of the most expensive celebrity divorces to date, with their combined net worth estimated at $500 million." 10 Reasons Maria Shriver Is Better Without Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Maria Shriver is certainly entitled to a generous amount in the settlement, one that is consistent with her lifestyle. If Arnold's net worth is $300,000 million she should get half of that plus child support," Susan Filan, famed legal expert, told HollywoodLife.com.
Since California is a 50/50 state and most of their kids are adults and Schwarzenegger has fessed up to being a liar and a cheat, we think this divorce settlement could end up being pretty cut and dry. However it plays out, though, we hope it's for the best for everyone, especially the poor kids (even the illegitimate one) caught in the middle. 10 Tips To Help Your Child Transition Through Divorce
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On 20/10/2006 14:55, Dan Connolly wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 22:51 -0400, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: > [...] >> Additional observations for current spec draft: >> >> I would move 'Using GRDDL with an RDF Namespace document' to the primer as >> suggested. > > Ah... that's feedback on _this_ round of publication. > > I'd like to hear from one or two other WG members before I make > up my mind on this. Any opinions? Maybe keep it for now and > strike it after Ian has a chance to work it into the primer? I agree it should be in the primer but I won't have time to do that before the target spec pub date. I also don't want to be on the critical path. Can you alter the text to say something more direct such as "This section will be moved to the primer in the next version"? Ian -- http://purl.org/NET/iand Blogging at... http://iandavis.com/blog Working on... http://directory.talis.com/Received on Friday, 20 October 2006 14:13:21 UTC
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Beef Products Inc. has lost, at least temporarily, the public-opinion battle over what critics call "pink slime," and that also meant more than 200 people at the company's Amarillo plant lost their jobs Monday.
"While lean finely textured beef was given a catchy and clever nickname in 'pink slime,' the impact of alarming broadcasts about this safe and wholesome beef product by Jamie Oliver, ABC News and others are no joke to those families that are now out of work," said American Meat Institute President J. Patrick Boyle in a written statement.
Losing 200 jobs is an abrupt surprise.
"That's huge for Amarillo and the (Texas) Panhandle," said Mollie Barney, business services coordinator for Workforce Solutions in Amarillo. "We have reached out and hope they let us help with the transition for these employees."
In all, Beef Products temporarily closed three of its four plants, putting more than 600 people out of work. The Amarillo plant produced 200,000 pounds a day of the product and the other two plants combined to make 600,000 pounds a day.
Eldon and Regina Roth founded the company in Amarillo in 1981 to produce what the beef industry calls "lean finely textured beef" rather than using the "pink slime" term that caught on in national media and social media. The process involves removing fat from trimmings that result from the fabrication of beef cuts, treating the resulting beef fibers with ammonium hydroxide to kill pathogens and freezing the product. After processing, it resembles a frozen paste.
Some of the products that contain the product include fresh retail ground beef, low-fat hot dogs, lunch meats, beef sticks, pepperoni, frozen entrees, meatballs and canned foods, according to a variety of industry websites.
Eldon Roth came to Amarillo on Monday to tell the employees about the decision to close the plant but pay them for 60 days and continue benefits during that time.
"While we're doing our best to communicate the facts about our product, the media firestorm over a manufactured scandal has caused real damage to our company," said Craig Letch, the company's director of food safety and quality assurance. "We're doing everything we can to set the record straight, but we know this will take time."
Bettina Siegel, of Houston, who has gathered more than 250,000 signatures on an online petition asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pull the product from school lunches, has been one of those using social media in the fight.
The Food and Drug Administration and Food Safety and Inspection Service have approved the use of ammonium hydroxide to increase food safety for several decades, according to a USDA fact sheet. Also, there have been no reports of illness caused by the product. But the fight hasn't waned.
"Even apart from safety concerns, it is simply wrong to feed our children connective tissues and beef scraps that were, in the past, destined for use in pet food and rendering and were not considered fit for human consumption," Siegel wrote in her blog.
Beef Products disputes that characterization.
"Basically, it's cuts off roasts and steaks that's roughly 50 percent lean and 50 percent fat," Letch said.
He declined comment on what the meatpackers in the region will do in response to the loss of Beef Products as a purchaser of about 400,000 pounds of trim daily.
However, Tyson Foods said it is making adjustments.
"Our company is one of many beef processors that sell beef trimmings to BPI. The reduction of BPI's operations means less lean meat will be recovered and more of the beef trimmings will be converted into lower-value products," said Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson. "We're making some modifications in our production processes to adjust for this change. We're also making adjustments to accommodate our customers that no longer want BPI's Lean Finely Textured Beef in their ground beef."
Beef Products buys the trimmings from most packing plants in the region, except Cargill's.
"We produce our own version of this product, calling it finely textured beef," said Cargill spokesman Mike Martin. "That's what we produce with the type of trim referred to in your question. The primary difference is that we use citric acid as a food safety measure, whereas BPI uses ammonium hydroxide."
For several months, the bad news for Beef Products has just gotten worse, especially in the past two weeks. In December, McDonald's announced it would not use the beef product. After that, companies such as grocery stores Safeway, Kroger and Food Lion and fast-food chains Burger King and Taco Bell stepped away from the product. Then the USDA said it would let schools opt out of using the product during the next school year.
Brent Hoover with Chartwells, the company that manages the food programs at Amarillo Independent School District, said the district will not have to make adjustments.
"We do not purchase any of the meat from the suppliers in question," Hoover said.
Last week, Walmart and Sam's Club joined the exodus.
"While the USDA and experts agree that beef containing (lean finely textured beef) is safe and nutritious, we are committed to listening to our customers and providing the quality products they want at prices they can afford," the companies said in a news release.
Replacing the product may put more pressure on the beef industry to keep production at an affordable price with the national beef herd shrunk to levels not seen since the 1950s.
"The estimate is it would take 1.5 million more cattle a year to replace what's being lost here," said Eric Mittenthal, vice president of public affairs for the American Meat Institute.
The World Health Organization has listed hundreds of food types that may be processed using ammonium hydroxide when used in accordance with good manufacturing practices. These include dairy products, confections, fruits and vegetables, baked goods, breakfast cereals, eggs, fish, beverages such as sports drinks and beer, and meats.
For now, Beef Products plans to pursue a public education program. On Sunday, it ran a full-page ad in the Amarillo Globe-News saying "libel to cost this country jobs," and included a letter on food safety.
The same ad ran nationally in Friday's Wall Street Journal.
"We hope once people understand who we are and what we do, we can reopen our facilities," Letch said.
The company has started a website, www.beefisbeef.com, toward that end amongst a sea of other sites competing for attention, many opposing use of the product. A Google search for "pink slime" returned almost 98 million results Monday evening. Siegel's blog is at www.the


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Jamie Young's superior design is the ideal fit for our offering of lighting and home furnishings.
Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) April 04, 2014
Leading national lighting retailer Lamps Plus will unveil new mini pendant lights by the Jamie Young Company at High Point Spring Market, Monday, April 7, 2014. Inspired by the materials, textures and colors the designer encountered during travels through India, the handcrafted Cloud mini pendant design comes in three frosted glass hues and features a curved, textured shade for a fresh, coastal spring look. They will be sold exclusively through Lamps Plus and LampsPlus.com for a limited time starting in mid-May.
"We're honored to be the exclusive retailer to debut this Jamie Young design," explains Dennis Swanson, CEO of Lamps Plus. "It's part of a continuing effort to highlight exceptional design and value by offering consumers exclusive products in partnership with our vendors."
"We are delighted that Lamps Plus selected us as their Spring Market Exclusive," says Jamie Young, founder of the Jamie Young Company. "We are a design-driven company that aims to make elegant and sophisticated design approachable for the consumer. Lamps Plus allows us to easily reach the consumer through both its showrooms and website."
Recipient of the vaunted ARTS Award in January 2014, the Jamie Young Company is a widely recognized leader in design. Swanson explains, "Every design we bring to our Lamps Plus showrooms is carefully selected for its quality, innovation and aesthetic. Jamie Young's superior design is the ideal fit for our offering of lighting and home furnishings."
The seven-inch-wide Cloud mini pendant light fixture retails for $250.00. The design features polished metal accents and is available in three frosted glass hues: aqua, taupe and clear. It joins a wide selection of Jamie Young Company designs available on LampsPlus.com that ranges from distinctive lighting and art shades to a full complement of tables, mirrors, ottomans and decor.
The Cloud mini pendant light will be unveiled during leading home furnishings trade show High Point Spring Market, at the Jamie Young booth from 4 to 6 p.m., April 7, 2014. The designer will be available to the media, and cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
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Extraordinary vision, global influence and quality craftsmanship take Jamie Young designs from functional to artistic. Eclectic light fixtures, beautiful lamp shades and unique home décor accessories make an effortless statement in transitional and modern interiors. Table lamps, floor lamps and pendants offer couture customization with more than 50 fabric shade options. The eco-friendly Jamie Young Company commits to using recycled boxes and packaging materials.
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For more than 30 years, Lamps Plus has been synonymous with excellence in the retail lighting industry. Established in 1976, Lamps Plus is the nation's largest specialty lighting store, with more than 40 superstores throughout the western United States. In 2013, LampsPlus.com was named a Top 10 Housewares/Home Furnishings e-tailer and a "Hot 100" world's best retail website by Internet Retailer Magazine. Together with its retail locations, the company serves customers nationwide with the largest selection of functional and decorative lighting fixtures, accessories, furniture and home decor. This selection includes hundreds of products, ranging from traditional chandeliers to the latest in home decor, available exclusively from Lamps Plus. The company also holds several patents for innovative lighting. Services offered include in-home lighting consultations, in-store workshops and installation from expert, licensed electricians. American Lighting Association certified designers are available to offer product recommendations and advice in all our stores, by phone or online at LampsPlus.com. The Lamps Plus family of websites also includes 55 Downing Street, Builders Discount Lighting and Lamps Plus Open Box. Visit the official Lamps Plus website: LampsPlus.com.


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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has announced notification for Humanities and Social Sciences Entrance Examination (HSEE) for admission into Master of Arts Programmes in Development Studies and English Studies. These are five year integrated post graduate programmes. Application process for HSEE is completely online. Following are details of programmes and admission process for 2012-13:
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) is one of the earliest departments established at IIT Madras. The programmes are essentially multi disciplinary in nature. The faculty consists of experienced and qualified persons from diverse disciplines such as English, Philosophy, Economics, History, Sociology and German Studies. The HSS Department is also offering doctoral programmes in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences.
1) Integrated M.A. in Development Studies
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Poetry Topic – Remembering the Old House
It may be old, but it is still fresh with the memories of the years you have spent there. That childhood house still stands. It makes its way into dreams and into stories. Think of where you grew up and connect with the good times. Remember an event that was … Continue reading


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And I've known I was gifted in magic almost my whole life. I've seen, talked to and conversed with spirits/apparitions, I've changed the weather, I've healed myself and others, I've made animals obey me, and there are other things I've been doing for quite some time.
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Bruins have Boston buzzing
A water cooler jug serves as the base. Stacked above it in ascending order are inverted containers that once housed butter, cream cheese and yogurt, but now have answered a much higher calling. The iconic chalice atop is an erstwhile Ziploc bowl. Coalesced by silicone and bathed in silver paint, it is a homespun version of hockey's Holy Grail, the Stanley Cup.
The faux Cup is the work of 16-year-old Justin Pioppi of Winthrop, and it is a symbol of how the coolest game on Earth has become the hottest thing in the Hub with the Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1990 and trying to win it for the first time since 1972. The Bruins open the Stanley Cup finals tomorrow in Vancouver against the Canucks.
Spring fever has been replaced by Stanley Cup fever in Boston. The symptoms include wearing Bruins paraphernalia, throwing around terms like backchecking and net-front presence, and referring to "Bergy" (Patrice Bergeron) and "Looch" (Milan Lucic).
Pioppi, his younger brother James, and friend Frank Martens held the ersatz Cup aloft yesterday in the players' parking lot outside TD Garden, where approximately 3,000 Spoked-Believers, according to the Bruins, gathered to send their hockey heroes off with pomp and pleas to bring home the real Stanley Cup. Other fans came up to touch and take pictures with the faux Cup and its creator, who spent an hour bringing it to life.
"It has relevance because our city wants it, the real Cup, so bad," said Pioppi, who made his Cup before the first game of the playoffs, against the Montreal Canadiens.
The Spoked-B has become haute couture worthy of any Newbury Street boutique, and the Bruins are a hot topic for those conversant in vulcanized rubber and those whose only familiarity with the blue line is courtesy of the MBTA.
Sorry, Detroit. Boston is currently Hockeytown, USA.
"You know I definitely got a feeling of it [Saturday]," said Lucic. "Me and Johnny Boychuk, we went for lunch and everyone was cheering when we left the restaurant so that was cool. From when I first came here, obviously, the Bruins were kind of in the bottom of the standings and everyone was cheering for the other three teams that were here, and they kind of the forgot about the Bruins.
"Its been a long time since theyve been in this position, and you can see how special it is to this city that we've been able to get here. Walking around, you could see everyone's Red Sox hat was replaced by a Bruins hat, and that was really cool to see and it means a lot. We want to do whatever we can to do it for our fans because we really feel like they do deserve it."
There is a never-ending debate as to what the professional sports pecking order is around here. Have we all been annexed by Red Sox Nation? Have Bill Belichick and Tom Brady made football first in fealty? Is this a dormant hockey domain waiting to erupt with passion. Where do the Celtics and their 17 championships weigh in?
The answer is simple. Boston is a town that loves winners and possible winners, first and foremost. Yeah, the Red Sox went 86 years without a title, but what kindled the obsessive state of Red Sox fandom most of us our familiar with was the 1967 "Impossible Dream" season, when the Sox went from ninth place in the 10-team American League the season before to the World Series.
The '67 Sox led the AL in attendance (1, 727,832). The '66 Sox, who authored the franchise's ninth straight losing season, drew nearly a million fewer fans at 811,172. After '67 there was a reason to be emotionally invested in the Sox -- they could actually win it one of these years. The rest is history and a Red Sox Nation membership card.
This isn't Chicago. There are no lovable losers here in the Hub of Hardware. We are a sports meritocracy.
Suddenly, the Bruins, the definition of unremarkable for nearly two decades, have a chance to add to the 21st century trophy case and everybody wants a piece of the action. That's why the Bruins are the "it' team in town.
The players are appreciative of the fan support and attention, die-hard puck-heads and hockey dilettantes alike. A member of the Bruins media relations staff said that players were still buzzing on the flight to Vancouver about the send-off they had gotten from the Garden. They were taken aback by how many people showed up.
Before they boarded their buses to begin the trip to British Columbia, Bergeron was asked if the players had noticed the increased interest in the team and the sport.
"Yeah, for sure. You can feel, you can sense that the whole city is behind us and theyve been like that all playoffs," said Bergeron. "Its great. Obviously Boston is such a sports town and to bring back I guess the hockey fans and us into it is something that Im very proud of."
It hasn't taken defenseman Andrew Ference long to realize that the loyalty of the Boston sports fan is only matched by his or her sense of fatalism.
"I think people are excited just to know we have a shot," Ference said. "I think even last series, playing a Game 7, I know everybody was excited, and everybody was really wanting us to win. But I think the Boston mentality is to prepare for the worst. So, I think they were pretty jubilant and couldn't believe that we did win."
Perhaps that's why in keeping with real Stanley Cup superstition, Pioppi made sure none of the Bruins touched his replica Cup yesterday as they made their way through the crowd to sign autographs.
But he's certain the franchise will be lifting the real thing for the first time since 1972.
"They have to," he said.
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...That's what the Patriots have when it comes to picks in the 2013 NFL Draft, which starts Thursday. After all those years of stockpiling picks the way a survivalist does non-perishables the Patriots have just five picks in this year's draft, thanks to Band-aid trades for Albert Haynesworth, Chad Ochocinco and Aqib Talib. Five picks would be the fewest draft picks in franchise history. (Part of that is attributable to the trimming of the draft to just seven rounds in 1994). Further complicating matters is that two of the Patriots' greatest needs are at wide receiver and cornerback, positions where they have sustained draft droughts. With that in mind, I'm convinced the Patriots are going trade back out of the first round of a quanity-over-quality draft where you're just as likely to pick a Pro Bowl player in the second and third round as you are in the first round.
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We celebrate those who persevere for the long haul. We admire marathon runners and Ironman triathletes for their athletic perseverance. We respect PhDs and medical doctors for their academic perseverance. But sometimes staying in it for the long haul isn't so commendable.
For example, I still watch Grey's Anatomy. I used to love this show. The characters took me on a roller coaster of emotions and left me craving the next episode. But after 1o seasons, it's just not that compelling. As I was watching the two-hour season premiere, it felt like forever.
So why am I still watching? For some reason, I'm in it for the long haul. I feel like I'm invested in the characters and want to see how it ends.
I do the same thing with books. I don't think I've ever intentionally not finished a book. (Although, I left one in the seat pocket on an airplane once, which made finishing it difficult.)
Even though I'm supposed to be reading for pleasure, I keep reading despite a lack of pleasure. I suffer through until the end.
Maybe it will get better. Maybe the end pulls everything together. Generally, it doesn't. But I still feel compelled to finish.
I also finish food. Since it's the season of cake, I've been eating a lot of cake. In fact, I ate half of Mr. HalfFull's birthday cake pretty much by myself. If you recall that my father only makes double batch birthday cakes, that means I ate a whole cake!
We ate about half of the cake at my parents' house on Mr. HalfFull's actual birthday. But they sent us home with the rest. It took me a full week, but by eating two or three slices a day, I finished that sucker!
That did not mesh well with my health and fitness mentality. While relaxing on the couch one day, Mr. HalfFull commented on the juxtaposition between a defined muscle on my leg and my "cake belly."
You may be thinking that cake is delicious. So how hard could it be to eat a whole cake? But I don't only persevere with scrumptious desserts.
Once I went to a vegetarian restaurant. I'd been there before and ordered a dish similar to a normal chicken dish. Instead of chicken, it was tofu, but the texture, color, and taste was very similar. With enough sauce, you can make anything taste like chicken!
But on this visit, I decided to go off the reservation and order something unlike my normal fare. So I ordered macrobiotic tofu. It came in slices and tasted like dirt.
A normal human might have left it at the restaurant. But I packaged it to go! I continued to eat the "dirt" for the next four days because I could only tolerate one slice at a time.
To Persevere or Not?
My long haul mentality ends with entertainment and food, since I was able to quit my job before death or retirement. I guess I know how to cut bait at times.
I'm not sure exactly what compels me in some of these situations, but perseverance can be an amazing quality if directed appropriately.
- What do you pursue for the long haul?
- Do you still watch television shows that have lost allure?
- Do you finish reading the books you start?
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6503 Pinewood Drive Parker, CO 80134
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Rarely available in highly sought after Pinery Country Club, this 1,986 sq. ft., 3 bedroom, 3 bath townhome has gorgeous views of the golf course and of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by majestic pines and stunning landscape where you will spot wildlife and enjoy natures sounds. Welcomed by a large enclosed courtyard that sides to your 2 car garage. Updated and meticulously maintained with new windows and doors, reconditioned hardwoods, new carpet, lighting and fresh paint. This amazing space has soaring ceilings and opens to a wall of sparkling windows. The open living area has one of two gas fireplaces. The kitchen features solid granite, a breakfast bar, under mount sink, re-faced cabinetry, black appliances and a wall mount flat screen TV. The balcony is a great place to grill and enjoy the views and the loft is a great flex area. The Master Suite has a large walk-in with built-ins and a bath with new tile. All bedrooms also have their own baths. The lower level walk-out is a finished open space.
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For all her interest in water, Yara never seemed too keen on the idea of swimming. She was always quite eager to explore any body of water, especially if it was moving, but the few times I gave her the opportunity to swim she just wallowed around and got her belly wet. Or more aptly, as was the case at Crossings, got super muddy and then required a bath at Sarah's. This was a huge departure from Dolly who practically lived to swim; she was particularly fond of my father's pool. We actually built her a ramp so she could get in and out herself and she made good use of it! Of course, Yara never gave much of a thought to snow and now that she's retired she seems quite keen to play in it so perhaps this will change once said pool gets opened this year. Anyway, I wasn't sure what to expect with Uschi in this vein. Turns out yesterday I would find out exactly what her opinion on this swimming thing was.
We had a very jam-packed day, but since we were in downtown Albany and it was not raining for the first time in weeks we detoured a bit into the parks to get where we were going. Washington Park was of course one of those detours and it was actually almost eerie to walk through it as it was pretty much empty with the major exception of a landscaping crew mowing lawns and such. I'm actually really glad that we took that extra trip out a few weeks back because the tulips have already been dug out (and are traditionally sold in a bag sale) leaving most of the flower beds very empty and what isn't gone is already past its prime bloom. Since it was so empty, I thought I'd attempt to get a photo of Uschi by King Memorial Fountain — the Moses statue, as most people refer to it. It's proximity to several street entrances and the dog park make it a very high traffic area, so I've had limited success in the past getting photos of the dogs here. Anyway, something about the water being behind her seemed to make Uschi a might twitchy and so she wouldn't sit still for very long. I did get the photo to the right, but as you can see from how she's positioned it's pretty obvious she didn't sit like that for very long. Since there wasn't much else about to photograph I didn't bother torturing her beyond that.
Later, we walked through Lafayette Park which was always one of Yara's favorite spots as we took often took our lunchtime constitutional there. Uschi didn't seem too impressed with this little park, but I brought her over to the fountain, which was Yara's absolute favorite place, and she immediately got up on the edge to take a closer look. And then all of a sudden she was in the fountain! I spent a few moments debating dragging her out by her neck or just letting her have at it. As it was she was already soaked and it was nice and sunny so I figured after our lengthy work day she deserved a bit of fun. I didn't let her stay in long, but she got to paddle herself a few circles before hopping out and thoroughly drenching me. Then we had a nice romp in the grass to help her dry off. She seemed especially pleased with this and got SUPAKRAZY excited and actually tackled me to the ground at one point!
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Negotiations to lock space tourism company Virgin Galactic into a long-term lease at the spaceport New Mexico taxpayers built for it are on hold while a proposal to broaden liability exemptions for space companies lingers in the Legislature, Gov. Susana Martinez said Tuesday.
"We are hoping the bill passes, then we will continue discussions," Martinez said following a luncheon address to state business leaders.
Virgin Galactic President and CEO George Whitesides, who also spoke to the group, declined to comment directly on the company's commitment to New Mexico, saying only that both parties are working in good faith to resolve a "laundry list" of issues.
The quarter-of-a-billion Spaceport America was built by taxpayers under an agreement with British businessman Richard Branson's company. But Virgin Galactic has refused to enter a binding lease, citing, among other things, the state's inability to compete in the commercial space arena without the law.
Under terms of the development agreement signed in 2008, the state contends that Virgin was obligated to enter its long-term lease as the anchor tenant at Spaceport American in January. The company has made three months of rent payments but noted it was doing so under protest and without agreeing to enter the long-term lease that calls for things like a $2 million deposit and guaranteed payments to the state for a minimum number of flights.
Whitesides hinted last year that the company could leave New Mexico if lawmakers failed for a second year to pass a bill that would extend legal liability exemptions to space parts suppliers. He and the governor have both said the legislation, which would protect companies from lawsuits by passengers on space flights, is necessary for New Mexico to compete with states like Texas, Florida and Colorado, which already have the exemption on the books and are developing their own spaceports.
Martinez noted that several space companies have already passed over New Mexico for other states with friendlier laws.
"We want these forward looking companies to land in New Mexico," Martinez said.
The governor said she is hopeful the bill will make it to her desk.
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Cooks & Cocinas: Barbara and Eldon Sheffer
Updated 5:05 am, Saturday, September 22, 2012
A couple packed their empty nest with all the amenities for cooking and entertaining while condensing their floor plan by 1,000 square feet.
Who's cooking: Barbara Sheffer, a community and church volunteer, and husband Eldon, a retired chemical engineer who now teaches at Schreiner University in Kerrville.
What's cooking: Friends and neighbors appreciate goodies such as scones, cookies and pound cakes that Barbara makes to share. "I like the process (of baking), but as much as that, I like giving it away," she says. "When you take a batch of cookies to someone, it's like giving them a hug."
Eldon pours his efficiency skills into one-pot soups and stews, often combining leftover grilled meats with assorted beans and lentils in the slow cooker or pressure cooker. He also makes pizza from scratch, stuffed burgers and cedar-plank grilled salmon.
In this kitchen: The Sheffers built their house in 2005, after retiring to Kerrville from Houston.
The space: At 111/2 by 15 feet, the kitchen is layed out to accommodate two cooks and to take in the Guadalupe River Valley panorama from the wall of windows on the back of the house. Being in the kitchen is like being in a treehouse, Barbara says.
On the surfaces: Warm tones derive from Gallo Rio granite counters, rustic alder cabinets, a tumbled travertine backsplash and red oak floors. In keeping with the rustic Hill Country setting, the Sheffers kept knotholes visible in the cabinets and floors.
Why it works: The design of their empty-nest home reflects what they learned from living in their eight previous houses during his career in the oil industry.
A second sink is convenient when both are cooking.
The breakfast bar is a comfortable spot for dining with the counter depth extended to 101/2 inches. Electrical outlets under the bar make it ideal for setting up a buffet, too.
Scaling back: In downsizing, Barbara sacrificed a double oven but finds the combo microwave/convection oven a good stand-in when cooking casseroles and baked potatoes. Space didn't allow for a five-burner cooktop, but the side burner on the outdoor grill fills that need.
Knowing she would miss having a butler's pantry, Barbara designed her utility room to do double duty. Cabinetry conceals the washer and dryer, and she can set up a dessert buffet on the counters. Electrical outlets above the counters accommodate appliances.
Access to the washer-dryer connections is concealed by vintage iron grilles designed for air vents.
Change of seasons: Barbara changes out décor on the mantel-style range hood to reflect seasons and holidays.
Always learning: Cooking classes at Central Market and Sur la Table in San Antonio fuel new ideas. They're also a good way to meet interesting people and enjoy a delicious meal, Eldon says.
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