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Posted: 02 September 2005 at 2:55pm
Assalamu alaikum/Peace be upon you.
We all terified by this tragedy. May God strengthen the victims and their families during this difficult times.
Please post anything related to the Hurricane Katrina here.
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Assalamu alaikum,
The following article written sent by Kelly Izdihar Crosby of New Orleans, she is one of the iViews.com contributors.
Salaam alaikum, Islamicity editors. As you know, Hurricane Katrina has devastated much of the Gulf South region. I have written some articles for you before about Iman Muhanna Mohammad and Mukhtar Mai. My name is Kelly Izdihar Crosby and I am native of New Orleans. We just left New Orleans yesterday and we are sure that we have lost everything but by God's grace we are okay.
It's very hard to me to express what I am feeling right now. In the blink of an eye, my life and the lives of millions of people on the Gulf Coast region of the Southern United States has been changed forever. I am here in Atlanta, Georgia, in the safety of my mother's friends where the weather is sunny and dry. But just yesterday, August 30th, 2005, we were escaping the ravages of my home city, New Orleans, Louisiana. My family and I were blessed. We made shelter at the Louis Armstrong International Airport which is miles away from the metropolitan New Orleans area. We couldn't have imagined what has happened. While at the airport, we had electricity, running water and food. In a day, the power went out and the water could not be consumed. We were running out of food and the weather after Hurricane Katrina's wrath was unbearably hot. I saw tourists who had come to New Orleans looking for a good time stuck in the airport with their pets, children, suitcases and worried faces wondering when would they make it back home. But our situation fared much better than those in the "Crescent City" and Gulfport, Mississippi.
Allah (swt) is beautiful and loves beauty (Sahih Muslim).
www.izzymo.blogspot.com (for my musings)
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Friday September 2,
Explosions rock
Huge explosions and fires have erupted in
There is no information on the cause of the blasts in the city, where thousands are still trapped amid fetid waters, rotting corpses, and roving bands of gunmen and looters.
The blasts are believed to have involved a chemical factory; a large cloud of acrid, black smoke has been drifting over south-western
Hazardous material teams are on their way to the largely inaccessible area.Unacceptable
There are "a lot of people working hard to help those who have been affected, and I want to thank the people for their efforts," Mr Bush said at the White House minutes before his departure.
He told reporters aid was "surging" in, but acknowledged things were not going well.
"The results are not acceptable," he said.
"I'm looking forward to talking to the people on the ground. I want to assure the people of the affected areas and this country that we'll deploy the assets necessary and get the situation under control," said the President.
Mr Bush is to take an aerial tour of coastal
Earlier today,
Buses have been evacuating some of the thousands of people who have been waiting at the
Several thousand more, including many elderly people, are still at the city's convention centre.
However, officials at the Houston Astrodome in
Mario Gallegas, a senator from
"Obviously this has happened in our backyard," he said.
"This is a tragic disaster of natural cause and we're going to step forward and help."'Ridiculous'
Meanwhile, the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, has made an impassioned plea on local radio for state and federal authorities to co-ordinate their relief efforts, and begin delivering aid to the thousands stranded in the devastated city.
"I don't know whose problem it is," he said.
"I don't know whether it's the Governor's problem, I don't know whether it's the President's problem, but somebody needs to get their arse on a plane and sit down the two of them and figure this out right now.
"Flood their dog-gone offices with request to do something. This is ridiculous."
Other local officials and survivors are complaining bitterly that the government has been slow to speed troops and relief supplies to the
"This is a national disgrace," said Terry Ebbert, the head of
"We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims (in
Survivors say people in the devastated
"President Bush get on television and say 100 per cent no looting," said one man.
"Are you going to come down here and feed these people? Are you going to come down here and shelter these people, put clothes on them?
"Now this is just not right. We're not a third world country."
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Michael Moore
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
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G.W. Bush:are you annoying me?
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We need to help them somehow. At humanitarian level, not just that they are all victimms of the Neo Con follies.
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There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can't. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes, wars, and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.
So, in the next few days, I will write to you about what must be done about Bush and Co.
But today I want you to join with me in bypassing the colossally inept and incompetent Bush administration and get help DIRECTLY to the people of the New Orleans area -- right now.
A lot of you have written me to ask what you can do. Many don't know who to trust. Many want to do more than write a check. You are right to think that writing checks to relief agencies will not get water and aid to people in the next 48 hours. Checks will be needed later and can be written later.
I have a way, though, for each and every one of us to do something today that can affect people's lives TODAY.
For the past few days I've been working with a group that, I guarantee you, will get direct aid to the people who need it most.
Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush's ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need.
This is where we come in. We need to ship supplies to them immediately. Today they need the following:
Paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, baby diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, Pedialyte, baby items in general, powder, lotion, handy wipes, sterile gloves, electrolytes, LARGE cans of veggies, school supplies, and anything else to lift people's spirits.
You can ship these items by following the instructions on VFPRoadTrips.org. Or you can deliver them there in person. The roads to Covington are open. Here's how to get there. You can drop them off or you can stay and participate (if you stay, you'll be camping so bring your own tent and gear and mosquito spray).
If you can't ship these items or go there in person, then go to VFPRoadTrips.org and make an immediate donation through PayPal. Camp Casey-Covington will have immediate access to this cash and can buy the items themselves from stores that are open in Louisiana (all donations to Veterans for Peace, are tax deductible).
Each day I will post up-to-the minute information as to what is needed and the progress Camp Casey is making. Please visit MichaelMoore.com often and do what you can to help.
Many other groups are also doing good work. MoveOn.org has set up a system for people to offer rooms in their homes to the survivors.
There is no time to waste. People are suffering and dying. Each of us can do something. There is no other alternative.
Thank you in advance for your help. Tomorrow, we will take care of the other work we need to do about the ideologically hamstrung incompetents in charge.
Michael Moore
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Gratitude in the Face of Calamity
By Imam Zaid Shakir
In The Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
If you express gratitude for my blessings, I will increase you in them. [Al-Qur�an 14:7]
The failings of humans in the aftermath of the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina are many. Unfortunately, they are too easy to identify. On the other hand, there are many blessings, which the situation along the Gulf shore serves to highlight. Most of those blessings are things we take for granted. They oftentimes go unnoticed, and therefore, unappreciated. In light of the difficulties facing so many of our fellow citizens in the affected areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, we should all take time to thank God for His many and abundant blessings.
First of all, let us thank God that He inspired so many people to risk their lives and health to save thousands of individuals who were trapped in New Orleans and elsewhere. Let us thank God for the kind souls who have opened their hearts and homes to receive those who have been misplaced by the storm. Let us thank God for the countless merciful souls who are inspired to spend their money to assist those who have been displaced from their homes. Let us thank God for those working tirelessly to connect lost children, the elderly, and physically challenged with their families.
When we awake in the morning and the lights come on to guide us around the house as we prepare to start our day, let us thank God. When we relieve ourselves and we find the means to remove our waste far from our homes let us thank God. When we drive by our rivers and streams, and find that most of them are not soiled by untreated raw sewage let us thank God. When we return home to warm meals, a clean change of clothes, and loving, intact families, let us thank God.
As we survey the aftermath of the storm let us thank God that the devastation was not worse. What would the damage had been had not Katrina weakened from a Category 5 storm to a Category 4 just before making landfall? What would the damage had been if the eye of the storm had passed directly over New Orleans, instead of turning towards less populated areas? What would have resulted if the flooding in New Orleans had been immediate and occurred at the height of the storm, in the middle of the night as people slept or were surrounded by total darkness? Let us thank God that so far the death toll in Louisiana is in the hundreds and not the thousands as predicted.
Let us thank God for blessing the overwhelming majority of us with health, sustenance, services, homes, and family. Let us thank God for showering His Mercy upon us in ways great and small. Let us thank God for blessing us to understand a purpose for our lives at a time when many are spiritually lost. This latter point is a blessing of unimaginable import.
Finally, let us be pleased with God�s Decree no matter what is contains, for no matter what it contains, His Decree brings good for the believer. Let us also thank God for the gift of faith. Faith allows us to deal with the calamities of this world with dignity and composure. Our Noble Prophet reminds us,
Truly amazing is the affair of the believer. His affair only contains good. That realization only occurs for the believer. If he is blessed with good he thanks God and in that there is good. And if he is afflicted with difficulty he patiently endures and in that there is good. Sahih Muslim #7425
Source: http://www.zaytuna.org/articleDetails.asp?articleID=82
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It has been raining here in Alice Springs for the last few days and everything has fallen by the wayside. When it rains so irregularly it is easy to stay in & wait for it to clear rather than head out in the rain.
Thursday night we were broken into. We were quite fortunate in that they only stole an iPhone and an iPad and Nick's wallet. The wallet was later recovered, with the credit cards still in it. No real damage was done, but it does feel icky that someone was in our place while we were sleeping. From this we did meet our neighbours, who were also broken into. We hit it off & went to a BBQ at their place Friday night & then we all went to a fundraiser at a local pub the next night.
The fundraiser was for a child who has cancer. Our local hospital is unable to treat people with cancer so if you need treatment you have to go to wither Sydney or Adelaide, both at least 2000kms from Alice Springs. It makes it pretty hard for a parent to hold down a job and be with the child. The fundraiser was to enable the dad to keep working in Alice Springs but be able to fly to Sydney every two weeks to see his wife and children. Makes you realise how lucky you are that you're healthy & your children are healthy.
We received a parcel from Canada on Friday! My friend had crocheted a blanket for Lulu's pram. It is so cute, snuggly and warm. I made the tiny bunting to go across her pram a little while ago & I think they are the perfect match.


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The beginning of August gets the mind to wandering in all sorts of different directions. Sure, it's tempting to start thinking about the season openers that are barely three months away. But why stop there? Let's wander all the way out to next spring when the 2013-14 season is over and get a head start on candidates for all the awards.
Today we'll look at my hot fun in the summertime top five picks for Rookie of the Year. Send me yours.
Victor Oladipo, Magic — The No. 2 pick in the Draft showed in the Summer League that he has a long way to go to run an offense as a point guard. But that doesn't mean Oladipo won't get plenty of chances to shine as the young Magic just turn him loose. Arron Afflalo will have to move on in order to let Oladipo fully blossom. However, the nonstop, high-energy guy with the first-class defensive chops will thrive in the transition and find plenty of opportunities to get to the basket with the floor spacing in the NBA. In a Draft that seemed to jump the rails right from the first pick, Oladipo was the player the Magic targeted to be a star for the future. There's no reason to think that he won't get off to a fast start on a young team that craves a leader.
Ben McLemore, Kings — He came out firing unconscionably and mostly missing in his first two Las Vegas Summer League games, but give him credit for not reacting by crawling into a hole and becoming shy. By the end of the his desert run, McLemore was as hot and flashy as anything on the Vegas strip. The long-suffering franchise wants him to run the floor, use his athleticism and fill up the basket. He's got a sweet stroke, plenty of range and now that Tyreke Evans is gone to New Orleans, he should have plenty opportunity. The lesson learned from Vegas is not to paint himself strictly as a long bomber and work to improve the other areas of his game. It's also about his attitude. There is a reason that some folks had him tabbed as the No. 1 pick and could be part of the road back for a Kings franchise that will celebrate staying in Sacramento.
Cody Zeller, Bobcats — Zeller was a standout in Las Vegas, showing all the hustle, smarts and athleticism that made him a star at Indiana. Never mind that his arms are short and some think he'll have trouble on the inside at the NBA level. Playing for the hapless Bobcats, Zeller is going to get all the time he needs to figure things out and find a way to get off his shot. This is the umpteenth time that Michael Jordan's Bobcats are starting over and rookie coach Steve Clifford will be happy to plug the Zeller's intelligence and skills into the lineup and let him complement free-agent signee Al Jefferson.
Anthony Bennett, Cavaliers — There's a chance the Cavs will bring the No. 1 pick in the Draft along slowly. That's especially likely since he is a frontline tweener (6-foot-7) who will have to learn to maneuver around the bigger bodies in the NBA and learn how to get off his shot inside (since he's not especially mobile). He's 3-point range and while he may struggle to find his place in the offense, Bennett has a nose for rebounding and could make his presence felt by going to the glass. That's a good way to make an impact, put up numbers, get attention and maybe even work his way off the bench by the second half of the season.
C.J. McCollum, Trail Blazers — Can the Blazers go back-to-back on Rookie of the Year winners? After Damian Lillard practically went wire-to-wire to claim the award last season, Portland went out and almost drafted a clone. The conventional thinking is that McCollum will get stuck on the bench playing second fiddle to Lillard and that will limit his production. But there is really no reason to think the Blazers were drafting a sub at No. 10. They're gonna find a way to get their pair of ball-handling scorers on the floor together as much as possible. There are plenty nuances of the game McCollum has to learn, but he's got the swagger to take on anything thrown at him and find a way to shine.
Rudy Gobert, Jazz — OK, he's No. 6 and is a longer shot than a mule winning the Kentucky Derby. But give me a personal indulgence after watching the 7-foot-2 Frenchman with the 7-foot-9 wingspan and 9-foot-7 reach — that's five inches below the rim — swat down everything that came into his airspace in the Orlando Summer League. He's raw and must bulk up to eventually thrive in the NBA. But he's only 21 and defensively has a nose for the ball that says he's going after every shot. Of course, the shot-blocking Gobert will get time sparingly this season, but I'm telling you he'll be fun to watch whenever he's on the floor. Besides, you've got to love a guy who's already picked up a classic nickname — the Stifle Tower.
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Bridgett Erickson is a Yoga Alliance-registered yoga teacher. She teaches prenatal, postnatal, vinyasa and restorative yoga classes in Minneapolis. Erickson helps new students discover yoga and the complete state of wellness that a dedicated practice offers. She holds a master's degree in health journalism from the University of Minnesota and is committed to quality health journalism. She helped launch the award-winning Web site, www.healthnewsreview.org. Contact her at email@example.com.
At a recent yoga workshop, teacher Max Strom explained the difference between a yoga teacher and a yoga instructor. Before you even begin to evaluate yoga teachers for your staff, consider this distinction.
A yoga teacher will find ways to explain a posture until the student experiences the pose correctly, meaning that each particular class participant is in a safe position that meets the goals of the student. Usually, these goals are a combination of strength and flexibility. For example, a teacher will walk around the room, much like your second grade teacher weaving through the desks to assure that your cursive was on spot and correcting the extra curly Qs you had strategically added for "personality". The yoga teacher, just like the second grade teacher, spots "personality" or habitual misalignments and offers verbal or physical adjustments that provide the student with "Aha!" moments that result in true changes in a student's body. As fitness professionals, we've all had "Aha!" moments. Maybe it was when we learned to use the hamstring in unison with the quad while working the leg muscles. From that experience, we know that the feeling of learning, or improving, is what keeps people coming back for more.
Unlike the yoga teacher, the yoga instructor will have a similar teaching style to a fitness video. She will stand in the front of the room, give some verbal cues and sweat, stretch and strengthen her body right along with students. Students are on their own as far as creating their perfect alignment according to the model at the head of the class. This style will initially be more familiar to health club students since most likely they have attended other group fitness classes.
I prefer the teacher approach, and having been asked to teach yoga both ways, I base this preference on experience. Here are the two main reasons you want a teacher vs. an instructor.
- A teacher watches. When I instructed a class by performing the postures for all to see, I couldn't see the misalignments occurring in the bodies of the students. I could only cue based on common misalignments. My instruction was generic. The flow of the class was determined by how I felt rather than the physical position of the students' bodies. And when I stopped having my own personal yoga practice in front of the room, I was able to see firsthand that many students weren't coming along as swimmingly as it appeared from a distance. Students who appeared stable had subtle misalignments of joints, like a knee creeping out past the ankle when held in a bent position. When a teacher moves to view students from the side, the view allows a different perspective of their alignments. From this view, a teacher can easily provide a verbal or hands-on adjustment to students in need. Bottom line: this approach keeps your clients safer in the classroom.
- Students aren't watching. I've given surveys to my students for years. Consistently, students come to the mat for the "peace of mind" that yoga offers. Part of reducing stress is being comfortable in your own skin. For yoga, this means dropping comparisons. If a student is watching and trying to copy an expert at the front of the room, it is hard not to compare, contrast and eventually start to question his or her personal success. When I instructed and demonstrated at the front of the room, students misaligned their heads and necks to get a good view of what I was doing. When you teach with words and physical adjustments, this craning of necks and comparing of one body to the next disappears. Plus, we "watch" all day long. Our eyes need a rest. Leading a class from the teaching philosophy allows students the chance to rest their eyes and just listen.
As you hire instructors, their training method and experience level will be the best indicator as to which teaching camp they belong. With that said, most teachers employ a combination of both. I don't hesitate to pull out my perfect pose if I've used my verbal cues and someone is still looking lost and confused. During the evaluation phase of hiring yoga teachers, pull in a group of your staff — those who do yoga and those who think of a sullen street mutt when they hear the words "down dog." Watch for a teacher who addresses the whole room. Does she let the novice student sink or swim while getting in a personal competition with the talented yogi? Or does she keep a safe, beginner's pace to acknowledge the new student and introduce challenge postures sprinkled in for the old pros in the room?
Other factors to consider when hiring a yoga teacher:
- Does the teacher have a dedicated yoga practice? A teacher usually practices at least four times a week.
- Is the style of yoga the teacher trained in of interest to your clients? If you want a more active vinyasa yoga class designed to build strength and stamina, look for teachers trained in power or ashtanga yoga.
- Check certifications. The www.yogaalliance.org Web site has a database of registered yoga teachers who have completed at least 200 hours of training. You can start a search here or pick your favorite fitness teachers and send them to training.
- How many years has the teacher practiced and or has been teaching? This is an indication of the teacher's commitment to yoga and experience level.
It's also important to be sure a yoga teacher's communication style matches your club's culture. The 16 million Americans rolling out their yoga mats aren't all into chanting "OHMMM," and any yoga teacher you hire should have this in mind.
It is probably wise to set a standard for teachers as far as your yoga philosophy in the health club setting. Most of the Dharma (Indian term used to explain religion or higher truth) talk that occurs in a class can easily be translated into common speak. Encourage instructors to use phrases like "let go," "be in the moment" and "clear the mind." Statements like, "surrender to a higher being," or "aligning your energy with the vibration of the universe" may be more appropriate for a yoga studio than a fitness-based facility.
Talk to your instructor about the mission of your organization. If it is primary fitness, health and wellness, these are the themes that should resonate through any teacher's style. A good yoga teacher can bring all the juicy yoga goodness of calming the nerves, releasing tension and clearing the mind without chanting or quoting ancient yoga texts.
Some tips:
- Encourage your teachers to choose inspiration that speaks to all. Contemporary poets and non-secular philosophers or writers are full of wisdom that will be accessible and inclusive.
- All Sanskrit needs to be defined. If you are comfortable with your teachers using Sanskrit, the ancient language of yoga, require them to define any phrases used. For example, it is traditional to end a class with the greeting of "Namaste." This translates to "I honor the light in all beings." If a teacher says it in front of new students, they should always indicate the meaning. No exceptions.


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DALLAS — To quote Memphis Grizzlies defensive bulldog Tony Allen Saturday night: "This is the year."
The Grizzlies love the makeup of their grizzled, veteran team and their chances to contend for the whole enchilada. And with a new ownership group in place led by young tech billionaire Robert Pera and flanked by glimmering, star-power partners like Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning, again, to quote Allen: "The sky's the limit for this team."
At least it should be. Yet here we sit, still five weeks removed from the trade deadline and uncertainty is swallowing the Grizzlies whole, an inconvenient and unspoken truth (at least as a team) that at any moment the financial hammer can come crashing down on the this team.
Rumors persist that Memphis is shopping its highest-priced assets. Rudy Gay (owed $37.2 million over the next two seasons), Marc Gasol (owed $30.1 million over the next two seasons) and Zach Randolph (owed $34.3 million over the next two seasons), the roots of the Grizzlies' four-year rise from obscurity, are all twisting in the trade winds as potential sell-offs to lessen the franchise's financial burden under the new and less-forgiving collective-bargaining agreement.
"That's what happens when you get new owners," said Randolph, who plans to reside in Memphis during the offseasons even if he's traded. "Mr. [Michael] Heisley (the Grizzlies' previous owner), he had a vision of keeping us all together. He took care of all of us to build a team and try to win a championship. Now the new owner probably wants to do something different. But it's a business."
Even coach Lionel Hollins, the most successful coach in Grizzlies history, waits on an extension in the final season of his contract.
"Hopefully I'll have this team the whole year, and if I don't, I'll coach other guys," Hollins said. "If they don't give me an extension, then I'll decide what I'm going to do. I think our team has done well growing as a group each year and developing to the point this year where I feel we're a legitimate contender. We've [been able] to play with [everybody] out of the top teams. That's usually when you're trying to get there, you win a lot of games, but you don't do well against the contenders. You might win one or two, but we've been able to compete with every last one of them."
The Grizzlies dropped to 24-11 Saturday night after never getting in gear against the struggling Dallas Mavericks one night after securing a rugged overtime home win against the San Antonio Spurs. The Mavs, 104-83 winners, led by 18 in the first half and by 30 in the third quarter as the Grizzlies were gassed and never made a run.
Prior to the game, the Grizzlies, to a man, said they don't discuss trade rumors in the locker room, on the team bus or anywhere.
"If we discuss it that means you think about it," said Gay, the team's leading scorer and its longest-tenured player now in his seventh season. "I'm not going to try to think about it. I'm just trying to win games."
It's the big secret that isn't, the topic they don't want to talk about, but will be asked of them at every stop.
"It's tough knowing that this team has done so well and we're having to go through trade rumors," said point guard Mike Conley, whose under contract for another three seasons at a reasonable $26.1 million. "With the new CBA and all that, we were hoping we wouldn't have to be in this situation. Here we are, all these rumors and speculation of what might happen, what could happen in the next few weeks until the trade deadline.
"I think it's been kind of nice that guys haven't it let it affect them. It can easily affect a team, but this team has done a great job of throwing it aside, saying we can't control it and just go about our business."
It wasn't long ago when Marc's brother, Pau Gasol, led the Grizzlies' first three-season playoff surge after the move from Vancouver. Those games were played at a half-empty FedEx Forum. Memphis has made substantial strides in attendance from ranking 28th in the league in 2009-10 and averaging 13,485 a game, and routinely being outdrawn by the city's first love, the Memphis Tigers who share the arena.
Through 18 home dates this season, the Grizzlies, 14-4 on their home floor, rank 18th in attendance, averaging 16,529.
The franchise's new ownership group owes it to their growing number of fans, to the players that have grown together to become a contender and to Hollins, who has overseen the process, to stick with the program through this season.
"I think we're one of the most well-rounded teams in the league," Gay said. "I don't think there's a letdown at any position."
After whatever happens in the postseason, then re-assess and re-package to fit a new financial model in the summer.
"I feel like we got the whole package," said Randolph, who is having an All-Star-type season averaging 16.9 points and 12.0 rebounds. "Rudy on the wing, me and Marc down low, we got Mike Conley stepping up and playing great ball, we got T.A. [Allen], our defensive leader, so our starting five is as solid as any starting five in the league.
"You want to see us together because we've come a long way."
No other contender in either conference faces such roster uncertainty at mid-season. It's unfair, and if a shakeup occurs before the Feb. 21 trade deadline, there will be no excuse to feed the fans, and perhaps no way of ever knowing if this is indeed the year.
"That's the NBA and one thing about that is anything can happen," Gay said. "Other people are going to have different plans. You just have to take advantage of the time you have."


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When you look back on the Seneca Wallace era with the 49ers, you better not blink.
According to Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee, the 49ers intend to cut the just-acquired quarterback, and won't play him in tonight's preseason finale.
Wallace was brought in, ostensibly to compete for the backup job. But then, in a startling coincidence, Colt McCoy agreed to take a pay cut, and suddenly made the backup job his own.
Without Wallace, that leaves rookie B.J. Daniels as their third at the moment, and likely he'll get plenty of snaps tonight.


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Southern stars to ring in New Year with loved ones
From holidaying in Italy to a reunion with their beloved in the US, southern stars have set their itinerary for the New Year and they are all set to ring it in with family and friends. For some, however, it will be work over play.regional movies Updated: Dec 31, 2013 17:52 IST
From holidaying in Italy to a reunion with their beloved in the US, southern stars have set their itinerary for the New Year and they are all set to ring it in with family and friends. For some, however, it will be work over play.
Amala Paul: Having wrapped up upcoming Tamil thriller Nimirnthu Nil, actress Amala Paul is currently on a holiday in Italy with her family. "In the city of Love, Paris, with family," she posted on her Twitter page on the eve of Christmas. Amala will also celebrate the New Year in Paris and has plans to visit the Vatican.
Ajith Kumar: Superstar Ajith Kumar, who recently completed work on upcoming Tamil release Veeram, has taken off to Australia. "Soon after Christmas, he left to Australia with his family. He will celebrate the New Year there and will return to Chennai on Jan 9 for the release of his film," Ajith's manager told IANS. Veeram is slated to release Jan 10, 2014.
Dhanya Balakrishnan: Dhanya, who is basking in the success of Telugu release Second Hand, plans to spend the start of the year with her family in Bangalore. "I will be with my family and we will celebrate the New Year at home. I'll visit a temple on the morning of Jan 1 and I look forward to some homemade gourmet by my mom," she said.
Esther Noronha: Esther will head back home to Mangalore for some family time. "I recently completed shooting for my Telugu. It was a long shoot and I needed a break. I think this would be the right time to take it, and therefore, I'm going home to my family," she told IANS.
Hansika Motwani: The 22-year old actress, who is currently holidaying in New York, will celebrate the New Year with her friends there. "New York is a dichotomy of a city. All the hustle, bustle and yet an underlying layer of loneliness," she posted Friday on her Twitter page. Hansika's mother told IANS: "Every year during this time, she goes on a vacation with her close friends. This year too she has gone with her gang of girls".
Karthi Sivakumar: Karthi will fly to Canada to support his friend southern composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, who will perform there on the eve of New Year. "I would cheer for Yuvan at his concert in Canada this New Year. I'm sure I'll have great fun watching him perform," Karthi had said at a recent event here.
Lakshmi Manchu: Actress-producer Lakshmi recently left for the US to spend time with her husband. "She left for Los Angeles a few days back to meet her husband Andy to welcome the New Year. She will stay there for a week," said Lakshmi's manager.
Nani: Having unveiled the audio of his upcoming Telugu release Janda Pai Kapiraju, actor Nani will also head to the US to meet his sister. "I haven't taken a break in a long time. Therefore, I have planned to take one and visit my sister in the US with my wife," he told IANS. He is also awaiting the release of southern remake of Band Baaja Baaraat, titled Ha Ha Kalyanam.
Priyamani: The Chennai Express actress, who recently left for Bangkok, plans to celebrate her New Year in Koh Samui, an island off the eastern coast. "I'll be spending a few days in Bangkok before leaving for Koh Samui. I'll visit the Tiger Park there and I hope to have lots of fun," she told IANS before leaving the country.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu: Southern actress Samantha along with Suriya Sivakumar will be busy shooting for yet-untitled Tamil actioner during New Year. "We started the film by November end and are currently working on a tight schedule. Therefore, all of us have decided to not take time off for New Year celebrations. We will probably celebrate on sets with a cake," the film's director Linguswamy told IANS.
Sunil Varma: Sunil has plans to visit his hometown to spend time with his family. "I might go to Bheemavaram to meet my family. Since I'm done with the shooting of my new film, I think this is the right time to go back home. If I go, then I'll make it a point to meet all my friends and spend the New Year with them," he told IANS.
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Fashion Bloggers/Writers/Marketing/Instagram with Psych Knowledge for Bespoke Luxury Jewelry Company
Бюджет $30-250 USD
I am looking for a fashion blogger and writer with jewelry, fashion, creative writing, marketing, psychology experience for writing future product descriptions and/or blogs. Also, you will need to manage the company's Instagram, Twitter, and be prepared to write descriptions, whenever I send you new pictures. You will also need to do proper SEO for blogging.
The project will be an ongoing project for now until I don't need the writer. When the project starts you will be also responsible for blogs per week, manage the company's Instagram and Twitter Account. You should have familiarity with Hootsuite when managing Twitter and Instagram. This amount of work must be 100% correct from grammatical and punctuation errors. You should know or must have done previous creative writing.
English verbally and orally has to be 100% fluent.
Organized, flexible, quick learner, diligent, outgoing, honest, trustworthy, loyal, fashion-oriented, deadline-oriented, passionate and dedicated employee needed.
I will need to have a way to communicate fast when I need to contact you.
I strongly prefer you are in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand.
Fashion, Blog, Creative Writing, Marketing, Social Media Management is preferred.
In order to do this job, I will require you to sign a Confidentiality Agreement with the company when the work starts. This agreement basically states that the information that I share with you as an employee will be NEVER shared outside.
I take this agreement quite strictly!!!
I am willing to offer references to others as needed when working this project if you are doing an excellent job!
I will have to interview (via Whatsapp, etc) about your previous knowledge with fashion, before hiring.
Good Luck to all and please do not hesitate to ask more questions before starting a project.
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Capillary Electrophoresis
Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) separates molecules based on charge, size and hydrophobicity. Pressure, voltage or a vacuum is used to introduce the sample to fused silica capillaries. Fluorescence, UV / Vis, UV or diode array detectors are used to visualize components. Types of CE systems include capillary electrochromatography (CEC), capillary zone electrophoresis and capillary gel electrophoresis.


text: At 03:29 PM 4/7/2005, Mark Hahn wrote: > > No mention of PowerPC which runs far cooler (1/2?) than Intel/AMD: > >except that it doesn't. > > > http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/apple/power-useage.pdf > >lovely graph. alas, the numbers are pure fantasy. yes, I actually >did measure a dual xserve g5 (not heavily configured) and it was 200-210W, >quite comparable to dual-opterons and even dual-xeons. Leaving aside such tantalizing issues as what is a GHz, in terms of useful work. However, if we do a straight watts/GHz, Xeon is 34.375, G4 is 33.8 ... not too much difference. One also needs to look at important ancillary issues like power consumption of the cache, bus drivers, etc. And, of course, instruction stream makes a big difference. I have a DSP system down in the lab that happens to be instrumented for these sorts of things. The power consumption while running a program varies by a factor of 10:1. During FFT's the power consumption is very high (since both ALUs, and all the addressing registers, and pipeline registers are running at peak performance). When moving data off chip to external devices, the power drops way down. You can see the end of each of the 9 passes in the FFT, as a dip in power while the indexing is reinitialized, etc. In fact, the ability to see the instantaneous power was an extremely valuable debugging tool on a processor where we didn't have a lot of real time visibility. An interrupt coming in at the "wrong" time, or an inopportune context switch, was painfully obvious on an oscilloscope. James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Pauldevine needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Sabertooth Tomato
We are a start up company with a number of new products targeting many different markets. We live and breathe the internet and we live and breathe cloud applications.
The application in this contest gathers information from gaming log files and presents them to our users on a website in a unique fashion. It also acts as an instant messenger between their gaming friends, in replacement of current apps like skype, msn messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ etc.
Gaming Statistics is where this web application is at though.
Gaming leaderboards
Xbox360 like achievements
Number of Monster Kills
Number of quests achieved
Who got the kill shots on the boss etc
Something to boast about, something to share with their gaming friends.
We are targeting gamers of massively multiplayer online role playing games. For example, games like Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Everquest 1 & 2, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Global Agenda and countless other free to play or pay to play online MMO games.
We may move into First person shooters, strategy games etc in the future but our current target is online gamers that play MMO's.
What we want from this contest is a logo/icon that represents the vision we have of this application. The product is called Sabertooth Tomato. A hard one to visualise I know, but thats why we are recruiting you guys to help us with this.
We have no preconceived ideas of how this should look, whether graphic or text driven style icons so we will leave it up to you guys to determine.
We will provide feedback for the group of designers to let them know as the contest progresses what we like, what we don't like and what direction we should be heading in.
This contest will be held blind to protect the designers concepts. I hope you can help.
Good luck.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Henry Clay Hankins was born September 10, 1858 in Ray County, Missouri. He was the lucky 13th and last child of John Hankins and Emily Sloan.
Henry Clay Hankins married Ella Caroline Webb on October 1, 1885 and the couple had two children.
|The 1930 Plat map for Ray County, Missouri. Rayville is just 9 miles northeast of Richmond, the county seat.
|Henry C. Hankins and Ella (Webb) Hankins home in Rayville, Missouri. Date unknown.
1. Find a copy of his obituary.
2. Try to locate a photo of Henry and Ella through distant cousins.


text: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Ryan Sweet wrote: > > Based on Glenn's comments, I was actually feeling (once again) like I > > ought to try to shake free enough time to do another full pass through > > the content to bring it up to date and see if I can finish off some of > > the missing chapters and -- possibly -- seek a paper publisher. I want > > to keep it online/free either way (and there are publishers out there > > that are comfortable with this) but a lot of people want to own a paper > > copy of stuff like this. I get a lot of requests for a printable PDF > > from people all over who found the html with google but missed the > > online pdf images right next door... > > Which is another reason that maybe a wiki would not entirely serve (see > above). > > OK, this may be a loaded question - for Robert, how do you feel about people > contributing to your book vs starting a new, collaborative effort which draws > upon the strenghts of what you have already done? I'm perfectly happy either way, as long as no further demands are put on my time (which is under a tension of a dozen kilonewtons or so:-). I put an OPL on the document for a reason -- as long as you don't publish an effort that contains a whole lot of my writing for money and not give me any (or get permission to do so ahead of time), you're welcome to steal, reuse, borrow, adapt, or otherwise mutilate my efforts in anything you put together with some measure of attribution and the viral copyleft thing in force. As I also said, I welcome contributions -- if anybody wants to contribute chapters that would be great, and I'll even leave your name at the top of your chapters. One concept that I had for the book some time ago that isn't really implemented is to make it a kind of revolving "journal of cluster computing". I've written what might be viewed as a core/intro to cluster computing, with fairly detailed sections on at least some of the important stuff. What it NEEDS is somebody who is a Myrinet expert to write a chapter or article on "Using Myrinet in a Compute Cluster" -- stuff on getting it, installing it, plugging in the hardware drivers and so forth so that e.g. MPI can run on top of it, some example programs (toy code or real applications) that run on 100 BT TCP/IP and Myrinet side by side for timing and parallel speedup comparisons. Ditto for SCI. Ditto for Fiber Channel, infiniband, gigabit ethernet. An article on diskless clustering. An article on installing and using warewulf on top of e.g. RHEL, FC2 or FC3, Centos, Caosity. An article on SGE. All by people who actually use all of the tools in their daily work. This is where I, or any possible author, come up short. I know something about all of the above, but I don't have direct experience with all of it and don't know a lot of people that do. Greg, probably, and Don. People in the business side of building clusters so that they end up hands on with lots of hardware configurations. A few people in the REALLY big cluster compute centers. So what we NEED is some of the real experts on the list to write expert level but user-friendly contributions. If these were done as "articles" rather than chapters per se, it would also address the problem any such documentation has with information getting "stale" quickly. Without updates every year, a lot of the technical stuff has such a short half-life that any cluster book quickly becomes nearly useless beyond the intro level. I haven't done a major catchup on my book for a couple of whole years, and it is already woefully behind. Alas, my experience with co-authors so far hasn't been too positive. I think no fewer than five or six people have offered to do everything from write half the book with me as a full co-author to contribute a chapter here or there, and I have yet to see a single line of actual contributed text. Hence my cynicism -- we are busy, we are all busy. Writing is a LOT of work (I promise -- it is one of the things I "do"). Most folks don't realize how hard until they have to write a twenty or thirty page chapter (maybe with references and figures) that needs to pass some sort of review and that other people will read and everything. Twenty or thirty hours later... Well, apparently they quit before they get to the 20-30 hour mark. So I will watch with great interest as you try to get something together, and will applaud your energy and determination if you succeed. A wiki/blog sort of thing actually isn't such a terrible idea if you can push it to the critical point where enough people participate and contribute. Sort of an online freeform journal. But then, this list is (if and as google succeeds in getting to the online archives) already a pretty hellacious resource in that regard. > For others, how would you feel about contributing to Robert's book using his > Latex template, vs starting a new collaborative effort? > > Each approach has advantages though if, as was mentioned, its been difficult > to get wider contributions for the book as it is, then maybe a more overtly > collaborative approach would help. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Clearwire Shares Up 8% In Late Trading; Below Dish Offer
Clearwire shares so far aren't anticipating a bidding war.
Minutes after the company's shares restarted trading, following a halt ahead of the announcement that Dish was offering to buy it, the stock was up 8.2% to $3.16.
That's well below the $3.30 that Dish is offering, though after-hours movements this late are often different than the regular session.
Meanwhile, Sprint shares are slipping in the late hours, down 2.9% to $5.80. Dish isn't moving.
It may be also worth keeping an eye on MetroPCS shares, which rose 1% to $9.44 on a couple trades after Clearwire's news. It's in a tie up with T-Mobile, but some have speculated more bidders could come in. Dish had previously made a $4 billion bid for MetroPCS before it reached its T-Mobile deal, WSJ reported in November.


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WWF deeply saddened by death of Virunga park protectors
Posted on 26 October 2012
WWF is saddened to hear about the violent deaths of more people, who died while protecting one of the world's most precious nature reserves.WWF is saddened to hear about the violent deaths of more people, who died while protecting one of the world's most precious nature reserves.
The conservation group expresses concern that oil exploration in this fragile region such as the one planned by London-based oil company SOCO, would only contribute to further destabilisation of the area.
Some 150 Virunga rangers have died in the line of duty since 1990.
"WWF is deeply saddened to hear that more park protectors are coming under violent attack," said Lasse Gustavsson, Conservation Director of WWF International.
Early this morning in Mwiga Bay, an area just west of the fishing settlement of Vitshumbi on Lake Edward, a ranger patrol was ambushed by Mai-Mai PARECO rebels.
Two park staff plus one government soldier were killed instantly. Three other government soldiers were seriously wounded - one critically.
After the gunfire died down, five of the attackers were found dead and two wounded rebels were captured and taken to a nearby hospital. Attacks such as these have been on the rise since the recent conflict erupted, but none have been so deadly.
"We are concerned that increased oil exploration activities like those carried out by SOCO will just deepen the crisis in this fragile region," Gustavsson said.
Despite a commitment to honest and ethical business and in face of widespread opposition, including from the UK government, SOCO refuses to abandon its exploration plans in Virunga, a World Heritage and Ramsar site.
One of the world's most precious nature reserves, Virunga is home to critically endangered mountain gorillas but its area also encompasses mountains, glaciers and hundreds of species of mammals, some of which are found nowhere else on our planet.
In addition, it is a critical source of local livelihoods. Thirty thousand people depend on a nearby lake, Lake Edward, for their fish, a sustainable use of natural resources that produces as much as US$ 20 million per year of fish. Under SOCO plans, the lake will become a drilling site.
WWF encourages interested parties to donate to the park in order to improve the security of the rangers and help the widows and families of those who lost their lives protecting this fragile park.


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As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
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The Wall of Faces
Brought to you by the organization that built The Wall, the Vietnam Veterans Virtual Memorial Wall is dedicated to honoring, remembering and sharing the legacies of all those who died in the Vietnam War. Here you can go beyond the names on The Wall to see the faces, share the stories and read the remembrances posted by friends, neighbors, classmates and family members.
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the education center at the wall
VVMF is completing the mission of preserving the legacy of our fallen heroes by building an education center to tell the stories of the names on The Wall.


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Hockey players often joke about the rugged nature of their sport by touting the popular mantra, "Give blood, play hockey."
But when Boston Bruins right defenseman, Nick Boynton, was diagnosed with diabetes five years ago at age 19, it was hard for him to stomach the blood glucose tests and shots his condition required.
"At first I couldn't really picture giving myself a shot," Boynton says.
Boynton was diagnosed during the summer while working on his parents' farm in Canada. The muscular 6-foot, 2-inch National Hockey League player normally weighs around 215 pounds. But when he started feeling tired and sick and was losing weight— 30 pounds to be exact—it finally prompted a visit to the doctor.
"The doctor misdiagnosed me as a type 2 and gave me pills. I didn't get any better," he says. "So I went down to Boston, where I was trying out for the Bruins and training to get ready for the Boston Bruins training camp in June of 2000. The doctors in Boston started me on insulin."
The Tough Get Tougher
Boynton was a quick study in learning how to give himself injections and blood glucose tests to control his diabetes, perhaps because of his experiences on the ice. And now he's even tougher for it.
"Now I'd just rather do shots myself—for any kind of shot," says Boynton, a native of Nobleton, Ontario. "When I get stitches or anything from a doctor, I would rather do it myself."
First-Round Pick Teams With Diabetes
By learning to control his diabetes from the start, his condition never controlled his career.
In fact, his diabetes may have enhanced his athleticism by making him more conscious of his diet and workout regimen. Boynton has twice earned the distinction of being a first-round pick. The first time he was the Washington Capitals' first pick, ninth overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. When contract negotiations failed, the physical and offensively talented Boynton re-entered the draft. The Boston Bruins grabbed him as the team's first pick, 21st overall in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.
Boynton joined the Bruins full time for the 2001-2002 season, in which he scored 18 points to go with his plus-18/minus rating in 80 games.
Last season he recorded career-highs in games (81), assists (24) and points (30). He tallied three multiple point games and scored points in consecutive games on five different occasions through the season. Boynton played in his 200th NHL Boston Bruins game on December 27, 2003, at Tampa Bay, and he played for the Eastern Conference Team at the 2004 NHL All- Star Game in Minnesota.
Active in the Diabetes Community
In addition to his professional hockey career, Boynton also actively helps with the Joslin Center for Diabetes in Boston. Boynton says he considers himself fortunate in his professional hockey career with the Bruins, and also for the many opportunities he has to work with children who are diagnosed with diabetes.
"It surprised me how many kids there are with type 1 diabetes. I knew nothing about the disease until I was diagnosed," he says. "It's amazing—I get so many letters from the kids at Joslin, and I appreciate all the support I get from them, it's really nice."
Exercise Strategy—A Winning Combination
Boynton recently started using an insulin pump to manage his diabetes. And, he says, it makes a huge difference, especially with his challenging schedule of practices, travel and games.
"Now it's like night and day. I feel great," Boynton says. "The pump really helps my blood glucose control. Before using the pump, once in a while I'd have a 240 or a 300. But with the pump, I've been able to keep it closer in check."
At first he didn't like pumping. But it didn't take long to get used to, says Boynton, who had been taking eight daily insulin injections of rapid-acting insulin plus the basal insulin Lantus.
"I never felt like I had anything wrong with me, then all of a sudden I had this connected to me all the time," he says. "But after the first couple of days, I loved it. It makes things so much easier. It is so unbelievable not having to take my needles into the bathroom before meals all the time."
Boynton recently achieved an A1C of 7.6% by combining his rigorous workout schedule with a tried-and-true restaurant routine, frequent blood glucose monitoring and fine-tuning his new insulin pump. He says he expects his next A1C test result to be even lower now that he has started the pump.
"My basal rate is at one unit per hour, and I average a total insulin dose of about 50 units a day," he says. But workouts burn a lot of glucose, so that's when my insulin requirements go down quite a bit."
A Professional Athlete's Advice
"My only advice to other young athletes would be to find a level that works for you, especially for training. Make sure your blood glucose is at the level you want it by testing often," Boynton says. "I make sure I test a lot. That's one thing I do that's very important, because if I'm low, then bad things are going to happen out on the ice. I find out what works for me with food and test my glucose as often as I can."
Mary Milewski is a Connecticut-based freelance writer for print and broadcast media. She has a master's degree in journalism and has lived with diabetes for 15 years.
Nick Boynton and Life on the Road
The Boston Bruins frequently travel, and life on the road has its challenges.
Boynton says that eating meals on schedule can get complicated at times. But after years of this, he has established a routine and usually tries to eat "quite a bit, with several meals throughout the day."
"Eighty percent of the time when we're on the road, I eat at restaurants," he says. "I've gotten used to what certain foods do and how they affect me. I stick to the same restaurants. I've really gotten it down at this point."
"Once I learned what different foods do to me and how the combination of exercise and foods works, it became pretty smooth sailing," Boynton says. "I go low once in a while after games and practices, but I feel myself getting low, so I can usually catch it before I run into any problems."
Keeps BG Between 130 and 140 Before Practice
Schedules vary throughout the year, Boynton says. In the game season, it's very different.
"We practice from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and I like to have my blood glucose at around 130 to 140 going into workouts," he says. "I detach my pump for workouts. It's only been three weeks, so I haven't started using the temporary basal feature yet. For now, I disconnect the pump when we skate or when I go to the gym."
The players always go to lunch after practice, he says, and following a set schedule is not an option when the team is on the road.
Game nights are different.
"We skate in the morning, so I'll eat a pre-game meal at around 1 p.m. Then I'll go home and sleep in the afternoon. We play at around 7 p.m., and I won't get home until 10 p.m. for dinner.
day meals usually feature chicken and pasta, he says. "I go to the same places and stick to the same foods that work for me on those days. I test before and after each time I eat and before I work out. I want to know I'm at a good level to ensure I don't go out on the ice with a low."
Being prepared with snacks during workouts and having teammates who understand his diabetes are added measures Boynton takes for safety. His roommate knows how to help Boynton should he experience low blood glucose when the team is on the road. And, Boynton says, during practice there's always Gatorade or juice on the bench. The training staffalso is aware of Boynton's diabetes and how to work with him.
"I like to drink regular Coke when I have lows. Also a little juice helps me. We always have Power Bars and juice with the team."


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A telemarketing group calling residents in Southeast Texas to raise money on behalf of the charity group AmVets (American Veterans), based in Maryland, has telemarketers claiming to be members of the military and refusing to give information about the company they work for or how much that company profits from others' generosity.
But research into AmVets and Xentel America Inc., the company it contracts with for telemarketing solicitations, has revealed that Xentel kept 87 percent of the money it collected for AmVets during 2008 – the most recent reporting period on file, according to records from the IRS. More recent records were not available as official documents from AmVets filed a blank IRS 990 Form in 2010. AmVets is a legitimate charity and is recognized by the U.S. Congress, but the company it has chosen to do business with has a shady history, according to public records.
When The Examiner received a call from a person claiming to be "Petty Officer Pounds from AmVets" the newspaper began asking the man questions about the group he was representing. Knowing the rules regarding active military soliciting donations, the newspaper continued to inquire about the nature of the call.
Pounds never gave his first name and never said that he was officially retired from the U.S. Navy. Additionally, when he was asked what company he worked for, he didn't know. The newspaper then asked the man, "Well, what company is written on your paycheck?" to which he responded, "I don't look at my checks."
But the man purporting to be Petty Officer Pounds was not discouraged by the questioning and continued his attempts at soliciting donations. He explained that AmVets was a veterans service organization that helps veterans with important issues like obtaining benefits and healthcare.
The newspaper then asked if he knew how much of the money raised was actually given to AmVets and how much went for overhead and expenses of the company he was working for. He did not know … or he didn't want to say.
In its review of the IRS 990 Forms filed by AmVets, it was confirmed that AmVets has a contract with Xentel and that AmVets pays Xentel an hourly rate for collecting money based on a formula that includes AmVets receiving a guaranteed payment of $650,000 plus 13 percent of any money raised in excess of $5 million. According to the 2008 records, Xentel collected about $8.1 million but only just slightly over $1 million went to help the charity. The rest of the money was used for expenses by Xentel. AmVets did receive about $2 million in other revenue, including money from a banquet, membership dues and investments, which brought its 2008 revenue up to $10.1 million.
Unfortunately, the charity spent $10.8 million that year – leaving itself in the red by $700,000.
But even more troubling was the fact that the charity didn't spend any money on helping veterans, according to Part IX, Line 1, "grants and other assistance to governments and organizations in the U.S." and Part IX, Line 2, "grants and other assistance to individuals in the U.S." Both of those lines were left blank; however, compensation for current officers, directors, trustees and key employees was listed at $403,170. And the line item for "other salaries" – those not for key employees or directors – was listed at $887,101, bringing the total cost in salaries alone to more than $1.29 million. Benefits and travel expenses added another $357,355. There is also another line item listed simply as "other" that shows an additional $4.75 million in expenditures.
When contacted about the phone solicitations, AmVets' Executive Director James King explained the charity had a contract with Xentel to solicit money but the wording used didn't sound familiar to him and he asked if the newspaper was mistaken in who the caller was claiming to represent.
"They make calls to various places throughout the country and subtract the cost, of course — you know, hiring people to do calls and the cost of the calls and such — and we each get a percentage of what is left over," King said. "I would think if that person was Petty Officer Pounds then he was probably retired. That would be my guess; he would be retired because they do try to get as many veterans as they can. That is part of our contract with them to hire as many as they can to do this. I would imagine that if a person is calling himself Petty Officer Pounds, that he was a retired petty officer and not active duty. I wouldn't think those guys would be doing that on active duty. If you are retired, you are still a petty officer. That (soliciting money while on active duty) is somewhat frowned upon by the Department of Defense."
An Internet search of AmVets revealed it has been given the grade of "F" by the group Charity Watch because so much of its contributions are used for expenses and overhead. A search of the Xentel found the company entered into an agreed order with the Colorado attorney general in 2008 and was named among the worst "commercial fundraisers" by the California attorney general, raising money and giving only 10.91 percent of its collections to the Committee for Missing Children, 10.02 percent of the money it raised for the National Wheelchair Basketball Association, 10 percent to the Children's Leukemia Foundation and just 6.49 percent of its solicitations to the United Breast Cancer Foundation.
At one point during the conversation, King tried to pass the call off to his "communications department" and then went silent when the questions were asked about why Xentel kept 87 percent of the money it collected. King also claimed to not know that the most recent financial information filed with the IRS was blank."Well, I thank you for your call," King said as he hung up.
Attempts to reach Xentel for comment were unsuccessful and the number that was used to call into the newspaper was answered by a recording that referred calls to AmVets.
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Three Chosen as Student Ambassadors to Forum for Asian Business, Government Leaders
FSU Students Given Close View of "China in Transition" Discussions
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Three Frostburg students, two undergraduates and one graduate student, were among just a handful of U.S. Student Ambassadors for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) China CEO Forum held in July in Beijing, through the U.S. Virtual Trade Mission Foundation.
The U.S. delegation invited three FSU students, Jason Ascher, a political science major with a minor in leadership studies; Christopher Evanoff, an MBA student who works for PharmaCare in Allegany County as the marketing representative and assistant manager for the home medical department; and Eric Paul, a business administration major with a minor in management.
APEC is an organization of 21 member nations – both developed and still developing – dedicated to supporting sustainable economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region that has become a primary vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic cooperation in the region. Its goal is to advance Asian-Pacific economic dynamism and sense of community. The CEO Forum focused on the future of China and its role in the global economy, with a theme of "China in Transition – New Leadership, New Prospects."
One goal of the U.S. Virtual Trade Mission Foundation is to increase the understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by the new global economy among students, and it has which has worked with APEC since 1998 to achieve that goal. The students were led by Dr. Lou E. Pelton, chief operating officer of the organization.
The overall nine-day experience for the student ambassadors consisted of three parts, visits to some of Beijing's primary cultural sites, such as the Great Wall and Tiananmen Square; visits to companies in Beijing, including Caixin Media, the largest business media company in China; and the APEC CEO China Forum.
"(China) is growing at a phenomenal rate," Evanoff said. By way of example, he described an illustration of the subway lines in China presented at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Beijing. Two years ago that type of mass transit was virtually nonexistent in many cities; today it is ballooning in size so much that it is anticipated that in two years systems should be completed in every major city.
Evanoff found the theme of China in transition particularly interesting in light of Xi Jinping's rise to the presidency in March following Hu Jintao's decade of leadership. The format was keynote addresses interspersed with dialogues, in which panels of business and government leaders debated a series of topics relating to the Asian-Pacific economy.
Sustainable development and the need for innovation were threads that ran through many of the topics of the keynote addresses and the panel discussions. Paul noted that the keynote speakers generally avoided creating controversy, but the dialogues took on an entirely different tone. He was impressed by the open and honest debate in which the panel members frankly challenged one another, for example, on whether innovation would simply occur as the need arose, or whether a plan needed to exist for innovation to happen.
The students also had significant opportunities to meet and speak with many of the industry leaders, some at length. Ascher said he called on every ounce of professionalism he had when he had the opportunity to speak to the industry leaders, including a 15-minute one-on-one conversation with Brian Gallagher, CEO of United Way Worldwide.
He knows that skill will serve him in future situations. "I've had real-world experience talking to real-world professionals," he said.
The students impressed Pelton and Noel Gould, CEO and founder of the Virtual Trade Mission Foundation, according to their correspondence with FSU's Dr. Lilly Ye, an assistant professor of marketing, who with Dr. Yan Bao, an associate professor of accounting, have spearheaded many of FSU's efforts to expose students to the many facets of China.
Gould wrote, "These three young men were some of the best leaders-in-the-making I have had the honor of working and learning with. Each has a very good heart, a wonderful way of connecting and observing, and a keen spirit and mind for knowledge seeking."
"Everyone is very energized by the New China Dream," Evanoff said, as they show a desire to respect the past while growing and innovating at the same time.
A highlight for all three students was a visit with students of the Central University of Finance and Economics, considered the top university for business study in China. They were struck by how hard-working the students are, who face 12 hours of coursework each day and have been studying English since they were toddlers.
Ascher has been in classes with Chinese exchange students at Frostburg, where he has seen a similar drive and learning style, with its advantages and disadvantages. But he knows their example will stick with him the next time he does not want to do something. "I know I need to just suck it up."
It was Paul's second time in China, having been there the year before through the College of Business' Impact China program, part of a summer class featuring tours of businesses and manufacturing sites for a view of Chinese way of doing business.
"I wanted to step out of my comfort zone," Paul said. "I kind of fell in love with the place. But I never thought I would be able to go back." Never, that is, until he heard from Ye, who encouraged him to apply for this opportunity.
The nature of this journey gave the three students more time to explore on their own, including finding their own way around Beijing and communicating with shopkeepers and taxi drivers despite language barriers. Paul even returned to the Central University of Finance and Economics and got involved in a pick-up basketball game with some of the students.
The students received financial support from the FSU Foundation and the University, but also from the U.S. Virtual Trade Mission Foundation, which was so impressed with the slate of FSU candidates for the student ambassadors that it provided enough funding to allow a third student to have this unique educational experience.
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Just about the most fun you can have on four wheels, the Mazda MX-5 Miata returns for 2013 with a shakeup to its trim levels and a minor face-lift. The two-door roadster comes with a quick-folding manually-operated soft top, or a power-operated metal hardtop. The rear-drive Miata is available with a five-speed manual, a six-speed manual, and a six-speed automatic, and is powered by a 2.0-liter I-4 that makes between 158 and 167 hp (manual cars get more power) and 140 lb-ft of torque. The Miata is capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in as fast as 6.1 seconds, and returning 22/28 mpg city/highway with the five-speed, and 21/28 mpg with either six-speed tranny.
To say the Miata is simply fun-to-drive would be an understatement. In our $28,000 high-performance two-door comparo, the Miata finished third, right behind the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S, where we said it was "possibly the most directly-connected car on the road." In our more recent comparison
where we put the new 2013 MX-5 Miata Club against the FR-S, the Miata finished first because it was simply the more fun car to drive. "Ultimately, the FR-S is the better driver's tool, while the Miata is the better driver's toy," we wrote. "For someone who's looking for nothing but fun, with practicality a non-issue, the Miata would be tough to beat. It's the toy-like Miata that takes the win on this one though by a nose, thanks to its singular focus on fun."
For 2013, Mazda updated the MX-5's front fascia, and has mixed the Miata's trim levels around a bit and replaced the Touring with the Club trim. A few new colors join the Miata's palette this year as well.
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The Miata gets a subtle face-lift for the 2013 model year. The face-lift includes a reworked nose, black exterior trim, and black gunmetal wheels. Other changes include the removal of the Touring trim level, and replacing it with the Sport-oriented Club trim, which includes Bilstein shocks, a sport-tuned suspension, a mechanical limited-slip differential, a shock tower brace, and sticky summer rubber.
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